William satchell (37 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint Reissued. Light foxing in the edges and endpapers. Intact dust jacket with slight fading to the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Tiny hint of foxing and some minor dulling to the spine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint Reissued. A near fine copy, edited and introduced by Kendrick Smithyman.

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Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. pp.viii+400. 21cm. Glossary of Maori words. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy. ISBN. 0-85558-285-5. First published in 1914. Historical novel of the Maori wars.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Some tanning; page edges foxed but good for age. 398 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 258 pages. inside cover and page edge foxed, top of page edge stained. Text in good conditionSet in the Hokianga district in the early twentieth century, the book is in p art a realistic portrayal of pioneer farming and trading on the margin between s ea and bush, with a cast of convincing minor characters. It is also a traditiona l tale of heroes and heroines, of villainous jealousies and intrigues, of suppre ssed letters and missed opportunities, and above all of the brooding forest wait ing to exact its toll of those who sought to subdue it.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Experience the expanding lanscapes of the Hokianga region in the late 1800s. A harsh land where you could make a fortune digging Kauri gum or catch your death. In this land we meet Hugh Clifford who has come to try his hand at digging. Idealistic and honourable, Clifford treats the weak with kindness and the mean with contempt and when he rescues a damsel in distress, Esther Hamilton, it is love at first sight. Esther unfortunately is engaged to another, Albert Roller, who together with Esther's father, Dr. Hamilton, treat Clifford with contempt. The facts remain that Roller is a store keeper and a much better match for a doctor's daugther and Clifford is just a lowly gum digger. Or is he? No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Grey-greenish boards rubbed and soiled, spine worn with small tears top and bottom; end papers tanned. 310 pages.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. DJ. DJ worn along the top edge. 400 pages.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint Reissued. Edited and introduced by Kendrick Smithyman. Tidy, just light foxing in the edges and endpapers, a name at the top of the title page. Dust jacket is unclipped, light edge wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Zustand: Good. 1950. Reprint. 400 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Prominent forward lean to text block. Boards are noticeably bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Loss to jacket edges and corners. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Third Edition. 310 pages. missing dj, cloth worn.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. 310 pages. missing dj, cloth worn.

viii+400pp. 8vo. Original cloth with chipped dustwrapper. A little canted, otherwise a very good copy. A novel sympathetic to Maori rights in New Zealand.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 398 pages. Cover worn, faded. Spine faded. Text lightly tanned.

SECOND EDITION, octavo, grey cloth boards, red lettering to spine, viii + 310pp, VG (minor tanning & foxing to spine, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning & chipping to spine- minor loss, light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Ink stamp to front free endpaper. Some staining and marking to page edges. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1/8" tears along head of dust wrapper spine. Some browning and marking to reverse of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; xxi, [1], 222 pages. Blue papered boards. Page dimensions: 215mm x 132mm. Edited and introduced by Kendrick Smithyman. "Between two and three hundred miles to the north of the city of Auckland stands a lonely inn. No other house is in sight, and the nearest building worthy of the name is removed from it a distance of seven miles. This inn, which, with that disregard of probabilites for which houses of entertainment are famous all the world over, is called 'The Scarlet Man,' stands in a hollow by the roadside among the undulations of an extensive gumfield." - the opening sentences.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Fading and foxing to cloth, particularly the spine cloth. Splitting to cloth along about half of the rear joint. Owner's signature dated 1938 on front endpaper.; vi, 310 pages. Grey cloth boards. Page dimensions: 185mm x 124mm. "Between two and three hundred miles to the north of the city of Auckland stands a lonely inn. No other house is in sight, and the nearest building worthy of the name is removed from it a distance of seven miles. This inn, which, with that disregard of probabilites for which houses of entertainment are famous all the world over, is called 'The Scarlet Man,' stands in a hollow by the roadside among the undulations of an extensive gumfield." - the opening sentences.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. 18.5cm x 12.5cm. viii, 400 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Satchell's fame rests ultimately upon his last book published in the unlucky year of 1914. The Greenstone Door is a historical novel, set in 1830-60, and involving not experience recalled and transmuted, but a past reconstructed. It is more carefully organised, more thoroughly prepared than the earlier three stories. In the previous chapter it was suggested that serious Maori novels set in the past tend to sink under the weight of necessary information. Satchell chose most skilfully to focus his story through the mind of an adult remembering his childhood. The reader is in this way taken naturally into the hero's confidence. To some extent, the reader learns as Cedric Tregarthen learns; where needed, and quite acceptably, Satchell exercises the storyteller's usual privilege of supplementing with extra material, but this does not spoil the illusion, for the teller is still Cedric himself. Thus, in chapter 1, Satchell begins evocatively with Cedric's earliest vivid memories, slips in the further details which the grown man knows though the child did not ("I have no actual recollection of the moment when these two intrepid white men . . . ") and fills out the picture from a later point of view with such phrases as "at the moment of which I write ." or, "At this period the practice of cannibalism . . ." It all falls together naturally; the recollections of childhood blend with the later wisdom of the man who writes them down. It is a simple technique, handled artlessly, but it works well enough for its purpose, at least in the first half of the novel. Many New Zealanders know The Greenstone Door. Cedric's father page 34 is killed by the Maoris, the child is protected by Trader Purcell, the Thumb of Te Waharoa, and adopted by that chief as his Little Finger. He grows up among the Maori people, with his foster sister Puhi-Huia, and his friend Rangiora. Together the three young people penetrate to a secret limestone cave, where in their fancy the stalagmites take the shapes of men and women in some drama of the future; Rangiora and Cedric end the racial hostility of their boyhood with an oath of peace, the compact of the Tatau Pounamu, that the Greenstone Door be closed. Events then move on in history, through the troubles that followed Waitangi. In his teens, Cedric is sent to Auckland, to be initiated into the white man's world; this enables Satchell to give us our dose of Pakeha facts in their turn. The boy grows up into an eligible young man who meets Sir George Grey and falls in love with a heroine improbably called Helenora. When the wars break out, sympathies and loyalties are divided; we are shown both sides. Purcell, who joins the Maori people, is executed as a traitor. Satchell contrives in Scott's manner to involve his fictitious persons in historical events where they can play noted parts. Cedric goes, for instance, with General Cameron to the siege of Orakau Pa in April 1864, and accompanies Major Mair to the edge of the redoubt to make that famous offer of surrender terms the resounding rejection of which has been so well remembered. It is Rangiora who is made to speak the Maori defiance "E hoa, ka whawhai tonu ahau ki a koe, ake, ake!" (Friend, I shall fight against you for ever, for ever!) Puhi-Huia is among the slain. With all his companions dead, shattered by his experience of conflicting loyalties, Cedric lies desperately ill, but is nursed backalas, in the best Victorian sentimentby the repentant Helenora. (NZL) William Arthur Satchell was born on 1 February 1861 in London, England. He was the son of Hannah Mordey and her husband, Thomas Satchell, a civil servant who became surveyor general of the Inland Revenue. Thomas Satchell maintained an ample house in Hampstead, and kept up an acquaintance among people of the arts such as Alfred Tennyson and Wilkie Collins. He was a bibliophile, interested in Egyptology, and a contributor to what became the Oxford English dictionary. He wrote and published a little himself, brought out an edition of Izaak Walton's The compleat angler, and edited an angling journal. (Teara - Encyclopedia of New Zealand).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. 400 pages. No dj. Cover worn. some light foxing.