Search Results: Titles starting with I from Antique Bookshop

North Ryde. Methuen Australia Ltd., 1983.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 175pp. Name on ffe. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. I Can Hear the Horses portrays a lifestyle no longer existing in Australia. Margaret Gifford's biography is from a more leisured era of town & country houses, ballrooms & stables of the early 20th cent.

Lond. The Folio Society., 2004.. Col.ill.cloth. 254pp. Cloth sl.rubbed else a very good copy. Fourth Folio Society Edition. In the slip-case. Maya Angelou writes from the heart & celebrates life as only she has discovered it. A moving volume of poetry, readers discover the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful & vibrant writers.

North Syd. William heinemann., 2008.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 356pp. Sl foxing to edges. ol & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. English born Australian film critic, David Stratton, was sent to Hampshire during the war to stay with his grandmother to escape the blitz. She was an avid filmgoer & David soon fell in love with cinema

Syd. Lansdowne., 1999.. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. b/w ills. Pages sl. yellowed else Fine copy. 1st ed. The life of Australia's doyenne of food writers.

Syd. Bay Books., n.d. (1986).. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 287pp. Very good copy. A history of Australia as told through the diaries & log-books of the explorers themselves, who's eyewitness accounts hint at an unknown country with unlimited possibilities.

Adelaide. Rigby Limited., 1962.. (2nd imp) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 240pp. Some tanning to pages. b/w plates. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. This is the life story of Phillip Roberts, Wailpuldanya of the Alawa people of the Roper River in the Northern Territory who's biography was written from interviews collected by Douglas Lockwood.

Lond. Heinemann., 1960.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 204pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. American writer Max Shulman's character, Dobie Gillis, went from being a short story fiction hero to a CBS TV series star in the 1950s & a Hollywood star in an MGM 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

Lond. Faber and Faber Limited., 2011.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 397pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1942 Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming RNVR, set up a unit of front-line troops to steal enemy intelligence. A commando group of authorised looters known as 30 Assault Unit was formed & deployed.

Syd. Pan Macmillan., 2000.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Signed by Ian Thorpe. Australian freestyle swimming specialist, Ian Thorpe, was Australia's most successful athlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics, winning 3 gold & 2 silver medals. He has won 5 Olympic gold medals.

Cambridge,MA. Harvard Uni Press., 2007.. Oblong. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Byzantine & Russian Orthadox icons are perhaps the most enduring form of religious art ever developed & also one of the most mysterious. The British Museum houses an important collection of Icons.

Cambridge. Vivays Publishing., 2011.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 191pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st UK ed. A catalogue of Russian Icon masterpieces from the Kolomenskoye Collection. The finest examples of late Russian iconography from the 16th to the early 20th century. Translated from the Russian.

Geneva. Nagel., 1969.. Folio. Or.bds. 4to. 131pp. (sl foxing) Profusely illustrated with tipped in colour plates & a b/w map. Very good copy. 1st English language ed. From the time when Constantinople was founded in the 4th century, Cyprus became a provence of the Eastern Empire & following its conversion to Christianity, became a centre for Byzantine Christian art.

Pennsylvania. TAB Books Inc., 1984.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 464pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Lacks title page. Packed with hundreds of fascinating facts & anecdotes from America's civil & military aviation history. With over 450 photographs selected from public & private archives from WWI to the Space Shuttle.

Lond. Studio Editions., 1995.. (rep) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Dj sl.torn & sl.wear to lower edge of boards else a very good copy. Weaving is one of the oldest crafts, with fine & sophisticated textiles being produced from the earliest of times. From wall hanging tapestries to Tutankhamen's fine linen shirt, a history of textiles.

Dorset. New Orchard Editions Ltd., 1978.. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 333pp. Light tanning to pages. Inscription on ffe. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. Features the text of the 1897 editions of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland & Looking-Glass worlds, together with the Hunting of the Snark & a Carroll selection & bibliography.

Surrey. Merchant Book Co., 2003.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 255pp. Many Col.ills. Fine. 1st ed. Traces the rapid development of the electric guitar from the first attempts to amplify acoustic guitars to the modern "axes" of today.

Melb. Oxford University Press Aust., 1988.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 310pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. This illustrated anthology of Australian humour features cartoons by David Low, Emile Mercier, Hal Gye, Unk White, Michael Leunig, Martin Sharp, Patrick Cook, & several members of the Lindsay family.

Lond. Bantam Press., 1996.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. First published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's work presented abstract & difficult theories to grasp on the big bang, wormholes, & the dreamlike landscape of particle physics.

Lond. Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1977.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 351pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Features 2,442 entries, including definitions of wares, materials, processes, forms, and decorative styles, as well as entries on principla glass-makers.

Lond. The Promotional Reprint Co., 1995.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, or BMW for short, began making motorcycles in in 1923, when their designer Max Friz fitted a 494cc engine to a modified bicycle frame & named it the R32.