Waitaruna : A Story Of New Zealand Life

Binding poor internally, with spine glue perished and 6 gatherings detached and loose from the binding. Staples rusted. Page 49-112, 257-288 are detached and loose as 6 gatherings or signatures of 8 leaves / 16 pages. Darkening to endpapers. Previous owner's name and rubber stamp. Some rubbing to joints, 8mm and 3mm splits to cloth in front jointComplete but in need of rebinding, ; viii, 312 pages + 32 pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 174 x 112mm. A novel. Selected contents: Leaving Home; Life On The Ocean Wave; Land At Last; The Last Stage Of The Journey; Waitaruna; Big Creek; Ottalie Ewart; Muttontown; Under The Willows; Shearing; No Joke For Mike; The Doctors Letter. [References: Bagnall 347 - "Romance, with appropriate period dialogue, chiefly on an Otago High-Countory run."; Burns (1981) "New Zealand Novels and Novelists" p. 8 - "Success and failure among the pioneers in Otago."; Hocken p. 332 - "A pastoral story, with the scene laid in the southern part of New Zealand."]

Product Info

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

Year: 1881

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: New Zealand