142pp. Light card covers over stapled text block. 8vo. Covers are a little worn, soiled and spotted with gentle edge wear. Text block edges and last few leaves lightly spotted. Internally a hint of page toning. "In these pages the story is told of white man's doings in the Nelson Provincial District from the first discovery of the coast by Tasman in 1642 to the coming to rest on the shorts of Blind Bay two centuries later of the Second or Nelson Colony of the New Zealand Company" (from the preface). Hard to find title.
