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Swiss Carvings: The Art of the Black Forest, 1820-1940
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Arenski; Simon Daniels; Michael Daniels
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2005.The definitive reference on the Swiss “Black Forest” woodcarving tradition.
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Woodcut Book-Plates
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Neville Barnett
Sydney: Privately Printed [at The Becon Press], 1934.A comprehensive history of the woodcut ex libris with over 100 tipped in examples and more reproduced. The frontispiece being the tipped in plate of Edward, Prince of Wales signed by the artist, Adrian Feint. The other signed plates are by G. D. Perrottet, W. F. Hopson, Bruno da Osimo (x3), V. Vavra (x2), Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (x3), L. Roy Davies, George Collingridge, and another by Feint. Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 210 signed and numbered copies of the standard edition. A deluxe edition of 65 copies was also produced.
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Italian Pleasure Gardens
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRose Standish Nichols
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.First printing of the third and final in American landscape architect Rose Standish Nichols’ (1872-1960) studies on the gardens of Europe, preceded by English Pleasure Gardens (1902) and Spanish and Portuguese Gardens (1924). Italian Pleasure Gardens was the first to be illustrated with photographs taken by Nichols on her travels, there being near 200 illustrations throughout.
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The Lesbian
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank S. Caprio
Whyteleafe: Gold Star Publications, 1970.A reprint of Caprio’s Female Homosexuality.
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Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2007].The Pocket Poets Series: Number 8. A circa 2007 later printing. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Scattered Poems (Pocket Poet Series #28)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2001].Pocket Poet Series No. 28. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Planet News 1961-1967
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAllen Ginsberg
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2000.The Pocket Poet Series: Number Twenty Three. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Photographic Portrait of Enid Riding Her Pony
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhotographer Unknown
[Victoria]: No publisher, No date.Early 1900s photographic portrait or a woman posing atop her horse standing in a creek. Inscribed Christmas greeting by the subject on the verso of the folder to her Dear Auntie and Uncle, the recipients then identifying the pony’s name as possibly Echo.
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Photographic Portrait of the the Very Rev. N. Linden Parkyn, Dean of Ballarat
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichards & Co.
Ballarat: Richards & Co., No date.Photographic portrait of the Very Rev. Nathaniel Linden Parkyn (1851-1931), signed by him on the mount, “Your very affectionate friend, N. Lindon Parkyn”. Born in England, Parkyn was ordained in 1891 and served as curate in several English towns and villages before coming to Australia and serving as the second Dean of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat from 1897-1914. He was remembered as an articulate speaker and a benevolent public figure to citizens of all denominations. He returned to England in 1914 where he served as vicar at Blackpool until 1821 before retiring to Bath where he died in 1931. An earlier portrait of Parkyn, taken before he came to Australia, is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This later portrait by Richards & Co. of Ballarat circa 1910. No photographic holdings of Dean Parkyn can be found in any Australian institution.
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The Birds of Australia: Bibliography of the Birds of Australia
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory M. Mathews
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925.Books used in the preparation of this work with a few biographical details of authors and collectors. The separately bound bibliography to Mathews 12 volume ornitholgoical handbook, one of the key monumental illustrated works of Australian natural history.
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Tatsuo Takayama
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTatsuo Takayama
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1987.Monograph of Japanese modern and contemporary artist Tatsuo Takayama (1912-2007).
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Boy George Fashion & Make-up Book
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Winder; Gerardine Winder; Christina Saunders
London: Hamlyn, 1984.Everything you need to know to achieve that early 1980s Boy George look you always wanted.
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Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeah Gordon
London: Soul Jazz Publishing, 2010.Photography and oral histories by Leah Gordon. Words by Madison Smartt Bell, Don Cosentino, Richard Fleming, Kathy Smith and Myron Beasley.
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Flesh: The Gold Coast in the 1960s, 70s and 80s
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham Burstow
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2014.Photography of Queensland’s Gold Coast in the second half of the 20th century. Lots of beach and bums.
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Juan Davila
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJuan Davila; Guy Brett; Roger Benjamin
Melbourne and Sydney: The Miegunyah Press and Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006. -
A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge: The Bridge – Nanjing – Under the Heaven
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartQiu Zhijie
Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2008.A series of artworks based around the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, listed as the location of the world’s highest number of suicides by jumping.
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Tragedia Slovenskych Zidov: Fotografie a Dokumenty
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLev Haas; Stefan Engel; Bedrich Steiner
: USZNO, 1949.The Tragedy of the Slovak Jews: Photographs and Documents. Primarily illustrations, depicting the horrors of the holocaust.
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Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Picciotto
London: Trubner & Co., 1875.This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with Falk’s bookplate.
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Neito’s Jewish Almanac for One Hundred Years
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAbraham H. Neito
New York: Burr Printing House for the Author, 1902.From New Year 5663/1902 to 5763/2002. Showing the New Moons, Festivals and Fasts, with the sections of th elaw as read in the synagogues every Sabbath in the year. Also the first and last days of the solar month, with their corresponding Hebrew dates and pages for family registers. With 3 leaves at rear for Births, Deaths, and Marriages, unmarked. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with the armorial bookplate of David James Benjamin, and inscribed by members of the Sydney Jewish community, Louis Phillips to Moritz Gotthelf.
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A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years, Detailing the New Moons, Festivals, and Fasts,
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. H. Lindo
London: L. Thompson, 1838.With the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year; also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered; together with the corresponding Christian dates. To which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000-2240 C.AE. and A Chronological Table, forming a summary of Jewish history from the flood to the present time. With various other useful tables; by E. H. Lindo. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned).