ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 305 The Antique Bookshop & Curios ABN 64 646 431062 Phone Orders To: (02) 9966 9925 Fax Orders to: (02) 9966 9926 Mail Orders to: PO Box 7127, McMahons Point, NSW 2060 Email Orders to: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au Books Held At: Level 1, 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest 2065 Hours: 10am to 5pm, Thursday to Saturday All items offered at Australian Dollar prices subject to prior FOREWORD sale. Prices include GST. Postage & insurance is extra. It is a sad fact that libraries are discarding unwanted books at a great rate Payment is due on receipt of books. these days. Perhaps some are worn out from use, others have content which No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. is dated so their useful life is at an end. Many have just fallen by the wayside because of the march of technology, readers preferring electronic delivery Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. of texts. There is also a trend to minimalism in homes, so many books are seen as “clutter”; after you’ve read them (or even if you haven’t) why not remove them? CONTENTS How to do this though? Some libraries have received negative publicity by BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 26 burying their unwanted books in large holes, others recycle them so they are AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 27 - 187 pulped and at least are then turned into something else useful. HONG KONG 188 - 206 A whole new art form has arisen as a result of the large quantity of unwanted LEGAL CLASSICS LIBRARY 207 - 216 books. Artists, particularly in Europe, are turning books into works of art or even room-filling installations, some of them quite unusual and attrac- MISCELLANEOUS 217 - 453 tive. There are many YouTube videos giving instructions on how to turn books into art; and many, though not all, rely heavily on the Japanese art of Origami, or paper folding. Front cover items: One British artist turns books into jewellery and his creations can be seen 313, 23, Legal Classics group, 24/ currently in New York at the RR Gallery as part of a group exhibition entitled 13, 15, 419, 147, 26 “Read and Worn: Jewelry from Books”. Back cover items: There have even been books published on art created using old books. 430, 19, 374,78, 60,10 / 407, 28, 225(2v), 421, 385/ So when you’ve finished with your books you 159, 145, 445, 27, 206, 18/ 175, 182, 420, 292, 439, 447 know what to do! April 2016 THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] Green & Co. 1895-1896. (7th ed & 6th ed.) Or.dec.cl. xviii,481;xviii,458pp. BOOKS OF THE MONTH Many b/w ills. Very good set. The Badminton Library series. $110 1 AUSTRALIAN EX LIBRIS SOCIETY. YEAR BOOK 1934. 7 (COBBOLD, Rev. Richard.) THE HISTORY OF MARGARET Syd. Beacon Press. 1934. 8vo. Or.wrapps. 48pp. 10 tipped-in bookplates CATCHPOLE. A Suffolk Girl. With illustrations. Three volumes. Lond. including the two-colour plate for Ethleen Palmer by George Perrotet. Henry Colburn. 1845. Half calf & marbled bds. 11 ills. of bookplates. Fine. Scarce. Edition of 250 numbered copies. (rubbed) 316,291,284pp. 8 engraved plates. Some $135 foxing and browning else a good copy of the rare 3 Margaret Catchpole was convicted 2 BATTARBEE, Rex. MODERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL volume 1st ed. of stealing a horse from her employer in a bid ART. Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1958. (2nd ed) Or.cl. 55pp. plus 20 colour to help her smuggler lover. She was transported plates. Very good copy. Long inscription by Frank Clune on ffe. He says that he’s off to Alice Springs to unveil a headstone to his “old cobber” to NSW, where she was eventually pardoned & became a respected citizen of Richmond. Albert Namatjira. All the Hermannsburg artists discussed in this book Ferguson are Aranda men, from the “Hermannsburg School of Native Painting”. 4009. $1100 With a b/w photo of Namatjira’s grave stone. $60 8 COTTON, Squadron Leader M.C.”Bush”, DFC. HURRICANES OVER BURMA. 3 BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD The Story MANAGEMENT. Containing information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, of an Australian Fighter Pilot in the Royal Air Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Force. Oberon. Titania Publishing. 1988. Or.Col. Coachman, Valet, Parlour-Maid... Ill.wrapps. 312pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. Inscribed by the author and with Facsimile of the first edition. Lond. 1st ed. Scarce. a typewritten letter inserted with his signature. Jonathan Cape. 1968. Qt.leather with cloth sides. 