The Record King Bookshop

Friday, September 25, 2009

Important Notice

We have just sold our entire book inventory to another bookdealer. All books are being removed from our online inventory. Apologies for this inconvenience.

We are still taking orders for vinyl records and have a large backlog to list over the coming months.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

New Arrivals

We have just added a nice selection to Recently Added Books including Ruth Park's Australian classic Muddle-headed Wombat and three titles by the Nobel Prize winning author Elfriede Jeline

Monday, July 20, 2009

Order Processing

The shopping cart has been reactivated and is operating normally.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Order Processing Delay

Due to our travels the warehouse will be unattended until July 22nd. The shopping cart is now inactive and will not be accepting further orders until July 22nd.

My apologies for this inconvenience.

David

Friday, June 26, 2009

Order Processing Delay

Due to our travels the warehouse will be unattended until July 22nd. The shopping cart is still active but we are unable to ship orders until July 22nd.

Apologies for this inconvenience

Friday, May 29, 2009

P&H across Australia is still a flat rate of $AUD7 regardless of quantity ordered. This amount will be applied to your order upon checkout. Our rate for international orders is $AUD16.50 for the first LP or standard size book.

Payment can be made Mastercard, Visa, Paypal or direct deposit - check the payment page for further information.

We can accept orders via email (info@recordking.com.au). Simply send through a list of items you wish to purchase and we will reply with a quote and details on how to complete your payment.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Soundtrack LPs

Classic soundtracks continue to have a strong following by vinyl collectors. Our soundtrack category includes many great composers for this genre including;

John Barry, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, Michel Legrand, Jerry Goldsmith, Henri Mancini, Jack Nitzsche, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, Miklos Rozsa, Bruce Rowland, Michael Nyman

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Ginette Neveu

Ginette Neveu was, for 14 years, one of the most promising musicians of the twentieth century, a violin virtuoso who dazzled audiences in her native France with her performances, and listeners around the world with her recordings. She is remembered today for the promise of her few recordings, and the tragedy of her early death in an airplane crash [more from AMG]

I notice the Canberra Theatre is holding a tribute concert for the 60th anniversary of violinist Ginette Neveu's fatal plane crash on return from her recital tour of Australia

Her recordings are quite scarce however we do have several copies of Ginette Neveu playing Sibelius and Suk on Australian World Record Club. Follow this link, or search for Ginette Neveu at www.recordking.com.au

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Domestic Shipping

Back after the Easter long weekend and we are busy processing orders and adding a few more classical records to the catalogue.

Just a reminder to Australian customers, our flat rate of $AUD7 still applies. Throughout Australia regardless of the quantity ordered P&H will be $AUD7. As always we accept Paypal, credit card or direct deposit.

Sometime ago we updated the about us page which includes a little about the history of The Record King Bookshop in Wollongong.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Back to Business

After a hectic few weeks clearing out 30 years of record shop, we are finally starting to get organised in our new role as ecommerce folk. We have a nice selection of LPs ready to catalogue on the website and after a number of years we are cautiously taking some auction lists back to Ebay.

Australian World Record Club LPs have always had some following among rock/pop music collectors - mostly for their unique and interesting cover art. The same cannot be said for the classical collectors market where traditionally WRC lps have largely been ignored. There have been a few exceptions, such as the stereo release of Michael Rabin's Mosaics. This week I have listed at auction an early WRC stereo release of Carl Schuricht conducting Bruckner No.8. Also on the website; Bernard Herrmann's Psycho, and Ginette Neveu playing Sibelius Violin Concerto both on WRC.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Wollongong Symphony Orchestra

Next concert by Wollongong Symphony Orchestra is Sunday April 5th at IPAC at 1 pm or 5pm. Features our favourite Mezzo; Lotte Latukefu and other local talent.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Open For Business

We have returned from our London sojourn - online ordering is fully operational. Several hundred LPs have been added in the past couple of weeks [Recently Added Vinyl].

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

UK Trip

We are still in the process of converting our shop space into a more efficient warehouse. Initially we will have the capacity to comfortably hold ten thousand books, ten thousand LPs, and ten thousand 45s. While we will essentially be an online store, local customers who wish to save the on the $AUD7 p&h charge may have the option to pick up orders in person on Friday mornings. More on this later.

There will be some further disruption to service between February 25th and March 9th as Lotte and I head off to UK. Lotte will be presenting her paper 'Peer Learning and reflection: stories of vocal development in a tertiary setting' at the The Reflective Conservatoire conference in London (Guildhall) . We then head to Walton on Thames for the bi-annual festival of microtonal music where Lotte will perform Warren Burt's 'Repetitive Rant for Peace'. I will be onhand to look after our 4 month old son, but I am sure there will be time to discover some of London's bookshops and recordstores!

My sincere apologies for this inconvenience. best regards

David

Friday, January 23, 2009

online shop expanding

This month The Record King Bookshop will close its shop front on Crown Street to make way for the expansion of our online catalogue. While we are looking forward to this new venture there is also some sadness as the shop has existed in Wollongong for more than 30 years. Thank you to all our regular local customers who have supported the shop in recent times.

Keith, who many of you would know from the shop will be remaining with us and we also welcome Sean our new record specialist who will be looking after much of the vinyl inventory. We are currently in the midst of setting up the warehouse and relocating 10,000+ records from our current storage facility, however the website is fully operational and we will be processing orders in between our other tasks.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Holidays!

The Record King Bookshop online will continue to accept orders and enquiries throughout the holiday period, however there may be some slight disruption to service during this time.

Thank you to all customers for visiting us throughout the year. regards David.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Movember

Friday, October 31, 2008

Historical Records of New South Wales - Complete Set
Bladden, F. M. ; Britton, A

Lansdown Slattery 1978, [ISBN: 0868330000]
Original cloth in dustwrappers. Facsimile of original set first published 1892 - 1901.
Price: 1500.00 AUD [More Info / Ordering]

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Looking for back issues of The Australian Gemmologist ? We have just added a few sets from the late 80s. Over the weekend we also catalogued a small collection on Antarctica and a handful of Cricket related books.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

We have just added a small batch of classical records [recently added classical records] , including a couple of nice Walter Gieseking LPs and some further additions to our Melodiya and Erato lists.

A very grey overcast weekend here in Wollongong - don't forget the Lifeline Bookfair out at Kembla Grange.