DUFF,OLIVER

New Zealand Now (Centennial Surveys Series)

Wellington New Zealand, Department of Internal Affairs. 1941, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 5¾ - 7¾ Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has a couple of closed tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous inscriptions present.The binding of the book remains frim with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning to spine.Illustrated with 13 black and white plates and 2 maps.Clean copy internally,8vo 127pp First Edition 1st Impression. Very Good/Very Good.

-- Richard Thornton Books

Book number: 32081

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: New Zealand Centennial Surveys

OLIVER DUFF

New Zealand Now

Department of Internal Affairs 1941 Hardcover. Good.

-- Book Haven

Book number: 807456

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "History, NZ, Non-Fiction"

DUFF, OLIVER

New Zealand Now

London / Hamilton, George Allen & Unwin / Pauls Book Arcade. 1956, Second Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp 129. Pale foxing to d/w, unclipped; spine faded & a chip just behind (on back panel) top of spine. Pale tanned strip, & pale foxing of first & last free eps. Result of one of a number of publications commissined by the NZ government in 1940 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the 'establishment of New Zealand'. Duff on '.what it means to be a New Zealander'. Very Good/Very Good.

-- Booked

Book number: 000694

Keywords: Non-Fiction, New Zealand, Sociology

DUFF, OLIVER

New Zealand Now : Centennial Surveys First Edition. Workcopy for the 1956 Allen & Unwin-edition, full with typographical remarks. ADDED letter to Sir Stanley Unwin from R.M.Campbell (New Zealand House, Strand, London), dated 23 August, 1955, proposing editorial suggestions.

Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1941. XVI, 128 p., frontisp., 7 plates, 2 maps, index HARDCOVER: (Ex library copy of New Zealand Government Office, London)
¶ An interesting document for the history of book publishing, particularly by George Allen & Unwin, London and biographers of Sir Stanley Unwin.

-- Antiquariaat Sigma

Book number: 6237

Catalogue: Typography

Keywords: New Zealand typography history of book publishing Sir Stanley Unwin George Allen & Unwin, London

DUFF, OLIVER (SUNDOWNER)

Shepherd's Calendar

GB, Angus & Robertson. 1962, 1st Edition. Hardback. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped. VG+/VG Pc DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: kb006.990

DUFF, OLIVER

Shepherd's Calendar

Angus & Robertson, London, 1962. 1st Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Poor. 450 g; 256 pages, last three pages blank, text illustrated with photographs by Robin Smith. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. The dustjacket has numerous short tears, chips, and is rubbed. The book itself is in good order aside from foxing to the edges of the text block. "The Shepherd's Calendar has been a regular page in the New Zealand Listener for many years. Mr Duff's diary records the thoughts of a person of quite exceptional force of character in quite exceptional originality. -- "my chief aim", says the author, "since I started the calendar, has been to present the man on the land as he really is, to reveal his brutalities as well as the qualities that feed and clothe the world and keep it wholesome."" -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo.

-- Syber's Books

Book number: 0212732

Catalogue: Natural History & Resources

Keywords: editorial, Colin, Journalism Natural History & Resources; Essays; Natural History; New Zealand; Essays Natural History

DUFF, OLIVER.

A shepherd's calendar.

Pauls Book Arcade, Hamilton 1961. 253p, photos. Spine lightly faded.

-- Country Books

Book number: 10823

Catalogue: Livestock

Keywords: Sheep Farming