London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Square small octavo, original red leather boards with gilt decoration and lettering upper board and spine, top edge gilt, frontis portrait plate of Ruskin, decorated title page, all pages with green border, pp 144. N.d., c. 1911. Gift inscription front free endpaper.....
London: William Tegg, 1858. Full leather binding, gilt decoration and lettering spine, raised bands, blindstamped decoration and gilt decoration boards, all edges gilt, b&w plates, pp xi, 576. Engraved frontis author plate, and engraved plates by artists including Turner, with tissue guards. Professionally restored, with original backstrip laid over new.....
London: Reprint Society, 1942. Octavo, original cloth boards, worn dustjacket with some loss and repairs to edges and corners, publisher's tint black top edge, pp 443. Very good condition in good d.j., protected. Novel based on Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War first published in 1940 by Jonathan Cape.....
Perth: Elizabeth Foster, 2021. Oblong, stiff pictorial wraps, colour plates, pp 134. Includes loosely inserted 16 pp pamphlet, "Background Anecdotes to 'A Bird's Eye View'", (describing life as an air hostess on a small airline in the 1960s). Near fine condition. Photographs taken from the air through the window of.....
Dover, 1984. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps. 56 colour plates. Near fine condition. A selection of Erte's best work. The Seven Deadly Sins, The Four Emotions, The Zodiac, At the Theatre, and more. Erté (Romain de Tirtoff 1892 - 1990)is recognised as one of the foremost fashion and theatrical designers of.....
New York: DC Comics, 2000. Original pictorial wraps, colour illus throughout, pp 128. Small ripples top edge of front cover. Very good condition. Collects the first five issues of the DC Vertigo-published comic 100 Bullets. The series won the Eisner Award and Harvey Award.
Sydney: Geographical Society of Australasia / F. Cunninghame & Co., 1885. 1st ed., octavo, original printed brown wraps, pp 80. Very small chips to edge, repaired. Very good condition An important report of the activities of the New Guinea Exploration Expedition of 1885, which was a scientific, collecting and anthropological.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1986. Royal octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, b&w illus, pp 136. Very minor edgewear, clean, near-fine condition. "A Journey into Rasta". The author's travels in Ethiopia, copiously illustrated with black and white photographs, with some historical background on Ethiopia, Jamaica, and colonialism.
Perth: Art Collective WA, 2023. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps with French flaps, colour illus, pp 196. Fine condition. The first major artist monograph about George Haynes, In Search of Painting illustrates the artist's influential, 60-year career as a painter, teacher and mentor with over 150 colour photographs. The publication also.....
Perth: Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (Non-Party) League of Women Voters, 1927-1932. Ten issues of "The Dawn", published between 1927 and 1932, each in original wraps illustrated with advertisements. each 8 to 12 pp. Crease marks, some rusting to staples, occasional light marks. The issues are: Vol. 8, no.....
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Perth: The Campaign to Save Native Forests (WA), 1976. Limited Edition Number 62, Oblong Folio, pp. (28) unpag., full-page b/w ills on art paper, b/w text ills., signed by both author and artist, original black cloth boards. Near fine condition. Collection botanical prints of produced by Susan Tingay, accompanied by.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Trans. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, pp 48. Near-fine condition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Trans. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, pp 48. Near-fine condition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Trans. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, pp 48. Near-fine condition.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Trans. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. Quarto, pictorial wraps, colour illus, pp 48. Near-fine condition.
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1893. Octavo, original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering, b&w illus, pp 150 plus publisher's ads. Original remains of paper title label restored and laid down over spine. Very good condition. Treatise on carpentry and making roofs, with many diagrams. George Collings was.....
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1890. Octavo, original cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering, b&w illus, pp 168 plus 56 pp publisher's ads. Original paper title label restored and laid down over spine. Very good condition. Treatise on carpentry, with many diagrams.George Collings was a notable carpenter and.....
New York: Dover, 1978. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps. 50 colour plates. Near fine condition. A selection of Erte's best graphic work. Erte (Romain de Tirtoff 1892 - 1990)is recognised as one of the foremost fashion and theatrical designers of the twentieth century.
Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1963. Small octavo, original stiff pictorial wraps, pp 158. Wraps very worn, small chips head and foot of spine. Most pages have occasional marks apart from the making marmalades section which is heavily stained (presumably with marmalade). Chutney recipe handwritten inside back cover. Worn, fair.....
Wangara, WA: Swan Genealogy, 2023. Quarto, stiff illustrated wraps, colour illus, pp 65. Near fine condition. A detailed study of the European cemetery at Rottnest. Includes many photographs,
Perth: Department of Mines and Petroleum/Geological Survey of Western Australia, 2013. Quarto, wraps, colour illus, maps, pp xix, 306. Minor edgewear, clean, near-fine condition. Copiously illustrated resource on virtually all gemstones and decorative stones used in jewellery and ornamental sculpture in WA. Includes diamonds, beryl, topaz, tourmaline, tektites, quartz and.....
Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia: King Fahd Complex for the Printing of The Holy Qur-an, c. 1990. Quarto, original leather boards decorated with gilt all sides. coloured decorative borders text, pp zl, 2082, (x)., some chipping along first page other clean. Ribbon marker. N.d., c. 1990. Near-fine condition. The Qur-an, with.....
Chicago: University of Illinois, 1985. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, bibliography, index, pp 223. Minor edgewear, clean, near-fine condition in like d.j. A study of the films of Val Lewton, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie. The Leopard Man, the Seventh Victim, the Ghost Ship, The Body.....
London: Methuen, 1955. Illus E.H. Shepard. Octavo, cloth boards with gilt decorations upper board (Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh), dutjacket, b&w illus, endpaper maps, pp ix, 159. Small chips and small closed tears dustjacket, light fading to d.j. spne repaired and protected. Very good condition. Charming classic, with the E.H. Shepard.....
London: Collins, 1954. Edited with an introduction and notes by Edmund Blunden. Octavo, original flexible leatherette boards with gilt to spine, b&w author portrait frontis, dec endpapers, pp 639. With the boookplate of Sir Victor Garland [the Australian politician] and Lady Garland. Very good condition. Comprehenive collection of Shelley's poetry.....