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Refrigeration: An Essential to National Health, Security and Progress
W. J. White
Adelaide: Gillingham & Co, 1929.Scarce early Australian work on the cooling and preservation of foodstuffs. Being a practical introduction to the application of Mechanical Refrigeration, as applied to the preservation and distribution of Food, Ice and Ice Cream making and other manufacturing processes.
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Bittersweet
Colleen McCullough
Sydney: HarperCollins, 2013.A scarce signed copy of Colleen McCullough’s last book published two years before her death. McCullough was mostly blind due to illness and did not travel from her home, Norfolk Island, making signed copies of this work hard to come by. Provenance: Private collector that operated tours to Norfolk Island.
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Radical Mix in Hanoi
Ulrich Kirchhoff; Louise Low
Milan: Kaleidoscope Press, 2010.Designs for a mixed use high density structure in Hanoi. Part of the exhibition Radical Mix in Hanoi: Typological Transformations by Ulrich Kirchhoff, guest Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on the occasion of Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland (Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Venice, October 2010).
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The Rock Photography
Rex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Yokoo Tadanori: Grand Theatre of Live Painting: Something’s Happening at the Museum Today
Yokoo Tadanori
[Kobe]: Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.Published to accompany the 2019 exhibition dedicated to works that Tadanori created in front of live audiences. Tadanori thrives on the focus, and the energy, that painting in public provides and this catalogue includes photos of audiences observing the artist.
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Do Catalog: Source Book of the Good Life (U.S.A. ’76)
Mitsuo Kamiya
[Tokyo]: Sankei Shimbun Publishing Bureau, 1975.Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogue copiously illustrated throughout with interior design, self sustainable living, crafts, and more. An addition to the library of Japanese American lifestyle fetish catalogs, a contribution to the mid 20th century development of the Japanese fascination with the American way of fashion, design, culture, and capitalism.
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Bibliotheque Carlo de Poortere: Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Rodenbach
Carlo de Poortere
Liege: Vaillant – Carmanne, 1985.Carlo de Poortere (1917 – 2002), son of Belgian carpet manufacturer Louis de Poortere and later co-manager of the family business, was a bibliophile and collector. His library included fine 17th and 18th century bindings, and other works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. He also collected manuscripts and memorabilia, and it is those that this book documents, by Emile Verhaeren (Belgian Symbolist author, 1855 – 1916, Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian poet and playwright, 1862 – 1949), and Georges Rodenbach (Belgian Symbolist writer and poet, 1855 – 1898). Produced in a limited edition of 350 copies, numbers 1 – 50 printed on Deluxe watermarked Ingres Van Gelder paper; this being one of the deluxe edition, being number 36.
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I’ll Go No More A-roving
Charles Ladds
Brisbane: The Bunyip Press, 1945.Charles Ladds (1903-1971) was an Australian writer who ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, and at the ripe old age of twenty-two wrote this story of his adventures, fist published in 1934. It earned praise from the critics, including G. K. Chesterton. He later lived at Burleigh Heads.
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Expo ’70 World Youth Camp, July 10-23: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka
Expo ’70
: EXPO’70 World Youth Camp Organizing Committee; National Council of Youth Organizations in Japan; World Assembly of Youth, 1970.Handbook for Attendees at the World Youth Camp detailing useful information, accommodation, scheduling and tours. Notice in back pocket of the 4th Chief Delegate Meeting. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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Katu Folktales and Society
Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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Les Sardines a L’Huile
Glynn Boyd Harte
London: Design For Today, 2020.“This is a special facsimile edition of one of the most sought-after books of the 20th century. Glynn Boyd-Harte became one of the most in-demand, and certainly of the most talented, of the illustrators and artists who rose to prominence in the ’70s and ’80s. Originally published by Warren Editions, this is published in an edition of just 600 copies, silver blocked and bound in Ratchford cloth.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Keita Maruyama / Maruyama Landscape: The 20th Anniversary Book, 1994-2014
Keita Maruyama
Tokyo: Rikuyosha, 2014.Monograph of Japanese fashion designer Keita Maruyama (1965-). Photography by Ellen Von Unwerth and others.
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Ko-Kutani
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2004.A detailed catalogue of Ko-Kutani Japanese porcelain from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts collection. Primarily photographs, most of the text is in Japanese with some captions bearing English translation and an essay in English at the rear.
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Occupied Spaces
Ben Roberts; Naomi Colvin
London: Here Press, 2012.A photo series documenting the private and communal spaces of the 2011-2012 Occupy Protest in London by Ben Roberts together with a short essay by Naomi Colvin. This is one of the first edition of 250 copies, a second edition of 100 copies were printed in 2014.
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Petr Miturich, 1887-1956: izbrannye risunki k 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia khudozhnika
Petr Miturich
Moscow: Sovetskj Chudoznik, 1988.Selected drawings on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
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A Preliminary Bibliography on the American Fur Trade
Stuart Cuthbertson; John C. Ewers
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2002.Originally published 1939.
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Haus der Bucher, Basel: Katalog 636; Katalog 818: Alte Kindebucher und Jugendschriften: Livres de L’Enfance: Children’s Books
Adolf Seebass
Mansfield: Maurizo Martino, No date.Facsimile reprint limited to 200 copies. Originally published in 1954 and 1983. Description of 4,374 children’s books.
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Atlas of Interior Design
Dominic Bradbury
London: Phaidon, 2021.“A unique geographically organized survey of the world’s most desirable and iconic residential interiors from the 1940s to today. The Atlas of Interior Design is an inspiring, unparalleled global tour of more than 400 captivating residential interiors from the past eight decades. From classic to contemporary, minimal to maximal, the homes included illuminate the design tropes unique to their location s context, while others confound preconceived ideas of vernacular design to spectacular effect. Exceptional photography and a descriptive text accompanying each project enrich this thoroughly researched and comprehensive volume a must-have for all design aficionados.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Compost Index
Gabriel Kuri
Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2005.“Book about the work and thoughts of the Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri, published in co-production with CoNaCultA, with support from kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Franco Noero Gallery, Torino. Texts by Dieter Roelstraete, and Maxine Kopsa.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Tasmania’s Bygone Years of Road Transport (3 Volumes)
Read MoreSOLDL. J. Morley
Hobart: Wellington Bridge Press, No date.Volume 1: 1900-1929; Volume 2: 1930-1939 (Second Edition); Volume 3: 1940-1950.