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All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD The year 2019 ended in an horrific way in Australia as the nation sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. burned. In the end nature trumps us all and can’t be controlled. Payment is due on receipt of books. Is this because of the way we have treated the earth, as some say, or No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. would this have happened anyway? Whatever the reason, we need policies and actions in place to mitigate the likelihood of this happen- Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. ing in future. I have a great sorrow for those affected by the conflagra- tion and for those of my friends who suffered serious loss. 2019 was also the year that almost everyone was offended by almost CONTENTS everything that anyone else said. Why are we so thin-skinned and unable to accept that others have a right to express views that we may BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 22 not share? The plague of political correctness seems to have over- AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 23 - 205 whelmed us so that someone expressing a view can be castigated by MISCELLANEOUS 206 - 377 several different groups for different reasons. AUSTRALIAN ART 378 - 393 One well-publicised case where a sportsman expressed views that were extreme resulted in a major kerfuffle. I certainly didn’t share his views and I don’t believe the majority of Australians would have, and Front cover items: in past years they would have been laughed off as extreme and just ignored. Instead the PCers took offence and it blew up. 9 (2v), 95, 17, 7 (6v), 3 (2v)/ I wish for a 2020 where we can express our views honestly and have 5, 4 (16v), 22 them accepted as our views while acknowledging that others may think differently or even be offended. All power to Ricky Gervais! February 2020 It is important that we all don’t feel compelled to complain loudly when something is said with which we don’t agree. Follow us on Instagram @theantiquebookshop Based on 2019, this is unlikely to happen, but ISSN 2209-850x whatever happens, have a great 2020 and enjoy the catalogue!
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BOOKS OF THE MONTH Festival 1958 (4th imp) Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs 1958. (1st ed.) The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra 1 ALBERT, J & F. MORBID THOUGHTS OF A BILIOUS 1958 (6th imp) The Hoffnung Companion to Music PHILOSOPHER. Funny, amusing discourses & 1958 (2nd imp) The Maestro 1958 (8th imp). 6 vols. advice for stage and private entertainments. Syd. Lond. Dobson - Putnam. 1958. Each vol 8vo. Ill. Albert’s Music Stores. n.d. (1909) Sm.8vo. Col.Ill. bds. Dustjacket. unpag. Many b/w ills. Near fine wrapps. 96pp. Very good copy. Scarce. Boomerang copies in the original slip-case. Particularly scarce Sixpenny Series. $60 in the complete set. Hoffnung’s musical humour 2 AUSTRALIAN ARMY 19TH INFANTRY with many amusing b/w ills. $245 TRAINING BATTALION. THE WHOLE 19th 8 HOLME, Geoffrey C. & HALTON, Ernest G. AND THE 19th HOLE. n.p. (Wallgrove) 1940. Ill. (Ed). MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND wrapps. 36pp. b/w ills. including cartoons with one THEIR WORK. Special Autumn Number. Text by by Norman Lindsay and one by Unk White among Malcolm C. Salaman. Lond. The Studio Ltd. 1914. others. Insc. on editorial page else a good copy. Very Folio. Bound in buckram retaining the original Scarce. $95 wrappers. 192pp. (a little foxing) Profusely illustrated in colour & black 3 BRADLEY, F.H. COLLECTED ESSAYS. & white. Colour plates by Rackham, Dulac et al. Very good copy. Binder’s Two vols. Oxford. At the Clarendon Press. 1935. sticker. A selection of modern book illustrators as they were in 1914. With Or.cl. x,347;362pp. uncut. 1st ed. A fine set. some cutting edges stuff from Edmund Dulac, Heath Robinson, Walter Born in 1846, Bradley was a respected British Crane, Rene Bull, Arthur Rackham & many other modernists. $90 philosopher who was elected to a Fellowship 9 KELLY, Christopher. A NEW AND COMPLETE SYSTEM at Oxford’s Merton College where he remained OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY. Or an authentic history and until his death in 1924. As his Fellowship did not require him to teach he was free to devote his time to writing. The set $120 4 BURTON, Richard F. (Translator & Annotator) THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. 10 vols. Plus THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. 6 vols. Privately Printed. Burton Club. c.1937. Or.dec.cl. various pag. uncut. The foredges sl.foxed. b/w plates. A very good set. Scarce. Set of 16 vols. $350 5 DER LING, Princess. OLD BUDDHA. N.Y. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1928. Or.decorated linen boards. 347pp. uncut. Frontispiece interesting description of the whole world... embellished with numerous portrait and b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. A engravings... and a new set of accurate maps. 2 vols. Lond. Printed for personal biography of “Old Buddha” - Her Thomas Kelly. 1828, 1832. Folio. Contemporary full calf. xx,774;1105pp. Majesty, Tzu Hsi. $175 Numerous maps, some folding. Engraved plates. The bindings worn, both front boards detached. Some foxing. Scarce. Chapter XI in vol 1 6 HASLAM, Malcolm. THE MARTIN deals with Australasia and has a map of the Pacific Ocean.The set BROTHERS POTTERS. Introduction by $800 Bevis Hillier. Lond. Richard Dennis. 1978. Folio. Col.ill.bds. 174pp. Profusely illustrated 10 (KLIPPEL, Robert) ROBERT KLIPPEL. in colour and black & white. Very good copy. SCULPTURE SINCE 1970. Exhibition Catalogue. 1st ed. Scarce. Many illustrations are of the Watters Gallery. 21 Nov - 8 Dec. 1979. 4to. Col.Ill. splendid and unusual pottery produced by wrapps. 48pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. the Martin brothers. $125 Scarce. Signed on the title page by Robert Klippel. $120 7 HOFFNUNG, Gerard. HOFFNUNG’S MUSICAL BOX. Comprising Hoffnung’s 11 LINDSAY, Sir Lionel. DISCOBOLUS. And Acoustics 1959 (1st ed) The Hoffnung Music other verse. The special edition of 50 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper and signed THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
by Sir Lionel Lindsay with the Vol.1. Dublin. Hodges & Smith. 1845. Folio. Original blind-stamped cloth, wood-engravings hand-printed the hinges cracked. xx,519pp. uncut. Many b/w ills. in the text. The cloth on Japanese paper by the artist. worn but internally a good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $300 This no.3. Melb. F.W.Chesire. 16 SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, Karl. SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF 1959. Bound in full calf. 68pp. AQUARELLE. An exhibition on the 120th 21 tipped-in woodcuts hand- birthday of the artist. Berlin. 2004. Folio. Col.Ill. printed by Lionel Lindsay. Fine. wrapps. 194pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Limited to Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. German text. $120 350 numbered copies of which this no.3. of 50. $395 17 SHERIDAN, Peter. & SINGER, Ritchie. RADIO DAYS. Australian Bakelite 12 LUCZANITS, Christian. Radios. Syd. Bakelite. 2008. Oblong 4to. Col. BUDDHIST SCULPTURE IN ill.bds. 256pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. CLAY. Early Western Himalayan Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. In 1932 the first Art, Late 10th to early 13th Centuries. Bakelite radio appeared in Australia, the AWA Chicago. Serindia Publications. 2004. C87, with many different models following in Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 353pp. Profusely the 40s, 50s, & 60s. A completist’s illustrated in colour and black & white. guide to brands & models from the Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Based on extensive field golden age of radio. $185 research and in situ field documentation for more than a decade, this is a comprehensive 18 STEVENSON, Robert Louis. assessment of early western Himalayan THE WORKS. Tusitala Edition. 35 sculptures and their context. $125 vols. Lond. William Heinemann. 1924-1927. Small 8vo. Or.cl. with gilt 13 M A C K E N Z I E , S . S . T H E titles and decoration on spine. Some AUSTRALIANS AT RABAUL. The vols with name written on the ffe else Capture and Administration of the German a very good complete set in splendid Possessions in the Southern Pacific. Vol.10 condition. The set $275 of the Official History of Australian in the War of 1914-1918. Syd. A & R. 1942. (11th ed.) Or.cl. 412pp. b/w plates. Maps. Fine copy. Scarce. $80 14 NEWTON, Helmut. HELMUT NEWTON: PAGES FROM THE GLOSSIES. Facsimiles 1956 - 1998. Edited by June Newton and Walter Keller. Zurich. Scalo. 1998. Folio. Or.bds. 19 STRATZ, Prof. Carl Heinrich. DIE SCHONHEIT DES Dustjacket. 543pp. Dustjacket covered in WEIBLICHEN KORPERS. Den Muttern, Arzten und Kunstlern plastic. Profusely illustrated in colour and Gewidment. Zweiundvierzigste unveranderte Auflage. Mit 350 black & white. Very good copy. 1st Scalo Abbildungen und 7 Tafeln. Stuttgart. Ferdinand Enke. 1936. 4to. Or.dec. ed. Helmut Newton was born in Berlin in cloth. 508pp. Front cover sl.marked. Profusely illustrated in black & 1920, & escaped in 1938 intending to travel to China, but ended up in the white. Good copy. Text in German. Prof. Australian Army as a truck driver. After the war he became a popular Carl Heinrich Stratz was a German-Russian fashion photographer. $90 gynaecologist who began his pioneering 15 PETRIE, George. research into human growth & development THE ECCLESIASTICAL in the late 19th century. This is a semi- ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND, medical text on the female form. $195 Anterior to the Anglo-Norman 20 VESPER, Stan. BRONTE. The Invasion; Comprising an Essay Birthplace of Surf Lifesaving. Caringbah. on the Origin and Uses of the Playright. 2006. Folio. Or.gold embossed Round Towers of Ireland, which vinyl. Dustjacket. 328pp. Profusely illustrated obtained the gold medal and in colour and black & white. Bound-in prize of the Royal Irish Academy. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. In the 1890s it became a High Court Judge for 35 years. He was one of the leading jurists in the popular weekend pastime to visit a Sydney Beach. Bronte Beach was English speaking world. $45 such a popular spot that frequent mishaps at 28 BAKER, Ronald & Margaret. & RESCHKE, William. sea required the training of people in lifesaving MURRAY RIVER PILOT. Goolwa to SA-NSW Border and Lower Murray, techniques. $140 Lakes and Coorong, South Australia. Adelaide. Fullers Services. 1996. 21 WODEHOUSE, P.G. FULL MOON. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Crease to bottom corner of wrapps. Name on Lond. Herbert Jenkins. n.d. (1947) Or.cl. 252pp. ffe. b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. Ronald & Margaret Baker have Sl.foxing on foredge else a very good copy in a been helping people explore the Murray River since their first Pilot guide fine dj, not price-clipped. 1st UK ed. Scarce. was published in 1976. With helpful river lore, maps & code they guide $175 you from Goolwa to Coorong $22 22 WODEHOUSE, P.G. ICE IN THE 29 BARTON, Charlotte. A MOTHER’S OFFERING TO HER BEDROOM. Lond. Herbert Jenkins. 1961. Or.bs. CHILDREN. By a Lady Long Resident in New Dustjacket. 223pp. A little foxing on foredge else South Wales. With an Introduction by Rosemary a particularly good copy of the scarce 1st UK ed Wighton. Facsimile Edition. Milton, (QLD). in a fine, price-clipped dj. $250 The Jacaranda Press. 1979. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp. Very good copy. Facsimile reprint. First AUSTRALIA THE PACIFIC published in 1841, A Mother’s Offering To Her Children was the first Australian children’s 23 AITKEN, Richard. THE GARDEN OF IDEAS. Four book. Written by Lady Gordon Bremer, whose Centuries of Australian Style. Melb. husband was a naval officer sent to start a new Miegunyah. 2011. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. settlement. $40 243pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st paperback ed. $45 30 BASTIAAN, Ross. GALLIPOLI PLAQUES. A Guide to the Anzac Battlefield, to 24 ANDERSON, Patricia. be used in conjunction with the ten multilingual CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY. The plaques located on the main roads. Roseville. Australian Experience 1977-1987. Syd. ANRAB. 1990. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 22pp. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. A Millennium. 1988. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Battlefield Guide to the location of the ten Gallipoli Plaques at Anzac 192pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Cove. Situated some five hours drive from Istanbul, the Peninsula Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. $33 commemorates the soldiers that lost their lives in 1915. $27 25 ANDERSON, Sir Kevin. FOSSIL 31 BELLETTE, Jean. JEAN BELLETTE RETROSPECTIVE. Syd. IN THE SANDSTONE. The Recollecting National Trust of Australia. 2004. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Profusely Judge. Melb. Spectrum Publications. 1986. illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Exhibition Or.cl. Dustjacket. 287pp. Dj sl.faded at Catalogue. Tasmanian born artist Jean Bellette studied art at the Julian spine. Ex-library copy. Very good copy. Aston art school in Sydney under Thea Proctor. A modernist painter, she Number 143 of 250 signed & numbered copies. Sir Kevin Anderson served was influential in the mid 20th century Sydney art circles. $25 on the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1969 until 1984. During WWII he served in Operations & Naval Intelligence & was present at the Japanese 32 BEUTEL, Colin. RAVENSBOURNE THEN & NOW. surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945. $30 Toowoomba. C. E. Beutel. 