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A sample of our books of, and on, literature

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Author Catalogue:

- Plays -
Middle-Age Spread
by Roger Hall

Bk No. 001688
$15.00
The Pohutukawa Tree
by Bruce Mason
Drama
Bk No. 005714
$35.00
Selected Plays
by Mervyn Thompson
Bk No. 006505
$25.00
Hot Water
by Roger Hall
Bk No. 003857
$15.00
Four Plays
by Allen Curnow
Bk No. 006463
$30.00
Finding Ruth
by Renee
Bk No. 006524
$15.00
Glide Time
by Roger Hall
Bk No. 005192
$15.00
Bert & Maisy
by Robert Lord
Comedy of manners
Bk No. 004544
$25.00
Once on Chunuk Bair
by Maurice Shadbolt

Bk No. 007642
$35.00
Pass It On
by Renee
Bk No. 006340
$15.00
He Reo Hou
ed. Simon Garrett
Plays by Maori playwrights.
Bk No. 002728
$25.00
Objection Overruled
by Carolyn Burns
Bk No. 001705
$15.00
- Poetry -
A Native, Perhaps Beautiful
by Hubert Witheford
Poetry
Bk No. 005710
$35.00
Red Letter
by Janet Charman
Bk No. 003943
Poetry
$15.00
Late Song
by Lauris Edmond
Last of her 14 collections of poetry.
Bk No. 006759
$15.00
The Scenic Route
by Fleur Adcock
Bk No. 006372
$35.00
Collected Poems
by Ruth Dallas
Bk No. 004035
$15.00
Down the Backbone by Sam Hunt
Bk No. 006434
$15.00
The Woman Problem and other prose
by A.R.D. Fairburn
Bk No. 000929
$15.00
The Firewheel Tree
by Keith Sinclair
Bk No. 002582
$15.00
The Hungry Woman by Rachel Bush
Bk No. 004237
$15.00
Collected Poems
by Sam Hunt
Bk No. 002687
$15.00
Selected Poems
by Lauris Edmond
Bk No. 006435
$20.00
Not Far Off
by Charles Brasch
Bk No. 005030
$30.00
The Rock Woman
by James K. Baxter

Bk No. 006566
$20.00
Topographies
by Riemke Ensing
Bk No. 006366a
$20.00
A Desirable Property
by Vivienne Joseph

Bk No. 002829
$20.00
Walking on the Snow
by Ruth Dallas
Bk No. 000472
$40.00
Stories About Wooden Keyboards
by Kendrick Smithyman

Bk No. 004597
$25.00
In Fires Of No Return
by James K. Baxter
Bk No. 006342
$45.00
The Man on the Iron Horse
by James K. Baxter
Essays.
Bk No. 006565
$65.00
Sharp Edge Up
by Denis Glover
Bk No. 006474
$20.00
Come High Water
by Denis Glover
Bk No. 003430
$20.00
The Feud
by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Bk No. 003366
$30.00
Drunkard's Garden
by Sam Hunt

Bk No. 002765
$20.00
New Zealand Poems
by Eileen Duggan
Bk No. 005308
$35.00
Fires and Patterns
by Louis Johnson
Bk No. 002249
$25.00
Bread and a Pension
by Louis Johnson
Bk No. 002879
$35.00
The Falling
by Alan Loney
A memoir
Bk No. 007390
$45.00
Miss New Zealand
by Jenny Bornholdt
Bk No. 004363
$20.00
Painting Myself In
by Nina Mariette
Bk No. 005124
$25.00
Leaves From A Sandan Notebook
by Rewi Alley
Chosen & ed. by H. Winston Rhodes

Bk No. 001587
$15.00
Yo Banfa
by Rewi Alley
Bk No. 005830
$25.00
Sidetracks
by Alan Loney
Author's 7th book of poems.
Bk No. 004651
$20.00
Lost Possessions
by Keri Hulme

Bk No. 007653
$55.00
Snowing down South
by Janet Charman
Bk No. 007876
$15.00
 
 
- Literary Criticism, etc. -
Talking About Ourselves
ed. Harry Ricketts
Twelve poets talk.
Bk No. 002248
$25.00
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English
ed. Terry Sturm
Literary history.
Bk No. 006156
$45.00
Bruce Mason
by Howard McNaughton
Bk No. 006570
$20.00
The New Zealand Novel
by Joan Stevens
Bk No. 000928
$20.00
Our Own Country
ed. Sue Kedgley
Women writers talk about their writing & lives.
Bk No. 001965
$20.00
New Zealand Ways of Speaking English
ed. Allan Bell and Janet Holmes
Bk No. 004333
$35.00
The Two Baxters
by Pat Lawlor and Vincent O'Sullivan
Bk No. 006567
$20.00
Where Did She Come From?
by Heather Roberts
Women novelists 1862-1987
Bk No. 005713
$30.00
Moments of Invention
by Greg O'Brien and Robert Cross
21 NZ writers.
Bk No. 003282
$25.00
New Zealand Wit & Wisdom
by Jim Weir
Quotations.
Bk No. 004184
$25.00
New Zealand Drama 1930-1980 
by John Thomson
Bk No. 005741
$30.00
The Power of Place
by Diane Hebley
Landscape in NZ children's fiction.
Bk No. 004355
$35.00
The Passionate Pen
by Rachel McAlpine

NZ's romance writers
Bk No. 001938
$35.00
Ending the Silences
by Ralph J. Crane
Essays on Maurice Shadbolt
Bk No. 001932
$20.00
The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English
ed. Terry Sturm
Literary history.
Bk No. 007508
$85.00
Katherine Mansfield. The woman and the writer
by Gillian Boddy
Bk No. 007803
$30.00
- Film Criticism, etc. -
Film in Aotearoa New Zealand
ed. Jonathan Dennis & Jan Bieringa
Bk No. 002926
$30.00
Shadows on the Wall
by Barbara Cairns and Helen Martin
Bk No. 008329
$40.00
Reframing Women by Deborah Shepard
Bk No. 008039
$35.00
Literature selections - Pages: 1, 3
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