The Shagroons' Palace: A history of the Christchurch Club 1856-2006 by Gordon Ogilvie. SIGNED by Gordon Ogilvie on title page.

The Shagroons' Palace: A history of the Christchurch Club 1856-2006 by Gordon Ogilvie.
SIGNED by Gordon Ogilvie on title page.

VERY SCARCE SIGNED COPY.
Publisher: Henry Elworthy, 2005, First edition.

Good hardback with jacket. Binding firm, minor bumping, no owner inscriptions. Some water damage has caused a stain to inside and outside corner of front board, small light stain to first couple of pages otherwise book is in very good condition, minor marks.
Jacket has water stain to reverse side but looks fine on outside, minor marks, fading to spine.

Renowned Canterbury historian Gordon Ogilvie has written an absorbing account of the characters (and occasional rapscallions) who, over the past 150 years have made up the membership of the Christchurch Club. In the early days many of them were national as well as provincial politicians, and ever since the club's members have played a prominent part not only in the progress and expansion of Christchurch city and its productive hinterland, but in the development of New Zealand as a whole. Among them may be numbered scores of political and civic leaders, lawyers, doctors, architects, engineers, war heroes, academics, artists, literary figures, winemakers, business leaders and prominent agriculturalists. The Shagroon's Palace is not only an excellent celebration of the Christchurch Club's first 150 years, superbly illustrated and sourced, but also an absorbing social history of Canterbury and the men who made the province what it is today.
344 pages. Well illustrated. 

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