WAKEFIELD, E. Jerningham. Adventure in New Zealand. An Abridgement, edited by Joan Stevens.
(Chirstchurch): Whitcombe and Tombs, 1955. First abridged edition.
Cloth, 320pp.
Fine in a near fine d/w.
First published in two volumes in 1844, this is an abridgement of "the livliest and most readable accounts of life among the Maoris and colonists at the time of the foundation of the New Zealand Company's settlements." $50 CAD