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All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage.Issued in The New Zealand Fiction Series by Auckland University Press, edited by Gloria Rawlinson.
VG softback, name to first blank page.
$15 C/B
Auckland University Press 1984, xxi 236pp.
[#5754 ]
Theosophical primer.
Theosophia / The Lamp is Lit / Fishers of Men / The Opened Heart / Vigil / The Gateway.
Final page has a list of Hodson's works.
VG small softcover in stapled wraps, ill. frontis.
$10 C/A
New Zealand Section of the Theosophical Society, 1980, 20pp.
[#5755 ]
"The Liberal Catholic Church uses its own liturgy, which preserves the essential sacramental form with scrupulous care, but couched in joyous, vibrant language. It affirms most emphatically that God is a loving Father, not a vengeful God. Therefore we should worship Him with joy, love, and sincerity. The central act of Christian worship is the Holy Eucharist."
VG- blue paper wrappers over stapled sheets, rubbed spine with splits to ends, gilt titled.
One leaf minor loss to lower margin.
$20 A/A
The St Alban Press, Sydney, undated, probably 1960s. 56pp.
[#5756 ]
A non-supernatural approach to colour therapy in a medical practise using the Herbert George technique, using electrical devices in colour therapy.
Color, Therapeutic use, Radiesthesia
VG softcover with stapled wraps. Name and address inside front cover.
$25 A/A
Enterprise Print, Nelson, undated, maybe 1970s? 23pp.
[#5757 ]
A memoir of farming in Crail Bay in the Marlborough Sounds.
Marlborough, biography, memoir
VG hadback wit VG dust jacket, name and address to half title page.
$25 C/C
Collins 1964 first edition hardcover, 189pp
[#5759 ]
Channelled teachings received by Schucman, allegedly direct from Christ.
3 Volumes with Preface, Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers, Clarification of Terms.
new thought, self improvement, spirituality
G+ leatherette hardbacks with faded titling, owner name stamp to free end paper of each volume.
Top of spine of volume 1 has a split.
$75 D/D
Foundation for Inner Peace February 1985 fourteenth printing of original edition, x 622 + x 478 + iv 88pp.
[#5743 ]
Rosicrucian novel by an early pre- Golden Dawn British Rosicrucian adept, which contains much occult teaching within the fictional structure of the novel.
golden dawn, occult revival, Knebworth Edition
VG- half calf leather hardcover.
Spine ends chipped, joints rubbed, scuff to spine with some loss, but binding holding tight, endpapers age browned, ink inscription dated (18)79 to fep, internally clean.
This copy bound in maroon cloth with maroon leather spine and corners, spine has ZANONI and LYTTON and at the foot E.S.WIGG & SON ADELAIDE.
$85 C/C
Geo Routledge 1877, 408pp + frontis + 10pp adverts.
[#5744 ]
On the morning of Friday 21st June 1946 a maid in the Pembridge Court hotel in Notting Hill found a woman naked and dead.
Her ankles were tied, and there were slash marks and bruising all across her body, with other signs of a violent sexual assault.
It was clear the woman was dead, and it was ascertained that she had spent the night in the company of a man named Neville Heath, an accomplished liar who had used his charm to hide his violent nature and history of petty crimes.
Heath was executed by Albert Pierrepoint on 16 October 1946 at Pentonville Prison.
Taken from the court transcripts etc of the trial of the sadist Heath.
Notable British Trials series, Bournemouth
VG+ cloth hardback with no jacket.
Two small dark spots to upper board.
$45 C/C
William Hodge 1951 first edition, 239pp + plates.
[#5745]
Being Vol II No 8
Survey of the faculty and students including sporting and cultural activities and competitions.
Multiple photographic plates.
VG- softcover with minor wear to wrapper, small stain to contents page.
$25 C/B
Christchurch Technical College 1931, 147pp+ plates.
[#5746 ]
The follow-up work to Backblocks Baby Doctor, Doctor Gordon's autobiography.
The story of a great woman doctor , the founder of the Obstetrical Society, and who was the prime mover in the endowment of two professorial chairs of obstetrics, served the government as director of maternal and infant welfare, and still had time to be a wonderful wife and raise a fine family.
Dr Gordon weighs the progress of socialized medicine against the personal devotion of the private doctor to the individual patient.
Her opinions may illumine the lay reader and her thoughtful conclusions may inspire some of those who seek to follow her footsteps in the profession to which she dedicated her life.
female doctor, twentieth century, medical history
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some tears at ends of spine folds.
Name etc to free end paper.
$15 C/C
Faber 1958 first edition, 190pp.
[#5747 ]
Autobiographical memoir by a well known artist and personality.
She traces her roots from her childhood in Timaru and back to her Irish ancestors, her bohemian life as a student and her marriage to celebrated psychiatrist Fraser McDonald.
Jacqueline Fahey has always lived flamboyantly and courageously, and her crucial position as a painter in the vanguard of feminism since the early 1960s is clear without being made an excuse for self-importance.
ISBN 9781869403553
art scene, South Island, post war, twentieth century
VG+ softback.
$20 C/C
Auckland University Press 2006 first edition, 208pp + plates.
[#5748 ]
Translated from the French by Alan Shipway
An erotic tale based around the chance meeting of a young Frenchman and a Japanese woman on the streets of Paris;
ISBN 9780491032490
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
$25 C/B
W.H. Allen 1988, 158pp.
