ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 326 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday

All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. Change is inevitable, however the changes we have seen in our society in the last few years have been remarkable. Payment is due on receipt of books. The institutions we have trusted for many decades have been shown No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. to have feet of clay. Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. In particular the churches and the banks are champions in the decline of morals and ethics. The churches, supposedly bastions of moral authority based on their high Christian ideals, have been shown to be wanting. The church hi- CONTENTS erarchy has been shown as being more committed to preserving their reputation than righting the wrongs of their aberrant clergy, who they BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 30 protected at almost any cost while also protecting their considerable AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 31 - 215 financial assets. MISCELLANEOUS 216 - 370 Their moral authority to pontificate over our behaviour has now evapo- rated. Regrettably their actions have also trashed the reputations of the mostly good men and women in their ranks. The banks also have been shown to be ethically wanting. Granting huge loans to people who “Blind Freddy” could have seen would never be Front cover items: able to repay them. And then seizing the assets used to guarantee the loans. All in the interests of profit. 18, 27, 19, 236(2v), 3 / They now deeply apologise but this doesn’t repair the damage done to 30, 10, 12, 8, 11 the many people emotionally or financially ruined by their behaviour. Both the churches and the banks had to be dragged screaming to public enquiries, declaring all the time that the problems were not systemic June 2018 and that they could sort out the problems internally. This was clearly a ruse to avoid the scrutiny that has manifestly revealed their misbehaviour. We live in interesting times!

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BOOKS OF THE MONTH ills. Wrappers sl.rubbed and with a few creases else a good copy. 1st p/b. ed. 1 ALDRICH, Richard J. THE HIDDEN HAND. Britain, America The Museum of Modern Art presented and Cold War Secret Intelligence. Lond. John Murray. 2001. Or.bds. an exhibition of books illustrated by Dustjacket. 733pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. After 1945 Western artists as an art form in itself. From intelligence communities grew to unprecedented size, as the threat of modern artist like Duchamp, Beuys, & future hostilities loomed. Examines the role of intelligence services in Malevich, to Gauguin, Picasso, Chagall influencing politics. $55 & Matisse. $60 2 AMUNDSEN, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE. An account 7 CLUNE, D. GREEN, A. & HOGAN, of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition D. THE ELECTORAL ATLAS OF NEW in the "Fram" 1910-1912. St. Lucia. Uni SOUTH WALES 1856 - 2006. Bathurst. of Queensland Press. 1976. (rep) Or.bds. NSW Dept of Lands. 2006. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 449pp. b/w plates. Very good Dustjacket. 181pp. Profusely illustrated copy. Roald Amundsen & the Norwegian with colour and black & white ills & South Pole expedition were the first to reach maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Bob Carr. A comprehensive the geographic South Pole in December 1911. compendium of 150 years of turbulent politics in NSW. Revealing the Their use of skis & sledge dogs ensured a political history of the state through maps & diagrams, with many trouble free journey. $125 redistribution changes over the decades. $60 3 BEIJING COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL 8 COUPER-SMARTT, John. & COURTNEY, Christine.