ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE 318 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. Every week I buy books of many different types if they appear inter- Payment is due on receipt of books. esting and I think I can sell them. Some, but not all of these, end up No reply means item sold prior to receipt of your order. being catalogued and eventually appear in my catalogues. This month, for some reason, there are quite a few cookbooks, many Unless to firm order, books will only be held for three days. by well-known, not to say famous, chefs. I doubt that many of these were ever intended to be used as recipe books by someone who is actually going to cook, though some of CONTENTS course will. They are mostly superior coffee-table books with photo- graphs to delight the eye and tantalise the taste-buds. BOOKS OF THE MONTH 1 - 29 There are many on the market and purchased new, some are indeed AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 30 - 184 quite expensive. It would certainly be a pity to have them sprinkled MISCELLANEOUS 185 - 370 with flour, greased up with butter or covered with egg yolk. Given this publishing phenomenon and the popularity of cooking shows on TV it had me thinking about our fixation with fine food. I watched an episode of Masterchef the other evening and the efforts Front cover items: of the contestants to outdo each other in the creation of fine food; the 25, 17, 29, 35, 189/ minute assessments by the judges of the food created, where minor 110, 12 (4v), 6, 2, 8 differences in taste or technique could win or lose the competition, was thought-provoking. Back cover items: How privileged we are to live in a part of the world where this is possible. Most of us have access to the finest ingredients, the best of 320, 101, 350, 85, 73/ 159, 352, 37, 337, 103, 290 equipment, and gas and power to cook, and yet there are thousands 266, 313, 137, 4, 43 / 262, 369, 153, 361(6v), 207 throughout the world where a slice of bread would be a luxury and many in Australia who August 2017 would appreciate just a square meal of the simplest kind. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email:[email protected] BOOKS OF THE MONTH 6 COLE, Keith. SEAFARERS OF THE GROOTE ARCHIPELAGO. Aborigines and Mariners of the Island off Eastern 1 ADHEMAR, Jean. & CACHIN, Francoise. DEGAS. THE Arnhem Land. Bendigo. Keith Cole Publications. 1980. 4to. Col.Ill. COMPLETE ETCHINGS, LITHOGRAPHS AND MONOTYPES. wrapps. 52pp. Wrapps a little scuffed at edges. Profusely illustrated Foreword by John Rewald. Lond. Thames in black & white. Good copy. 1st ed. The Groote Archipelago is made & Hudson. 1986. (rep) Folio. Or.cl. up of a group of islands off the central east coast of Arnhem Land. The Dustjacket. 290pp. Profusely illustrated Warnindilyakwa Aborigines were the first seafarers here, until the Dutch in colour and black & white. Very good arrived in the 17th cent. $45 Degas was one of the greatest of all copy. 7 COOK, Marc. DUCATI 1098/1198. The superbike redefined. printmakers. Here gathered together are Phoenix. David Bull Publishing. 2010. his entire output. Enormously prolific, 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. Profusely he pursued in his printed work the same illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. preoccupations as his paintings. $80 The Ducati 1098 & 1198 are brutal, powerful, 2 ASTON, Nell. RAILS, ROADS evocative, & charismatic. Designed to be as AND RIDGES. History of Lapstone close to a racing motorcycle for the street Hill - Glenbrook. For Glenbrook Public as Ducati has ever delivered, they are now School Committee. n.p. (Glenbrook?) highly collectible. $70 1988. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 147pp. b/w 8 COOKE, David. RAILMOTORS AND photographic plates & b/w ills. by the XPTs. St. James. Aust Railway Hist Soc. author. Very good copy. 1st ed. $60 1984. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 142pp. Profusely 3 BAINES, Phil. PENGUIN BY DESIGN. A cover story 1935 - illustrated in black & white with some 2005. Lond. Allen Lane. 2005. Col.Ill. colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. This wrapps. 255pp. Name & some creasing book describes the railmotors, railcars & to half title page. Profusely illustrated self propelled diesel trains of the NSW railways. It is limited to those in colour and black & white. Very good vehicles that have appeared on the railmotor register. $75 Ever since the first Penguin copy. 1st ed. 9 FLANAGAN, Richard. THE SOUND OF ONE HAND paperbacks appeared in 1935, their covers CLAPPING. Syd. Pan Macmillan. 