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William Collins, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1942. No Edition Remarks. 46 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Cover has mild shelf wear with some creasing to corners and rubbing to spine ends. Spine noticeably tanned. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

William Collins, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1942. 46 pages. Beige pictorial boards and jacket. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

London: Collins, 1942. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. Beautifully illustrated account of New Zealand by the famous Novelist. 12 lovely Colour Plates of Landscape paintings and 26 B&W Illustrations. White paper-covered boards with Brown & White Pattern on front, back & spine. 47 Pages, 210g, 9" Tall. 2" picec missing from cover at bottom of spine. Previous woner's name lightly penciled on ffep, no other inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Macmillan, 1966. Third Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp.120 with index. Introduction by Keith Holyoke clean tight copy d/j wrapped in mylar and price clipped library markings include number lower spine, stamps inside front cover, frontpiece and copyright page, date due and pocket and stamp inside back cover, stamp pg.107 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

William Collins of London, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Gift inscription written by the previous owner. Publication of 48 pages. The dust jacket is a touch edge worn and small closed tears alongside the spine of the book. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York / London: Macmillan / Collier-Macmillan. Very Good. 135 x 210mm. Hardcover. 1966. Reprint. 120 pages. Dj worn<br> .

London Collins, 1942, hardcover. Added New York publisher stamp on title-page. Includes 12 color plates and 27 black-and-white illustrations. -- Hardcover, nice design printed on boards, 46 pages. Condition: very good (tape residue on endsheets; owner name) with very good minus dust jacket (tape residue; owner name on flap).

London: Collins, 1942. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 48. [Series: Britain in picures] Illustrated with 12 plates in colour and 27 in B&W. A fine copy in pictorial dj. Brief history and description of New Zealand by the noted mystery writer.

William Collins 1942. First 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

Macmillan 1964 Hardback. Good. dj

William Collins. London. 1942 (Ist Edition). 8vo, 48pp. Hardcover with brown patterned boards in good condition with a firm and totally sound spine but minor bruising on all corners and slight chipping on edges with no d/w, text and all illustrations in very good condition on lightly age tanned paper with a very small prior owner gift inscription on top corner of ffep and a bookshop sticker on front pastedown from the only English language bookshop in Tokyo Japan (purchased in 2023 not in the 1940's) as well as minor foxing at front and rear of book. Complete with an amusing mis-spelling of one of the authors on the title page (Burden instead of Burdon), this slim volume was published and printed in London just after the German Blitz in WWII with many of the colour illustrations being made from originals that survived the dangerous trip by ship to England from New Zealand at the very height of the war. A beautiful piece of history really, being defiantly produced as a reminder of the far echelons… Read More

London: William Collins of London, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Color Plates and Photgraphs. Original illustrated boards. Lengthwise closed tear at edge of jacket spine protected by the Brodart cover, else a better than very good unclipped and unmarked copy. Scarce in dust jacket.

Collins,, 1942. 4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 27 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers faintly browned; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 26.

DW. Book possibly damp once. Penciled initials and dated 1943, Auckland. Small chips and some wear.

London : Collins, 1942. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original illustrated paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature. Physical description; 46, [2] pp., 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 23 cm. Subjects; New Zealand History. Description and travel.

London: Will;iam Collins of London, 1942. No Edition Stated . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book has 12 plates in colour and 27 b/w illustrations. 47 pp. plus: Brief Historical Chronology, A Short Bibliography. Some interior markings, underlinings and notations, usual library attachments, ffep has been removed. Bookseller's Inventory # 122854.

Wellington: P E N & H H Tombs, 1943 DW some light foxing , surface soiling and wear, minor chipping, book is clean, 180pp, plates in colour and b&w, contributions by many famous New Zealander's, in verse, prose and art, a fundraiser for the armed forces. Ngaio Marsh, James Cowan, Nelle Scanlan, M. H. Holcroft, Edith Howes, Mary Scott, John Pascoe, Frank Sargeson, Pat Lawlor, Robin Hyde, G. F. Angus, C F Goldie, Alan Mulgan, Johannes C. Andersen, John Gully, Minhinnick, Peter McIntyre, David Low. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by John Gully, Minhinnick, Peter McIntyre, David Low. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: William Collins, 1942. Very good condition. Endcaps slightly worn, spine slightly rubbed. Texts and illustrations clean and crisp. . Binding: Illustrated publisher’s paper boards., Size: 8vo. , Illustration: Illustrated with 12 plates and 27 illustrations. , Category: Book Pacific; Book Bibliography & Reference Books;

Harmondswortth, Middlesx, England: Penguin Books, 1941. First printing. Paperback. Fair. '1st reprint in Penguin. Green and white card cover with lettering and logo in black (first Penguin 'Mystery and Crime' series). 223pp. Advert to rear cover. Cover clean, pages somewhat damp stained at outer edges but otherwise unmarked. Numbered. No.: NZ-353 but not stated on this printing. No Penguin logo to spine, no price on front cover like later editions. Corners of pages well worn, tears on rear card cover. Printer: Wilson and Horton Ltd, Herald Printing Works, Auckland First Published by Penguin in UK: 24 October 1941