Marriage & Morals and Viggo for Valentines Day

What's New at Arty Bees Books.
This is the spot to check out every week, as we bring you the latest on the fabulous, weird, interesting, intriguing, and wonderful books, big or small, mostly square-ish - although not always - that have come into the Arty Bees shops over the past seven days or so.

We're merging stores and expanding like an exploding custard factory!

And this means that our Courtenay Place will not be buying anymore books.

Ever.

The Courtenay Place shop will be closed at the end of March 2009 and we'll be re-sorting the two branches into one enormous bookshop comprising of the current Manners Street store and the space directly upstairs, cleverly joined with an internal staircase.

Which will leave us with one super duper really big bookshop.

We like to think of it, not as losing a branch, but as gaining another 150 square metres to pack books into (or to be more precise, gaining another half a kilometre of linear shelf space).

Suffice to say we are all very excited and a little exhausted and we haven’t even started moving the books!

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And so, with the great bookstore move in mind, and March looming ahead of us like an iceberg with sharp, hard, pointy bits (not one of those melty, soggy ones that drift hopelessly South with unhappy Polar Bears on them) it's time to start warning people again about NOT BUYING Periods.

Our usual Not Buying periods are in the immediate lead up to Christmas and over New Years, and over our March Stocktaking time, and this year with 60,000 books to move three city blocks from the Courtenay Place branch, and about 40,000 of the Manners Street branches titles to move upstairs we have decided to start a little early.

One of our biggest problems is that over the next six weeks we no longer have any room to store the books that we can't use and normally go to charity, as our usual storage area has already become a building site.

(N.B. if you are aware of a school, church, or charity that would like books for a fair we would love to hear from them)

It will soon be time for our Annual Stocktake / Once-in-a-Lifetime*-Moving-the-Whole-Shaboozle Buying Holiday.

We will not be purchasing stock from
Tuesday 10th MARCH 2009
until
sometime in mid APRIL after Easter
(our plans are still quite fluid so please ring ahead)

We regret any inconvenience this may cause - as usual we are still taking small exchanges and credits to shop cards.

* Once-in-a-Lifetime because as this will be my fourth (!) bookshop move there is a good chance a fifth move would kill me - I'm not as young as I was... BGH

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

New Zealand books in at Courtenay Place this week (we gave in and had to take some boxes there - Manners Street has been just a little crazy and Immy gets sad if she doesn't get to price things...)

• Down the Years in the Maniototo by Janet C Cowan
• Westland - Journal of John Hillary, Emigrant to New Zealand 1879 by the John Hillarys (original and grandson)
• Richard Cruise’s A Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand
• G Leslie Adkin’s Horowhenua - Its Maori Placenames & Their Topographical & Historical Background
• The Quiet Revolution - Turbulence and Transition in Contemporary New Zealand by Colin James
• The Kama Sutra for Cats by Burton Silver & Margaret Woodhouse
• Knocking About in New Zealand by Charles L Money, aka An Old Colonist
• John Grigg of Longbeach by P G Stevens
• The Philip Ross May edited Miners and Militants - Politics in Westland 1865 - 1918
• A Popular Vision -The Arts & the Left in New Zealand, 1930-1950 by Rachel Barrowman
• 1981 - The Tour by Geoff Chapple
• Ernest Dieffenbach - Rebel and Humanist by Gerda Bell
• James Cowan’s The Adventures of Kimble Bent - A Story of Wild Life in the New Zealand Bush
• James McNeish’s The Mackenzie Affair
• John Dunmore’s Norman Kirk - A Portrait
• New Zealand - A Working Democracy by Walter Nash
• Pioneering in Poverty Bay (New Zealand) by Philip T Kenway
• Marsden of Maoriland - Pioneer and Peacemaker by A H Reed
• The Red Squad Story by Ross Meurant
• The Wellington Watersiders - The Story of Their Industrial Organisation by P N Pettit
• Race Day by Jowitt, & O'Sullivan
• The Big House Grand & Opulent Houses in Colonial New Zealand by Terence Hodgson
• Gone North by Fiona Kidman & Jane Ussher
• Shieff & Cross’ Talking Music- Conversations with New Zealand Musicians
• Threads of Tivaevae - Kaleidoskope of Kolours by Audrey Brown & Veronica Vaevae
• Church Standing Tall by Scott Thomson
• Roger Morris’ Pacific Sail - Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific
• Muldoon’s Number 38
• Ski Plane Adventure - Flying in the New Zealand Alps by Harry Wigley
• Nola Millar - A Theatrical Life by Sarah Gaitanos
• Country Churches of New Zealand by Don Donovan
• Hyacinths and Biscuits - The Diamond Jubilee Book of the Penwomen's Club (New Zealand) Inc 1925-1985 by Peggy Dunstan et al
• W B Sutch’s Poverty & Progress - A Re-assessment (how timely!)
• Famous New Zealanders by Eugene Grayland
• Wellington By the Sea - 100 Years of Work and Play by David Johnson
• The Botanic Garden Wellington - A New Zealand History 1840-1987 by Winsome Shepherd & Walter Cook
• Joseph M & B M Kenneally’s Karori Then - Past Images and Recollections From a Wellington Suburb
• A Century of Images by Paul Thompson
• Worship in the Wilderness - Early Country Churches of New Zealand by Geoffrey G Thornton
• With Spirit - A Retrospective by Dan Driver
• Standing in the Sunshine - A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote by Sandra Coney
• Above Wellington by James Siers
• Barnett & Wolfe’s iconic classic New Zealand! New Zealand! In Praise of Kiwiana – (The Special 1997 Choysa Ltd Ed)
• The Art of Alfred Sharpe by Roger Blackley

