The Maori and His First Printed Books and Other Stories

Published by AH & AW Reed, Dunedin & Wellington, 1936, 15 pages. Patches of wear/rubbing on spine.

Only the simple story is told here, and there have been definite limits of space ... The period treated here, however, has the year 1840 as its limit. By then the earliest struggles were over, and the printed word, in its many forms, was becoming a power in the land. It is hoped that the well-known stories related here will bring back those early days for a fleeting moment, and remind us of our debt to the pioneers. from Preface