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The Best After-Dinner Stories
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Heald
London: The Folio Society, 2008.Introduction by Craig Brown. Illustrations by Paul Cox. FORD-SMITH 1140.
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The Imitation of Christ
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas A. Kempis
London: The Folio Society, 2008. -
Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHenry Hobhouse
London: The Folio Society, 2007.On Quinine, Sugar, Tea, Cotton, Potato, and Coca. FORD-SMITH 1357.
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The Master and Margarita
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMikhail Bulgakov
London: The Folio Society, 2010.Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, introduced by Orlando Figes, illustrated by Peter Suart. FORD-SMITH 1663.
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Ten Days That Shook the World
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Reed
London: The Folio Society, 2006.Preface by John Simpson. Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. Foreword by V. I. Lenin. Maps by Neil Gower. FORD-SMITH 1324.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFriedrich Nietzsche
London: The Folio Society, 2012.Translated and edited by Graham Parkes, introduced by Jonathan Ree, illustrated by Peter Suart. FORD-SMITH 1773.
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The Birds of Australia: Bibliography of the Birds of Australia
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory M. Mathews
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925.Books used in the preparation of this work with a few biographical details of authors and collectors. The separately bound bibliography to Mathews 12 volume ornitholgoical handbook, one of the key monumental illustrated works of Australian natural history.
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Boy George Fashion & Make-up Book
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Winder; Gerardine Winder; Christina Saunders
London: Hamlyn, 1984.Everything you need to know to achieve that early 1980s Boy George look you always wanted.
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Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeah Gordon
London: Soul Jazz Publishing, 2010.Photography and oral histories by Leah Gordon. Words by Madison Smartt Bell, Don Cosentino, Richard Fleming, Kathy Smith and Myron Beasley.
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Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Picciotto
London: Trubner & Co., 1875.This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with Falk’s bookplate.
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A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years, Detailing the New Moons, Festivals, and Fasts,
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. H. Lindo
London: L. Thompson, 1838.With the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year; also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered; together with the corresponding Christian dates. To which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000-2240 C.AE. and A Chronological Table, forming a summary of Jewish history from the flood to the present time. With various other useful tables; by E. H. Lindo. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned).
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The Hamlyn Book of Skateboarding
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Arnold
London: Hamlyn, 1977. -
Cycle of Violence
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGrayson Perry
London: Atlas Press, 2002.“When I was 12 or 13 I drew a series of short comic strip adventures featuring an idealised male hero. When puberty hit me these boy’s own tales became increasingly kinky, involving much cross-dressing and bondage. Sadly these reports from my young subconscious were lost in the upheavals of adolescence. Twenty years later I drew Cycle of Violence while facing up to becoming a father myself, and once again my imagination became an open wound.” (artist’s statement). Limited to 1,200 numbered copies.
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Lights and Shadows of Church-Life in Australia: Including Thoughts on Some Things at Home
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. Binney
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.To which is added, Two Hundred Years Ago: Then and Now. The second edition, published the same year as the first with an additional chapter. FERGUSON 7030, in a variant binding and with advertisements.
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Rituals of Love: Sexual Experiments, Erotic Possibilities
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTed Polhemus; Housk Randall
London: Picador, 1994. -
LSD, Man & Society
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf
London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Papers from a 1967 symposium at Wesleyan. Edited by Richard C. DeBold; Russell C. Leaf.
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Servian Popular Poetry
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Bowring
London: Thomas Davison for the Author, 1827.Serbian poetry translated by John Borwing.
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Freakshow
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacquin Sanders
London: Peter Davies, 1955.The first UK edition of an American sideshow noir featuring strongman Bat Fidler as he falls for beautiful but deformed Fish Girl. An underground classic reprinted as a 1950s pulp, Strip the Heart, and by Loompanics under its original title in 1995.
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Deadly Diamond
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoan Storm
London: Hammond, Hammond & Company, 1953.A Cloak and Dagger Mystery. A continental honeymoon is interrupted by a murder when the husband, a member of British Intelligence, assists the local police with the investigation.
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The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People (2 Volumes)
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBaldwin Spencer; F. J. Gillen
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927.Spencer and Gillen’s expeditions between 1875 and 1912 marked the beginning of modern anthropological fieldwork in Australia. They amassed an enormous collection of notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations, and photographs which are well represented throughout.