[#5749 ]
Re-creates the social and political climate of the time and dramatically re-evaluates the roles of the police, the judiciary, and others involved in the crime that captivated America, the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son.
Kennedy argues that Hauptmann was framed by perjured evidence, being an innocent scapegoat in a case the authorities were desperate to see the back of.
ISBN 0002170604
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with sunfaded spine.
$15 C/C
Collins 1985 First Edition, 438pp + plates.
[#5752 ]
The autobiography of Christine Williams, born in Pahikikura New Zealand in 1910.
She was a nurse by profession and served overseas during WWII.
Covers her life up to 1944 when she returned to New Zealand.
ISBN 047303686X
Hunterville, Los Angeles, Granddaughter of Tom and Eliza Shere, Middlesex Hospital Colwell House, Massachusetts General Hospital
VG hardback with no jacket as issued.
Presentation inscription from author on free end paper.
$45 C/B
Christine Williams, Amberley 1996 first edition, 272pp.
[#5712 ]
Christchurch businessman Alfred Tyree travelled to England and back to deal with an embezzler in his employ in London.
His wife accompanied him on the trip round Cape Horn, returning via Canada, and keeping the diary entries printed here for the first time.
Limited edition of 200 numbered copies
ISBN0473041081
private press, hand printed, Alice Tyree
FINE copy in maroon cloth, with slipped in 'order form', and tiped in frontis. portrait of Alice.
The form has '62' penned in, and the limitation page is numbered as copy 62.=
$45 C/B
The Arbor Press, Robinson's Bay 1996 first edition, 129pp.
[#5713 ]
Ramala Trilogy Book 1
Compiled Channelled teachings on various topics.
The titles of the chapters are: The Cycle of Life - Death, The Cycle of Life - Birth, The Cycle of Life - Life, Universal Man, The Position and Purpose of the Earth in Our Solar Body, Astrology, Love, A Day in Your Life, The True Meaning and Significance of Christmas, Money and Possessions, Free Choice or Free Will?, The True Meaning and Significance of Easter, Community Living, The Importance of Correct Eating, Marriage, Reincarnation, How to be a Teacher and an Example of Infinite Wisdom on Earth Today, Humanity’s Relationship with the Animal Kingdom, Law, Religion, The Ten Commandments, The Spirituality of Humanity’s Physical Body, The Moon, The Point of Consciousness of The World Today, The Psychic Law, The Parable of The Christmas Story, Prophecy, The Symbology of The Easter Story, Womanhood, Humanity’s Physical and Spiritual Guardianship, Birthdays, Humanity’s Brothers and Sisters in Outer Space, The True Nature of Healing, The Reappearance of Atlantis, The Cosmic Meaning of the Cross, The True Meaning and Significance of Cataclysms, Health and Harmony, Guidance for a Young Person, Meditation, The Destiny of Britain and The Aquarian Christ.
ISBN 085978035X
New Earth, channelled teaching, Master Light, Great White Brotherhood
VG softback with dust wrapper, light wear to edges, name label to first page
$25 C/B
Neville Spearman 1982 third impression, 288pp.
[#5714 ]
The Book Club edition.
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
'June 1966' in pen to corner of unclipped jacket fold in flap.
Light dust soiling to jacket and book closed edges, very small edge tear at top of upper jacket joint.
$10 C/B
The Book Club (1966) first thus, 192pp.
[#5715 ]
An account form the beginning to the end of the campaign, compiled from official German military records.
The horrors of the Eastern Front.
third reich, wwii, ww2, wehrmacht
VG hardback, name to half title, lacks dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Michael Joseph 1958 first English translation, 263pp + plates
[#5717 ]
The classic account of high country mustering, mainly in the Canterbury area.
high country, farming, sheep, sheep stations, high country station, twentieth century, history, Mesopotamia, Grasmere, Mt White, Castle Hill, Winterslow
VG softback
$10 C/B
Beckett 1989 facsimile of the second edition, complete with photo plates, 149pp.
ISBN 9780908676330
[#4863 ]
VG hardback in VG dustjacket with light wear.
$25 C/B
Reed 1966 reprint of second edition, 155pp
[#5718 ]
An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic, an early 'scientific' approach to modern magic.
ISBN 0722117701
Volume 14 in the dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult.
VG paperback, small pen price to fep, small red marker mark to closed fore edge.
$15 A/B
Sphere 1974 first edition thus, paperback, 236pp.
[PB1745 ]
The Life of Madame Blavatsky- Medium and Magician
biography, theosophical society
VG- paperback with rubbed spine, small pen price to cover .
$10 A/B
Panther 1965 first paper back edition, 207pp
[PB1747]
ISBN 0140211047
Pelican Books
VG paperback, name to first page
$10 A/B
Penguin 1969, 185pp
[PB1749 ]
ISBN 0553139061
Revised edition by Bantam
VG paperback with wear to wrappers, bookseller stamps to first page
$35 A/B
Bantam 1980 paperback, 272pp + plates.
[PB1750 ]
ISBN 0586080538
VG paperback with light wear
$8 C/B
Paladin 1971, 251pp.
[#5719 ]
A study of dreams and nightmares.
