Search Results: Titles starting with E from Gotcha By The Books

Perth: published by the author, 1985. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good (worn patch to spine). 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations Biography of pioneer stockman ET Hooley, with focus on the stock routes opened by Hooley in 1866 and 1905; the author travelled widely and spent much time tracing Hooley's journeys, finding the remains of wells and camps, and plotting locations lost to modern map-makers; profusely illustrated, including gate-fold maps and colour photographs (taken by the author with a Kodak Instamatic camera); Signed by the author to title page; label-ghost to title page, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, worn patch to spine.

Sydney: The Australian Booksellers Association, 1980. Numbered Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. Series of short biographies of early Australian booksellers, being no 212 of 600 copies; the biographies are one to a page, in facsimile calligraphy with lettering by 'various scribes'; introduction by John Holroyd; Very Good and clean throughout' one or two minor creases to dustwrapper, o.w. Very Good.

Atherton: published by the authors, 1989. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. landscape 8vo. b&w illustrations Collection of drawings of early Queensland pubs and shanties, accompanied by descriptive/historical text - Cairns, Mareeba, Herberton, Mungana, Gordonvale, Millaa Millaa, and many more; drawings by Joan Cairns, text by WT Johnston; Signed by Cairns and Johnston to reverse side of front cover; minor foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and foxed.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943. 1st Edition. stiff card. Good in rubbed wraps/self-wraps. sm 8vo. Collection of 61 poems by Norma L Davis, collected and published shortly before her death in 1945; small bookshop label to prelims, former owner's name to front endpaper, foxing throughout (from medium-heavy), o.w. Good; self-wraps rubbed and tanned, heavy wear to spine with loss to head and tail.

PNG: Eastern Highlands Provincial Government, 1990. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in lightly rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. sm 4to. colour plate illustrations Illustrated overview of the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG, with chapters on the people, post-contact history, business and investment, coffee, rural industry, religious groups, government, politics, and also including a chronology of events; numerous colour photo illustrations throughout; signed to prelims by the author; gift-inscription to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed and scuffed, and with some wear along edges.

Africa, c1950's. ebony. Very Good. 91 x 11cm. Ebony walking stick (Central Africa c1950's) carved from a single piece of wood, combining abstract patterns with figurative elements (man and woman's head in profile), 11cm at the handle tapering to circular silver end, 4 piercings to wood at lower end and circular piercing towards top; Very Good condition; from the collection of (retired) ethnologist Malcolm Wilson, who travelled widely through Africa and South East Asia in the 1950's-1970's.

London: Trolley, 2002. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Selection of writings by Jannis Kounellis, and also including a series of interviews between the years 1966-2002, all interspersed with b&w images of Kounellis' artworks; Mario Codognato and Mirta d'Argenzio; nice black boards with titling blind-embossed to front and spine in illustrated dustwrapper.

Brisbane: Muesum of Brisbane, 2005. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of contemporary work by artists of Asian descent living in Australia, Museum of Brisbane 2005; edited and with an essay by Christine Clark; artists include Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser, Dadang Christanto, Yuri Kawanabe, Renee So, Alistair Tung; VG tight and clean throughout; front cover very lightly edgeworn.

London: Phaidon, 2003. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight clean copy/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Comprehensive illustrated monograph on the work of Ed Ruscha, with chapters on Sixties Pop, Books and Photographs, Single Words, Thoughts and Phrases, Landscapes and Skies, and more; profusely illustrated in colour and b&w; includes list of exhibitions, bibliography; illustrated boards, no dustwrapper (as issued); Very Good tight and clean throughout; boards very lightly rubbed; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.

Berlin: Argobooks, 2009. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated overview of the art practice of Icelandic artist Egill Saebjornsson, documenting his work in video, performance, visual art, etc; colour illustrations throughout; foxing to endpapers and prelims, prominent foxed spots and worn patches to rear endpapers, o.w. Very Good.

Melbourne: Master Ladies Hairdressers Association of Victoria, 1952. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Very Scarce (no copies Trove or Worldcat) official pamphlet/programme for the Eighth Federal Conference and Convention of the Master Hairdressers of Australia, held in Melbourne February 15-22 1952; foreword by Frederick J Thompson (Federal President), list of official dates and events, list of competitors for the Festival of Hairdressing, street map showing venues, lists of delegates, etc, and with some nice period advertising; stapled printed wraps, b&w photo illustrations throughout; very mild central crease, wraps lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout.

