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THE AFTER-BREAKFAST CIGAR: Selected Memoirs of a King Country Settler
by Spencer Westmacott edited by H.F Westamacott
DESCRIPTION ISBN: 0589010115 Format: small hardcover with dust jacket Published: AH & AW Reed 1977, 1st edition Size (mm): 160 w x 250 h x 20 d Pages: 206 SKU: A5/2503/U145
ABOUT Consists of extracts from the memoirs left by Spencer Westmacott and describes the difficulties of converting rugged bush country to farming on a property in the Rangitoto Range from its lease in 1910 to the outbreak of the first world war.
Daughter-in-law Honor edited his diaries providing a valuable insight to those days.
Includes a few monochrome drawings, illustrated end papers.
CONDITION Excellent with light wear on dust jacket and marks on page edges, pages otherwise clean, binding tight, no stamps or inscriptions.
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