1997. Col.Ill.wrapps. Dustjacket. have been a constantly evolving part of 425pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. The story of culture & design history. With stunning Sonja Buloh & her relationship with her father Bojan, a Slovenian illustrations, titles, & the designers. A immigrant who has escaped war torn Europe to work on the Tasmanian history. $75 Hydroelectric Scheme. Sonja returns to face her past. $75 BAUMER, Christoph. THE HISTORY 4 10 FOWLER, Gene. SCHNOZZOLA. THE STORY OF JIMMY OF CENTRAL ASIA. The age of the Silk DURANTE. Lond. Hammond & Hammond. Roads. Volume Two. N.Y. I.B. Tauris & Co 1952. Or.bds. 255pp. (a little foxing) b/w Ltd. 2014. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 398pp. plates. Good copy. Inscribed by Jimmy Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st Durante. $120 ed. The Age of the Silk Roads (200BCE - 900BCE) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network 11 FREE, Renee. FRANK AND MARGEL of interlinking trade routes, led to an HINDER 1930-1980. Syd. Art Gallery of explosion of culture. $75 NSW. 1980. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 72pp. Slight wear to edges of wrapps. Parts of preface BURGESS, C. M. THE LIVING 5 marked with highlighter. Very good copy. COWRIES. N.Y. South Brunswick. 1970. 1st ed. Signed by the artists. Published to Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 389pp. Dustjacket accompany an exhibition of works by painter with some repaired tears. Col plates & Frank Hinder, & sculpture by Margel Hinder The b/w maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. that was curated for the AGNSW in 1980. smooth, shiny, beautifully marked shells of Catalogue by Renee Free, who wrote Frank the cowries are found in the warm waters & Margel's biography. $75 of the Indian, Pacific, & Atlantic Oceans. Used for centuries in some cultures as 12 GIBBON, Edward. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE money & for personal adornment $75 ROMAN EMPIRE. Three volumes. Illustrated with the etchings of Piranesi. N.Y. The Heritage Press. 1946. Or.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. Vol. 1. 840pp. THE ANTIQUE BOOKSHOP & CURIOS Tel: 02 9966 9925 Email: [email protected] Vol. 2. 1668pp. Vol. 3. 2538pp. Marks to spine. Corners a little rubbed. b/w 18 KODA, Harold. & BOLTON, Andrew. CHANEL. The ills. Very good set. This 3 volume set of Gibbons was published by Macys Metropolitan Museum of Art. N.Y. in New York, with notes by Prof.Bury, & some splendid illustrations by Metropolitan Museum of Art NY. 2005. Gian Battista Piranesi. I'm afraid it doesn't end well for the Empire. The Folio. Or.dec.cl. Plastic wrap-around. set $95 215pp. With small tears to plastic wrapps. Profusely illustrated in colour. 13 GIUSIANA, Michael. & DUNN, Linda. BINCHE LACE. Very good copy. 1st ed. Gabrielle Graphics by Brenda Lispcomb. Lond. Dryad "Coco" Chanel was the couturiere Press Ltd. 1989. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. extraordinaire for most of the 20th 96pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. century. Attractive, ambitious, & a Very good copy. 1st ed. Binche is one of the genius of self-invention, as celebrated most intricate & delicate of bobbin laces. for her glamorous persona as for her It draws its stitches & grounds from the designs. $65 finer Belgian laces. An introduction to Binche, from simple to the complex abstract 19 LEWIS, Lucinda. (Photography). designs. $60 PORSCHE. The fine art of the sports car. Koln. Konemann. 1998. (rep) Folio. 14 GODDEN, Elaine. & MALNIC, Jutta. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 336pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Dustjacket slightly ROCK PAINTINGS OF ABORIGINAL scuffed. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good AUSTRALIA. Frenchs Forest. Reed Pty Ltd. copy. The Porsche is the ideal of everybody's idea of the quintessential 1982. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. sports car. Sleek, shiny, sexy, & very fast. With photographs by LA based Slight fading to spine. automotive photographer, Lucinda Lewis. $55 Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st 20 MEREDITH, George. THE NATURE POEMS. With 20 full- ed. In the rubbed slip-case. page pictures in photogravure by William Hyde. Westminster. Archibald Larry Jakamarra Nelson Constable. 1898. Roy.8vo. Or.buckram. 76pp. uncut. t.e.g. 20 photogravure of the Warlpiri people plates, each with tissue guard. Some foxing on endpapers and name on says that "when I look at ffe else a very good copy. Edition of 375 numbered copies. Scarce. $60 my dreaming paintings it 21 MIZUNO, Katsuhiko. COURTYARD GARDENS OF makes me feel good, happy KYOTO'S MERCHANT HOUSES. in spirit." A look at some of Translated by Lucy North. Tokyo. the rock painting from Cape Kodansha International.