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Canberra. National Gallery of Aust., 2010.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Good copy. 1st ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition of curated street-based art from urban environments that was held at the NGA in 2010. Street art is often edgy, clever, political & satirical, & very ephemeral.

Syd. Harper Collins Publishers., 2011.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 185pp. Boards covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the photographer on the half-title. Australian photographer, Steve Baccon, started out as a cadet photographer at Fairfax media, where his technical skills were honed. Steve now works with a diverse range of personalities in portraiture.

Bris. Boolarong Publications., 1979.. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 44pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the Artist and the Author.

Lond. The Promotional Reprint Co., 1995.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, or BMW for short, began making motorcycles in in 1923, when their designer Max Friz fitted a 494cc engine to a modified bicycle frame & named it the R32.

Syd., 1949.. Or.cl. 248pp. 143 b/w plates. Spine sl.faded else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce.

Leipzig. Baedeker., 1911.. Sm.8vo. Or.cl. 554pp. With 69 maps (many folding) and 59 plans. Very good copy. Scarce.

Coblenz. Karl Beideker., 1864.. (Improved edition) A good ex-library set rebound in half morocco. 486,284pp. Maps and plans. A few stamps and markings else a good set. Scarce. German text.

Leipsic. Karl Beideker., 1874.. Or.limp cloth. 397pp. Maps & plans. The binding worn, the font hinge partly split, Venice bookseller's sticker on title page, else a good copy.

Leipzig. Karl Baedeker., 1907.. (16th edition) Or.limp cloth. 466pp. Maps and plans. Good copy. French text.

Leipsic. Karl Beideker., 1875.. (4th ed, Remodelled & Augmented) Or.limp cloth. 352pp. Maps & plans. Very good copy.

N.Y. HarperCollins., 2005.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 404pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Four journalists from the tech magazine, Wired, explore the question of why it is that our society is the most technologically sophisticated, & yet cannot seem to protect itself from terrorist threats.

Wellington. P. D. Hasselberg., 1980.. Or.cl. 1291pp. Sl foxing to top edge. b/w plates. Very good. 1st ed. The New Zealand National Bibliography was produced by the National Library of New Zealand. These two volumes cover the year 1889. Subsequent volumes cover all years up to 1960.

Syd. A & R., 1980.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 182pp. Colour plates & charcoal drawings by Lorraine Hannay. Fine. 1st ed. The author's expedition to Antarctica.

Lond. Folio Society., 1999.. Or.qt.cl. & dec.bds. 269pp. b/w plates. A fine copy in the slip-case. In 1918, Bailey travelled to Tashkent in Central Asia on a mission to discover the intentions of the new Bolshevik government but had to flee for his life, only escaping after taking on the guise of an Austrian POW and joining the Cheka with an assignment to find a rogue British agent - that is himself.

Lond. Cassell & Company., 1953.. (3rd ed.) Thick Roy.8vo. Or.bds. 443pp. 10 colour plates and over 400 b/w ills. in the text. The spine a little faded & inscription on ffe else a very good copy. Loosely inserted is a slip of paper with the signature of Bridget D'Oyly Carte, head of the D'Oyley carte Opera Co. from 1948 to 82. A biographical look at the life and works of Gilbert & Sullivan.

Shrewsbury. Airlife England., 1999.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. When not working as an air traffic controller at London Airport, Gordon Bain is often out photographing vintage & veteran aircraft in flight over some dramatic landscape scenery in the UK.

Syd. Fourth Estate., 2020.. Col.ill.bds. 310pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. ABC TV journalist Julia Baird's intimate & inspiring investigation into how we can find & nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness, a light within she calls phosphorescence

Lond. Grafton Books., 1989.. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 203pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. Julia Baird is John Lennon's younger half-sister & recounts their childhood as being anything but workingclass & certainly an unortahdox childhood by the standards in Liverpool at the time.

Paris. Terrail., 1993.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 222pp. Many colour ills. Very good copy. Unveiling the diversity and riches of 25 of Tuscany's most beautiful and secluded villas near Florence, Lucca and Siena. Provides an extensive survey of Tuscan art from the 14th to the 17th centuries.

Lond. Macmillan & Co., 1867.. Or.gilt dec.cloth. xxx371;,xii372pp. Maps, including a large folding map. Illustrations and portraits. Sl.foxing and the binding a little discoloured else s good copy.