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1970's Roxy Music World Tour Souvenir - 6th Oct 2022

New to website — Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, a tour souvenir publication from the mind 1970's, covering their Australian leg of a world tour

Check in for other music memorabilia and general music books

Looks like this was for the "Country Life" tour
http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_25.php

https://www.roxymusic.co.uk/
https://bryanferry.com/


 

Māori literature: J C Sturm - 25th Sep 2022

Māori literature: J C Sturm Back on the website (24.09.22), book by J C Sturm. Long overshadowed by husband James K Baxter, it looks like the general public is becoming more appreciative of Sturm's work. 

Read more about her at:

https://www.read-nz.org/writer/sturm-j-c

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6s1/sturm-jacqueline-cecilia

And here is a poem to sample:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-02-2019/the-friday-poem-in-loco-parentis-by-jacqui-sturm

Don Merton - 6th Sep 2022

New to website — the biography of legendary New Zealand conservationist Don Merton

Sought after book, this one is signed by Don Merton. Famed for his work bringing back one of our robins from the brink of extinction (there's also a charming childrens book about the robin "Old Blue" you may be interested in), he developed some innovative techniques for fostering eggs. He also did work with kakapo, and overseas in Australia and the Seychelles

Read a bunch more about him at:
https://predatorfreenz.org/stories/remembering-don-merton-old-blue/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/03/don-merton-obituary

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6m13/merton-donald-vincent
 

Charming book of LIGHTHOUSES - 6th Sep 2022

New to website 06.09.22: "Lighthouses: Their History and Romance", by W. J. Hardy

A very attractively illustrated title from 1895, discussing the history of lighthouses. 

While this book is not about New Zealand, some further reading about NZ lighthouses here (and have a search on the website for NZ lighthouse specific material):

https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/6652/new-zealand-lighthouses

 

Corto Maltese - 5th Sep 2022

New to website: Hugo Pratt's CORTO MALTESE!

Cult Italian comic artist Hugo Pratt's adventure yarns, don't often see them come by in English. Inspired by Joseph Conrad, Corto Maltese pops in and out of notable events of the early 20th century, often running into literary figures like Ernest Hemmingway, Jack London, etc.

Learn more at:
https://cortomaltese.com/en/

 

New VAT rules for Imports to EU - 3rd Sep 2022

New VAT rules for Imports to EU Greetings EU friends,

We shall be sending all books DDU: that is, "delivery duty unpaid" — so you may have to pay the VAT to recieve any packages.

All the best,
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AFTER MAN, Dougal Dixon - 3rd Sep 2022

EDIT: sold 03.09.22
Back on the website! A favourite from Dougal Dixon (Scottish geologist and paleontologist), wherein he imagines the shape of evolution after humankind's demise. A tidy hardcover copy (just a Book Club edition, but will do the job just fine)

Some sample pages here

02.09.22

Rollerderby ZINES - 2nd Sep 2022

New to website (01.09.22) — cool 90's zines, ROLLERDERBY (edited by Lisa Carver)
EDIT: sold (02.09.22)

Lots of punk and riot grrrl coverage, interviews, cool ad's, unhinged letters to the editor, comics, BDSM and transgressive stuff, basically all sorts of alternative undergound oddness

NZ$20.00 each
 

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