ISBN 039518469X
dreams, psychoses, nightmares in literature
VG- softback with wear to wrappers, spotting to closed edges
$15 C/C
Houghton Mifflin 1974, xxiii 258pp.
[#5720 ]
The Gospel According to T. A.
The New Testament from a Transactional Analysis viewpoint.
ISBN 0687413893
Christian psychology.
VG- SOFTBACK WITH rubbed wrappers, name to first page.
$10 C/B
Abingdon 1976 first edition soft cover, 112pp.
[#5721 ]
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Schmidt argues that the bulk of the post war writing on Speer and his role in the Third Reich are based on Speer's own self portrayal of himself through his biography and interviews with the post war researchers.
He claims that either through design or self-deception, Speer has created an image of himself that, through hindsight has glossed over his active and willing participation in activities which, even though he has admitted his culpability for, he is still denying he pro-actively pursued.
ISBN 0245542442
KEYWORDS
VG+ hardback in VG- dust jacket with sunned spine.
$25 C/C
Harrap 1985 first English edition, hard cover, 276pp
[#5722 ]
A stunning re-invention of the Dracula myth set in 19th century Europe.
Anscombe is a psychiatrist and has written a compelling story of evil, madness and twisted sexuality.
ISBN 9780747517797
VG hardback with VG unclipped dust jacket with minor edge rubbing,
$15 C/C
Bloomsbury 1994 first edition, 409pp.
[#5723 ]
Complete and exhaustive study of nursery rhymes and the variant forms as well as an explanantion of some of the nonsense terms etc.
Includes many illustrations from vintage rhyme books.
Sociological and textual approach to nursery rhymes and their original and changing forms and meanings.
G+ hardback in blue cloth which is rubbed to edges and corners.
New endpapers, half-title fore edge ragged.
$20 C/C
Oxford University Press 1952 second corrected edition, 467pp+ plates.
[#5724 ]
VG- softback
$15 C/C
Oxford University Press 1995 xxvii, 467pp+ plates.
[#529/RM72 ]
A collection of twelve various infamous murderers including The Ripper, Peter Kurten, Charley Peace, Lizzie Borden.
From Great Brotain and the United States.
G+ hardcover with no jacket, inscription at front.
$10 C/C
Arco 1953 First Edition, 223pp.
[#5725 ]
Collects 12 stories.
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1974 first thus, 251pp.
[#5726 ]
The Life and Laughs of a New Zealand Driving Instructor.
ISBN 0473033496
Signed by Author.
VG+ as new softback, signed to half-title page.
$20 C/B
Cashmere Driving School, Christchurch 1995 first edition, 192pp with black and white and colour photos etc.
[#5727 ]
Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the 1950s, meeting and marriage to Ted Hughes, and up to her death in 1963.
Edited by Aurelia Schober Plath.
ISBN 0060133724
VG- cloth hardback, light fade to spine, missing the dustjacket.
$20 C/C
Harper & Row 1975 first edition, 502pp.
[#5729 ]
Her second book of New Zealand life and travel.
She travels all over NZ as well as Australia.
Papakura Pa, Waiora, Whakapapa Glacier, Awakino Valley, Kawhia, Westland, Franz Josef, Waipori, Blue Mountains, Jeolan,
VG- cloth hardback with no jacket.
Extreme corner of free end paper chipped with ink inscription dated 1931, bookseller stamp, rear free end paper and paste down some minor silverfish damage.
$25 C/B
Wilson & Horton, 1929. First Edition, 270 pp on sized art paper accompanied by 18 photographs by the author.
[#5730 ]
Running time 75 minutes. Based on the research of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt. Written and directed by Mark Wolf.
ISBN 18006770905
Original VHS cassette (Pal coded) has been in storage and not viewed in years as I have no VHS player.
$10 C/B
New Century Productions 1993.
[#5731 ]
General overview and history of the field including in Europe and behind the Iron Curtain, as well as North ans South America.
ISBN 0283985380
Antonio Villas Boas, East Germany, ET, Barney and Betty Hill
G+ hardback with VG- dust jacket. Ex-library with stamps etc.
$5 C/C
Sidgwick and Jackson 1979 first English edition, 204pp + index.
[#5732 ]
DESCRIPTION
ISBN 9780474000652
All about the comet as experienced in New Zealand during the 1910 visitation and with reference to Te Auahituroa in Maori oral tradition and star-lore.
Also the general background of comets, Edmond Halley, and a section of what to expect during the 1986 revisit of the comet.
VG softback
$10 C/B
Reed Methuen 1985 first edition, 172pp.
[#5734 ]
The author posits a theory of stone circles being evidence for the visitation by YAHWEH, a Watcher space traveller, to the Earth in the remote past, uses evidences from the Old Testament etc
ISBN 091089101X
Bible, UFO,
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket which is lightly rubbed, minor corner chipping.
$35 C/C
New Research Publications 1982 First Edition, xix 299pp.
[#5735 ]
An analysis of the growth of Australia's security and surveillance organizations.
Includes the first comprehensive study of the early history of these agencies based upon a detailed examination of the original files and archives, many of which have never previously received public scrutiny.
ISBN 9780207148187
secret service, domestic surveillance, totalitarian, military intelligence
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$30 C/C
Angus and Robertson 1983 First Edition, xiv + 306pp.
