Search Results: Australiana from Diversity Books, IOBA

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: The Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 1979. (iv), + 123pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates and line-drawings throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper mildly soiled, bumped and creased. Textblock lightly age-toned, else unmarked. This copy is from a first edition printing of 1,000 copies, and is a guide to archaeological discoveries around the city of Sydney, Australia. Contents include: Prelims., After 1788 (4 chapters). Before 1788 (4 chapters). Now (read 1979) (6 chapters). References, Acks. Book weight approx. 310g. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to - (approx. 25.25cm x 20.25cm).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Library Council of Victoria, 1984. 64pp. colour and b/white plates. Saddle-stitched, staplebound format. Catalogue clean. Staples firm, no rust. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn. An exhibition catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Irving Benson Hall, State Library of Victoria, 28 November, 1984 - 27 February, 1985. Contents include: Foreword by W.M. Horton, State Librarian. Introduction (John Arnold and Julian Ross, curators). Chronology of 1934. Looking Back: Fifty Years by Geoffrey Hutton. Catalogue: 1. The Centenary Celebrations. 2. Aspects of Life in Victoria in 1934. The Centenary in Double Vision by Mary Turner Shaw. Melbourne in The Thirties by Hal Porter. Bibliography of Centenary Publications. Catalogue weight approx. 235g. (This book will post as a small parcel within Australia only, and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). First Edition. Softcover (Staplebound). Very Good+. 4to… Read More

Adelaide, South Australia: Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1993. 67pp. Colour art illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Eugene von Guerard, 'Castle Rock, Cape Schanck' [detail] 1865) card wrapper negligibly surface indented. Published by The Art Gallery Board of South Australia on the occasion of the exhibition, 'The M.J.M Carter Collection: A Private View of Australian Colonial Art', at the Art Gallery Of South Australia, 29 September - 12 December, 1993. Contents include: Foreword. Introduction. M.J.M. Carter: A Biography. Colonial Art: New South Wales. Tasmania. South Australia. Victoria. The 1880s and 1890s. Book weight approx. 315g. . Softcover. Very Good+. 4to - (approx. 28cm x 21.5cm).

East Melbourne: The Real Estate Institute of Victoria [Inc.] No publication date [c. 1986]. viii, + 192pp. B/white halftone plate illustrations throughout, several unpaginated, mostly intext and of a candid nature. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Sketch-art illustrated [no ack.] card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. With interesting references to its pre-history prior to incorporation on 15 July, 1936, the 'Golden Jubilee' of the Real Estate and Stock Institute of Victoria is told in 45 chapters, plus Prelims., Intro., and Appendices. Book weight approx. 350g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Very Good +.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Text Publishing, 2006. x, + 175pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has soft reading crease to front panel. "The inimitable John Clarke is back with another hilarious collection of the highs and lows in the political career of our current government. Interviews with Australias leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawes weekly broadcasts on ABC-TVs 7.30 Report, from 2003 to 2006." Book weight approx. 265g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Australian Gallery Directors Council Ltd. , 1981. 192pp. Colour-plate sections, plus numerous b/white halftone plates, and line-drawings. Book clean and square. Spine firm, minimally bumped and canted. Colour-illustrated stiff card wrapper lightly edgeworn, with a small chip on head. A former owner's name/date on half-title page, else textblock unmarked. This extensive Aboriginal Australia catalogue was produced in 1981 for a travelling exhibition which was displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Australian Museum, and the Queensland Art Gallery, during 1981 and 1982 . . . Contents include: Prelims., Foreword. Preface. Acks. Introduction, Origins. Art of Temperate South-East Australia. Art of The Desert. Art of Northern Australia. Exhibits. Bibliography. Glossary. Note: included is a folded, six page leaflet in fair+ condition (small stains and creases) for the National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition (March 13 to… Read More

South Australia: Pete Dobre's Oz Scapes, 2006. 64pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout by Pete Dobre. Text by Cil Dobre. Colour map. Book clean. Spine firm. Photographer Pete Dobre's signature to ffep., else leaves clean and unmarked. Pictorially-illustrated gloss boards undamaged. Stunning photography of Adelaide and surrounds. Book weight approx. 260g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 16mo (Oblong/Landscape Format). Signed By Photographer. First Edition.. Very Good +.

Bald Blair, Guyra, New South Wales, Australia: Author (Col. H.F. White), 1959. (iii) + 56pp. B/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Saddle-stitched, staplebound booklet. Staples tight, nominally rusty. Sepia, illustrated (author amongst a crop at 'Bald Blair') card wrapper lightly edgeworn, with minor flecks and indentations, plus an original seller's tape affixed to front wrap. Textblock mildly bumped on upper foredge corner. Double-column text throughout. For most of his long life, Lieutenant-Colonel H.F. (Harold Fletcher) ("Bill") White (1883-1971) farmed his 5200 acre property, Bald Blair, at Guyra, New South Wales, turning a swampy land into an award-winning, prosperous farm. A one-time politician, he was deeply involved in regional affairs. In this extremely rare book, the author shares his knowledge on soil improvement, and the food chain . . . Contents include: Prelims., 6 chapters. Booklet weight approx. 55g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will… Read More

Templestowe, Victoria , Australia: Burgewood Books, 1996. 174pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, Signed on title page by author Don Charlwood. Previous owner's name to half-title page, three small marks to last page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally surface scratched and softly corner creased. From the rear panel: "In these ten lively wrought stories a corner of the Victorian countryside becomes a small timeless world rich with human experience. Partly autobiographical, they are held in unity by the land and people they describe, and by the character of their narrator, a young man who is at once part of the life around him and a detached observer of it . . . " Contents include: Author's Note. 10 short stories. Australian author Donald Ernest Cameron Charlwood AM was born in 1915 and passed away in 2012. Book weight approx. 200g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Signed by Author. First Thus.… Read More

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: HarperCollins, 2011. x, 374pp., plus 3 x 8 page colour illustrated sections. Book clean, square. Spine firm. A personal penned inscription ('To Jim'), signed by author Ian McPhedran on first (author biog.) page, corner crease to several leaves, else pages clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated card wrapper has a soft crease, minor surface indentations. " . . . tells the exclusive, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force in the action-packed period from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . . . The compelling narrative, in the RAAF's 90th year, of its aircraft, leadership, traditions and personalities at a time of rapid change, as technology propels it into the next generation of air power and the futuristic era of stealth." Book weight approx. 575g. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 23.25cm x 15.25cm).

Perth, Western Australia: Kara International, 1985. Unpaginated (80 pages). B/white, cartoon-style art illustrations throughout. Saddle-stitch, staple-bound, landscape (oblong) format. Staples clean and tight. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Max Sutch) limp wrapper lightly bumped only. A collection of newspaper cartoons from around the world (mostly Australian) all themed on the America's Cup yachting challenge of 1983, when, against many 'obstacles' a yacht with a radical keel, 'Australia II' from Down Under, won the series . . . The cartoons and captions in this collection reflect the machinations behind the racing . . . Book weight approx. 120g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . First Thus.. Staplebound Softcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Anchor Books, 2017. viii, 172pp., plus 16 page illustrated section (protrudes slightly from foredge). Book clean, square. Spine firm. A short inscription on half-title page, 'Best wishes', signed by authors Kathy Gibson and E. Rushen, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: This is the story of one remarkable Irish immigrant to nineteenth-century Australia and her never-failing support of Irish causes. Her legacy resonates today in both Callen and Foster (formerly Stockyard Creek). In 1855 Anastasia Burke, a 27 year old woman from Callen, County Kilkenny, Ireland, migrated to Adelaide, South Australia. For many post-Famine Irish emigrants there was no guarantee of a welcome in the host country and the following year, the South Australian government launched an enquiry into the influx of single Irishwomen to its shores. Anastasia stayed in South Australia for ten years before joining the exodus to the new… Read More

Geelong, Victoria, Australia: Earl Gallery No publication date (c. 1989). 50pp., colour-art plates throughout, including two fold-outs. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated ('Hauling Timber Macedon Heights' Frederick McCubbin) card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. This catalogue was published in celebration of Earl Gallery's twelve years of trading in the Geelong area, and their expansion to the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the paintings were on exhibition at the company's Melbourne office in South Yarra. Includes artwork by Jean Appleton, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Judy Cassab, William Dobell, Conrad Martens, Frederick McCubbin, Margaret Preston, Clifton Pugh, Roland Wakelin, and others. Loose with book is a leaflet pertaining to an exhibition of the work of artist Janet Hayes. Book weight approx. 230g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read More

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc, Schwartz Publishing, 2001. 130pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed (small front cover image; photo to rear) card wrapper nominally scuffed. In the second 'Quarterly Essay', John Birmingham "takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor . . . a passionate narrative history of the East Timor question which never turns away from the slaughter and the sorrow of the people who suffered it." Plus: Correspondence- 'In Denial', Inga Clendinnen, Ron Brunton, Michael Duffy, Robert Manne. Book weight approx. 200g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Very Good +.

