The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsmen of the Stone Age. Thomas Lindsay Buick

The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsmen of the Stone Age by Thomas Lindsay Buick

Publisher: Thomas Avery & sons 1937, FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. Very good hardback with jacket. Red cloth boards are slightly bumped and rubbed. Name and date to ffep. Pages have minor foxing (mainly to end papers). Tissue guard complete. Jacket has some marks, fading , rubbing and light chipping with some closed tears to edges. 260 pages, b&w photos. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION.

"This book deals with the time when the Dominion was inhabited solely by the Maori, and when the Moa roamed its open spaces in great flocks. These birds were hunted, killed and eaten by the Maori, and the purpose of the book is to tell how, when and where this was done."