The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books by Jim Flynn
$10.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
This witty, clever, mind-expanding and original book is destined to become a classic. A professor for over 40 years, Jim Flynn found fewer and fewer of his students were in love with reading. However, they were willing to try if he gave them lists. This inspired him to create the definitive list: books ...Show more
Preservation in Australian and New Zealand Libraries - Principles, Strategies and Practices for Librarians by Ross Harvey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: Topics in Australasian Library and Information Studies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Amassing Treasures for All Times - Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector by Donald Jackson Kerr
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing ...Show more
Reads like a Novel by Daniel Pennac
$8.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The Printing of a Masterpiece by Alan Loney
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
This printer's narrative pays tribute predecessors and exemplars; to Aldus Manutius, Joseph Moxon and Eric Gill. A memoir of the flowing intermesh of typography, ink-and-paper, Renaissance cultural history and deeply personal knowledge of every stage of craftmanship.
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Devonport: A Diary/Esplanade by Bill Direen
$100.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand Novels and Novelists, 1861-1979 - An Annotated Bibliography by James Burns
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good
A Sea Change - 145 Years of New Zealand Junior Fiction by Betty Gilerdale
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Turning the Pages. The Story of Bookselling in New Zealand by Anna Rogers
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Alexander Turnbull: His Life, His Circle, His Collections by E. H. McCormick
$45.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good-very good