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Antique Bookshop ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 315 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. It is interesting to reflect on how book collecting and the emphasis on Payment is due on receipt of books. certain aspects of the book being collected has changed since I first jumped No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. from engineering to bookselling, now over forty years ago, a change I have never for a moment regretted. Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. In the early days there was a group of collectors, now mostly passed on, influenced greatly by the late Walter Stone and his writings in “Bib- lionews” the journal he started and mostly penned in the early days, CONTENTS originally printed on a roneo machine in his garage. BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 32 This journal still exists, a great tribute to Walter and currently to those hardy souls whose enthusiasm keeps it alive today. They have my great AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 33 - 194 admiration. MISCELLANEOUS 195 - 350 The two aspects that have mostly changed are condition and dustjackets. The old-time collectors didn’t care too much about condition, as long as the book was not totally derelict. Dustjackets were not important; it was Front cover items: perfectly acceptable to have the book, dj or not. One famous collector; no 1, 23, 167, 259, 346, 18,4/ names but you will know who it is if you’ve been collecting books for a 7, 17, 2, 24, 12 long time, famously removed the dustjackets, cut out the front portion and pasted it to the endpaper of his books. In retrospect, a bad example. Some collectors have become fetishistic about djs. I concur that dustjack- Back cover items: ets are important in modern literature, but I had a collector once tell me 26, 250, 73, 67, 6, 83/ 141, 144, 330, 252, 82, 193 / that a book she wanted to buy about porcelain had no value without the 346, 248, 68, 147, 232/ 159, 212, 96, 298, 3478 dustjacket! Such nonsense, but all part of the great game of book collecting. April 2017 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH 7 COMMON, I.F.B. AUSTRALIAN MOTHS. Photographs by Ederic Slater. Melb. MUP. 1990. Roy.8vo. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 535pp. b/w 1 ACKER, Tim. & CARTY, John. (Ed). NGAANYATJARRA. ills. Col.plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. A comprehensive, well- Art of the lands. Crawley. UWA Publishing. 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. illustrated book covering the enormous diversity of Australian moths. 281pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. $275 The Ngaanyatjarra Lands occupy an area the size of Victoria. This vast 8 DAVIES, Alan. AN EYE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY. The Camera inland region is home to the Yarnangu people, whose culture of arts & in Australia. Melb. Miegunyah Press. 2004. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. crafts tell the visual story of their cultural history. $75 230pp. Many col. & b/w photographic illustrations. Sl.tear to head of dj 2 ATASOY, Nurhan & RABY, Julian. IZNIK: THE POTTERY OF else a Fine copy. Scarce. "Alan Davies charts the history of Photography OTTOMAN TURKEY. Edited by Yanni Petsopoulos. Lond. Alexandria in Australia with authority and insight". $60 Pr./Laurence King. 1994. (2nd imp) Large Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 382pp. 9 DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (Photos) & FLANAGAN, Richard. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. A comprehensive ON THE MOUNTAIN. Essay by survey. $175 Richard Flanagan. Natural History by 3 BELLOC, Hilaire. NEW CAUTIONARY TALES. Pictures by Jamie Kirkpatrick. Hobart. West Wind Nicholas Bentley. Lond. Duckworth. 1930. Press. 1996. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Sm.4to. Or. cloth-backed ill.bds. 79pp. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour b/w ills. Name stamp on ff and sl.foxing with Dombrovskis's splendid colour else a very good copy. 1st ed. $60 photographs. Fine. 1st ed. The very 4 BONG, Ng Chun. TONG, Cheuk scarce hardcover edition, limited to Pak. & LO, Yvonne (Eds) CHINESE 1,500 copies, this out of series. $450 WOMAN AND MODERNITY. Calendar 10 DOMBROVSKIS, posters of the 1910s - 1930s. Hong Kong. Peter (Photographer) WILD RIVERS. Joint Publishing Co Ltd. 1996. Folio. Franklin, Denison, Gordon. Text Or.bds. Dustjacket. 54pp. Profusely by Bob Brown. Sandy Bay. Peter illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st Dombrovskis. 1983. (2nd ed.) Folio. ed. Calendar posters were the earliest Or.canvas. Dustjacket. 