Search Results: Authors starting with H from Antique Bookshop

Middlesex. Penguin Books Ltd., 1976.. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Austrian-American photographer, Ernst Haas, believes that photography is the best medium to represent the Creation of life on earth & arranged a series of images in a flowing sequence.

Lond. Chatham Publ., 2001.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed.

Lond. Arden Shakespeare., 2005.. Dec.wrapps. 314pp. b/w ills. Name on half-title else a very good copy. 1st ed. Examines Shakespeare's representation of Europe and its influence on his writing.

Lond. Hutchinson & Company Ltd., 1971.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 241pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. In the pictorial box. With contributions from Colin Thubron, J. B. Priestley, Philip Kaplan, George Speaight & many more.

Lond. Hutchinson & Co., 1972.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 240pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. In the colour illustrated box. This year the editor of The Saturday Book looks back on fifty years of The Saturday Book from the early 1920s & its fashion of short miniskirts & the Charleston.

Melb. Allen Lane., 1981.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 324pp. Many col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In the 1930s and 1940s they were Australia's 'rebels'. Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Yosl Bergner, Noel Counihan and others broke through to a new art after personal struggle

Melb. Allen Lane., 1981.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 324pp. Many colour & b/w ills. Fine. The scarce 1st ed. Signed by the author and with a handwritten letter from him. An Australian art classic examining the art of the period & the social & political preoccupations & the artists & their critics.

Lond. Andre Deutsch Ltd., 1968.. (rep) 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 533pp. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. Compiled by one of the world's foremost authorities on continental pottery, Reg Haggar, the Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery & Porcelain covers the factories, processes, materials & terminologies used

Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson., 2005.. Thick 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 550pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed. Loosely inserted is a Christmas card with salutation signed "Haig", this the signature of the 2nd Earl Haig, eldest son of the famous WWI Field Marshal.

Cammeray. Scribner., 2021.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 378pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. With a pamphlet on Dr. H. V. Evatt. by Ketih Edwards. Australian politician & judge, Herbert Vere Evatt, was 36 when appointed to the Hight Court of Australia, he was also leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1951 to 1960.

Melb. Lowden., 1976.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 335pp. b/w plates. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed.

Suffolk. Antique Collectors' Club., 1995.. (rep) Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 466pp. Very good copy. Despite working in factories & workshops which were badly lit & poorly ventilated, 19th century glassmakers & decorators produced exquisite objects ranging from the delicate to the exuberant.

Lond. Robert Hale Limited., 1960.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 189pp. (sl foxing) Dj with light soiling & slight wear to corners. b/w ills. Good copy. 1st UK ed. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite & nitroglycerin, which he patented in 1867. Alfred Nobel was later inspired to donate his fortue to the Nobel Prize institution which awarded inventions that benefit man.

Syd. Fourth Estate., 2008.. Ill.wrapps. 335pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st softcover ed. Norton was one of the key media figures of his time. His notorious feud with Frank Packer led to a fistfight at Randwick racecourse.

Syd. Methuen of Australia., 1979.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 265pp. Name sticker on ffe. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The early days of aviation in Australia were a time of barnstorming, joy-rides & hard-drinking pilots. Days when Qantas pilots performed looped the loop & chased kangaroos across the plains.

Stroud. Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999.. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 210pp. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In the sweltering summer of 1858, the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so bad, that Parliament appointed Sir Joseph Bazagette with the unenviable task of sorting out London's sewage problem

N.Y. Penguin Books., 2001.. Ill.wrapps. 351pp. b/w ills. Remainder mark on bottom edge and dedication page creased else a very good copy.

Melb. Oxford University Press., 1998.. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 330pp. Corners slightly scuffed. Stamp on half title page. Very good copy. 1st ed. Drug Us In Australia describes policy, prevention & treatment responses to drug use. Examines drug use in a global economy, & approaches to drugs that work, & a way forward in harm minimisation.

Lond. Secker & Warburg., 1978.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 422pp. Some foxing to top & foredge. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Brothers Mann chronicles a unique literary relationship spanning the decades from the German Reich through to the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Emotionally close, yet artistically different.2

Edinburgh. William Blackwood & Sons, 1922.. (rep) 4to. Or.cloth. 456pp. Ex-Library copy. (some foxing) Binding loose at back endpapers. Cloth worn. Watermark to top corner of front board. Fair copy. Sir Edward Bruce Hamley outlines the land strategy used during the Great War of 1914-18.