Old Westland by E Iveagh Lord. (1940) First Edition

Old Westland by E Iveagh Lord.

Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs, New Zealand, 1940, First Edition. (Bagnell, L627).

Hardback with no jacket. Red cloth boards are marked, rubbed and bumped. Binding firm. Library stamps to ffep, last end-paper, and reverse of title page. Name to ffep, abrasion iside back cover. First illustration is missing and one has a repaired tear. Pages have some foxing, creasing and marks.

268 pages including Roll of dead from WWI and the Boer War. Drawing on excerpts from other histories and accounts of the West Coast, Iveagh Lord produces a colourful account of the goldrush era in the 1860s. His selection takes in almost every major event on the coast during those years. This classic should be on the bookshelf of every history lover in New Zealand.

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