Search Results: Authors starting with H from Gotcha By The Books

New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. 5th Printing. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. Selection of the writing of Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku (1686- 1769) regarded as the reviver of the Rinsai school; translated by Philip B. Yampolsky.

Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1980. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. b&w illustrations Illustrated study of Giacomett's sculpture 'Femme Egorgee' (Woman with her Throat Cut), the most important surrealist work in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; text by Douglas Hall; b&w illustrations throughout; minor smudge marks to first and last pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed.

Melbourne: Asialink Centre, 1999. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 18x20cm. colour and b&w illustrations Scarce catalogue for the 1999 Fiona Hall exhibition in Sri Lanka, Gallery 706 Colombo 5-28 November 1999, curated and with an essay by Suhanya Raffel; colour plate illustrations, including some gate-fold; b&w text illustrations; edition of 1000 copies; Very Good throughout, wraps very lightly rubbed.

London: Routledge, no date. 4th Edition revised. hardbound. G-VG /no dustwrapper. 12mo. The Idylls, Epigrams and other poems of Theocritus with the poems of Bion and Moschus, translated and with preface and introduction by J.H. Hallard, being a volume in the Broadway Translations; the fourth (revised edition); half white cloth with black title label and gilt titling to spine, blue cloth sides; silk bookmark bound-in; small bookshop label to front pastedown, former owner's name/date to front endpaper and rear pastdown, endpapers/prelims/text block foxed, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards lightly rubbed, knock to head of spine, minor chip to title label.

Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1983. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps. 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the exhibition of Artists Books, Elvehjem Museum of Art 6 May - 3 July 1983, being a representative selection of American book-arts in the early 1980's; preface by Walter Hamady; b&w photo illustrations throughout; mild knock to foot of text block with minor creases to corners of pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, and with one or two small stains.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1972. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Classic Hamilton soft-focus erotic photo essay, accompanied with text by Alain Robbe-Grillet; French edition with no English translation of text; brown cloth boards with white titling to spine, brown endpapers; minor foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, and with some lifting of original celloglaze.

Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1999. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the Antony Hamilton exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia 3 September - 7 November 1999; text by Sarah Thomas; includes bibliography and an interview with the artist; colour and b&w illustrations throughout.

Sydney: New Century Press, 1930. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Good. 8vo. Critical analysis of the Australian economy and operation of Australian government and the democratic system in the years between the wars; Signed and with gift-inscription to Dedication page by Joseph Hamlet; former owner's name/inscription to title page, pages heavily tanned throughout, o.w. Good; wraps heavily rubbed and foxed.

Sydney: Vagabond Press , 2002. Signed Limited Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. cover illustration Kay Orchison Sequence of poems by Philip Hammial, limited to 100 copies signed by the poet (this being No. 52); Vagabond Press Rare Object Series 16/16; hand-tipped colour illustration to front cover by Kay Orchison; Very Good clean copy.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. Sm 8vo. Frontispiece photo of Hamsun 1st UK Edition of this memoir by Knut Hamsun, detailing his trial for treason, due to his support of the German invasion of Norway in 1940 - the text was originally written while he was interned from 1945-1948; translated with an introduction by Carl L. Anderson; b&w frontispiece photo illustration showing Hamsun in court in 1948; light foxing to prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper very lightly edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. Very Good.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w frontispiece illustration The first comprehensive study of Neilson's poetry, challenging the traditional image of him as a naive or bucolic poet, instead stressing his craftsmanship and complexity; also focusses on Neilson's lifelong battle with his Presbyterian God, and his eventual themes of pagan myth; this copy heavily tanned to versos of covers, front and rear, o.w. Very Good throughout; minor worn patch top rh front cover.

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press , 1992. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight and clean in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Study of Baudelaire's essays on Caricature, with focus on their significance for Baudelaire's conception of modernity, and on his wider theory of the comic; references Daumier, Hogarth, Pigal, Grandville, Bruegel, etc; numerous b&w illustrations.

