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Pictorial Bookplates; Their origin; and use in Australia
Sydney: Privately Printed, The Beacon Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (9) 10-144 (2) : 86 illustrations (five coloured) of which 41 are tipped in and of these, three are signed by the artists : signed by Barnett at the limitation page : plain e.pe : untrimmed : marble..... More
Pictorial Bookplates; Their origin; and use in Australia
Sydney: Privately Printed, The Beacon Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (9) 10-144 (2) : 86 illustrations (five coloured) of which 41 are tipped in and of these, three are signed by the artists : signed by Barnett at the limitation page : plain e.p.s : untrimmed : marble..... More
Jeffrey Harris; Recent Work 30 March - 21 April 1989
Fitzroy: Deutscher Gertrude Street. Softcover stapled catalogue : 20pp. : colour illustrations : slightly textured cream card covers lettered in dark brown : invitation to opening loosely laid in. Corners starting to soften. Jeff Harris is a New Zealand who lived and worked in Melbourne in the 1980s. More
The Semiotic Challenge
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. First English Language Edition. Softcover : pp. [v] vi [3] 293 [5 blank] : maroon cover with yellow title. Age toned block edges; light scratch marks to cover. More
The Hidden Face and Other Poems
Sydney: Beacon Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover : pp.[1-6], 7-64 : Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies of which this is no.302 : Pale green/blue cloth boards : Black lettering to spine : Previous owner's name written in pen on front free-endpper. Some staining and wear to boards; corners..... More
Jubilee History of Queensland; A Record of Political, Industrial, and Social Development. From the Landing of the First Explorers to the close of 1909
Brisbane: H. J. Diddams & Co., [n.d.]. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [xii] 388 : one colour plate : photo illustrated throughout : plain red cloth covered boards double ruled in blind. Lacks original wrappers; lightly shaken; red cloth appears slightly shiny as thought painted/varnished; one spot to the top..... More
Modern Data Science with R
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xxvi, 551 [11 blank] : red boards with white lettering. Tail of spine gently pushed. More
Collected Poems; James K. Baxter
Wellington, N.Z: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover : pp. [iv] xxvii [xxx] [2] 656 [ 2 blank] : black cloth boards : gilt to spine : black and mustard dust jacket with bold rose lettering. Light foxing to top edge; top edge of jacket a little folded. ''James K. Baxter (1926..... More
A Memoir of Jacques Cartier sieur de Limoilou; His voyages to St. Lawrence. A Bibliography and a Facsimile of the Manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. Octavo (248 x 170 mm.), ix, 464 pp., 29 ill., index, bibliography, facsimiles, genealogy (folding), maps (2 folding), cloth with paper label on spine, top edge gilt. Good, binding including spine label and feps soiled, corners and fore edges bumped, internal hinges cracking..... More
Pregnant Shadows; Poems
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] 44 : mustard cover with drawing by Greta Williams. Minor wear to cover. Taner Baybars, who also wrote under the name Timothy Bayliss, was a Cyprus-born British poet, translator and painter. More
Selected Works of Konrad Bayer
London: Atlas Press, 1986. First English Language Edition. Softcover : pp. [iv] [1] 153 [156] : illustrated with-in text : blue illustrated cover designed by Alastair Brotchie. Brown stain marks to last few pages; minor edge-wear to cover. Perhaps the most successful book, aesthetically speaking, of the early Atlas publications..... More
Robert Herrick's ''Hesperides'' and the Epigram Book Tradition
Baltimore ; London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] viii [2] 272 : frontispiece : illustration of the title Robert Herrick's Hesperides, 1648 edition : rose cloth boards : gilt to spine : beige dust jacket with profile illustration Minor edge-wear to jacket head..... More
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery : Five Volumes in Four and Portfolio [offered with] Cook and the Russians.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967; 1968; 1969; 1974. First Thus. [CHARLES BATESON'S COPY] Hardcover : Volume I The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771: pp. (2) [iv] cclxxxiv [cclxxxvi] [1] 696 : 45 illustrations and maps; Volume II The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775 : [2 blank] (4) clxx..... More
Natural Products as Medicinal Agents; Plenary Lectures of the International Research Congress on Medicinal Plant Research Strasbourg, July 1980
Stuttgart: Hippokrates, 1981. Hardcover : pp. 526 (2, publisher adverts) : plain eps : green boards lettered in black and white. Copious notes in pen and pencil to the eps, otherwise unmarked; minor foxing to the edges of the block; boards lightly soiled. More
Death's Directives
Sydney: Prism Books, 1978. Softcover : 68pp. : front cover and spine lettered in black : front cover red and black pattern from Maori blanket design "loosely meaning 'Stairs to the sky' : INSCRIBED by Beaver to Jones on the title page. Lower corners bumped, top edge top cover lightly creased;..... More
Death's Directives
Sydney: New Poetry, 1978. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [6] 68 : white cover with red and black Maori blanket design : publisher's note to previous owner loosely inserted Corner of cover has faint fold crease at head. More
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Masterworks
London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [3] 199 [200] : profusely illustrated throughout : colourfully illustrated boards and jacket. Light shelf-wear; head of spine gently pushed; jacket edges creased. Dazzling, jewel-like, intricate, radiant - just some of the words to descibe Louis Comfort Tiffany's beautiful artworks..... More
Professional Scala
Indianapolis: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. Softcover : pp. [ix] xviii, 222 : red cover with soccer illustration. Edges of cover a little rubbed. More
Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians
London: Chapman and Hall, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [i-v], vi-viii, 1-214, [215-216] : Diagrams and tables : Red illustrated boards : Previous owner name written on first paste-down and back cover. Edges foxed but clean throughout. Part of the Conversation Biology Series. More
Select Poems; Divine and Humane
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Limp parchment covers lettered in gilt : pp. (14) 51 (52) viii, notes and colophon (6) : handmade Van Gelder paper (untrimmed) : pigskin thongs : no. 197 of 1250 copies. Parchment is slightly marked. More
Out of the Woods into the Sun
Stockholm: Kamini Press, 200. Beining. Staplebound wraps. Kamini Press Art Series No.1. Stapled small press chapbook with illustrated front cover by Henry Denander, unpaginated (32pp comprised of 7 sheets of cream pages folded between orange endpapers). Signed by the Denander on the copyright page and by Beining on the title..... More
By George Belcher
London: Alston Rivers, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 80 : title page signed by the artist and numbered 130 of 200 : tipped in plate to title page : illustrated throughout : re-backed : blue cloth boards with blind stamped double border and gilt lettering. Corner and edges..... More
Uniforms, Organization and History of the Panzertruppe
San Jose: R. James Bender Publishing, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [1] 336 : illustrated throughout : cover art and full colour tank renderings by Uwe Feist : foreword by Hasso von Manteuffel : black cloth boards, illustrated. Rubbing to spine; light foxing to text block edges. More
Orientalist Aesthetics; Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa
Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London: University of California Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (2) [viii] xxi [xxii] 352 [360] : 16 plates : 123 figures : deep claret cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : jacket design by Sandy Drooker with artwork by Charles Dufrense. Faintest..... More