Search Results: Authors starting with G from Antique Bookshop

Pennsylvania. The Franklin Library., 1977.. 438pp. b/w ills.

N.Y. Chelsea House., 1994.. Roy.8vo. Col.ill.bds. 111pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Ancient Greek historian, Herodotus wrote much about his travels throughout the Greek & Persian empires around 400 BC & collected many ethnographical & geograpical details in his travels.

Melb. SUn Books., 1977.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 124pp. (sl foxing) col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. John Peter Russell was an Australian impressionist painter who moved to Europe in his teenage years to attend art school where he befriended fellow pupil Vincent van Gogh & painted with Claude Monet.

Paris. Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2000.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 293pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. With French text. An exhibition catalogue of early Columbian Native Indian art & artefacts created prior to Spanish colonisation. Prehispanic metallurgy in Columbia was some of the most elaborate in ancient America.

28 February - 1 April, 2017.. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 68pp. Illustration for each of the 51 works offered. Fine. Price list loosely inserted.

Lond. Michael Joseph., 1959.. Sm.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 144pp. b/w plates. Fine copy. 1st ed. The story of the Hawker Hurricane, "the greatest British fighter plane" of World War II.

Mt.Gambier. B.Kannenberg., n.d.. (c.1920's) Oblong 4to. Lettered wrappers. unpag. 24pp. filled with b/w ills. Wrappers sl.foxed else a Very good copy.

Syd. The author/Wentworth Books., n.d.. (c.1960s) Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. unpag. (66pp.) Many b/w ills. of scenes in and around the University of Sydney. Very Good copy. 1st ed.

Carlton South. Melbourne Uni Press., 1998.. (2nd imp) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 292pp. b/w plates & maps + a fold-out map. Very good copy. Between March of 1938 & June 1939 the Hagen-Sepick Patrol was Australia's last great exploring expedition to the western highlands of Papua New Guinea. A treck of some 3,000km through formidable terrain

Lond. Ian Allan., 1971.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The music hall was the first true theatrical entertainment to cater expressley for ordinary people. Its boisterous gaiety & broad humour was popular with a hard working Victorian audiences.

Chatswood. New Holland Publishers., 2019.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 192pp. Light wear to corners. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. New Zealand aviator & horticulturalist, Oscar Garden, set off from London in 1930 in a De Havilland Gypsy Moth on an 18 day journey to Wyndham in WA. He was the chief pilot for Short Empire flying boats

Melb. The Text Publishing Company., 2008.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 195pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Helen lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. She is coming to vising for three weeks to receive treatment for her cancer. The Spare Room stumbles serenely towards a transcendent finale

Lond. Academy Editions., 1976.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 167pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very Good copy. 1st ed. The life & work of the great artist, renowned for his glass.

France. Edition S.E.D.L.I., 1991.. Folio. Ill.bds. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed.

France. Edition S.E.D.L.I., 1991.. Folio. Ill.bds. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed.

Dorset. New Orchard Editions Ltd., 1978.. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. 333pp. Light tanning to pages. Inscription on ffe. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. Features the text of the 1897 editions of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland & Looking-Glass worlds, together with the Hunting of the Snark & a Carroll selection & bibliography.

Syd. Harper Collins Publishers., 2016.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 353pp. Very good copy. Edited & curated from the annals of the Returned Services League of Australia comes these compelling yarns & memories written by diggers who share their eyewitness accounts of Gallipoli & France in WWI

N.Y. Viking., 1978.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 304pp. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. A collection of Gauguin's letters, journals & articles.

N.Y. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 278pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. b/w ills. Very good copy. The Art Deco design revolution of the 1920s & 1930s symbolised the optimism & rapid change of the industrial age. With its clean lines, dramatic shapes, colourful & ornate surfaces it brought drama.

Philadelphia. Casemate., 2007.. Or.cl. 260pp. Bumps to bottom corners. b/w plates. Good copy. 1st US ed. John Gebhart returned from Vietnam in 1968 & found that like many Korean & Vietnam war veterans, nobody wanted to hear his stories. Some 38 years later he decided to write them down.