Canberra: Officina Brindabella, 1991. Numbered Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w and colour illustrations Eight stories by Barbara Hanrahan, illustrated with etchings by the author, the eighteenth book produced by Alec Bolton at the Officina Brindabella (Brindabella Press), this being No. 4 of the scarce casebound edition of only 30 copies (total edition 250 with 31-250 in wrappers), signed and numbered by Hanrahan to colophon; half green leather with gilt titling to spine, brown cloth boards, Caledonia on Mohawk Superfine with hand-set Bodoni for display; etchings letterpress printed, hand-binding by Robin Tait, etchings in colour and b&w; very mild foxing to prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards with the faintest rubbing lower front; overall a Very Good copy.

Sydney: Barberism and the Museum of Contemporary Art , 1992. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the group show, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 16 February - 23 May 1993, with focus on humour in contemporary visual culture, the philosophical significance of comic forms of expression, the links between the serious and the comic, etc; curated by Kay Campbell, edited by Pamela Hansford; artists include Hany Armanious, Philip Brophy, Janet Burchill, Aleks Danko, Dale Frank, Tim Johnson, Maria Kozic, Robert MacPherson, Ari Purhonen, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson; colour and b&w plate illustrations throughout; the standard edition limited to 1000 copies; black card wraps with black titling; Very Good clean copy.

Sydney: Barberism and the Museum of Contemporary Art , 1992. Limited Edition. artificial fur over wraps. Very Good. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Very Scarce; one of the edition of 500 copies bound in artificial black fur of the catalogue for the group show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 16 February - 23 May 1993; the theme for the exhibition was ways in which humour, wit, irony, etc may inform contemporary visual culure; the project was seen from the beginning as both an art show and a book (being the current catalogue); curated by Kay Campbell, edited by Pamela Hansford; artists include Hany Armanious, Philip Brophy, Janet Burchill, Aleks Danko, Dale Frank, Tim Johnson, Maria Kozic, Robert MacPherson, Ari Purhonen, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson; colour and b&w plate illustrations throughout; Very Good throughout (mild curling of wraps at corners); black fur fulsome and shaggy with no bald patches.

New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1994. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of Neo-Dada, published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Neo-Dada Redefining Art 1958-62', Scottsdale Center for the Arts November 4 1994 - January 1 1995 (and touring); texts by Susan Hapgood, Maurice Berger, and Jill Johnson, and with interviews and texts with/by Arman, Kaprow, Oldenburg, Spoerri, Cage, Johns, and Niki de Saint Phalle; includes bibliography; illustrated throughout in colour and b&w; mild curling of covers at edges, o.w. Very Good; wraps lightly rubbed.

Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1981. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps. square 8vo. Michael Harlow's fourth collection of poems; VG throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, mild vertical crease to front cover.

Melbourne: Australasian Book Society, 1957. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. R.G. Edwards dustwrapper design 1st Edition of Edward Harrington's last collection, being a selected verse grouped under themes such as The Bush, Bushmen, War (Harrington served in the 4th Light Horse Regiment in Palestine), Peace, The City, etc; introduction by Frank E. Blake; nice dustwrapper illustration by RG Edwards; gift-inscription to front pastedown, tanning/foxing to endpapers and text block, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards rubbed, and with minor worn patch lower front; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, loss to head and tail of spine, 1cm loss top front.

New York: Atheneum, 1963. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations 1st Edition of this retelling of five myths of the Indians of the North Pacific, The One-Horned Mountain Goat, The Boy and the Sea Monsters, The Wild Woman of the Woods, The Giant Ogre Kloo-Teekl, Fly Again my Proud Eagle; illustrated with numerous woodcuts by John Frazer Mills; red cloth boards with black text and whale illustration to front board; gift-inscription to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, minor loss lower rear.

Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1987. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Documents the history and personalities of The Black Mountain College, from 1933 to 1957; b&w photo illustrations throughout, and incuding a section of colour plates; Anni and Josef Albers, Cage, Creeley, Cunningham, Duncan, Twombly, Kline, Lippold, Rockburne, etc; errata slip laid in; Very Good and clean throughout in Very Good dustwrapper (price clipped); PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION.