A Gallery of Fairy Tale Books to browse
We have had a plethora of interesting and appealing illustrated fairy tale books go up onto the website recently — see here for a quick sample. Some less common areas (Czech, Russian, general world) are represented
Karl Marx CAPITAL: First American Edition
1889, in the original binding: please feel free to contact us directly for photos of this important work or to discuss shipping options.
Simone de Beauvoir
Definitely do check out our listings for your favourite authors, especially in cool editions. A couple of nice Simone de Beauvoir jackets here — actually, "The Mandarins" has quite a poor condition jacket, but the art is rad so we thought we would share with you
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Read a bit more about her if you don't
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Simone-de-Beauvoir
African Folktales and Sculpture
Lots of good books on African subjects: history, art, culture
RADIN, PAUL (edit.) & MARVEL, ELINORE
African Folktales and Sculpture
Pantheon 1953
$38.50
1970's Roxy Music World Tour Souvenir
Check in for other music memorabilia and general music books
Looks like this was for the "Country Life" tour
http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_25.php
https://www.roxymusic.co.uk/
https://bryanferry.com/
Māori literature: J C Sturm
Back on the website (24.09.22), book by J C Sturm. Long overshadowed by husband James K Baxter, it looks like the general public is becoming more appreciative of Sturm's work.
Read more about her at:
https://www.read-nz.org/writer/sturm-j-c
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6s1/sturm-jacqueline-cecilia
And here is a poem to sample:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/22-02-2019/the-friday-poem-in-loco-parentis-by-jacqui-sturm
Don Merton
Sought after book, this one is signed by Don Merton. Famed for his work bringing back one of our robins from the brink of extinction (there's also a charming childrens book about the robin "Old Blue" you may be interested in), he developed some innovative techniques for fostering eggs. He also did work with kakapo, and overseas in Australia and the Seychelles
Read a bunch more about him at:
https://predatorfreenz.org/stories/remembering-don-merton-old-blue/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/03/don-merton-obituary
https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6m13/merton-donald-vincent
Charming book of LIGHTHOUSES
A very attractively illustrated title from 1895, discussing the history of lighthouses.
While this book is not about New Zealand, some further reading about NZ lighthouses here (and have a search on the website for NZ lighthouse specific material):
https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/6652/new-zealand-lighthouses
