New Release – Limited Edition

Tara McLeod: A Typographic Journey

​Chronicling the work of Tara McLeod, New Zealand’s most revered private press printer, this book presents a selection of over 300 images of his prints, his books and his 3D work. Accompanied by essays from Riemke Ensing, Bronwyn Lloyd, Paul Thompson, Donald Kerr, Jürgen Wegner and Alan Loney. Additionally a McLeod letterpress print has been tipped-in.

The publisher, Lesley Smith, thanks Copyright Licensing New Zealand for their generous financial contribution towards production costs, without their support this important book would not have been possible.

ISBN 978-0-473-42227-1
235mm x 280mm
Hardback, 190pp
Over 300 colour photographs by Sean Shadbolt and Liz March
Publisher: Katsura
$NZ70.00 + $9.90 p&p (NZ)

​Click here to order.

NZ$70.00

Chronicling the work of Tara McLeod, New Zealand’s most revered private press printer, this book presents a selection of over 200 images of his prints, his books and his 3D work. Accompanied by essays from Riemke Ensing, Bronwyn Lloyd, Paul Thompson, Donald Kerr, Jürgen Wegner and Alan Loney. Additionally a McLeod letterpress print has been tipped-in. This book provides a context and a benchmark for letterpress printers, setting both a challenge and an incentive to emerging young artists and designers to explore the unlimited potential of this medium in their own ways and to expand the boundaries of what is possible with a new spin on old technology.

Watch an interview with Tara here.
To see more of Tara's work visit the Pear Tree Press.

ISBN 978-0-473-42227-1
235cm x 280cm
Hardback, 190pp
Over 300 colour photographs by Sean Shadbolt and Liz March
Publisher: Katsura

$NZ70 + $9.90 p&p (NZ)

For schools and libraries please visit Wheelers here.

For direct banking order here: lesley@katsura.co.nz

NZ$39.90

At the Beach: 100 years of summer fashion in New Zealand celebrates changing beach fashions and fun since the early 1900s. What we did and what we wore reveals our relationship to the coast and the changes in social attitudes to modesty and participation in leisure pursuits. From the neck to knee bathers of the Edwardian era to the skimpy bikinis of the 1970s and beyond see how and why swimwear shrank. With over 100 archival and recent photos the book shares some personal beach experiences, explores the relationship between glamour and the beach, the rise of the perfect tan and uncovers the history of our swimwear industry riding the local and global fashion wave. At the Beach goes in search of the influence of the beach on our New Zealand identity.


Click here to order direct from the New Zealand Fashion Museum.
 

NZ$0.00

Len Castle's potting career, which started in 1947, spans the emergence, flourishing and subsequent transformation of the craft movement of the twentieth century. His work epitomises its vitality, its deeply indigenous origins and the sophistication of its craftsmanship and artistry. When he decided to become a professional potter in 1963 he soon forged the first steps to establish an international reputation. He exhibited world-wide, including Australia, Taiwan, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, USA and England (at the Victoria and Albert Museum). He has been described as a 'national treasure'.
Making the Molecules Dance, winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for illustrative non-fiction, stands as a great a companion volume to the Montana Award-winning publication Len Castle Potter.


ISBN: 9780958289511
Hardback, 248 pages
Dimensions: 290mm x 310mm
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Lopdell House Gallery


To order a copy please click here.

 

NZ$25.00

A trilogy of chapbooks - Rock and Word (48 pp), Harbour and Port (36 pp), and Black Phoenix (44 pp) within combined cover. Each consists of several long poems about the New Zealand port town of Port Chalmers and its environs.

"Beautifully produced in a box and inside printed in three chapbooks: ‘Rock and Word’, ‘Harbour and Port’ and ‘Black Phoenix’, Port Manifold is a triumph of poetry with comprehensive references and links to our local past. Beautifully descriptive and with layer upon layer of historical content, the chapters loop around themselves at times which I liked, coming back to a person, or event, and in doing so cementing that fact, like in a song. It brings to my mind sea shanties; introducing new information in the verses and returning to the heart of the song in the chorus.I grew up in Deborah Bay (my family are named in the book) and many other people and some of the histories were already known to me. Successful and failed enterprises, connections, liaisons, births, deaths, marriages, tragedies; so much historical information is included here. I found this to be a wonderfully refreshing and fascinating charting of place, woven into verse for good measure. Highly recommended." 
Reviewed by Debbie Lancaster Gordon for NB (Dunedin Public Library)




Click here to order direct from Rob Allan.

NZ$20.00

An identification guide to the island's indigenous and naturalised woody plants.


