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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

Some more New Zealand books in at Courtenay Place last week

• Forbush and the Penguins in first edition hardback by Graham Billing
• Orchids, Hummingbirds & Other Poems by Kevin Ireland
• The Rose Ballroom and Other Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan
• Wandering on the Islands of Wonders (New Zealand) - Adventures, Impressions & Comparitive Criticisms of New Zealand by Bohumil Pospisil
• Report of the Royal Commission To Inquire into the Circumstances of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas for the Murders of D H & J L Crewe
• And Bitter Hill - Arthur Thomas by Terry Bell
• Goldstein & Alley's Labour in Power - Promise & Performance - The New Zealand Government's successes & Failures from 1972 - 1975
• Keith In the Balance Election '72 by Ian & Eunson Templeton
• Page & Lockstone's Landslide '72 - A Narrative of How Two Men Sought the Prime-Ministership
• Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Bell Call
• On Record - Being the Reminiscences of Issac Coates 1840 - 1932
• A first edition of the child poet classic Gloria's Book by Gloria Rawlinson
• Captain F G Moore - Mariner and Pioneer by John O'C Ross
• Ruapehu - Tribute to a Mountain by J C Graham
• Life in a Young Colony by C Hankin
• Countless Signs - The New Zealand Landscape in Literature by Trudie McNaughton
• Log of the Huia by Clifford W Hawkins
• Nothing But Grass and Wind by Janet Holm
• Book of the Black Star by Albert Wendt
• A Pictorial History of the Wanganui River by Arthur P Bates
• Settlers in Depression - A History of Hamilton, New Zealand 1875 - 1894 by H C M Norris
• Ground / Work - The Art of Pauline Rhodes by Christina Barton
• Answering Hark - McCahon / Caselberg, Painter / Poet by Peter Simpson
• A People's History - Illustrated Biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1769 - 1869 by the Department of Internal Affairs - DNZB selected by W H Oliver
• Pioneer Trails of Hawke's Bay by Miriam MacGregor
• The Mount Cook Way - The First Fifty Years of the Mt Cook Company by Harry Wigley
• Spuc' Em All - Abortion Politics 1978 by Erich Geiringer
• The Hollow Men - A Study in the Politics of Deception by Nicky Hager
• Forest Homes - Scandinavian Settlements in New Zealand  by G C Petersen
• The Turnbull - A Library and Its World  by Rachel Barrowman
• Old New Zealand - A Tale of the Good Old Times and, History of the War by Frederick Edward Maning
• Tutira - The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station by Herbert Guthrie-Smith
• Helen - Portrait of a Prime Minister by Brian Edwards
• The Statutes of New Zealand - Passed in the 6th Year of the Reign … by the New Zealand Government  
• Women in the House - Members of Parliament in New Zealand by Janet McCallum
• The Waiting Hills by M H Holcroft
• Earth, Sea, Sky - Images and Maori Proverbs from the Natural World of Aotearoa New Zealand by Patricia Grace, et al.
• Shot in New Zealand - The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer  by Duncan Petrie
• Autumn Testament by James K Baxter
• The Bright Sea by Pat Wilson
• Theatre in Danger by B Mason & J Pocock  
  
  

And some hard to find Rewi Alley have come in including:
Journey to Outer Mongolia - A Diary With Poems,
Over China's Hills of Blue - Unpublished Poems & New Poems,
Snow Over The Pines - Poems By Rewi Alley,
Today & Tomorrow - Poems By Rewi Alley,
And Winds of Change - Poems By Rewi Alley

Random Non Fiction for the daredevils among you all!

• History of Lace (with 266 Illustrations) by Mrs Bury Palliser
• The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry - Love Laughter and Tears at the Worlds Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
• No One Here Gets Out Alive - the Jim Morrison biography by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
• Evel Knievel - Life of Evel by Stuart Barker
• The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks and the French in Algiers by Karl Schimmer, Karl August & Lady Duff Gordon
• The Marne and After – A Companion Volume to ‘The Retreat from Mons’ by A Corbett-Smith
• Durham Cathedral Cathedrals Abbeys and Famous Churches by James Wall
• Augustus John by Michael Holroyd
• The Invisible Writing - An Autobiography by Arthur Koestler
• The perennially popular Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

And yummy Fiction this week includes...

