Jason Books, rare, second hand books, Auckland

The Typographic Book

jasonbooks — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:49:19 +0000

The Typographic Book

by Stanley Morison and Kenneth Day.

London: Ernest Benn, 1963

First Edition. Ex Library. xiii, 99pp text, 377 plates. $75.00

New Zealand New Arrivals

jasonbooks — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:22:32 +0000

Allen, Miles. Out of the Ground: Earthbuilding in New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1997. $35.00

Bagnall, A. G. Masterton’s First Hundred Years 1854-1954. Masterton: Masterton Centennial Committee, 1954. $65.00

Bagnall, A. G. Okiwi: European Occupation of the Eastern Bays Port Nicholson. Wellington: Mahina Press, 1972. Limited Edition. Signed by Author. $220.00

Bassett, Michael. The State in New Zealand 1840-1984: Socialism Without Doctrines?. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998. $40.00

Bentley, Geoffrey and Maurice Conly. Portrait of an Air Force: The Royal New Zealand Air Force 1937-1987. Wellington: Grantham House, 1987. $85.00

Carle, C. J. Gateway to the Wairarapa: The Story of the Tribulations and Triumphs of the Settlement of Featherston and District over the Past 100 Years 1857-1957. Featherston, New Zealand: Featherston Borough Council, 1957. $75.00

Du Faur, Freda. The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs: An Account of Four Seasons’ Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Christchurch: Capper Press, 1977. Facsimile. $85.00

Gluckman, Laurie. Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Aukland Based on the First 384 Inquests. Auckland: Doppelganger, 2000. Ex Library. $30.00

Grant, David. Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2003. $35.00

Grant, Ian F.. North of the Waingawa: The Masterton Borough and County Councils 1877-1989. Masterton: Masterton District Council, 1995. $35.00

Harvey, Bob et al. Between the Flags 100 Years of Surf Life Saving in New Zealand. Wellington: Surf Life Saving New Zealand, 2010. $45.00

Jones, S. R. H.. Doing Well and Doing Good: Scottish Enterprise in New Zealand. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2010. $25.00

Martin, John E. Parliament’s Library 150 Years. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2008. $40.00

McLean, Denis. Howard Kippenberger Dauntless Spirit: A Life of an Outstanding New Zealand Leader. Auckland: Random House, 2008. $30.00

Pawson, Eric and Tom Broooking (eds). Environmental Histories of New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2003. Reprint. $45.00

Rorke, Jinty. Policing Two Peoples: A History of Police in the Bay of Plenty 1867-1992. Wellington: The New Zealand Police, 1993. $95.00

Smith, Stephen John. The Samoa NZ Expeditionary Force 1914-1915: An Account Based on Official Records of the Seizure and Occupation By New Zealand of the German Islands of Western Samoa. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn, 1924. $1,250.00

Temple, Philip. A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. $40.00

Tod, Frank. The Making of a Mad Man: Lionel Terry. Dunedin: Otago Foundation Books, 1977. Inscribed by author to Television One, on ffep. Includes appendix of Terry’s verse. $60.00

Webster, Mark. Assembly: New Zealand Car Production 1921-98. Auckland: Reed Books, 2002. $55.00

Hardback Fiction

jasonbooks — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:40:25 +0000

A Selection of Quality Hardback Fiction:

Saul Bellow: Mr Sammler’s Planet, UK ed, $15
Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter $14
Barry Hannah:
Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories $20
Yonder Stands Your Orphan: $14
Milan Kundera: Testaments Betrayed $20
Wyndham Lewis: Mrs Duke’s Millions, George Prior edition, $20
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude $20
Piers Paul Read: The Misogynist: $12
Carol Shields: Collected Stories $25
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: $10
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Folio edition, $90
Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited, Folio edition, $40

History New Arrivals

jasonbooks — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:07:22 +0000

A selection of recently arrived History titles:

