Stack james w (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. viii (1p) 109p Paper over boards FEP cut at fore-corner A reprint of the 1909 W&T edition.

Facsimile reprint of 1909 edition, octavo hardcover (VG+); all 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 costs.…

No Binding. Condizione: Good. First Edition. An article disbound from "Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 12 (1879), p. 159-164. Kahui Tipua: The first inhabitants of the South Island of New Zealand who were said to be giant ogre like people.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. None. First Edition. 19cm, 109pp, gilt titling to cloth over boards. Name rubbed from flyleaf leaving a scuff. VG copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 109 pages. facsimile edition of the 1909 edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex-library. Some library stamps, labels and markings. 16mm tear at tail of dust-jacket spine. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1937 UK edition of a title first published in New Zealand in 1935. 286, [2 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 7 plate leaves. Advertisements on recto of rear free endpaper. Maps on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 119mm. "Born in a Maori pa in 1835, when the New Zealanders were still cannibals, James West Stack, in his recently discovered MSS., tells the story of his early life, spent on his father's mission stations, in perilous isolation amidst warlike tribes. Here are true stories of adventure, interspersed with graphic word pictures of the Maori of those days, and of the land and sea, forests and rivers, that he loved." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Forewordo by Archbishop Churchill Julius; Preface; James West Stack, Memoir; Early Maoriland Adventures of James West Stack: Puriri and Mangapouri; Mangapouri; Te Papa; Te Papa (continued); Poverty Bay; East Cape; East Cape (continued); East Cape (continued); A Whaling Station; Captain Cook's Well; Journey to East Cape; East Cape; East Cape (continued); Journey to Kawakawa; East Cape and Voyage to Auckland; St John's College, Auckland; Sydney; Appendices: I - Sir Julius von Haast - A Biographical Note by H. F. von Haast; II - The Maori and His Greenstone - Notes on Maori Manufacture of Greenstone by J. W. Stack; Index. [Reference: Bagnall S1455 - "The first section of Canon Stack's reminiscences dealing chiefly with his childhood recollections of mission life in the Waikato and on the East Coast, prefaced by A. H. Reed's biography (p.23-98)."].…