• Hans Andersen’s Dream Stories  by Hans Anderson
• Humorous Poems of the Century edited by Ralph H Caine
• The latest in the Crowthistle Chronicles - Weather Witch by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
• The Discovery of Dragons by Graeme Base
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Kurt Vonnegut titles including Between Time and Timbuktu
• Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
• Now We Are Sixty by Christopher Matthew
  

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Architecture books for those with grand designs and dreams...

• Jean Nouvel - The Elements fo Architecture by Morgan
• Arata Isozaki - Four Decades of Architecture by Koshalek
• Alan Crawford's Charles Rennie MacIntosh
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Interiors, Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright's Public Buildings all by Thomas A Heinz
• Architecture for the Future by Sheila De Vallee
• New Forms - Architecture in the 1990s by Philip Jodidio
• Contemporary American Architects Volume 3 by Taschen
• Contemporary European Architects by Taschen
• The Art of Ancient Egypt Architecture Sculpture Painting and Applied Art by Hermann Ranke, et al

Yummy and unusual Art books at Manners Street this week...

• Doreen Erlich's Henry Moore
• The Drawings of Henry Moore by A G Wilkinson
• Dante's Inferno - A Version in the Spenserian Stanza, by Dante Alighieri, George Musgrave and Edward Adams Parker, with engravings by John Dickson Batten
• The Complete Etchings of Rembrandt edited by Constance Schild
• Samuel Palmer - Being a Lecture Delivered to the Print Collectors' Club on Wednesday November 16th, 1927 by Martin Hardie (a limited edition number 180 of 500)
• Visionary & Dreamer - Two Poetic Painters - Samuel Palmer & Edward Burne-Jones by David Cecil
• Painting a Portrait by De Laszlo
• The Man Whistler by Hesketh Pearson
• Lorca - The Drawings, Their Relation to the Poet's Life and Work by Helen Oppenheimer
• Hokusai - Paintings, Drawings, and Woodcuts by Jack Hillier
• Georges Rouault - The Early Years 1903-1920 by Fabrice Hergott and Sarah Whitfield
• Gwen John - An Interior Life by Cecily Langdale & David Fraser Jenkins
• The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880 by Andrew Wilton & Anne Lyles
• Personal Choice - A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs - Selected and Introduced by Photographers, Painters and Writers published by the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Claude Lorrain by Helen Langdon
• Brendan Behan's Island - An Irish Sketchbook by Brendan Behan with drawings by Paul Hogarth
• Stanley Spencer at Burghclere - The Sandham Memorial Chapel Paintings described by George Behrend
• Cezanne and Poussin - The Classical Vision of Landscape by Richard Verdi
• André Derain - With One Hundred Illustrations Including Twenty-four in Full Colour by Denys Sutton
• Ivon Hitchens - Forty-Five Paintings
• Picasso's Vollard Suite by Hans Bolliger
• Alfred Sisley (Royal Academy Arts, 3 July - 18 October 1992) by Mary Anne Stevens
• Master Paintings From the Phillips Collection by Eleanor Green and Robert Cafritz
• Turner - The Great Watercolours by Eric Shanes, for the Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
• On Classic Ground - Picasso, Leger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930 by Elizabeth Cowling and Jennifer Mundy
• Marking Our Times - Selected Works of Art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection at the National Gallery of Australia by Avril Quaill for the National Gallery of Australia
• The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 by Jane Martineau & Charles Hope
• Ambroise Vollard, Editeur: Les Peintres-Graveurs 1895-1913 by Ambroise Vollard (a lovely facsimile edition of the best of Les Peintres-Graveurs)
• Bonnington by Malcolm Cormack
• Vincent by Himself - A Selection of His Paintings and Drawings Together with Extracts from His Letters (By himself series) by Bruce Bernard
• Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European Painting by John House & Maryanne Stevens for the Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

And we have also had a lovely collection of Art New Zealand Magazines come in.

Other fabulous New Zealand titles that have come in over the last two weeks include...

