Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson by E. Jean Carroll

The Man Who Wasn’t Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon by Patrick Marnham

Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare

Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth

Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas

Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
contact Jason Books about any of these titles

The Lively Capital Auckland 1840-1865
by Una Platts
A colourful and idiosyncratic account of the 25 years during which Auckland was the capital of New Zealand. Portrait painter and art historian Una Platts evoked the spirit of pioneer Auckland through paintings, drawings and maps of the time. The book also includes passenger lists for the Anna [...]

A History of Book Illustration
The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
by David Bland
London: Faber and Faber, 1969
Second Edition
459pp, 404 plates, some in colour tipped-in
$150

Deaths and Entrances London: J. M. Dent, 1946 First Edition

18 Poems London: The Fortune Press, Second Edition of Thomas’s first collection, published in 1934, reprinted by The Fortune Press in 1942

Collected Poems 1934-1952 London: J. M. Dent, 1953 Second Impression

The Colour of Saying London: J. M. Dent, 1963 First Edition.

Quite Early [...]

Justinian’s Flea: Plague Empire & The Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Prince Rupert The Last Cavalier by Charles Spencer
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia by Carola Oman
Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten [...]

I’ve been enjoying Gordon Campbell’s pieces on classic children’s books on his new publication Werewolf.
His latest is on The Rabbit’s Wedding by Garth Williams.
Previous posts have been on Grasshopper on the Road by Arnold Lobel and on William Steig

A few of the classics titles just arrived:

Horace: A Life
by Peter Levi, St Martins Press
also by Peter Levi:
Virgil: His Life and Times
The Odes of Horace
A translation by David Ferry
Bilingual edition, The Noonday press, 1998, paperback

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil edited by Charles Martindale, paperback
Petrarch’s Lyric Poems: The Rime sparse and Other Lyrics
translated and edited by [...]

Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life by Stanley Wells
John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
Chaucer and the Medieval World by Donald A. Howard

The Cambridge Companion to Dante edited by Rachel Jacoff
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
Dr Johnson’s Dictionary:
The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World
by Henry Hitchings

The New Penguin Book of [...]

Fiction:

Till We Have Faces.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956
VG in a VG Dustjacket
$245.00

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1969.
Tenth Impression
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
VG in a VG Dustjacket
$250.00

Prince Caspian The Return to Narnia
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960
Third Impression.
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
VG in a VG Dustjacket
$180.00

Literature:

Arthurian Torso Containing the Posthumous [...]

Pre-catalogue offer to Jason Books customers:
A selection of recently acquired NZ Literature items 
 
 
 

[7453] Baughan, B. E.. Shingle-Short and Other Verses. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1908. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Red cloth with title in gold on black on front and spine, 204 pp, B/W plates, roughly cut edges. Missing ffep, [...]