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This is quite a scarce find. An authors copy signed and inscribed as a gift to the authors Doctor in 1915.First edition, published by Whitcombe and Tombs 1915.Card covers, ex library copy. Spine repairs, G condition

The original essential guide to everything that's right and occasionally goes wrong with your MGB! Take it from a proud MGB owner, this manual is very very good!Written by Stuart Turner, a competitions manager with B.M.C and John Organ a race car tuning expert at Abington, published by G.T. Foulis o...

First published in 1865 this is the graphic story of adventure and endurance of those who survived the wrecking of the Grafton on the Auckland Islands in 1864.This edition published by A H & A W Reed in 1943 is now a rare find. Ex lib. copy, card covers, b&w illustrations and maps. 125pp. VG conditi...

This little treasure is a 1976 hard cover edition with vibrant coloured illustrations, 50 pages of memories and joy! VG condition

This large chart dates from 1970 , published to commemorate the bicentenary of Cook's landing in on 9th of October 1769. It includes an inset of the first published chart based on Cook's exploration between 1769 and 1770 and shows the track of Endeavour's circumnavigation of the country.Wood framed...

This is a lovely first year hard cover 5th edition from 1960 of this massive literature and television hit.Published by Collins & Harvill Press London. Colour and b&w illustrations. 155ppScarce, VG condition.Why not combine it with our companion listing. Living Free The Story of Elsa and her cubs.

This is a lovely first edition from 1961 of this volume which formed part of the massive literature and television hit - Born Free.Published by Collins & Harvill Press London. Colour and b&w illustrations. 146ppScarce, VG condition.Why not combine it with our companion listing. the original Born Fre...

This is a scarce first edition of this iconic expeditionary story - Hillary and Tenzing's success on the world's tallest peak. Colour and B&W plates throughout.Cloth hard cover, published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1953.G condition. Missing dust jacket, cover marks and scuffing, sun worn spine. Minor fo...

Written by A W Reed, illustrated by Stewart Irwin here are some of the iconic myths and legends from the ten thousand islands of the mighty Pacific Ocean.Published by A H & A W Reed, cloth hard cover, tidy dust jacket, 136pp.VG, sound, tidy, very minor foxing.

The Book of Gardening - A handbook of horticulture is a lovely thick, gilted and embossed cloth hard cover treatise of all things horticulture in the Victorian age. Very fully illustrated with over 700 engravings and b&w plates, edited by W.D. Drury and published by L. Upcott Gill of Drury Lane, Lo...

This is a lovely collectors copy of an iconic volume aimed at Sunday reading in the Victorian era.All True is a set of over 60 'non fiction' stories of the day that stand as "records of peril and adventure by sea and land - remarkable escapes and deliverances - missionary enterprises - wonders of na...

Did you ever experience the joy of boarding the iconic PAN AM Boeing 747 Jet Clipper?This stunning booklet charts the airlines' history from inception in 1927 to 1977 and features some fascinating photography and accounts of the iconic (now defunct) airline.Soft cover, A4 landscape booklet, publishe...

Did you ever experience the joy of boarding the iconic PAN AM Boeing 747 Jet Clipper?This stunning booklet provides large vibrant route maps of the iconic (as of 1991 defunct) airline, across six continents including and its South Pacific routes with an introduction in multiple languages.Soft cover...

This weighty tome contains 1282 pages of detailed mechanical instruction for the majority of cars on the road in 1940 of either British, Canadian or American origin. It provided an essential war time guide (when many qualified mechanics were away fighting abroad) for service stations, engineers, fle...

Philips' Travelling maps are now sought after collectors items. Mounted on cloth in cloth hardcover booklet, this gem measures 27x22 inches.G to VG condition for age, four small pen marks on map near Shiraz otherwise very tidy.

Stunning hard cover collectible with colour frontis illustration and b&w art work through out.VG condition.

First edition, published by Evans Brothers, London 1954. With a hand written note inside frontis describing family history.VG, nice dust jacket, cloth hard cover, 217pp

This lovely old treasure hides behind a worn dust jacket but is in VG condition overall for its age.Published by Constable, cloth hard cover, hand card trick sketches through-out. 138pp.

A rare and controversial icon of New Zealand education history, that is highly collectable today. We also have a range a newspaper ephemera recording the controversy leading to the books withdrawal by the government of the day.This copy was the last held at Tokorangi School, near Halcombe, Rangitike...

Here we have quite a treasure! Three original black and white photographs (2 mounted on a dated card, one loose). All from the famous 1928 Kingsford-Smith Trans-Tasman flight and subsequent tour. Together with a blog article from 2018 describing the events in detail.This is an important and interest...

A lovely little mid century booklet titled "Advice for your flight". Features stunning images of both the Douglas DC8 and DC10. 24pp.

A little mid century booklet of New Zealand facts & figures from the golden age of NAC, 1969. 136pp.VG

I could not turn away this bizarre artefact when it came my way. It was a great success in its day, helping to revolutionise the way we managed 'number 2's!This is a dry sand toilet, wooden frame, box and seat with a patented porcelain bowl.This important and rare example came to with very early set...

This is a really interesting war time relic.Published by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in March 1942, the device is designed especially for use of aircraft. This model is a A-N Type 1 edition, with a two sided star chart and seven latitude disc charts, in its original leather satchel, together w...