Unicorn Bookshop

1984. Royal Commissioner Peter Mahon was appointed to investigate the causes of the world's fourth worst air disaster.

2014. 1st edition. Air New Zealand's 75th anniversary publication.

1985. 1st edition. Vintage visitors guide.

1946. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1945. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1947. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1947. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1948. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1948. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1948. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1947. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1947. 1st edition. One of a series of thirteen unofficial narratives detailing the activities of units of the Third New Zealand Division during their service in the Pacific theatre.

1963. 1st edition. One of the most amazing tales of shipwreck ever, as a Tongan cutter runs onto the dreaded Minerva Reef, and 17 men must fight for the chance of survival.

1960. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.

1975. 1st edition. The history of Paeroa and District published to mark the centenary anniversary in 1975.

1980. Vintage record of local history in this region in the deep south of New Zealand's south island.

Undated. New Zealand railway history.

1987. New Zealand railway history.

1986. Background investigation of the July 1985 sinking of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.

1986. Who sank the Rainbow Warrior - and why?

1974. 1st edition. Retellings of Maori folk-tales.

1973. 1st edition. By Lady Louise Hillary, wife of Sir Edmund Hillary, and tells the story of the family's travels in Nepal including visits to various Hillary aid projects in the Everest region of th

1942. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1985. A popular guide to New Zealand's natural heritage.

1963. Vintage weekly New Zealand newspaper.

1953. 1st edition. First half is popular illustrated history of British coronations of queens, and second half covers the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

1999. This book is a celebration of the diversity of style and decoration of Auckland's architecture, featuring photographs never published before.

1980. 1st edition. Poetry. SIGNED

1977. 1st edition. History and science of volcanoes in New Zealand.

2014. Eighty of New Zealand's finest cooks, chefs and bakers let us into their homes and their hearts as they share their favourite recipes

1988. 1st edition. A publication for the exhibition of Albin Martin's, to mark the centenary of the artist's death.

1941. 1st edition. This book urges the United States to join Britain's cause in the Second World War.

1945. The official account of Royal Air Force Transport Command's ocean ferry.

1972. 1st edition. This book underlines the incredible number of inconsistencies in the evidence which convicted Thomas, in the trial judge's summing up and in Sir George MacGregor's report.

1963. 1st edition. This book describes catamarans, their characteristics and design.

1951. When the Germans invaded Crete in 1941, Sandy Thomas was shipped to the Greek mainland as one of their prisoners.

1937. 1st edition. Geoffrey Cox's eyewitness account of 1936 Madrid under aerial and ground attack from Franco and his fascist allies during the Spanish Civil War.

2003. 1st edition. This book follows Ian Bradley's career from Cadet Midshipman to his final disgrace, his battle to clear his name, and his subsequent career in politics and industry.

1959. A catalogue that accompanied the Frances Hodgkins Collection on a New Zealand tour in 1959, and a handbook for the Collection in Auckland City Art Gallery.

1945. 1st edition. The sequel to 'Kiwi Saga', this is a personal account of the travels and experiences of the New Zealanders in Italy.

2002. A collection of stories celebrating nautical New Zealanders, their boats and their stories.

Undated. An account of wartime travel which begins with a party of twenty-four Ordinary Seamen, which eventuates to a lucky thirteen.

1959. 1st edition. An autobiography by Captain Wilfred Scott-Shawe and Alan Wykes.

1980. 1st edition. SIGNED. The Story of Ngaruawahia 1863 - 1963.

2000. 1st edition. Since 1916 there have been more mutinies in the Royal Australian Navy than in any other navy maintained by an English-speaking nation.

1842. Famous for his paintings of early New Zealand, Charles Heaphy also wrote an enthusiastic account of his years in New Zealand.

1985. 1st edition. The wartime adventures of the author serving in the Royal Navy on the Atlantic convoys.

1958. A collection of drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, containing examples of some of his best work.

1978. 1st edition. This history records the main events of the local Oamaru port, it also marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new form of local government for the 21st century.

1961. 1st edition. The Shepherd's Calendar' has been a regular page in the New Zealand 'Listener' for many years.

1968. The formal investigation into the TEV Wahine maritime disaster in April 1968 at Wellington.

1921. A captivating novel that follows the journey of a group of travelers on a mysterious cruise ship.

1985. 1st edition. This is the earliest recorded voyage by Western man, one of our most ancient and captivating sagas.

1978. 1st edition. This fictional journal reveals Cook's innermost thoughts and doubts during his ill-fated final voyage, which ended violently during a native uprising in Hawaii.

1953. A fascinating account of the ingenious Second World War counter-intelligence plot by the British Intelligence service known as 'Operation Mincemeat'.

1990. An retro information booklet on the Royal New Zealand Navy.

1989. The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London.

1970. In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race.

1983. A history of the Reporoa District, a rural community in Rotorua Lakes within the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.

1949. The story of a successful escape from Stalag Luft III in German-occupied Poland, by British prisoners of war, during WWII.

1978. 1st edition. A story of New Zealand's last trading coasters serving an isolated community between 1913-1927.

1989. 1st edition. A detailed chronology of New Zealand's involvement and a definitive reference work on New Zealand and World War II.

1944. A collection of stories on salvage operations of famous wrecks written by a salvage diver who worked on the sunken German high seas fleet in the Scapa Flow.

1957. 1st edition. Here, told for the first time, is the tragic story of Admiral Sir Dudley North, who was relieved of his command at Gibraltar.

1981. An autobiographical record of F.O. 'Pat' Brewster early days.

1918. The history and war service of H.M.S. New Zealand.

2001. 1st edition. Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings, this volume offers a visual history of New Zealand home interiors through history.

2005. Photographed by Manuel Bauer and published on the occasion of the Dalai Lama's 70th birthday, this work includes essays by photographer Matthieu Ricard.

1969. 1st edition. Peter Cape has set out to give a meaningful impression of what is happening throughout New Zealand in the arts.

2002. 1st edition. Art Through the Ages traces six centuries of painting from Renaissance art in the 15th century to modern art in the 20th century.

1980. History of advanced jet airliners from around the world.

1980. History of early airliners from the 1930s.

1980. History of civil helicopters from around the world.

1980. History of early piston airliners from around the world.

1980. History of early jet airliners from around the world.

1980. History of general aviation aircraft from around the world.

1980. History of airliners from around the world.

1980. History of military aircraft from around the world to 1980.

1980. History of early piston airliners from around the world.

1980. History of turboprop airliners from around the world.

1980. History of general aviation private aircraft from around the world up to 1980.

1972. Illustrated history of aircraft from World War 2 era.

1970. A record of the 25 years of the Compagnie Maritime Belge since the end of World War II.

1938. 1st edition. Includes a book of the 'Bounty' and selections from William Bligh's writings by George Mackaness.

1984. A ride through the disturbed districts of New Zealand; together with some account of the South Sea Islands.

1953. At the height of the Second World War, A Seaman’s Pocketbook was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy.

1915. A novel based on the authors experiences on ships.

1958. Written for the benefit of all men in all Branches of the Royal Navy and issued to each rating when he joins.

Undated. A practical guide to the 'Ashcroft' method of building, rowing, sailing and motor boats.

1961. Contains all the instructions relative to visual and sound signalling of the International Code of Signals.

1955. Author has an ear for the vernacular of the casual New Zealander, and writes loose, gritty stories of young people interacting with pioneers and Maori in outdoor settings including Northland,

1969. An independent view of the New Zealand pre-election scene in 1969.

1927. 1st edition. A New Zealander’s impression of his visit to England in 1926.

1909. An explanation of the stability, trim, construction, tonnage, and freeboard of ships, together with a fully worked out set of the usual ship calculations from drawings.

1947. 1st edition. An illuminating account of a young man's service as an extra man aboard a light vessel in the early months of World War II, guarding the world's most dangerous sandbank: the Goodwin

1941. The author's personal impressionistic sketch of New Zealand life in 1940.

1968. Vintage handbook for boating safety compiled by officers of the Marine Department, New Zealand.

1955. 1st edition. Lord Stanley's experiences in sailing a number of different crafts to Irish and Scottish waters, to the Baltic, to France and Spain.

1981. 1st edition. A publication for the exhibition that accompanied it in a series surveying New Zealand Painting.

1903. This is the intriguing story of how the electric telegraph cable was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland after multiple failed attempts.

1909. Stories of peace and war over sixty years in New Zealand.

Undated. A detailed record of the war service of the men and ships of the Shaw Savill and Albion Line Ltd.

1976. Originally published in 1883, the author’s record of his expedition from England to New Zealand with the aim of conquering Mount Cook in 1882.

