Maud's Journal
Literature: Recent Arrivals
14 May 2013 Latest News, Literature
Salvador Dali: Hidden Faces. New York: The Dial Press, 1944. First US Edition. xvii, 414pp, black cloth with gilt title on spine and Dali signature on front, dustjacket, frontispiece, tail piece designed by Dali, photograph of Dali on rear of DJ, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Copy of South African writer Stuart Cloete, his name on ffep. Another name on ffep, spine ends bumped, DJ split down front spine edge, pieces missing from spine, chips, tears to edges, but both panels intact, now protected $60.00
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Death on the Installment Plan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First UK Edition. hb, no DJ $40.00
Isidore Ducasse Comte de Lautreamont: Maldoror, Translated By Alexis Lykiard. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972. First US Edition. ISBN: 0690514255. vi, 218pp, beige linen boards. DJ spine very worn, discoloured $40.00
Denis Johnson: Fiskadoro. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. $30.00
Raymond Carver: Cathedral, 5th Impression, hb with DJ $25
Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989, pb $16
The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review, edited by Stephen Berg, David Bonanno and Arthur Vogelsang, hb $35
Spanning The Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry edited by Peter Forbes, pb $25
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems translated by Coleman Barks, hb $30
The Poems of Catullus, translated by James Michie, pb $16
The Cantos of Ezra Pound, New Directions, 1989, hb with DJ $35
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, pb $18
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans, some underlining, pb $25
James Fenton: Selected Poems, pb $12
Robert Graves: In Broken Images & Between Moon and Moon, Selected Letters 1914-1972 in 2 volumes, edited by Paul O’Prey, hb $45
Edna O’Brien: Country Girl: A Memoir, hb $20
Judith Thurman: Cleopatra’s Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire, pb $14
Barbara Kingsolver: Small Wonder: Essays, pb, $12
The Art of Building Cities: City Building According to Its Artistic Fundamentals by Camillo Sitte New York: Reinhold, 1945. First US Edition. xi, 128pp, B/W illus. Name on ffep, a little discolouration to edges of endpapers, light wear to lower edge of boards, DJ discoloured, closed tear across upper front at spine edge, [...]
read more »Contemporary New Zealand Photographers
4 May 2013 Arts, Latest News, New Zealand
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers edited by Lara Strongman Auckland: Mountain View Publishing, 2005 ISBN: 0473102803. 183pp, colour & B/W plates. $130.00 More New Zealand Photography This link takes you to the Jason Books catalogue on abebooks. You can email directly books@jasonbooks.co.nz if you would like to know about any of these titles.
read more »Anzac Day
24 April 2013 Latest News
2 for 1 Fiction Sale ends Saturday
19 April 2013 Latest News, Literature
ends Saturday May 4 For a limited time all fiction books in store, (except First Editions) are on sale. You choose 2 books and the cheaper book is free!
read more »Some New Zealand Pamphlets & Small Things
19 April 2013 Latest News, New Zealand
The Weekly News Annual 1958. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1958. Card Covers. Colour & B/W plates, stapled. Staples rusted, cover detached, contents near fine $20.00 The Weekly News Annual 1959. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1959. Card Covers. Colour & B/W plates, stapled. Staples rusted $25.00 The Weekly News Annual 1960. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1960. [...]
read more »Illustrated Books
18 April 2013 Arts, Latest News, Literature
Mother Goose pictured by Jessie Wilcox Smith $45 Alice and Thomas and Jane by Enid Bagnold illustrated by Enid Bagnold and Laurian Jones $25 Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales illustrated by Michael Foreman $20 The Happy Prince The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde illustrated by Philippe Julian $12 The Wonderful Wizard [...]
read more »Easter
28 March 2013 Latest News
Jason Books will be closed for Easter Weekend Friday March 29 Saturday March 30 Sunday March 31 Monday April 1 reopening Tuesday April 2 at 10 am
read more »Flash Sale: Half Price or Less
28 March 2013 Latest News
Sale prices apply until 5pm on Saturday April 6 These offers not available for store credit Le Corbusier. The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning. London: John Rodker, 1929. First English Edition. 4to. xxvii, 302pp, B/W plates, plans, illus. Offsetting to eps, name in pencil on fep, cover faded in places $240.00 NOW $120 Stokes, [...]
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