j w stack (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Baseball, Sports) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Through Canterbury and Otago with Bishop Harper in 1859-60 by Rev. J W Stack. Publisher: Nags Head Press, 1972. LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 200 COPIES. THIS BEING NO. 135. Hardback with jacket, bookplate of NZ author Frank Glen to ffep otherwise near new. Jacket has fading and marks with a small closed tear. 90 pages. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.

The Stirring Times of Te Rauparaha by W.T.L. Travers Also The Sacking of Kaiapohia by J.W.Stack Whitcombe & Tombs, First combined edition 1906 (Bagnall T678). Good hardback with red boards. Gilt titles to faded spine, black illustration to front board. Binding firm, boards have marks, rubbing, bumping and chipping, fraying to cloth at bottom right corner, paste downs and end-papers have been replaced, and spine may have been repaired or replaced but it does have original cloth with gilt titles on the spine. p 191 has some abrasions that have rubbed off some letters, pages 67, 72 and 74 have a deep vertical crease, rest of pages are very good with minor marks, creasing. 246; b/w illustrations all present. First section originally published as Some chapters in the life and times of Te Rauparaha, Chief of the Ngatitoa, in Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, v. 5 (1872). Second section originally published in 1893 under title Kaiapohia; the story of a siege. Te Rauparaha was a military leader of the Ngati Toa tribe, originally from the Kawhia region . Facing pressure from northern tribes, Te Rauparaha led his people south , settling in the Kapiti region of the lower North Island around 1820. Establishing a base on Kapiti Island, Te Rauparaha and his allies traded with European ships, acquiring muskets that gave them a military advantage. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. Using his new military power, Te Rauparaha's ambition extended across the Cook Strait to the South Island, leading to military campaigns against the Ngai Tahu people. The attack on Kaiapohia was the culmination of hostilities between Te Rauparaha's Ngati Toa and the Ngai Tahu tribe. Te Rauparaha visited the Kaiapohia pa on a trading mission but was attacked by the Ngai Tahu, and several of his men were killed. He escaped and swore revenge. In 1830, Te Rauparaha attempted an attack on the pa, but it was too well-fortified. He returned with a large, well-armed war party. The Ngai Tahu defenders trusted the pa's thick palisades to protect them from the muskets. After a three-month siege, Te Rauparaha adapted his tactics. He ordered the attackers to burn the pa's wooden palisades, a tactic previously unknown in Maori warfare. The fire spread, and the Ngati Toa forces swarmed inside, killing many of the defenders. The sacking of Kaiapohia was a blow to the Ngai Tahu and a victory for Te Rauparaha and his allies. All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex-library. Some library stamps, labels and markings. 16mm tear at tail of dust-jacket spine. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1937 UK edition of a title first published in New Zealand in 1935. 286, [2 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 16 illustrations on 7 plate leaves. Advertisements on recto of rear free endpaper. Maps on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 119mm. "Born in a Maori pa in 1835, when the New Zealanders were still cannibals, James West Stack, in his recently discovered MSS., tells the story of his early life, spent on his father's mission stations, in perilous isolation amidst warlike tribes. Here are true stories of adventure, interspersed with graphic word pictures of the Maori of those days, and of the land and sea, forests and rivers, that he loved." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Forewordo by Archbishop Churchill Julius; Preface; James West Stack, Memoir; Early Maoriland Adventures of James West Stack: Puriri and Mangapouri; Mangapouri; Te Papa; Te Papa (continued); Poverty Bay; East Cape; East Cape (continued); East Cape (continued); A Whaling Station; Captain Cook's Well; Journey to East Cape; East Cape; East Cape (continued); Journey to Kawakawa; East Cape and Voyage to Auckland; St John's College, Auckland; Sydney; Appendices: I - Sir Julius von Haast - A Biographical Note by H. F. von Haast; II - The Maori and His Greenstone - Notes on Maori Manufacture of Greenstone by J. W. Stack; Index. [Reference: Bagnall S1455 - "The first section of Canon Stack's reminiscences dealing chiefly with his childhood recollections of mission life in the Waikato and on the East Coast, prefaced by A. H. Reed's biography (p.23-98)."].