1992. Oblong 4to. Col.ill.bds. 126pp. 26 ATKINSON, Ann. (Ed). FOOTNOTE b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY. Ravensbourne is located on the Annandale. Daniel O’Keefe Prod. 1987. Or.bds. Darling Downs region in southern Dustjacket. 240pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. Queensland. With its wealth of 1st ed. The biographies of 40 lesser known indigenous grasses, it was an ideal Australian figures, whose activities in eventful place for cattle grazing. Colin Beutel lives have passed from general knowledge, & recalls its history. $40 most history books. $20 33 BONNELL, Max. I LIKE A 27 AYERS, Philip. OWEN DIXON. Carlton. CLAMOUR. 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the Supreme Court of NSW & served in three colonies where he wrestled 40 BROWN, Carter. (Pseud for Alan Yates) SEE with the role of the law in a rapidly changing society. $50 IT AGAIN SAM. Cammeray. Horwitz. 1979. 34 BOWDEN, Tim. ANTARCTICA AND BACK IN SIXTY DAYS. Col.Ill.wrapps. 140pp. Good copy. Hollywood Syd. ABC Books. 1992. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. detective Rick Holman is trying to track down 239pp. Sl foxing to top edge. b/w ills. Very good the film tycoon who threw acid in the face of copy. Inscribed by Tim Bowden. Australian film superstar Sanantha Dane. His trail leads radio & television broadcaster Tim Bowden him to some sadistic gangsters who won’t play spent most of the 1990s in Antarctica with the ball. $20 Australian research team. He produced several 41 BUDD, Wallace B. HEAR THE OTHER notable documentaries on his travels & a travel SIDE. The R.S.P.C.A. in South Australia 1875 - diary. $30 1988. Hawthorndene. Investigator Press. 1988. 35 BRAMSTON, Troy. (Ed). THE WRAN 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 237pp. Light bumps to ERA. Annandale. Federation Press. 2006. Col. bottom corners. Profusely illustrated in black Ill.wrapps. 310pp. b/w plates. Wrapps sl.rubbed & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Society else a very good copy. 1st ed. From 1976 to for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1986 Neville Wran led the most successful began in South Australia in 1875 after local Labor Government in NSW history. Unrivalled church goers began having Animal Sundays electoral success was combined with significant policy achievements in to raise money for neglected & poorly treated two Wranslides. $25 animals. $30 36 BRENNAN, Niall. DAMIEN PARER. Part-Child, Part-Poet, 42 BURKE, David. KINGS OF THE IRON Part-Genius, Part-Saint, an Artist, an Australian Cameraman. Carlton. HORSE. North Ryde. Methuen Australia. Melbourne University Press 1994. Col.Ill.wrapps. 192pp. b/w plates. Very 1985. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. b/w ills good copy. 1st ed. Damien Parer obtained a photographic apprenticeship & plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Across a with Arthur Dickson in the 1930s & worked with film director Charles space of 80 memorable years, some 3,300 Chauvel until appointed as an official movie photographer for the AIF steam locomotives were built in Australia in 1940. $24 for this country’s railways. Their design & construction was full of pure Australianness BROMBERGER, Brian. & FIFE-YEOMANS, Janet. DEEP 37 from plan to platform $28 SLEEP. Harry Bailey and the scandal of Chelmsford. East Roseville. Simon & Schuster. 1991. Col.Ill.wrapps. 182pp. b/w plates. Very good 43 BUTEL, Elizabeth. & Thompson, Tom. HURSTVILLE OVAL. copy. 1st ed. Harry Bailey was one of the most paradoxical figures in A History of Sport and Community 1899 - 2001. Bondi. Editions Tom Australian medical history. A charismatic man whose career was dogged Thompson. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 262pp. Presentation plate on inside by controversy during his time at the Chelmsford Private Hospital. cover. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Wrappers sl.rubbed else a $30 very good copy. 1st ed. Hurstville Oval opened in 1911 as a multi-use sporting ground. It hosted St George Cycling Club, Rugby Union, Cricket, 38 BROWN, Carter. (Pseud of Alan Yates) BLONDE ON THE & the very successful St George Dragons Rugby League team who won ROCKS. A Brand New Rick Holman. Syd. Horwzitz Publications Inc. 15 premierships. $27 1963. Col.Ill.wrapps. 129pp. (sl foxing) Good copy. After another mystery murder of a rising 44 CALEY, George. REFLECTIONS ON THE COLONY OF NEW red-headed starlet, detective Rick Holman is SOUTH WALES. Edited by J. E. B. Currey. Melb. Lansdowne Press Pty searching for the mystery blonde who was in Ltd. 1966. Or.bds. 239pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. George Caley the car & saw it all, but has now gone to ground was one of the early English botanists sent to the colony of NSW by the somewhere in Hollywood $25 great naturalist Sir Joseph Banks. For 10 years he made Parramatta his home & travelled out collecting specimens. $27 39 BROWN, Carter. (Pseud of Alan Yates) NEMESIS WORE NYLONS. Syd. Transport 45 CAMPBELL, Ryan. BORN TO FLY. Foreword by Jessica Publishing Co. Ltd. n.d (1950s). Col.Ill.wrapps. Watson. Syd. Harlequin Mira. 2014. Col.Ill.wrapps. 319pp. Sl.scuffing 97pp. Some creasing to wrapps & yellowing to to corners. col plates. Good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. After pages else a good copy. English-born Australian his first flight in his grandfather’s plane at the age of 6, Ryan Campbell detective fiction writer Alan Geoffrey Yates became Australia’s youngest pilot by the age of 15. At age 19 he became wrote under the pseudonym of Peter Carter the youngest pilot ever to fly around the world. $27 Brown. His detective fiction were popular who- 46 CAMPBELL-WRIGHT, Susan. (Ed). THE CORRESPONDENCE done-it page turners for many commuters. $25 OF THE DARE FAMILY. Book Three: 1831 - 1844. Letters from England and China received by Alexander Ellison Dare in New South Wales. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
by the author. Ambrose Mugala Chalarimeri was born in his traditional Point Cook. Lucasville Press. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 71pp. (sl foxing) country Oomarri on the King Georges River in the Kimberley region. He Alexander Ellison Dare was Inscription on ffe. b/w ills. Very good copy. & other Kwini people were raised in a Spanish Benedictine Mission in born in France of English parents in 1807 & in 1822 joined the East India WA. $24 Company & was posted to Canton in China. In 1834 he left the company to work the land in NSW. $20 53 CHANIN, Eileen. PUGH, Judith. & MILLER, Steven. DEGENERATES AND PERVERTS. The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French 47 CAREY, Peter. TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG. and British Contemporary Art. Carlton. The Miegunyah Press. 2005. 4to. Lond. Faber and Faber. 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 349pp. (sl foxing) to Or.bds. Dustjacket. 306pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & top & foredge. b/w ill. Very good copy. A later impression of the 1st UK white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Herald’s 1939 Exhibition of French Written in the unpunctuated vernacular of colonial Australia of the ed. & British Contemporary Art was the most momentous art exhibition 1870s, Peter Carey’s fictional account of life as a Kelly casts an objective ever held in Australia. The shock of modern European art divided public eye over the subtext beneath the historical narrative. $30 opinion & inspired some. $33 48 CARLOTTA. & COCKINGTON, James. HE DID IT HER 54 CHAPPELL, Greg. FIERCE FOCUS. Richmond. Hardie Grant WAY. Carlotta, Legend of Les Girls. Chippendale. Books. 2011. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 371pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. Ironbark. 1994. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. (sl 1st ed. Australian cricketing legend Greg Chappell reflects on how he grew foxing) col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. up playing cricket with his brothers in the backyard, & how much he & 1st ed. For 26 years from 1963 to 1989 Carlotta the game of cricket has changed especially since the 1970s. $24 was the undisputed Queen of Kings Cross. Evan started life as a Balmain boy before becoming 55 CLARKE, Andrew. SKAIFE. Mark Skaife: The Racing Years. The the first person to have a sex change operation Official Illustrated History. Carnegie. Publishing 101. 2009. Folio. Or.bds. in Australia. $40 Dustjacket. 207pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Mark Skaife. A pictorial history of CARLTON, Mike. CRUISER. 49 The Life Australia’s most successful motor racing driver. Mark Skaife has won 13 and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew. North Championship races across three different racing formats in a number of Sydney. William Heinemann. 2010. Or.bds. different cars. A record to beat. $55 Dustjacket. 706pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. The crew of the battle 56 CORMACK, Neil W. HERZOGIN CECILIE. The Flagship of cruiser HMAS Perth saw more action & had survived more bombings the Gustaf Erikson Fleet of Mariehamm, 1921 - 36. Largs North, (SA). & scrapes than most when it was finally overcome by enemy ships in N.W.Cormack. 1996. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. March 1945 & sunk off the coast of Java. $30 1st ed. The Herzogin Cecilie was a German built four-mast barque named after the German Crown Princess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 50 CARLTON, Mike. ON AIR. North Sydney. William 1936 it became part of the Gustaf Erikson fleet of grain ships. $35 Heinemann. 2018. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 550pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Mike Carlton. Mike Carlton’s mother was all 57 CROOKE, Ray. RAY CROOKE. Introduction by James Gleeson. set to marry another man & was sent to Father Jim Carlton for marital Syd. Collins. n.d. Oblong 8vo. Col.ill.wrapps. unpag. Many col & b/w instruction where they fell in love & married instead. Mike Carlton began plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australian Artist Editions. $25 as a cadet journo in 1963. $33 58 CUFFLEY, Peter & MIDDLEMIS, Cas. HUNG OUT TO DRY. 51 CARUANA, Anthony. MONASTERY ON THE HILL. Gilbert Toyne’s classic Australian clothes hoist. A History of the Sacred Heart Monastery, Netherby (SA) Cas Middlemis. 2009. Or.bds. Kensington 1897 - 1997. Kensington. Nelen Dustjacket. 176pp. Many col & b/w ills. Fine. Yubu Missiologica 2002. (revised edition) 396pp. 1st ed. Inscribed by Peter Cuffley. The story of Crease to top corner of front wrapper. b/w ills. the rotary clothes line. $33 Very good copy. Inscribed by the author. In 59 DALKIN, R. Nixon. COLONIAL ERA 1885 a Monastery was to be built in Sydney CEMETERY OF NORFOLK ISLAND. Syd. & two adjoining properties on the sandhills Pacific Publications. 1985. (rep) Oblong 4to. of Kensington were purchased & a Monastery Col.Ill.wrapps. 91pp. b/w ills & a fold-out map. designed by Sheerin & Hennessy was built from Very good copy. The colonial era cemetery at Pyrmont sandstone. $33 Kingston, Norfolk Island is a place of much 52 CHALARIMERI, Ambrose fascination as it is separate from the later Mungala. THE MAN FROM THE SUNRISE Pitcairn burial plots dating from 1856. There SIDE. Broome, (WA). Magabala Books. 2001. are 180 graves listed & some not. $27 Col.Ill.wrapps. 226pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed 60 DARK, Philip J. C. KILENGE ART AND LIFE. A look at the New Guinea people. Lond. Academy Editions. 1974. 4to. Or.bds. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