[#5736 ]
Collecting testimony from previous members of the Manson family alongside new evidence linking a cult member to a murder in London, and including never-before-published crime scene photographs, this book charts Manson's terrifying rise from petty-criminal drifter to one of the most recognisable icons in criminal history, and explores the long reach of his crimes that to this day, capture the public imagination.
ISBN 9780340977019
VG+ softback
$20 C/C
Hodder and Stoughton 2009 First Edition, 440pp + plates.
[#5737 ]
DESCRIPTION
ISBN 9780340638293
Merchanter Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins has never forgiven the crime, nor sought justice. Only vengeance. And, for 23 years, the Hawkins's clan ship, Sprite, has lived with her vendetta - and with her son, Tom, the boy sired in the violent assault.
UK first printing.
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket, not price clipped.
$20 C/C
Hodder 1995 First Edition, 377pp.
[#5738 ]
Includes The Mysteries / The Techniques / The Pitfalls / Attainment.
Rosicrucian Library Volume XXII
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some edge tears and chipping.
$30 C/C
Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC 1954 third edition, gilt titled cloth, 366pp
[#5681 ]
Autobiography of a farmer and sometime soldier who lived and worked mainly in North Canterbury and Nelson/ Marlborough area.
Tarndale, Molesworth, Blue Glen Station, 10th Mounted Rifles, 27th Reinforcements, WW1, anzac, Kikawa Farm, hunting, home guard Hillesden Station
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
$35 C/B
Timaru Herald 1976, first reprint, 132pp + plates.
[#5682 ]
Illustrated with numerous maps and photographs, this is a definitive reference work on New Zealand and World War II.
ISBN9780790000435
VG+ softback.
$20 C/B
Heinemann Reed 1989 first edition softcovered, 304pp + plates
[#5684 ]
Pasture management and use of fertilizers. Trace elements as essential to stock health, also discusses human health related to trace minerals in New Zealand soils and produce.
farming practice
VG hardback wigth VG dust jacket with faintly faded spine.
Signed by author to verso of half-title.
$20 C/B
Privately published 1978 first edition hardcover, 194pp+ plates
[#5686 ]
A biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society.
ISBN 0835604594
VG- softback,sunned spine and part of cover, quality paper stock.
$20 C/C
Theosophical Publishing House / Quest 1975 first edition softcover, xxxi 277pp + plates.
[#5688 ]
An espionage thriller based around a secret scientific research facility.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with soiling and short tear to upper spine fold.
Book has dust soiled closed edges, long inscription to fep.
$35 C/B
Collins Crime Club 1954 first edition, 192pp.
[#5690 ]
With Tenniel's illustrations including 16 colour plates.
Pictorial endpapers.
Reprint of the 1927 Children's Edition.
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland, children's classic
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
Some rubbing to cloth joints.
Small gift inscription to half title page.
$45 C/C
MacMillan 1953, 206pp.
[#5691 ]
The highlights of visiting over 100 countries, recounted by this shrewd buiness man and raconteur.
ISBN 0723306451
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with badly sun faded spine.
SIGNED by Bob Jones with an inscription to "Margaret and Clem".
$25 C/C
Whitcoulls 1980 first edition, 256pp.
[#5692 ]
A collection of Bob Jones' newspaper rants, from his syndicated column.
ISBN 0864641015
Dust jacket design by the political cartoonist Tom Scott.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket
Signed by Bob Jones.
$25 C/C
Inprint 1989 first edition, 207pp.
[#5693 ]
"In 1979 the author and a psychic colleague went to a secluded pool in the heart of England. Under the cover of darkness they unearthed a sword bearing Mary Queen of Scot's personal monogram and an inscription proclaiming Meonia fore Marye. Meonia; the name given to a green jewel believed to be the Philosophers Stone of the alchemists. Soon after a green jewel was discovered inside a seventeenth-century brass casket....a twelve year quest of supernatural drama, spectral visitations and confrontations with sinister forces. One by one five further swords, all identical to the first , surfaced under mysterious circumstances....the search is on to uncover their maker, their purpose, their ultimate use, and, of course the seventh and final Sword of Meonia". In 1989 the author and a colleague located and unearthed a sword which they believed had been made from a sword belonging to King Arthur. When he appeared on television with his discovery, five other people came forward who, as a result of dreams or visions, had found other swords belonging to the set of seven. According to legend, when the seven swords are brought together there will be a last battle with the forces of evil. At the end of the 19th century a group of Masons supposedly tried to bring the swords together but were defeated by an ancient occult conspiracy. The Masons dispersed and buried the swords in various places around the country. Now the author invites the reader to help him with the renewed quest for the seventh sword of destiny.
ISBN0099888009 9780099888000
psychic questing, The Black Alchemist, The Green Stone
VG+ paperback with reading crease to spine edge
$35 A/B
Arrow 1992 FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, 680pp + plates.
[#3016 ]
G+ paperback , covers worn and rubbed and creased starting to split at the spine ends but binding still intact and holding etc.
The bottom corner of some pages at the rear of the book are a little humidity rippled, a G+ copy for reading or reference.
Remainder striped bottom edge.
$25 A/B
Arrow 1992 FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, 680pp + plates.
