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Dunedin: A. H. Reed. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1923]. First Edition. Softcover. Staples rusted. Text block separated from endpapers at upper staple.; Uncommon. 31, [1] pages. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Limp green leather covers, with gilt lettering on front cover. Page dimensions: 178 x 117mm. After an address by Rev. Waddell to Sunday School workers in Dunedin, at which A. H. Reed "who lives in a sort of Sunday School watch-tower" was present in the audience, Reed encouraged Waddell to write this text. Contents: The Power of Love; The Power Dependent on the Object; Love the Dynamic of Service; The Tests of Love; How Love is kept Vivid and Vital. "Love. We all lovers. [. . .] St. Paul calls it the greatest thing in the world; greater than eloquence, or knowledge, or gifts of healing, or the power of working miracles, or even faith itself." - page 9. "Dr. Guthrie one day met a barefoot little girl in the Canongate, struggling along with a baby. He said to…
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The Dynamic of Service
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Lhasa And Its Mysteries : With A Record Of The Expedition Of 1903 - 1904
by Waddell, L. Austine (1854-1938)
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London: John Murray. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound (not recently) in green cloth boards. Light brown staining to lower margin of front endpaper and preliminary leaves. 1 plate (facing page 412) with 25mm tear to blank margin with paper tape repair. Provenance: Athelstan Joseph Alexander Kean, with ex libris bookplate on front endpaper. Bookseller's ticket W. H. Smith & Son's. ; First printing. xxii, 530 pages + colour frontispiece + 110 plate leaves (two colour) + in-text illustrations + 8 maps (including three folding, one of which is a large colour folding map of the "Route to Lhasa", compiled by Waddell, and showing Sikhim, Bhotan and Central Tibet). Final unnumbered leaf with printer's imprint not present. Page dimensions: 220mm x 144mm. Rebound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Waddell was the chief medical officer on Younghusband's military expedition into Tibet in 1904. This volume…
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Behold the Lamb of God! A Series of Discourses Tracing through Scripture the Evolution and Coronation of the Lamb
by Waddell, Rutherford
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing to endpapers. Moderate foxing to top page edges. 1/4" tear to cloth at head of front joint. Hinges intact. Cloth boards fairly clean and bright.; 299, [1] pages + [4] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Printed dedication: "To the members and adherents past and present of St. Andrew's Church, Dunedin, this volume of sermons, which owes so much to their unvarying kindness, through a pastorate of four-and-twenty years, is affectionately inscribed." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Building of the Ship, and Other Addresses, being a second series of "The Voyage of Life."
by Waddell, Rutherford
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Dunedin: New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Book Society. Fair with no dust jacket. (1907). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine very chipped and worn with old insect damage. Internally good. ; 74, [1] pages + portrait frontispiece. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 181 x 122mm. .
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The Desert Fathers : Translations from the Latin with an Introduction by Helen Waddell
by Waddell, Helen (translator)
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London: Constable & Co.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1946). Hardcover. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1946 reprint of a title first published in 1936. ix, [1], 209, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth board with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 108mm. Texts in English, translated from Latin by Helen Waddell. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Life of St. Paul the First Hermit - by St. Jerome; History of the Monks of Egypt - Translated from the Greek by Rufinus of Aquileia; The Sayings of the Fathers - Translated from the Greek by Pelagius the Deacon and John the Subdeacon; The Sayings of the Fathers - From the Greek by an unknown translator; The Sayings of the Fathers - Translated from the Greek by Paschasius the Deacon for the Abbot of Dumes; Of Accidie : Of Mortification - By Cassian of Marseilles; Fragments from the "Paradisus" of Palladius - From the Greek by an unknown translator; The "Pratum…
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Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer under Other Signatures; to Which Are Added His Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and His Private Letters to Mr. H. S. Woodfall; a New and Enlarged Edition, with New Evidence As to the Late [...]
by Wade, John (Ed. ) [Junius]
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London: Henry G. Bohn. Good with no dust jacket. 1850. Half-Leather. Volume I: x, 480 pages + frontis. Volume II: xc, 458 pages. Half leather and marbled boards. Marbled page edges. Owner's stamp and signature on front endpapers. Tape stain to front hinge of volume I. Foxing to endpapers and end sections. ; 12mo .
