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Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru, industry, foundry, metalworking
VG- hardback with no dust jacket, scattered foxing, bookplate to fep.
Bookplate is a presentation one from the Chairman and managing director of John Edmond Ltd.
$20 B/B
The Evening Star, Dunedin, 1962 first edition, 4to, 68pp.
[#5763 ]
Well illustrated overview of the field which includes woodcuts etc and photos.
Reproduces three Austin Osman Spare illustrations full page in colour, as well as photographs of Anton La Vey ritual, Alex Sanders, Gerald Gardner, Crowley's wand, voodoo, wiccans etc.
ISBN 0706403517
VG hardback in VG dust jacket with minor wear.
$35 B/C
Octopus 1974 first edition, 4to, 176pp.
[#5764 ]
A study of thirteen infamous villains throughout the ages including Judge Jeffreys; Marquis de Sade; G.J. Smith; Titus Oates; Richard III; Matthew Hopkins; Rasputin, Marquis de Sade.
VG cloth hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 C/C
Collins 1950 first edition, 256pp.
[#5765 ]
Swedish criminologist reviews his international career, includes his views on the Glozel artifacts.
VG- hardback with damaged endpaper and foxed edges.
Dust jacket is rubbed and with top of spine missing.
$15 C/C
Longmans 1957 first edition, x 388pp + plates
[#5766 ]
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre decided to kill her.
In June 1835, he cut to death his mother, his sister, and his seven-year-old brother.
In jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.
Foucault collected the relevant documents, and his reconstruction of the case is an exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime.
ISBN0803268572
french, france, murder, sociology
VG softback with light wear, sunned spine
$20 C/B
Bison / University of Nebraska 1982, 288pp
[#5767 ]
Two sections , one on Hidden powers such as ESP, precognition, mediums, ghosts.
Second on Powers of Good and Evil covers magic, spirits, possession etc.
ISBN 0593011740
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
There is a small named blacked out to free end paper.
Dust jacket is a little creased at the spine ends, spine titling colour altered slightly by sunning.
$45 C/C
Bantam 1988 first edition, 381pp
[#5768 ]
A new, fresh approach to the history of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, co-written by five authors, each focusing on a span of thirty years.
ISBN0908847025
VG hardback with VG dust jacket, small pen name to free end paper.
$20 C/C
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1990 first edition, 203pp, illustrated.
[#5769 ]
All aspects of Polynesian and Maorii art covered from carving, buildings, clothing etc. Includes Moriori/ Chatham Islands.
ISBN 9780002169103 / 000216910X
Human figure sculpture, The tribal assembly house, Decorated foodstores, War-canoe, Treasure caskets (Feather boxes, waka huia), Mortuary chests, Weapons, Musical instruments, Stone sculpture, Rock surface art, Moriori of the Chatham Islands, Clothing, Art periods : stone v. metal tools, Art relationships, Polynesian art origins and regions.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket under original plastic sleeve.
$85 D/D
Collins 1977 first edition, 136pp + two folding plans at rear of waka (war canoes).
[#5770 ]
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 hardback with 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 ]