[#3908 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket which is not price clipped, small greasemark to the corner of the fold in flap where the price is printed, a little silverfish damage to the book boards top and bottom edges, minor and otherwise VG book and wrapper,
$85 C/C
ISBN 9780712646871
Century 1991 FIRST EDITION, 484pp + plates.
[#5694 ]
A well illustrated overview with photographs and diagrams, written by an eminent ethnologist of the Dominion Museum.
whakairo, wood carving, bone carving
VG softcover in stiff paper pictorial wrappers.
$20 C/B
School Publications Branch Department of Education 1963 first edition, 48pp.
[#5695 ]
The philosophical and practical basis of the religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal.
A gospel channelled from the Akashic Record at the turn of the Twentieth Century claimed to be from The Christ.
A classic in the both the Christian and New Age genres.
ISBN 085243037X
cosmic christ, ascended masters
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under a plastic sleeve. Inscription to fep and also one to title giving 'Levi's' real name and dates.
$25 C/C
De Vorss & Co 1969 hardcover, 270pp.
[#2532 ]
VG softback with sunned spine and cover edges.
ISBN085243037X
$15 C/C
Fowler 1985, 270pp.
[#3046 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Free end paper removed, jacket price clipped, sunned spine, edge wear with short splits to joint ends etc, chipped corners.
$30 C/C
Fowler, sixteenth edition, undated.
[#5696 ]
An autobiographical memoir by journalist and author.
Ian Cross (1925-1991) is most well known for The God Boy.
ISBN9780868615554
journalism, media, 20th century, writing, reporting
VG+ softback, signed by the author
$20 C/B
Allen and Unwin 1988 first edition, 242pp
[#5697 ]
A memoir of the much respected commander of New Zealand forces in the North African campaign against Italians and Rommel.
Stevens was on Freyberg's Staff and notes in the introduction that he is writing on behalf of the entirety of this Staff.
VG hardback in VG - unclipped dust jacket with triangular chip from bottom left of cover, small repaired edge tears, otherwise book and DW VG
$20 C/B
Reed 1965 first edition, 130pp + plates.
[#5698 ]
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket with chipped spine ends and splits down fore edge folds, brown spot at head of front cover.
$5 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp,
[#915 ]
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket with edge wear and minor edge chipping.
$15 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp.
[#5699 ]
VG- hardback in G+- dust jacket with edge wear, short tears to folds and minor edge chipping. Lacks free end paper.
$10 C/C
Heinemann 1960 first edition, 312pp.
[#5700 ]
Healing for Body, Soul and Spirit.
While conventional medicine analyzes disease in terms of cellular disturbances and prescribes drugs to counteract physical symptoms, anthroposophical medicine adds a spiritual image of the human being.
Anthroposophical doctors increase the range of treatments available, offering artistic therapies, herbal remedies, and many others.
ISBN9780722527719
VG softback
$15 C/B
Thorsons 1992, 192pp.
[#5701 ]
For five years journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal, crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair.
Now the day of execution has come and a convicted killer will meet his end.
Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. Within days, a similar murder stuns the city.
As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes.
Rlentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man's last words to her: "Today won't end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I'm dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?"
ISBN 9780593037584
First UK hardback issue.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Bantam Press 1995 first edition, 331pp.
[#5702 ]
Symbion speaks to a New Age spirituality which enables us to move ahead responsibly into a human future, where we recover and develop a basic spirituality which is person-centered, holistic, socially constructive and ecologically sound... to the simple gifts where we see our spirituality is the way we live the future in the present whether gracefully or to our ultimate condemnation. Symbion recognizes that we must see that the stakes are high. Symbion speaks to extrovert meditation recognizing the spiritual necessity that works of craft, music, art, and body hold fast in a world apparently going loose at its seams. Symbion demonstrates that crafts concretely remind us of who we are, where we have come from and what is important. Symbion suggests guidelines for finding guides for our individual pilgrimages. Symbion faces the issues of dissipating personal and environmental energies as a supreme spiritual challenge which no spirituality adequate to the needs of the present or the future may neglect. Richard Woods is a Dominican friar with a Doctorate in the Philosophy of Religion from Loyola University in Chicago where he teaches theology and contemporary spirituality. He is also adjunct professor in the psychiatry department at Stritch School of Medicine. His major interests concern religious experience, mysticism and human sexuality.
ISBN 0939680084
VG softback
$15 C/B
Bear and Co 1982 first edition, 269pp.
[#5703 ]
How to develop mystical consciousness and discover the God within.
By the founder of the Omega Order, a modern ecumenical religious community.
The aim of this book is to help readers find and know the God who dwells within us, and discover a philosophy of life which relates to the needs of the age in which we live. The emphasis is on the validity of a universal spiritual experience which transcends but does not ignore doctrinal systems.
ISBN 9780749915988
experiential spirituality
VG softback
$15 C/B
Piatkus 1996 first edition, 166pp.
[#5704]
Essays on various fields in parapsychology from a christian viewpoint.
Includes telepathy, Psychical research, psychokinesis, trance mediumship, out of body experiences, healing, the Bible on psychical experience, poltergeists, hauntings and possession.
ISBN 0091158117
VG softback with sewn binding,spine slightly faded, name stamp blacked out to first page.