The Renaissance by Paul Johnson, hb $14
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, trade pb $20
Culture & Imperialism by Edward Said, trade pb $20
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy, trade pb $30
The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII’s Throne by Geoffrey Moorhouse, hb $30
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James, pb $14
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd, trade pb $16
Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War 1792-1815 by Paul Fregosi, hb $20
The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany Stalin’s Russia by Richard Overy, trade pb $20
The Long Shadow: Inside Stalin’s Family by Rosamund Richardson, hb $20
Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb by George Feifer, hb $25
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple, pb $14
Culloden / Glencoe / The Highland Clearances by John Prebble, pb $10 each

Historic Charts & Maps of New Zealand

jasonbooks — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:37:07 +0000

Historic Charts & Maps of New Zealand 1642-1875

by Peter B. Maling

Auckland: Reed Books, 1999

Reprint. Folio. Decorative Cloth.

ISBN: 0790006944. 316pp, 141 colour plates, maps on eps

$250.00

Fiction Picks

jasonbooks — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:39:26 +0000

This week’s picks of paperback fiction titles:

Aravind Adiga: Between The Assassinations $12
Bernardo Axtaga: The Accordionist’s Son: $12
Roberto Bolano: The Savage Detectives $12
William Boyd: Waiting For Sunrise $18
Ordinary Thunderstorms $14
Joseph Boyden: Through Black Spruce $12
A. S. Byatt: The Children’s Book $16
Michael Collins: Midnight in a Perfect Life $12
Sarah Hall: How To Paint a Dead Man $14
Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger’s Child $16
Paula McLain: The Paris Wife $14
David Mitchell: Ghostwritten $10
V. S. Naipaul: Miguel Street & The Mystic Masseur $10
Per Petterson: In The Wake $8
Miguel Syjuco: Ilustrado $12
John Updike: My Father’s Tears & Other Stories $14

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

jasonbooks — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:25:23 +0000

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

rendered Into English from the Literal & Complete French Translation

of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers

Volumes I-IV

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949

Seventh Impression. 4 volume set, xiii, 871; vi, 825; vii, 795; vii, 746pp

$250.00

A Crime Fiction List

jasonbooks — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:21:33 +0000

Marshall Browne: The Iron Heart $10
Simon Beckett: The Calling of the Grave $14
Xavier Marie Bonnot: The First Fingerprint $12
James Lee Burke: Feast Day of Fools $12
Agatha Christie: Miss Marple and Mystery: The Complete Short Stories $12
Sam Eastland: Eye of the Red Tsar $12
Jeff Lindsay: Dexter By Design $14
Val McDermid: The Retribution $12
Henning Mankell: Sidetracked $10
Karen Rose: No One Left to Tell $16
James Sallis: Drive: $10
Gerald Seymour: A Deniable Death $12
S. J. Watson: Before I Go To Sleep $12

Fiction Picks

jasonbooks — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:16:57 +0000

Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Folies $10
Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl $12
William Boyd: Stars and Bars $12
T. C. Boyle: Wild Child $12
A. S. Byatt: Ragnarok: The End of the Gods $10
Patrick Dewitt: The Sisters Brothers $12
Vanessa Diffenbaugh: The Language of Flowers $14
Stella Duffy: Theodora Actress Empress Whore $12
Claudie Gallay: The Breakers $12
David Grossman: To the End of the Land $20
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question $12
David Leavitt: The Indian Clerk $14
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle $12
Vladimir Nabokov: Ada $10; Lolita $8
Brandon Sanderson: The Well of Ascension, Books 1,2,3 $14 each
Kim Scott: That Deadman Dance $15
Taichi Yamada: In Search of a Distant Voice $10

A Selection of Literature titles

jasonbooks — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:13:23 +0000

Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems 1966-1987 pb $12
Ezra Pound: Selected Poems (1928 Faber hb) $15
The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse pb $14
Andrew Motion: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life: $30
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems pb $14
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems pb $30
Poems of Paul Celan, revised & expanded, translated by Michael Hamburger pb $20
Penelope Lively: A House Unlocked hb $12
George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton hb $25
James Joyce: Finnegan’s Wake (1999 Penguin pb) $25
Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? hb $20
Salman Rushdie: Imaginary Homelands hb $25
Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii pb $12