Dustjacket. 132pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good 67 EDWARDS, John H. EDWARD BAKER BOULTON. Australia’s copy. 1st ed The Kilenge peoples of New Guinea derive their primary Forgotten Artist. Dulwich Hill,(NSW). Norrong Press. 2004. Oblong 4to. subsistence from swidden horticulture & are capable of producing most Col.Ill.wrapps. 76pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by material items needed for daily life. Their art being mostly ceremonial. the author. Edward Baker Boulton was grandfather of the esteemed writer $28 Arthur Ransome, & was also an accomplished water colour artists who was much undervalued in his time after emigrating from Shropshire in 61 DENNIS, Peter & GREY, Jeffrey (Eds.) THE AUSTRALIAN 1830 $35 ARMY AND THE VIETNAM WAR. Canb. Army History Unit. 2002. Ill.wrapps. 304pp. 68 ENCEL, S. EQUALITY AND AUTHORITY. A Study of Class, Very good copy. 1st ed. Sheds new light on the Status & Power in Australia. Melb. Cheshire. 1976. (3rd imp) Ill.wrapps. Australian Army’s involvement in the Vietnam 492pp. Foredge sl.spotted, else a Very Good copy. A commentary on War. $65 Australian society & some of its major institutions. $24 62 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE 69 EVANS, Ian. THE FEDERATION HOUSE. A restoration (Navy). AN OUTLINE OF AUSTRALIAN guide. Mullumbimby. Flannel Flower Press. 1999. (rep) Folio. Col.Ill. NAVAL HISTORY. Canberra. Australian wrapps. 160pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Federation is the name given Govt Publishing 1976. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. to a particular style of house built in Australia between 1890 and 1920. 90pp. b/w ills. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a very Red brick walls and orange tiled roofing. A resource of information for good copy. England’s preoccupation with the restorers & enthusiasts. $33 Napoleonic Wars saw the Royal Navy keen 70 FAIRWEATHER, Ian. IAN FAIRWEATHER - PAINTINGS & to secure ports in the Pacific, out of which DRAWINGS 1927-1970. 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Australia has been playing & the endangered Rufous Scrub-Bird. $16 test cricket since 1877, & has produced some of the world’s finest players such as Victor Trumper, Donald Bradman, Shane Warne, Glenn Mcgrath 81 GULLICK, William Applegate. THE NEW SOUTH WALES & Tibby Cotter. $35 COAT OF ARMS. With notes on the earlier seals. Syd. William Applegate Gullick. 1921. Or.cl. 38pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Scarce. On October 88 HEARN, Mark. & KNOWLES, Harry. ONE BIG UNION. A the 11th 1906, Edward the 7th, then the King of England granted a warrant History of the Australian Workers Union 1886 - 1994. Melb. Cambridge of armorial ensigns & supporters for the State of NSW. It featured a lion University Press. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. & a Kangaroo, sheathes of wheat & sheep. $60 The Australian Workers Union (AWU) was formed in the sheering sheds of 1886 & has been one of the most influential unions in Australia’s political 82 GUNNAR, Peter M. GOOD IRON MAC. 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Recollections 90 HELLWIG, Elizabeth. FROM GENERATION TO of a World War II Patrol Boat Man. Carlton. The GENERATION. A Chronology: The Dominican Sister’s Presence among Miegunyah Press. 2005. Or.bds. Dustjacket. the people of the Armidale Diocese 1876 - 2011. Strathfield. Dominican 334pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sisters. 2011. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 70pp. Profusely illustrated in colour Signed by the author. In 1939, Marsden and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A Spanish priest Dominic of Hordern’s mother asked her son to join the Caleruega founded the Dominican Order in 1216, an order that is known navy, rather than the air force. Taking this for its devotion to the Virgin Mary. The Dominican Sisters arrived in advice he served on small naval patrol boats Armidale in 1876 to do good works $27 in Timor & New Guinea from 1942 until 1947. 91 HELMRIDGE-MARSILLIAN, Veronique. STEWART $65 MACFARLANE: RIDDLES OF LIFE. 98 HUGHES, William Morris. POLICIES Roseville East. 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The First European known to have sighted & in the cemetery at St Thomas’ Anglican landed on Norfolk Island was Captain James Cook on the 10th of October Church, Enfield. Plus a complete listing of 1774 on his second voyage to the South Pacific on HMS Resolution. graves. Research by Barbara Neville. Enfield. $18 St Thomas’ Anglican Church 1999. Oblong 94 HOLDEN, Robert. COVER UP. The Art of Magazine Covers Folio. Ill.wrapps. 120pp. b/w ills. Very good in Australia. Rydalmere. Hodder & Stoughton. 1995. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. copy. 1st ed. St Thomas’ Anglican Church at 167pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good Enfield is one of the few intact 19th century copy. Magazine cover art is traditionally dismissed as ephemeral & church & cemetery groups remaining in unimportant, often discarded & forgotten. Robert Holden presents a Sydney, with its characteristic look of an graphic cavalcade that revaluates this national pictorial art form. 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103 JERVIS, James. A HISTORY OF THE BERRIMA DISTRICT Founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Macquarie, it 1798-1973. Syd. Genealogical Publications. 1962. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 213pp. quickly became a major transportation & agricultural centre. $35 Name on ffe. Dustjacket scuffed at edges & sl.faded at spine. b/w plates. 110 KEATING, Christopher John. SURRY HILLS. The City’s Very good copy. 1st ed. The Berrima district was officially rediscovered Backyard. Syd. Hale & Iremonger. 1991. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 120pp. by John Wilson & Hamilton Hume in 1814 & soon land runs were taken Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. When up, which brought a post office, & soon a town along the Old Hume Captain Joseph Foveaux of the Rum Corps was granted 105 acres on the Highway. $30 southern outskirts of Sydney in 1794, he named it Surrey Hills Farm. 100 104 JOHNSON, Chris. JAMES BARNET. 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Very good copy. 1st ed. Bill King is the pioneer who copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Michael Joseph left put the Australian outback on the map for both local & international school at 14 to work for Lintas agency, where he met Brett Whiteley who tourists. Founded on hope & grit, AAT Kings opened up the great vast took him on painting rambles around NSW. He went on to study at Julian expanse of Australia’s interior. $24 Ashton & the National Art School. $27 114 KING, Olwen & Gordon. (Ed). THEY PASSED THIS WAY. 107 JOPLING, Carol F. (Ed). ART AND AESTHETICS IN Stories of the Dreadnought Boys. Second PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES. A Critical Anthology. N.Y. E. P. Dutton & Co., Edition. Alstonville. Dreadnought Assoc. Inc. 1971. Col.Ill.wrapps. 426pp. b/w ills. Wrappers a little rubbed else a 2008. Col.Ill.wrapps. 350pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. A look at the aesthetic ideas & processes of primitive art & good copy. 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131 MOBBS, Michael. SUSTAINABLE 139 McDONALD, Hamish. A WAR OF WORDS. The man who HOUSE. Living for our Future. Marrickville. talked 4,000 Japanese into surrender. St.Lucia. UQP. 2014. Ill.wrapps. Choice Books. 1998. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 335pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Raised Japanese in a European skin at 187pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st the turn of the 20th century, fate and circumstance ensured that Charles ed. Michael Mobbs started out on what he Bavier spent his life between two cultures. A fascinating story. $23 thought would be a standard renovation 140 McGILVRAY, Alan. CAPTAINS OF THE GAME. As told on an inner city terrace in Sydney. What to Norman Tasker. Syd. ABC Books. 1992. Col.Ill.wrapps. 202pp. Some emerged was a revolutionary adaptation foxing to top edge. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. After a brief career as a of sustainable & self-sufficient living. $33 cricketer for NSW, Alan McGilvray began commentating on the game 132 MOFFITT, Athol. PROJECT for ABC radio. He brings his keen eye & knowledge of the game to bare KINGFISHER. Foreword by Sir Roden on some of its finest captains. $20 Cutler. North Ryde. Angus & Robertson. 141 McMURCHY, Megan, et al. FOR LOVE OR MONEY. A 1989. Col.Ill.wrapps. 306pp. (sl foxing) b/w pictorial history of women and work in Australia. Edited by Irina Dunn ills & maps. Wrapps sl,rubbed else a good copy. 1st ed. The untold story designed by Pam Brewster. Melb. Penguin. 1985. (2nd imp) 4to. Ill. of the massacres of the Sandakan POWs in Borneo, & the secret plan for wrapps. 186pp. Many b/w ills. Wrappers a little rubbed & creased else a rescue that never happened. $23 a good copy. $20 133 MOLOMBY, Tom. SPIES, BOMBS & THE PATH OF BLISS. 142 NAUGHTON, Terry. PLACES OF JUDGMENT - NEW Ananda Marga and The Hilton Bombing. Syd. Potoroo Press. 1986. SOUTH WALES. With a Historical Or.bds. Dustjacket. 415pp. (sl foxing) to top edge & foredge. b/w ills & Introduction by John Michael plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. At 12.40am on the 13th of February 1978 Bennett. Syd. Law Book Co. 1987. a bomb exploded in a bin outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. The story Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian history. 120pp. Dj with watermark to bottom $27 edge & tear to top of spine. b/w 134 MOLYNEUX, Bill & MACDONALD, Ross. NATIVE ills. Very good copy. Inscribed by GARDENS. How to create an Australian landscape. Melb. Nelson. 1983. the author. The photographs in this Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 168pp. Many b/w ills. Very Good copy. 1st book were taken between 1975 & ed. $30 1983 by the author on various trips around NSW. They demonstrate the 135 MORAN, Michael. BEYOND THE CORAL SEA. Travels in evolution of court house architecture the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific. Lond. HarperCollins. 2003. in NSW & the legal system in Australia. $50 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 410pp. Col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. $25 143 NEWTON, Douglas. CROCODILE AND CASSOWARY. Religious Art of the upper Sepik River. N.Y. Museum of Primitive Art. 136 MULLINS, Barbara. MARTIN, Margaret. & BAGLIN, D. 1971. Oblong 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 112pp. b/w ills & a map. Very good HISTORIC HILL END. Terrey Hills. A.H. & A.W. Reed. 1979. (rep) 4to. copy. The Sepik River area of New Guinea has long been celebrated for the Col.Ill.wrapps. 35pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Hill rich artistic productivity of its inhabitants. The crocodile & cassowary End owes its existence to the NSW gold rush of the 1850s which saw an are two of the most important totemic creatures of the Sepik $35 uninhabited place with 8,000 people serve by 2 newspapers, 5 banks, 8 churches & 28 pubs. By 1945 the population was only 700. $12 144 NEWTON, Marlo L. MAKING A DIFFERENCE. A History of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia. Melb. Hybrid 137 MUNDLE, Rob. UNDER FULL SAIL. How the majestic clipper Publishers. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 342pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Tales ships transformed Australia from a convict outpost to a nation. Syd. ABC of inspirational leaders and pivotal community battles, as well as Books. 2016. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 374pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. memories and anecdotes from members around the country. $22 1st ed. More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid to late 19th century. The story of the Clipper 145 NILE, Fred. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Syd. Strand Publishing. ships is one of the world’s great migration stories. $25 2001. Col.Ill.wrapps. 261pp. B/w plates & cartoons. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Fred Nile. After a stint in the Korean War, Fred 138 McCARTHY, K. & CHINN, N. A CENTURY OF NEW SOUTH Nile joined the NSW Congregational Theological College, becoming an WALES TRAMCARS. Volume II: Electric Era 1903 - 1908. Syd. South ordained minister in 1964. His involvement in social work led him to Pacific Electric Railway 1968. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 199pp. b/w ills. Very become involved in politics $28 good copy. 1st ed. The South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society Ltd is Australia’s oldest Tramway Museum. Located in Loftus, 146 NORTH, Ian. THE ART OF DORRIT BLACK. Melb. just south of Sydney, it holds an extensive collection of trams from the Macmillan. 1979. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 152pp. Many col & b/w past. $30 ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. A definitive publication listing exhibitions, THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] catalogues all of Black’s known works & includes a comprehensive good copy. At the peak of the 1950s housing boom, one third of all new bibliography. $60 houses were made of fibro. Fibro helped many Australians own a home of 147 OAKSHOTT, Rob. THE INDEPENDENT MEMBER FOR their own & was economical to build & came in an array of colours. LYNE. A Memoir. Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2014. Col.Ill.wrapps. $38 380pp. (sl foxing) Col plates. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a good copy. 1st 154 PITTARD, Brenda. FAIRFIELD. A Pictorial History. A ed. Inscribed by Rob Oakshott. After receiving an Honours degree in Bicentennial Publication. Compiled by Brenda Pittard for Fairfield City Government from the University of Sydney, Rob Oakshott was elected Council, 1990. Syd. Fairfield City Council. 1990. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 151pp. as the National Party member for Port Macquarie & later the Federal Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The district independent member for Lyne. $27 that would become Fairfield was first noted in William Bradley’s Journal 148 (O’MALLEY, King.) KING O’MALLEY. “THE AMERICAN when on an expedition to Prospect Creek in the 1780s. In 1807 100 acre BOUNDER”. By A.R.Hoyle. Melb. Macmillan. 1981. Or.bds. Dustjacket. grants of land saw the area become settled. $36 186pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. O’Malley, an American, given two months 155 POLLARD, Clare. & STEVENS, John. ZEN MIND ZEN to live, came to Australia to search for the sunshine as a cure. He BRUSH. Japanese ink paintings from the Gitter-Yelen collection. Syd. entered Parliament and among many other achievements created the Art Gallery of NSW. 2006. Tall Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 143pp. Profusely Commonwealth Bank. $24 illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Exhibition 149 PASCOE, Robert. THE WINTER GAME. The Complete Catalogue. Calligraphy was brought to Japan from China, as was History of Australian Football. Melb. The Text Publishing Company. 1995. Chan Buddhism, which translates as Zen in Japanese. This exhibition Or.bds. Dustjacket. 318pp. Some browning to pages. b/w plates. Good highlights examples of calligraphy from both the Rinzai & Soto Zen copy. The Winter Game celebrates Aussie Rules, the fastest moving code schools. $30 of football in the world, renowned for its incredible aerial athleticism 156 POTTER, Michelle. & National Library of Australia. A FULL & fierce tackling, it was born during the Victorian gold rush. $24 HOUSE. The Esso Guide to the performing arts collections of the National 150 PERFORMING ARTS MUSEUM. A SPECIAL MADNESS. Library of Australia. With an introduction by Robyn Archer. Canberra. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Beatles in Australia. Melb. Victoria National Library of Aust. 1991. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 179pp. b/w ills. Very Press. 1993. Folio. Ill.wrapps. 89pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. good copy. 1st ed. The National Library of Australia’s performing arts Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of collection is diverse & comprises many thousands of items representing The Beatles tour of Australia in 1964. The 60s was a radical time of the work of hundreds of individuals & organisations. A catalogue. $25 new meaning, change & crisis that brought a special madness that was 157 POYNTER, John. MR FELTON’S BEQUESTS. “The good that Beatlemania. $33 men do lives after them.” Melb. Miegunyah 151 PERRY, Roland. CAPTAIN AUSTRALIA. A History of the Press. 2003. Thick 8vo. Or.bds. 639pp. Celebrated Captains of Australian Test Cricket. Milsons Point. Random Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine in House Aust. 2001. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 386pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. the slip-case. 1st ed. Edition of 800 numbered col & b/w plates. Good copy. From the first Test played by Australian copies signed by the author. Felton was a cricketers in 1877 to the brilliant Test success of the 2000-01 season, Melbourne businessman who died in 1904 Captain Australia reveals the remarkable stories of the men who have leaving his substantial fortune in trust, made the decisions. $22 allowing the National Gallery of Victoria for over 100 years to buy more than 15000 152 PHILLIPS, John Harber. THE TRIAL art treasures. $75 OF NED KELLY. North Ryde. The Law Book Company. 1987. Col.Ill.wrapps. 133pp. 158 REES, Sian. THE FLOATING b/w plates. Very good copy. On the 29th of BROTHEL. The extraordinary story of the October 1880 the full forces of the Crown were Lady Julian & its cargo of female convicts marshalled against the outlaw bushranger bound for Botany Bay. Syd. Hodder Headline. Ned Kelly, who himself was defended by an 2001. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 248pp. b/w plates. Very Good copy. An unknown barrister running his first court important and under-documented corner of Australian history. $22 case. $47 159 REID, Anthony. A CHECK-LIST OF THE BOOK 153 PICKETT, Charles. THE FIBRO ILLUSTRATIONS OF JON BUCKLAND WRIGHT. Pinner. Private FRONTIER. A different history of Australian Libraries Assoc. 1968. 4to. Or.cl. 94pp. + 16 b/w plates. Light soiling to architecture. Foreword by Barry Humphries. cloth. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1 of 1,400 copies printed. New Zealand Haymarket. Powerhouse Publishing. 1997. artist John Buckland Wright was born in Dunedin in 1897, & originally Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 128pp. Profusely studied history at Oxford, but in 1925 whilst living in Belgium he realised illustrated in colour and black & white. Very he wanted to be an artist. $55 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
160 RINGWOOD, John. RAY LINDWALL. Cricket Legend. in Botany Bay in January 1788 before heading for New Caledonia where Kenthurst. Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd. 1995. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 152pp. he, his ship & entire crew disappeared en route. $45 b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Raymond Russell Lindwall played 168 SEIDLER, Harry. INTERNMENT. The Diaries of Harry Seidler, 61 tests for Australia, & is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast May 1940-October 1941. Edited by Janis Wilton. bowlers of all time. He also played for St George Rugby League club, Syd. Allen & Unwin. 1986. Ill.wrapps. 146pp. appearing in 2 grand finals $27 b/w ills. Very Good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by 161 ROBERTS, Jan. VOICES FROM A LOST WORLD. Australian Harry Seidler. Seidler, one of Australia’s most Women & Children in Papua New Guinea Before the Japanese Invasion. influential architects, was detained while a Syd. Millennium Books. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 311pp. b/w ills. Near Fine. teenager, as an enemy alien in England 1st ed. Fine. Details a huge range of experiences from a diverse group of & C a n a d a during the Second World War. women living in Papua New Guinea before WW2, and their significant $75 contributions to Australian history. $25 169 SELZER, Anita. GOVERNORS’ WIVES IN 162 ROSENFELD, A. HORTON, A. & WINTER, J. EARLY MAN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA. Canberra. National IN NORTH QUEENSLAND. Art and Archaeology in the Laura Area. Library of Aust. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 174pp. Canberra. Dept of Prehistory, ANU. 1981. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Some Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good scuffing to corners. Spine lightly faded. b/w ills & maps. Good copy. copy. 1st ed. Examines the lives of 5 vice-regal An excavation report with analyses of artefacts, faunal remains, rock women who accompanied their husbands to the Australian colonies engravings, radio-carbon dates & local mammal ecology of the Laura during the 19th century. Eliza Darling, Jane Franklin, Mary Broome, Region in Queensland undertaken by the Australian National Uni. Elizabeth Loch & Audrey Tennyson. $28 $33 170 SIMS, Graeme. WHY DIE? The Extraordinary Percy Cerutty. 163 ROWSE, Tim. NUGGET COOMBS: A REFORMING LIFE. ‘Maker of Champions’. South Melb. Thomas C. Lothian Ltd. 2003. (rep) Cambridge Uni Press. 2002. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 419pp. b/w ills. Very good Col.Ill.wrapps. 342pp. B/w plates & ills. Very good copy. Percy Cerutty copy. 1st ed. Coombs was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from was one of the world’s leading athletic coaches in the 1950s & 60s. He 1949 to 1968, however his commitment to public affairs over 7 decades blended Stoic & Spartan principles with a vegetarian root-based diet, makes his an amazing life story. $24 mental stimulation & training in nature. $45 164 ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. 171 SINCLAIR, Shirley. ELIZABETH COOK. The Captain’s Wife ETHICS: A MANUAL FOR CONSULTANT PHYSICIANS. Syd. 1741 - 1835. Syd. Maritime Heritage Press. 1995. Col.Ill.wrapps. 24pp. b/w Royal Australasian College. 1992. Col.ill.bds. 49pp. Very good copy. 1st ills. Very good copy. Signed by the author. Elizabeth Cook (nee Batts) ed. A manual of medical ethics for consulting physicians as issued by was born in Wapping in 1741, & married James Cook in 1762. The couple the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Prior to 1938 Australian had 6 children & she lived in the East End of London when her husband physicians sought membership from colleges in the UK. $22 was at sea, & outlived her husband $15 165 SALT, Daphne F. GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH. First Stop 172 SMITH, Bernard & Kate. THE ARCHITECTURAL Sylvania. An intimate insight into the origins of the Sutherland Shire. CHARACTER OF GLEBE, SYDNEY. Syd. Como West. D. F. Salt. 1987. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 160pp. Light fading to Sydney University Press. 1989. (rep with spine. Name on front pastedown. B/w ills & maps. Very good copy. corrections) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. 1st ed. The first landowner in Sutherland Shire was James Birnie, a Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very mercantile trader who was granted 700 acres. Then in 1835 Governor good copy. Bernard & Kate Smith examine Richard Bourke found it suitable for timber cutting. $35 the architectural character that emerged in 166 SALTER, David. RAGAMUFFIN MAN. The World of Syd Glebe. Originally church land, it evolved into Fischer. Foreword by Sir James Hardy. Carlton. Schwartz Publishing. a growing suburb that would eventually merge 2016. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 344pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st with other suburbs. $45 ed. Although a businessman & property developer, Syd Fischer is also 173 SMITH, S & SONS LTD. 100 YEARS Australia’s most successful offshore sailors. He has skippered several IN THE GOOD EARTH. Adelaide. Advertiser yachts named Ragamuffin & competed in six Admiral’s Cup teams. Printing Office 1949. 4to. 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174 SOUTHWELL-KEELY, Peter. OUT ON 180 STEWART, William Thomas. YELLOW THE TOPS. The Century of the Kosciusko SPIES. Syd. The Currawong Publishing Co. Alpine Club. Chatswood. WritLight Pty 1942. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 233pp. (a little foxing) Ltd. 2009. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 320pp. Dj chipped & worn else a good copy. 1st ed. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & The second thrilling story of the Gaff Lee series. white. Bumps to top corners else a very good The celebrated Chinese detective returns to go copy. 1st ed. The Kosciusko Alpine Club is undercover in an espionage war against the the 2nd oldest ski club in Australia. Founded Japanese, who pose the greatest threat in the in 1909 it offered Summit Badges & Summit South Pacific. $40 Trophies in 1913, Skiing Proficiency Tests in 181 STONE, Julius. HUMAN LAW 1918 & a Skiing Championship in 1919. $45 AND HUMAN JUSTICE. Syd. Maitland 175 SPALDING. David Atcheson. Publications. 1968. (2nd imp) Or.cl. Dustjacket. COLLECTING AUSTRALIAN BOOKS. 415pp. Sl. foxing on endpapers else a very good Notes for Beginners. Canberra. D. A. copy. “A study of the growth and present import of ideals of human Spalding. 1981. Col.Ill.wrapps. 90pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Retired justice in their relation to the legal, social and economic contexts from medical specialist, Dr. David Spalding began collecting books as a part which they have arisen.” $24 time hobby. This soon became an absorbing passion. Here he presents 182 TAMPKE, Jurgen. (Ed). WUNDERBAR COUNTRY. Germans his beginners guide to budding book collectors. $25 look at Australia, 1850 - 1914. Syd. Hale & Iremonger Pty Ltd. 1982. 176 STANNARD, Bruce. THE BLUE-WATER BUSHMEN. The Or.bds. Dustjacket. 233pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Germany in colourful story of Australia’s best and boldest boatmen. Syd. Angus & the 19th century was growing fast & experiencing many social problems. Robertson. 1981. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 132pp. edge. Binding Many Germans looked to the underpopulated promise of a better life in loose at front hinge. b/w ills. Good copy. Inscribed by the author. In the the new lands of Australia. A brief overview. $27 19th century, long before cricket & football became obsessions in the 183 TAN, Chye. THE SPIRIT OF BONSAI DESIGN. Combine infant colony, the sporting legends belonged to the sailors who raced the Power of Zen and Nature. Adel. Cameron House. 2003. 4to. Or.bds. on Sydney Harbour as crowds watched on & cheered. $33 Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine copy. Includes 177 STELL, Marion K. HALF THE RACE. A History of Australian instructions, charts and step-by-step photography for creating Women in Sport. North Ryde. Angus & Robertson. 1991. 4to. Or.bds. Bonsai. $24 Dustjacket. 288pp. col & b/w ills. A few small marks on edges else a very 184 TAYLOR, P. G. FRIGATE BIRD. The dramatic story of the first good copy. 1st ed. The sporting history of Australian women is about air crossing of the South Pacific. North Ryde. Eden Paperbacks. 1988. courage, perseverance & dedication. Australian women have been world (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 243pp. b/w topographical map. Very good copy. In champions in netball, hockey, cricket, tennis, soccer, AFL & many other March of 1951, P. G. Taylor took off in Frigate Bird II, a Catalina flying sports. $27 boat, to make the first ever air crossing from Sydney to Valparaiso in 178 STEVENS, David. (Ed). THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY Chile via the vast South Pacific Ocean. $22 IN WORLD WAR II. St. Leonards. Allen 185 TAYLOR, Paul. AUSTRALIAN RIPPING YARNS. Cannibal & Unwin Pty Ltd 1996. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Convicts, Macabre Murders, Wanton Women & Living Legends. 212pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. This Rowville,(VIC). Five Mile Press. 2004. Col.Ill.wrapps. 272pp. b/w plates. ground breaking book written by sixteen good copy. 1st ed. The thrilling true stories in this book include the wreck leading naval historians sheds new light on of the Batavia & its nightmarish aftermath, the cannibal convicts of the vital importance of the Australian role Van Diemen’s Land, & an assortment of demented murderers from penal in supporting maritime campaigns in every camps. $22 theatre of war in WWII. $50 186 TELFER, Ross. HOW TO SAIL SMALL BOATS. Syd. Murray. 179 STEWART. I. G. BRITISH TANKERS 1968. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. A little foxing & tape marks to endpapers. & GAS CARRIERS 1955-1979. Quayside Inscription on ffe. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Good copy. 1st Shipping Series. British Ocean Shipping: ed. Ross Telfer has been teaching people how to sail at the Speers Point Part Three. Perth. I.G.S. Marine Publishers. Sailing Club on Lake Macquarie in NSW for many years, & brings his 1979. Folio. Plastic ring-bound Col.Ill.wrapps. 22knowledge to this brief overview on the how tos of sailing. $28 109pp. Very good copy. A register of the various makes and models of British ocean 187 TIMMS, E.V. THE BECKONING SHORE. Syd. A & R. 1950. going tankers & gas carriers that have visited Australian ports between Or.cl. (sl.spotted & rubbed) 290pp. Good copy. 1st ed. The third novel in 1955 & 1979. Includes years built, tonnage, owners & engine size. $24 the powerful saga depicting the human side of the development of the Australian continent. $10 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
