From Bibles to Banned Books: Books in NZ

The first book printed in New Zealand, The Epistle to the Philippians and the Ephesians (1835).

The Maori translation of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, printed in 1845.

The first NZ novel to be banned here, Jean Devanny's The Butcher's Shop (1926).

Butcher's shop interior in 1919, with carcasses, tiled walls, chopping block, and sawdust floor. Photograph by James McAllister, probably in Stratford. ATL ref: 1/1-009930-G

Adequate Male (1961), from the Indecent Publications Tribunal Collection.

The back cover of Adequate Male (1967), from the Indecent Publications Tribunal collection.