mackenzie mrs peter (3 risultati)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 116pp, illus/photos, VG (lacks fep., light to moderate scuffing to extrems & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owners' names with white adhesive label to ffep).

FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 116pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- yellowing tape repairs to base, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear, heavy crease to front flap).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper. 25mm and shorter tears at ends of dust-jacket spine. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Third (revised) edition. xii, (xiii-xvi), 129 pages + frontispiece + 17 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. 2 full-page maps. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. "Martins Bay, north of Milford Sound at the mouth of the Hollyford river, was the most isolated settlement in New Zealand when Alice McKenzie's parents took their young fanily there in 1876. Even today, nearly a hundred years since, the region is remote, peopled by a few whitebaiters, fishermen, hunters and trampers. The McKenzies endured severe hardships which are outside the experience of the modern New Zealander. The author describes, for instance, the family's ordeal when her mother was expecting a child during the 'great flood' of 1878. Her father went to bring help and, forced back by a storm-lashed lake and swollen streams, he found his wife on her bed in the flooded house with their two-hour-old son in her arms." - from dust-jacket blurb.