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Melbourne, Hineani
Maori Sovereignty: The Maori Perspective
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 187 pages; plus glossary.
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Cox, Philip; Stacey, Wesley
Building Norfolk Island
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Grey cloth cover a bit worn around edges. 96 pages; many photos and illustrations.
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Simpson and Day
The Princeton Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 400 pages.
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Slater, Peter; Calaby, John Henry
A Field Guide to Australian Birds: Non-Passerines
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 428 pages.
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Bryant, Geoff; Scarrow, Eion
The Complete New Zealand Gardener: A Practical Guide
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 312 pages. Previous owner's inscription inside.
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Williamson, H. D.
Fierce Encounter: Life and Death in the Australian Bush
154 pages with spotted page ends, clean covers with sharp corners, interior/text is free of marking of any kind. Nice copy, b&w illustrations.
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Rowell, Raymond J.
Ornamental Flowering Trees in Australia
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 240 pages. Previous owner's name label.
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Gollan, Robin
Revolutionaries and Reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1955
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Books show very light use, Two volumes, each about 400 pages.
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Fine New Zealand Paintings 1844-1990
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 64 pages. Staple-bound.
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Stead, C.K.
South-West of Eden: A Memoir, 1932-1956
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 345 pages. Very slight edge wear to dust jacket.
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The Checklist Committee (E.G. Turbott, Convner)
Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 247 pages. Previous owner's name inside. This book provides the classification names (Latin, English and Maori), a brief statement on status and distribution, and references to relevant literature for nearly 400 living and extinct species of New Zealand birds.
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Reed, A. W.; Karetu, T.S.
Concise Maori Dictionary: Maori-English/English-Maori
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 124 pages.
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Morrissey, Michael (ed.)
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 501 pages.
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Keith, Hamish; Brown, Gordon
Introduction to New Zealand Painting
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 240 pages. Previous owner's inscription. Slight wear to cover with creases at lower front corner. Contents: The Colonials; Charles Heaphy; William Fox; Reverend John Kinder; Arrivals and Departures; James McLachlan Nairn; Petrus Van Der Velden; The Search for a National Identity; Christopher Perkins; The Nineteen-forties; Mountford Tosswill Woollaston; Contemporary Developments, 1947-67; Colin McCahon; Patrick Hanly; Painting in the Seventies; Sources; Index.
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Bonyhady, Tim
Images in Opposition: Australian Landscape Painting, 1801-1890
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 192 pages. Includes "colonial landscape painters active between 1820 and 1855, such as John Glover, Conrad Martens, Eugene von Guerarda nd Louis Buvelot."
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Guthrie-Smith, Herbert
Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station
464 pages. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Slight edge wear to cover.
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Hall-Jones, John
Fiordland Explored: An Illustrated History
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 148 pages. Many b&w illustrations and photos. Map endpapers. Slight wear to edges.
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Reed, Alfred Hamish
The Gumdiggers: The Story of Kauri Gum
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 193 pages. Slight edge wear to faded dust jacket. Previous owner's name.
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Brownson, Ron
Marti Friedlander
The slightest of cover wear only, otherwise as-new with sharp corners, no marking of any kind, no creasing to covers or spine. Excellent condtion throughout. 182 pages.
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Crawford, R.M.
Australia
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 190 pages, in brown cloth covers, book shows light use.
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Statham, Pamela
The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities
Ex-library book witht he usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for several pages previous to page 58 that are heavily underlined in pencil. Nice condition. 364 pages, maps, charts, tables.
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Lockwood, Douglas
The Lizard Eaters
Clean and unmarked; tight binding. 171 pages.
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Reed, A. H.
The Story of the Kauri
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages unmarked; tight binding. 439 pages. Some water damage to lower corner of pages. Second edition of 1500 copies. Many b&w photos.
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Hooper, Toby; Hooper, Juliana
Australian Country Furniture
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 138 pages. Many color and b&w photos.
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Landon, Carolyn
Jackson's Track Revisited : History, Remembrance and Reconciliation
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's inscription.
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Simpson, Ken & Nicholas Day
Birds of Australia: A Book of Identification
Former institutional library book, includes stamp on inside cover and unchecked out "date due" pocket. Book has bumped corners and a little edgewear to jacket but is otherwise very clean; page block is in excellent condition with no marking of any kind to text/interior, straight, solid binding. Thousands of color illustrations on heavy paper. Intact fold-out map at front cover. 352 pages.
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Knight, Lindsay
The Shield : A Century of the Ranfurly Shield
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 320 pages. Small tear on dust jacket. Many b&w photos.
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Klepec, Lou (ed.)
Contemporary Drawing [1977 Perth International Survey of Drawing]
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 108 pages. Re-bound by library in bright red buckram cloth. Oblong: 10 3/4"w x 8 1/2"h. Catalogue of 72 drawings, all full page in b&w by Pierre Alechinsky, James brooks, Jim Dine, Russell Drysdale, Helen Frankenthaler, Franco Gentilini, David Hockney, Patrick heron, Oskar Kokoschka, Willem de Kooning, Henri Michaux, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Lloyd Rees, Bridget Riley, Jack Smith Antoni Tapies, and many others.
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Foster, John
He Whakamarama: A Full Self-Help Course in Maori
A clean, unmarked book wtih a tight binding. 214 pages.
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Burke, Janine
Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 188 pages.
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Barr, Mary (ed)
Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 230 pages. Slight edge wear. Large format: 8 1/4"w x 10 1/2"h. Many b&w and color photos.
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Lytton, Edward Bulwer
A Strange Story
Book shows sunning to covers and spine and light shelf wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's flower mark on half title page, along with small stain. 499 pages in 79 chapters; no indication of any other "book." An "alchemical novel."
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McCarthy, F. D.
Australian Aboriginal Culture
Book shows light shelf wear only with some sticker residue on front cover. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 48 page booklet with map at back outlining the subject with a large number of b&w photos. Sections include: Tribnal lands, men's way of life, women's way of life, dwellings, fire making, religion and ceremonies, magic and medicine, games and music, dress and ornament, watercraft, hunting and fighting, the boomerang, material possessions, stone tools, bone artifacts, trade and exchange, etc. Nice intro to the subject.
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Regenvanu, Ralph ; Watt, Emmanuel
Emmanuel Watt: When I Carve
Catalog in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Art catalog published on the occasion of the exhbition "Emmanuel Watt: when I carve" for the exhibition of works by ni-Vanuatu artist Emmanuel Watt at the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, 26 Nov. 2003 - March 2004. curated by Ross Searle and Carl Warner. Contains an essay by Ralph Regenvanu; color photos throughout of Watt's sculptures; limited to 800 copies. 64 pages
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John Lahey
Damn you, John Christie!: The public life of Australia's Sherlock Holmes
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 292 pages, b&w photos.
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Staff
Winery Design
Book is in excellent condition, as new with previous owner's name on front end paper as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 136 pages with large color photos throughout of state of the art winery warehouses, storage facilities and tasting rooms, often of avant-garde design, in USA, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other parts of Europe.
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Darling, Louis
Kangaroos and Other Animals with Pockets
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 6 1/2"w x 8 5/8"h. 64 pages.
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Moore, Jerrold Northrop
Philharmonic jubilee, 1932-1982: A celebration of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's fiftieth anniversary
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. About 100 pages with a great many b&w photos, a year-by-year chronology of the events of the orchestra's history.
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Murgatroyd, Sarah
The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills
Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Turner, Robert D.
Pacific Empresses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress Liners on the Pacific Ocean
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and interior/text is clean with no marking of any kind. 290 pages with over 400 illustrations including b&w photos throughout, mechanical diagrams, layouts, maps, scale drawings, fleet lists, etc.
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Hodgkinson, Frank
Kakadu and the Arnhem Landers
Light spots on front and rear endpapers. Previous owner's inscription inside. 9 5/8"w x 12 3/8"h. 304 pages.
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Layton, Robert
Uluru: An Aboriginal History of Ayers Rock
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10 3/4"w x 8 1/2"h. 140 pages.
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Barrow, Terence
An Illustrated Guide to Maori Art
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 104 pages. Many illustrations in b&w and color. "Terence Barrow explains in plain language the design motifs, the materials and construction and the everyday uses of Maori art objects. His clear explanations are illustrated with many fine photographs and drawings."
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Smith, Jonathan Z.
To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in clear protective cover. 183 pages. Contents include: ritual environments, locales, structures, territories, Tjilpa aborigines, in Australia, sites in Jerusalem, Ezekiel, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Eliade's interpretation, language of ritual, sacrality, Hierarchy of power, etc.
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Purdie, Jenny ; Chris Materne; Andrew Bubb
A Field Guide to Plants of the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory
A clean, unmarked book. Metal comb binding. 384 pages. Many color photos.
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Noonan, Michael
A Different Drummer: The Story of E. J. Banfield, the Beachcomber of Dunk Island
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 7 1/8"w x 10 1/4"h. 264 pages. Black and white photos and illustrations.
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McCann, I.R.
Mallee, The: In Flower
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name at inside cover. 120 pages with 3-4 full color photos per page of the flowering plants of Australia's Wyperfeld National park, Big Desert Wilderness, Pink Lakes State park, Hattah-Kulkyne National park and Mungo National park. Book contains more than 400 species, each with data as to size, growing season, whether endangered, etc.
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Pryce, Will
Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture's Oldest Building Material
Book is in excellent condition with blue HB covers, white print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, edge wear at corners and spine. A great many full color, full page photos throughout of unusual, even outlandish historical architecture, some modern, from around the world. 320 pages, contents include wood architecture in The far east, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, America, South East Asia, Australia, etc. Remainder mark bottom page ends.
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George Martin Adams
Foliage Birds - Australian Birds and Their Favoured Plants
Very large format book in nearly new condition with unbumped corners and light shelf wear only to covers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book features giant full color photos of birds in their natural environment with informational section at the front with the body of the book being a description of about 55 individual birds, their habitat, behavior etc. 10 1/4"w x 14 1/2"h.
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The Story of Fiordland National Park: Mountains of Water
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears.175 pages, fold-out map at back in excellent condition, full color photos throughout.
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