The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
Thursday, 16 November - Thursday, 14 December 2023
Two N.Z. Novels
Estimate $50 - $70
Realised: $35 plus premium
Lot Details
Davidson, William - Stories of New Zealand Life, including "The Two Detectives, " "The Miser's Plant, " "Rescue of the Stray Lamb, " "Wee Davie, " &c. - James Horsburgh, Dunedin, 1889 84pp, 8vo pictorial wrappers, brittle wrappers sl. chipped, clear tape down spine, damp stain to the back of wrapper. Bagnall 1538. Freeman, William - "He Who Digged a Pit, A Tale Founded on Fact, and Other Stories" - J. Wilkie, Dunedin, 1889. 10-156pp, small 8vo pictorial wrappers, “With the Editor’s compliments” at head of title, slight staining, foxing, small piece cut from blank bottom margin of the last leaf. The final story is ‘Epuni Eruera: A Tale Founded on an incident in the early life of Te Whiti, the Taranaki Prophet’. Bagnall 2054.
