Education/Reference from Diversity Books, IOBA

New Jersey, U.S.A.: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1992. 208pp. Colour illustrations (576 in full colour) plus b/white line drawn illustrations. Photographs by Frantisek Tvrz. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated gloss boards have a small bump to head of front panel. Like-illustrated dustjacket has a vertical crease and small corner crease to front flap. 'A comprehensive… Read more about this item

South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Aviation Theory Centre, 1998. v, plus chapter pagination (17 chapters in total). Colour and b/white illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated card wrapper softly corner-creased, minor edgewear, tiny mark. "Volume 2 of Trevor Thom's set of manuals for the Private and Commercial Pilot addresses the topics of meteorology and navigation .… Read more about this item

San Bernardino, CA, U.S.A.: Self-Published (Alexander Unzicker), 2013. 152pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has a couple of tiny corner creases. From the rear panel: "This book is a merciless critique of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and of the theoretical model on which the world's most expensive experiment is based. Unzicker,… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, 1956. iv, 119pp., plus unpaginated Indexes and publisher catalogue at rear. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, very small spot to rear endpaper, else unmarked, soft in-production creasing to lower spine area of first few pages. Stiff card wrapper minimally edgeworn, tiny corner crease, mild edge discolouration to rear. An unabridged, unaltered republication if the… Read more about this item

Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia: Australian Art Sales, 1991. 392pp. Small b/white images throughout. Book clean. Slightly canted spine firm, white title there-on, mildly discoloured thin strip at foot. Plain boards minimally corner rubbed, Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour, montage-illustrated dustjacket softly edge-creased, several tiny round indentations. From the jacket flap: "This is the seventh edition of 'Australian Art Auction… Read more about this item

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons No publication date (1950s). New Era Edition. 160pp. Spine firm. Book clean and square. Cloth-bound spine very good. Card wrapper lightly edgeworn only. A date stamp (1955), along with a tape-stain on ffep., like stains on rear endpaper, flecked on head, else textblock unmarked. "This book is a student's textbook. Every shorthand student when… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: The Eldon Hogan Trust , 1997. xiv, 160pp. B/white illustrated endpapers, plus b/white illustrations, throughout. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Montage illustrated card wrapper has a couple of tiny corner creases, minimal surface scuffs. From the rear panel: "'Kostka' was commissioned by the Eldon Hogan Trust to mark the sixtieth anniversary of… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. xvii, 236pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked, small soft crease to lower foredge corner of textblock. Illustrated card wrapper (which has a soft crease to upper front panel, and lower foredge corner of rear panel) has been neatly covered in permanent adhesive film by previous owner.… Read more about this item

Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia: Reed Books, 1995. 464pp. Colour illustrations, maps, b/white skull photographs. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title there-on, minor creasing head and heel. Plain green boards undamaged. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased, mild colour off-set to reverse (inner) surface. From the jacket flap: " . . . the culmination of… Read more about this item

Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia : John Furphy Pty Ltd , 2006. 224pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Montage illustrated gloss boards very good+. From the rear panel: "Two of Australia's most highly regarded experts on all things collectable, William and Dorothy Hall, take the reader on a visual journey through a fascinating maze… Read more about this item

Pakenham, Victoria, Australia: Self-Published No publication Date [1986]. 176pp., b/white illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Gilt school insignia (Melbourne Church of England Grammar School) to front panel of blue cloth boards which have a light bump to lower foredge corner. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated dustjacket has soft and minor edge-creasing, some sunning to… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. vi, + 375pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Card wrapper neatly covered in permanent adhesive film by previous owner. From the rear panel: "These essays offer a wealth of insights into how writers approach their craft and represent a practical resource as well as a source of inspiration. The writings… Read more about this item

London: Icon Books, 2018. x, + 196pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper neatly covered in permanent adhesive film by previous owner. From the rear panel: Literary detective John Sutherland puts Bram Stoker's classic novel under the microscope, examining its many curiosities, from why the Dutch professor Van Helsing swears in German to… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Timber Press, in Association with the British Clematis Society , 2001. 426pp. Two colour maps, b/white line-drawn illustrations, plus colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain green boards undamaged. Colour illustrated dustjacket has minor soft edge-creasing, minimal surface indentations. From the jacket flap: "This long-awaited book is separated into… Read more about this item

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Ulysses Press, 2005. 244pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Kevin Tolman) card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: 'This rollicking guide opens dozens of gateways to the subconscious world. Use the surrealist technique of 'automatic writing'; play with archetypal imagery from the Tarot; learn from the resonances of the body;… Read more about this item

Learn To Play Publishing , 2002. 80pp. B/white line-drawn illustrations. Book clean. Saddle-stitched, staplebound format. Staples firm, slight rust.. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper softly creased, minor edgewear. Accompanying CD housed in unopened plastic sleeve attached to inside front cover. "A comprehensive, lesson by lesson method covering all aspects of harmonica playing, including folk songs, blues, boogie… Read more about this item

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1989. 158pp. B/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has two tiny corner creases. A straightforward guide to smaller power tools so that you can do jobs more easily and professionally, and also set up your own power tool workshop. Numerous contents include: Acks. Introduction. 13… Read more about this item

Brunswick, Victoria, Australia: The Mathematical Association of Victoria, 1996. viii + 552pp. B/white figures intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Previous owner's name to title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper mildly surface indented. Published by The Mathematical Association of Victoria for the Thirty-third Annual Conference, December 5th & 6th, 1996. Contents include: Foreword. Keynote (Judy… Read more about this item

Ivanhoe East, Victoria, Australia: The Helicon Press, 1996. xiii, + 321pp. B/white and colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards have a very small spot to lower front panel. Faint foxing flecks to upper textblock edge. else leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated dustjacket softly edge-creased, plus an area of creasing… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2019. xviii, + 291pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright bronze title there-on. Plain black boards negligibly surface scuffed. Leaves clean and unmarked. Printed dustjacket has minor crease to head of spine. Random House's copy chief Benjamin Dreyer distils "everything he has learned from the myriad books he has copyedited and overseen into a useful… Read more about this item