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Octavo softcover, stapled wrapper (VG); our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Fifth Edition. Fifth Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 12mo, thin green cloth covered cardboard. Corners bumped, edgewear. Interior clean and unmarked except for personal info and stamped dates on paste down. Vintage, No date. No DJ as issued.

TEXT IN TE REO MAORI, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 394pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to spine & covers, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals).

Soft Covers. Condizione: VG. No Jacket. Revised. Sir Apirana Nagata (1874-1950) was a Maori leader, lawyer, scholar, statesman and politician and one of his major objectives was the preservation of the native language, at a time when Maori was often viewed as a dying race. Among his many written works was a two volime collection of songs and chants of many tribes,others on anthropology and the native peoples of the Pacific, His manual of Maori conversation and grammar was a more modest effort, but one aimed specificially at helping preserve the Maori language, but also for use by Europeans seeking to become familiar with it. This revised and enlarged edition of the manual is undated but possibly circa 1930s. The book is divided into five parts, the last being a English/Maori vocabulary. Brown, cloth covered, card covers VG with light mottling front vertical edge, more pronounced on back cover, small ink name top title page, small and decreasing incursion of insect erosion top corner for first 11 pages, small tear lower corner last two pages, text block otherwise VG+. Now quite scarce.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. (Q6) second revised and enlarged edition; no dj; blue cloth boards with printed titles on front and spine marked a little in places and a little worn on the edges but overall clean for age; previous owner signature on ffep; slight foxing on top fore edges but overall all are clean; very clean throughout; photographs upon request.

HB. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. First Edition. Clean red cloth on boards, gilt title and faint touch of a little rubbing. Spine: lightly faded; head & foot with thin bumping and soft rubbing. Light touch of rubbing to some of the extremeties. Edges: faint dusting of a little soiling and few only foxings. Frontis: b/w glossy illustration of Captain William Hobson, R.N. about 1835. Clean contents. B/w glossy illustrations. Refp with flg map of New Zealand with light touches of foxing, intact. Binding is As New. 227p.

THIS VOLUME ONLY, CD in rear & front pockets, this volume only, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, maroon eps, xviii + 380pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges, small dent to rear lower board edge with sl cracking to cloth, light soiling to front board) in d/w, VG+ (light sunning to front cover, light soiling and rubbing to rear cover).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library, Pakuranga College Library and Dobson Library. Library stamps and markings. Cloth split along entire length of rear joint. 3/8" missing to cloth at head and tail of spine. Hinges broken. Gutter at front hinge reinforced with masking tape. ; This copy has an interesting signed inscription in ink by the author on the half-title page: "An attempt to show that there was a flowering of religion, adventure and industry in New Zealand, long before the advent of Marsden, the whalers and the colonists. Johannes C. Andersen". xi, [5], 675, [1] pages + frontispiece + 48 plates. Orange cloth boards. Black hei-tiki illustration on spine cloth, and further illustrations in black of a waka, taiaha, and woven cloth on the front board. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. "As a Maori, albeit a degenerate and much-contaminated, I have to acknowledge my appreciation of the conscientious, painstaking and interesting effort of the author to re-construct for us the scenes of the past." - from the Foreword by A. T. Ngata. Johannes Andersen was the librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, the author of several titles on the Maori of New Zealand, a local historian, a collector of New Zealand books, and author of the first book on the subject of collecting New Zealand books, "The Lure of New Zealand Book Collecting" (1936). "Though indeed ancestors may appear in the shapes of creeping things, their commoner manifestation is in the kehua, dreading the light of fires and day, and coming to the wairua, or dream-spirit, of man at night. The kehua wanders among accustomed earthly places since it has been unable, through omitted ceremonies, to enter 'Reinga'. It must then be enabled to leave the world, or it will become a malignant spirit, afflicting its kindred who are still living." - page 449. [Bibliographical Reference: Bagnall A449]. ; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 20 pages, staples rusty. First appearance of waiata 149-161 of Apirana Ngata's famous collection of traditional M?ori songs and chants.