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1995. BOTH SIGNED. Paul Legg has been part of the New Zealand aviation scene for over the past forty-eight years.

1965. 1st edition. With no sailing experience, single handed in 1961, Francis Brenton crossed the ocean first time from Tenerife to Haiti.

1954. 1st edition. The story of the early Australian pearling industry.

1954. One of the best historical novels ever written, this engaging saga of Viking adventure in 10th century northern Europe.

1956. 1st edition. The story of the salvage tug Turmoil involved in many deep-sea tows and rescue jobs from the end of World War Two until she was broken up in 1986.

1954. 1st edition. This is a story of travel by an observant author, with vivid descriptions of the Mediterranean, in this solo voyage and with very meagre resources.

1967. Describes the authors hundred-day, non-stop run from Antigua, in the West Indies, to the River Plate in Southern America.

1952. 1st edition. A detailed account of the author's second single-handed crossing of the Atlantic, this time crossing eastward, and with a stowaway on board.

1965. Written for the benefit of all men in all Branches of the Royal Navy and issued to each rating when he joins.

Circa 1954. Own a unique piece of New Zealand aviation history - this poster is the real McCoy from generations ago - not a modern reproduction.

1986. Own a unique piece of sailing history - this poster is the real McCoy from generations ago - not a modern reproduction.

1962. Collectable vintage road map of New Zealand in its original clear plastic sleeve. SCARCE

1986. Own a unique piece of sailing history - this poster is the real McCoy from generations ago - not a modern reproduction.

1986. Own a unique piece of sailing history - this poster is the real McCoy from generations ago - not a modern reproduction.

1958. 1st edition. A personal history, by the author, of the development of air photography, some reconnaissance and many air to air photographs, events, and the difficulties encountered by pilots in

1987. French War Birds was first published in 1937, this Vintage Aviation Library 16 edition is reproduced exactly as the original edition, complete and unabridged.

1964. The Historical Division of the Army Air Forces has assembled in seven volumes the record of the AAF in World War II.

1958. The Historical Division of the Army Air Forces has assembled in seven volumes the record of the AAF in World War II.

1955. The Historical Division of the Army Air Forces has assembled in seven volumes the record of the AAF in World War II.

1953. The Historical Division of the Army Air Forces has assembled in seven volumes the record of the AAF in World War II.

1964. The Historical Division of the Army Air Forces has assembled in seven volumes the record of the AAF in World War II.

1978. Biographical work on Richard Pearse and his attempts at early flight and aeronautical inventions.

1971. Who's Who In New Zealand was founded in 1908 and is the only complete and authoritative work of contemporary biography of prominent people in New Zealand.

1977. 1st edition. The story and history of Rodney County, north of Auckland.

1973. 1st edition. The story of the first hundred years 1873 - 1973 of freezing works company R&W Hellaby Ltd.

1950. On 16th December 1950, Canterbury celebrated the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the ‘Charlotte Jane’, the first of our First Four Ships.

1966. This is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the United Kingdom.

1975. 1st edition. A history of the first 50 years of the Bay of Plenty Electric Power Board 1925 - 1975.

1969. An informative, historic, authentic narrative account of the Medland family's long association with Great Barrier Island, with essential details of the island's history and settlement.

1983. 1st edition. A Nostalgic look at a century of wildlife in the Te Anau Region of the South Island of New Zealand.

1979. 1st edition. An informative book on minor islands of New Zealand as part of the Collins Nature Heritage series.

1987. 1st edition. Around the north-east of the Kaipara Harbour in the small settlement of Pahi, author Dick Scott uncovered the remarkable histories of seven early settler families.

1999. Around the north-east of the Kaipara Harbour in the small settlement of Pahi, author Dick Scott uncovered the remarkable histories of seven early settler families.

1954. 1st edition. Douglas Bader was a successful fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the WWII.

1931. 1st edition. History of important events in New Zealand beginning with the arrival of the Maori in the 14th century up to the events of the 20th century.

1903. 1st edition. A history of the Manawatu region prior to 1903, including information gleaned from actual Manawatu pioneers.

1883. A fascinating account of the time Lady Mary Anne Barker lived on a sheep station on the south island of New Zealand.

1969. 1st edition. The story of New Zealand's greatest maritime disaster in Wellington harbour in April 1968.

1979. 1st edition. The story of the first Anglo Maori war of 1845-47 told through the letters and diaries of a shrewd cross-section of those British soldiers who fought and retreated, lived to fight

1969. The story of New Zealand's greatest maritime disaster in Wellington harbour in April 1968.

1973. Amazing story of survival at sea against all odds.

1970. 1st edition. Vintage publication on the history of St Pauls church in Auckland.

1964. Vintage guide to the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand.

1966. 1st edition. Home is at the sharp end of the ridge which bends northward from Mt Atkinson, part of the last splaying of the Waitakere Range, which makes jointed fingers all along the north coast

1961. Vintage book on sailing around in New Zealand's north east coast.

1990. 1st edition. The story from behind the scenes of how one small country in the South Pacific found the political will to say no to nuclear weapons.

1977. 1st edition. Consists of extracts from the memoirs left by Spencer Westmacott and describes the difficulties of converting rugged bush country to farming on a property in the Rangitoto Range

1989. For the first time a pictorial reference with information and a short history of the Service on all significant new Zealand Lighthouses, from Three Kings Island to Puysegur Point.

1959. When Adrian Hayter set out single-handed from Lymington, England on his thirty-two-foot Albert Strange-designed yawl Sheila II, local betting was seven to one that he would get no further than

1957. 1st edition. In 1921 Arthur Grimble, leaving his wife and children, returned to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Pacific, and to the charming local people and duties as commissioner with

1963. 1st edition. Alfred Reed travel memoir around the top of the South Island of New Zealand including the Molesworth and Marlborough Sounds.

1928. 1st edition. Biography of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a founder of colonies and reformer of England's colonial system.

1969. 1st edition. The story of the shipwreck of the Elingamite off the New Zealand coast Three King Islands in 1902.

1963. 1st edition. Mona Anderson and her popular books made the high country life famous and accessible to many.

1964. 1st edition. Elsdon Best is known today as New Zealand's first locally-born scholar of the Maori and of Maori ways.

1934. Beautiful vintage book on early Maori history.

1966. SIGNED. Trailblazing author Shirley Maddock and photographer Don Whyte made an extraordinary voyage around the Hauraki Gulf, documenting its people and places.

2004. This guidebook describes Great Barrier Island - its history and natural features, including flora, fauna, habitats and endangered species, terrestrial, freshwater and marine.

1977. A guide for gentle travellers seeking their pleasure amid the scenic shorelines and glorious goldfields of the historic and sun- blessed Coromandel Peninsular.

1952. First published 1881 - romance and reality of antipodean life in the infancy of a new colony.

1966. The all-time classic telling of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf. Scarce in new condition.

1955. 1st edition. The story of Jean Filloux who took 13 months to cross the Atlantic from Bordeaux to New York in his 47-foot catamaran with the rig of a Chinese junk.

1939. 1st edition. Centennial history of the town of Hawera, located south of Taranaki, from official records and from personal reminiscences of members of pioneer families in the district.

1981. 1st edition. A fine record of a unique engineering achievement that played such an important part in the development of the country.

1946. Maori Mythology and folklore.

1995. A fascinating amateur produced compilation of stories, history, and the odd poem, from people on the Fox-Paringa-Haast road region of the South Island's West Coast of New Zealand.

1968. Issued by the Ministry of Transport to promote road safety for children. This is original, not a modern reproduction.

1950. Issued by shell New Zealand, draughted by Palmer & Malood, printed by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd.

1936. 1st edition. New Zealand journalist and historian who exposes of the hidden forces that rule the World, Money-power, Bolshevism & Zionism.

1974. 1st edition. A beautiful collection of the many different places of New Zealand portrayed in water color.

1969. A guide to every aircraft acquired by the British Services from 1912 to 1969.

1962. The official Boy Scout Knot book 1962.

1953. Ardmore Teachers' College vintage handbook 1953.

1952. Ardmore Teachers College Calendar 1952.

1979. A pictorial record of the aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

1981. A booklet produced for Airforce Day 1981, demonstrating to the public the skills of the RNZAF.

1986. 1st edition. A Right Ambition is an honest, forthright, fascinating self-examination of cricket by a man at the height of his sporting and intellectual powers.

1988. Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the Daily Express.

1987. Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the Daily Express.

1985. Footrot Flats, a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball, ran from 1976 to 1994 in newspapers.

Undated. Addressed to the householder these booklets were distributed to subscribers in the 1930s and 1940s.

Circa 1940s. A catalogue of dwarf fruit trees, by William E. Just, Nurseryman.

1980s. A Cobb & Co. collectable children's puzzle and picture book including colouring pages, puzzles, recipes.

1965. 1st edition. Transport Series No. 1. a booklet of maps of New Zealand railways and tramways.

1971. The New Zealand Official Yearbook is published by the Department Of Statistics, Wellington and mirrors New Zealand and its people.

1965. New Zealand Gardener magazine, October 1965, Volume 22, No. 2.

1960. A comprehensive text book dealing with the general principles of the law of contract and the various special contracts in New Zealand.

1979. 1st edition. The centennial history of the Masterton Hospital.

1950s. A primary school bulletin about mammals in New Zealand.

1984. 1st edition. A history from the discovery of the Waitomo Caves in 1888, to the development of the tourism industry in relation to the Waitomo Caves.

1995. A guide book to The Mary Rose exhibition in London.

1948. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 2, No. 10. How words work, hints on clear thinking.

1950. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 4, No. 8. The nature of regional geography.

1968. A vintage bulletin for schools, about a holiday in the capital of New Zealand.

1969. A bulletin for schools on the history of H.P. Kidson growing up in Nelson.

1974. 1st edition. Biography of Frances Preston, one of New Zealand earliest women doctors, graduating from the Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1922.

1945. 1st edition. Ormond Burton was a war hero in WWI, and then an imprisoned conscientious objector in WWII.

1977. 1st edition. The Story of the Port of Napier 1875 to 1975 for the Hawke's Bay Harbour Board in its centennial year.

1991. 1st edition. The history of the Nelson railway, an isolated stretch of just 100km, filling a long-standing gap in the region's history and in the history of New Zealand railways.

1964. 1st edition. A book showing every stage of growth and detail of ring culture, a form of growing heavy crops of fruit and flowers in comparatively small areas.

1985. A vintage booklet about why and how stalactites grow from rocks.

1949. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 3, No. 9. School athletics, jumping.

1949. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 3, No. 7. School athletics, running.

1950. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 4, No. 2. School athletics, throwing.

1906. Presents the beginner a simple exposition of the geometrical principles connected with the screw propeller.

1962. 1st edition. A collection of recipes of Commonwealth countries, refer images.

1978. 1st edition. Arthur Moody was one of the first doctor-surgeons trained in New Zealand.

1983. Cartoons by cartoonist Murray Ball.

1978. This encyclopedia is the first fully international guide to list all the world's manufacturers of production aircraft, both military and civil, from the beginning of powered flight to the

Undated. A vintage bulletin for Schools (J) about The Chatham Islands.

1986. Details the history of Tarawera before and after the fateful morning of the eruption.

1968. 1st edition. The autobiography of Sir Gordon Bell, the doyen of New Zealand surgery.

1960. This is the most famous and valuable book in the Scout Movement - by the founder himself.

1950. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 4, No. 9 about The Cawthron Institute.

1950s. A primary school bulletin about travel in the early days.

1950. A primary school bulletin on New Zealand railways.

1923. A scenic guide book "Through the Heart of the Sierra" on the Line of the Southern Pacific-American Canyon route via Oregon.

1984. A booklet presenting the Waitomo Caves visitor with a general knowledge of the New Zealand glowworm - including details of habitat, life cycle, snare, feeding behaviour and light.

1953. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 7, No. 5, travel in early New Zealand.

1970. 1st edition. This publication by specialist officers of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture provides a guide to better management of fruit gardens.

1950. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 4, No. 10, on H. Guthrie-Smith.

1948. A post-primary school bulletin Vol. 2, No. 4. Writing English.

1993. Recalls the days when the old paddle steamers plied their way up the two hundred and thirty-nine named rapids between Wanganui and Taumaranui.

1962. A guide of the private railways that have existed in the Hawkes Bay area.

1982. 1st edition. This book marks 75 years of the progress of the New Zealand Plunket organisation that is unique in the world.

1970. 1st edition. Gordon McShean at age twenty-nine learned of the advances in heart-repair medicine, and that operations were being conducted with great success in New Zealand.

1978. This is an account of the years of Hitler's power and the build up to the Second World War.

2016. In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of Nike.

2013. This book is dedicated to the great ideas and turning points in the history of design.

1996. 1st edition. Opera diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa shares her love of opera in this very personal and candid book.

1989. The Hayward Gallery exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci, 26 January to 16 April 1989.

2024. The story of change and innovation in one of New Zealand’s notable industries and an important record of the people who made the world take notice.

1964. 1st edition. The author is an experienced pilot who has flown in the Arctic and Antarctic.

1970s. Children's pop-up book published by Gulf Air Public Relations in around 1970.

1974. 1st edition. Aeronautic history mainly concerned with the 120 years between 1783 to 1903, from first the balloon flights to the first aeroplane flights.

1972. 1st edition. Boeing aircraft album with accounts of all Boeing designs both civil and military.

1966. Aero Series 5. History of the Boeing P-12 and F4B model aircraft.

1973. Aero Series 22. History of the Boeing P-26 Peashooter aircraft.

1982. The Bellanca C.F. marked the emergence of the first successful line of cabin monoplanes in the United States.

1988. Portrays the hitherto only briefly recorded life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man in the world to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable.

1983. Provides a fairly comprehensive view of the evolution of the Air Service in 1917-1918.

1910. At a time of intense European military rivalry, the book highlighted differences in the way countries were adopting new aerial technology.

1984. 1st edition. SIGNED. The medal (Pour le Merite) and the early German airmen who sought to achieve the distinction of wearing it.

1989. 1st edition. SIGNED. A portrait of William Leefe Robinson, awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down the first airship over London on September 2, 1916, paving the way for the eventual defeat

1982. Coverage of the Kawanishi Navy Type 94 Seaplane E7K.

1964. 50 years history of the Schweizer Flugwaffe / Swiss Air Force.

1974. Small photographic book depicting the battlefields of Papua New Guinea.

Undated. A pictorial guide to the history of the Boeing P-26 aircraft nicknamed the 'Peashooter'.

1996. Naval Fighters Number 37.

1937. 1st edition. A survey of the history and development of aeronautics with particular reference to contemporary influences and conditions.

1919. A description of the work of the airmen during the early stages of the war, written for children with a keen interest in planes and aerial warfare.

1942. Robert St. John tells for the first time the story of an epic adventure in the history of journalism.

1975. 1st edition. An account of the presentation of 1914-1918 war aircraft in flight.

Undated. Fantastic item of original New Zealand memorabilia that would look great framed.

1985. Vintage Warbirds No 1.

1986. Vintage Warbirds No 5.

1986. Vintage Warbirds No 4.

1985. Vintage Warbirds No 3.

1975. Dreamers and inventors who flew first.

1986. Vintage Warbirds No 6.

1988, 1990. A series of volumes about the awards of the Imperial German states to airmen in World War 1.

