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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 316 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. I read recently that students at Washington University had lately been Payment is due on receipt of books. offered a new course entitled “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data”. No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. I thought it a splendid idea to run such a course, though I was disap- pointed to learn that it was limited to spotting BS in numbers. I suppose Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. to expand that theme to the general world is far too big a subject as BS is all around us these days. Advertising of course is mostly BS; advertisers wanting us to believe CONTENTS their claims for their products. Gambling ads invariably say at the end BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 25 “gamble responsibly”, surely an oxymoron. AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 26 - 179 Corporations and government though are the worst offenders. Despite Don Watson’s efforts to discourage the use of “weasel words” MISCELLANEOUS 180 - 372 and encourage the use of English that we can all understand, in his books “Death Sentence” and others, the corporates and government still insist in expressing themselves in terms we often find difficult to Front cover items: understand and which seem to be constructed to conceal the fact that 3 (4V), 13, 133, 24/ they are mostly spouting BS. 238, 76, 19, 202 Microsoft, one of the world’s leading companies, is also a world leader in this. The Microsoft Australia Managing Director said recently, when Back cover items: referring to the opening of a new Sales Centre in Sydney “The .. Centre will enable highly trained sellers to leverage leading-edge technology 217, 50, 226, 331, 339, 257/ 247, 63, 107, 192, 188, 98 / platforms and analytics to better meet the needs of customers , with the 32, 131, 368, 59, 344 / 250, 101, 348, 187, 297, 236 right touch, at the right point in their journey.” Well I’ll be darned! What if I’m not at the May 2017 right point of my journey? How would I know? THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH some parts a justification for his role in the war. Originally serialised in The Times $195 1 ABBOTT, Tony. BATTLELINES. Updated edition. Melb. 6 COKE, Sir Edward. THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTITUTES Melbourne University Press. 2010. (rep) 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 210pp. OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. In two Wrapps a little creased. Very good copy. Signed by the author. Liberal volumes. N.Y. Legal Classics Library. Party leader and parliamentary pugilist, Tony Abbot offers a frank 1985. Full gilt decorated leather. Vol. 1. analysis of the way forward for the Liberal Party. Offering his views 162pp. Vol. 2. 395pp. Marbled endpapers. on Malcolm Turnbull, Julia Gillard, & Kevin Rudd. $45 Bound in marker ribbon. Fine. First 2 BIRD, Dickie. WHITE CAP AND BAILS. Adventures of published in 1823. Privately Printed for a much travelled umpire. Dickie Bird with Members of the Legal Classics Library. Keith Lodge. Illustrations by Bill Gregory. $85 Lond. Hodder and Stoughton. 1999. 8vo. 7 DREW, Philip. TOUCH THIS Or.bds. Dustjacket. 470pp. col & b/w plates. EARTH LIGHTLY. Glen Murcutt in his Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. own words. Syd. Duffy & Snellgrove. In this sequel to his autobiography, celebrity 1999. Sm.oblong 4to. Col.ill.wrapps. test cricket umpire, Dickie Bird recounts 182pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. humorous tales from the county clubs & test Scarce. $85 match arenas he has umpired over his career. $45 8 DULAC, Edmund (Illustrator) SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY OF THE 3 BLACKSTONE, William. TEMPEST. With illustrations by Edmund COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF Dulac. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton. n.d. ENGLAND. In Four Volumes. New Jersey. (1908) Roy.8vo. Or.cl. 144pp. Insc on ffe. Legal Classics Library. 1983. 4to. Full gilt 40 lovely tipped-in colour plates. A little decorated leather with raised bands. Vol. 1. foxing and hinges worn else a good copy 473pp. Vol. 2. 520pp. Vol. 3. 455pp. 436pp. of the first trade edition. Scarce. $330 + 93pp. of commentary. a.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Bound in marker ribbon. Fine. 9 FEARNSIDE, G.H. & CLIFT, Ken. First published in 1765. Privately Printed for DOUGHERTY. A great man among men. Members of the Legal Classics Library. The A biography of Major General Sir Ivan set $295 Dougherty. Edited by A. W. Sheppard. Syd. Alpha Books. 1979. 8vo. Or.bds. 4 BROCK, Beverley. PETER BROCK - THE Dustjacket. 212pp. Some (sl foxing) & MAN. Celebrating the life of a legend through tearing to dj at top of spine. Tape marks his own possessions, and the photos, stories to end papers. b/w ills. Very good copy. and insights of his family, friends 1st ed. Inscribed by Sir Ivan Dougherty. and those who knew him best. Sth. Dougherty was born in Leadville in 1907, Melb. Affirm Press. 2012. 8vo. Col. joining the local militia while at school, he ill.bds. 224pp. Profusely illustrated was ready when war broke out to join the in colour and black & white. Very action. Rising to senior command, he was good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Peter Director of Civil Defence in NSW. $60 Brock. An unprecedented insight into the exceptional life of Peter 10 HOWARD, John. LAZARUS Brock, on & off the race track. RISING. A personal and political Featuring his own personal photos, autobiography. Syd. Harper Collins. memorabilia, & reflections on a life 2010. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 711pp. col in racing. $75 & b/w plates. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the 5 CHURCHILL Winston S. author. John Howard reveals his personal THE WORLD CRISIS. In Five & political journey from his childhood in Volumes. Lond. The Folio Society. 2007. 8vo. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. the post-war era, school debating team, 464,453,474,383,311pp. Slight tear to slip-case. b/w plates. Fine set. In the legal career, to joining the Liberal Party, slip-case. 1st Folio Society ed. Often cited as his masterpiece, Churchill’s to 2nd longest serving Prime Minister. five volume account of the First World War is an analytical work, & in $125 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] 11 JAY, Christopher. 15 MASON, Darielle A FUTURE MORE PROSPEROUS. The (Ed.) KANTHA. THE EMBROIDERED history of Newcastle steelworks. 1912 QUILTS OF BENGAL. From the - 1999. Newcastle. BHP Limited. 1999. Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 280pp. col & and the Stella Kramrisch Collection b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. When of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2010. Limited decided to build a steel plant at Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 290pp. Profusely Newcastle in 1912, it laid the foundations illustrated in colour. Very good copy. for large scale manufacturing industry in 1st ed. Scarce. The first book-length Australia. An illustrated history. $60 study of kanthas [published outside of South Asia, it focuses on two premier 12 LAMBERT, G.E. COMMANDO. collections of these Bengali quilts. FROM TIDAL RIVER TO TARAKAN. $220 The story of No.4 Aust.Independent Company, A.I.F., later known as 2/4th 16 MILNE, A.A. WINNIE THE POOH. With decorations by Australian Commando Squadron Ernest H. Shepard. Lond. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927. 8vo. Or.dec.cl. 158pp. A.I.F. 1941-45. Melb. 2/4th Commando Cloth with wear to corners, edges & spine. Slight flecking. A good copy Association. n.d. (1994?) Roy.8vo. Or.col. of the scarce 1st ed. First published in 1926 by English author Milne, ill.bds. 509pp. b/w ills. & maps. Insc on who based his stories on his son Christopher’s own bear. It seems that verso of half-title else a very good copy. Christopher’s other toys were also keen to join Pooh in his adventures Scarce. $150 as well. $300 13 LOGGAN, David. SPLENDID 17 McGRATH, Frank. THE FRAMERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ENGRAVING WITH TWO VIEWS OF CONSTITUTION. 1891 - 1897. Their Intentions. Riverwood. Ligare THE INTERIOR OF THE BODLEIAN Pty Ltd. 2003. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 314pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st LIBRARY AT OXFORD. The upper view paperback ed. Inscribed by the author. An examination of the speeches is from the Arts End of the library and & debates that took place at the Australasian Federation Conference the lower is the view from the Selden of 1890, 1891, & again in 1897 & 1898 to establish a framework for a End. Oxford. Sheldonian Theatre. 1675. Commonwealth Constitution. $75 46x33cm. Mounted and framed. Overall 18 PEPYS, Samuel. THE DIARY. A New and Complete frame dimensions 61x49cm. Very good Transcription edited by Robert Latham & condition. A splendid interior William Matthews. 11 vols. Vols 1-9 being view of the Library. Originally the diary covering the period 1660-1689, from Gdansk, Loggan came Vol.10. the Companion and Vol.11. the to England mid-17th century Index. Lond. Bell & Hyman. 1983. (rep) All and became engraver to Or.buckram.