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The Natural History of Selborne
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGilbert White
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Introduction by Keith Thomas. FORD-SMITH 1557.
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War & Peace (2 Volumes)
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeo Tolstoy
London: The Folio Society, 2014.Translated, annotated and introduced by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, preface by James Wood, illustrations by Igor Karash. FORD-SMITH 1925.
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From Dawn to Decadence (2 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Barzun
London: The Folio Society, 2015.1500 to the present, 500 years of Western cultural life. Introduction by Peter Conrad. FORD-SMITH 1955.
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The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward Leeson
London: The Folio Society, 2009.Edited and with an introduction by Edward Leeson, drawings by Nick Hardcastle. FORD-SMITH 1250.
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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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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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Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor, 1872-1953
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLouise Irvine; Paul Atterbury
Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1998. -
Swiss Carvings: The Art of the Black Forest, 1820-1940
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJay Arenski; Simon Daniels; Michael Daniels
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2005.The definitive reference on the Swiss “Black Forest” woodcarving tradition.
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Woodcut Book-Plates
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. Neville Barnett
Sydney: Privately Printed [at The Becon Press], 1934.A comprehensive history of the woodcut ex libris with over 100 tipped in examples and more reproduced. The frontispiece being the tipped in plate of Edward, Prince of Wales signed by the artist, Adrian Feint. The other signed plates are by G. D. Perrottet, W. F. Hopson, Bruno da Osimo (x3), V. Vavra (x2), Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (x3), L. Roy Davies, George Collingridge, and another by Feint. Foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Limited to 210 signed and numbered copies of the standard edition. A deluxe edition of 65 copies was also produced.
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Italian Pleasure Gardens
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRose Standish Nichols
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.First printing of the third and final in American landscape architect Rose Standish Nichols’ (1872-1960) studies on the gardens of Europe, preceded by English Pleasure Gardens (1902) and Spanish and Portuguese Gardens (1924). Italian Pleasure Gardens was the first to be illustrated with photographs taken by Nichols on her travels, there being near 200 illustrations throughout.
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The Lesbian
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank S. Caprio
Whyteleafe: Gold Star Publications, 1970.A reprint of Caprio’s Female Homosexuality.
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Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGregory Corso
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2007].The Pocket Poets Series: Number 8. A circa 2007 later printing. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Scattered Poems (Pocket Poet Series #28)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Kerouac
San Francisco: City Lights Books, [2001].Pocket Poet Series No. 28. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Planet News 1961-1967
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAllen Ginsberg
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2000.The Pocket Poet Series: Number Twenty Three. This copy signed by the editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Photographic Portrait of Enid Riding Her Pony
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhotographer Unknown
[Victoria]: No publisher, No date.Early 1900s photographic portrait or a woman posing atop her horse standing in a creek. Inscribed Christmas greeting by the subject on the verso of the folder to her Dear Auntie and Uncle, the recipients then identifying the pony’s name as possibly Echo.
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Photographic Portrait of the the Very Rev. N. Linden Parkyn, Dean of Ballarat
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichards & Co.
Ballarat: Richards & Co., No date.Photographic portrait of the Very Rev. Nathaniel Linden Parkyn (1851-1931), signed by him on the mount, “Your very affectionate friend, N. Lindon Parkyn”. Born in England, Parkyn was ordained in 1891 and served as curate in several English towns and villages before coming to Australia and serving as the second Dean of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat from 1897-1914. He was remembered as an articulate speaker and a benevolent public figure to citizens of all denominations. He returned to England in 1914 where he served as vicar at Blackpool until 1821 before retiring to Bath where he died in 1931. An earlier portrait of Parkyn, taken before he came to Australia, is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This later portrait by Richards & Co. of Ballarat circa 1910. No photographic holdings of Dean Parkyn can be found in any Australian institution.
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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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Tatsuo Takayama
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTatsuo Takayama
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1987.Monograph of Japanese modern and contemporary artist Tatsuo Takayama (1912-2007).