1935. A record of square-rigged sailing ships still at sea, and of those lost since the Great War.

1928. 1st edition. Biography of Count von Luckner who had the unique reputation of disrupting Allied shipping without ever having taken a human life.

1957. 1st edition. Describes the sea's vengeance - a collection of true stories about hurricanes, floods, shipwrecks, storms at sea, disasters, strandings, ships in trouble in the Arctic and in the

1957. History of the Tai-Mo-Shan that was built in 1933 to take five Royal Navy officers on a voyage from Hong Kong.

1964. The Wanganui Collegiate School register from 1854 to 1963.

2003. 1st edition. A photographic celebration of 21 of New Zealand’s most interesting ‘homes away from home’, and a record of the diverse and often impressive landscapes that surrounds them.

2003. 1st edition. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has

1995. Explore the fascinating world of birds with this remarkable book, featuring stunning artwork from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum.

1986. 1st edition. A selection of verses, limericks, sketches and articles by Bryce Hart together with reminiscences by his contemporaries.

2014. 1st edition. Toys are fun—but they are also serious business in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to 21st-century gamers.

2007. Richard Unger presents a groundbreaking method of self-discovery and offers a daily compass for meaning and fulfillment.

2008. Biography and an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure.

1973. The middle of the 19th century in France was a time when art and politics could not escape each other.

1976. D.M. Low, who until recently was Lecturer in Classics at King's College, London, is well known as the editor of Gibbon's Journal and for his distinguished biography of the historian.

1968. 1st edition. An original publication by the Folio Society, this work looks at what people were eating in different areas at different times.

2001. A guidebook providing a detailed description of the places where New Zealand troops fought on the Western Front in Belgium and France between 1916-1918.

1980. Writing in a clear and direct style, Norbert Lynton aims at helping the reader to form a relaxed and confident relationship with modern art.

1983. 1st edition. Organic vegetable pest and disease control.

2014. A narrative regarding the role of residents of the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, in helping to secure the lives of Jewish people during World War Two.

1975. 1st edition. Biography.

2006. A celebration of the achievements of women, this book honors 50 amazing women and the incredible impact they have had an our world.

2003. Like the writings of Gabriel Garc a Marquez or the music of Astor Piazzola, Botero's work has come to represent modern Latin American culture.

2006. Courbet, who influenced and advised the fledgling Impressionists, was an outstanding representative of a naturalistic realism that highlights the contradictions and inequities in society.

2004. Leaving the self-indulgence of the Romantics far behind, the nobility of Delacroix' spirit will continue to speak to any and every age.

2005. The work of James Ensor, the great Belgian painter of macabre and ghoulish scenes, that would become a nationally revered figure.

2005. Acerbic painting as social commentary George Grosz (1893–1959) was one of the most important exponents of Dadaism, and therefore of political painting in general.

2006. The classical idealist French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was one of the 19th century`s major portrait and historical painters.

2003. After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure

2006. A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day.

1970s. A pictorial history of the steam locomotives of the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.

1968. History of the Rangiatea church in Otaki, New Zealand, the oldest Maori Anglican church in New Zealand.

1962. 1st edition. A historical record of Papatoetoe published on the occasion of the Centennial of the District in 1962.

1980. 1st edition. Volume one covers the period of Sewell's public life when he and his wife Elizabeth were living in Canterbury, winding up the affairs of the Canterbury Association.

1968. 1st edition. Past President of Rotary International tells his life-story from early days as a boy in the far, far North of New Zealand to the present.

1988. This is the story of the history of Arahina, a National Training Centre for the New Zealand Girl Guides.

1978. A traveller's guide to the goldfields of historic Nelson & Marlborough.

1982. 1st edition. New Zealand's industrial archaeology - and the need to preserve that which is left.

1944. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1943. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1943. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1942. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1945. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1942. Vintage wartime newspaper from World War 2.

1967. 1st edition. The stories and experiences of a railway enthusiast who spent hundreds of hours riding the rails throughout New Zealand during their glory days of steam and diesel.

1980. Vintage booklet on Franz Josef Glacier region in the South Island of New Zealand.

1955. The Mariners Library - No. 31. A wonderfully straightforward account of a seriously demanding passage to windward across the north Atlantic in Vertue XXXV, by a crew of only two men.

1955. An annual collection.

1958. History of the first 100 years of this region.

2001. 1st edition. A Guide book for those who wish to visit the graves of their forebears who lost their lives during various wars.

1890. (129 years old) Thackeray's Works 2 from. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy.

