The Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant by T. Lindsay Buick. 1931. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE.
The Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant by T. Lindsay Buick.
Publisher: Thomas Avery & Sons, 1931. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE.
Published under the auspices of The Board of The Maori Ethnological Research.
Very good hardback with jacket. Binding firm. Red cloth boards have a little fading and compression to spine ends. Light scattered foxing to end-papers and page edges, inscriptions to ffep and signature to half-title page, newspaper clipping tipped in to rear end-paper.
Frontispiece with complete tissue-guard. All illustrations present and in good order.
Jacket is chipped, marked and rubbed with some loss to spine ends. (Now in a protective removable plastic cover).
357 pages with photos.
ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.
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