Port in the North; A Short History of Russell, New Zealand. Also a Guide to Places of Interest in the Township and in the Bay of Islands

Russell: Russell Centennial Historical Committee, [1940 or 1949?]. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Green cloth boards with black spine title; illustrated endpapers; grey, green and yellow pictorial DJ; 204 pages plates; maps; 19 cm A very good (-) DJ with some wearand tear at edges and folds and one very small hole on rear of DJ; a very good (+) copy with clean pages and tight binding; small spot of sunning on endpapers at end of book and ink inscription on front endpapers; boards clean with just a bit of bumping to spine head and foot. Hardcover.

Uncommon in jacket. Compiled by the Russell Centennial Historical Committee, this is an uncommon book about the history of a New Zealand town. "Those who read it [...] will find in its pages an absorbing memory-provocative story, the chapters of which have rekindled the beacon of courage, fortitude annd self-reliance which the grand men and women of early settlement days set up for us." --Foreword by Ernest Davis