Station Life in New Zealand
by Barker, Lady
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. 15mm tear to cloth in spine. Some rubbing and marks to boards. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. Some staining to half-title page and first page of Contents. 15 x 5mm chip to blank margin of pages 1-2. ; [1-4] vii-xi [1] (1)-238 pages + tinted lithograph frontispiece + [2] pages only of publisher's advertisements [Bagnall has [2], 44 pages advertisements]. Appears not to be original publisher's cloth. An early rebinding? Indigo blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 181 x 121mm. Contents: Two months at sea - Melbourne; Sight-Seeing in Melbourne; On to New Zealand; First Introduction to "Station Life"; A Pastoral Letter; Society - Houses and Servants; A Young Colonist - The Town and Its Neighbourhood; Pleasant Days at Ilam; Death in Our New Home - New Zealand Children; Our Station Home; Housekeeping, and Other Matters; My First Expedition; Bachelor Hospitality - A Gale on Shore; A Christmas Picnic, and Other Doings; Everyday Station Life; A Sailing Excursion on Lake Coleridge; My First and Last Experience of "Camping Out"; A Journey "Down South"; A Christening Gathering - The Fate of Dick; The New Zealand Snow-Storm of 1867; Wild Cattle Hunting in the Kowai Bush; The Exceeding Joy of "Burning"; Concerning a Great Flood; My Only Fall From Horseback; How We Lost Our Horses and Had to Walk Home. [Reference: Bagnall 293] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25844
- Title
- Station Life in New Zealand
- Author
- Barker, Lady
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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