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Eric Thake and Sali Herman. Very BOOKS OF THE MONTH Scarce. Bell’s contribution to art was 1 AUSTER, Paul. TRAVELS IN THE to teach over 1000 students between SCRIPTORIUM. Lond. Faber & Faber. 2006. 1923 & 1966. $495 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 130pp. Fine in like dj. 1st ed. 8 FLINDERS, Matthew. Signed by Paul Auster on the title page. $75 NARRATIVE OF HIS VOYAGE IN THE SCHOONER FRANCIS: 2 BACON, Francis. BACON’S ESSAYS. 1798. With Annotations by Richard Whately. Lond. Preceded and followed by John W.Parker. 304,1860. (5th ed) Sm.8vo. Finely notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck bound in full gilt decorated calf. 388pp. Marbled of the Sydney Cove &c. by Geoffrey edges & endpapers. Gilt dentelles. Lacks hf.title Rawson. With engravings by John & name on verso of ffe else a very good copy. Buckland-Wright. Lond. Golden A lovely edition of Bacon’s essays - beautiful Cockerel Press. 1946. Folio. Finely binding. $125 bound in full green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 102pp. uncut. 3 BARTON, Leonard L. THE DESERT t.e.g. 9 wood-engravings by John HARASSERS. Memoirs of 450 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron. Buckland-Wright. Fine. The special Mosman. Astor Publications. 1991. Or.gilt-stamped edition, one of 100 numbered copies & lettered cloth. 118pp. b/w ills & maps. Bookplate specially bound. Very Scarce. on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Limited edition $1200 of 500 copies. Very Scarce. $375 9 GIBBES, Bobby. YOU LIVE BUT 4 BATES, Daisy. THE NATIVE TRIBES OF ONCE. Autobiography. n.p. The Author. 1994. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Ed. by Isobel White. Or.cl. with gilt emblem. 474pp. b/w plates & ill. Canberra. NLA. 1985. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 387pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Special edition of 500 b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. numbered copies inscribed by Bobby Gibbes. This is a first printing from the manuscript lodged Very Scarce. Bobby Gibbes, DSO DFC and Bar with the National Library in 1941. $95 was a leading Australian fighter ace of WWII 5 BOWES, C.C. THE ASSOCIATIONS OF and the longest-serving wartime commanding CHARLES DICKENS WITH LIVERPOOL. With officer of No.3. Squadron RAAF. $595 an introduction by Edgar A.Browne. Liverpool. 10 GIBBINGS, Robert. IORANA! A Tahitian Lyceum Press. 1905. Bound in hf.calf & marbled Journal. With Wood Engravings by the author. bds. 20pp. t.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Ingleton N.Y. Houghton Mifflin. 1932. Or.qt.cl. & dec. bookplate on front paste-down. Very Good copy. bds. (spine faded) 157pp. uncut. b/w ills. 1st ed. Very Scarce. $90 Sl.foxing, & name written on front paste- 6 DAVIES, Alan & STANBURY, Peter. down, else a Very Good copy. 1st US ed. THE MECHANICAL EYE IN AUSTRALIA. Limited edition of 385 copies, signed & Photography 1841-1900. Melb. OUP. 1985. 4to. numbered by the author, of which this is Or.bds. Dustjacket. 270pp. Many b/w plates & no.244. $125 ills. A little foxing to edges, else Near Fine. 1st 11 GILES, Ernest. AUSTRALIA TWICE ed. Scarce. An important study of the history TRAVERSED. The romance of exploration, of early Australian photography from the first being a narrative compiled from the recorded photograph of 1841 to 1900. $155 journals of five exploring expeditions 7 EAGLE, Mary; MINCHIN, Jan. THE into & through Central South Australia, GEORGE BELL SCHOOL. Students, Friends, & Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876. Influences. Melb. Deutscher Art Publications. 2 vols Syd. Doubleday. n.d. (1979) Or.ill. 1981. Folio. Or.cream leather bds. 271pp. Many bds. 320,363pp. b/w ills & fold-out maps. col & b/w ills. Sl.foxing on hf-title else Fine Extremities of the boards a little rubbed else a very good set. Facsimile in slip-case. 1st ed. The Special Edition of 100 of the 1889 edition. The set $135 signed & numbered copies, this being no.51. This 12 GRAY, Thomas. POEMS. Printed at the Eton College Press. edition signed by 12 important artists from the 1894. Foolscap folio. Full calf gilt with gilt heraldic device on front board. School including Fred Williams, Leonard French, THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
Gilt dentelles. xiv,164pp. a.e.g. Frontispiece original journal. Los Angeles. engraving of Gray and three other engraved Wilderness Press. 1970. (Rev plates. Some foxing, mostly on the plates else ed.) Or.dec.cl. 204pp. Many a Very good copy. Inserted Eton College prize b/w ills by the author. Near leaf made out to Julius H.Kelly in 1896. Binding Fine in the slip-case. Limited signed A.Ingalton Drake. $250 to 1550 copies, signed by Rockwell Kent, this is copy 13 GRISHIN, Sasha. AUSTRALIAN no. 1000. $125 PRINTMAKING IN THE 1990s. Artist Printmakers, 1990-1995. Syd. Craftsman House. 19 KEROUAC, Jack. ON 1997. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 336pp. Profusely THE ROAD. Illustrated with illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Collage Paintings by Jonathan The author closely examines the work of 157 Talbot. Collector’s Edition. leading Australian printmakers. $175 Norwalk (CT) Easton Press. 2001. Bound in gilt decorated 14 GRISHIN, Sasha. CONTEMPORARY full leather with raised bands. AUSTRALIAN PRINTMAKING. An 307pp. a.e.g. 5 colour plates. Interpretative History. Syd. Craftsman House. Marker ribbon bound in. Silk 1994. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. endpapers. Fine copy. A handsome Profusely illustrated WITH 170 colour edition of a great book of the 20th & b/w. plates. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. century, first published in 1957. $145 $90 15 HAWKE, Bob. THE HAWKE 20 (LAWSON, Henry) MEMOIRS. Melb. Heinemann. 1994. REPRODUCTION OF A Or.bds. Dustjacket. 618pp. B/w ills. PHOTOGRAPH OF HENRY Fine copy. Inscribed by Bob Hawke on LAWSON c.1915. Shows Lawson the half-title. The autobiography of seated, nicely dressed in suit one of Australia’s most colourful prime and tie, hands resting on his ministers. $90 lap and his hat and can leaning 16 HENDERSON, G.C. THE on his knee. The photograph DISCOVERERS OF THE FIJI was almost certainly taken at ISLANDS. Ta s m a n , Johnson’s Studio, Market Street Sydney in Cook, Bligh, Wilson, 1915. The print is on acid-free photographic Bellinghausen. Lond. paper and has been very attractively John Murray. 1933. Or.cl. mounted and framed in a birds-eye maple (unevenly faded) 324pp. frame. b/w plates & maps, some $275 fold-out. Folding map in back pocket. Some foxing 21 LYNTON, Norbert & McDONALD, & name on ffe, else a Good John. SEARCHING FOR GAIA. THE ART copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $60 OF GUY WARREN. Melb. Macmillan. 2003. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. 17 HOLROYD, Michael. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & BERNARD SHAW. A white. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by Guy Warren. Biography in four vols. A survey of Guy Warren’s art, a timeline Vol.1. The Search for Love. and autobiographical data. “Guy Warren’s Vol.2. The Pursuit of Power. paintings re-affirm the idea that the living earth and its inhabitants are Vol.3. The Lure of Fantasy. one.” $125 Vol.4. The last Laugh. Lond. Chatto & Windus. 1988-1992. All Or.bds. Dustjackets. 486,422,544,131pp. b/w plates. A Fine set. All volumes are 22 McNEILL, Ian. TO LONG TAN. The Australian Army and the 1st ed. Holroyd’s mammoth biography of the most controversial literary Vietnam War, 1950-1966. Syd. Allen & Unwin & Aust.War Mem. 1993. figure of the age. The set $155 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 614pp. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $195 18 KENT, Rockwell. WILDERNESS. A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska. Including extensive hitherto unpublished passages from the THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
23 ORANGE, Vincent. CONINGHAM. Bangkok. Royal State Railways Siam. A Biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur 1928. Or.limp cloth boards elaborately Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, DFC, AFC. gilt decorated. iii,324,xxxiipp. A couple of Washington. Cent for Air Force His. 1992, colour plates and over 250 b/w ills. Two Or.bds. Dustjacket. 292pp. b/w ills. Dj folding maps. Inscriptions on hf.-title. torn & repaired with slight loss else a Very The lower corner sl.moisture affected for good copy. Inscribed by the author to Air the first half of the book else a good copy. Commodore Gordon Steege, RAAF, retired. Scarce. $125 Inserted is some correspondence between 29 SINCLAIR, James. UNITING Orange and Steege relating to the book and A NATION THROUGH THE 1980s. other matters. $75 Bathurst. Crawford House. 1993. Or.bds. 24 O’BRIEN, Michael. CONSCRIPTS Dustjacket. 325pp. Col.& b/w plates. Fine. AND REGULARS. With the Seventh 1st ed. Sequel to Sinclair’s 1980 book on Battalion in Vietnam. Syd. Allen & Unwin. the postal & telecommunication services 1995. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 311pp. b/w plates. of Papua New Guinea. $45 1st ed. Pages sl.browned else a very good 30 TURNBULL, Lucy Hughes. SYDNEY: copy. Very Scarce. Covers the Seventh BIOGRAPHY OF A CITY. Syd. Random Battalion Royal Australian Regiment’s House. 1999. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. two tours of duty in Vietnam. $165 533pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. 25 PEREZ-TIBI, Dora. DUFY. With 379 The historical forces which have shaped illustrations, 236 in colour. Lond. Thames Sydney. $60 & Hudson. 1989. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 31 TYRRELL, James R. OLD BOOKS, 335pp. Profusely illustrated in colour OLD FRIENDS, OLD SYDNEY. Syd. and black & white. Some illustrations A & R. 1952. Or.buckram. 193pp. B/w are fold-out. Fine. 1st Eng. language ed. plates. Cloth sl.rubbed else a very good A comprehensive study of the complete copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Signed “James R. oeuvre of the French painter Raoul Dufy. Tyrrell” on the dedication page. The $75 finest & most readable of Australian 26 REES, Lloyd. LLOYD REES. The Later bookseller’s reminiscences, with much Works. By Renee Free in collaboration with detail of literary figures, collectors and Lloyd Rees. Syd. Craftsman’s Press. 1983. other booksellers of the time. $90 Oblong Folio. Or.cl. 167pp. Numerous col. 32 W E N T W O RT H , L a d y. & b/w plates. Fine in slip case. One of 250 THOROUGHBRED RACING STOCK copies signed by Renee Free and Lloyd Rees. AND ITS ANCESTORS. The Authentic Scarce. $225 Origin of Pure Blood. Lond. George Allen 27 ROBERTS, Major A.R. & Unwin. 1938. Folio. Or.buckram with (Ed.) THE ANZAC BATTALION crest stamped on front board. 475pp. 1970-71. Syd. Printcraft Press. Illustrated with 388 plates in half-tone 1972. 4to. Or.cl. with gilt emblems and 21 plates in colour, and many on front board. Dustjacket. 176pp. diagrams in the text. Spine sl.faded else Many b/w photographic ills. Two a Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. A large folding coloured maps. The dj classic on the subject. $445 torn & chipped with some loss else 33 YEATS, W.B. THE TREMBLING OF a Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. A THE VEIL. Privately Printed for Subscribers record of the life and times of the 2nd by T.Werner Laurie. Lond. 1922. Or.parchment Royal Australian Regiment during backed bds. 247pp. uncut. Frontispiece portrait its second tour of duty in South of Yeats. 1st ed. The boards flecked & rubbed Vietnam as the ANZAC Battalion. and the corners sl.worn else a good copy. Very $165 Scarce. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies 28 SEIDENFADEN, Major Erik. signed by W.B.Yeats. $1100 GUIDE TO BANGKOK WITH NOTES ON SIAM. Second Edition. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
44 BENSON, Sir Irving. THE MAN WITH THE DONKEY. John AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC Simpson Kirkpatrick, the Good Samaritan of Gallipoli. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton. 1965. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 95pp. b/w plates. Very Good copy. 34 ABORIGINAL RELICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Syd. 1st ed. The story of an ordinary man who did extraordinary things in a National Parks & Wildlife. n.d. (c.1980) 4to. Ill.wrapps. 11pp. b/w ills. critical situation at Gallipoli. $27 Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $12 45 BETTERIDGE, Margaret. AUSTRALIAN FLORA IN ART. 35 ANDERSON, Warwick. THE CULTIVATION OF WHITENESS. From the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney. Melb. Sun Books. Science, Health & Racial Destiny in Australia. Melb. MUP. 2005. (New ed.) 1979. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 390pp. b/w plates. Fine. “An important book that Name written on hf.-title else a very good helps us make sense of the tenacity of visions of a white Australia...vividly copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. $28 evokes past states of mind & their lingering, haunting power.” - SMH. 46 BICKEL, Leonard. THE DEADLY $24 ELEMENT. The Story of Uranium. Lond. 36 ANSETT, Bob (With Robert Pullan) BOB ANSETT. AN Macmillan. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 312pp. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Hartwell (Vic) John Kerr. 1986. Or.bds. Dustjacket. b/w plates. Sl.foxing to edges, else Near 221pp. b/w plates & ills. Fine. 1st ed. This copy inscribed by Bob Fine. 1st Eng.ed. Traces the creation of Ansett. $45 atomic energy from its beginning to its use 37 BAKER, Sidney J. A DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIAN in atomic war & nuclear power. $30 SLANG. Introduction by Keith Dunstan. Melb. Viking O’Neil. 1986 (rep) 47 BILLINGTON, Robert. BILLINGTON’S Or.bds. Dustjacket. 88pp. Fine. Australian colloquial speech. $22 SYDNEY. Mount Kuring-Gai. Peribo. 2004. 4to. Or.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Profusely 38 BALL, Murray. THE FOOTROT FLATS ‘WEEKENDER’. illustrated with Billington’s splendid black Lower Hutt (NZ) Inprint Ltd. 1985. Oblong 4to. Col.ill.wrapps. unpag. & white photographs. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed Some col & many b/w comic strip style illustrations. Very good copy. by the author on the ffe. $45 $24 48 BIRMINGHAM, Judy; JACK, BALL, Murray. 39 Ian & JEANS, Dennis. AUSTRALIAN FOOTROT FLATS 10. PIONEER TECHNOLOGY. SITES Lower Hutt (NZ) Inprint AND RELICS. Towards an industrial Ltd. 1985. Oblong 4to. Col. archaeology of Australia. Melb. ill.wrapps. 80pp. Some col Heinemann. 1979. Folio. Or.bds. & many b/w comic strip Dustjacket. 200pp. Many Col.& b/w style illustrations. Very ills. Sl.rubbed on lower corners else a good copy. $25 very good copy. 1st ed. $33 40 BANKS, Joseph. THE 49 BLOMBERY, Alec & ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL MALONEY, Betty. PROTEACEAE OF OF JOSEPH BANKS: THE THE SYDNEY REGION. Syd. Kangaroo AUSTRALIAN JOURNEY. Edited by Paul Brunton. Syd. A & R. 1998. Press. 1992. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp.Many Col.Ill.wrapps. 114pp. Col.ills. Very good copy. 1st ed.thus. $24 col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. thus. 41 BASTIAN, Erle. THE KILLARA GOLF CLUB, 1899-1999. Syd. $30 Killara GC. 1999. Oblong. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 164pp. Profusely illustrated 50 BOJIC, Dr.Zoja. IMAGINARY in colour & b/w. Very good copy. 1st ed. Celebrates the hundred year HOMELANDS, THE ART OF DANILA history of Sydney’s Killara Golf Club. $27 VASSILIEFF. Drziceva. Andrejevic 42 BAYLEBRIDGE, William. THIS VITAL FLESH. Syd. Tallabila Endowment. 2007. Ill.wrapps. 134pp. 27 Col. Press. 1939. Roy 8vo. Or.buckram (sl.flecked) uncut. 263pp. Fine. 1st ed. Reproductions & b/w ills. Very good copy. Scarce. Limited to 250 copies. Poems. $39 1st ed. of 500 copies. Examines the work of 43 BEDFORD, David & JAMES, Tessa (Eds.) COLLECTION, Danila Vassilieff, the ‘father’ of Australian PREPARATION & PRESERVATION OF PLANT SPECIMENS. Syd. modernism, as it related to hi cultural Royal Botanic Gardens. 1992. Ill.wrapps. 20pp. b/w ills. Name on title heritage and his émigré experience. $39 else Fine. 1st ed. $12 51 BOJIC, Dr.Zoja. STANISLAV RAPOTEC, A BARBAROGENIUS IN AUSTRALIAN ART. Drziceva. Andrejevic Endowment. 2007. Ill.wrapps. 146pp. 12 Col.plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. of 500 copies. Rapotec
THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] was at the forefront of the Sydney art avant-garde of the 1960’s and 59 CALISTER, Jamie. THE MAN WHO INVENTED VEGEMITE. The made a significant contribution to the international and Australian art true story behind an Australian icon. Syd. Pier 9. 2012. Col.Ill.wrapps. scenes. $39 211pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. $24 52 BOZIC, Sreten (with Alan Marshall) ABORIGINAL MYTHS. 60 CAMPION, Edmund. ROCKCHOPPERS. Growing up Catholic Melb. Gold Star Publications. 1972. Or.bds. d.w. 143pp. Many Col.ills. in Australia. Lond. Penguin. 1983. (rep) Ill.wrapps. 241pp. Good copy. Very Good copy. 1st ed. $27 Provides insights into the wider issues of a religious minority finding its place in a pluralist society. $15 53 BRAWLEY, Sean. BEACH BEYOND. A History of the Palm Beach Surf Club. Syd. UNSW Press. 61 CASEY, Maie, et al. EARLY MELBOURNE ARCHITECTURE, 1996 Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 1840 TO 1888. A Photographic Record. Compiled & edited by Maie Casey, 300pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $28 Joan Lindsay et al. Melb. OUP. 1954. (2nd imp) Or.cl. 184pp. Over 150pp being of b/w plates. Very good copy. Inscribed by Maie Casey. $45 54 BRAWLEY, Sean. THE BONDI LIFESAVER. A History of an Australian 62 CATO, Nancy. THE NOOSA STORY. A Study in Unplanned Icon. Syd. ABC Books. 2007. 4to. Or.bds. Development. Syd. Jacaranda. 1979. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 336pp. Some colour and 137pp. Col.plates & many b/w ills. Corners many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $24 sl.bumped else a good copy. 1st ed. $27 55 BROOKER, M.I.H. & KLEINIG, 63 CAVE, Nick. THE SICK BAG SONG. Melb. D.A. FIELD GUIDE TO THE Text Publishing. 2015. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 117pp. EUCALYPTS. VOLUME 1. Vol.1. Fine. 1st Aust ed. $30 South-Eastern Australia. Syd. Inkata 64 A CENTURY OF SCRIPPING. The History of Press. 1990. (Revised ed.) Roy.8vo. the First 100 Years of Eyres Reed Ltd, Stockbroker. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. Profusely Perth. 1996. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 92pp. b/w ills. illustrated in colour. Very Good copy. A Fine. 1st ed. $24 valuable & authoritative source of reference 65 CHRISTIANSEN, Joan. THEY CAME... to all known species of eucalypts in South- THEY STAYED. A History of Hervey Bay. Pialba Eastern Australia. $48 (Qld) R. & J.McTaggart. 1991. Or.ill.bds. 186pp. 56 BURROWS, Denys. HISTORY Many b/w ills. Signed by the author. Very good OF ABBOTSLEIGH. Syd. Abbotsleigh copy. 1st ed. $35 Council. 1968. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. 109pp. b/w 66 CHURCHOUSE, Jack. LEONARD plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. History of ROBERTSON, THE WHANGAROA AND LA the prestigious girl’s school. $27 BELLA. Wellington, NZ. Millwood Press. 1982. 57 BUTCHER, Cliff. GABRIEL Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 162pp. Many b/w OF GUNDAGAI. Dr Charles Louis Gabriel photographic ills. Fine. 1st ed. The experiences of (1857-1927). Canb. Wilkie Watson Publ. Leonard Robertson in intercolonial sailing ships. 1999. (rep) 4to. Ill.wrapps. 76pp. b/w ills. A valuable history of New Zealand’s sailing Fine. Inscribed by the author. Though a ships. $24 doctor, it was Gabriel’s penchant for amateur 67 THE CITY’S CENTREPIECE: photography which ensured that his name THE HISTORY OF THE SYDNEY lives on. A fascinating photographic insight G.P.O. Syd. Hale & Iremonger. into Gundagai in the last years of the 19th 1988. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 114pp. Century & the early years of the 20th. $36 Profusely illustrated in colour & 58 BUTTERSS, Philip. AN b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Five 37c First Fleet UNSENTIMENTAL BLOKE. The Life and stamps stuck to t.p. & cancelled with Work of C.J.Dennis. Adel. Wakefield Press. G.P.O. Sydney stamp, dated Jan.26, 2014. Or.ill.wrapps. 290pp. col & b/w plates. 1988. $35 Very good copy. 1st ed. Winner of the 2015 68 CLARK, J.D. THE GOOD National Biography Award. Dennis’s famous TEMPLAR MOVEMENT. Its “Sentimental Bloke” is a famous character in History and Work. A World View of the Liquor Problem. Syd. Grand Australian popular culture. This biography Lodge of NSW. 1928. Or.cl. 270pp. b/w plates. Sl.foxing on foredge else profiles his creator. $40
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106 GEORGE, Alex S. THE BANKSIA BOOK. Syd. Kangaroo Press. 115 HANCOCK, Dennis. WHEELS OF PROGRESS. History of the 1996. (3rd ed.) Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. Profusely illustrated Road Transport Industry in Western Australia. Perth. Access Press. 1983. in colour. Insc. on ffe else a Very good copy. $33 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 150pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $24 107 GEORGE, Alex S. WILLIAM DAMPIER IN NEW HOLLAND. 116 HAPPELL, Charles. THE BONE MAN OF KOKODA. Syd. Australia’s first natural historian. Melb. Macmillan. 2008. Ill.wrapps. 272pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st Bloomings Books. 1999. Or.bds. Dustjacket. softcover ed. The extraordinary story of Kokichi Nishimura and the 171pp. Col.plates. Fine. 1st ed. Dampier, Kokoda Track. $20 who twice came to Australia, in 1688 and 117 HARTNETT, Sir Laurence. BIG 1699, was the first Englishman to set foot WHEELS AND LITTLE WHEELS. on Australian soil. Dampier, not Sturt, Hawthorn, Vic. Gold Star Publ. 1973. (Revised was actually the first to describe the flower ed.) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 278pp. b/w ills. Fine. known as Sturt’s Desert Pea. $38 The autobiography of the man behind the 108 GIBBS, May. FLANNEL FLOWERS development of the Holden motor car. $27 AND OTHER BUSH BABIES. Syd. A & R. 118 HARVEY, Roy C. BACKGROUND TO 1985. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. (24pp.) BEECHWORTH FROM 1852. Beechworth. Col.frontis & b/w ills. Fine. Facsimile 1991. (9th ed.) Ill.wrapps. 68pp. b/w ills. edition. $20 Fine. $20 109 GRAINGER, Elena. THE 119 HAWTHORNE, Stuart. THE KOKODA REMARKABLE REVEREND CLARKE. TRAIL. A HISTORY. Rockhampton. The life & times of the father of Australian geology. Melb. OUP. 1982. Cent.Qld.Uni.Press. 2003. Roy.8vo. Ill. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 292pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. The life of clergyman- wrapps. 269pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. geologist William Branwhite Clarke. $24 1st ed. Scarce. The Kokoda Trail is a remote 110 GRANT, Rev.R.V. A SCHOOL DICTIONARY IN THE DOBU jungle track in the old Australian Territory LANGUAGE. Rabaul. Methodist Mission Press. 1953. Or.wrapps. 138pp. of Papua where Aussie Diggers battled Presentation inscription on verso of title page else a very good copy. 1st Japanese invaders to save Australia in 1942. ed. $25 It is now part of our heritage. $45 111 GRIFFITHS, G. Nesta. POINT PIPER PAST & PRESENT. Syd. 120 HAYWARD, Bruce W. & Selwyn P. Ure Smith. 1970. (Reprint ed.) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 120pp. b/w plates. Very CINEMAS OF AUCKLAND, 1896-1979. Good copy. 1st ed. First published in a limited edition in 1947. A valuable Auckland. Lodestar Press. 1979. Ill.wrapps. contribution to the history of Sydney. $22 48pp. b/w ills. Liquid paper on t.p, else a 112 GRIFFITHS, G.Nesta. SOME SOUTHERN HOMES OF Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $24 NEW SOUTH WALES. A facsimile edition with a postscript by Caroline 121 HEWETT, Dorothy. NEAP TIDE. Simpson and an index. Syd. National Trust. 1976. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 99pp. Melb. Penguin. 1999. Col.Ill.wrapps. 278pp. + many b/w plates. Sl.foxing & bookplate on ffe, else a Very Good copy. Fine. 1st ed. $15 First published in 1952. Famous homes of the south including the Moss 122 HILL, Maria. DIGGERS AND Vale, Goulburn & Canberra areas. $27 GREEKS. The Australian Campaigns in 113 GUY, Bill. A LIFE ON Greece and Crete. Syd. UNSW Press. 2010. (2nd imp) Or.bds. Dustjacket. THE LEFT. A Biography of Clyde Cameron. 479pp. Very good copy. Details of the campaigns with an account of how Adel. Wakefield Press. 1999. Col.Ill.wrapps. Australian soldiers interacted with their Greek allies during a time of 405pp. b/w plates & ills. Very Good copy. 1st war. $35 ed. Cameron & his involvement in many of 123 HINKSON, Melinda. ABORIGINAL SYDNEY. A guide to the great political events in Australia since important places of the past and present. Photographs by Alana Harris. World War II. $20 Canb. Aboriginal Studies Press. 2001. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 174pp. Colour 114 HALL, William & Dorothy. CARTER’S ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. $33 COLLECTING AUSTRALIANA. A Guide 124 HOLROYD, John. GEORGE ROBERTSON OF MELBOURNE to Australian Antiques and Collectibles. 1825-1898. Pioneer Bookseller and Publisher. Melb. Robertson & Mullens. Kenthurst. Kangaroo Press. 1995. 4to. Or.bds. 1968. Or.cl. 64pp. b/w plates. Near Fine. 1st ed. $28 Dustjacket. 160pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Many different types of Australian 125 HOLTHOUSE, Hector. SHIPS IN THE CORAL. Melb. collectibles. $40 Macmillan. 1976. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 146pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
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143 KING, Michael. THE MORIORI. A PEOPLE REDISCOVERED. 152 LONG, Gavin. TO BENGHAZI. Introduction to the 1986 edition by Auckland. Penguin Books 2000. (Revised ed.) Sm.4to. Or.ill.wrapps. 227pp. D.M.Horner. Syd. Collins. 1986. (Reprint ed.) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 337pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. The story of the Moriori people of the b/w plates & ills. Very Good copy. Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Chatham Islands. $36 $33 144 KORERA MAORI. Easy Lessons in Maori Conversation. By a 153 LYONS, Martyn & ARNOLD, John. (Eds.) A HISTORY OF Pakeha Maori. Wanganui (NZ) A.D.Willis. n.d. (12th ed.) c.1930’s? 12mo. THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA, 1891-1945. Ill.wrapps. 48pp. Nice copy. $15 A National Culture in a Colonised Market. 145 LAKE, Max. HUNTER WINEMAKERS. Their Canvas & Art. St Lucia. UQP. 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Syd. Jacaranda Press. 1970. Or.bds. Dustjacket. (sl.rubbed) 188pp. Col.& 444pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Focuses on b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. Tracing the beginnings of the wine the period from the 1890s to the Second making traditions in the Hunter Valley, Lake discusses the art of wine World War when home-grown literary making techniques & the role of chance in creating a great wine. $28 culture expanded along with pioneering publishers such as Angus & Robertson. 146 LATHAM, Mark. THE LATHAM DIARIES. Melb. MUP. 2005. $45 (rep) 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 429pp. Fine copy. The political diaries of the former 154 MACKERRAS, Catherine. THE opposition leader, published within twelve HEBREW METHODIST. A Life of Isaac months of his resignation in January Nathan. Syd. Currawong. 1963. Or.bds. 2005. $22 124pp. b/w plates. Insc. on ffe else a very good copy. Some annotations internally, 147 LAWSON, Henry. SELECTED purportedly by the author of the book. 1st POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON. Illustrated ed. Nathan became known as the “father By Percy Leason. Facsimile edition. Syd. of Australian music”. $40 Angus & Robertson. 1980. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 122pp. Some b/w ills. Spine of 155 MARTIN, Megan. SETTLERS & CONVICTS OF THE BELLONA, box faded else a very god copy in the box. 1793. A Biographical Dictionary. Belona Muster Committee. 1992. Col.Ill. A facsimile reprint of the original 1918 wrapps. 125pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. $35 edition in a decorated box. $30 156 MASSELOS, Jim, et al. DANCING TO THE FLUTE. Music 148 “LEE, Lunky”. THE & Dance in Indian Art. Edited by GARDEN. With an introduction by Pratapaditya Pal. Syd. AGNSW. 1997. Hilaire Belloc. Illustrations by “Robin”. 4to. Col.ill.wrapps. 310pp. Profusely Lond. Sheed & Ward. n.d. (c.1937) Col. illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ill.bds. 182pp. b/w ills. Some foxing & ed. $33 inscript on ffe, else a Very Good copy. 157 MASTERS, Olga. A LONG TIME 1st ed. Scarce. Children’s storybook, the DYING. St Lucia. UQP. 1985. Or.bds. profits of which went to “the industrial Dustjacket. 330pp. Bookplate on ffe., & general education of orphans in the else Fine. 1st ed. A novel. $22 Diocese of Auckland”. $28 158 MESSENT, David. OPERA 149 LEUNIG, Michael. THE HOUSE ACT ONE. Syd. The author. WAYWARD LEUNIG. Cartoons that 1997. Col.Ill.wrapps. 541pp. b/w plates. Wandered Off. Melb. Viking. 2015. Sl. foxing else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Oblong 4to. Or.colour decorated boards with Leunig design. 400pp. The story of the Sydney Opera House, Profusely illustrated with Leunig cartoons. Fine. 1st ed. Leunig’s sad, yet its building and its controversies. $24 humorous art, often pinpointing very human flaws & attitudes. $45 159 MIN-JUNG KIM (Ed.) SPIRIT OF JANG-IN. TREASURES 150 LEWIS, Gary. (Photography.) A DINKUM AUSSIE OF KOREAN METAL CRAFT. Syd. Powerhouse Museum. 2011. Folio. DICTIONARY. Melb. Peter Antill-Rose. 1990. Col.ill.bds. unpag. Many Col.Ill.wrapps. 260pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. The book to Col.ills. Fine. 1st ed. A humorous dictionary of Aussie English. $24 accompany an exhibition. $40 151 LIVERMORE, Reg & McMICKING, Rob. CHAPTERS AND 160 MITCHELL, A.G. THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH CHANCES. A Career Path. With Steps & Stumbles Along the Way. Melb. IN AUSTRALIA. Syd. A & R. 1957. (5th imp) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 80pp. Hardie Grant. 2003. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 308pp. Profusely illustrated in Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. Examination of modes of speech in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. An illustrated autobiography, or in Livermore’s Australia. $24 words: a “souvenir program of a life in theatre.” $28 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
161 MOEDJANTO, G. THE CONCEPT OF POWER IN Ill.wrapps. 232pp. b/w plates & ills. Fine. JAVANESE CULTURE. Gadjah. Mada Uni.Press. 1990. (2nd printing) Electoral fraud in Australia. $24 Col.Ill.wrapps. 220pp. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. $18 171 McPHILLIPS, Jack. PENAL 162 MONTESINI, Lorenzo. CARDBOARD CANTATA. Syd. POWERS. Menzies’ Weapon Against Alexander L.H.Weilsmann. 1989. Or.dec.wrapps. 251pp. Very good Unions & Wages. Syd. Current Bk Distrib. copy. 1st ed. Inscribed “Best Wishes Lorenzo.” on the ffe. A novel by the 1958. Ill.wrapps. 31pp. Sl.foxing, else a so-called high society figure, most famous for jilting Primrose Dunlop Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $18 at the altar. $24 172 McQUEEN, Humphrey. SOCIAL 163 MOORE, David. TO BUILD A BRIDGE. Glebe Island, Sydney SKETCHES OF AUSTRALIA, 1888-1975. Australia. Syd. Chapter & Verse. 1996. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 184pp. Melb. Penguin. 1991. (2nd ed) 4to. Col.ill. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Moore’s stunning wrapps. 255pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. photographs of the building of the new Glebe Island Bridge. $33 Everyday life in Australia from 1788, through little-known accounts such as MOREMAN, Dr John. A BITTER FATE: AUSTRALIANS IN 164 regional histories, anecdotes, diaries & MALAYA AND SINGAPORE. December 1941-February 1942. Canb. photographs. $24 Dept of Veterans Affairs. 2002. Col.Ill.wrapps. 145pp. Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Graphically describes the experiences of Australians who 173 NAIRN, Bede. “THE BIG FELLA”. served in the lead-up to the fall of Singapore. $33 Jack Lang & the Australian Labor Party, 1891-1949. Melb. MUP. 1986. Or.bds. 165 MORGAN, Rex. THE HERMES ADVENTURE. Manly, NSW. Dustjacket. 369pp. b/w plates. Some Runciman Press. 1985. Oblong Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. b/w ills. library stamping & marking, else a Good Sl. Damage to front endpapers else a very good copy. 1st ed. The story of ex-lib copy. 1st ed. Cuts through the the aircraft carrier “Hermes”, sunk on 9th April, 1942. The author carried folklore to build a compelling & stark out a dive on the wreck in 1982. $65 portrait of Lang as a revered reformer & 166 MOUNTFORD, C.P. BROWN MEN AND RED SAND. reviled destroyer. $22 Journeyings in Wild Australia. Lond. Phoenix House. 1950. Or.cl. 192pp. 174 (NAMATJIRA, Albert.) ALBERT b/w plates. Inscript on ffe & sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st Eng. NAMATJIRA 1902-1959. A Biographical ed. $30 Sketch by Andrew Mackenzie. Bris. Oz 167 McCARTHY, Patrick. BAILED UP. The Story Behind Publishing. 1988. Col.ill.bds. 52pp. Col. the Painting. Boorowa. The plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Famous Watermark Press. 2006. Oblong Australian Art Series. $30 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 190pp. 175 NILAND, D’Arcy. TRAVELLING col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. The SONGS OF OLD AUSTRALIA. Including author painstakingly researched the complete words and music, guitar chart background of Tom Robert’s famous and illustrated annotations. Music by painting, probably Australia’s best- Leslie Raphael. Syd. Horwitz Publications. known work of art. $40 1966. 4to. Ill.wrapps. 40pp. b/w ills. Page 168 McDONALD, Charles E. sl.browned else a very good copy. 1st ed. STORIES OF THE PENINSULA. $30 MANLY-WARRINGAH. A New 176 NOAH, William. VOYAGE TO Collection from the Manly Daily. SYDNEY IN THE SHIP HILLSBOROUGH, Hornsby. Child & Henry. 1980. 1798-1799. And a description of the Colony. wrapps. 120pp. B/w ills. Very Good Syd. LAH. 1978. Or.cl. 83pp. Frontis.plate. copy. 1st ed. $15 Inscript on ffe & sl.foxing, else a Very Good 169 McDONALD, Ross. ON SOLID ROCK. A History of Christ copy. 1st ed. First publication from the original manuscript. Edition of Church Lavender Bay. Lavender Bay. Christ Church. 2010. Or.bds. 1,000 copies. Noah was sentenced to transportation for stealing; arriving Dustjacket. 249pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Signed by the author, in the colony in 1799. This is his account of the terrible journey during Ross McDonald. Also a long inscription by another on the title. $45 which one third of the convicts died. $45 170 McGRATH, Dr Amy. THE FRAUDING OF VOTES? With 177 NOBLE, Captain J. PORT PHILLIP PILOTS AND DEFENCES. A Special Introduction by Distinguished Investigative Journalist Bob Melb. Hawthorn Press. 1973. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 124pp. b/w plates. Bottom. Syd. H.S.Chapman Society. 2000. (New updated edition) Col. Bookplate on hf.title, else Near Fine. 1st ed. The birth & history of the Port Phillip Pilot Service. $27 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
178 NOWRA, Louis. KINGS CROSS. A Biography. Syd. New of landscape design for Australian gardens at various stages of South Publishing. 2013. Col.Ill.wrapps. 500pp. Good copy. 1st ed. In development. $30 a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, clubs and 186 PIKE, Glenville. QUEEN OF THE NORTH. A Pictorial History apartments and mingles with the locals, the author traverses the history of Cooktown & Cape York Peninsula. Bris. Pinevale Publ. 1990. (6th imp) and the future of his beloved neighbourhood. $27 4to. Ill.wrapps. 154pp. Many b/w ills. Very Good copy. $28 179 OGDEN, Helen. (Photographer) FLOWERS OF WESTERN 187 THE PREMIER STREET DIRECTORY OR SYDNEY AND AUSTRALIA. FIRST SERIES. Photographed by Helen Ogden. Coloured ENVIRONS. Extending to in oils by Ida Richardson. Perth. Dix Ltd. n.d. (c.1920s) Roy.8vo. Col.Ill. Hornsby & Asquith on the wrapps. 40pp. Col.plates. Some foxing, else a Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. North, Penrith, Campbelltown Signed by Helen Ogden & Ida Richardson. $33 & Camden on the West, Cronulla 180 OLIVER, W.S. (Bill) THE GREAT WHITE FATHER. The & Port Hacking on the South. biography of a great Australian. Dr Syd. H.E.C.Robinson. n.d. (9th H.O.Lethbridge, M.B.E., MB.Ch M., ed; showing street numbers; F.R.A.C.P., F.R.A.C.S. (1880-1944) c.1930s) Oblong. Or.cl. 141pp.+ Terranora. W.S.Oliver. 1999. Foolscap 173 maps. Folding map inserted folio. Or.ill.bds. 302pp. b/w ills. Fine. (repaired with tape) Binding 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. “The a little loose else a good copy. title of the book was the name given Scarce. $45 Dr.Lethbridge by the descendents of 188 PRIEST, Joan. SCHOLARS AND GENTLEMEN. A biography of the Wiradjuri tribe, in recognition of the the Mackerras family. Brisbane, Qld.Boolarong Publication 1986. Or.bds. largely honorary service he provided Dustjacket. (sl torn) 328pp. b/w ills. Very Good copy. 1st ed. $22 as their physician and surgeon for over thirty years.” $45 189 RAMSON, W.S. AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH. An historical study of the vocabulary, 1788-1898. Canberra. ANU Press. 1966. Or.cl. 181 OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul Dustjacket. 195pp. Name written on ffe., else Near Fine. 1st ed. Examines & Grenbry. THE ENCHANTED the main sources & character of the vocabulary the 19th Century settlers FOREST. Syd. A & R. 1982. (rep) 4to. brought to Australia, & the histories of the words they borrowed or Or.bds. Dustjacket. 105pp. col & b/w adapted to meet their new environment. $37 ills. Fine. A delightful children’s story full of adventure, fairies, mischief, 190 READ, Peter. BELONGING. Australians, Place & Aboriginal and of course the superb Outhwaite Ownership. Melb. Cambridge Uni Press. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 248pp. illustrations. $33 b/w ills. Fine. 1st paperback ed. Explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. $24 182 O’NEIL, Helen. DAVID JONES’ 175 YEARS. Syd. UNSW. 2013. Folio. 191 REECE, R. & PASCOE, R. A PLACE OF CONSEQUENCE. A Or.bds. Dustjacket. 336pp. Profusely Pictorial History of Fremantle. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. 1985. (2nd illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st printing) Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. Profusely illustrated with sepia ed. A beautiful volume celebrating illustrations. Very good copy. $35 the iconic department store’s 175th 192 REED, A. W. TREASURY OF MAORI EXPLORATION. anniversary. $47 Legends Relating to the First Polynesian Explorers of New Zealand. 183 O’SULLIVAN, John. MOUNTED Wellington. A. H. & A. W. Reed. 1977. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. Very POLICE OF VICTORIA & good copy. 1st ed. The story of what the first Polynesian settlers did TASMANIA. A History of Heroism when they reached New Zealand. A collection of tales of infinite variety & Duty since 1837. Adel. Rigby. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 211pp. b/w and imagination that are part of the very life of the Maori people. $27 plates. Fine. 1st ed. $30 193 REYNOLDS, Henry. DISPOSSESSION. Black Australians and 184 PARRY, Veronica A. KOOKABURRAS. Melb. Lansdowne. White Invaders. Syd. Allen & Unwin. 1989. Col.Ill.wrapps. 226pp. b/w 1970. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 110pp. Many b/w ills. Col.plates. Very ills. Some passages highlighted inside. Near Fine copy. How Aboriginal Good copy. 1st ed. Valuable information on Australia’s most popular and immigrant Australians have shared this continent for over 200 bird. $33 years. $25 185 PFEIFFER, Andrew. AUSTRALIAN GARDEN DESIGN. 194 ROBERTS, Bev. RAHEEN. A HOUSE AND ITS PEOPLE. Melb. In search of an Australian style. Syd. Macmillan. 1985. 4to. Or.bds. Pola Nominees. 2007. Oblong 4to. Or.blind-stamped bds, lettered in Dustjacket. 160pp. col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A guide to the principles silver. Many colour illustrations. Fine. 1st ed. The history of the famous Melbourne mansion. $40 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
195 ROBERTSON, E. Graeme. DECORATIVE CAST IRON 204 SCOTT, James F. (Artist) ORIGINAL IN AUSTRALIA. Melb. Currey COVER ART FOR “THE ADVENTURES O’Neil. 1984, 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. OF MR. BARNES” BY ALF BRASCH. 238pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w Syd. c.1909. Pen and ink. 17.5x24.5cm. photographic ills. Fine. 1st ed. $45 Shows a man in pyjamas coming out of 196 ROLFE, Patricia. THE BLUE a tent, his boot standing outside, and MOUNTAINS. Bris. Jacaranda. seemingly being assailed by three ruffians, 1964. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 156pp. col & one holding a rifle. The book of this title b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. was published by the NSW Bookstall Co Jacaranda Travel Guides. $24 in 1909 and was also illustrated with eight full-page illustrations by Scott. $125 197 ROSE, Lyndon. RICHARD SIDDINS OF PORT JACKSON. 205 SHAPCOTT, Thomas. Canb. Roebuck. 1984. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. THE ART OF CHARLES BLACKMAN. Dustjacket. 152pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st Lond. Andre Deutsch. 1989. Folio. Or.bds. ed. Examines Siddins’ contribution to Dustjacket (covered with adhesive plastic; the trade out of Port Jackson in the early days of the colony. $35 name in felt pen on front at lower edge) 266pp. Many Col.plates & b/w ills. Name 198 ROSEWALL, Ken; NAUGHTON, Richard. MUSCLES. The story in felt pen at top of ffe else a Good copy. of Ken Rosewall, Australia’s little master of the courts. Melb. Slattery Scarce. A record of the crucial early years Media Group. 2012. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 304pp. b/w & col plates. of Blackman’s art. $95 Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed by Ken Rosewall. $35 206 SHARPHAM, Peter. THE FIRST 199 ROSKOLENKO, Harry. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. Melb. WALLABIES. And the Defection to Rugby National Press. 1970. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 40pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. League. Foreword by Peter FitzSimons. Poems. $18 Syd. Sandstone Publ. 2000. Roy.8vo. 200 RUHE, Benjamin. MANY HAPPY Or.bds. Dustjacket. 218pp. b/w plates.
