OUR CUSTOMERS

Our customers worldwide are our best salespeople and their feedback speaks for itself.  All customer feedback we receive is published via the link on each product listing.

Our customers worldwide include

• Private collectors and enthusiasts
• History buffs
• Authors and writers
• Researchers and historians
• Libraries
• Universities
• Museums
• National archives
• Schools
• City councils
• Public utilities
• Businesses looking for their old stationery.

WHAT DO WE SELL?

Used and selected new books 

• Predominantly vintage non-fiction
• Signed by the author
• Out of print
• Limited editions
• Old book sets
• Rare & collectable
• Antiquarian
• Scholarly

Book subjects

• New Zealand history
• Maori & Te Reo
• Australian history
• Pasifika & Polynesian history
• American, British & European history
• Natural history
• Trees, flora and farming
• Animals, birds and marine life
• Biography
• Royalty
• Sports history
• Business history
• Exploration history
• War and military history
• Poetry
• Art history
• Cars, motocycles and tractors
• Aviation, maritime & rail history
• Gardening & cookbooks
• Hiking, hunting, fishing
• Religion
• Science, medical & engineering
• Technical, reference & text books

We also sell vintage and rare ephemera

• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Guides, directories, programmes
• Posters
• Photos & drawings
• Maps & charts
• Company stationery
• Banking, insurance, shipping, travel docs
• Legal agreements
• Tickets, receipts, envelopes

POINTS OF DIFFERENCE

Local service with global reach

• Browse any book instantly from anywhere in the world.
• New listings and updates are communicated instantly to market.
• We are easy to do business with.
• Our shop is always open.

High quality products and listings

• Listing quality is as good as picking any item from our shelves.
• We offer quality products, shipped securely worldwide.
• No matter what condition a book is described, you can see exactly what you're buying.
• Actual products depicted, no generic stock images.

Prompt, uncomplicated, reliable and frictionless service

• Click buy now and what you just viewed arrives at your door.
• We accept any card, any currency.
• AfterPay option available via our TradeMe store.
• Our customer feedback published speaks for itself.

No drop shipping

• Unicorn Bookshop owns all its stock. 
• We do not drop ship books from faraway places that we have never seen.

NEW ZEALAND BUSINESS

Unicorn Bookshop is proud to be 100% New Zealand owned and operated.

ENVIRONMENT CARE COMMITMENT

• We purchase and use only eco-friendly, biodegradable / compostable packaging.
• We do not purchase any plastic packaging.
• And we reuse circa 80% of all our inwards goods packaging.

FIND US ONLINE

• This website
• We also host our own professional store on TradeMe: http://www.trademe.co.nz/stores/unicorn-bookshop

Social media

You'll also find Unicorn Bookshop on Facebook and Instagram (links top right)

See the full Unicorn Bookshop story

Click on the Facebook link to take a look back through photos depicting the Unicorn Bookshop story over 30 years. This includes;

• Customer feedback comments.
• Photos of founder Richard Wasley and the original Alnwick Street shop.
• Read more: http://mairangibay.blogspot.com/2011/06/at-sign-of-unicorn.html
• Photos of the Neville Street shop including the refurbishment and relaunch.
• Photos of the Warkworth Christmas parade.
• And of course photos of all the fabulous and famous people that have visited us.

Media

• Warkworth is a small town in the winterless north of New Zealand - but what it is like? click to find out: http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/10397991/Lets-live-in-Warkworth
• Unicorn Bookshop reopens after major refurbishment - Mahurangi Matters Oct 2014, page 13 https://issuu.com/mahurangimatters/docs/mahurangi_matters_15_october_259