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Contemporary New Zealand Photographers
4 May 2013 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers edited by Lara Strongman Auckland: Mountain View Publishing, 2005 ISBN: 0473102803. 183pp, colour & B/W plates. $130.00 More New Zealand Photography This link takes you to the Jason Books catalogue on abebooks. You can email directly books@jasonbooks.co.nz if you would like to know about any of these titles.
read more »Illustrated Books
18 April 2013 Arts, Latest News, Literature
Mother Goose pictured by Jessie Wilcox Smith $45 Alice and Thomas and Jane by Enid Bagnold illustrated by Enid Bagnold and Laurian Jones $25 Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales illustrated by Michael Foreman $20 The Happy Prince The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde illustrated by Philippe Julian $12 The Wonderful Wizard [...]
read more »Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
9 March 2013 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand
Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith edited by Marja Bloem and Martin Browne Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2003. Reprint. ISBN: 0908802919. 271pp, colour plates. Light crease to rear cover and pages $145.00
read more »Recent arrivals: Photography
18 January 2013 Arts, Latest News, Specialist
Bailey, David & Peter Evans. Goodbye Baby & Amen A Saraband for the Sixties. London: The Conde Nast Publications, 1969. First Edition. Folio. Cloth. Very Good / Good. 240pp, B/W plates. Light wear to lower edges of boards, spine ends bumped, DJ large chip to upper spine, tears to edges, creased $90.00 Eisenstaedt, Alfred. Eisenstaedt [...]
read more »Recent arrivals: Architecture
18 January 2013 Architecture, Arts, Latest News, Specialist
Modern House Three by Paul Barreneche London: Phaidon, 2006. 240pp, colour plates $40.00 Wellington Cathedral of S Paul: A History 1840-2001 by Michael Blain Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2002. 125pp, B/W plates $25.00 Architecture Uncooked: The New Zealand Holiday House Through an Architect’s Eye by Pip Cheshire and Patrick Reynolds Auckland: Godwit, 2008. 254pp, colour [...]
read more »New Zealand Railways Magazine
2 January 2013 Arts, Latest News, Literature, New Zealand, Non-Fiction, Specialist
New Zealand Railways Magazine was published in Wellington by the New Zealand Government Railways Department from 1926 to 1940. From an in-house journal it developed under the editorship of G. G. Stewart into one of the most popular monthlies of the 1930s. Pat Lawlor, under the pseudonym ‘Shibli Bagarag’, contributed a regular book column in [...]
read more »The Caxton Press
28 December 2012 Arts, Latest News, Literature, New Zealand, Specialist
The Caxton Press, Christchurch, founded by poet and typographer Denis Glover (as the Caxton Club Press) in 1933 was key in the development of New Zealand literature in the twentieth century. Many of this country’s best-known writers were published by The Caxton Press, including Frank Sargeson, Allen Curnow, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame, A. R. D. [...]
read more »The Holloway Press
28 December 2012 Arts, Latest News, Literature, New Zealand, Specialist
The Holloway Press was established at the University of Auckland in 1994. It is named after Ron Holloway (1909-2003) of The Griffin Press, Auckland, who donated equipment, books, and archives to the university. The publication policy of The Holloway Press is to publish a range of texts appropriate to the technology of hand-printing which have [...]
read more »Domenico Ghirlandaio
17 December 2012 Arts, Latest News
Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan by Jean K. Cadogan New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000 ISBN: 0300087209. xi, 425pp, colour & B/W plates ffep missing, damage to surface of fep, o/w very good $250.00
read more »J. R. R. Tolkien: Pictures
7 December 2012 Arts, Latest News, Literature
Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979 First Edition. ISBN: 0047410035 48 colour plates, B/W drawings, brown cloth with gilt tiles and decoration, in slipcase $300.00
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