light hearted look at the phenomenon of slang. An exploration of how, 188 TORY, Alan. HARBOUR IN HEAVEN. Illustrated by William why & what makes & creates bad language. $22 Constable. Syd. George M. Dash. 1949. Or.cl. 154pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A collection of essays, articles & reviews of cultural events, talks 196 WALTERS, Stephen. HAT TRICKS, HUNDRES AND & shows that occurred in the Sydney Gazette, the Australian Observer, HEADLINES. Test Cricket at the WACA the Sydney Morning Herald & talks given on ABC Radio. $20 since 1970. Foreword by Graeme Wood, Dennis Lillie and Adam Gilchrist. Lane Cove. 189 UPFIELD, Arthur. BONY AND THE BLACK VIRGIN. Stephen Walters. 2008. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery. Syd. Angus & 843pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Robertson Publishing. 1994. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. Western Australian Cricket Association was 155pp. Very good copy. Detective Inspector formed in 1885, & did not see International Napoleon ‘Bony’ Bonaparte of the Queensland Test Cricket played on its WACA ground until Police Force is on the sand-blown trail of a killer 1970. Since then it has hosted many memorable across drought stricken Lake Jane (a fictional lake cricketing moments. $45 in the Murray-Darling Basin). $15 197 WELLS, Lana. SUNNY MEMORIES. 190 UPFIELD, Arthur. BONY AND THE Australians at the Seaside. Richmond, (VIC). MOUSE. An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery. Syd. Greenhouse Pub. 1982. Folio. Col.ill.bds. Angus & Robertson Publications. 1994. (rep) Col. Dustjacket. 183pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australians of all Ill.wrapps. 187pp. Very good copy. Arthur Upfield ages & from all walks of life congregate at the seaside to swim, surf & wrote many other books, but the Bony Series was sunbathe, but it was not always so. Early settlers often swam naked as by far the most popular & held in high regard by the Aboriginals did in Botany Bay. $28 fellow writers for their solid character & depiction of outback Australian life. $15 198 WENONA. Celebrating Scholarship. Service & Spirit for 130 Years. Visuals and Narrative by Stevenson & Seale. North Sydney. 191 UPFIELD, Arthur. BONY AND THE WHITE SAVAGE. An Wenona. n.d. (2016) Oblong Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. unpag. Many col & Inspector Bonaparte Mystery. Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1994. (rep) Col. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The story of the school for young women Ill.wrapps. 230pp. Very good copy. Arthur Upfield moved to Australia in North Sydney founded in 1886 by Edith Hooke. $35 in 1911 where he travelled extensively for the Australian Geological Society. His unique knowledge of Aboriginal culture led him to write 199 WILSON, Gwen. ONE GRAND CHAIN. The history of the Bony Detective stories. $15 anaesthesia in Australia 1846 - 1962. Volume 1, 1846 - 1934. Edited by Jeanette Thirwell Jones. 192 UTICK, Stephen. CAPTAIN CHARLES, ENGINEER OF Melb. ANZ College of Anaesthetists. 1995. 4to. CHARITY. The remarkable life of Charles Gordon O’Neill. Crows Nest. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 657pp. b/w ills. Very good Allen & Unwin. 2008. Col.Ill.wrapps. 276pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. News 1st ed. Charles O’Neill studied civil engineering in Glasgow & was also of the first painless operation in a Boston active in the Society of St Vincent de Paul. Emigrating to New Zealand hospital appeared in late 1846, & when this & later Australia in 1864 he founded the Society in the antipodes. $24 news arrived in Australia in 1847 doctors & 193 VELZEN, Marianne van. MISSING IN ACTION. Australia’s dentists sought this new aesthetic known as World War I Grave Services. An Astonishing True Story of Misconduct, chloroform. $75 Fraud and Hoaxing. Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2018. Col.Ill.wrapps. 200 WYATT, Geoff. STRIP JACK NAKED. A 267pp. Light wear to corners. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. By the zany naval rort that rocks the “Rock ‘n Roll” end of WWI some 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. and Fanny the Fourpenny Flog from Fivedock! When Lieutenant Robert Burns’ father wanted to know where his son Cover and Illustrations by Grant Roberts. Syd. was buried, he unearthed an awful truth about war graves. $24 Scripts Pty Ltd. 1966. Col.Ill.wrapps. 98pp. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. 194 VONDRA, Josef. THE HISTORY OF GREEKS IN When HMAS Catapult hits Sydney town, Evan, Danny, & The Tramp AUSTRALIA. Hellas Australia. Greek translations by George Psarros. take their shore leave & head for their favourite pub in search of some Melb. Widescope Publishers. 1979. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 199pp. Sl grub, some grog & some girls in The Cross. Humour ensues. $25 foxing to top edge. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Hellas 201 WYNDHAM, Susan. LIFE IN HIS HANDS. The True Story Australia traces the history of Greeks in Australia from their first of Neurosurgeon & a Pianist. Syd. Picador. 2008. Col.Ill.wrapps. 295pp. mention in Sydney newspapers in 1818 to their present status as one of Col.plates. Fine. 1st ed. The story of concert pianist Aaron McMillan & the largest & most dynamic ethnic communities. $30 his successful operation by controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo to 195 WAJNRYB, Ruth. LANGUAGE MOST FOUL. Crows Nest. remove a rare type of brain tumour. $20 Allen & Unwin. 2004. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 230pp. Sl foxing to top edge. Very good copy. 1st ed. Language Most Foul is a thoroughly researched THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected]
202 YANG, Liu. FANTASTIC MOUNTAINS. Chinese Landscape Blue Book takes a humorous look at how to test your sobriety before Painting from The Shanghai Museum. With Edmund Capon and Stephen activities. $27 Little. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2004. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 224pp. 210 ARLOTT, John. VINTAGE SUMMER: 1947. Lond. Eyre & Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Spottiswoode. 1967. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 190pp. Sl foxing to top & foredge. Exhibition Catalogue. Chinese landscape painting is one of the oldest b/w plates. Good copy. 1st ed. English journalist, author & cricket continuous artistic traditions in the world. The Great age of Chinese commentator John Arlott brought a poetic phraseology to the BBC’s landscape painting was from 907 to 1127 with artists such as Jing Hao Test Match Special radio broadcasts of County & Test Cricket games. & Guo Xi. $45 Here he recounts the 1947 year $22 203 YATES, Bob. & BREWSTER, Rick & John. THE ANGELS. 211 ASCHENBRENNER, Erich. ORIENTAL RUGS. Volume 2. North Sydney. Ebury Press. 2017. Col.Ill.wrapps. 433pp. col & b/w pages. Persian. Lond. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1996. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Bob Yates. The Angels were formed 141pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. $40 in the small beachside suburb of Taperoo outside of Adelaide in 1974. 212 AZADI, Siawosch. CARPETS IN THE BALUCH TRADITION. With brothers Rick & John Brewster on guitars & Bernard Neeson on Teppiche in der Belutsch-Tradition. Munchen. vocals their hard rock became influential. $30 Klinkhardt & Biermann. 1986. 4to. Or.cl. 204 YOUNG, John. OBJECTIVE GESTURE. Selected Works 1986- Dustjacket. 214pp. 64 col plates & b/w ills & 87. Syd. Self-published. 1987. wrapps. (small spot on front wrapper) maps. Very good copy. With text in German unpag. (approx. 25pp.) Profusely ill. in b/w. Near Fine. A collection of & English. Siawosch Azadi undertook three the author’s installation artworks and paintings. With a foreword by field studies between 1968 & 1974 to gather Keith Broadfoot and Rex Butler. $24 information on the Baluch rug tradition, a 205 ZAMPATTI, Carla. MY LIFE, MY LOOK. A fashion legend once thriving craft in Baluchistan, now part finally tells her inspiring story. Syd. Harper Collins. 2015. Or.bds. of modern day Iran. $45 Dustjacket. 305pp. Col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed 213 BARNES, Simon. A LA RECHERCHE by Carla Zampatti. Published to celebrate Carla Zampatti’s 50th year DU CRICKET PERDU. Lond. Macmillan. in the fashion industry, Carla recounts how she was only 5 when her 1989. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 137pp. Sl foxing mother took her to a dressmakers in Lombardy, Italy & she fell in love to foredge. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. with fashion. $33 Cricket has always attracted fine writing, & this slim volume of twenty five previously unpublished pieces contains some shining examples. MISCELLANEOUS Features works by Wodehouse, Tolkien & Hunter S.Thompson. $15 206 ALLEN, BRIAN R. ON THE DECK OR IN THE DRINK. 214 BASCOMB, Neal. HUNTING EICHMANN. How a band Flying with the Royal Navy 1952 - 1964. Barnsley. Pen & Sword Aviation. of survivors and a young spy agency chased down the world’s most 2010. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. notorious Nazi. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. Col.Ill.wrapps. Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet in 1952 388pp. Very good copy. When allied troops stormed Berlin in the last aboard the HMS Indefatigable patrolling Gibraltar. Then a transfer to days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann slipped out of his SS uniform 737 Squadron saw him flying Anti-Submarine missions. $27 & vanished. On March 1st 1960 he was captured in Buenos Aires & tried 207 ALLEN, Woody. MERE ANARCHY. N.Y. Random House. in Israel. $18 2007. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Very good copy. 2nd imp of the 1st ed. 215 BEALER, Alex W. OLD WAYS OF WORKING WOOD. The Woody Allen presents a collection of humorous short stories that examine Technique & Tools of a Time-Honoured Craft. Revised Edition. New human existence & other profound questions. A cast of characters walk Jersey. Castle Books. 1996. (rep) Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 255pp. through Allen’s short stories that explain the universe. $25 b/w ills. Very good copy. Alex Bealer’s classic guide to woodworking 208 ANALOG. Science Fact - Science Fiction. 10 issues for 1964. methods that have been refined & developed over thousands of years has January to December, but lacking the July and September issues to make now been revised. With modern woodworking technology for beginners the year complete. Also includes the January 1965 issue. N.Y. 1964-65. to serious amateurs. $28 Each 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. Various pag. b/w ills. Spine sl.rubbed on some 216 BEAVAN, Colin. FINGERPRINTS. Murder and the race issues, else a Very Good set. 11 issues for $45 to uncover the science of identity. Lond. Fourth Estate. 2002. Or.bds. 209 ANTHONY, Norman. & SOGLOW, O. THE DRUNK’S BLUE Dustjacket. 232pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1905 an elderly BOOK. Sobriety Tests. Illustrated by O.Soglow. Lond. T. Werner Laurie couple were found murdered in their shop in Deptford, London. The only Ltd. 1934. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 88pp. + 24pp. (a little foxing) b/w ills. Very evidence at the scene of the crime was a sweaty fingerprint on a cashbox. good copy. 1st ed. A humorous take on the British Blue Book, which is It would help identify its owner. $24 an annual book published by the Office for National Statistics. This 217 BERRY, Burton Y. OUT OF THE PAST. The Istanbul Grand Bazaar. A paradise for all lovers of the old and beautiful. 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Jacket Illustration by Azzedine el-Aaji. N.Y. Arco Publishing Company 224 BYLES, Reverend John. THE BOY Inc. 1977. 4to. Or. Qtr.cloth bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. (sl foxing) Miscut AND THE ANGEL. Being Sunday Morning page at pg 32 as a result of a leaf folded over (no loss of text) Profusely Talks to the Children. Lond. T. Fisher Unwin. illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Burton Berr first n.d. (1910s) Or.dec.cloth. 214pp. (some went to Istanbul in 1928 as the United States Vice Consul & fell in love foxing) Good copy. Second Edition. Inscribed with the Istanbul Bazaar. Thus began a delightful collection of treasures “Marie Beuzeville Byles with Grannie’s now in the Indiana University. $25 love. Redenham May 16 - June 13 1910.” The Reverend John Byles presents a series 218 BEST, Kenneth. EIGHT DAYS A WEEK. An Illustrated Record of stories of miracles & religious wonder. of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Photographs by Joseph Sia. San Francisco. Pomegranate Marie Byles was the first woman admitted as Artbooks 1992. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. 109pp. (sl foxing) to first few a solicitor, and also the first woman to open a pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. legal practice in NSW. $40 This chronology of Rock & Roll is organised by month, so we start off in January & follow a chronological time line of historical events in 225 CAMPBELL, Etta. LINEN Rock music’s history. From its birth in the 1950s to the 1980s $22 EMBROIDERY. Lond. B.T.Batsford. 1957. 4to. Or.bds. d.w. 72pp. Many b/w ills. showing embroidery stitches. 219 BOAS, Franz. PRIMITIVE ART. N.Y. Dover Publications. Nice copy. 1st ed. $24 1955. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 372pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a very good copy. The German-born American 226 CAMPBELL, Jen. WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY pioneer of modern anthropology, Franz Boas spent many years studying IN BOOKSHOPS. Lond. Constable & Robinson Ltd. 2012. Or.bds. the art & cultures of the North Pacific Coastal Tlingit, Bella Coola, Dustjacket. 119pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. From ‘Did Beatrix Haida & Tsimshian peoples. $22 Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?’ to ‘I can’t remember the title but it had a red cover’. Plus many other vague yet humorous questions 220 BRINCARD, Marie-Therese. (Ed). SOUNDING FORMS. asked in bookshops & libraries. $20 African Musical Instruments. N.Y. American Federation of Arts. 1989. Folio. Col.Ill. 227 CASUCCI, Piero. FERRARI FI 1977-1985. Profili Quattroruote. wrapps. 203pp. Profusely illustrated in Milan. Editoriale Domus. 1985. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 80pp. Profusely illustrated colour and black & white. Very good in colour and black & white. Very good copy. With Italian & English copy. Exhibition Catalogue. The American text. Scuderia Ferrari is the racing division of the luxury Italian auto Federation of Arts presented a selection of manufacturer Ferrari & the racing team that competes as the oldest African musical instruments from various surviving & most successful Formula One team in F1 history. $27 cultures of Africa as art objects. From 228 CAVENDISH. (JONES, Henry.) THE LAWS AND African harps to drums & Nuna flutes. PRINCIPLES OF WHIST. Stated and Explained and its Practice Forms that make sound. $38 Illustrated on an Original System by means of Hands Played Completely 221 BRITISH OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION. Through. Lond. Thos. De La Rue & Co. 1881. (13th ed.) Or.dec.cloth. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE XVTH 268pp. (some foxing) Some wear & marks to cloth at covers. Profusely OLYMPIC GAMES, HELSINKI, JULY illustrated in red and black. Good copy. Henry Jones was an English 19-AUGUST 3, 1952. Edited by Cecil Bear. writer who used the pen-name ‘Cavendish’ to write on card games, tennis, Lond. World Sports. 1952. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 114pp. Profusely illustrated & other lawn games. Although studying as a surgeon, he changed tack in colour & b/w. Wrappers a little rubbed else a Good copy. Scarce. in 1857 to become a writer. $25 $30 229 (CHINESE POSTERS) 222 BROWN, Pete. MAN WALKS INTO A PUB. A Sociable HIGHLIGHTS OF 60 YEARS OF History of Beer. Lond. Macmillan. 2003. Col.Ill.wrapps. 387pp. Very CHINESE POSTERS. (English good copy. 1st ed. Pete Brown takes us on a well lubricated pub-crawl translation of the title printed in through the amazing story of beer. From the first sacred sips of the ancient Chinese characters) Hong Kong. Egyptian bouza to that last round of drinks on a Friday night. $33 Peacebook. 2009. Oblong 4to. unpag. (182pp.) Profusely illustrated in 223 BUSIGNANI, Alberto. MARINI. Marino Marini. N.Y. The colour with a collection of Chinese Hamlyn Publishing Group. 1968. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. posters from 1949 to 2009. 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230 CHINNERY, Victor. OAK 237 DAWSON, Jim. WHO CUT THE CHEESE? A Cultural History FURNITURE. The British Tradition. A of the Fart. Berkley. Ten Speed Press. 1999. Col.Ill.wrapps. 175pp. Very good History of Early Furniture in the British copy. 1st ed. Jim Dawson examines the history of the fart, from dinosaurs to Isles and New England. Lond. Antiques Shakespeare. A serious examination of the historical & scientific mysteries Collectors’ Club 1980. (rep) 4to. Or.cl. of flatulence, for those who are not yet Gone With The Wind. $22 Dustjacket. 580pp. Profusely illustrated in 238 de HOYOS, Ladislas. KLAUS BARBIE. The Untold Story. colour and black & white. Very good copy. Translated from the French by Nicholas Courtin. N.Y. McGraw Hill Vic Chinnery’s scholarly work covers the Editions. 1985. Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 310pp. Some foxing to top history & development of oak furniture & & foredge. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st McGraw-Hill Edition. Klaus kindred timbers in the British Isles & New Barbie is best known as the Butcher of Lyon for beating & skinning alive England, from the Middle Ages through to French Resistance members. After the war he escaped to Bolivia & was 1800. $75 arrested & tried in France in 1983. $24 231 CHOAY, Francoise. LE CORBUSIER. 239 DE SAUSMAREZ, Maurice. (Ed). BEN NICHOLSON. A Studio N.Y. George Braziller. 1960. Col.Ill.wrapps. (edges rubbed, sl. marked) International Special. Lond. The Studio International. 1969. Folio. Col.Ill. 126pp. b/w ills. Small inscription and name stamp on title page, wrapps. 84pp. (sl foxing) Col & b/w ills. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a very good some foxing else Very good copy. Volume A111 in the Masters of copy. Ben Nicholson was an English painter of abstract compositions, World Architecture series. Includes many wonderful photographs and landscape & still-life. He studied at Slate School of Fine Art in 1910 drawings. $22 although spent more time playing billiards than painting apparently 232 COHEN, Stan. THE GAMES OF ‘36. A Pictorial History of the $24 1936 Olympics in Germany. Montana. Pictorial Histories Publ. 1996. 4to. 240 DIVIS, Jan. THE ART OF BRONZE BRASS AND COPPER. Col.Ill.wrapps. 236pp. Slight wear to corners & spine edges. Profusely Exquisite artefacts from ancient times to the 20th century. Prague. illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The 1936 Olympics Aventinum. 1991. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 240pp. Profusely illustrated in in Berlin were unusual in many respects with it being the final Olympic colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st English language edition. Games for 12 years due to the disruption of WWII, started by that games Bronze, brass & copper artefacts have a very special fascination for very host, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler $45 collectors. A look at the step by step production of these from the Middle 233 COLVIN, Howard. CALKE ABBEY, DERBYSHIRE. A Hidden Ages to the present day with some fine historic examples. $33 House Revealed. Lond. National Trust, George Philip 1985. Folio. Or.bds. 241 DOBAI, Johannes. GUSTAV KLIMT LANDSCAPES. With Dustjacket. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. an Essay by Johannes Dobai and a 1st ed. Until 1981 this was probably the least-known country house of biography of Gustav Klimt. Translated its size in England. Now rescued by the National Trust this book is a from the German by Ewald Osers. unique record of the house when taken over by the Trust and of the family Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1988. that created it. $40 Oblong Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 142pp. 234 CORDINGLY, David. NICHOLAS POCOCK 1740-1821. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Conway’s Marine Artists. Lond. Conway Maritime Press. 1986. 4to. Very good copy. 1st Eng. ed. $75 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 120pp. Sl.bumping to top corners. Profusely 242 DOUGLAS- illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Nicholas FAIRHURST, Robert. BECOMING Pocock was born in Bristol in 1740, & as the son of a seaman he followed DICKENS. The Invention of a Novelist. his father into merchant shipping. During his time at sea he became a Cambridge. The Belknap Press. 2011. skilled artist painting many naval battles. $24 Col.Ill.wrapps. 389pp. b/w plates. 235 DANCHEV, Alex. CEZANNE: A LIFE. N.Y. Pantheon Books. Good copy. Becoming Dickens tells the 2012. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 488pp. col plated & b/w ills. Very good copy. story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest 1st ed. A look at the fascinating life of the visionary artist Paul Cezanne. novelist. A career of twists & turns, Dickens never forgot that things could For someone who didn’t have their first exhibition until the age of 56, have turned out differently. $22 his work inspired Matisse, Picasso & continues to intrigue. $30 243 ENDERLE, Luiselotte. KASTNER. Eine Bildbiographie. 236 DAVIES, Randall. THE LYTTEL BOOKE OF NONSENSE. Munchen. Kindlers Klassische. 1960. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. (sl Lond. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1912. Or.qt.cl. & ill.bds. 153pp. (sl foxing) foxing) to foredge & end papers. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. A collection of Very good copy. 1st ed. In the slip-case. Text in German. Emil Kastner is humorous verse & nonsense inspired by Edward Lear, with supporting best known as the author of Emil & the Detectives, & after his merciless woodblock prints supplied Messers. Quaritch, Leighton & Barnard. drilling in the Royal Saxon Army in 1917 became a lifetime pacifist. 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244 ESCHER, Maurits Cornelis. 251 FOX, Sandi. WRAPPED IN GLORY. THE MAGIC OF M.C.ESCHER. With an Figurative Quilts & Bedcovers, 1700 - 1900. Introduction by J. L. Locher. Designed by N.Y. Thames and Hudson. 1990. Folio. Col. Erik The. Lond. Thames & Hudson. 2000. Ill.wrapps. 167pp. Profusely illustrated in Folio. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 196pp. Some colour and black & white. Very good copy. folding. Profusely illustrated in colour Exhibition Catalogue. Quiltmakers in the and black & white. Very good copy. Dutch 18th & 19th centuries recorded the grand graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher events & common occurrences of the day in originally studied architecture, but due quilts. The American Quilt Research Center to a persistent skin infection switched organised an exhibition of these historic to decorative arts where he created quilts in 1990 $33 mathematically inspired woodcuts. $45 252 FOX, Uffa. RACING, CRUISING 245 EVANS, Harold. PICTURES ON A AND DESIGN. Lond. Peter Davies PAGE. Photo-Journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing. Lond. William Limited. 1943. (rep) 4to. Or.cl. 340pp. b/w Heinemann Ltd. 1978. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 332pp. Profusely illustrated ills & diagrams. (a little foxing) Endpapers have remains of dustjacket in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Editor of the Sunday Times, laid down. Very good copy. A wide variety of all classes of racing Harold Evans interviewed many famous photojournalists for this book craft, cruising craft and power craft are described in great detail, with to bring you the secrets to their approach to visual journalism. Cartier- numerous boat plans and measurements. Includes a section of Viking Bresson, Snowdon, Brandt & more. $33 ships and design. $40 246 THE FAMILY OF MAN. The greatest photographic exhibition 253 FOX, Uffa. SAILING, SEAMANSHIP AND YACHT of all time - 503 pictures from 68 countries - created by Edward Steichen. CONSTRUCTION. Lond. Peter Davies. 1949. (rep) Folio. Or.cl. 271pp. Prologue by Carl Sandburg. N.Y. Museum of Modern Art. 1955. 4to. b/w ills, maps & designs. (sl foxing) owners name on ffe. Good copy. Col.Ill.wrapps. 192pp. Sl foxing to wrapps & some creasing to corners. “Sailing, and so Seamanship, will endure until the end of all things, for Profusely illustrated in b/w. Good copy. Scarce. A selection of 503 black sailing is the one thing above all others that offers peace and escape to & white photographic images that were taken in all parts of the world, a man whose brain is weary and tired of machinery.” $40 depicting all facets of life, from birth to death, religion, politics, war, 254 FRANSES, Jack. TRIBAL RUGS FROM AFGHANISTAN love, ritual, & childhood. $24 AND TURKESTAN. Lond. Ditchling Press Ltd. 247 FANG, Dr. Jing Pei. NATURAL REMEDIES FROM THE 1973. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. Dj sl.rubbed. CHINESE CUPBOARD. Healing Foods and Herbs. N.Y. Weatherhill. Profusely illustrated with 5 colour & 48 black 1998. Col.Ill.wrapps. 130pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. This concise & & white plates. Very good copy. Jack Franses informative work presents natural food remedies & herbal treatments comes from a family of tapestry & rug dealers & for common illnesses, derived from both traditional Chinese and Western presents some fine examples of the various tribal practices. $16 designs to be found among the rugs & tapestries of Afghanistan & Turkestan. $33 248 FINNIE, David H. THE JOYFUL WORLD OF HARRY CAESAR. Conn. Ponus Hill Assoc. 1993. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 98pp. 255 FRASER, George MacDonald. THE b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. With a long inscription by the artist. The beautiful HOLLYWOOD HISTORY OF THE WORLD. work of the American sculptor. $30 Film Stills from the Kobal Collection. Lond. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1988. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 249 FLINT, William Russell. MORE THAN SHADOWS. A 268pp. Some foxing to top & foredge. Profusely illustrated in black biography of W.Russell Flint by Arnold Palmer. With 136 illustrations of & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scottish author George MacDonald his work. Lond. The Studio. 1948. (5th imp) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 146pp. 8 Fraser (creator of Flashman), said he was inspired to write this book col & 128 b/w plates. Very Good copy. Scarce. An illustrated biography after he realised that Hollywood had been a great historical educator, of Russell Flint’s life and work. $33 & occasionally factual. $45 250 FOX, Grace. BRITISH ADMIRALS AND CHINESE PIRATES 256 FULLER, Kathryn H. AT THE PICTURE SHOW. Small-Town 1832 - 1869. Lond. Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner Co 1940. Or.cl. 227pp. Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Charlottesville. Uni b/w plates. Cloth sl.marked. Good copy. 1st ed. A narrative of England’s of Virginia. 1996. Col.Ill.wrapps. 248pp. Very good copy. Kathryn H. commercial frontier in China during the middle decades of the 19th Fuller charts the rise of the silent film in American social history & how century. 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THE 20TH CENTURY. A Personal View. Or.dec.pictorial.cl. 217pp. (some foxing) Good Preface by Dorothea Braby. Lond. Scolar copy. 1st ed. British journalist & humorist Press. 1980. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 223pp. Norman Gubbins writing under the name of Dustjacket lightly faded at spine. Top back Nathaniel Gubbins started his life as a clerk corner sl.bumped. Profusely illustrated at the Daily Express. After service in WWI he in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. returned as a journalist & author. Albert Garrett’s personal survey of the $27 British wood engravers of the 20th century. 267 GUILLAUMONT, Antoine. et al. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING Includes superb works by Eric Ravilious, TO THOMAS. Coptic Text Established and Translated by A. Guillaumont, Lucien Pissaro, Agnes Miller Parker, H. C. Puech, G. Quispel, W. Till and Hassah ‘Abd Al Masih. Lond. Collins. Clifford Webb & many more. $40 1959. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 62pp. Light soiling to wrapps. Very good copy. In 1945 thirteen volumes or fragments of volumes were found in Nag 260 GAULD, Graham. JIM CLARK Hamadi in Upper Egypt. They were 49 works on papyrus that were from REMEMBERED. Foreword by Jackie the library of a Gnostic community written in Coptic script. $16 Stewart. Second Edition. Wellingborough. Patrick Stephens. 1984. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 268 HADFIELD, John. (Ed). THE SATURDAY BOOK 28. Lond. The death of Jim Clark in a tragic accident at Hockenheim in April 1968 Hutchinson & Company. 1968. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 256pp. (sl foxing) shattered his colleagues & the racing industry. He had a charisma & skill Col & b/w plates. Very good copy. The Saturday Book was an annual that was popular with racing enthusiasts worldwide. $27 miscellany that provided literary & artistic commentary about life in Britain between 1941 to 1975. First published during WWII to help raise 261 GEKOSKI, Rick. LOST, STOLEN OR SHREDDED. 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Due to the political climate at the word. time, the Spanish Civil War had many facets, $85 & was viewed as a class struggle, a war of 270 HASTE, Cate. NAZI WOMEN. religion & fascism versus communism. The air Hitler’s Seduction of a Nation. Lond. war was of strategic importance. $40 Channel 4 Bks. 2003. (rep) Ill.wrapps. 256pp. b/w plates. Fine. An often shocking 263 GOLDING, William. THE SPIRE. Lond. look at the role German women played in the rise & fall of the Nazi Faber & Faber. 1944. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 223pp. dictatorship. $18 Sl. foxing on foredge & crossed out name on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. $40 271 HAYMAN, Ronald. HITLER & GELI. Lond. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates. Good 264 GRIEG, Per. THE VOYAGE. Bergen. copy. 1st ed. Few people know about the affair Adolf Hitler had with his Joachim Grieg & Co. 1996. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 200pp. Col & b/w ills. niece, Geli Raubal. 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272 HELLEKSON, achievement of one of the greatest engineering feats of the twentieth Terry. FISH FLIES VOLUME ONE. Oregon. century. $20 Frank Amato Publications. 1995. 4to. Or.bds. 279 HUSS, Pierre J. HEIL! AND FAREWELL. Lond. Herbert Dustjacket. 358pp. col plates & b/w ills. (sl Jenkins Limited. 1943. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 222pp. Name on title page. Dj foxing) Very good copy. 1st ed. Not many torn & chipped else a good copy. 1st ed. Pierre John Huss was a war of us can say we were born into a life of fly correspondent during WWII & was based in Berlin. He interviewed Adolf fishing as was the author. At a very early age Hitler many times between the 1930s & 1940s & met many dangerous & Terry Hellekson came to know the value of ruthless men during his posting. $24 a game fish and all the trappings associated 280 HUTTON, Joseph Bernard. HESS. The Man and His Mission. with it. $32 Lond. David Bruce & Watson Ltd. 1970. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 262pp. Some 273 HELLER, Joseph. CATCH 22. Limited foxing to top edge. Bookplate on ffe. b/w plates. Dj sl.torn & rubbed else edition 50th anniversary. Lond. Vintage a good copy. 1st ed. On the 10th of May 1941 Rudolph Hess made a solo Books. 2011. (rep) 8vo. Col.ill.bds. 602pp. flight to Scotland to arrange peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, Blue foredge. Very good copy. During WWII, pilots who were crazy but was immediately arrested & tried at the Nuremberg Trials as a war were not obliged to fly missions, but anyone who claimed they were criminal. $28 crazy was showing rational concern for his safety and was, therefore, 281 IMPERIAL TASTE. Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David sane and had to fly. $25 Foundation. San Francisco. Chronicle Books. 1989. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 274 HELLMAN, Hal. GREAT FEUDS IN MATHEMATICS. Ten 136pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. of the liveliest disputes ever. New Jersey. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006. $28 Or.bds. Dustjacket. 250pp. (sl foxing) Very good copy. 1st American ed. 282 IMPEY, Oliver. CHINOISERIE. The Impact of Oriental Styles Mathematical disputes offer indisputable proof that great mathematical on Western Art and Decoration. Lond. OUP. minds are calculating in more ways than one. Fuelled by greed, jealously, 1977. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 208pp. Some col ambition, and ego, they have the plots of soap operas. $22 & many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. $75 275 HINEY, Tom & MacSHANE, Frank. (Ed). THE RAYMOND 283 INFIELD, Glenn B. SECRETS OF CHANDLER PAPERS. Selected letters and non-fiction. Lond. Hamish THE SS. N.Y. Stein and Day Publishers. 1982. Hamilton. 2000. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 267pp. Dustjacket covered in Or.qtr.cl. & bds. Dustjacket. 271pp. b/w ills. plastic. Very good copy. 1st ed. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. The in 1888 and educated at Dulwich College in England. 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287 JOHNSON, Clarence L. KELLY. More than my share of it all. 294 KEROUAC, Jack. DOCTOR SAX. Faust Part Three. N.Y. Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson, with Maggie Smith. Foreword by Leo P. Grove Press, Inc. 1959. Col.Ill.wrapps. 245pp. Ex-library else a good copy. Geary. Washington. Smithsonian Institute. 1987. Or.cloth. Dustjacket. Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in the factory town 209pp. Name on ffe. Very good copy. 4th printing. American aeronautical of Lowell, Massachusetts is haunted throughout his adolescence by Dr. & systems engineer, Clarence Leonard Johnson contributed a series of Sax, a cryptic, hipster phantom. $24 important aircraft designs. Most notable are the Lockheed U-2 & the KHUMALO, Sihle. DARK CONTINENT MY BLACK ARSE. SR-71 Blackbird which exceeded Mach 3 speed $27 295 By Bus, Boksie, Matola... From Cape to Cairo. Houghton. (South Africa) 288 JONES, Mary Eirwen. A HISTORY OF WESTERN Umuzi. 2008. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 223pp. b/w ills. 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KIRKPATRICK, Diane. EDUARDO 192pp. With many col & b/w ills. Very good 297 PAOLOZZI. copy. 1st ed. Created in 1831 by King Louis Lond. Studio Vista. 1970. 4to. Philippe and immediately posted to the Or.cl. (spine sl. marked) 144pp. Many col & scorching deserts of Algeria, La Legion Etrangere went on to become a b/w ills. Very good copy. Eduardo Paolozzi’s unit renowned for its absolute disregard for death in battle. $25 significant contributions to the fields of sculpture, graphic arts, film and writing, as 290 JOYCE, James. ULYSSES. Lond. The Bodley Head. 1955. (rep) well as an analysis of the major ideas and styles of his career up to the Or.cl. (sl. marked) 764pp. Small inscription on ffe. Some foxing else good 1970’s. $22 copy. The work that became known as Joyce’s “magnum opus”. $20 298 LATZ, Leo J. THE RHYTHM OF STERILITY AND 291 JUSTIN, Valerie Sharaf. FLAT-WOVEN RUGS OF THE FERTITLITY IN WOMEN. Babies When Parents are Ready. A Discussion WORLD. Kilim, Soumak, and Brocading. 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Leo Cooper. 1995. Or.bds. With b/w ills. Cover a little soiled, else a Good Dustjacket. 194pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Fine. copy. The 1930 revised and enlarged edition of 1st ed. A comprehensive history of one of the Captain Jutsum’s guide to Knots and Splices. oldest and probably the most famous band of $24 all time. $23 293 KEROUAC, Jack. THE DHARMA BUMS. 300 LE CORBEILLER, Clare. EUROPEAN 50th Anniversary Edition. N.Y. Viking. 2008. AND AMERICAN SNUFF BOXES, 1730-1830. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 187pp. Fine. First published N.Y. Viking Press. 1966. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. in 1958, a year after “On the Road” put the 120pp. Col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. Beat Generation on the map, this book stands Snuff bottles were first used by the Chinese as one of Kerouac’s most powerful, influential & Mongolians during the Quing Dynasty as and bestselling novels. $35 smoking tobacco was illegal, but powdered THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] tobacco was used as a remedy for common illnesses such as colds & 309 MAUGHAM, W.Somerset. aches. $35 THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES. 301 LE CORBUSIER. ARTE DECORATIVA E DESIGN. Editori Three vols. Lond. Heinemann. 1952. Laterza. 1973. (2nd ed) Ill.wrapps. 222pp. b/w ills. Fine. Italian text. (reps) Or.cl. Dustjackets. 1576pp. $20 in total. (sl.foxing) Dustjackets sl. chipped at spine ends else a LEIBOVITZ, Annie & SONTAG, Susan. WOMEN. 302 Lond. Very Good set. While serving in Jonathan Cape. 1999. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 239pp. Profusely the ambulance corps in WWI, illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st Eng. ed. 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A boys story. $25 control $40 341 ROBINSON, Cervin. & HERSCHMAN, Joel. 333 REES, Laurence. AUSCHWITZ. ARCHITECTURE TRANSFORMED. A History The Nazis and the Final Solution. Lond. BBC of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to the Books. 2005. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 320pp. Present. N.Y. Architectural League of NY. 1988. (some foxing) to top edge. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. Published Oblong Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 203pp. Light wear on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Laurence Rees to corners. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 2nd examines the key Nazi decision makers, perpetrators & survivors of one printing. A history of the photography of buildings from 1839 to 1988. of the most appalling crimes of the 20th century. $27 Louis Dagurre began photographing Paris street scenes & buildings to test his silver chloride coated paper to capture images through a lens. 334 REES, Laurence. THEIR DARKEST HOUR. 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Her plays were often roadster appeared. $27 closed by the NYPD & became the stuff of legend. $24 343 ROCKWELL, Norman. MY ADVENTURES AS AN 349 SCHOM, Alan. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. N.Y. Harper ILLUSTRATOR. By Norman Rockwell, as Collins. 1997. Or.qtr.cloth & bds. Dustjacket. 888pp. b/w plates & maps. told to Tom Rockwell. With a Foreword and Very good copy. 1st US ed. Alan Schom’s one volume life of Napoleon Afterword by Tom Rockwell. N.Y. Harry includes all facets of Napoleon’s incredible career. From his childhood N. Abrams, Inc. 1988. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. in Corsica to his death in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821 at age 430pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. fifty two. $30 The American illustrator & artist Norman 350 SCHURMANN, Ulrich. ORIENTAL CARPETS. A newly Rockwell enrolled at the Chase Art School revised and expanded edition of the original classic. With 24 colour at age 14, then as a staff artist for Boy’s Life plates. Translated from the German by James Clark. Lond. Octopus Books magazine. A prolific artist, he produced over Limited. 1979. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 247pp. Small name sticker on ffe 4,000 illustrations. $30 & title. Col ills. Very good copy. Dr. Ulrich Schurmann has written many 344 ROTH, Philip. EVERYMAN. Lond. authoritative works on collecting carpets. Here he selects many fine Jonathan Cape. 2006. Or.bds. Dustjacket. examples from Anatolia, Persia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Armenia, (plastic-covered) 182pp. Fine copy. 1st ed. A & Turkestan. $27 powerful novel from the acclaimed author. A 351 SCHWABACHER, Jos. THE POPULAR ALSATIAN. 5th candidly intimate yet universal story of the common experience, of loss, Revised & Enlarged edition. Lond. Popular regret and stoicism. $40 Dogs Publishing Co. 1952. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 345 RUCE, Henry L. (Ed). HUNGARY’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 232pp. + ads. 96 b/w ills. Very good copy. Life Magazine. A Special 96 page picture report. N.Y. 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The most notable examples history. Steve Schaecher reveals the of Gothic cathedral architecture are to be found in France, which began humorous history of the outhouse, from to emerge there from 1140 onwards. Notre Dame, Reims, Chartres & ancient Egypt to the modern Pompidoodoo Amiens Cathedrals are such examples. $35 centre. $28 355 ST AUBIN de TERAN, Lisa. OTTO. An Uncorrected Bound 348 SCHLISSEL, Lillian. Proof from Virago. Lond. Virago. 2005. Col.Ill.wrapps. 512pp. Very good (Ed). THREE PLAYS BY MAE WEST. Sex, copy. A novel based on the true story of Oswaldo Bareto Miliani, (code The Drag, The Pleasure Man. Lond. Nick named Otto), a revolutionary who was an advisor to Fidel Castro. Hern Books. 1997. Col.Ill.wrapps. 246pp. Wanted by the KGB & the CIA, he then married a Kurdish rebel in Light wear to corners. b/w ills. Very good copy. Mae West wasn’t just Iran. $25 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
