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2006. Judith Bell and her husband Nelson had a a promising manufacturing business. When the Warehouse came calling with a big order, they thought their dreams had come true.

1987. 1st Edition. A Centenary history of the Union Steam Ship Company, founded in Dunedin in 1875.

1975. A collection of Maori myths of Aotearoa, retold for children. Lovely narrative and great pictures.

1919. History of Kawau Island.

1980. A study of this area north of Wellington which suggests a series of 7 cultural periods, spanning AD1100 to AD1853.

1988. Te Kete Raukura series. Rare and collectable.

1983. Nine Centuries of Changing Fortune for the Southern Maori.

1982. A study of the effect of religion on the identity of the native Maori pre-European then post-European, and the effect on race relations.

1986. Maori short stories

1960. A short anthology of images man has made of his gods together with an introductory comment presenting various reflections, in the light of which the gods and their images can be approached.

2014. Years in the making and containing 500 images, this is a majestic charting of Maori history from beginnings to present day.

1977. This book by Gilbert Archey is a result of his lifelong work of the study of Maori Art in all its forms.

2018. This very funny book describes New Zealand's towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the best places not to visit, or heaven forbid, live.

2005. An account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the Maori folk of New Zealand.

2007. A magnificently illustrated book is the closest there has ever been to a complete book on moko.

2008. Ralph Hotere is widely regarded as one of the country's most significant painters.

2003. Biography of a famous New Zealand music icon.

2008. A stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000.

2012. For the person with many talents, multiple passions, contradictory interests, raging bursts of enthusiasm that seem to go away as fast as they came.

2015. Random Tales from the Right Wing Jane takes the mickey out of everything - and everyone! - rugby.

2017. As new. Take a journey through the irrational mind that we all share and see what part that mind plays in the success and failure of business.

1974. As new. Discusses the ships, small boats, and airplanes that have mysteriously vanished in the area between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

2011. An introduction to the successful use of a motorhome for a holiday around New Zealand.

1956. 1st Edition. Famous fishing boat pirate in a sailing ketch voyage to West Africa.

1990. The memoirs of Clare Hollingworth, frontline reporter who worked on equal terms with men in a tough, dangerous profession.

2008. An Illustrated Account Of The Major Campaigns, From Europe To The Pacific Islands.

1971. 1st Edition. An account of what it was like to be young in the Twenties. Eleanor Allan talks of pawn shops, pocket money, the pictures, holidays, hospitals and the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.

1989. New Zealand rugby history.

1949. Vintage reference book covering everything a florist should know.

1979. 1st Edition. How to restore an old house.

1991. This is the last volume in the series of selections made by the writer and cricket lover Benny Green.

2011. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life.

1998. The definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Mount Everest - told by acclaimed journalist, and bestselling author.

2006. 50 Trips To NZ's 161 Best Courses.

2001. Many adolescent boys dream of running away to sea, but Peter Taylor is one of the few who actually did it.

2012. How One New Zealander Created a Global Business, and his thoughts on the country's direction.

1973. A book about how to self sustain your family.

2017. A personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the Gloriavale cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women.

1974. 1st Edition. A well-known boat builder and designer discuss every aspect of boat design and construction.

1945. Collectable. The first historical and biographical book on the New Zealand squadrons and pilots who fought with the RNZAF in WWII.

2019. A refreshing approach to entrepreneurship centered on staying small and avoiding growth - maximizing happiness, sustainability and profitability.

1972. Rare and collectable. The story of coins, tokens, promissory notes, bank notes, and other means of exchange that have been used in New Zealand.

2003. Possum Bourne: rally driver, sporting icon, family man and great bloke.

1983. Instructs the beginner and also teaches the old hand a thing or two.

1983. Maps, picture, descriptions and history.

1970. Pet Library children's paperback.

1971. Photographs from the Muldoon era with captions, New Zealand from the 1970s.

1960. 1st Edition. Vintage book on science and technology. Collectable.

1972. 1st Edition. A thoughtful intriguing and informative work in an area of historical speculation.

