Legends of the Maori

by Maui Pomare and James Cowan

Volume I: Mythology Folk-Lore Tradition and Poetry

Volume II:Maori-Polynesian Historical Traditions Folk-Lore and Stories of Old New Zealand

Illustrated with tipped-in B/W plates by Stuart Peterson

Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, 1930.

#83 of the de luxe edition of 300, signed by both authors and illustrator

The frontispiece to Volume I is an original etching ‘The Gathering of the Legends’ signed by Stuart Peterson

Vol I: xxiv, 322pp, 24 B/W tipped-in plates with tissue guards

Vol II: B/W frontispiece portrait of Pomare, xviii, 285pp, 25 tipped-in B/W plates with tissue guards

Bound in full leather

Some faults

$650.00