OUT OF PRINT BOOKS
Sir,-Recently I decided that I would like to read Tutira, but was informed that it "has been out of print and unobtainable for some years." The same remark applies to other New Zealand classics. Last week I sent away for the catalogue of a firm specialising in New Zealand literature. Back came several very interesting lists, but they were nearly all marked: "Mostly out of print." Even the excellent Centennial Surveys are now unobtainable. This is-a bad state of affairs. Surely it should be part of the New Order in New Zealand to make these books available to those who want.to read them. A southern bookseller says that secondhand copies of Tutira, which is greatly in demand, sell for as much as £12 10s and that Robert McNab’s Murihiku sells at from £3 to £4, These are just two of several New. Zealand classics -that would make suitable school prizes if they were reprinted in attractive editions and made available to the public at reasonable prices.
TUTIRA
(Frankton Junction).
(A new edition of Tutira is, we believe, in the hands of the printer,-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 18
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187OUT OF PRINT BOOKS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 18
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