Victoria, Australia: Printed By: Arena Publishing Group, 1981. 152pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, minimally bumped. Illustrated card wrapper slightly shelfworn only. Textblock unmarked (one leaf has in-production creasing). 'Arena' is a Marxist journal of criticism and discussion. This edition No. 57, 1981, comprises 'Trailers' x (3). 'Articles' x (5). 'Reviews' x (6). Book weight approx. 160g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post as a small parcel. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 21.5cm x 13.5cm).

Lilydale, Victoria, Australia: Frank Mutsaers, 1981. 36 leaves of colour-art plates. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain green boards undamaged. Leaves clean, crisp and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Welcome Shade, Murrindindi) dustjacket has an area of surface abrasion to flap folds. minor edge-creasing. Contents include: Foreword (Tom Roberts). Table of Contents (36 plates). Our Colourful Country (Frank Mutsaers). The Plates (commencing with 'Gums of the Yarra Valley', and closing with 'In the Hills at Broadford'). Book weight approx. 495g. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Good. 8vo - (approx. 22cm x 23cm).

Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Wollongong City Gallery, 1995. Unpaginated (32 pages). Colour-plate art illustrations throughout, a selection of work by Arthur Boyd created from 1975, a period of his career dominated by the landscape of the Shoalhaven region. Staplebound format. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated card wrapper undamaged. Produced for an exhibition of Arthur Boyd's work held at the Wollongong City Gallery 18 October to 3 December, 1995. Born in 1920 at Murrumbeena, Victoria, Arthur Boyd died in 1999. Catalogue weight approx. 210g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Softcover (Staplebound). Very Good +.

Poowong, Victoria, Australia: Poowong Historical Group Inc. , 2003. vi, + 158pp. Intext, b/white illustrations throughout (mostly from Poowong Historical Group via "Henry" Collection donation). Book clean and square. Spine firm. Monochrome illustrated card wrapper mildly edge, and shelfworn, blind indentations. Textblock unmarked. Poowong (Victoria, Australia) pioneer Arthur Thomas Henry (1871-1956) wrote his memoirs in twelve exercise books which he entrusted to his grandson, Malcolm George Luckman,shortly before he died in 1956 at Yarram, Victoria. As part of the 125th Anniversary celebration of the Poowong Pioneer Chapel (where Arthur Henry began his schooling), the Poowong Historical Group published his most interesting memoirs. Contents include: Prelims., Foreword. Author's Note. 2nd Foreword. Introduction to Early Days at Poowong. 9 'Books'. Pictorial Reflections. Poowong Historical Group. Pioneer Chapel. Biographical Index. Book weight approx. 595g. . First Edition.… Read More

Australia: The Australian Ballet Foundation, 1988. 56pp., colour photographic illustrations throughout by Earl Carter. Item clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has small, soft corner creases, minimal edgewear. Sponsored by Waterford Wedgewood, this publication includes: Introduction by Maina Gielgud, text and photo re individual dancers, Pas de Deux, Coryphees & Corps de Ballet, Company Members. Item weight approx. 330g. Postage charge will be reduced as this book will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good +.

Altona, Victoria, Australia: Altona RSL Sub Branch , 2006. viii, + 102pp. Colour illustrated section, b/white illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated boards negligibly surface scuffed, minor surface abrasions. From the rear panel: "It was once a big, tumble-down tin shed with an abundance of beer piled in the attic, but is now one of the jewels in the League's crown and a valuable part of the close, tight-knit community of Altona. The story of the Altona RSL sub-branch is one of transformation. It takes the reader on a nostalgic journey, which begins with the club's first meeting in the old ABC Cafe in 1921 . . . " Foreword by Ray Duckett, President. Includes: The Honour Board. Membership List. Book weight approx. 395g. (This book will post as a small parcel within Australia only, and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - (approx. 20.75cm x 15.25cm).