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John Shirlow: Ten Etchings
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Shirlow
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 2005.Portfolio of ten etchings printed directly form Shirlow’s plates accompanied by an essay in letterpress by the publisher, Robert C. Littlewood, and a photographic frontispiece. The portfolio created by master Brisbane binder Fred Pohlmann in the style of Shirlow’s 1904 folio Five Etchings. Each etching titled in pencil and stamped with a facsimile signature. The etchings are of eight views of Melbourne, one of Sydney Harbour, and one of Hobart. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the publisher. This copy with the letterpress prospectus.
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New York Nowhere: Meditations and Celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital
AU$6,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Dutton; John Olsen
Melbourne: The Lytlewode Press, 1998.One of 30 deluxe copies from the total edition of 175 numbered copies signed by John Olsen and Robert Littlewood containing ten original signed etchings by John Olsen. The deluxe issue bound in brown kangaroo leather by Friedhelm Pohlmann also contains a tipped in sheet of original manuscript by the poet, ten original photographs of the artist and the poet signed by the publisher, five pieces of typescript correspondence hand signed by the publisher, 2 additional unsigned Olsen etchings, and an envelope containing a CD of Dutton reciting his poem. The recording of the CD made only weeks before Dutton’s death. New York Nowhere was Dutton’s last literary work, reflecting on the poet’s stroke and recovery in a New York hospital. Also included is the original prospectus and The Australian Magazine Dec 12-13, 1998 with the cover story on this work.
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Russell Drysdale, 1912-81
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Smith
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997. -
Stripperama
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Larter; Kelly Gellatly
Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2002.Catalogue of an exhibition 18 May – 28 July, 2002.
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Sundry notes & papers: being the recently discovered notes and documents of the Natural & Instinctive Bestiality Research Expedition, collected and collated under the title BUMBOOZIANA.
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Friend
Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1979.An extravagantly illustrated reproduction of Donald Friend’s most famous and important illustrated manuscript. Bumbooziana is a fantastic, exotic, and erotic journey through foreign lands, illustrated by all manner of wild and outrageous acts of wanton sexual abandonment. Limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, this one of the few additional hors commerce copies, signed by Friend and also inscribed by the publisher, Richard Griffin, To Jim, likely Jim Walker of the Croft Press, and specially bound in a striking three-quarter morocco housed in a custom felt lined clamshell.
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The Geology and Geomorphology of the Portland Area
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartN. Boutakoff
Melbourne: Department of Mines, 1963.Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir No. 22.
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North Queensland Gold ’89 Conference
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAustralian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Melbourne: Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1989.A conference focused on the gold exploration, mining and processing industry of North Queensland. 18-20 April, 1989.
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Street Seen: A History of Oxford Street
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClive Faro; Garry Wotherspoon
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. -
Every Hill Got a Story: We Grew Up In Country
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarg Bowman; The Central Land Council
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2015.Men and Women of Central Australia and the Central Land Council. Every Hill Got A Story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia’s Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages.
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Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis (Fauna of Australia Volume 4A Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula)
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPamela L. Beesley; Graham J. B. Ross; Christopher J. Glasby
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2000. -
Wild Flowers of Western Australia
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEmily H. Pelloe
Melbourne: C. J. DeGaris Publishing House, 1921. -
An Infamous Army
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1953.Regency romance.
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The Corinthian
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1950.Regency romance. The first Australian Edition, originally published in 1940.
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Felicity
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Le Monde
Melbourne: Circus Books, 1978.Novelisation of the 1979 Australian sexploitation film, Felicity. A teenage Catholic boarding school student travels to Hong Kong and has an erotic time. Directed by John D. Lamond and starring Glory Annen, Christopher Milne, and Joni Flynn.
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Stir
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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Emit fo Yrotsreh Feirb A / A Brief Herstory of Time
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Melbourne: Inspiral Multimedia Press, 2003.An Exploration of Time, Fate and Spider Magicks. One of the signed and numbered first edition (The Hecate Edition) of 100 copies.
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Studies in Indonesian Music
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMargaret J. Kartomi
Melbourne: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1978.Monash Papers on Southeast Asia – Number Seven. 3 papers by David Goldsworthy, Catherine Falk, and Bronia Kornhauser, edited by Margaret J. Kartomi.
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A Guide to Australian Cheese
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJosef Vondra
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1978.The revised edition updated after the author toured Australia visiting major manufacturers and factories.
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Ocean and Isle
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Edgar Geil
Melbourne: WM. T. Pater & Co., 1902.Accounts of Pacific missions by American evangelist, explorer, lecturer, photographer, and author William Edgar Geil (1865-1925). Illustrated with 100 full page engravings, technically 94 plates with 6 being double-paged. Geil is best known for his evangelistic travels, which took him to China, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Rim and South Seas. He is considered one of the important explorers of his generation. In addition to his writings, Geil lectured extensively with numerous photographs of packed theatres present in this work. Geil married later in life and had no children. His widow, Constance, survived him until the late 1950s. In 1959 his estate was sold at public auction including the contents of his library, which was purchased by a Bucks County book dealer “Gus” Gustafson. It remained in his possession until shortly after his death in February of 2008.
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The Plastic Banknote: From Concept to Reality
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Solomon; Tom Spurling
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2014.