128pp. form of commercial art in China, & helped Profusely illustrated with Dombrovskis's splendid colour photographs shape modern China in the 1920s & 30s. of the spectacular unspoiled country of South-West Tasmania. Very good With 250 colour plates from Shanghai & Hong Kong calendars selling copy. $120 various products. $95 11 DULAC, Edmund (Illustrator) THE BELLS AND OTHER 5 CAPSTICK-DALE, Rodney & Diana. ART DECO POEMS. By Edgar Allan Poe. Lond. COLLECTIBLES. Fashionable Hodder & Stoughton. n.d. (1912). objets from the jazz age. Lond. Folio. Or.gilt decorated cloth with Thames & Hudson. 2016. 4to. bell motifs. unpag. Illustrated with Or.bds. Dustjacket. 270pp. Profusely 28 splendid colour plates by Dulac illustrated in colour and black & with captioned tissue guards. Several white. Very good copy. 1st ed. In sepia-tinted headpieces. Sl.foxing the 1920s & 30s Art Deco influenced and the back hinge a little worn else everything from art & architecture, a Very good copy. 1st ed. with these interiors & furnishings, automobiles illustrations. Very Scarce. Tipped to & boats, to the small personal the endpaper is a limited edition page objects that are part of everyday with the signature of Edmund Dulac, life. A collectors guide. $60 from another work. $795 6 CHURCHILL, 12 ELLIONT, Ian. MUNDARING. A Winston S. THOUGHTS AND history of the Shire. Mundaring (WA). ADVENTURES. Lond. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1932. 8vo. Or.dec. Shire of Mundaring. 1983. 8vo. Or.bds. cl. 320pp. Some foxing to some pages. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. Dustjacket. 319pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Inscribed 1st ed. Originally dictated late at night in the 1920s, this collection of by the author. Local Mundaring historian, Ian Elliot, presents a history wide ranging essays allows the contemporary reader to grasp Churchill's of the shire of Mundaring. First sighted by Europeans in 1829, it was an inner thoughts about aspects of the Second World War. $75 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] area of primeval forest, that became settled with the railways arrival. pages sl.browned else a Good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Charles Wilson $80 bookplate. Phiz was the illustrators of most of Dickens' works. "The Lamp is out that lighted up the text / Of Dickens, Lever - heroes of the 13 FENG-YI. THE ART OF INSIDE PAINTING OF CHINESE pen.." $155 SNUFF BOTTLES. San Francisco & Shanghai. Ted Chiao n.d. Oblong 4to. Or.col.ill.wrapps. unpag. 32pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very 19 KLEIN, Adalbert. A CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO good copy. 1st ed. Text in Chinese and English. The earliest known snuff JAPANESE CERAMICS. Translated bottle with inside painting is thought to be c.1810. The author still carries by Katherine Watson. Lond. Alpine out this style of painting. $45 Fine Arts Collection. 1987. Folio. Or.vinyl. Dustjacket. 275pp. Slight 14 FORSHAW, Joseph M. & COOPER, William T. AUSTRALIAN wear to dj. Profusely illustrated PARROTS. Syd. Ure Smith. 1981. (2nd in colour and black & white. Very revised trade ed.) Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. good copy. 1st English ed. A guide 312pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & to Japanese Ceramics, from the b/w. A little edge wear else a very good prehistoric era to the pottery of copy. Signed by William Cooper on the Jomom, Yayoi, & Sue, then onward title page. Contains detailed descriptions through to the development of of every species & subspecies, together porcelain work in the 17th & 18th with information on distribution, habitats, centuries to the contemporary. $65 habits, movements, feeding & breeding. $150 20 KRISHNAN. Usha R. Bala. & KUMAR, Meera Sushi. INDIAN 15 HEADLAND, Robert K. JEWELLERY. Dance of the Peacock. Bombay. India Book House. 1999. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF Folio. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 335pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS AND good copy. 1st ed. India was the principal trade route across the ancient RELATED HISTORICAL EVENTS. world, & as a repository of great mineral wealth, it produced over a Studies in Polar Research. Cambridge. period of some 5000 years some exquisite jewellery for both Gods and Cambridge Uni Press. 1989. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 730pp. Library stamp on men. $125 ffe. b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. This book lists Antarctic expeditions and related historical events from ancient times to the present 21 LANE, Terence. AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONISM. Melb. day. With 3342 entries, covering the period from 700 BC to 1988. $85 NGV. 2007. Folio. Or.col.ill.wrapps. 352pp. Profusely illustrated in 16 HOBSON, R.L. THE WARES OF THE MING DYNASTY. colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Tokyo. Tuttle. 1969. (2nd printing of the Tuttle edition) Roy.8vo. Or.cl. Scarce. A study of the Australian Dustjacket. xv,208pp. plus 59 b/w plates. Very good copy in the original manifestation of the International card case.
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