Some adorable Kids Books are still arriving and this week we’ve seen some nice New Zealand ones including:

• Two Tigers by Helen Beaglehole
• Heaps of different titles in the beloved Hairy Maclary series by Lynley Dodd
• Some of the Gossage and Bacon New Zealand Maori Legends series
• And some 80s nostalgia with Terry and the Gunrunners by Stephen Ballantyne

And some timeless classics are loitering about (but not for long I’m guessing) like:

• The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

And lastly Random Fun and Merriment include

• Bayonets to Lhasa by Peter Fleming (The first full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904)
• Tracks by Robyn Davidson, (About a woman who treks 1700 miles through the Australian outback with four camels)
• Anatomy of Restlessness - Uncollected Writings by Bruce Chatwin (well that's a bit of an oxymoron isn't it)
• Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
• Uncommon Arrangements - 7 Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910 - 1939 by Katie Roiphe
• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
• Quips & Quirks by Clyde Watson
• Mr. Plum's Paradise by Elisa Trimby
• A Collection of Wonderful Things: Intaglio Prints by Beth Van Hoesen
• The Colour Treasury of Oriental Rugs by Stefan A Milhofer, translated from the German by D D Paige
• Oriental Rugs – A Buyers Guide by Lee Allane
• The Cabaret by Lisa Appignanesi
• Castles of Europe from Charlemagne to the Renaissance by William Anderson,
• William and Wim Swaan (photos)
• The Illustrated Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
• Civil Society & Democratization in Egypt, 1981-1994 by Moheb Zaki
• And lots of Carlos Castenada

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Books of an Uncomfortable Nature – yes we have spent the last week watching gentlemen wince as they come in the door with our fascinating collection of books on Castration and Eunuchs in the window like The Eunuch and the Virgin - A Study of Curious Customs by Peter Tompkins and An Abbreviated History - Castration of Western Manhood by Gary Taylor

On the plus side we have some titles to make the previous topic palatable as well though…

• Hypnosis – It’s Meaning And Practice by Reic Cuddon
• Hypnotism Made Practical by J Louis Orton
• Hypnotism by G H Estabrooks
• Hypnotism And Crime by Heinz E Hammerschlag
• Curative Hypnosis - Suggestion and Relaxation by Leslie O Korth
• Hypnosis in Health and Sickness by Gordon Ambrose and George Newbold

Other Random Non-Fiction this week includes:

