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

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Classic collection of supernatural tales by Ueda Akinari, considered a masterpiece of Edo fiction, here edited, translated, and with a lengthy introduction by Leon M. Zolbrod; illustrated throughout with 19 b&w plates and 12 line illustrations; heavy tanning to endpapers, mild foxing to prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, lightly sunned to spine, small dampstain to tail of spine, o.w. Very Good.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1937. 1st Trade Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. The first trade edition of Ulysses, Bodley Head 1937, the text being reproduced by photo-offset from the 1936 ed.; includes list of previous editions (up to 1936), and appendices relating to the banning of Ulysses, the unauthorized serial edition of Samuel Roth (and list of writers and other notables who signed a petition against Roth), and a Joyce Bibliography (a full 18 titles!); former owner's name to front endpaper, heavy foxing/tanning to endpapers, lighter to prelims and text block, G-VG throughout; boards rubbed and foxed, dulled to spine; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION

Wien: Generali Foundation, 2008. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of text art, Generali Foundation Wien 19 September - 23 November 2008; the exhibition explored the poetic dimension of language in various shapes and media; beginning with Mallarme, and referencing Broodthaers, Ruhm, Lewis Carroll, Ulrike Grossarth, Ewa Partum, Lothar Baumgarten, Peter Tscherkassy, Ana Torfs, and others; edited by Sabine Folie; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; text in German and English; includes two inserts, one a stapled booklet (8pp) of Exhibition Views, the other a single sheet with a text work by Joelle Tuerlinckx; Very Good tight clean copy.

New York: Aperture, 1997. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated 1st English-language edition (first printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) of Paul Strand's photographic study of an Italian village (Luzzara in the Po Valley), produced along with Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, who provides the text; first published in Italian in 1955, and not published in English until the present edition; numerous text and full-page b&w plates throughout; green cloth boards with silver titling to spine; Very Good and clean throughout in Very Good dustwrapper.

Seoul: SEMA, 2021. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Art, SEMA 2021, addressing aspects of Indigenous art-making in Australia, referencing sovereignty, politics, conceptual aspects, etc; artists include Brook Andrew, Timothy Cook, Mrs Norris, Mulkun Wirrpanda, Helen Johnson, and many more; colour illustrations throughout; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION..

London: Macmillan, 1897. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in lightly rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Illustrated edition of de la Motte Fouque's Undine, telling the tale of a water sprite who marries a knight in order to gain a soul; illustrations by Rosie MM Pitman, including full-page b&w frontispiece plate with tissue-guard; full-page b&w illustrations throughout and illustrated chapter headings; blue cloth boards with gilt titling and designs to front and spine; top edge gilt, text block untrimmed; medium foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, very occasional lighter foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, a little dulled to spine.

Brisbane: Numero Uno Publications Grahame Galleries + Editions, 2015. Numbered Limited Edition. paperback. Very Good . 4to. b&w illustrations Scarce catalogue for the exhibition of Artists' Books from Australia, 10 December 2015 - 3 March 2016 Cabinet du livre d'artiste France; books drawn from the collection of Noreen Grahame's Centre for the Artist Book in Brisbane, in consulatation with Aurelie Noury (the books were preferably produced by the artist in unlimited editions, thus unique or illustrated limited editions were excluded); No. 34 of only 200 copies, and including a loose-inserted printed single-folio original poster/promo for the French exhibition; introduction by Noreen Grahame (in English and with French translation); books by Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Ian Burn, Noreen Grahame, Robert Jacks, Maria Kozic, Peter Lyssiotis, Robert MacPherson, Michael Phillips, Alex Selenitsch, Judy Watson, and others; full-page b&w illustrations; text block mildly bowed, o.w. Very Good clean copy.

Sydney: Union Street Gallery, 1985. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good . 4to. b&w illustrations Union Street Gallery end-of-year (1985) catalogue, being a selection of works by artists who showed at Union Street in that year; Scarce; artists include Tim Johson, Merilyn Fairskye, Lindy Lee, Suzie Coyle, Debra Dawes, Ross Gibson, Jelle van den Berg, Janet Burchill; Union Street Gallery was a non-affiliated exhibition space run by Dawes, van den Berg, Deborah Singleton, and Jeff Gibson; b&w illustrations throughout; lilac card wraps, ring-bound; wraps lightly sunned to edges, o.w. Very Good.

self-published, no date (1980's?). Signed Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Collection of poetry by Cecil Fisher, addressing the struggles of First Nations people in Australia; Signed with short gift-inscription by Fisher to reverse side of front cover; Foreword by Neville Bonner; no publishing date, place, etc (Trove states 'Queensland? The Author?, 198-?), with later reprints dated, so this copy presumed 1st Edition 1980's; foxing to dedication page and text block, o.w. Very Good; wraps lightly rubbed.

Estonia: Tartu University Press, 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Universals in connection with the interpretation of magic in Juri Lotman's semiotics, Mythological and magical semiosis, Magic in culture, and more; includes and Appendix: Three Lectures by Juri Lotman; being No. 7 in the Tartu Semiotics Library; text translated by Tiia Raudma; Very Good.

London: Phaidon, 2007. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated survey of sculpture in the first decade of the 21st Century, in conjunction with New Museum's first exhibition in its new location on the Bowery in New York; texts by Richard Flood, Sara Reisman, Massimilian Gioni, Laura Hoptman, Trevor Smith, Benjamin Godsill, Eva Diaz; lavishly illustrated with full-colour plates throughout; artists featured include Carol Bove, Manfred Pernice, Eva Rothschild, John Bock, Sam Durant, Sarah Lucas; half decorative cloth, white laminated boards; Very Good clean copy, boards very lightly rubbed; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING FOR DESTINATIONS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in Good-Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Edward Pagram dustwrapper design Scarce 1st UK Edition Patricia Carlon novel; Carlon was an Australian crime fiction writer, who wrote novels and short stories in relative isolation in Wagga Wagga, and whom it was later discovered had been profoundly deaf since the age of eleven; nice dustwrapper by Edward Pagram; maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; light foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, tape stains to rear endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. Very Good.

Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1968. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Very Good in edgeworn dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. The Mahanarayanopanisad volume in the Upanisad Series from Sri Ramakrishna Math, each volume containing the original text in Devanagari, English translation and copious notes and detailed introduction; some tanning to endpapers, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper rubbed, and with 3 x 3cm ragged loss top edge front panel

Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2000. 1st Paperback. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of the life and work of Lin Onus, published to accompany the exhibition of his works at the Qld Art Gallery (and touring) 2000-2001 - 60 full colour plates, numerous b&w photo illustrations; text by Margo Neale, and including contributions by Michael Eather, Gary Foley, Sylvia Kleinert, Bernhard Luthi, Ian McLean, Jo Onus, Tiriki Onus; includes an illustrated Onus chronology, select bibliography, list of exhibitions, catalogue of works, glossary of terms; Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES.

Melbourne: Distinction Printing, 1985. Numbered Limited Edition. stiff card. Fine/french flaps. 16 x 14.5 cm). colour and b&w illustrations Bruno Leti artists book, inspired by The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne; the deluxe edition (being No. 27) with an original colour etching bound in - 'Dancing Cacti', Signed/numbered/dated to reverse side by Leti, and with original tissue-guard; Leti has also signed/numbered to colophon; apart from the etching there are 16 full-page illustrations of Leti's works (8 gouaches, 8 drawings); the deluxe edition limited to 80 copies, from an overall edition of 500; Leti has numbered both the etching and the colophon 27/30 - it's unclear why, as the edition is 80 (although there appear to be variant bindings of ""Urban Paradise"" - the present copy is stiff card wraps with French Flaps, but we also know of a hardcover edition); Fine copy with no marks or flaws.

Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good/no dustwrapper. sm 4to. hand-tipped plates Catalogue of work by Indian artists (and also covering traditional arts of India), curated by Mallika Sarabhai for the 1995 Festival of Perth; artists include Amit Ambalal, Paritosh Sen, Prabhakar Kolte; traditional arts include Pithora, Kanther Kaaj, Pabuji No Phad; colour hand-tipped plates throughout; illustrated wraps hand-bound at spine with orange cord; Very Scarce - Trove states one copy at QAGOMA Research Library; mild rubbed spot to front cover, o.w. Very Good throughout.

Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 2021. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Kylie and Tiffany Johnson (of Paperboat Press Studio Brisbane) take the reader on a tour of the private studios of some of Japan's most exciting artisans, with sections on individual makers, galleries, and markets; the artisans discuss their materials, methods, cultures, traditions; full-colour illustrations throughout; this copy Signed and with personal gift-inscription by the authors.