Text in English and Te Reo

1977. 1st edition. A book about the history of Henderson and its residents from 1849 to 1939.

2000. Brigadier James Hargest was a decorated New Zealand officer who served during World War I and II.

1976. 1st edition. An account of the origins and some of the adventures (and misadventures) of the body of men that repair and service the electrical and mechanical equipment of the New Zealand Army.

1966. 1st edition. Power politics and ethnic conflict in the eastern Mediterranean.

1951. New Zealand official history in the Second World War.

1964. 1st edition. Realistic story of two survivors from an air crash in the Southern Alps, one blind, the other unable to walk unaided, who pool their resources.

1990. 1st edition. The author looks at the sea in its many moods and at the varied disasters and adventures that result.

1973. 1st edition. The book may well be unique as the first full history of an Army camp, and some things could come as a surprise to those who think they know the place.

Circa 1945.The gripping story of a New Zealand soldier who escaped the clutches of a prisoner-of-war camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the second world war.

1961. 1st edition. This book tells the story of the author's pursuit of establishing a shark-fishing business in the Seychelles.

1995. 1st edition. Maori soldiers signing up for the First World War representing a formidable fighting force - Te Hokowhitu a Tu, or the Seventy twice-told warriors of the war god, Tumatauenga.

1953. Biography of Chief Test Pilot and Wartime Fighter Pilot Neville Duke.

1939. Published in 1932, it is one of Idriess' earliest works. The Desert Column is based on the diaries that he kept through out the war.

1985. 1st edition. The third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'One of the greatest autobiographies written this century'.

1917. Volume 8 of The Great War - the standard history of the All-Europe Conflict in 1917.

1971. This blistering bestselling novel, based on documented fact, is the gripping story of the sex and money deals that exist in the backrooms behind the polished brass front of the military.

1937. An informative guide for yachtsmen in the care of their craft.

1979. 1st edition. A historical account of the Soviet assault on Berlin in 1945, the final battle of World War II in Europe.

1963. 1st edition. The dramatic story of the German battleship Tirplitz, sister ship to the ill-fated Bismarck, written by an ex-German naval officer.

1944. A day-to-day record of World War II from Hitler's attack on Poland to the allied invasion of Europe.

1945. 1st edition. An account of a prisoner-of-war camp during World War 2.

1944. In the early stages of WWII the Japanese method of jungle warfare had no military answer from the British or Americans.

2003. This is the untold story of the hundreds of New Zealand railwaymen--shunters, builders, engine drivers, firemen, engineers, who answered the call to construct and operate a railway network in

1980. A record not only of the fighting vehicles that served during the 2nd world war, but of the post-war Royal NZ Armoured Corps and its allied arms.

1979. Comprehensive album of artistic views of New Zealand as seen through the lens of a distinguished New Zealand photographer.

1946. A complete vintage guide to every branch of the carpentry trade for all those engaged in the crafts of carpentry and joinery.

1949. One of the outstanding regional histories in the series published by the Otago Centennial Historical Committee.

1971. A publication to mark the Centenary of the Auckland City Council 1871-1971.

1965. The very popular author's second book she writes the history of Mount Algidus station in the Canterbury high country in New Zealand.

1968. Vintage gardening book well illustrated with monochrome images and drawn illustration.

1957. Dispels a long-standing fallacy - that New Zealand hotels lack colour, tradition, and a tale that tingles.

1952. Second World War escape stories from all the arenas of the war.

1979. Vintage guide to nautical / maritime cruising around the Marlborough Sounds and Tasman Bay regions of New Zealand.

1956. This is the story of Frank Clune's holiday trip around the New Zealand Islands.

1991. 1st edition. One in a series of reference books of famous merchant fleets, past and present.

1956. An annual collection.

1978. A chronicle of Hato Petera College in Auckland's Northcote.

1973. A biography of the author, who through dogged persistence realised her two main ambitions - to become a nurse, and to travel to foreign places.

1975. Published for the 1875 to 1975 centennial celebration of Katikati in the Bay or Plenty.

1982. 1st edition. The centennial history of the Waihemo County Council 1882-1982.

1945. 1st edition. An account written as a result of an Auckland doctor’s travels in Italy during service with the 2nd N.Z.E.F.

Undated. Amateur publication chronicling the history of Kihikihi School (Waikato) from 1869-1938.

1997. Annual summary of all maritime accidents in New Zealand during 1995-1996.