Michael gifkins editor (5 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Published in 1984. 183 pp. No. 3 issue only! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Lindsay Rabbitt (Book Design) (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Good ++. First Edition - Paperback. 219 pages. Paperback, ink stain to bottom page-corners, light wear to spine-ends, small wear/small creases to overs' corners. Page-edges a little yellowed, ink name to flyleaf. Pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Recollections of Childhood from 20 Prominent New Zealanders - nice clear copyEngaging, humorous, painful, but always honest - 20 prominent New Zealanders des cribe what it was like, when they were young. Who could have predicted that thes e particular children would grow to fill their present positions of respect? In Through the Looking Glass, Michael Gifkins has provided us with a fascinating gl impse of the childhoods of New Zealanders who are eminent in their fields or pro minent in the public eye, to set against what we know of them as adults, and per haps against what we know of ourselves as children. Lauris Edmond recalls the Na pier 'quake, with someone's grandmother bucketing pinkly naked down the main str eet in a white porcelain bath. Bob Jones shoots himself in the foot and his fami ly can't stop laughing. Peter Lange learns early to subvert the system, under ps ychopathic masters with steel plates in their heads. Witi Ihimaera is greatly tr oubled as he learns about 'doing it'. Sir Peter Elworthy digs up dog bones and f eeds them to the captive twins. Phoebe Meikle recalls calss and racism in Tauran ga before WWI.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket.

4to. 158pp., frontis. portrait. Original wrappers. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; gift inscription, a near copy. . First edition. Highly important New Zealand artist.