The Gumdiggers: The Story of Kauri Gum

The company founder, A.H. Reed, hand-wrote, illustrated and bound this beautiful volume that records his experiences as a trainee soldier 'in and around Featherson Military Camp and (mostly) elsewhere' in 1916-17. Never before published, with the one copy only extant, it is Reed's first-known book, and this leather-bound, limited-run facsimile show more edition will be prized by any book lover show less