1112pp. Colour frontispiece and title The very scarce first edition! $195 and colour plates internally. Many b/w 9 EDWARDS, Deborah. ills. Sl. foxing on foredge else a very good RUPERT BUNNY. ARTIST IN PARIS. copy. Facsimile of the very scarce first With Denise Mimmocchi, David Thomas edition of the classic household guide. and Anne Gerard. Syd. AGNSW. 2009. $65 Folio. Or.colour-illustrated limp boards. 4 BELL, Gertrude Lowthian. THE 224pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. Produced in conjunction with a DESERT AND THE SOWN. With 1st ed. Rupert Bunny exhibition at the Art Gallery many illustrations and a map. Lond. of NSW. William Heinemann. 1907. Rebound $75 cloth. xvi,347pp. uncut. b/w plates and 10 GARNER, Helen. MONKEY illustrations. Large folding map. Sl. foxing GRIP. Melb. McPhee Gribble. 1977. Or.cl. else a very good copy of the very scarce Dustjacket. 245pp. Bookseller’s stamp on 1st ed. A journal of Bell’s 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land ffe & sl.foxing to edges, else a very good of warring tribes under Turkish control. She aims to give an account of copy. 1st ed. Signed by Helen Garner on the the people she met to show what their world is like. $295 title page. $60 5 BOXER, C.R. FIDALGOS 11 GAUNSON, A.B. COLLEGE IN THE FAR EAST. Hong Kong. STREET HEROES. Old Sydneians in the OUP. 1968. Or.canvas, Dustjacket. Great War. Syd. Syd. Grammar School 298pp. b/w plates. Dj sl.torn Press. 1998. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 136pp. b/w else a very good copy. 1st ed. plates. Signed by the author who was the Scarce. Research on Macau and Senior History Master at SGS. Very good its history, centred around typical copy. 1st ed. Part of the Studies in Early personalities of the time. Oxford Australian History and Letters series. in Asia Historical Reprints. $195 $75 6 CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, 12 HARRIS, Walter Kilroy. OUTBACK H. FISHING. VOLUMES 1 & 2. IN AUSTRALIA. Or Three Australian SALMON AND TROUT. With Overlanders. Letchworth & Newcastle. Harris & So 1913. (2nd ed.) PIKE AND OTHER COARSE Or.cl. 224pp. b/w plates. Some foxing. Photograph of Harris tipped to FISH. 2 vols. Lond. Longmans endpaper. Very good copy. With a large quantity of ephemera mostly THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] related to Harris’s war for the West during the China trade period. service. (Captain) Harris $75 was 5 years in military 15 JAMES, Charles E. A PIONEERING PARSON IN THE service, spending 2 years in RIVERINA. Rev.John Dykes and his work. Syd. John Andrew & Co. the trenches in WWI & being 1933. Or.qt.cl. & lettered bds. 82pp. Frontispiece portrait. Sl. foxing else decorated four times for a very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. $95 bravery. He was Mentioned 16 JONES, Paul (Illustrator) THE CAMELLIA. Edited by Beryl in Despatches, won the Leslie Urquhart. With 3 reproductions from paintings by Raymond Boothe DSO and the MC with 2 and 17 reproductions from paintings by Paul Jones. Sharpthorne (Sussex). bars. There are 6 postcards 1956. Folio. Or.hf.cl. Dustjacket. 20pp. + 20 splendid coloured plates, to a Revd.D.C.Hughes in each with a page of descriptive text. Fine. 1st ed. With THE CAMELLIA Australia, 2 letters to him, VOLUME II. With 2 reproductions from paintings by Raymond Booth & and two greeting cards, one 14 reproductions from paintings by Paul Jones. Sharpthorne. 1960. Folio. a Xmas card from the Front Or.bds. Dustjacket. 10pp. + 16 splendid Col.plates. 1st ed. The djs of both in 1917 with a humorous vols a little torn & chipped else a Very good set. $175 cartoon, and the other from the Paris Peace Conference 17 KEIL, Robert. COLLECTING AUSTRALIAN POT LIDS. in 1919, both signed by Whyalla, SA. The author. 1981. Roy.8vo. Harris. One letter is on the Col.Ill.wrapps. 219pp. Col.& b/w ills. letterhead of R.M.S.Ormonde. Harris says “Homeward bound at last...” Sl.foxing to edges, else a Very Good copy. and later “Birdwood on board and no wonder he is popular with the Anzacs 1st paperback ed. Scarce. An important from what I’ve seen of him...” There is a prospectus for a 3rd ed of ‘Outback reference. $60 in Australia’ & numerous newscuttings. A 3pp handwritten letter from 18 LAYDEN, Tania & MILLS, Deborah. Harry Harris, his father, to Hughes talking about Walter’s war service. KAMBALA: 125 YEARS. A VISUAL There is also a prospectus for his book “Killing Germans” which appears JOURNEY. Rose Bay. Kambala. 2012. never to have been published but seems to have been a favourite topic Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. unpag. Profusely of his. He gave a lecture on the subject in the USA, reported in ‘The illustrated in colour and black & white. Daily Republican’ of Rushville, Indiana on Aug 10, 1918, in which he Fine. 1st ed. The well known girls’ waxed enthusiastic about “New methods of Hun killing” At that time, a school.