Denis Glover, illustrated by Gary Tricker
New to website: limited editon "Arawata Bill" by Denis Glover with prints by Gary Tricker
A defense of "Work in Progress" AKA Finnegan's Wake, Joyce
Scarce Shakespeare & Co. publication - Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams & others in the corner for Joyce, who's excerpts from the mysterious "Work in Progress", the follow-up to ULYSSES that would become FINNEGANS WAKE, were not being very well recieved in the late 20's - and in the other corner, some negative critics also, one of which may or may not be Joyce himself writing under a pseudonym...
ESOTERIC TITLES
Wiremu Hekepia
NB if you're wondering where all the macrons are, other websites we list with don't support them and pack a sad, killing the listings, regrettably - that's why you also see no accents, umlauts, cedillas etc.
PHILOSOPHY incl. a very smart SCHOPENHAUER early English edition
Lot's of good philosophy making their way onto the website lately...
STUNNING CHINESE JADE TITLES (in Chinese)
Hi Friends,
Tonight (22.04.21) we have some lovely books on CHINESE JADE/GREENSTONE going up on the website.
Being in Chinese, our catalogue descriptions may or may not be entirely accurate... so some pictures for your reference
Here we have a lavish, 6x volume set (code: ak3/1/342)
Complete Works of Chinese Jade / Zhong Guo Yu Qi Quan Ji (Zhongguo Yu Qi Quan Ji); An Exhibition Catalog (six volume set) [JIUFANG, LI?] [Hebei Fine Arts?] 2006
TEXT IN CHINESE, VERY HEAVY & VERY BEAUTIFUL 6x VOLUME SET; Quarto white cloth boards, blind stamp characters to front & gilt characters to spines, LAVISHLY illustrated, VG+ in d/w VG+ (light scuffing to boards and jackets, moderate scuffing to bottom of spine of jacket of vol. 4), in illus. slipcases VG+ (light scuffing) to nr. FINE; see our website for pictures; Vol. 1: "Primitive Society" intro(36pp)+312pp / Vol. 2: intro(31pp)+319pp / Vol. 3: intro(41pp)+309pp / Vol. 4: intro(23pp)+327pp / Vol. 5: intro(29pp)+320pp / Vol. 6: intro(15pp)+358pp