Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. First Edition. Large format hardcover (31 x 27.5cm), pp. 286, [3, blank] including frontispiece featuring Lycett’s Botany Bay, New South Wales, from Views in Australia, 1825, etching and aquatint, richly illustrated with colour reproductions of Lycett’s work; grey cloth covered boards... More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Large format hardcover (30.5 x 23.5cm), pp. xii, 227, [1, blank], richly illustrated with more than 250 images representing the work of 100 artists; navy cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated dust wrapper featuring detail from ‘Mountain Ash and... More
Medford: Apollo Press, Privately Printed for the Members of the Classics of Surgery Library, n.d. [1981?]. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (28.5 x 22cm), pp. [2], v,[5], 274; brown imitatoin leather boards with gilt borders and lettering on the spine, marbled endpapers; previously owned by Sam Mellick dated with his signature... More
Leipzi: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1913. Date Published: Edition: Complete in two volumes, both softcover octavo (16.3 x 11.8cm), Vol. 1: pp. 286, [2], Vol. 2: pp. 253, [3] + 32 pages of advertising; paper wraps with black borders and lettering, publisher’s advertising endpapers. Vol. 1: chips to head and tail, nibbling to... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 159, [1, blank]; red cloth covered boards with black embossed lettering on the spine, dust wrapper designed by Studio Stead. Shallow ding to head of spine, tail gently bruised; top and bottom edges a touch dust toned; bottom... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 12.5cm), pp. 184; red cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, dust wrapper designed by Leslie Stead. Head, tail and bottom corners gently bruised; top and bottom edges a touch dust toned, shallow ridges (1mm) on bottom edge;... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 160; red cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated dust wrapper designed by Studio Stead. Head, tail and corners gently bruised; slight spine lean; top edge a touch dust toned, bottom lightly scuffed with... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover 16mo (19 x 13cm), pp. 191, [1, blank]; orange cloth covered boards with embossed black lettering on the spine, illustrated dust wrapper designed by Studio Stead. Head and tail gently bruised and a touch sunned; top edge a little dust toned, bottom lightly... More
Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press, 1961. First Edition. Large format hardcover (29 x 21.5cm), pp. [8], 210, [2, blank], richly illustrated with 29 colour plates featuring O. H. Rippingale’s water colour illustrations of “about six hundred shells”; red morocco with lettering in gilt on the spine and shell illustration in gilt... More
Sydney and London: Bay Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (32 x 26cm), 264pp., richly illustrated in colour and black and white; blue cloth covered boards, Chinese character in gilt to top board, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dust wrapper. Wrapper is slightly curled and creased along the top edge, cloth... More
Melbourne: Queensland Art Gallery, Macmillan Publishers, 1998. First Edition. **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised the following item contains images of people who have died. Tall softcover (30 x 24.5cm), 154pp, richly illustrated. “Enwary” in pen at the foot of the half title. Conceived of in 1994 as an... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. First Edition. Octavo, hard cover (22 x 14cm), pp. iii (1, blank) 316; black cloth covered boards, lettering in argent on spine. LACKS DUST WRAPPER. Head of spine a tad brittle with a 3mm chip at the head of the front joint, starting at the... More
Great Britain: Printed by Robert Dinwiddie & Co., 1957. Limited edition; Printed for Private Circulation. Hardcover (22 x 14cm), 87pp + (1) copyright, 2 maps, several photographic illustrations; blue leather, Royal crest in gilt and gilt lettering to top board. Corners ever so slightly bumped, head and foot of spine gently... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1965. Stapled soft cover (12.5 x 10cm), 128pp, pp 18-127 with photographs showing two different shots when “flipped”; illustrated cover. Minor edgewear and light creasing to covers, staples beginning to rust. More
New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1965. Stapled soft cover (12.5 x 10cm), 128pp, pp 18-127 with photographs showing two different shots when “flipped”; illustrated cover. Light edgewear to covers, staples just beginning to rust. More
New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1965. Stapled soft cover (12.5 x 10cm), 128pp, pp 18-127 with photographs showing two different shots when “flipped”; illustrated cover. Light vertical crease to cover, light mark at foot of the ‘E’ in Littler on spine, staples have rusted leading to two small marks on..... More
London and New York: John Lane, 1901. Reprint. Flowers of Parnassus Series VIII, Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Small hardcover (14.2 x 11.5cm), pp. 39, 5 (1 blank, 2 Adverts, 1 tailpiece, I blank), black and white illustrations; leather, gilt stamped oval device on top board enclosing title in gilt, t.e.g. Re-backed... More
Loftus: Australian Military History Publications, 2001. First Edition. Softcover (21 x 15cm), pp. xiv, 226; blue wraps, signed and dated by author, Dennis Newton. Edges of text block are mostly clean with a few small brown flecks to top edge and bottom corner, otherwise clean and free from defects. Charles Gordon... More
Moscow, Paris: Flammarion, 1992. Large softcover (40 x 27.5cm), 215pp, 216 illustrations. Covers are edge-worn and corners creased, title page foxed and age toned, some soiling to the last fep and inside back cover, spray of small stains to fore edge of text block, minor foxing to lower margin of... More
Sydeny: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980. First Edition. Elephant folio (41 x 29cm), hardcover, pp. (7) 8-144, richly illustrated; white textured boards with lettering in gilt on top board and spine, illustrated dust wrapper (White Cat’s Garden), lime green endpapers. Considerable foxing to top edge of leaves and margins, most..... More
Roseville East: Craftsman House, 1995. First Edition. Large Hardcover (29 x 26cm), pp. (5) 6 – 271 (1, blank); grey boards with title in argent on spine, sunny orange endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper (front: Self Portrait with Goose Feathers; back: Morning Landscape Beechmont). Small dint (3mm – 1mm) at the... More
Collingwood, Victoria: Australian Galleries in association with Jeffrey Smart, 2008. First edition. Large format softcover with French flaps, (29.8 x 24cm), pp. (10) 11- 285 (286-288), richly illustrated. Fox mark to the ffep (recto) and small abrasion towards the fore edge (verso) with matching abrasion on next page, as though... More
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries, 2005. Art Gallery Catalogue, saddle stitched, 24pp, Illustrated dust wrapper. Loosely inserted: invitation to the Launch of the Barry Pearce monograph ‘Jeffrey Smart’ and Opening of the exhibition JEFFREY SMART by Edmond Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales AND “Additional Works” (one page folded..... More
Gold Coast: Art Galleries Schubert, 1995. Stapled art gallery catalogue, square(-ish) format (21.5 x 22.5cm), 4pp. Sam Fullbrook was an award winning painter highly regarded for his management of colour. He won the Archibald Prize in 1974 and his work is held by all the State and the National Gallery... More
Sydney: John Sands Pty Ltd., n.d. [1950s]. Folding souvenir booklet (15.5 x 10.3cm) with 8 colour and 16 black and white photographs. Features Orphan Rock Katoomba on the front cover and the Hydro Majestic, Medlow Bath on the rear cover. More