The Little World of Stewart Island. First Edition

The Little World of Stewart Island. By Gertrude Dempsey. 

Publisher: Wellington: Reed, 1964, First edition. 

Very good hardback with jacket.
Binding firm, a little bumping, signature inside front board, couple of foxing spots to edges, pages very good. 
Jacket is rubbed, marked, creased and chipped with some fading to spine.

22cm. 142 pages, 31 b/w photos. 

Stewart Island is lovely, lonely and isolated, but has an infectious charm which is colourfully explained by the author, an islander by marriage who found her little world rich and rewarding. Experiences and history on Stewart Island. A description of life, society and nature on this island in New Zealand and of those closely attuned to the natural resources of sea, shore, and forest.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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