Melbourne: C.S.I.R. Division of Aeronautics, 1945. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in fair boards/no dustwrapper. 4to. Scientific study of the basic equations necessary for the discussion of the stability and large deflections of thin plates and shells with particular reference to anistropic material; published by the aeronautical division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), wich later became the CSIRO; heavy tanning/foxing to reverse sides of boards, former owner's name to title page, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards very heavily tanned, and with some general wear and tear.

Budapest: Corvina Press, 1971. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations 1st English edition (translated by Istvan Butykai); illustrated study of Electric Foil Fencing, including general introduction, grips, positions of the blade, on guard position, movements of the feet, attacks, feints, and much more; b&w text drawings; the author was fencing master to the Hungarian national squad; minor foxing, minor toning to edges of some pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with some minor loss.

Australia, 1994. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w and colour illustrations Volume 8 No 1 1994 of Continuum art journal; an overview of Electronic Arts in contemporary Australian art practice, with contributions by Henri Chopin (on Chris Mann), Arf Arf, Linda Dement, Brian Langer, Stelarc, Adam Wolter, Nicholas Zurbrugg, and many others; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; Scarce; Very Good throughout, wraps lightly rubbed, lightly curled at edges.

London: Neville Spearman, 1961. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Scarce 1st hardback edition of FC Judd's study of electronic music and musique concrete, being forms of music developed in the 20th-century based on the utilization of recorded sounds as contrast with traditionally notated music; the author Fred Judd was himself a composer of electronic music, building his own prototype synthesizer in 1963 (predating Moog etc); elements of electronic music, electronic sound sources and tone shaping, composition of electronic music and musique concrete; b&w plate illustrations; tanning/foxing to endpapers and prelims, text block foxed, light scattered foxing, o.w. G-VG; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, short tears/creases top front.

Brisbane: Jackson & O'Sullivan, 1943. 1st thus. paperback. Good-Very Good. 8vo. Nice chapbook edition of Gray's Elegy, published in Brisbane by Jackson & O'Sullivan; green printed wraps with country churchyard motif to front, saddle-stitch binding, yapp edges, the text of the poem being printed on the same green paper; scattered foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; light-medium foxing to wraps, minor stain to lower rear edge.

Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming Government Printer for the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, 1923. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Series of lessons on elementary chemistry, with focus on agriculture, some of which previously appeared in the Queensland Agricultural Journal; former owner's name to front endpaper, creases/closed tears to edges of some pages, former owner's name to text block, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards lightly rubbed.

London: Longmans Green and Co, no date (1860's?). 3/4 leather, cloth boards. Fair/no dustwrapper. 12mo. 19th Century algebra school textbook by the Right Rev. John William Colenso Lord Bishop of Natal; no date but advertisement dated 1868; includes a short history of algebra, definitions, simple equations, algebraical fractions, theory of indeces, surds, etc; three-quarter black leather, cloth sides; one page missing to prelims, heavy tanning to endpapers, medium foxing throughout, some pencil marginalia, some pages roughly trimmed; boards heavily worn to sides front and rear, wear to edges of leather.

Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute and Wilkie and Robinson, 1810. 3rd Edition Enlarged. leather. Good (pages heavily foxed and tanned); spine restored/no dustwrapper. 8vo. geometric examples 3rd Edition, enlarged, of Playfair's Euclid; contains the Six Books of Euclid, with a supplement on the Quadrature of the Circle and the Geometry of Solids; to which are added Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; geometric examples throughout; three-quarter calf over boards, title label to spine; heavy foxing and tanning throughout, although all text and diagrams clear and readable; boards rubbed, sunned, and with spotting; leather knocked/worn to corners; spine professionally rebacked/restored, retaining original title label.

Cambridge/Dusseldorf: Harvard University Art Museum/Richter Verlag, 1999. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly's early drawings, 6 March - 16 May 1999 Harvard University Art Musuem (and touring), covering a period from 1948-1955; text by Yve-Alain Bois (bi-lingual edition with text in German and English); over 180 full-page colour plates, b&w text illustrations; handsome black silk cloth boards with black titling to spine; Very Good tight and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK WILL INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION