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ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 304 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, Thursday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior CHANGE OF BOOKSHOP OPENING DAYS sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. It seems of late that those customers who buy books from us increasingly Payment is due on receipt of books. do so by phone or email or directly through our web site, and we send the No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. books to them. Because of this we have decided to reduce the number of days we are open Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. during the week. From the week beginning Monday 7th March we will open from CONTENTS Thursday to Saturday inclusive, from 10am to 5pm each day. I know there are those who will always wish to see the books they are buy- BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 33 ing and to browse so we will be available on those three days during the AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 34 - 232 week, and if this is not convenient we can be open by appointment on any AVIATION 233 - 248 other weekday at a mutually convenient time. Please call us if you wish PARIS 249 - 268 to arrange this. MISCELLANEOUS 269 - 457 The recent increase in the letter post rate had a significant effect on the cost of posting catalogues. The cost of posting a letter went up from 70cents to $1, but if you want that letter delivered at the same speed as the 70c rate, Front cover items: you need to add an additional 50c priority sticker, so effectively the cost of the same service as before is $1.50, more than double the previous rate. 3, 20, Easton Press group, 14, 7/ 6, 8, 4, 21, 414 The AusPost CEO announced just the other day that letter post will never make a profit. I suggest that he has found that the increase in postage has Back cover items: caused the volume to drop significantly; hardly surprising. He can only do 123, 171, 244, 139, 18 / 436, 15, 28, 163, 429, 74/ this because it is a government monopoly business. 209, 328, 105, 196, 183, 251/ 55, 397, 302, 141, 321 Any private businessman courageous enough to March 2016 double his prices overnight would be facing ruin! THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] 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.