London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1942. Illus. Willy Pogany. Original cloth boards, blindstamped decoration upper board, gilt decoration and lettering spine, tipped-in monochrome illustrated plates, decorated text, pp 92, ii. Loosely inserted is a letter, "... a slight remembrance of a splendid night" to a discreetly unnamed correspondent, on.....
London: J.M. Dent, 1932. Octavo, oiginal cloth boards, b&w frontis. plate of Socrates, p xliv, 370. Spine faded and canted. Gift bookplate ffep, dated 1935. Pencilled underlining, occasional pencilled annotations. Good condition. Plato's Republic, translated and introduced by A.D. Lindsay.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. Octavo, decorated cloth boards [fisherman and shark design), pp 127. In the colourful wraparound pictorial jacket, small tape mark to rear flap. Near-fine condition in like clipped d.j., protected. Hemingway's classic novel, his last major work of fiction.
London: Richards Press, 1941. 16mo (pocket-size), original leather boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt lettering, top edge gilt, illustrated dustjacket, pp viii, 101. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Rubbed quite heavily to top of spine, chipped to head of spine of dustjacket, small chip and fraying edges foot of.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Octavo, decorated cloth boards [fisherman and shark design), pp 127. In the colourful wraparound pictorial jacket, lightly sunned to spine. Some light pencil marks across pages, otherwise near-fine condition in very good d.j. Hemingway's classic novel, his last major work of fiction.
Allen and Unwin, n.d. ( 1920). Illus. George Soper. Quarto, original red cloth boards illustrated with black vignettes, dustjacket, colour plates (complete with six, including the frontis), many b&w illus (text illus and full page), light stain to margin of fronts. and top edge, illustrated endpapers, pp 192. Stated second.....
London and Oxford: Henry Frowde/Longmans, Green and Co., 1891. Octavo, original flexible leather boards with gilt title spine and upper board. Each opening has three calendar days, with a devotional passage for each day on the left side and the date with blank lines underneath for an inscription on the.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, c. 1911. 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.....
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, 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.....