AUCKLAND NEW ARRIVALS... BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE... - 27th Apr 2023

Just a sample of the books pouring in this week.... on the floor now, heading for our shelves and waiting for new homes. I'm going to try to do this more often so you can get a sense of the phenomenal books we get coming in regularly

A Gallery of Fairy Tale Books to browse - 26th Dec 2022

Hello Friends,

We have had a plethora of interesting and appealing illustrated fairy tale books go up onto the website recently — see here for a quick sample. Some less common areas (Czech, Russian, general world) are represented 

Karl Marx CAPITAL: First American Edition - 13th Dec 2022

Another fascinating early translation: Karl Marx's CAPITAL, new to our website!

1889, in the original binding: please feel free to contact us directly for photos of this important work or to discuss shipping options.

 

Simone de Beauvoir - 8th Oct 2022

Hello friends, 

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 - 7th Oct 2022

New addition to website

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 - 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

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