35th Anniversary press release, September 2002
This press release was intended to draw attention to the impending shop birthday, but also to its everyday business.
Tag Archives: Alan Preston
International Suppliers, 19th April 2000
An example request for foreign currency drafts to pay international suppliers in April 2000.
International Suppliers, 7th December 1998
Our request for drafts in foreign currencies to pay our international suppliers in 1998.
Advertisement, New Zealand Books, Winter 2007
Our advertisement in the Winter 2007 issue of New Zealand Books features some quotations by Alan Preston about Unity Books, accompanied by graphics by Gregory O’Brien.
Turning the Pages by Anna Rogers & Max Rogers, an extract,1993
An extract from Turning the Pages: The Story of Bookselling in New Zealand by Anna Rogers and Max Rogers, published by Reed Publishing for Booksellers New Zealand, 1993.
Summer Catalogue, 1998
Our picks of the season, Summer 1998.
Comrade Hodgson, 2002
When staff member Jess Hodgson went to China, she acquired a holographic badge of Chairman Mao for Alan Preston. I’m not sure how he took the comparison, but as a…
1996 Summer Catalogue, annotated. 11th December 1996
Alan Preston took a call from Peter Munz, who contributed to the catalogue, noting that Encyclopaedia Brittanica would have paid him 40 cents – whereas Unity Books gave him a…
First Premises, 15-19 Willis Street, 4th April 1967
Correspondence relating to Alan Preston’s purchase of the old Oxford University Press showroom as the premises for the first incarnation of Unity Books.
Philokalia Bibliographics, 17th December 2003
The fruitless search for Philokalia volume 5 continues with the unfortunate and somewhat illogical news that despite never actually having been available, it is now out of print.