• Rona Adshead & Rex Murray's Replicar - A Century of Motoring in North Otago And Beyond
• Sculpture & Design - An Outline of Maori Art by Gilbert Archey
• Astronomy Aotearoa - NCEA Level 1 Textbook
• Matuhi Needle - art and poems with CD signed by author Hinemoana Baker
• James K Baxter's Autumn Testament
• Trees For New Zealand Town and Country by Don C Bell
• Te Rauparaha - A New Perspective by Patricia Burns
• Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand by Peter Cape
• W C Carkeek's The Kapiti Coast - Maori Tribal History and Place Names of Paekakariki - Otaki District
• The Little World of Stewart Island by Gertrude Dempsey
• Ants of New Zealand ( yummy yum new) by Warwick Don with Edward O Wilson   
• The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden 1765-1838 edited by John Rawson Elder
• In the Face of the Enemy by Harper & Richardson
• Last of the Whalers - Charlie Heberley's Story by Heather Heberley
• Michael King's New Zealanders at War
• Icebound by S Knight
• Shapes on the Wind - Autobiography of David Lewis 1917 - 2002
• Wellington Album by William Main
• Ghost Towns of New Zealand by David McGill
• Whare Raupo - The Reed Books Story by Gavin McLean
• A H McLintock's The History of Otago - The Origins & Growth Of A Wakefield Class Settlement
• Fatal Frontiers - A New History of New Zealand in the 1830's by Paul Moon
• Australian & New Zealand Gemstones by B Myatt
• The World of Peter Newton - The Best of his High Country Writing
• Explorers & Travelers - Early Expeditions in New Zealand by John Pascoe
• Green Politics - Critical Issues in New Zealand Society #5 by Stephen Rainbow
• Conquering Isolation - The First 50 Years of Air New Zealand by Neil Rennie
• Marina Sciascia & Hilary Pedersen's Tuahine - Sisters of Porangahau
• Forensic Medicine - A Text Book for Students and Practitioners by Sydney Smith
• A Tramper's Geology of the Tararuas by Graeme Stevens
• Webb, Johnson & Sykes' Flowering Plants of New Zealand
• Natural History of Rangitoto Island, Hauraki Gulf, Auckland New Zealand - Auckland Botanical Society edited by Mike D Wilcox
• Matthew Wright's Trucks Across New Zealand

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoirs

• Bergquist & Warne - The Marine Fauna of New Zealand - Porifera, Demospongiae, Pt 3 (Haplosclerida & Nepheliospongida)
• Bradford & Jillett - The Marine Fauna of New Zealand - Pelagic Calanoid Copepods - Family Aetideidae
• Bradford, Haakonssen & Jillett - The Marine Fauna of New Zealand - Pelagic Calanoid Copepods - Families Euchaetidae, Phaennidae, Scolecithricidae, Diaixidae, & Tharybidae
• David J Cullen - The Submarine Geology of Foveaux Strait
• K B Lewis - Foraminifera on the Continental Shelf and Slope off Southern Hawk's Bay. New Zealand
• Mary J Melrose - The Marine Fauna of New Zealand - Family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)
• R H Millar - The Marine Fauna of New Zealand - Ascidiacea
• S F Rainer - Soft-bottom Benthic communities in Otago Harbour and Blueskin Bay, New Zealand
• T M Skerman - Studies of a Southern Fiord
• Uttley & Bullivant - Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 7 - Bryozoa Cheilostomata

Other Random Non-Fiction this week includes:

• Medicine and Science in Postage Stamps by Bishop & Matheson (1948)
• The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney
• Lots of China History
• Tents in the Clouds - The First Women's Himalayan Expedition by Monica Jackson and Elizabeth Stark
• The British Steam Railway Locomotive Volume 1 1825 - 1925 by E L Ahrons
• Nemesis? The Story of Otto Strasser and the Black Front by Douglas Reed
• The Celtic Empire - The First Millennium of Celtic History 1000 BC - 51 AD by Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Russian Empire of Today & Yesterday by Winter Nevin
• Amish Grace - How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher
• Ann the Word : The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers by Richard Francis
• In Defence of Food (Eat Food - Not to Much, Mostly Plants!) by Michael Pollan
• 1215 - The Year of the Magna Carta by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
• Measure for Measure - A Musical History of Science by Thomas Levenson
• Survival of the Prettiest - The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff
• The War Magician by David Fisher
• Significant Others - Creativity and Intimate Artist Partnership by Whitney Chadwick
• An Acre of Time by Phil Jenkins all about the philosophy of land ownership

And some great collections of "How to's... " including Rock Climbing and playing the Guitar and learning to speak several different Indonesian languages and some really attractive non-fiction Children's Educational books in mint condition ready to be presents.

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
My grandma only ever sent me doilies!

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New Science Fiction recently added to Manners Street

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Arty Bees Books. 2 Locations.
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Telephone 04 385 1819
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Telephone 04 384 5339
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