Illustrated
244 pages
ISBN 978-0-473-17291-6
Published 2011 by Katsura

SOLD OUT

NZ$45.00

Titirangi, probably Auckland's most beautiful suburb and on the edge of the dramatic Waitakere Ranges, is truly the 'fringe of heaven'. This richly illustrated book, compiled over many years by the West Auckland Historical Society, tracks the area's evolution from successive Maori settlements, the first European arrivals, forest clearings and the beginnings of Titirangi village through to the post-war era when artists and writers began gravitating to the community as its regenerating forest reached for the sky. Titirangi: Fringe of Heaven collects specialist accounts of Maori history, prominent settlers, architecture, the arts and the environment with personal recollections of Titirangi life. A must for anyone with a connection to this beautiful area or with an interest in the arts and environment.

 

ISBN 9-781-877-51413-5

Author: MarcBonny

Design: Katsura

Published by West Auckland Historical Society

Click here to order direct from Unity Books.

NZ$35.00

Highly revered painter and printmaker, Stanley Palmer, has produced a stunning collection of monoprints based on his childhood recollections of the Manukau Harbour. Capturing the time and place with his evocative story and illustrations, the resulting beautifully crafted book is part children's book - part memoir.

 

ISBN 978-0-9582284-4-2

Hardback, 28 pages

Dimensions: 300mm x 250mm

Design: Katsura

Published in 2007 by Lopdell House Gallery

Click here to order direct from Te Uru.

NZ$18.00

An invaluable guide for dealers and collectors illustrating over 1500 marks used by potters and ceramic artists from the 1930s to 2007.


ISBN 978-0473-12763-3
Design: Katsura
Published in 2007 by NZ Potters Inc

Sorry this publication is out of print but you may find a copy at your local library or second hand book store.

NZ$20.00

An identification guide to the island's ferns, grasses, sedges, orchids and other herbaceous flowering plants.


Illustrated
206 pages
ISBN 978-0-473-23079-1
Published in 2013 by Katsura

SOLD OUT


 

NZ$30.00

A generation ago in 1987, New Zealand passed legislation to make the country nuclear free. To celebrate this wonderful achievement, writer Trish Gribben and Lopdell House Gallery have published a children's book featuring Pat Hanly's anti-nuclear paintings and Gil Hanly's documentary photographs.

Pat Hanly's paintings are about passion and protest, light, love and life. He painted with many different styles and subjects but this book focuses on the work made in fear or protest about nuclear weapons. In the story of New Zealand's struggle to be nuclear-free no artist is more important than Pat Hanly.

In 2009 the gallery showed an exhibition of the fabulous works featured in the book as well as Claudia Pond Eyley's excellent documentary, No Nukes is Good Nukes and Gil Hanly's Nuclear Free: Protest Photography. This book will engage an audience of all ages and tells a very New Zealand story of the power of art to move hearts and minds.

ISBN 978-0-958-28954-2

Hardback, 48 pages

Dimensions: 250mm x 240mm

Design: Katsura

Published in 2009 by Lopdell House Gallery

Click here to order direct.

NZ$50.00

Change in New Zealand society, seen in small towns throughout the North and South Islands, is the subject of Mary Macpherson’s Old New World photographic book and touring exhibition.

The in-depth study by Wellington-based photographer Mary Macpherson took seven years of travel around New Zealand to create. The striking colour photographs feature buildings, houses, statues and murals to tell the story of a shift from the remains of the traditional New Zealand of the 1950s and 60s to places of boom and prosperity that look very different to our remembered past. “Within that major story arc, I wanted to show the major social and economic trends I saw over the seven years – towns painting up the main street to attract custom and celebrate their identity, places that remained resolutely themselves and those that were heading into decline,” – Mary Macpherson.


ISBN 978-0-987-65971-2
Hardback, 96 pages
Dimensions: 300mm x 250mm
Design: Katsura
Published in 2012 by Lopdell House Gallery
Click here to order.

NZ$15.00

This e-book, Being There, is an insider’s view of fashion told by veteran fashion writer Cecilie Geary. Fashion copywriting roles in a Dunedin department store in the 1950s and Selfridges in London in the 1960s led to Cecilie writing the scripts for the Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards and other fashion spectaculars staged by fashion entrepreneur Maysie Bestall-Cohen over a 30 year period, beginning in the 1970s. In 1985, she began a 15 year writing relationship with Fashion Quarterly and also wrote about fashion and beauty for other prestigious publications. Her love of fashion and its people, an extensive archive of superb images and anecdotes make Cecilie Geary’s memories of Being There a fascinating, nostalgic and informative read. The book promises to charm and enlighten anyone with a fashionable eye.
Click here to order direct from the New Zealand Fashion Museum.