RETURNS. The Art and Sport of Fine. 1st ed. A comprehensive account of Boomeranging. N.Y. The Viking Press. the first Wallaby Tour to the Northern 1977. Col.ill.bds. (sl rubbed) b/w ills. Hemisphere in 1908-09. $35 105pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed 207 SHEAD, Judit & Garry. JUDIT by the author on the ffe. All about what the AND GARRY SHEAD. A CREATIVE author calls “the thinking man’s frisbee”. COLLABORATION. Syd. Australian $30 Galleries. 2007. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill. 201 RUSSELL, Eric. DRUMMOYNE. wrapps. 48pp. Colour illustrations. A Western Suburb’s History from 1794. Very good copy. An exhibition Syd. Municipality of Drummoyne. 1982. catalogue celebrating the work of the (2nd ed) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Many sculptor Judit Shead and her painter b/w ills. Very good copy. The history and husband Garry. $35 development of Drummoyne, in Sydney’s 208 SMITH, Bernard & SMITH, inner western suburbs. $27 Kate. THE ARCHITECTURAL 202 RUSSELL, Eric. THE OPPOSITE CHARACTER OF GLEBE, SYDNEY. SHORE. North Sydney & its People. Syd. Uni. Co-operative Bookshop. Syd. North Shore Hist.Soc. 1990. Or.bds. 1973. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 128pp. Dustjacket. 312pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A Many b/w photographic ills. Near local history. $33 Fine. The scarce 1st ed. An important 203 RUTLAND, Suzanne; MANN, study of the architecture of an old Sydney suburb. $40 Leon & PRICE, Margaret Eds JEWS OF THE 209 SNAPE, Diana. AUSTRALIAN NATIVE GARDENS. Putting OUTBACK. The Centenary of the Broken visions into practice. Melb. Lothian. 1992 Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 168pp. Hill Synagogue, 1910 - 2010. Melb. Hybrid Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Featuring thirty gardens including Don & Publishers. 2011. (Reprint with corrections) Marea Burke. $30 Col.Ill.wrapps. 166pp. b/w ills. Very good 210 SOLLING, Max. THE BOATSHED ON BLACKWATTLE BAY. copy. Inscribed by Margaret Price. $45 Glebe Rowing Club, 1879-1993. Syd. Glebe Rowing Club. 1993. Roy.8vo. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 244pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. An examination Murphy. St Lucia. UQP. 1978. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 311pp. b/w ills. Name of the life of the oldest rowing club in metropolitan Sydney. $30 on ffe, else Fine. 1st ed. $24 211 SPEARRITT, Peter. SYDNEY’S CENTURY. A History. Syd. UNSW. 221 WHITE, Mary E. LISTEN... OUR LAND IS CRYING. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 316pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A century in the life Australia’s Environment: problems and solutions. Syd. Kangaroo Press. of Sydney from the celebrations of the Federation of Australia in 1901 1997. Sm.Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 296pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. to the 2000 Olympic Games. $22 Very good copy. 1st ed. $24 212 STEVENS, Christine. WHITE MAN’S DREAMING. 222 WHITE, Patrick. THE EYE OF THE STORM. Lond. Jonathan Killalpaninna Mission, 1866-1915. Melb. OUP. 1994. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Cape. 1973. Or.bds. 608pp. Sl. foxing & name 308pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. The tragic history of the South Australian label on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Lutheran mission & its effect on the Aboriginal Diyari people. $28 Scarce. This copy has no dj. $25 213 STRATHFIELD GOLF CLUB. DIAMOND JUBILEE, 1931- 223 WHITE, 2006. Strathfield Golf Club. 2006. Or.bds. Patrick. THE TWYBORN AFFAIR. Lond. Dustjacket. 149pp. Many b/w ills. Insc on 1979. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 432pp. A Fine copy. verso of ffe else Fine. 1st ed. The special 1st ed. Developing in 1914, the revealing, limited edition of 150 hard-cover copies, disquieting narrative sweeps from French this number 50. $33 resort to a bleak corner of N.S.W., then to 214 STUDDY-CLIFT, Pat. ONLY OUR London streets and the apocalyptic blaze GLOVES ON. Narrabri. The Author. of the Second World War. $40 1981. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. b/w ills. 224 WHITE, Patrick. THE Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the VIVISECTOR. Lond. Jonathan Cape. 1970. author. The author’s experiences when Or.bds. Dustjacket (price-clipped) 642pp. the womenfolk of Studdy were forced Inscript on ffe, else Fine. 1st ed. White’s famous novel about the life & to take over the running of Kareela, the death of a great painter. $36 family property, in wartime Australia. 225 WHITE, Patrick. VOSS. A Novel. Lond. Eyre & Spottiswoode. $30 1957. Or.bds. 478pp. Name written on ffe else a very good copy. 1st Eng. 215 TETSUYA WAKUDA. TETSUYA. Syd. HarperCollins. 2000. ed. Scarce. This copy has no dj. $30 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 184pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. 226 WHITHAM Charles. WESTERN TASMANIA. A Land of Riches Prize label on ffe else Fine. 1st ed. The life & legendary recipes of one of and Beauty. Hobart. Sticht Memorial Library. 1949. Ill.wrapps. 158pp. Australia’s finest chefs. $25 b/w ills. Fine copy. 1st ed. A guide to western Tasmania. $24 216 THWAITES, D.L. BLUE PETER. A tale of the forest, a little 227 WILLEY, Keith. ASSIGNMENT NEW GUINEA. Bris. The boy and his pine goblin friends. Revised by B.J.Thwaites. Adelaide. 1945. Jacaranda Press. 1965. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Or.qt.cl. & dec.bds. unpag. (32pp.) col & b/w ills. Inscript on verso of front The author spent a year in New Guinea writing this book. An historic bd & binding sl.rubbed, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Charming year for New Guinea as it was the year of the election of a native- children’s book. $28 dominated Parliament. $24 217 TREDINNICK, Mark. AUSTRALIA’S WILD WEATHER. 228 WILLIS, Elizabeth & SCHNEIDER, Kristin. THE SCHNEIDER Canb. National Library. 2011. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 155pp. Many FAMILY. Celebrating Fr Schneider, centenarian. Melb. Makor. 2012. Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A field guide to Australian weather, using Roy.8vo. Or.ill.wrapps. 203pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. When this book was evocative photographs from the collection of the National Library of published, Fr Schneider was the oldest Jesuit in the world, the oldest Australia. $28 active teacher in the world and the longest-serving staff member of St 218 TREZISE, P.J. QUINKAN COUNTRY. Adventures in Search Aloysius College, Milson Point, Sydney. $40 of Aboriginal Cave Paintings in Cape York. Syd. Reed. 1969. Or.bds. 229 WINTON, Tim. ISLAND HOME. A landscape memoir. Melb. Dustjacket. 154pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Tape-marks on endpapers, else Hamish Hamilton. 2015. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. Fine. 1st ed. $30 Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce. $45 230 WOOD, Christopher & ASKEW, Marc. ST MICHAEL’S 219 UTICK, Stephen. CAPTAIN CHARLES. ENGINEER OF CHURCH MELBOURNE. Formerly the Collins Street Independent CHARITY. The Remarkable Life of Charles Gordon O’Neill. Syd. Church. Foreword by Francis Macnab. Melb. Hyland House. 1992. Or.bds. Allen & Unwin. 2008. Col.Ill.wrapps. 276pp. col & b/w plates. Fine. Dustjacket. 174pp. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. $27 1st ed. Inscribed by the author Stephen Utick. An engineer, inventor, parliamentarian and philanthropist, Charles was a principal co-founder 231 YELDHAM, Joshua. SOLITUDE’S BRIDE. Syd. Art House of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia and New Zealand. $40 Gallery. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. with design by Joshua Yeldham. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. Long inscription by the artist. 220 WATERS, Frank. POSTAL UNIONS & POLITICS. A History Hand-numbered 364 of 1000 copies. Inserted is the exhibition brochure of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union of Australia. Edited by Denis THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] for “Solitude’s Bride”. Works painted on an unscheduled stop while ed. Inscribed by the author. Evans is a retired senior commander of the travelling the dingo fence in outback NSW. $120 R.A.A.F. $60 232 ZIMMER, Jenny. ANTHONY PRYOR. SCULPTURE 238 FIRKINS, Peter. HEROES HAVE WINGS. The stories of DRAWINGS 1974-1991. Essays by Joanna Capon, John Gollings, Daryl Australian Airmen in the Great Air Battle of World War Two. Carlisle Jackson and Judith Trimble. Melb. Macmillan. 1999. Folio. Ill.wrapps. (WA) Hesperian Press. 1993. Ill.wrapps. 212pp. Good copy. 1st ed. $30 218pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. 239 HARRIS, Stephen. UNDER A BOMBER’S MOON. The true $60 story of two airmen at war over Germany. Auckland. Exisle Publishing. 2009. (2nd imp) Or.ill.wrapps. 222pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. One AVIATION airman was in the RAF, the other in the Luftwaffe. $22 233 ALMOND, Peter. AVIATION. THE EARLY YEARS. 240 INNES, David J. BEAUFIGHTERS OVER BURMA. No.27 Cologne. Konemann. 1997. Oblong Squadron, RAF, 1942-45.# Poole (Dorset) Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 352pp. 1985. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. b/w plates. Profusely illustrated with early Sl.stain to lower edge of back of dj else a very aviation photographs. Very good good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author and copy. 1st ed. Part of the Hulton also Snow Swift, who flew in WWII and was Getty Picture Collection. Text is in awarded the DFC. $50 English, German & French. $36 241 JAMES, George. THE LUCKY LIFE. 234 AYRIS, Cyril. KITTYHAWK Memoirs of a WWII Armourer. Compiled by PILOTS. Crawley (WA) Stanley June James. Illustrated by Shirley Peters. Syd. Milton Watt. 2002. Ill.wrapps. Highlight Studios. 2006. Ill.wrapps. 164pp. 164pp. b/w ills. Crease in back Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed wrapper else a Very good copy. 1st by the author. $30 ed. Flying with 450 Squadron RAAF in WWII. 242 McMILLAN, Gorden E. DESERT $38 DIARY. A personal diary of events in the 235 CROSS, Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Middle East during World War II. n.p The “Bing”. STRAIGHT AND LEVEL. Written Author. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 132pp. b/w ills. 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246 SLY, Edward ‘Ted’, DFC, MID. THE New Holland Publishers. 2006. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely LUCK OF THE DRAW. Horses, Spitfires and illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. The author provides fascinating Kittyhawks. Syd. The Author. 2003. Roy.8vo. insights into the significant role cafes have played in history, the arts Col.ill.bds. 184pp. Many b/w ills. Very good and society. $35 copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. $60 254 HAZAN, Eric. THE INVENTION OF PARIS. A History in 247 SWEETMAN, Bill. SPITFIRE. Footsteps. Lond. Verso. 2010. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 384pp. Very good copy. Illustrations by Rikyu Wantanabe. Lond. 1st ed. A tour through the streets and history of the capital under the Jane’s Publishing. 1980. Folio. Col.ill.bds. guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. $33 48pp. Colour fold-out ills & b/w ills. Name 255 HORNE, Alistair. LA BELLE FRANCE. A Short History. N.Y. written at top of title page else a very good Alfred Knopf. 2005. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 485pp. uncut. col & b/w plates. copy. 1st ed. $30 Very good copy. 1st American ed. “A sweeping, grand narrative written 248 WILSON, Stewart. ANSON, HUDSON with all the verve, erudition and vividness that are the hallmark of the & SUNDERLAND IN AUSTRALIAN acclaimed British historian Alistair Horne.” $27 SERVICE. Canb. Aerospace Publ. 1992. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 211pp. 256 HORNE, Alistair. SEVEN AGES OF PARIS. N.Y. Alfred Col.plates. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Three of Australia’s most important Knopf. 2002. (2nd printing) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 458pp. uncut. col & b/w reconnaissance bombers of World War II. $28 plates. Good copy. $26 PARIS 257 HUSSEY, Andrew. PARIS. THE SECRET HISTORY. Lond. Viking. 2006. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 485pp. b/w plates. Name on ffe else a 249 (ATGET, Eugene.) PARIS 1857- very good copy. 1st ed. The author says that Paris is made up of violently 1927. EUGENE ATGET. Essay by Andreas different spaces and multiple personalities, always at odds with each Krase. Ed. by Hans Christian Adam. Koln. other and often in noisy collision. $30 Taschen. 2008. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 252pp. Profusely illustrated with black & 258 JACKSON, Jeffrey H. PARIS UNDER WATER. How the City white photographic illustrations by the of Light survived the great flood of 1910. N.Y. photographer Eugene Atget. Very good Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. Or.bds. Dustjacket. copy. 1st ed. $60 262pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The detailed, epic story of the great flood when the 250 BONFANTE-WARREN, Alexandra. Seine overflowed. $28 THE MUSEE D’ORSAY. N.Y. Beaux Arts Editions. 2000. Folio. Col.ill.bds. 259 KAPLAN, Alice. DREAMING IN Dustjacket. 320pp. Profusely illustrated in FRENCH. The Paris Years of Jacqueline colour. Fine. 1st ed. A splendid volume on Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag and Angela the gallery housed in the old Gare d’Orsay Davis. Chicago. Uni. of Chicago Press. 2012. railway station which was saved from Or.cl. Dustjacket. 289pp. b/w ills. Very good destruction in 1970. $45 copy. 1st ed. $28 251 CARO, Ina. PARIS TO THE PAST. 260 KINSMAN, Jane. TOULOUSE- Travelling through French History by Train. LAUTREC, PARIS AND THE MOULIN N.Y. W.W.Norton. 2011. Or.bds. Dustjacket. ROUGE. Canb. NGA. 2013. Folio. Col. 381pp. uncut. Maps. Fine. 1st ed. A record of Ill.wrapps. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in 25 one-day train trips that go from central colour and black & white. Fine. Published in Paris and transport the traveller magically association with the exhibition, the first major through 800 years of French history. $28 retrospective of the artist’s work to be held in Australia. $38 252 FEYDER, Vera & MANDIARGUES, Andre Pieyre de. HENRI CARTIER- 261 LOTTMAN, Herbert R. MAN RAY’S BRESSON A PROPOS DE PARIS. Texts MONTPARNASSE. N.Y. Harry N.Abrams. written for the exhibition “Paris a vue 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 263pp. b/w ills. Very d’oeil.” Lond. Thames & Hudson. 1994. good copy. 1st ed. “For the first 30 years of (New ed.) 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 167pp. the 20th century, the streets surrounding the Many b/w photographic ills. by Cartier- intersection of the boulevard du Montparnasse Bresson. Very good copy. $45 and the boulevard Raspail marked the centre of avant-garde Europe.” Man Ray the 253 FITCH, Noel Riley. THE GRAND photographer was there to document it all. $28 LITERARY CAFES OF EUROPE. Photographs by Andrew Midgley. Lond. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
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