5311. [New Zealand] Hall, D.O.W. / Department of Internal Affairs – War History Brach.

Prisoners of Italy / Prisoners of Germany [New Zealand POW / Prisoners of War in the Second World War – Illustrated Photography brochures]

2 Volumes. Wellington, War History Branch, 1949. 4°. Prisoners of Italy: 32 pages / Prisoners of Germany: 32 pages. Softcover / Original, illustrated brochure. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Rare !

5312. [New Zealand POW] Gerrard, J. D. / POW: John Money / Jimmy Taylor / Evadne Price / Ken Attiwell [Empire Productions]

Unwilling Guests. [Book with three loosely inserted, signed POW Theatre-Programmes from german POW-Camp Weinsberg / Germany in August 1944 / The Theatre Plays were put on by four Prisoners of War from New Zealand listing the cast with signatures by nearly all POW who took part in the Plays].

First Edition. Wellington, New Zealand, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1945. 12 x 19cm. 180 pages with 5 illustrations. Map of Italy on pastedowns. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes loosely inserted three programmes for Empire Theatre Productions 1944, Oflag V-A music for Christmas Day and hand written list of German rations for the Prisoners of War per week per man at OFLAG Weinsberg 1945. The programmes all signed by the cast. Very rare documents of POW (New Zealand Prisoners of War in Germany) with Plays reenacted from Playwrights Evadne Price and Ken Attiwell [sic / meaning Australian journalist and playwright Ken Attiwill] (Play called “Once a Crook” / Play by John Money – “Nephew in Waiting” / Play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman – “You can’t take it with you” – Produced and signed by Jimmy Taylor / Including “A Choral and Orchestral Concert on 31 Oct. 44” //

5313. [Newbery & Carnan].

A Description of England and Wales [with 240 Plates] – Containing a particular Account of each County, with its Antiquities, Curiosities, Situation, Figure, Extent, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Mineral Waters, Soils, Fossils, Caverns, Plants and Minerals, Agriculture, Civil and Ecclesiastical Divisions, Cities, Towns, Palaces, Seats, Corporations, Markets, Fairs, Manufactures, Trade, Sieges, Battles and the Lives of illustrious Men each County has produced, Embellished with two hundred and forty Copper Plates of Palaces, Castles, Cathedrals; The Ruins of Roman and Saxon Buildings; And of Abbeys, Monasteries, and other Religious Houses. Besides a Variety of Cuts of Urns, Inscriptions, and other Antiquities.

Ten Volumes (complete set). London, Newbery and Carnan, 1769. Small Octavo. Volume I: XII, 299 pages / Volume II: 286 pages / Volume III: 288 pages / Volume IV: 288 pages / Volume V: 288 pages / Volume VI: 288 pages / Volume VII: 287 pages / Volume VIII: 288 pages / Volume IX: 288 pages / Volume X: 288 pages // Hardcover / Nine Volumes in their original 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Volume One recently bound to style by english master-binders. Faded dampstain to Volume III. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Two spine-labels slightly damaged. Bookplate of Daniel Conner to pastedowns of Volumes 2 – 9.

5314. Newbolt, Sir Henry.

Poetry and Time. [Warton Lecture on English Poetry IX].

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. 17 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor signs of wear – corners and edges bumped. No text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII.]

5315. Newcastle & Derwent Valley Railway – Smith, William.

“Map of the proposed Newcastle upon Tyne & Derwent Valley Railway, 1860.”

Original Lithograph. Edinburgh, William Smith (Lithographer), 1860. 19.7 cm wide x 30.5 cm high. Mounted on paper. Very good condition with some minor signs of browning only. Extremely rare map with the proposed new built part of the railway handcoloured.

5316. Newcomb, Richard F.

Savo, The Incredible Naval Debacle off Guadalcanal.

First Edition. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 278 cm. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt embossed decoration. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

5317. Newell & Sorrell.

The Secret of Design Effectiveness.

London, Newell and Sorrell Limited, 1995. 19.4 cm x 24.5 cm. 88 pages. Original Softcover. As New condition.

5318. Newhall, Nancy.

From Adams to Stieglitz – Pioneers of Modern Photography.

N.J., Aperture, 1999. 16cm x 23cm. XIII, 172 pages. With illustrations in black and white throughout. With bibliography and index. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Aperture Writers and Artists on Photography].

5319. Newlands, James.

The Carpenter And Joiner’s Assistant – Being A Comprehensive Treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and hand-railing – Also, a course of instruction in practical geometry, geometrical lines, drawing, projection, and perspective – And an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Plates and many hundred engravings on Wood.

London / Glasgow / Edinburgh, Blackie & Son, no.year [c.1869]. Folio (26 cm wide x 34 cm high). XIII, 291 pages text and 111 plates. Original 19th century publication with a stunning new binding, re-imagining the original 19th-century half-leather binding. In protective Mylar. Paper professionally repaired on the first XIII pages. Very good and firm condition with minor signs of external wear.

5320. Newman, Barbara.

Striking a Balance. Dancers Talk about Dancing.

First Edition. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. 16cm x 23.5cm. 402 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.