$20 C/C
Rider 1973 first edition in soft cover, 272pp.
[#5705 ]
A descriptive book of authors travel around New Zealand with monochrome plates.
20th century travel guide, tourism
VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket, chipped to spine ends and corners with short edge tears.
$45 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1935 FIRST EDITION cloth 295pp + plates
[#5706 ]
Anthology of occult horror short stories. Contributors include Clark Ashton Smith, Aleister Crowley, Robert E Howard, Philip K Dick.
VG paperback
$10 A/B
Mayflower 1974 first edition, 205 pp. ISBN 0583123333 [PB1743 ]
15 short works by the masters of the weird, intor by Dennis Wheatley.
Includes Aleister Crowely, M P Shiel, H P Lovecraft
ISBN 0860079619
G+ paperback, bookseller stamps to first and title pages.
$8 A/B
Orbit / Futura 1977 first paperback edition, 230pp.
[PB1744 ]
The author claims this is a received work wherein a formerly anti- spiritualism priest who had written against after-death survival and contact has 'changed his tune' and related the contents of the book to the author from the other side.
mediumship, contact
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket under plastic sleeve, book clean but a little tired, rear paste down has notation, and a few pages have minor pen underlining.
$35 C/B
Psychic Press 1966 reprint, 191pp.
[#5666 ]
Hilson's reminiscences of 50+ years at St Andrews College, Christchurch, New Zealand.
It is unstated in the book, but this was limited to 400 copies only, as mentioned in a letter we have seen by the author.
memoir, education, old boys, alumni
VG+ hardback with no jacket as issued, Hilsoms rubber stamp signature to fep, otherwise as new condition.
Quality xeroxed from typescript, illustrated.
$30 C/B
Privately published 1976. First Edition, 80pp.
[#5667 ]
SFBC 107
VG hardback in VG dust soiled dust jacket, free end paper clipped at head, foxed top edge.
$15 C/B
Science Fiction Book Club 1966 hardcover, 256pp.
[#5668 ]
Robin's account of his 1978 Round the World yacht race experience.
ISBN 0589012509
sailing, Whitbread Round-the-World Race,
Very Good hardback in Very Good
$20 C/C
Reed 1978 First Edition, 207pp + colour plates.
[#5669 ]
A History of Soil Conservation in New Zealand.
Illustrated with black and white photos in the text.
ISBN 0589007084
Farming, Agriculture, Land Use, Erosion
Very Good hardback in Very Good dust jacket.
$30 BD
Reed 1973 first edition, 274pp.
[#5670 ]
New Age, New Thought, Mysticism
VG+ sheets folded and stapled into stiff paper wrapper
$10 C/A
Sundial House 1976 New and Enlarged edition, 36pp.
[#5671 ]
Biography of Sir William Hamilton and his innovative engineering firm.
Surprisingly uncommon title.
ISBN 9780473289904
biography, engineering, jet boat, jet engine, Irishman Creek Station, Hamilton Jet
G+ softback with French flaps, has some damp related waviness or rippling to some pages at the front and the cover, but no stains or damage.
$75 C/C
CWF Hamilton ands Co Ltd 2014 first edition, 360pp.
[#5672 ]
Helm recounts his service and travels during WWII in the Trans Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Greece-Crete with the 2nd. N.Z. Expeditionary Force.
2 NZEF, Sidi Rezegh, Alamein, Mersa Matruh
VG hardback with no jacket.
$35 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. undated first edition (pre 1950), (x) 300pp+ plates, map end papers.
[#5675 ]
A botanical essay supported by superb colour photography by Brian Enting, which charts the changing environment across New Zealand's native forests.
ISBN 9781869410889
native plants, photo essay, botanical photography
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$15 B/C
Random Century 1990 first edition, 128pp.
[#5676 ]
Vol 6 No 2
Frank Sargeson's I For One...
Walter Brookes On The Wharf Now.Poetry by Basil Dowling, Keith Sinclair, Jocelyn Henrici, W H Oliver, James K Baxter, Paul Henderson, A R D Fairburn and others.
Four illustrations.
New Zealand art and literature.
VG- softback sewn in wrappers, with minor soiling, small name to contents page, small faint stain to some pages at bottom margin.
$20 C/B
Caxton 1952, pages 87-164 + plates
[#5677 ]
Vol 25 No 4
Cover design by Ralph Hotere.
Includes four paintings by Leo Bensemann.
New Zealand art and literature.
VG- softback with sewn sheets in paper wrapper.
$10 C/B
Caxton 1971 pages 319-475 + plates.
[#5678 ]
Modern Science And the Rediscovery of the Supernatural.
Supernatural Spiritualism Fringe Science Metaphysics Occult New Age Sociology Theology
VG- hardback in VG- dust jacket.
Dust jacket price clipped, some wear, edge chipping, small stain to rear panel, a few minor instances of pen underlining in book text.
Namer to haf-title "Bob Lowe".
$25 C/B
Doubleday 1969 first edition, xi 129pp.
[#5679 ]
New Zealander who became famous as one of the Empires greatest pathologists, rivalling Bernard Spilsbury in renown.
Includes the Sidney Fox, Annie Hearn, Chrissie Gall, and the Ruxton cases, and the Auckland Arsenic Mystery of Mrs Wilson.
