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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]