cecil wray (6 Ergebnisse)

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. No signatures. Gilt on spine and front board clean and bright. A 25 x 10mm chip at head of spine of dust-jacket. 14mm tear and 5mm chips at top corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover. A nice copy of this title, uncommon in dust-jacket.; 1924 third edition, of a title first published in 1898. 390, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 18 illustrations on 7 plate leaves + 2 colour folding maps. Some small illustrations on the paginated leaves. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustration of Maori canoe stern on front board. Page dimensions: 215mm x 140mm. This third edition with a new Part Two by Cecil J. Wray, on events since 1900 and including a chapter on New Zealand and World War One. Contents: Dedication; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to First Edition; Note of Acknowledgement; Poem: New Zealand; Part I by W. P. Reeves : The Long White Cloud; The Maori; The Maori And The Unseen; The Navigators; No Man's Land; Mission Schooner and Whale Boat; The Muskets Of Hongi; "A Man-of-War Without Guns"; The Dreams Of Gibbon Wakefield; In The Caudine Forks; Through Weakness Into War; Good Governor Grey; The Pastoral Provinces; Learning to Walk; Governor Browne's Bad Bargain; Tupara Against Enfield; The Fire In The Fern; Gold-Diggers And Gum-Diggers; Vogel and the Public Works Policy; In Parliament; Some Bones Of Contention; The End of the Oligarchy; The Eight Years' Tussle; "King Dick"; The Experimental Laws; Part II by C. J. Wray: An Agrarian Ascendancy; A Triangular Duel; New Zealand and the War; Part III by W. P. Reeves : The New Zealanders; Appendix I : New Zealand Literature; Appendix II: Poem : The Passing of the Forest; Index.

Unbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo. [4], 82pp., with a half-title. Disbound and stitched. Small contemporary manuscript note: "By Frederick Jebb, M.D.," in neat ink on the title page, light toning, very good. A scarce pamphlet by Frederick Jebb as "Guatimozin," and with two letters by Sir Cecil Wray as "Causidicus." Scarce in the trade. *Goldsmiths* 11785; *ESTC* T112979.