Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life: Survey, Definition and Justify'd Lampoonery of Divers Contemporary Phenomena, from by Dr. Johnson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise re-emergence from eighteenth century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. "The Guardian" calls him the 'greatest' thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs ...Show more
The Best of Olympia - An anthology of tales, poems, scientific documents and tricks which appeared in the short-lived and much-lamented Olympia Magazine by Maurice Girodias (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Series: Traveller's Companion | Reading Level: good-very good
Fabulous & Familiar - Children's Reading in New Zealand, Past and Present by Mary Atwool et al.
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Outside of a Dog - A Bibliomemoir by Rick Gekoski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
This is the fascinating and whimsical account of the twenty-five books that have influenced the life of bibliophile Rick Gekoski. Drawing from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy and including books by Descartes, Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye o ...Show more
Warmly Inscribed - The New England Forger and Other Book Tales by Lawrence Goldstone; Nancy Goldstone
$16.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The authors of two previous well-received volumes on book collecting now regale their many fans with fascinating facts and fables about famous libraries and infamous forgers. "The Goldstones, a husband-and-wife book book collecting/writing team, follow two previous memoirs about their occupational adven ...Show more
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections by Margaret M. Manion; Vera F. Vines; Christopher de Hamel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Presents an illustrated survey of illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
An Index of Civilisation - Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen by D. R. Harvey; Wallace Kirsop; Brian J. McMullin; K. I. D. Maslen; Monash University, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies Staff (Contribution by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The Elements of His Dark Materials - The Guide to Philip Pullman's Trilogy by Laurie Frost
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco, Abdellah Hammoudi explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism. Building on the work of Foucault, Hammoudi argues that at the heart of M ...Show more
Great Books and Book Collectors by Alan G Thomas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The Surgeon of Crowthorne - A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words by Simon Winchester
$12.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a fifty-year task requiring the assistance of thousands of volunteers - one of the keenest a W C Minor. Minor was a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder. Here Simon Winchester tells this uplifting ...Show more