Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1985. Don Bachardy. Limited Edition. Cloth. Quarto (302 x 248 mm.), [48 leaves, most printed on one side only], all illustrations, cloth in dustjacket. Very good, light foxing throughout, in very good dustjacket, tiny tears to uppper and lower spine, now protected by plastic cover. Don Bachardy...
London: Adam Islip, 1629. Full calf. Sixmo (298 x 200 mm.), [6] 648 [18] pp., engraved title page by T. Cecill, index, full calf, 5 false raised bands with gold rules either side. Good, rebacked (since split externally) with corner repairs, binding chipped, scratched and scraped, paper browned at edges...
London: Thames and Hudson, c. 1964. Quarto (285 x 237 mm.), 208 pp., 32 colour plates and 118 black and white plates, bibliography, exhibitions list, original cloth in col. ill. dustjacket. Good, light soiling to endpapers and light foxing throughout, all edges browned, top edge marked, dust jacket foxed on...
Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. Octavo (241 x 162 mm.), xv, 318 pp., index, bibliographical references, glossy paper covered boards, cover lightly rubbed else fine. "Advertising claims that food is natural, without additives or artificial ingredients including flavorings have taken on great importance in marketing...The first section of this...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, c. 1994. Octavo (242 x 164 mm.), xiii, 287 pp., index, bibliography, boards covered in glossy ill. paper. Very good, few marks on endpapers, cover lightly faded, more so on spine. "The art of creating perfumes was, for centuries, steeped in mystery. Over the...
London: The British School at Rome, 1995. Cloth. Octavo (254 x 180 mm.), xviii, 317 pp., cloth in dustjacket. Spotting to top edge, spine somewhat sunned, now protected in plastic cover, near fine. The record of an international conference on wine and society in the ancient world. Themes include the...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1920]. Original cloth. Octavo (242 x 170 mm.), xix, 468 pp., 18 pp. of plates, some folded, ill., maps, portraits, diagrams, original cloth with the rising sun tooled in gold on front board. Covers marked, spine faded, now protected by plastic cover, all edges browned, title...
1857: John Henry and James Parker, Oxford. New edition. Full leather. Together with 'The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue to be used by Sick and Dying Persons, or by others standing in their attendance. To which are added Rules for the Visitation...
Thames and Hudson in association with Dumont, 2006. Hardcover. Quarto (300 x 240 mm.), ill., portraits, paper covered boards in dustjacket. As new in like dustjacket. Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet who was a pioneer of the Dade and Surrealist movements. He is...
Sydney: 466-462 Squadron Association, 1992. Cardboard covers. Octavo (258 x 154 mm.), [v], 136, [3]pp., ill., maps, diagrams, plasticized card wrappers. Includes index of operations and crews, list of awards. Near fine, mild spotting to top edge. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Airforce was formed at Driffield in the UK in...
Paris: ACR Édition, c. 2001. Hardcover. Quarto (285 x 260 mm.), 588 pp., ill, portraits, bibliography, paper covered boards in illustrated dustjacket with matching heavy card slipcase, ribbon placemarker. As new, upper spine corners slightly bumped. Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) was a Japanese painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who...
New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. Cloth. Complete in two volumes. Volume I: Being An Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the world with knife, fork and spoon. Including: A company of hand-picked receipts, each one beloved and notable in its place, collected faithfully on three voyages and a quarter million miles...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. First Edition. cloth. Octavo, 19.6 x 12.4cm, (8), 54pp., (2) blank, top edge dye, illustrations by Waugh himself and A. Canova. Red cloth covers. Tan dust jacket with illustration in red. Previous ownership circular stamp on title page and inside flap of dust-jacket.
Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2007. Paperback. Octavo (230 x 183 mm.), vii, 263 pp., ill., index of photographers, further reading list, card wrappers with 55 mm. paper wrapper with author and title printed on it. Near fine, has label of Art Gallery Library on back endpaper. Catalogue of an exhibition...
Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2017. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Octavo (283 x 210 mm.), 272 pp., ill., bibliography, loosley inserted is a 16 pp. booklet of reproductions of drawings (150x 100 mm.) sewn through the spine. Illustrated card wrappers in open spine binding with drafting paper (233mm high) wraparound with...
Dandenong, Vic: Kenwalk, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (210 x 148 mm.), vi, 199 pp., ill, maps, facsimiles, glossary, pp. 12a-12d separately printed and loosley inserted, plasticized card wrappers. Very good, light foxing to top edge. The Australian Corps of Signals was established in 1925 with the 3rd Division Signals...
Kingsgrove, NSW: 2/10 Australian Field Ambulance Association, c. 1985. Paperback original. Octavo (183 x 125 mm.), 304 pp., ill., maps, ill. card wrappers. Very good, edges lightly spotted, upper front cover corner creased. Name of previous owner written and stamped on half title page. 2/10 Australian Field Ambulance was formed...
[Canberra]: National Gallery of Australia, 2018. Original cloth. Quarto (335 x 260 mm.), 304 pp., ill., index, cloth in dust jacket. As new. Published in association with an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Australia 30 March - 22 July 2018. Sumputously illustrated with superb photographs of the works.
Milan: Skira editore, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (290 x 250 mm.), 302 pp., ill., bibliography, padded pictorial paper covered boards. As new. A pictorial hisory of the life of Grace Kelly as both movie star and Princess. Published on the 25th anniversary of her death on the occasion of...
Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen, 1999. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (260 x 185 mm.), xvi, 928 pp., index, extensive bibliographical references for each chapter, glossy paper covered boards. Very good, cover lightly soiled and scratched, bump to lower back cover. "All aspects of the flavor industry are covered in this new edition...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1992, 1994 printing. Original cloth. Octavo (242 x 165 mm.), x, 323 pp., ill., bibliography, glossy ill. paper covered boards in matching dustjacket. Appendixes include a list of 1300 modern fragrances and perfume recipes and formulas. Near fine (spotting to top edge) in good dust jacket...
Niles, Illinois: Argus Communications, c. 1974. First Edition. Octavo (267 x 160 mm.), 559 pp. Cloth in colour dustjacket. Very good in good dust jacket, edges spotted, dj rubbed and scratched with chipping from upper and lower edges, now protected in plastic cover. A cult classic. Speculative fiction about a....
Glenhuntly: 57/60th Battalion (AIF) Association, 1991. First Edition. cloth. Octavo, 24.8 x 17.2cm, 352pp., ill., green cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, green dust jacket (lightly creased) with shoulder patch, photograph and honours. Previous ownership sticker on front paste down. Volume two begins in 1930 when the two units...
Swanbourne: John Burridge Military Antiques, 2000. Revised Edition. Fine. Tall octavo, 29.7 x 21cm, 289pp, black and white photograaphic illustrations, maps. Marine blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to top cover and spine, glossy illustrated jacket depicting The Battle of Retino, oil painting by Vernon James. "First published in...
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2017. illustrated paper covered stiff boards. square octavo, 23 x 23 cm, 212 pp., ill. A fully illustrated catalogue of the complete set of 100 etchings, engravings and aquatints known as the Vollard Suite, made by Picasso between 1930 and 1937. They are named after...