1987. Vintage Warbirds No 7.

1974. 1st edition. Chronicles the Wright brothers' influence on the early pioneers in Europe.

1966. 1st edition. One of the world's leading aeronautical historians has now made a survey of the complex process of the birth of the aeroplane in detail.

1941. 1st edition. Anthology/anecdote/miscellany of things quaint, interesting, amusing, sometimes tragic in the history of flight.

Undated. An overview of aviators and aeroplanes, aimed at younger readers.

1988. A pictorial guide to airships.

1962. 1st edition. Sir George Cayley B.T. is now internationally recognised as the true inventor of the modern aeroplane and the founder of the science of aerodynamics.

1979. 1st edition. Reveals for the first time just how two obscure brothers achieved in just four years what the greatest minds of the world had failed to accomplish in all history.

1991. From the formative years of Germany's first air force in 1910 and 1911, the book covers the development of fighter aircraft such as the Albatros and Fokker series as well as the AEG Gothan and

Undated. Interesting compilation of some key aviation events in WWI.

1978. 1st edition. Covers the Wright brothers and the 10 years that followed.

1954. 1st edition. Biography of Frederick Warren Merriam who was one of the earliest and most important of Britain’s aviation pioneers.

Undated. A pictorial guide to early aircraft.

1960. 1st edition. A full biography of Claude Grahame-White, who could be regarded as Britain's foremost aeronaut and pioneer of aviation.

1987. Informational photographic book about early British aircraft.

2009. First published in 1960. In 1957, after travelling in southern Iraq, Gavin Maxwell returned to the West Highlands of Scotland with an otter cub called Mijbil.

1921. A trustful account by one of the members of Scott's expedition in the Antarctic.

1967. 1st edition. The fascinating biography of a New England blueblood who became a millionaire before he was thirty and went into the railroad business so he could be an engineer.

1986. 1st edition. The compelling story of one of the greatest mysteries in mountaineering.

1946. A complete vintage guide to every branch of the carpentry trade for all those engaged in the crafts of carpentry and joinery.

1961. 1st edition. An illustrated guide to the Swiss Alps.

2012. If any one airfield in the world could claim to be the home of military aviation, RAF Hendon has to be the no.1 contender.

2002. Examines two of the most competitive types of air racers flown at the Cleveland Air Races (1046-1949) and today's National Championship Air Races, held each year at Reno, Nevada.

1992. The full development and operational employment of those so-termed 'Bloody Paralysers' are described in great detail.

1989. Sea planes and flying boats, the heritage of Sam Saunders, who started work in the family boatbuilding business on the River Thames in the late 1870's.

2000. This colorful illustrated guide highlights the many remaining Douglas DC-3 aircraft.

1996. History of two Convair aircraft from World War II.

2003. Nijboer takes the reader inside the cockpits of the most revered and feared aircraft of the Cold War period, from 1947 to 1965.

1986. This is the story of the courageous airmen who fought gallantly for their empire in the first air war.

2003. Published in association with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to coincide with the 100th anniversary of manned-flight in 2003.

1994. 1st edition. At last, the lighter side of World War 2 in living color for general readers and war history buffs.

1957. The candid, human story of forty dramatic years with the men who create Boeing aircraft.

1954. The story of one of Britain's greatest fighter squadrons, told by its oldest member, famous air ace, Wing Commander Ira 'Taffy' Jones.

1984. Represents the culmination of nearly forty years research into the histories of the squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm.

2004. Dedicated to 100-anniversary from the first controlled human flight, aims to clarify the genesis of air power.

1978. Story of Chance Vought, a man who was introduced to aviation in 1910 at the age of 22 and his struggles to build a business.

1995. The story of the three most widespread and versatile training aircraft ever built.

2007. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the full co-operation of the Royal Air Force.

1997. A first complete illustrated history of the rugged little American Biplanes which are the embodiment of 1930s US Aviation.