Search Results: Authors starting with Q from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Roseville, The Begal Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Quartermaine's text reveals Seidel as an artist who is deeply involved with sensuous qualities of paint and colour, passionate about light and landscape yet equally able to extract subtle poetic qualities of the figure in interiors. He is one of Australia's leading figurative artists. 314 x 255mm., pp. 128, b/w & col. plates t/out, List of Plates. Hard cover in dust jacket. Boards, slightly bumped on corners. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; d.j., sl. rubbed front and back - no tears or chips. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0947349073

New York, The Abingdon Press first edition - h/cover without dust jacket Book contents are: Shakespeare's Men: The Literature in Nature: Selfish Womanhood: Tennyson's Men: On Reading Beautiful Books: A Poet Chrysostom: Recovered Yesterdays: The Literature of Devotion: Once Again With Elia. 203 x 144mm., pp. 306. Original green cloth covered boards, gold blcked front & spine, top edge gold. Boards have a few stains, medium rubbed top/bot. spine & corners, contents pages, ""previous owners"" name (one line), AND very nicely INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on ffep. VG

Carlisle, Hesperian Press facsimile edit. - small paperback, card covers Tom Quilty was a rugged man with an endless supply of boisterous energy and wit, and had a capacity for entertainment that belongs in a bygone era. He liked people and to be among them, swapping yarns around a campfire or leaning on an outback bar. Tom had been stirred to write. His verse is not for critics but for other bushmen. 185 x 124mm., pp. 6 (preliminaries) 119, b/w plates. Facsimile reprint of the 1984 edition. Small paperback, stiff illustrated card covers. NEW. ISBN: 9780859056403

Carlisle, Hesperian Press Facsimile edit. - paperback, stiff card covers This collection of some of Quilty's poems has the roughnesss of the ranges in it, and the philosophy that is born of the vast empty plains. His verse is not for critics, but for other bushmen who will find in them the message that city folk can never hope to hear. Tom was an outstanding cattleman and authority on the North. His home property was in Halls Creek in the Kimberley's. 85 x 122mm., pp. 6, (preliminaries), 119, b/w plates. Facsimile edition, small paperback, stiff card covers. NEW. ISBN: 9780859056403

Crawley, UWA Publishing lge paperback - illus. card covers Blumann was a conservative modernist, but the Perth art scene (Western Australia) was not prepared for her expressive style, and when she exhibited for the first time in 1944 her art was met with bewilderment. The book considers attitudes to modernism in Perth, and the influence on local culture of European refugees and emigres newly arrived in the city. 280 x234 mm., pp., viii, 150, b/w & col. plates t/out, notes, biblio., index. Large paperback, illustrated card covers with French folds. NEW ISBN: 9781742585987

Nedlands, Guild of Undergraduates first edition - large format p/back, stiff covers Published during the University of Western Australia's 75th Annivesary celebrations - this is a wonderful collection of memoirs from the Student Guild. Contributors include many past Guild Presidents including Dr Leslie Le Souef, Peter D. Durack, Robert J. Hawke, Allan H. Fells and Sue Boyd. 295 x 208mm., pp. 10, 144, b/w plates, large format paperback, stiff illus. covers, contents - no inscriptions, covers - light rubbing, VG+/VG+. ISBN: 0959712410