![Item #99758 Battlefield Earth : A Saga of the Year 3000 [Limited Edition of 500 copies printed]....](/pictures/thumb/99758.jpg?v=1664277440)
New York: St Martin's Press, 1982. Limited first edition (first issue), an ununumbered presentation copy, one of 500 copies. Royal octavo, pp.xi, 819, foxing to t.p., fishing to gilt edges mainly upper fore-edge and lower cnr, original leather gilt ruled with raised design to front board, gilt titled spine, moire.....
![Item #99740 Tom Wesselmann [First Edition]. Slim Stealingworth](/pictures/thumb/99740.jpg?v=1664273825)
New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, b&w plates, pp 321. Near-fine in like d.j. Life and work of the pop artist, with hundreds of illustrations.
New York: Rizzoli, 2008. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, pp 284. Near fine condition in like d.j. Lavishly illustrated study of the work of the renowned pop artist, with close to three hundred colour illustrations covering his whole career.
Sydney: Chapter and Verse, 2000. Introd. Sebastain Smee. Quarto, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 112. Near fine condition in like d.j. Collection of Max Dupain's photographs of Austarlian beaches, including (on the cover) the iconic "Sunbaker" (1937), and an essay on the photograph.
Sydney: Craftsman House. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, unpag. B&w plates. Musty smell, o/w near-fine condn in like d.j. Body Form Nature. "Raw is a collection of graphic images shot around the world over the last five years. The human body is featured as a sculptural form interacting with the natural.....
Singapore: Soobin Art Int'l, 2006. Quarto, text in Chinese and English, wraps, colour plates, pp 72. Near fine condition "Icons & Symbols sketches a highly symbolic portrait of China today characterized by politics, popular culture and commerce." Catalgoue of solo exhibition by Mao Tongqiang, featuring paintings from his Logo series.....
Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1967. 8vo, pp. vii, 167, b/w photos, orig. bds, Recreation of the strike.
Perth: Artlook, 1982. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 380. Very good condition in like d.j. A history of pearling in Broome and Torres Strait.
Melbourne: Five Mile Press, 2013. 1st ed., royal octavo, pp.(viii), 295, incl. Index, b&w illus, map, orig stiff pict wraps, ink numbers to upper first page otherwise near fine condition Illustrated with many early photographs of the Thylacine. In early 1967 Col Bailey chanced upon a Tasmanian tiger while canoeing.....
![Item #99760 Albany, A Panorama of the Sound from 1827 [Signed]. Donald S. Garden](/pictures/thumb/99760.jpg?v=1664102723)
Melbourne: Nelson, 1977. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, maps, pp xii, 363. Bottom edges rubbed, some loss to corners of dustjacket with fading to d.j. spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Albany (WA) historian, Les Johnson, with another signature by author to title page. Good.....
London: Country Life, 1978. M. Grierson. Folio, pp.128, colour plates, text illus. by Mary Grierson, original burgundy cloth bds with blind-stamped vignette of Orchid to front, in cloth bound slip-case with colour plate to front. Near fine condition. [heavy book] Grierson studied under John Nash and was the botanical artist.....
Pittsburgh: St Lynn's Press. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xxii, 345. Near-fine condition. Astronomy of the ancients. Argues for a binary-star solar system.
Victoria, B.C. (Canada): Trafford Publishing, 2006. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, colour illus, pp 518. Near-fine condition. "God Star sets out to show that the sky which ancient man remembers was entirely different from the one that now stretches above us. This is demonstrated through ancient texts from all over the.....
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Soc. 19731980. Original leatherette boards with gilt, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 162. Stated Fourth Printing on title page (1973), with full-page publisher's label to reverse stating fifth printing and coyright. Theosophical Bookshop sticker front free endpaper. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in very good d.j......
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1947. K. Alexander. Subscriber's Ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket with closed tear to upper front and some loss upper spine, pp 253. Theosophical Bookshop sticker front free endpaper. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. Essays on philosophy, including the Neoplatonists and the Mystic Tradition...
![Item #99724 Abscission [Signed by author and illustrator]. Frederick T. Addicott](/pictures/thumb/99724.jpg?v=1664102719)
Berkeley (Calif.): University of California, 1982. Illus. Alice B. Addicott. 1st ed., cloth boards, b&w illus, pp xviii, 369. Presentation copy, signed by both Addicotts (author and illustrator). Near-fine condition. Examines the botanical process of the shedding of plants (leaves, fruit, flowers, etc.).
Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1977. Repr., original cloth boards, spine faded, pp xxxvi, 562. Loose protective plastic wrap. Calcutta bookshop stamp front free endpaper. Permission confirmation slip for travel on the Northern Railway (India) loosely inserted. Very good condition. Reprint of the 1920 edition: first published in 1905. The author, Charles.....
![Item #99640 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Binding by Zaehnsdorf]. Edward Fitzgerald](/pictures/thumb/99640.jpg?v=1664102718)
London: A. & C. Black, 1940. Gilbert James (Illus.) ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Reynold Alleyne. Slim octavo, half-leather boards, gilt decoration to spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, light fading to upper & lower bds., corners bumped, colour frontis plate, colour plates, text line illus every.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1919. John Tenniel (Illus.). Octavo, original cloth boards, gilt title, blind-stamped decoration, glt dec spine, , pp. vi, 215 incl adverts and 'Christmas Greetings' poem dated 1887, b&w frontis and illus by John Tenniel, b&w chess diagram. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Very good condition. Through.....
Vancouver: Miegunyah Press/University of British Columbia, 1993. 1st ed., large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xxxi, 624. Previous owner's stamp front paste-down with a typed, tipped-in presentation inscription to Anthropologist, Robert Tonkinson, signed John (Stanton) "... on behalf of Ron" (Ronald M. Berndt). Clean and unmarked. Near-fine condition.....
Canberra: Australian Institute of Cartographers, (1753) - 1985. Limited edition, No.29 of 250, engraved map, 200mm x 276mm, with the blind-stamp of the Australian Institute of Cartographers. Near fine condition Chart reproduced from a copy in the Tooley Collection, National Library of Australia. Shows Australia pre-Cook, based on Dutch discoveries.....
Canberra: Australian Institute of Cartographers, (1726) 1985. Limited edition, No.29 of 250, engraved map, 315mm x 470mm, with the blind-stamp of the Australian Institute of Cartographers. Near fine condition Chart reproduced from a copy in the Rare Map Collection, National Library of Autralia. Documenting Tasman's 1642-43 voyage in which Tasmania.....
Brisbane: Dark Grail, 2007-2011. Multiple authors. Six volumes, b&w illus. Each volume the first edition, published between 2007 - 2011, each volume approx. 280 - 310 pp in original stiff wraps. Near fine condition. Journal of the Paranormal, Forteana, Strange Science and Alternative History, Wide variety of essays on esoteric.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 1st ed. thus, 2 volumes. Octavo, pictorial boards, pp xiii, 428 ; pp xvi, 430. Both volumes in near fine condition. Volume I contains the three Theban plays:Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Volume II contains four plays: Electra, Ajax, Women of Trachis, and.....
London: The Illustrated London News, 1901. Folio, pp. 102, tipped-in frontis portrait, tipped-in b/w plates, b/w and two-tone ills., occasional minor mark but generally very clean, wraps, tail spine chipped, few tears across spine one affecting 4cm front wrap but intact, edges worn. Very good condition.