Such Is Life and Other New Zealand Stories

Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper "Mrs John Henderson / with very kind regards / Catherine Anderson / ' Life is from within; we make / or mar its joyousness." Some tears to dust-jacket along folds. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy signed by the author on front free endpaper "N. E. Coad". 64 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 183 x 117mm. Illustration on front panel of dust-jacket shows sailors on a rowing lifeboat and a man being pulled from the water. Short stories set in New Zealand. Contents: Such is Life; The Motorist and the Pedestri. an; A Political Explosion; The Worm Turns; The Emigrant's Dream; The Last of the Pioneers; The New Zealanders; An Incident of the Gold-Mining Days in New Zealand; "Bluff" or Nothing Venture : Nothing Win. "This conversation took place on the Westland gold-field in thh spacious days of the gold-rush. The two brothers Hitching had caught the gold-fever, and had forsaken their ordinary avocation in Christchurch to try their luck on the newly discovered field. They were among the first arrivals, and they lost no time in beginning work. They had invested most of their savings on a likely looking claim on the beach from which place diggers were then winning small fortunes from the golden sand." - from the story "An Incident of the Gold-Mining Days in New Zealand," page 48. [Reference: Bagnall C1064]

Product Info

Publisher: Arthur H. Stockwell

Year: [1931]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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RenaissanceBooks

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Country: New Zealand