Te Manu Tukutuku: The Maori Kite by Bob Maysmor - 2001

New Zealand: Steele Roberts, 2001. Hard cover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Professor Christopher Pinney, anthropologist and art historian and Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College, London.General. Ownership penned to FEP. Shelf and handling wear to cover, including creasing to edges and folds, light surface paper blemish at front sticker removal point, minor scoring front and rear. Pageblock is lightly tanned, leading into page edges. Within, pages are tightly bound, and content is unmarked, colours true. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used.

Te Whanganui a Tara - Wellington: Steele Roberts. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. (2001). Hardcover. 1877228265 . No signatures. A 10mm chip near tail end of dust-jacket spine, and a 15 x 3mm chip in rear flap fold of dust-jacket. ; "Revised and updated edition." 112 pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: oblong 238 x 168mm. Numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations. "Kite-making and kite-flying are traditional Maori crafts, the skills of which have been recently reawakened. Once valued for their spiritual significance and popular with all ages for recreation, the original Maori kites have all but disappeared." - from dust-jacket blurb. .