Maud's Journal
Legends of the Maori
30 January 2012 Arts, Latest News, Maori
Legends of the Maori by Maui Pomare and James Cowan Volume I: Mythology Folk-Lore Tradition and Poetry Volume II:Maori-Polynesian Historical Traditions Folk-Lore and Stories of Old New Zealand Illustrated with tipped-in B/W plates by Stuart Peterson Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, 1930. #83 of the de luxe edition of 300, signed by both authors and illustrator [...]
read more »New Zealand Art
12 November 2011 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand
The Desire of the Line: Ralph Hotere Figurative Works by Kriselle Baker Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005 ISBN: 1869403436. 156pp, colour plates Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith by Marja Bloem and Martin Browne Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2002 ISBN: 0908802919. 271pp, colour plates Paul Winstanley: Threshold edited by Brian Butler Auckland: Artspace, 2008 ISBN: 9780958278980. [...]
read more »Art – A Selection of Recent Acquisitions
28 October 2011 Arts, Latest News
Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee edited by Roger Benjamin Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997 ISBN: 0731313445. 259pp, colour plates, Auckland catalogue enclosed Kenneth Noland by Kenworth Moffett New York: Harry N Abrams, 1977 ISBN: 0810913518. 240pp, tipped-in colour plates, B/W plates Brett Whiteley: Art & Life by Barry Pearce London: Thames & [...]
read more »Children’s Book Treasures
17 October 2011 Arts, Latest News, Literature
The Anne Anderson Fairy Tale Book London: Thomas Nelson, no date 190pp, 12 full-page colour plates, B/W illustrations and decorations, decorative eps, blue cloth cover with illustrated paste-down on front The Robber Kitten by R. M. Ballantyne Illustrated by F. A. Williams London: Blackie & Son, no date 32pp, colour frontis., B/W illustrations, pictorial boards [...]
read more »Art of the Pacific
29 September 2011 Arts, Latest News, Maori, Pacific
Art of the Pacific with photographs by Brian Brake conversations with James McNeish and commentary by David Simmons Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1979 ISBN: 0195580435 240pp, colour & B/W plates $125.00
read more »Buller’s Birds of New Zealand
20 September 2011 Arts, Latest News, Natural History, New Zealand
Buller’s Birds of New Zealand A New Edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller’s A History of the Birds of New Zealand Reproducing in Six-Colour Offset the 48 Stone-Plate Lithographs By J. G. Keulemans from the 2nd Edition 1888 Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1979 Fifth impression of the 1967 facsimile reprint of 2nd edition edited & [...]
read more »Photography
31 August 2011 Arts, Latest News
Vanity Fair Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images by Graydon Carter Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008 ISBN: 9781740666534. 381pp, colour & B/W plates Beaton by James Danziger London: Secker & Warburg, 1980 First UK Edition. 256pp, B/W plates Eliot Elisofon: Hollywood Life: The Glamorous Homes of Vintage Hollywood Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2004 First Edition. [...]
read more »Music
11 August 2011 Arts, Latest News, Non-Fiction, Specialist
Peter Sculthorpe His Music and His Ideas 1929-1979 by Michael Hannan Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1982 ISBN: 0702215899. 235pp, B/W plates, insc. on dedication page reads: Thanks for Quiros dear Brian, with best wishes, Peter. July, 1982 $30.00 A History of Japanese Music by Eta Harich-Schneider London: Oxford University Press, 1973 ISBN: 0193162032. 720pp, [...]
read more »New Zealand Art
29 July 2011 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand
Toss Woollaston An Illustrated Biography by Gerald Barnett Auckland: Random Century, 1991 ISBN: 1869411463. 124 pp, colour & B/W plates $125.00 Philip Clairmont by Jim and Mary Barr Wanganui: Sarjeant Gallery, 1987 ISBN: 0959783903. 73pp, colour & B/W plates $40.00 Maori Wood Sculpture by T. Barrow Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1974. Second [...]
read more »Poetry / Art / Print
21 July 2011 Arts, Latest News, Literature, New Zealand
As part of National Poetry Day 2011 at Jason Books 22- 30 July An exhibition of printed poetry: New Zealand poets, artists, and printers in collaboration illustrated poetry books & private press editions Catalogue of the Exhibition The Holloway Press The Holloway Press was established at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1994. It [...]
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