2011. A tribute to great and glorious man spaces and the craftsmen behind them.

2016. 3rd Edition. New Zealand's Most Comprehensive Outdoor Guidebooks.

1998. This is a unique portrait of life in NZ's masculine heartland.

1987. 1st Edition. The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence during the 1970s.

1992. Teaches you how to propagate from seed, cuttings and division successfully to produce your own plants for next to nothing.

2008. Hints and Tips to reduce your carbon footprint.

1982. Everything you want to know about organic gardening.

1985. The complete guide to Calligraphy.

2008. A pictional journey through new Zealand favourite holiday places.

1980. One of the best Canterbury books. This is a classic of Canterbury literature that describes most of the high country stations as the author saw them.

1987. Instructs the beginner in the use of shells, clay, wood, bone, lapidary, metal, enamels and plastics for the creation of jewellery.

2005. A new book for the thinking saltwater fisherman based on the best-selling Fishing Smarter by Tony Bishop.

2000. For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language.

2004. A fascinating collection of aviation stories brings together a selection of the best writing by and about Kiwis with wings. 

1997. In 1931 Joanna Lumley's grandparents undertook a three and a half month journey across the small and secret Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

2011. The shocking, controversial, moving story of Matt Hampson, the rugby player who dislocated his neck and was paralysed in a England training session.

2017. The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world.

2011. Rob Hamill & Phil Stubbs were the winners of the 1998 Transatlantic Double Handed Rowing Challenge. Their victory elevated them to hero status both in New Zealand & around the world.

2016.

2016. Based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit.

1957. A photo record of Auckland city during the 1950's. Collectable.

1953. Rare and collectable. Author's account of mustering on this iconic high country station. Bruce worked summers in 1928, '29 and '30.

Circa 1940. Children's Classic

1955. With a preface by J. M. Barrie.

1961. 1st Edition. Gerald Durrell's tour of animals and wild life throughout South America. 

1974. 1st Edition. Story of a hero in the game of rugby.

1978. 1st Edition/numbered limited edition. Biography of Sid Going, one of the great All Blacks of all time.

1977. The story of the most electrifying, entertaining and successful Rugby players of the time.

1970. 1st Edition. Famous NZ Captain and Coach talks to Terry McLean.

2014. Collectable. Dot and her husband Neil moved to Riverstone over 30 years ago, when it was still ‘a gravel pit'. Now, after years of hard yakka, they own six dairy farms running over 4000 cows.

1948. Illustrated account of the ill-fated expedition to reach the South Pole by Capt Robert Scott, told by his second-in-command who lead the Last Supporting Party.

2007. An inspiring and emotionally encouraging moving story of courage and determination.

2010. Develop your skills on the tee, fairway and green, eliminate common errors and become a better all-round golfer.

1977. Scout Association of NZ

1964. 1st Edition. 12 stories set in Queensland, Australia. Crocodile shooting.

1963. 1st Edition. Barry Crump's fourth book, includes Sam Cash, Barry's hard case New Zealander joker.

1967. Winning the national lottery doesn't exactly make life easier for Windy. Those spots of bother lead him into more and more hilarious situations.

1996. A continuation of Barry Crump's country humour and classic tales.

1992. A continuation of Barry Crump's country humour and classic tales

1993. A continuation of Barry Crump's country humour and classic tales.

2007. A continuation of Barry Crump's country humour and classic tales.

1955. An interesting account of Bali in the 1950's, in between the unspoiled island of the 1920's and 1930's and the tourist island of the 1970's to the present.

1960. As new. An Anthology of Words and Pictures.

1954. An Anthology of Words and Pictures.

1952. An Anthology of Words and Pictures.

1967. 1st Edition. Francis Chichester's 1967 single handed circumnavigation set a blazing record for speed.

1985. The third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'One of the greatest autobiographies written this century'.

1984. A collection of stories from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield.

1977. Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946. He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times.

1987. A striking departure from the earlier efforts of Hibbert, one of England's best-known popular historians.

2000. A celebration of 40 years of the world's most famous soap opera, written by Coronation Street archivist, Daran Little.