ROBINSON, ROGER (SELECTOR AND INTRO.); WENDT, ALBERT (FOREWORD)

Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings

Auckland, Streamline Creative Limited. 2004. (ISBN: 9780958210621). Paperback. Used, Paperback with inner flaps, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the covers and page block, otherwise as unread. LW. Very Good.

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Book number: 542885

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: 9780958210621

Wendt, Albert.

Die Aquarienpflanzen in Wort und Bild.

Stuttgart, 1952. Text & num. ills. Rebound in cloth. - Handwritten title on spine.

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Book number: 247196

Keywords: Botany Waterplants Botanie Waterplanten

WENDT, ALBERT

From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden

Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 2012. First Edition. Original decorated wrappers. ISBN: 1869407342. Light shelfwear. ; Octavo; 42 pages. New .

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Book number: LCH46855

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 1869407342 Pacific Islands

WENDT, ALBERT

From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden

Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. First Edition. Original decorated wrappers. ISBN: 1869407342. Original colour printed wrappers. With author information page slotted between pages. Slight shelfwear. ; 16x23x0.7 cm; 68 pages. As New with no dust jacket .

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Book number: LCB61590

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 1869407342 Hawaii Zealand Biographies Autobiographies & Memoirs

WENDT, ALBERT

Leaves of the banyan tree

Auckland, New Zealand, Longman Paul. 1980, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0582717701) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scarce title this second issue was printed after this book won the Goodman Fielder Book Award for 1980. Family saga that contrasts three generations of Western Samoans as a way of exploring the effects of colonialism before and after the country's independence from New Zealand. CONDITION Black bds (clean and unworn) 416 pages, bright and crisp. DJ has slightly faded spine o/w unworn. OVERWEIGHT. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 16366

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0582717701

Albert Wendt

Leaves of the Banyan Tree

Longman Paul 1979 Hardback. Ex-lib, foxing. (ISBN: 0582717701). Fair.

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Book number: 1320331

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Pacific0582717701 0582717701

Albert Wendt

Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater - a Writer's Early Life

BWB Texts 2018 Paperback, 144pp. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.'. (ISBN: 9780908321223). Mint.

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Book number: 1526264

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Keywords: Commentary, NZ, Non-Fiction9780908321223 9780908321223

Albert Wendt

Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater

BWB Texts 2015 Paperback, 144pp. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.'. (ISBN: 9780908321223). Good.

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Keywords: Commentary, NZ, Non-Fiction9780908321223 9780908321223

Albert Wendt

Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater - a Writer's Early Life

BWB Texts 2018 Paperback, 144pp. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.'. (ISBN: 9780908321223). Mint.

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Book number: 1526258

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Keywords: Commentary, NZ, Non-Fiction9780908321223 9780908321223

Albert Wendt

Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater - a Writer's Early Life

BWB Texts 2018 Paperback, 144pp. 'Albert Wendt recalls his boyhood in the Vaipe, a suburb of Apia in Samoa, just metres from the local cinema, and his life-changing schooling as a scholarship student at an initially foreign New Plymouth Boys' High School. Wendt also explores his fascination with traditional pre-Christian Samoan religion, banned by the missionaries, and while he laments its decline and partial disappearance, he also celebrates its richness and depth.'. (ISBN: 9780908321223). Mint.

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WENDT, ALBERT

Pouliuli

New Zealand, Longman Paul. 1977, 1st Printing. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Solid with light wear on the covers. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page. Very Good.

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Book number: 46167

Catalogue: Literature, Classics, Plays & Poetry

Keywords: Fiction Novel Literature New Zealand

Albert Wendt

Pouliuli

Longman Paul 1977 Softcover. ""What happens when an old man wakes up one morning and finds 'that everything and everybody. that had given meaning to hsi existence' now fills him with revulsion; that he despises 'everything he had been, had become, had achieved?' What happens when that man is Faleasa Osovae, the most powerful alii in the village of Malaelua? What happens to his aiga and his village, to his lifelong friend, Laaumatua Lemigao - 'Clubfoot', and to himself when 'he decides he must be free, must make that leap into pouliuli, the darkness'?. "--Back cover. Owner's Name inside. Corners bumped; some foxing.", (ISBN: 9780582717534). Fair.

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Book number: 1570652

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Keywords: Fiction, Pacific, NZ9780582717534 9780582717534

Albert Wendt

Sons for the Return Home

Penguin Books (NZ) 2023 Paperback. Samoan-born Albert Wendt was working as a teacher in Samoa when he wrote the autobiographical Sons for the Return Home, first published in 1973. It is the story of a cross-racial romance between a Samoan student at Auckland University, the son of migrant parents, and the daughter of a wealthy palagi family. It was an instant bestseller and was later made into a successful movie. (ISBN: 9780143206019). Mint.

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Book number: 1511047

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Pacific, Biography9780143206019 9780143206019

Albert Wendt

Sons for the Return Home

Penguin Books (NZ) 2010 Paperback. Albert Wendt was working as a teacher in Samoa when he wrote the autobiographical Sons for the Return Home, first published in 1973. It is the story of a cross-racial romance between a Samoan student at Auckland University, the son of migrant parents, and the daughter of a wealthy palagi family. It was an instant bestseller and was later made into a successful movie. (ISBN: 9780143206019). Near Mint.

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Book number: 1454173

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Albert Wendt

Sons for the Return Home

Penguin 1987 Paperback, 224pp. A Samoan boy who immigrates to New Zealand with his family has difficulty adjusting to his new life in an alien land. Some foxing. (ISBN: 9780140096804). Good.

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Book number: 1539577

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Pacific9780140096804 9780140096804