356 SUMMERSON, John. ARCHITECTURE IN BRITAIN, 1530- 363 TRAVERS, Ben. VALE OF LAUGHTER. An Autobiography. 1830. Lond. Penguin. 1953. Roy.8vo. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 374pp. + 192pp. Lond. Geoffrey Bles. 1957. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 251pp. (sl foxing) b/w of b/w plates. b/w ills. Sl.foxing else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. The plates. Dj a little torn else a good copy. 1st ed. After working in his family’s architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to grocery business, Ben Travers was given a job by John Lane in 1911, after the post-Waterloo Greek & Gothic revivals. The Pelican History of Art service as a pilot in WWI. He wrote popular farces that were adapted series. $35 for film in the 1930s & 40s. $22 357 SUTHERLAND, John. MEN OF WATERLOO. Lond. 364 TROCHU, Francis. SAINT BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS Frederick Muller Ltd. 1966. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 320pp. Sl foxing to 1844-1879. Translated & Adapted by John Joyce S.J. Lond. Longman Green foredge. b/w plates. Dj sl.rubbed else a very good copy. 1st ed. At 3am & Co. 1958. (2nd imp) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 400pp. b/w plates. Prize label on the morning of June the 15th, 1815, Napoleon led his force of 125,000 on front paste-down. Sl. foxing else a good copy. $22 men across the French border into Belgium where an insignificant village 365 VAN ALPHEN, Jan (Ed.) THE BUDDHA IN THE DRAGON found itself at the epicentre of history. $24 GATE. Buddhist Sculpture of the 5th - 9th 358 TANNAHILL, Reay. FLESH & BLOOD. A History of the centuries from Longmen, China. Antwerp. Cannibal Complex. Lond. Book Club Associates. 1975. (rep) Or.bds. Ethnografisch Museum. 2001. Folio. Col. Dustjacket. 209pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates. Very good copy. Cannibalism Ill.wrapps. 199pp. Profusely illustrated in can be traced back to the caves of Peking Man around 500,000 BC, right colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. The lavishly up to the siege of Leningrad in WWII. 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Dutch Quarterly Review, Studies in Literature 3. 367 VON SOLODKOFF, Alexander. Amsterdam. Rodopi. 1987. Col.Ill.wrapps. 255pp. b/w ills. Very good FABERGE CLOCKS. Lond. Ermitage. 1986. copy. English text. Wim Tigges explores the somewhat lost & forgotten Sm.Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 44pp. Col. art of literary nonsense. From Edward Lear to Lewis Carroll, nonsense plates & some b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed has always been a popular staple in the nursery, where nonsense still by the author. $40 flourishes. $24 368 WALFORD, Jonathan. THE SEDUCTIVE 361 TILLY, Andrew. EROTIC DRAWINGS. N.Y. Rizzoli. 1986. SHOE. Four Centuries of Fashion Footwear. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Sl.fading Lond. Thames & Hudson. 2007. 4to. Or.bds. to spine. Profusely illustrated in colour Dustjacket. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in and black & white. Very good copy. The colour. Fine. 1st ed. “An exploration of how erotic impulse has inspired some of the major historical events, social change and most striking images in the history of art, industrialisation have influenced fashion & drawing occupies a central place in this shoe styles and production over the last tradition as sketches were often worked up hundred years.” Many photographs of into larger works. $27 actual shoes. $33 362 TILMAN, H.W. MISCHIEF 369 WAUGH, Evelyn. MEN AT ARMS. AMONG THE PENGUINS. Lond. Rupert A Novel. Lond. Chapman & Hall. 1952. Hart-Davis. 1961. Or.bds. Dustjacket. (sl. Or.cl. 314pp. (a little foxing) Name on marked, edged rubbed) 192pp. b/w plates. ffe. Cloth v.sl.rubbed else a good copy. 1st Sl. foxing else Very good copy. Colonel Tilman was a distinguished ed. Guy Crouchback has spent the 1930s mountaineer and enterprising seaman who enjoyed exploring unusual in Italy shunning the world, but returns places. 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371 WHEATLEY, Dennis. BILL FOR THE imp) Or.qt.cl. Dustjacket. 434pp. Fine. “Zizek is the thinker of choice for USE OF A BODY. Lond. Hutchinson. 1964. Europe’s young intellectual vanguard.” He is interested in the “parallax Or.bds. Dustjacket. 222pp. Fine. 1st ed. gap” separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is $25 possible. $30 372 WILSON, David M. AWFUL ENDS. AUSTRALIAN ART The British Museum Book of Epitaphs. 378 COBURN, John. COBURN - PAINTINGS. Text by Nadine Lond. The British Museum Press. 1998. (rep) Amadio. Roseville, N.S.W. 1988. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 205pp. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. b/w ills. Very Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. A selection of some of John good copy. This light-hearted anthology of Coburn’s finest paintings. $49 funeral inscriptions are gathered from all over the British Isles & includes the rude, 379 DRURY, Nevill. (Ed). NEW ART ONE. New Directions in the poetic, the humorous & the incredibly Contemporary Australian Art. Syd. Craftsman House. 1987. 4to. Bound in long epitaphs from tombstones & tombs. specially designed silkscreen fabric. 160pp. Profusely illustrated with Col. $24 plates. Good copy in the slip case. One of 75 numbered & signed copies, this copy no.28. $75 373 WOOD, Ghislaine. ART NOUVEAU AND THE EROTIC. 380 FRY, Gavin. MARGARET WOODWARD. Paintings 1950 Lond. V & A Publications. 2000. Or.bds. - 2002. Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. Introduction by Gavin Fry. Dustjacket. 96pp. Profusely illustrated Lond. The Beagle Press. 2002. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 148pp. Profusely in colour and black & white. Very illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. $135 good copy. 1st ed. The sensuous forms 381 GERMAINE, Max. ARTISTS AND GALLERIES OF & imagery of Art Nouveau often AUSTRALIA. 2 vols. Roseville. Craftsman House. 1990. Or.bds. d.w. Vol. reveal a highly charged eroticism, & 1. 420pp. Vol. 2. 412pp. Col. plates. Very good set. 1st ed. An important this attractive volume shows how Australian art reference set. $48 artists & designers exploited such 382 HART, Deborah. JOHN OLSEN. Nth. Ryde. Craftsman erotic potential to the full. $36 House. 1991. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 268pp. Dj spine sl.faded. Profusely 374 WYNDHAM, John. CHOCKY. illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by Lond. Michael Joseph. 1979. (6th imp) John Olsen. Olsen is recognised internationally as one of Australia’s most Or.bds. Dustjacket. 184pp. Fine copy significant & accomplished artists. A survey of his art & life. $175 in a fine dj. $20 383 JOHNSON, Ken. LIFE AND LANDSCAPE. Ken Johnson with 375 YOHANNAN, Kohle. Gavin Fry. St. Leonards. Craftsman House. n.d. (2000?) Folio. Or.bds. JOHN RAWLINGS. 30 YEARS Dustjacket. 199pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. IN VOGUE. N.Y. Arena Editions. Inscribed by Ken Johnson. Ken Johnson explains through text & art, how 2001. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 268pp. the opportunity to travel & experience the natural world has nourished Profusely illustrated in colour and & inspired his artistic drive in his landscape paintings. $60 black & white. Fine. 1st ed. The work 384 KOLENBERG, Hendrik. LLOYD REES ETCHINGS AND of the great fashion photographer who LITHOGRAPHS. A Catalogue Raisonne‚. By Hendrik Kolenberg. With an has more than 200 Vogue and Glamour introduction by Lou Klepac. Syd. Beagle Press. 1986. 4to. Full calf. 112pp. covers to his credit. $36 Numerous col. & b/w. ills. Fine in the slip-case. 1st ed. Special collectors’ 376 YOUNG, Eoin. edition of 100 copies numbered & signed by the artist and containing an & HUNT, James. JAMES HUNT original signed lithograph by Lloyd Rees. Scarce. $595 AGAINST ALL ODDS. Edited by 385 LINDSAY, Norman. MICOMICANA. Melb. 1979. Full leather David Hodges. Feltham. Hamlyn. gilt by the Dove Bindery. 293pp. Illustrated with over 200 splendidly bawdy 1978. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. pen drawings by Norman Lindsay. Fine in slightly rubbed solander box. Dustjacket with tape-repaired tear to 1st ed. One of 527 numbered copies. An imposing volume. Written between top edge. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Good copy. 1920 and 1950, these bawdy stories had not previously been published. British racing driver James Hunt progressed into Formula One from tour $450 car racing & Formula Three. In 1976 he won the F1 World Championship & retired from racing in 1979 to become a media commentator. $27 386 LINDSAY, Norman. PAINTINGS IN OIL. Fourteen reproductions in colour from original oil paintings and 16 half-tone plates 377 ZIZEK, Slavoj. THE PARALLAX VIEW. Five Interventions reproduced in black and white, with essays by Douglas Stewart and in the (Mis)Use of a Notion. Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press. 2006. (2nd THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected]
Norman Lindsay. Syd. Shepherd Press. 1945. 4to. Or.bds. with gilt N.L. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP decoration. Dustjacketj with NL illustration (sl.torn) 14 splendid tipped-in col. plates & 16 b/w. plates. A fine copy of the 1st ed. with the very scarce PO Box 7127 McMahons Point NSW 2060 dj.Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. $525 Phone (02) 9966 9925 Fax: (02) 9966 9926 387 McCAUGHEY, Patrick. FRED WILLIAMS. Syd. Bay Books. Email: [email protected] 1980. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 340pp. Many col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Patrick McCaughey’s study of Australia’s leading landscape painter. $75 NAME______388 OLSEN, John. MY COMPLETE GRAPHICS, 1957-1979. Introduction by Lou KLepac. Melb. Gryphon Books. 1980. 4to. Full calf with a gilt stamped Olsen design. d.w. 248pp. Numerous plates by Olsen. ADDRESS______Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce. One of 100 copies of the special edition bound in leather, signed and numbered by Olsen, and containing an original Signed, numbered Olsen etching. $650 ______P/CODE______389 OLSEN, John. MY COMPLETE GRAPHICS, 1957-1979. Introduction by Lou KLepac. Melb. Gryphon Books. 1980. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed & numbered by the artist. One of 1000 copies signed and numbered by Olsen in 1980. Pl ease send b oo k s w i t h i n v o i ce (Pos t a g e e x t ra ) $395 390 OLSEN, John. TEEMING WITH LIFE. John Olsen: His Pl ease de b i t m y cred i t card w i t h cos t o f b oo k s Complete Graphics 1957 - 2005. By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen & Jeffrey Makin. Sth Yarra. Macmillan Publishers. 2005. Folio. p l u s pos t a g e (Ti c k one b o x b e l o w ) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of John Olsen’s complete graphic work Vi sa Mas t ercard Ame x from 1957 to 2005, including his wonderful frog series. $135 391 OLSEN, John. & SMITH, Ivan. A SLIVER OF TIME. Foreword card n u m b er ______by Sir Talbot Duckmanton. Artarmon. Harper & Row. 1981. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 80pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist & with exhibition catalogue inserted. The story of a e x p i r y da t e ______kangaroo escaping a flood with text by Ivan Smith, & illustrations by John Olsen. $125 392 REES, Lloyd. LLOYD REES - ETCHINGS AND s i g na t u re LITHOGRAPHS. A Catalogue Raisonne. With an Introduction by Lou ______Klepac. Syd. The Beagle Press. 1986. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 112pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Dj with slight tears to top of spine & small water mark to top of spine. Col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Lloyd Rees CATALOGUE NUMBER 342 produced a series of lithographs & etchings over the last ten years of his ITEMS______life. $60 393 WHITELEY, Brett. ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT ______VINCENT VAN GOGH. Paintings, drawings, photographs, silkscreen ______prints, etchings and sculptures created over a period of fifteen years. Foreword by Edmund Capon. Melb. Richard Griffin. 1983. 4to. Or.cl. d.w. ______60pp. Sl foxing to cloth. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates. Slight ______warping to pages. Good copy. Brett Whiteley first came into contact with the art of Van Gogh in a tiny art book that he found on the floor of St ______Stephen’s Church in Bathurst in 1952. This copy is numbered 448 of 500 ______copies. $35 ______Back cover items: 390, 55, 153, 63, 284, 31/291, 200, 361, 317, 159/170, 21, 233, 107, 392/76, 378, 342, 388, 13, 221 ______