Search Results: Authors starting with C from Antique Bookshop

Wakeley. Fairfield City Council., 1988.. Or.cl. 182pp. Many b/w photographic ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Celebrates the cultural diversity of Fairfield, NSW.

Marrickville. Hale & Iremonger Ltd., 1983.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 166pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Commercial art has long been treated as a poor, & rather tainted relation of the fine arts. A look at golden era of Australian commercial art & the work of Phil May, Norman Lindsay & Low.

Lond. T & H., 1974.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Name on ffe., else a Very Good copy. 1st ed.

Lond. Collins., 1982.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. A fascinating study of the remarkable birds of prey.

Lond. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1957.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 279pp. Sl foxing to foredge. Name on half-title page. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Ritchie Calder travelled to the North West of Canada at the behest of the United Nations to meet with the Arctic Inuit to see if the region could be made more habitable with science & engineering.

Oxford. Phaidon., 1979.. Or.qt.cl. & bds. Dustjacket. 299pp. 26 Col.plates & 234 b/w ills. Sl. foxing else a Very good copy. 1st ed. The author is chairman of the Department of the History of Art at Cornell University.

Kenthurst. Kangaroo Press., 1994.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. Bookplate on front pastedown. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. When the HMB Endeavour ran aground on an unseen reef off the coast of northern Australia in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook was forced to abandon six cannon & an anchor that were salvaged in 1969 & 1972.

Lond. William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.. 4to. Or.bds. Bound in quarter cloth. 225pp. (sl foxing) Bumps to corners. Col. & b/w plates including a colour frontispiece by Claude Lovat Fraser. Corners sl.worn else a very good copy. A selection of authors & artists whose work has been published over the last thirty years by the London-based publishing firm, William Heinemann. Founded in 1890 & famous for H. G. Wells & Graham Greene

Lond. Heinemann., 1953.. Or.cl. (edges sl.rubbed) 235pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. An Australian military classic.

Millers Point. Pier 9., 2012.. (2nd imp) Col.Ill.wrapps. 211pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. Cyril Callister was an Australian chemist who found himself working in a munitions factory in England during WWI & later developed a yeast extract from brewer's yeast known as Marmite & later Vegemite.

Adel. LBSA., 1973.. Or.cl.476pp. Folding map. Fine.

Tokyo. Charles E. Tuttle Company., 1972.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 226pp. (sl foxing) Owners name & sticker on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 3rd printing. Chinese painting techniques traditionally had two aspects. First the philosophy was taught, & then the technique through imitation. Alison Cameron bridges these two strands into one technique here.

Lond. Longmans Green & Co., 1915?. Folio. Or.gilt decorated boards. Plain dustjacket. 55pp. Six tipped-in b/w plates. Sl. foxing on endpapers & dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st Eng. ed. English and French parallel text. Lithographic prints of the original calligraphy. A short mystery play suggested to Cammaerts during a visit he paid to the Belgian trenches in Christmas week.

Mona Vale. Jean Campbell Production, 1989.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 144pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. This book was printed in memory of Australian railway photographer, J. L. Buckland. Jean Campbell spent many pleasant hours selecting his favourite train photos from some of the best train photographers

Lond. Secker & Warburg., 1999.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 320pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Beginning in New York in 1944 the leading members of the Beat Generation, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30.

Lond. Queen Anne Press., 1991.. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 175pp. b/w plates. Inscription on ffe else Fine copy. 1st ed. The autobiography of the former Australian rugby player.

Lond. Bloomsbury., 1999.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 259pp. Fine. 1st ed. A novel.

Toronto. ROM., 1989.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A detailed exhibition of African antiquities.

Lond. Thames & Hudson., 2006.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 352pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white illustrations. Very good copy. 1st ed. Irish architect & artist, Fia O. Caoimh presents this comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia of aircraft from around the world. From the Adam Aircraft Industries A-500 to the Zlin Z-526F Trener-Master.

Wellington. Corps of NZ Engineers., 1976.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 198pp. Col frontispiece & b/w ills. With 4 fold-out maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel I. W. Black. Director of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, New Zealand Army. The Corps of the Royal New Zealand Electrical & Mechanical Engineers was formed in 1942 & underwent its greatest deployment in North Africa in 1942.