Philip Albert Snow OBE (1915 - 2012) [brother of novelist Charles Percy Snow]

A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-SIX LETTERS to two Wellington booksellers

0. 0 pp. No Binding. The letters date from 1972 to 1989, the first typed (from Rugby School), the rest all handwritten (several are aerogrammes). They largely concern his search for books on the Pacific for his researches on Pacific history, notably Fiji where he spent many years. He ends the final letter, "Working hard on my autobiography, very best wishes.".The letters are folded, two slightly frayed. Very Good.

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Book number: jnrr20184y

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OFFER, R.E.

WALLS FOR WATER: Pioneer Dam Building in New Zealand

Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, 1997. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. ISBN: 0864693133. 214pp large 8vo boards. Excellent copy in excellent dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: yq2022pr1y

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OPIE, Jeremy

SILENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD

Palmerston North, J. Opie, 1982. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. 6 leaves of photographs; original green boards with title. Small mark on cover but a very good sound copy. Copy 133 of Limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. Very Good.

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Book number: jnr7320215y

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John Parker

THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMY ELF

Ilfracombe, Devon, Stockwell, 1963. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. 79pp small 8vo boards. Light foxing but very good in very good dust jacket. Story for children by a New Zealand author. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: jnr2023f2

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PARKER, Gilbert (Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (1862-1932)

SHORT A.L.S.

0. 0 pp. No Binding. Signed autograph note12 lines dated 8th Feb.1905 to "Sir Frederick" - "your letter on Gibbon Wakefield is most interesting and instructive." ***Postage will be reduced on this item. Very Good.

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Book number: jnr2022la13

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PARTRIDGE, Eric

A COVEY OF PARTRIDGE, An Anthology

London, George Routledge, 1937. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Foxing to first and last few leaves but a very good firm copy, Inscribed: "Dear Stephen, if in the midst of your / business and busyness, you take the / trouble to acknowledge this, I'll be / very angry. Don't feel called upon to / read the book; certainly read nothing / that doesn't appeal to you! / Yours sincerely / (go to it!) / Eric Partridge". Very Good.

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Book number: jnr202302

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[ Eric Partridge]

TRIO: Christmas and New Year Greetings 1930-1931 [cover-title: TRIO Christmas 1930]

London. Scholartis Press, 1930. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. 19pp 8vo wrappers. A very good copy. Copy no.7 of edition of 175 copies printed at the Alcuin Press (none for sale), inscribed: "To E. Cragg / with all good wishes / Eric Patridge". Very Good.

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Book number: jnr2023jgp7

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Paul, Janet

JANET PAUL, POEMS AND DRAWINGS

Wellington, Fernbank Studio, 2014. 1st Edition. 36 pp. Soft cover. No. 32 of only 85 copies, published at the time of the Alexander Turnbull Library exhibition celebrating Janet Paul's life and work. Fine printing, a beautiful book. *** 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. ISBN : 9780473292744. Title page printed in black, blue, and purple. Poem titles printed in blue. "Designed, printed and bound by Brendan O'Brien at the Fernbank Studio. The poems are set in Garamond 14pt type cast at the Bedplate Museum, Mangaroa, and the illustrations are printed from polymer blocks made by In-line Graphics, Auckland. The book has been handprinted on a Golding Official Platen Press using Zerkall Off White paper for the text and Stonehenge paper for the covers. Fine.

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Book number: yq202128y

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Ian Cameron [i.e. Donald Gordon Payne]

THE MIDNIGHT SEA - Uncorrected Proof Copy [corrected!]

London, Hutchinson, 1958. 0 pp. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof Copy in publisher's wrappers - this copy with some marginal annotations marking corrections. Tears to foot of front wrapper but a sound copy. Very Good.

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Book number: jnrg2022wqy

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Joe Pearson

PENGUINS MARCH ON: Books for the Forces during World War II

Edinburgh, Penguin Collectors Society, 1996. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. ISBN: 9780473249335. Penguin Collectors Society Miscellany No.11. 96pp. Fine copy. ***Postage will be reduced on this item. Fine.

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Book number: jnr2023pg02

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ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN'S 'DE AMICITIA'. With Eight Photographs and Four Poems.

HOUSMAN, Laurence

London, The Little Rabbit Book Company, 1976. 0 pp. Hardcover. Unnumbered [36]pp oblong 8vo boards. Excellent copy in original clear tissue wrapper, which is slightly torn, copy no.193 of edition of 200. Fine.

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Book number: yyq202309

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Peter de Malion [i.e. Peter Platts]

Thomas Hardy from Behind & Other Memories

Plush, Dorchester, Melissa Press, 1965. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. A humorous parody of Hardy scholarship. Printed (rather better than his usual) by Count Potocki de Montalk. 11,[3,ads]pp 8vo wrappers. A very good copy inscribed by Peter to a Wellington bookseller, and four typed letters from him, largely concerning books, loosely enclosed. ***Postage will be reduced on this item. Near Fine.

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Book number: jnr2022p11

POCOCK, L.G.

THE SICILIAN ORIGIN OF THE ODYSSEY, A Study of the Topographical Evidence

Wellington, New Zealand University Press, 1957. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. The author's own copy, worn and lacking back wrapper; some annotations and with pencilled list of errata in his hand. Good.

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Book number: jg2002po1

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POLLETT, Geoffrey.

SONG FOR SIXPENCE

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1936. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Hardcover. Florence M. Green (woodcuts). A very good firm copy in very good dust jacket (tear at top of spine panel but no loss). Pollett's account of his travels round Britain as an itinerant poet selling broadsheets of his verse. Born Robert Geoffrey Pollett in Hackney in 1908, he came to New Zealand in 1926 and published a few things before returning to England in 1934. He committed suicide in 1937. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: jnr2023a4

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V S Pritchet

THIS ENGLAND Selected by V S Pritchett with Illustrations by Low

London, New Statesman and Nation, 1937. 1st Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. David Low. 78pp 8vo pictorial wrappers. Mild foxing; offsetting to first leaves from an enclosed newspaper clipping. Very Good.

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Book number: yyq202316

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