Criminology Pathology Forensic Science
VG hardback with VG unclipped dust jacket, small pen mark to fep, slight foxing to closed edges.
$30 C/C
Harrap 1960, third impression after 1959 first, 318pp + plates.
[#5680 ]
Fantastic Meetings with Spacemen
Contains a compilation of information from the works of Daniel W. Fry, followed by the contact experience of Truman Bethurum
The White Sands Incident, Captain Aura Rhanes, The Prescott Meetings, Clarion, Adamski, The Space Ship of Mormon Mesa, Aylan, The Vimana at White Sands (1950).
Good hardback in G- dustjacket.
Ex-Library, lacks free end paper, one stamp to each preliminary leaf upto the contents, also to rear fep and paste down, pocket and slip at rear.
Jacket chipped spine ends and large chips / peices missing to cover.
$25 C/C
Neville Spearman 1958 second impression, 217pp +plates.
[#5656 ]
A ribald translation into rhymed couplets of Ovid's Lover's Manual.
Illustrated by A R Thomson.
book plate, classical literature, erotica
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Bookplate for Hughan by Nan Oxley to paste down. Top edge dusted blue. Jacket generally complete and tidy but some foxing to fold in flaps and chipped along top edge of upper panel, spine browned and lower panel foxed, the front cover art is quite tidy though.
$35 C/C
Basil Blackwell 1931 First Edition, 158pp which include full page line drawings by A R Thomson.
[#5657 ]
Yoga Dipika, foreword by one of his pupils, Yehudi Menuhin.
ISBN0041400011
Asanas, bandhas, pranayamas
VG softback, with quality sewn binding and paper. Minor age to the covers.
$20 C/C
Allen and Unwin 1973, 342pp + plates.
[#5659 ]
The Quest for a Secret Monastery in the Andes, inspired by the author's reading of Secret of the Andes by Brother Philip (George Hunt Williamson).
ISBN 0213168316
new age, secret teachings, hidden masters, Peru, Brotherhood of the Seven Rays
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Arthur Barker 1982 first edition, 223pp.
[#5662 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some mild adhesive residue along the top and bottom edges (offset from removed plastic sleeve).
$25 C/C
Arthur Barker Ltd. 1982 first edition, 223pp.
[#3891 ]
The follow up work to the author's book about his search for a Secret Monastery in the Andes The Weaver and the Abbey, inspired by his reading of Secret of the Andes by Brother Philip (George Hunt Williamson).
ISBN 000222321X
new age, secret teachings, hidden masters, Peru, Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, ascended masters, sequel
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/C
Collins 1986 first edition, 297pp.
[#5663 ]
Dorothy Braxton, a female journalist (the first) makes it to Antarctica on the Magga Dan via the Sub-Antarctic Islands.
ANARE, New Zealand, Auckland Island, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island
VG hard back in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Reed 1969. First Edition, 201pp + plates
[#5664 ]
Autobiography by New Zealand's greatest pioneer aviator
Jean Batten flew immense distances in record times and helped establish what later became airline routes. Revised from her 1938 My Life in 1979
ISBN 1853100234
VG softback with sunned spine
$15 C/B
Airlife 1979, 190 pages + plates. [#5665 ]
German soldiers, including SS, fleeing Soviet gulags after the defeat of the Reich join French Foreign Legion and fight in Indochina
The ghost written memoirs of Hans Josef Wagemueller.
ISBN 0450013367
nazi, third reich, mercenary
G+ handling soiled used paperback.
$15 A/A
New English Library 1973 first reprint, 349pp.
[PB1732 ]
A historical action story set in the 18th century.
This has an introduction by Ian Fleming and is useful for a Fleming completist.
Pan X429
VG- paperback, with small pen X and price to cover, small exchange stamp to first page.
$25 A/A
Pan 1965 First Paperback Edition, 163pp.
[PB1733 ]
Ballantine 24767, PBO
VG paperback.
$10 A/A
Ballantine Books 1976, First Edition in this paperback edition.
[PB1734 ]
Australian Navy WWII fiction.
Horwitz No 41
ww2, wwii, naval, fiction, war story, pulp fiction
VG paperback with light wear to spine edges.
$20 A/A
Horwitz 1962 first edition, 130pp.
[PB1735]
Introduction plus two groupings of his short fiction; Out of Space and Time, and, Judgments and Dooms.
Titles are; End of the Story
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
A Night in Malneant
The City of Singing Flame
Uncharted Isle
Second Interment
Chain of Aforgomon
Dark Eidolon
Double Shadow.
ISBN 058603966X
Cthulhu Mythos
G+ paperback, cup ring and light rubbing to covers.
$25 A/A
Panther 1974 reprint, 204pp.
[PB1736 ]
A rare Ripper title, after discussing the case in detail the author claims there is good evidence that a certain Russian doctor by the name of Vassily Konovallov was the culprit.
With a nice 'murder by gaslight' cover art by W Francis Phillipps.
true crime, saucy jack, vintage paperback, Great Pan G542
VG- paperback with light wear to wrappers, two line pen inscription to rear cover, top edge soiled, original price stamp to first page.
$15 A/B
Great Pan 1962 first paperback edition, 224pp.
[PB1630 ]
G- paperback with joints split to ends, some soiling, cover torn at spine.