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Wild Nova Scotia: Photography by Len Wagg
by Wagg, Len (photography); Bob Bancroft (text)
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Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (2007). First Edition. Softcover. 1551096137 . Corner clipped from front endpaper. No tears to dustjacket.; xi, [1], 86 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: oblong 272 x 218mm. Numerous colour photographic illustrations. "From the craggy rocks of Cape Split to the peaceful lakes in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia's wilderness is diverse and stunning. And fortunately for the nature lover, thirty-three of the province's wildest places are designated Wilderness Areas, protected from harmful human acitivity but available to outdoor enthusiasts" - from dustjacket blurb. .
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Happy Hours with Louis Wain
by Wain, Louis (illustrator)
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London: John F. Shaw & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1913]. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscriptions dated 1915 on front endpaper and title page. Cloth rubbed away from along edges of boards. Lower corner of front board worn with 15mm loss of cloth across corner. Gutter split at rear hinge. One colour plate (cat playing croquet) with smudge mark and 14mm tear to lower corner. Otherwise plates very good and clean.; Scarce. No date [1913]. Pages unnumbered. [196] pages + 8 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece). 5 of the colour plates have cats as subjects, 2 have dogs, and 1 has cats and dogs (2 cats laughing at 2 dogs in the stocks). Also with numerous black and white illustrations, some full page. Red cloth boards with colour paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 245 x 183mm (9 5/8" x 7 1/4"). .
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To Nursery Land with Louis Wain
by Wain, Louis (illustrated by); Verses by Clifton Bingham; S. K. Cowan, etc; edited by Edric Vredenburg
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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1906]. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine cloth torn along lower 5" of the front joint. Fraying to cloth at ends of spine. A 3" adhesive tape repair across lower end of spine. Edges of boards heavily rubbed with loss of paper along the edges and margins. Corners of boards heavily worn, rubbed, and rounded. The frontispiece illustration has a 4" tear with an adhesive sellotape repair on the reverse side. Also a 1 3/4" tear to the lower inner corner of the frontispiece, again with an old sellotape repair on the reverse side. The sellotape repairs to the frontispiece have caused adhesive tape staining to the paper of the frontispiece, and also to the neighbouring region of the front free endpaper. An early owner's inscription on the front endpaper - "To Patti with Love from Auntie May", beneath which is another recent inscription - "(a family friend) about 1924". No other inscriptions or…
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Catland Stories
by Wain, Louis (illustrator); edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg
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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1915?]. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed and faded. Cloth spine very faded, rubbed and dampstained. Front hinge broken with spine mull visible, and adhesive tape stains from a repair attempt along margins of gutter. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper "To Ethel wishing her a Happy Christmas from Mum & Dad". Front free endpaper and frontispiece partly detached. Complete. Moderate foxing. ; A scarce Louis Wain title. No date [c1915?]. [48] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 other colour plate. Numerous in-text b&w or single colour illustrations of cats by Louis Wain. The colour frontispiece is also by Louis Wain, the other colour plate is not (it is by Sidney Hayes). Patented black furry cat on front board. Papered boards with cloth spine. Page dimensions: 258 x 194mm. First story is "The Holiday Home". "[. . .] And every cat has a history of some sort or another. We could not…
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Scientific Sophisms. A Review of Current Theories concerning Atoms, Apes, and Men.
by Wainwright, Samuel (D. D.)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Inner hinges split at gutters. Previous owner's signature and ink number on the half-title page.; xxiii, [1], 310 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 192 x 131mm. Evolution, origin of life, Darwinism, Huxley, differences between men and apes, protoplasm etc. ; 8vo .
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Evil Intent
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London: The Crime Club / Collins. Fair in Poor dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Numerous library stamps and markings. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers and edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in adhesive plastic jacket.; 222 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering and Crime Club logo on spine. "The thin, dove-grey fog and the ear-nipping frost made Police Constable Alister McIllwraith glad to be alive [...]" - opening sentence.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Table Tennis
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London: Athletic Publications. Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. Softcover. Owner's signature. Rubbing along spine. Rubbing and wear to wrappers. 1/2" x 3/8" loss of paper at tail of spine. ; 48 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 185mm x 123mm. Illustrated. No date [1934?]. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907
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Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Previous owner's name in pencil on title page. Some rubbing to covers.; 116 pages + 23 plates + colour folding map. Printed green wrappers. Page dimensions: 215 x 140mm. The illustrations are mostly of fish and the netting equipment. One unusual illustration shows a man sitting in the water on top of the trawling net as it is being brought in, being supported by the mass of snapper in the haul - "So great is the buoyancy of a large haul of schnapper when drawn from deep water that the mass is capable of supporting for some time the weight of a man." .