• The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation (Mahabhinishkramana) - Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist).. by Sir Edwin Arnold
• The Raj at Table - A Culinary History of the British in India by Burton David
• The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti, and Other Islands of the Pacific by George Pritchard
• Artists of Hawaii - Nineteen Painters and Sculptors - Vol 1 by Francis Haar
• China - Tibet - Assam - A Journey 1911 by Lt.-Col. F M Bailey
• Prayers from the Ark by Carmen Bernos De Gasztold,& Rumer Godden
• The Fundamentals of Gemstone Carving by Gordon S Kennedy
• Out of the Earth I Sing by Richard Lewis
• Authority And The Individual, The First Reith Lectures by Bertrand Russell
• Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell
• Making Tracks: Unique Recording Studio Environments by Jeff Touzeau
• Some great Guitar chord books for buskers
• And lastly signed first edition Viggo Mortensen books are instore with Coincidence of Memory and Hole in the Sun

It's been busy in store for New Zealand books with lots of great titles, here is a brief selection...

• The God Boy by Ian Cross
• Where The White Man Treads by W Baucke
• Alistair Te Ariki Campbell’s Happy Summer
• Old New Zealand - A Tale of the Good Old Times and, History of the War by Frederick Edward Maning, (aka A Pakeha Maori)
• Captain William Hobson, First Governor of New Zealand by Guy H Scholefield
• The Mystery of the Moa - New Zealand's Avian Giant by T Lindsey Buick
• Clark & Walker’s Looking for the Local - Architecture and the New Zealand Modern
• The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories
• Early Travellers in New Zealand edited by Nancy Taylor
• A Handbook of the New Zealand Mosses by G O K Sainsbury
• Rush to Destruction - An Appraisal of the New Zealand Beech Forest Controversy by Graham Searle
• Coromandel Walks by Graeme Foster
• The Mobil New Zealand Travel Guides to the South Island & North Island
• Frank A Simpson’s The Antarctic Today - A Mid-Century Survey by the New Zealand Antarctic Society
• The Mutiny of the Bounty by John Barrow
• Field Guide to Fungi by Greta Stevenson
• Sydney Parkinson - Artist of Cook's Endeavour Voyage edited by D J Carr
• Neville Peat’s The Incredible Kiwi
• The Maiden Voyage by Joan Biggar
• High Noon for Coaches by J Halket Millar
• Ranginui Walker’s Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou - Struggle Without End
• Henare te Ua - In the Air by Henare Te Raumoa te Ua
• No One Went to Town - A Story of New Zealand Pioneers by Phyllis Johnston
• Arapeta & Hinemoa Awatere’s Awatere, A Soldier's Story
• Tikao Talks - Traditions and Tales of the Canterbury Maoris as Told By Teone Taare Tikao and J Herries Beattie
• Carving - The Arts of the Maori Instructional Booklet put out by the Department of Education
• Erich Geiringer’s Spuc' Em All - Abortion Politics 1978
• Collected Stories by Maurice Duggan
• Elsdon Best’s Polynesian Voyagers - The Maori as a Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer and Coloniser and The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical
• Buller's Birds of New Zealand
• The City of the Strait - Wellington & it's Province - A Centennial History by Alan Mulgan
• Port & People - Century at the Port of Napier by H K Stevenson
• Old Thorndon by Dinah Priestley,
• New Zealand Insect Pests by D N Ferro
• Philip Holden’s Seasons of a Hunter
• The New Zealand Period House - A Conservation Guide by Stuart Arden & Ian Bowman
• Fiona Eadie’s 100 Best New Zealand Native Plants for Gardens
• A Photographic Guide to Ferns of New Zealand and A Photographic Guide to Trees of New Zealand by Lawrie Metcalf
• Wind Gardens - How to Create Beautiful Gardens in Exposed Places by Jacob De Ruiter
• Geoff Moon’s New Zealand - Land of Birds
• Presenting New Zealand by Philip Temple
• And lastly a couple of books on GOLDIE!! get in quick

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Brilliant! I could almost be a dog person he's so cute.

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Arty Bees Books. 2 Locations.
17 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
Telephone 04 385 1819
The Oaks, Manners Street, Wellington.
Telephone 04 384 5339
www.artybees.co.nz