$10 A/B
Great Pan 1962 first paperback edition, 224pp.
[PB1737 ]
Recounts the author's experiences as the medium for psychic messages on death, health, dreams, reincarnation, clairvoyance, and the life beyond a personality occupying another dimension of reality.
channelling, ascended masters, new age, mediumship
VG- paperback, contents page has small arear chipped from fore edge.
$10 A/B
Bantam Books 1981, xviii 333pp. ISBN 0553205501
[PB1738 ]
The Autobiography of a Medium.
ISBN 0708817866
spiritualism
G+ handling wear and short split at spine end.
$8 A/B
Futura 1980 paperback, 224pp
[PB1265 ]
G- paperback, some loose pages, worn, reading copy
$5 A/B
Futura 1980 paperback, 224pp
[PB1739 ]
A History of Magic and Alchemy.
ISBN 9780099490029
occult history, western, european history
VG paperback
$12 A/B
Arrow 2005, xvi 432pp + plates.
[PB1740 ]
'White Circle Pocket Novel' 189c
Publisher price to front cover of 1/-
Advert for Cadburys at rear.
G+ paperback, minor wear and end chipping to spine paper, paper stock browned, name to front inside cover.
$10 A/B
Collins Crime Club, undated assumed first thus, sewn sheets, 252p.
[PB1741 ]
Discovery, first Europeans, Cakobau, Tongans, Foreign affairs etc.
Contrary to apperances there was only one volume ever issued.
VG hardback, red cloth, corners bumped, small pen name to fep.
$20 C/C
Suva: Printing and Stationery Department 1950 second revised edition, vii 250 xxviii pp +plates.
[#5644 ]
A Brief History of Saint Mary's Church and Parish, New Plymouth, During Its First 100 Years of Service and After.
Church of England, Anglican, Bishop Selwyn
VG softback stapled in pictorial wrappers.
$15 C/B
St Mary's Parish, 1952. Fourth edition, 44pp + plates.
[#5645 ]
'UFO' sightings since dawn of time, including signs in the skies etc., but more specifically focused on the spate of sightings in the early 1950s.
Foo Fighters, South America, Britain, USA
Very Good hardback with no Jacket.
Black cloth with dulled titling to spine, age toned fep, small pen scribble to fep, light scattered foxing to closed edges.
$20 C/C
Peter Owen, 1954. First Edition, 329pp + plates
[#5646 ]
Author calls for fair treatment of the Viet Cong side in the war and withdrawal of NZ military support.
Foreword By the Prime Minister, Sir Walter Nash
pacifism, politics, new zealand anti-war publication
VG stapled warppers with 'support slip' slipped in at front.
$15 C/A
Caxton, 1967. First Edition, 14pp.
[#5647 ]
Register of Rolleston House College with known address as well as employment and military service history etc.
Includes 7pp history of Rolleston House before the register and also slipped in 8pp of address changes brought to notice since 1969 and 7pp list of housemen 1970-1974.
genealogy, enrolment
VG softback, saddle stapled sheets in printed paper wrappers, some soiling to covers.
$20 C/B
Caxton Press 1969 First Edition, 56pp
[#5648 ]
A brief survey of present resources and future potential for the Marlborough region of New Zealand.
Kaikoura, Blenheim, geology, geography, economics, planning
VG softback, stapled sheets in printed wrappers, rubber stamp to cover and title page, discolouring to rear cover.
$30 B/C
Town and Country Planning Branch Ministry of Works, Wellington 1962 First Edition,127pp +10pp plates+ folding map.
[#5649 ]
The author recalls her early days of medical practice amongst Maori of the Hokianga, with Dr G. M. Smith.
ISBN 0723303754
1940s Northland, Waipoua Forest, Doctor Jock Smith, Maori community
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light wear to dust jacket.
$20 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1973 First Edition, 163pp + plates.
[#5650 ]
The author's approach to a practice of Christian spiritual healing.
ISBN 0853051003
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor wear, name to fep.
$15 C/B
Arthur James 1976 reprint, 218pp.
[#5651 ]
ISBN 0959781358
new zealand fiction
VG card covered
$15 C/C
Pisces Print 1974 first edition, 306pp
[#1415/5652 ]
A regional History of Mosgiel with many historic photographs throughout.
ISBN 0959775501
Taieri, Waihola, Silverstream, Melville Park
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
The slightly sun-faded dust jacket has small tear at top of front panel, gift inscription to fep otherwise tidy copy.
$35 C/C
Mosgiel Borough Council 1985 First Edition, xv 408pp.
[#5653 ]
New Zealand surgeon's wartime experiences with the Yugoslav Partisans
Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosnia, communists, Tito
Hardback with dust jacket.
Some age spotting to page edges and title, unclipped dust jacket some chipping loss to head and tail of spine, foxed rear panel of dust jacket.
$35 C/C
Collins 1957 First Edition, third impression (September), 254pp.
[#5654 ]
Traces the roots of psychic arcaheology including the Psychometry of Stefan Ossowiecki, Frederick Bligh Bond and Glastonbury Abbey, Edgar Cayce etc
ISBN0704503409
North American prehistory, far seeing, clairvoyance,
VG hardback in VG dustjacket.
$35 C/C
Wildwood House, 1978. First Edition, 223pp
[#5655 ]