Simone de Beauvoir
Definitely do check out our listings for your favourite authors, especially in cool editions. A couple of nice Simone de Beauvoir jackets here — actually, "The Mandarins" has quite a poor condition jacket, but the art is rad so we thought we would share with you
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Read a bit more about her if you don't
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simone-de-Beauvoir
African Folktales and Sculpture
Lots of good books on African subjects: history, art, culture
RADIN, PAUL (edit.) & MARVEL, ELINORE
African Folktales and Sculpture
Pantheon 1953
$38.50
1970's Roxy Music World Tour Souvenir
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
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
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
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
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
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,
Hard to Find Books
