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Reading From Ecclesiastes
Sydney; Melbourne: Angus and Robertson, 1982. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] 44 [4 blank] : black covers with silver lettering : portrait of author to back : silver endpapers. Very tight copy; slight wear to edges and spine. This first collection of poetry by Peter Goldsworthy was winner of the..... More
Back to the Border; 2nd Battalion Group in East Timor
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover : [iv], v-x, 286pp : Teal cloth boards, lettering in gilt to spine : Photo illustrated dust-jacket : Blue endpapers : Colour photographs throughout. Some wear to head and tail of spine : General light wear to dust-jacket. More
Brush With Gondwana; The Botanical Artists Group Western Australia
Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 143 [144] : illustrations by Rica Erickson, Pat Dundas, Ellen Hickman, Penny Leech, Philippa Nikulinsky, Margaret Pieroni and Katrina Syme : foreword by Stephen D. Hopper : pictorial boards and dust jacket. Very minor bump to lower board edge at..... More
Consuming Habits; Drugs in History and Anthropology
London ; New York: Routledge, 2003. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xii, 244 : figures and tables : introduction by Andrew Sherratt : black cloth boards : argent to spine : previous owner has underlined or highlighted certain passages and written notes throughout. Very light foxing to block edges. More
[Australian Poetry]
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literature, 1967. First Edition. The first collection of Australian Poetry translated into Russian, PRESENTED to contributing poet Christopher Koch on behalf of the Art Literature Publishing by Mrs Eugenia Dobrovskaya and the USSR Australia Society, Moscow. Hardcover : pp. (4) 5-315 (316) : black and white frontis... More
With the Twenty-Second; A History of the 22nd Battalion, A.I.F.
Burridge. Limited Edition. Facsimile of the 1919 edition published by H. H. Champion, Melbourne. Limited to 200. Octavo ( 25 x 18cm),132pp and 27 illustrations as called for, Roll of Honour, a further 8 photo illustrations on the rectos only of the last 16pp, (unnumbered). Red cloth covered boards with..... More
The Man Who Stayed Below
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [1] 201 [202] : brown boards : white lettering to spine : pictorial endpapers : dark blue jacket with nautical vignette. Tail of spine gently pushed; board tail edges rubbed; jacket edge a little creased. Author's first novel..... More
The Skald Mosaic
Canberra: Open Door Press, 1975. Anne Kent. Softcover booklet : [2] [4] 31 [2] : illustrations by Anne Kent : number 276 of 370 numbered and signed copies : light grey stapled paper booklet with dragon illustration in blue. Toning to spine. More
Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata
Stata Press, 2010. Fourth Edition. Softcover, still in shrink wrap. For researchers in all disciplines who need to compute maximum likelihood estimators that are not available as pre-packaged routines. More
The Complete Plain Words
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. Eighth impression. Hardcover : pp. vi 209 [210] : plain eps : green cloth boards with black strip to spine lettered in gilt : paper dust wrapper lettered in black and red. Paper dust wrapper with minor edgewear, soiling and author's name faded on..... More
The Man I Pretend To Be; The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [vi] xxv [xxvi] [3] 254 [255] [5 blank] : introductory essay by Eugenio Montale : bi-lingual edition : blue cloth boards : argent to spine : white dust jacket illustrated with photo of Guido Gozzamo and Amalia Guglielminetti..... More
Roman Ingarden and Contemporary Polish Aesthetics Essays
Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1975. Hardcover : pp. [8] 267 [268] : English and Polish text : translated into English by the editors : frontispiece : grey cloth covered boards : white lettering : rust endpapers : cream and brown jacket. Text block edges toned and marked; tail of spine..... More
Harry Partch: Hobo Composer
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [ix] xiii [xiv] [1] 351 [354] : illustrated : tables : black cloth covered boards : gilt lettering to spine : photo illustrated jacket. Tiniest press to back tail corner of board and jacket. Harry Partch (1901-1974) was..... More
Sketches in London
United Kingdom: Dodo Press, 2009. Softcover : pp. [iv] 467 [469] : mustard and black cover with colour illustration. Sketches in London was originally published in 1837. More
The Nazarene Gospel; Being Part III (text only) of their Nazarene Gospel Restored
London: Cassell and Company, 1955. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [iv] xi [xii] 175 [3 blank] : black cloth boards : gilt to spine : pale brown unclipped jacket with lettering in red and black. Bookseller's sticker to front paste-down; head and tail of spine gently pushed; toned block edges;..... More
Red Dust; An Australian Trooper In Palestine
London - Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [1-4] 5 [6-10] 11-303 [304] : 8 pages of plates : Folded map at end : Re-bound in red-brown leather : Hard slip-case. Text block is toned and foxed : First and last few pages are foxed and then occasionaly..... More
The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones
London: Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1981. New Edition. Hardcover : pp. [6] 113 [114] : illustrated throughout : fully descriptive and annotated catalogue to the major inscriptions : cream marbled paper boards with mustard cloth spine : rich dark green endpapers : pale yellow dust jacket with portrait of David Jones..... More
Christopher Brennan; Two popular lectures delivered for the Australian English Association.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1939. Slender hardcover in original crimson cloth (no dust wrapper); lettered in gilt; pp. viii, 77 [78] 2 [blanks]; cream endpapers; foldout facsimile draft of an orginal Brennan poem; INSCRIBED on the half title to Jim Devaney from the author. Pencil note laid in dating the..... More
The Happy Valley and Other Poems
Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade. Softcover : pp. [7] 85 [88] : brown covers. Remnant of sticker to verso of front cover; light scratch marks to bottom edge of block. More
Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers; An Exposition of their Similarities of Thought and Expression. Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A.D. 1616
London: Trübner and Co., 1870. Hardcover : pp. [vii] xvi [xviii] [1] 571 [572] : frontispiece with tissue guard : illustrated including photo-lith plates : red cloth covered boards with decorative illustration in black to upper board and blind stamped to lower; decorative gilt to spine : gilt emblem to..... More
Late Postmodernism; American Fiction at the Millennium
New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vii] viii [1] 246 [248] : black boards : argent lettering to spine : jacket design by Emily Mahon. "Professor Green's Late Postmodernism should be welcomed by those who still regard literary fiction as one of the great American art..... More
Unsentimental Journey's; or, Byways of the Modern Babylon
Milton Keynes: Dodo Press, n/d (2009). Softcover : pp. [vi] 188 [192] : mustard and black illustrated cover. James Greenwood (1832-1929) was a British social explorer, journalist and writer. The Daily Telegraph on July 6, 1874, published an article written by James Greenwood, in which he reported on June 24..... More
William Yang; Stories of love and death
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. First Edition. Softcover : pp. (13) 14-191 (1, blank) : photo illustrated with 100 images from Yang's archive : illustrated covers. "William Yang: Stories of love and death considers the ways in which Yang's constantly evolving art captures the enduring power of family, friendship and connection."..... More