Rurik's Shed
Penshurst * Victoria * Australia
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Above to the left
Rurik's Shed. The portrait painted by local artist Pene
Bromage shows the "..rik" identity as part of "Rurik's
Shed." Bonny
and Bruin Bear inspired Ruth to compose the below poem:
When a Bear Is There
|
Life's pretty grim for Bonny cat, And it's sometimes hard to bear, When you're just a little feline And the jungle's right out there. |
But with a friend like Bruin brown Her days are free from care. Who wouldn't feel so very safe When a fierce bear is there? |
And though he doesn't say a lot And he smells like humans do. He's snuggly warm and constant So perhaps he loves her too. |
Old, Interesting & Unusual Books
Rurik (d. 879) was known as a leader of
Varangian (Scandinavian) warriors, and 
as
Prince of
Novgorod.
We are using his name as a composite of Ruth , who is a freelance writer, and Erik who provides the illustrations, the
"webmaster" technology and the compositions
The background/"watermark" picture is of a "generic" Viking
9/11/2009: Mount Rouse & District
Historical Society have published a 100 pages softcover
book 24.5x16.7 cm, entitled "Penshurst Portraits", a brief
history of the Penshurst district. It is now available at $20.
Proceeds fully to the Historical Society. Packaging and
postage within Australia is $6.60 - please see order form, or enquire by email (remove the x in
our email address; we are trying to avoid automatically
generated spam) re. direct account transfer
option.
We have available our secondhand book stock in 30 categories, including fiction (too numerous to list). "Click" on the table headings to bring up available books and prices. We will do our best to update our inventory but can not guarantee that any listed book is available between upgrades. Feel free to enquire (remove the x in our email address; we are trying to avoid automatically generated spam) about books not listed and we will search for them. Or, better still, come and browse if you want to buy any of our books, since we cannot guarantee availability of all books at all times.
In addition to our stock of thousands of books, , we have old prints, paintings, photography, household goods, antiques, collectibles and much more. Images of the latter show what we had in stock at the time and were chosen for illustration purposes only. Please 'click' on the hyperlinks in the site contents above.
Ruriks Shed is a registered business in the State of Victoria and Ruth, as proprietor, is a Licensed Secondhand Dealer.
Far from Australia's cities and regional towns, we are rurally based in the lovely pastoral district of Western Victoria. Penshurst is a small township of around 500 people based at the foothills of an old dormant volcano, Mt. Rouse.
Rurik's Shed's address is 36 Martin Street, Penshurst, 3289. It is opposite the Post Office on the main Warrnambool-Hamilton Road. Our phone number is 03 55765499, which is also our home telephone number.
Listed Book Categories
The html files linked below are updated whenever a significant number in a category have been sold or new books have arrived, i.e. generally weekly. We can not guarantee availability of any particular book, and also have numerous books not listed (embarrassing "false positives and false negatives" in laboratory terminology).
We will accept mail order
purchases of at least ten dollars (Australia) per shipment, to which will be added the cost of Australia Post
packaging and postage. Starting out in a small way, we have no
credit card facilities at this
stage, but will accept direct transfer into our designated
bank account. Place your order by e-mail ( we have had to
change our e-mail address recently, having been inundated with
malevolent coded files) , since we are at present
only open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Please
remember to include your postal address. Shipping overseas is
impractical, since freight and money transfer costs
would often exceed the value of the book(s).
Privacy policy: We will not reveal the buyer's identity, e-mail address, telephone number, or bank account number to any third party.
We update our listed book category files at least weekly even though the date at the bottom of this page remains unchanged.
Proprietor: Ruth Pihl , 19/8/2008
7/4/2009: The
exterior of Rurik's Shed has changed little during the last 35
years. We think the picture was taken in the early 1970:s.
Thursday, February 2, 2012