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Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907
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Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1909. First Edition. Softcover. Covers rubbed and creased. 1" tear at tail of paper spine. Staples rusted. Corners of some leaves dog-eared. A 3" tear and a couple of misfolds to the folding map. The illustrations are mostly of fish and the netting equipment. One unusual illustration shows a man sitting in the water on top of the trawling net as it is being brought in, being supported by the mass of snapper in the haul - "So great is the buoyancy of a large haul of schnapper when drawn from deep water that the mass is capable of supporting for some time the weight of a man."; 116 pages + 23 plates + colour folding map. Printed green wrappers. Page dimensions: 213 x 139mm. Owner's ex-libris label on title page "Dr CNS [Corrie] McLachlan".; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Guide to the Collections in the Canterbury Museum Christchurch, New Zealand
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Christchurch: T. E. Fraser. Fair with no dust jacket. 1906. Softcover. Title leaf detached with losses. Front wrapper missing. Paper spine chipped. Rubbing and dog-earing to corners of leaves.; Third edition. [iv], 220 pages + 7 plates + 9 full page plans. Front wrapper missing and title leaf heavily torn and chipped. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. The plans show the layout of different rooms in the museum. The plates are b&w photographic illustrations, and include the Maori Room, the Ethnological Room, the Sculpture Room, and the New Zealand Room (showing moa skeletons). [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 8vo .
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Egyptian Predynastic Pottery [Otago Museum Handbook No. 1]
by Waite, Fred (text); illustratd by D. W. Carmalt Jone
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[Dunedin]: Otago Museum. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Softcover. 16 pages + 10 plates leaves. 1 full page map. Printed tan card covers. Page dimensions: 223 x 168mm. Series: Otago Museum Handbook No. 1. "This handbook is planned to inaugurate a series describing parts of our Department of Ceramics. Egyptian predynastic pottery has been treated first in the series because it is better represented in the collections than any kind other than classical, and our classical pottery is to published in the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum." - from the Introduction, page 3. [Reference: Bagnall W118] .
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Landmarks in New Zealand Publishing: Adventure and Art: The Caxton Press
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Wellington: National Library of New Zealand. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1998). First Edition. Softcover. 0477027806 . Previous owner's inscription. Underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 20 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 201 x 199mm. Booklet produced in association with an exhibition "Adventure and Art: The Caxton Press" at the National Library Gallery, 1998. With a 2 page Preface by Peter Simpson. Contents includes "In Town with The Caxton Press : Some Impressions of the 1940s" by Bob Gormack. .
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Books for a Nation: The Whitcoulls Story
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[New Zealand]: Whitcoulls. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2008). First Edition. Softcover. 0473135043 . No signatures.; 128 pages. Page dimensions: 260 x 184mm. Numerous illustrations, colour and b&w. History of the book publishing and retailing enterprise Whitcombe and Tombs, founded in Christchurch in 1883, and in 1973 evolving into Whitcoulls. New Zealand retail history, bookselling.; ; .
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The Evolution of Morality. Being a History of the Development of Moral Culture.
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London: Trubner & Co.. Poor with no dust jacket. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the last page of the index and the errata leaf from the rear of volume two. Inner hinges broken. Old dampstains to endpapers.; Two volume set. Volume One: xvi, 505 pages. Volume Two: xi, [1], 472 (of 475) pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine and black border decoration on front boards. Page dimensions: 189 x 127mm. Examination of moral concepts in relation to different "races" and religions. Selected contents: The Sense of Right; Genesis of the Moral Idea; The Altruistic Sentiment; The Doctrine of Emanations; Hinduism; Buddhism; Mithraism; Christianity; Positivism. ; 8vo .
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