Search Results: Authors starting with S from Antique Bookshop

Lond. Phaidon Press., 2009.. Lettered wrapps with French flaps. 176pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. "Charles Saatchi has been one of the moving forces of the modern age." He famously refuses to be interviewed but this book prints his brutally frank responses to many questions put to him by leading journalists and critics.

Melb. Hyland House., 1979.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 130pp. (sl foxing) to top & foredge. Light tanning to pages. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. A history of the Trans Australia Airlines which was formed in 1946 & was eventually merged & rebranded Qantas in September of 1992. TAA played a major part in the support of the Flying doctor Services.

N.Y. St. Martin's / Marek., 1983.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 334pp. b/w map. Good copy. This is the story of the remnants of the Holocaust, some half a million survivors who emerged from the concentration camps to form a nation state.

Canberra. ANU Press., 1974.. Or.cl. Or.bds. 220pp. Sl foxing to top edge. Very good copy. 1st ed. For the peoples of Papua New Guinea, land is overwhelmingly important, not only as the sole means of life but also for what it means in their culture.

Canberra. Dept. of Law. ANU., 1975.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. German colonial law applied in New Guinea between 1886 & 1921. Today it has little practical importance, although it helped shape the future of the PNG legal system.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1995.. Or.dec.cloth. 339pp. Colour frontispiece, b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. In the slip-case. 1st Folio Society edition. Born into a peasant family in Domremy in north-east France, Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael instructing her to support Charles VII & recover France from the English.

Brookvale. Tower Books., 1984.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 56pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sydney based artists, Pam Sackville & Elaine Diamond offer a unique view of the flora of Sydney. From glimpses of flowers behind Paddington's iron lace work to the flower barrow in Martin Place.

Cambridge Uni.Press., 1985.. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 544pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A comprehensive study of Western musical development from the earliest known examples of plainchant in the Middle Ages to the electronic complexities of more contemporary composers.

Syd. Jane Walker Bicentennial Comm., 1996.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 32pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Published in 1996 as a Commemorative edition limited to 1000 copies. Jane Walker was like hundreds of other women of her time, transported to Sydney Cove in 1796, & on the 11th of February 1996, thousands of her descendents gathered together for the 200th anniversary.

Lond. The Studio., 1914.. 4to. Ill.wrapps. (spine chipped with some loss) 192pp. Many colour & b/w plates. Some foxing, else a Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Includes plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, Heath Robinson, & many more.

Lond. The Hakluyt Society., 2008.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 19pp. Very good copy. Voyaging Worlds was a talk delivered to The Hakluyt Society in London on the 27th of June, 2007 by Anne Salmond. It focuses on the exploration of the Pacific & its charting by the crew of the Endeavour

North Sydney. Allen & Unwin., 1988.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 510pp. Sl.foxing to top edge. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Thirty years after the founding of the penal settlement at Sydney Cove, the Bank of NSW was created, & with it was stock that needed to be traded somewhere. The Sydney Stock Exchange began in 1871.

N.Y. HarperCollins., 2000.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. unpag. (32pp.) Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed.

Lond. Laurence King Publishing., 2007.. Oblong 4to. Or.ill.bds. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Some splendid, artistic graffiti is shown. With interesting interviews with graffiti artists talking about their art and their brushes with the law.

Adel. No imprint., 1967.. wrapps. (unevenly browned; a few sl.moisture marks) 148pp. Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Inscribed by the author. Proof copy in wrappers.

Lond. The Studio., 1928.. Folio. Or.bds. with paper titling label on front board.6pp. plus 8 tipped-in colour plates. Very good copy.

Melb. The Miegunyah Press & SLVIC., 2007.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 575pp. Fine. 1st ed. Loosely inserted is a title page taken from another volume with the signature of Santamaria on a sticker. Santamaria was one of the most controversial Australians of our time. An ardent anti-Communist and devout catholic, he polarised the community into loyal followers or committed oponents.

Stroud. Amberley Publishing., 2009.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Imperial War Museum site at Duxford is rightly recognised as the premier aviation museum in Europe & was once a crucial airbase for Britain's Fighter Command front line during the dark days of WWII

Moorooka. Boolarong Press., 1996.. Dec.wrapps. 141pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A factual story of the experiences of a youthful gunner during his A.I.F years, chiefly of the time spen by him as a prisoner of war after th fall of Singapore .

Lond. Virgin., 1994.. Ill.wrapps. 384pp. Col.and b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st softcover ed. Scott's voyages to the Antarctic.