Faeries, Oboes, Horses and Shoes.

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 Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.

What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

Art and Film

• The Art of Mickey Mouse, and The Disney Poster
• Since Records Began - EMI - The first 100 Years by Peter Martland
• The ever-popular Taschen compilation of Escher's graphic work, second hand
• Faeries - Description and Illustration by Brian Froud and our lovely regular, Mr. Alan Lee Esq.
• A Flower Fairies Treasury by Cicely Mary Barker
• Nothing if Not Critical - Selected Essays on Art and Artists by Robert Hughes
• Matteo Pericoli's Manhattan Unfurled - Boxed book contains a 22 foot-long foldout drawing of the East and West Sides, with an essay on the architecture by Paul Goldberger
• Blackadder - The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485 - 1917 - We have this in HB and PB at the moment

There is a very pleasingly eclectic stack of new Music and Dance books going into the section this week as well as some new Sheet Music - starting with an attack of the Oboes! We have lots of Oboe music just in - from beginner music to duets to the hard stuff....
Some highlights of assorted Music and Dance are:

• The Life of Richard Wagner in 4 volumes - Volume 1 1813 - 1848, Volume 2 1848 - 1860, Volume 3 1859 - 1866, Volume 4 - 1866-1883 by Ernest Newman
• The Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
• Revelations - The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey (a dancer)
• And in related topics three classic "Drina" books by Jean Estoril - Drina Dance's in Exile, Drina's Dancing Year and Ballet for Drina.

War, Chaos and History. That would make a great book title in itself!

• Mein Kampf by the nasty little man himself, in a Pimlico edition
• Euro Trashed - The Rise and Rise of Europe's Football Hooligans by Dougie Brimson
• Citizens - A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
• Auschwitz - The Nazis and the `Final Solution' by Laurence Rees
• The Korean War by Max Hastings
• Twenty Years On... The Tiananmen Papers by Nathan and Link
• Children at Play - An American History by Howard P Chudacoff
• Bobby Fischer Goes to War - The Most Famous Chess Match of all Time by Edmonds and Eidinow
• I Will Bear Witness - A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1945 by Victor Klemperer - in two volumes.1st English editions

Biographies of all varieties that have recently come in!

• 100 Great Kings, Queens and Rulers of the World by John Canning
• And The Kings and Queens of England by Ian Crofton - A regally illustrated splurge through the ages
• Indira - The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
• Wordsworth A Life by Juliet Barker
• Mao - The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
• The Making of the Poets - Byron and Shelley in their time by Ian Gilmour
• The Truth Will Out - Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by James and Rubenstein
• Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition - The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander

Science and Gardening

• The Trouble with Physics - `The best book about contemporary science written for a layman... ' by Lee Smolin
• The Bromeliad Lexicon by Werner Rauh
• The Garden Plant Selector by David Joyce
• Stefan Buczacki's Gardening Dictionary
• Mapping Mars - Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World by Oliver Morton
• The Pocket Guide to Astronomy by Ian Ridpath
• Collins Pocket Guide - Stars & Planets by Ian Ridpath & Wil Tirion
• Philip's Stargazing with a Telescope by Robin Scagell

Horses Of Courses!

• Palominos - Austria's Haflinger Horses by Micek and Kellner
• Factfinder Guide - Horses by Sarah Harris
• Know your Horse - A Guide to Selection and Care in Health and Disease by Lt. Colonel W S Codrington

New Zealand and Pacific Books in this week include:

• True South - Tramping Experiences of the South Island Hinterland by Pat Barrett
• Letters From London at Coronation Time (Nag's Head Limited edition 150 copies) by Helen Bateman
• New Selected Poems by James K Baxter
• Essential Dates - A Timeline of New Zealand History by Alison Dench
• Open 7 Days - A Celebration of the New Zealand General Store by Don Donovan
• The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont by Martin Edmond
• Ritual Song of Defiance - A Social History of Students at the University of Otago by Sam Elworthy
• A Taupo Fishing Diary by Alex Gillett
• Diary Beginnings 1939 (Nag's Head Limited edition 150 copies 135 copies) by R S Gormack
• Diary for 1940 (Nag's Head Limited edition 150 copies 225 copies) by R S Gormack
• Into the Blue - Boldly Going where Captain Cook has Gone Before by Tony Horowitz
• New Zealand Legislative Council - A Study of the Establishment, Failure and Abolition of the Upper House by W K Jackson
• Pubs with Personality - A Personal Selection of Over 150 of New Zealand's Best by Peter Janssen & Steve Reid
• David & Goliath - The Bain Family Murders & Bain & Beyond - Cops, Courts & Criminal Justice by Joe Karam
• First Impressions - History of Printing in Hawkes Bay by Laraine Knight
• Down at the Station - A Study of the New Zealand Railway Station by J D Mahoney
• Rocking the Boat? - A History of Scales Corporation Limited by Gavin McLean
• What's In A Name - A History of The Streets of Napier by Ian L Mills
• The History of Howick and Pakuranga - Whitford, Bucklands and Eastern Beaches and Surrounding Districts by Alan Roche
• The Years of the Pooh-Bah - A Cook Islands History by Dick Scott
• Dick Seddon's Great Dive (Islands 16 Vol 5, No 2) by Ian Wedde
• Beachcomber - A New Zealand and Pacific Miscellany by Mary Trewby

   

Language, Reference and Religion - we're all for strange bedfellows here at Arty Bees..

• A is for Apple by Alan Saunders
• Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
• The Holy Qur'an in a bilingual edition in Arabic and English
• The Adventure of English - The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg

Fashion and Photography

• I Want Those Shoes by Paola Jacobbi (Imogen wants those shoes too...)
• Roy Stuart V a Taschen super-naughty spectacular complete with DVD 
• The Earth - A Cube Book
• Leni Riefenstahl - Five Lives Giant Taschen second hand, not seen for ages

And, well... Treasure!

• Treasure Island R. L. Stephenson's classic according to Spike Milligan
• And Treasure Islands - The Fascinating World of Pirates, Buried Treasure and Fortune Hunters by Platt and Wright
• A Century of Progress - Cadbury Bournville 1831-1931
• Cadbury's Purple Reign by John Bradley
• Sir John Gilbert's beautiful edition of Shakespeare's Works, with 800 illustrations, from 1892.

And some Food...

• Cook's Bible edited by Lorraine Turner
• Nigella Lawson Forever Summer
• The Art of Simple Food - Notes, Lessons and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters
• New Larousse Gastronomique - The World's Greatest Cookery Reference Book, 1977 edition - Still a classic after 32 years!
• In Defence of Food - The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating by Michael Pollen
• Nuts - A Cook Book by Ford Rogers
• The Gourmet Prescription - High Flavour Recipes for Lower Carbohydrate diets by Deborah Friedson Chud
• New Zealander Simon Gault Cooks - Fabulous Food at Home

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
That Rocket Man's outfit is absolutely superb! I want one (does it come with batteries?)

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