Recent Arrivals from Gotcha By The Books

Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of Brazilian Constructive art from the collection of Adolpho Leirner, May 20 - September 23 2007 Museum of Fine Arts Houston; edited by Heather Brand, with texts by Mari Carmen Ramirez and Adolpho Leirner; copiously illustrated with full-page colour plates throughout;… Read more about this item

New York: Something Else Press, 1966. 1st Edition. paperback. Good in rubbed wraps. 8vo. A volume in the Great Bear Pamphlets, produced by Something Else Press - George Brecht discusses the philosophy and aesthetics of chance and its relation to the arts; stapled wraps with Great Bear motif to front cover; former owner's name to front cover, wraps and text… Read more about this item

Paris: Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 1934. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. Dictionary of Esperanto (Esperanto-English); former owner's name to half-title page, tanning/foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, edges of pages toned throughout, o.w. Good; binding a little tired, but holding firm.

Perth: Hesperian Press, 1984. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Collection of essays relating to Australian/Australasian vertebrate fauna, its origins and evolutionary history, distribution past and present, etc; copiously illustrated in b&w and with some colour plates; background chapters, followed by sections on Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, New Zealand/New Guinea and Lord Howe… Read more about this item

Sydney: Studio Magazines, 1995. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated The first issue No. 00 of (not only) blue, photography/art/design magazine aimed at a queer audience; features William Yang, Pierre et Gilles, Ian Roberts, Fiona McGregor, Carlotta, and many more; wraps lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good throughout; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date (1926). hardbound. Good in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations The stories of early British settlers in Australia, interspersed with Lady Apsley's description of her travels in Northern Australia, and a chapter on sport; endpapers maps, numerous full-page b&w plate illustrations; no publishing date (Trove states 1926); med-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text… Read more about this item

New York: Abrams, 2015. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Spectacular collection of images showing Andy Goldsworthy's land-art works of an ephemeral nature, over a ten year period from 2004-2014; apart from the titles of the works and a short note by Goldsworthy, the book is refreshingly text-free copiously illustrated with many-hundreds of full-colour… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Murfett Pty. Ltd., no date (1945?). presumed 1st Edition. stiff card. Good in rubbed wraps. 37 x 25cm). colour and b&w illustrations Classic nursery rhymes with the illustrations of Peg Maltby, being full-page colour and b&w text illustrations; Simple Simon, Little Bo Peep, Jack Sprat, Jumping Joan, Little Miss Muffet, Wee Willie Winkie, etc; no publishing date (Trove states… Read more about this item

Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reissue. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. The 1995 re-issue in hardback of the collected poems of the James K. Baxter; comprehensive collection, from early poems 1941-45 through the 50's and 60's, and up to the late poems 1972, and The Tree House and Other Poems; attempts to provide definitive texts of the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1980. 1st English Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated 204 full-page colour plates, 86 b&w illustrations, of the best surviving examples of Icons from the Novgorod School, from between the 12th-17th Centuries; preface by Dmitry Likhachov, introduction by Vera Laurina and Vasily Pushkariov; the English edition, text by Kathleen Cook, notes to… Read more about this item

Sydney: William Brooks, 1906. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations Study of the early European explorers in the Pacific, with focus on Australia and PNG; illustrated with numerous maps, some in colour; references the Spice Islands and Papua, Ribero's Map, Villalobos, the first map of New Guinea, the first map of Australia, Pierre… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of the themes of Heaven and Hell in Western Art, referencing The Garden of Eden, Poussin and Watteau, Medieval Theory of the Cosmos, The Mandorla, The Imagery of Hell, The Dark Wood, The Nine Circles of Hell, The Devil; copiously illustrated… Read more about this item

Berlin: Galerie Feinschmiede, 1990. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. 30 x 31cm. profusely illustrated Illustrated overview of Berlin designer Anderl Kammermeier's works between the years 1984-1990, being metal-based chairs, tables, lights, furniture, etc; b&w photo illustrations throughout; Very Good throughout; wraps a little rubbed, lightly curled at edges.

London: Academy Editions, 1983. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Concise overview of aspects of Russian Avant-Garde art and architecture, guest-edited by Catherine Cooke; Russia's First Architectural Books, The Costakis Collection, Melnikov and the Constructivists, and more; various authors; being AD Profile No. 47; b&w and colour illustrations throughout; Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed and with mild… Read more about this item

London: E. Marlborough & Co., 1921. 1st Edition. hardbound. Fair/no dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition 1921 English-Esperanto dictionary by Fulcher and Long; includes a list of Proper Names, a section of Neologisms, and some blank pages for 'notes', plus a list of books from The British Esperanto Association to rear of text; 2 x former owner's names to front endpaper, smudges… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1930. 1st Edition. paperback. Good/self-wraps. 12mo. Assessment of censorship in Australia in the early decades of the 20th-C, taking a generally progressive, anti-censorship position, ""Why these puritans should arrogate to themselves a license to control public opinion in known only to themselves"", (pg 8); cream card with printed self-wraps (adhered at spine), string-bound; scattered foxing (light-med)… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1928. reprint. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Part I (Thales - Plato) of Burnet's classic study of early Greek philosophy; chapters on Ionian philosophy, Pythagoras, Herakleitos and Parmenides, The Pluralists, Eleatics, Atomic Philosophy, The Sophists, Socrates, Plato; heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, heavy tanning to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and… Read more about this item

London: The De Walden Library, 1904. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in fair boards/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Two Tudor Books of Arms: A Tudor Book of Arms tricked by Robert Cooke being Harleian Manuscript No. 2169 blasoned by Joseph Foster, and A Tudor Book of Arms being Harleian Manuscript No. 6163 blasoned by Joseph Foster; copiously illustrated with nine hundred… Read more about this item

New Haven and London: Yale University Press/NG Publications, 1991. 1st English Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrappers in Very Good slipcase/dustwrapper/slipcase. 2 vols 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the major Rembrandt exhibition, Kupferstichkabinett SMPK Altes Museum Berlin 12 September 1991 - 27 October 1991 (and touring to Amsterdam and London); 2 volume set housed in illustrated… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, 2018. Deluxe Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good slipcase/slipcase. 4to. profusely illustrated The 'Special Edition' of the catalogue for the Patricia Piccinini exhibition, GOMA Brisbane 24 March - 5 August 2018; essays by Peter McKay, Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Finkel, China Mieville; includes exhibition history, select bibliography; colour illustrations of Piccinini's work throughout;… Read more about this item