Recollections of Mr James Lenox of New York and the Formation of his Library by Henry Stevens
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Volume 1 1926-1935 by Michael Ashley (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 2 1936-1945 by Michael Ashley (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good-very good
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 3 1946-1955 by MIchael Ashley ( ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good
When We Were Young - Two centuries of children's book illustration by William Feaver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Censorship Moments - Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression by Geoff Kemp (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fatwa ...Show more
The Gutenberg Elegies - The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven P. Birkerts
$14.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
"[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it." --The Washington Post In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming ...Show more
Sketches of Some Booksellers of the Time of Samuel Johnson by E Marston
$20.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
Sydney Morris Cockerell & Joan Rix Tebbutt - Thirty recent Bindings by Harry Barnes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book by John G. Murray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
In this commonplace book, John Murray has drawn together a collection of wise, thoughtful, and witty proverbs and sayings. The volume includes illustrations, some sent by the authors of the sayings themselves, including John Piper, John Craxton, Beryl Cook, and Val Biro.
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary - The Book that Defined the World
$8.00 NZD
Category: Reference
This is the story of the first great dictionary of the English language. It is also the story of an heroic ordeal. For Dr Johnson`s attempt to define each and every word was an extraordinary undertaking. In this brilliant book, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson`s adventure
Australian Classics - 50 Great Writers and their Celebrated Works by Jane Gleeson-White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the 19th cen ...Show more