Author: SATCHELL, WILLIAM
Title: The Greenstone Door
Description: New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombes. 1957, 3rd Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First published 1914. Explores aspects of New Zealand history in the second half of the nineteenth century through the childhood recollections of a hero who is cared for by a Maori chief after his father is killed. Now recognised as a classic of the period, with its authentic historical portraits and its passionate plea for better understanding between the two races. CONDITION Green bds (bottom front cnr buped, faintest marks to rear) 400 pages with Maori pronunciation guide to rear (crisp and clean with light foxing at ends and edges) Original DJ has slight damp stain to spine and has been in older style brodart causing tape bleed to edge which has carried over to eps and a little to edge of bds, tiny tear bottom front, not price clipped. #New Zealand Literature#. Good/Good.

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