A defense of "Work in Progress" AKA Finnegan's Wake, Joyce - 26th May 2021

Scarce Shakespeare & Co. publication - Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams & others in the corner for Joyce, who's excerpts from the mysterious "Work in Progress", the follow-up to ULYSSES that would become FINNEGANS WAKE, were not being very well recieved in the late 20's - and in the other corner, some negative critics also, one of which may or may not be Joyce himself writing under a pseudonym... 

Classic signed New Zealand literature - 22nd May 2021

Have a browse... we have plenty...

ESOTERIC TITLES - 21st May 2021

Many quality esoteric titles making their way onto the site...

Wiremu Hekepia - 21st May 2021

New additions to website, never have enough te reo books: Nga Waiata Aroha A Hekepia / Love Sonnets by Shakespeare

NB if you're wondering where all the macrons are, other websites we list with don't support them and pack a sad, killing the listings, regrettably - that's why you also see no accents, umlauts, cedillas etc.

PHILOSOPHY incl. a very smart SCHOPENHAUER early English edition - 20th May 2021

Lot's of good philosophy making their way onto the website lately...

STUNNING CHINESE JADE TITLES (in Chinese) - 23rd Apr 2021

Hi Friends,

Tonight (22.04.21) we have some lovely books on CHINESE JADE/GREENSTONE going up on the website.

Being in Chinese, our catalogue descriptions may or may not be entirely accurate... so some pictures for your reference

Here we have a lavish, 6x volume set (code: ak3/1/342)

Complete Works of Chinese Jade / Zhong Guo Yu Qi Quan Ji (Zhongguo Yu Qi Quan Ji); An Exhibition Catalog (six volume set) [JIUFANG, LI?] [Hebei Fine Arts?] 2006

TEXT IN CHINESE, VERY HEAVY & VERY BEAUTIFUL 6x VOLUME SET; Quarto white cloth boards, blind stamp characters to front & gilt characters to spines, LAVISHLY illustrated, VG+ in d/w VG+ (light scuffing to boards and jackets, moderate scuffing to bottom of spine of jacket of vol. 4), in illus. slipcases VG+ (light scuffing) to nr. FINE; see our website for pictures; Vol. 1: "Primitive Society" intro(36pp)+312pp / Vol. 2:  intro(31pp)+319pp / Vol. 3:  intro(41pp)+309pp / Vol. 4:  intro(23pp)+327pp / Vol. 5:  intro(29pp)+320pp / Vol. 6:  intro(15pp)+358pp


 

More of our CHINESE JADE/GREENSTONE titles (Chinese Language) - 23rd Apr 2021

For your reference, pictures refer to:
(prices = NZ$)

1. Dictionary of Chinese Jade (2x volume set) $200 ak3/1/346
2. The Jades from Yinxu $150 ak3/1/345
3. China Jade Carving $60 ak3/1/344
4. Xinjiang's Gems and Jades (Chinese language edition) $70 ak3/1/343
5. Ancient Chines Jade / Actual Size Pictorial Book of Ancient Chinese Jades $80 ak2/8/340 
6. Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Jade Artifcacts in the National Palace Museum $90 ak2/8/341
7. Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum $55 ak3/1/343
 

European & Middle Eastern History, full leather bindings - 22nd Apr 2021

Hello friends, just recently some very smartly bound (full leather, gilt tooling & embossed emblems, raised bands, marbled edges) 19th c. titles have gone up on our website. Topics include Scottish, English, European & Indian history, Holy Land (Middle East, Syria, Palestine etc.) travels, & c.

Have a look:
* History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern... (2 volume set) CRICHTON, ANDREW
* The History of the High School of Edinburgh STEVENS, WILLIAM
* Pictures of the Periods: A Sketch-Book of Old English Life COLLIER, WILLIAM FRANCIS
* The Giant Cities of Bashan; And Syria's Holy Places PORTER, REV. J. L.
* Scotland, Its Faith and Its Features; or, A Visit to Blair Athol TRENCH, REV. FRANCIS
* The Bass Rock: Its Civil and Ecclesiastic History, Geology, Martyrology, Zoology and Botany M'CRIE, REV. THOMAS; MILLER, HUGH; ANDERSON, REV. JAMES; FLEMING, PROFESSOR; & BALFOUR, PROFESSOR (pictured here)
* Memoir of Charles Gordon Lennox, Fifth Duke of Richmond, K.G., P.C., With A Portrait PITT, LORD WILLIAM
* A History of India Under the First Two Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun (2 volume set) ERSKINE, WILLIAM
* Customes and Traditions of Palestine Illustrating the Manners of the Ancient Hebrews PIEROTTI, ERMETE & BONNEY, T. G. (transl.)
* Christianity in India: An Historical Narrative KAYE, JOHN WILLIAM
* The History of Italy, From the Abdication of Napoleon I., With Introductory References to That of Earlier Times (2 Volume Set) BUTT, ISAAC
* Narrative of A Journey Through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852 (2 Volume set) VELDE, C. W. M. VAN DE VELDE
* Art and Nature: Under an Italian Sky DUNBAR, MARGARET JULIANA MARIA
* Essays Biographical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Contributed Chiefly to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews (2x Volume set) GLEIG, REV. G. R.