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The Mapping of Australia
18 March 2013 Latest News, Pacific, Specialist
The Mapping of Australia by R.N. Tooley London: The Holland Press, 1979 First Edition. ISBN: 0900470879 633pp, B/W plates $600.00
read more »Principia Mathematica
11 February 2013 Latest News, Specialist
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1973. Seventh impression of the second edition Three volume set: xivi, 674pp; xxxi, 741pp; viii, 491pp. ISBN: 152106791X. $400.00
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 »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 »Freda du Faur: The Conquest of Mount Cook
31 March 2011 Latest News, New Zealand, Specialist
The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs: An Account of Four Seasons’ Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Freda du Faur London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936 Second Impression xv, 250(4)pp, B/W plates $350.00 see more Mountaineering titles To enquire about or purchase this book, contact Jason Books
read more »Military Aviation
28 March 2011 Latest News, Specialist
Planes of the Luftwaffe: Fighter Aces Volumes 1 & 2 by Bernd Barbas Melbourne: Kookaburra Technical Publications, 1985 ISBN: 0858800527 2 volume set: 172pp each volume, colour & B/W plates JG26: Photographic History of the Luftwaffe’s Top Guns by Donald L. Caldwell Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 1994 ISBN: 0879388455 168pp, B/W plates The Day Fighters: German [...]
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