Lot 261
Hawthorne, James
A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History. By a Poverty Bay Survivor.
1st ed. Napier: Printed and Published by James Wood, 1869. 8vo. 41p. Paper covers. Wear and soiling. Address and postage stamp on back cover: 'Mr J Armour[?] Thomson / c/o The Honble R Hart / Hobson Street / Wellington'. POS of Bronwyn Elsmore on verso of front cover. Account of massacre at Poverty Bay in 1868, and events leading up to it. Very scarce. FA to G.
Realised: $650 September 2011

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