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

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1971. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. The text of Cicero's first extant speech, edited with a text and commentary by T.E. Kinsey; introduction (date of speech, style, clausulae etc) followed by the Latin text, commentary, and with appendices and bibliography; Very Good throughout; dustwrapper rubbed to spine, o.w. Very Good.

Utrecht/Antwerpen: Veen Reflex, 1990. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of Dutch typography and advertising/page-design between the years 1920-1940, featuring the work of Piet Zwart, Paul Schuitema, Gerard Kiljan, Cesar Domela Nieuwenhuis, Kick Elffers, Wim Brusse, Cas Oorthuys, Henny Cahn, and Willem Sandberg; over 130 colour and b&w illustrations; text in Dutch with no English translation; small worn patch to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good.

Otago: Otago Daily Times , no date (1960's?). paperback. Good. 8vo. Scarce booklet outlining correct practice for journalists, referencing punctuation, openings, choice of words, etc; compiled by CG Macan (sub-editor of the Otago Daily Times) following on from the work of GR Curtis; WorldCat states two editions 1940 and 1960, this looks more like the latter; former owner's name to reverse side of front cover, original staples rusted (but holding), o.w. Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed.

Sydney: The Australasian Medical Publishing Company for The Australian English Association, 1930. 1st Edition. paperback. Good (lacking staples). 16mo . The text of two lectures on Hamlet, delivered by Sir Mungo MacCallum for the Australian English Association 1930; privately printed for members of the Association by The Australasian Medical Publishing Company; MacCallum served as Professor Emeritus of Modern Literature at University of Sydney, a Shakespeare specialist, with continuing focus on Hamlet; one in a line of MacCallums all named Mungo, including his great-grandson, the Australian political journalist Mungo (Wentworth) MacCallum; textured wraps, text block untrimmed; former owner's name to title page; lacks the original staples (rust stains in their absence), text block thumbed, scattered foxing, o.w. Good; wraps heavily rubbed/foxed, with loss lower rh front.

Sydney: Liberty Press, no date (1940's?). presumed 1st Edition. paperback. Good-Very Good . 8vo. colour frontispiece plate Scarce collection of three short stories on Australian themes by Henrietta Macdonald (1859-1949); colour frontispiece plate showing a reproduction of painting of Macdonald; mild vertical crease to throughout, wraps tanned around edges, o.w. G-VG throughout.

Brisbane: Consolidated Publications Pty, 1950. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Who's Who of prominent Queenslanders for the year 1950, showing full-page b&w photo portraits accompanied by short biographical notes - from the worlds of business, agriculture, church, state, public works, science, etc; hand-tipped colour frontispiece plate of Governor General Sir John Dudley Lavarack; former owner's name to prelims, small dampstain top edge of some pages, and one page with closed tear (archival tape-repair); boards rubbed, o.w. Good.

New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1966. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. cover design Satyajit Ray Study of the work of Marathi poet Keshavsut, with chapters on nature, love, social protest, translations, etc; being a volume in the Makers of Indian Literature series; dustwrapper design by Satyajit Ray with drawing by Shyamal Sen; minor worn patch to front endpaper, mild worn patch to title page, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards foxed front and rear; dustwrapper rubbed, tanned to spine, mild worn patch to foot of spine.

Detroit/Berlin: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection/Vice Versa, 2003. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of George Maciunas' diagrams of history, designed between 1953-1973 as a visualization of chronological causality; published on the occasion of the exhibition ""Maciunas' Learning Machines From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus"" Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin October 31 2003 to January 11 2004; b&w Jon Hendricks chart poem; includes two (folded) posters, loose-inserted 'George Maciunas Chronology of Russian History Oct. 3 1914-1934', and 'Preliminary unfinished form of the proposed index coordinate graph c. 1955-60'; text by Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt; Very Good tight and clean in like dustwrapper.

Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2019. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the Shirley Macnamara exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery 21 September 2019 - 1 March 2020, with texts by Julie Ewington, Diane Moon, and Paul Memmott; colour illustrations throughout of Macnamara's sculptures (many employing her signature spinifex grass); includes exhibition history and bibliography; the hardcover edition with embossed illustration to front board.

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition late collection of Louis Macneice poems; purple cloth boards with gilt titling, from the library of Australian academic and writer Ken Goodwin; former owner's name to front endpaper, small label-ghost (yellow) to front pastedown, offset/tanning to prelims, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, with minor loss top edge, price clipped, worn patch to foot of spine, closed tears to spine.

Brisbane: University Art Museum The University of Queensland , 1993. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. sm 4to. b&w illustrations Catalogue for the Robert MacPherson exhibition of drawings 1973-1978, University Art Museum (University of Queensland), and touring; foreword and occasional notes to drawings by the artist, afterword by Dr. Nancy Underhill; numerous full-page b&w plates throughout; includes a list of solo and group exhibitions, public collections, and bibliography; Very Good and clean throughout in lightly rubbed wraps.

Brisbane: QAGOMA, 2015. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. landscape 4to. profusely illustrated Published to accompany the major exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson (with focus on the important Boss Drovers), Qld Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) 25 July - 18 October 2015, this copy Signed/dated by MacPherson and with an inscription in his hand 'one must be a nomad and move through ideas as one moves through the countryside and towns'; curated by Ingrid Periz, texts by Angela Goddard and Trevor Smith; copiously illustrated with MacPherson's work throughout; includes chronology, list of works, exhibitions and awards, select bibliography; signed copies very scarce; cloth boards with illustration of 'Scale from the Tool', and black and red titling to front board; Very Good clean copy.

Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1996. paperback. Good. 4to. b&w and colour illustrations Collection of photocopied documents in thermal binding (clear acetate front, white gloss card rear) sent to Robert MacPherson by Timothy Potts, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, relating to the MacPherson show 'Robert MacPherson 1975-1995 National Gallery of Victoria 25 October - 27 November 1995', and including the official colour brochure for the show, folding out to double-sided A3 with colour illustrations and Ingrid Periz' essay; covering letter to MacPherson signed by Potts, 3 colour photocopies of the artist's work, media releases, etc, and including the text of Daniel Thomas' essay ""Everybody Sing. The Art of Robert MacPherson"" which appeared shortly after in Art and Australia; brochure Very Good and clean; thermal binding with multiple pages coming loose.

Brisbane: University Art Museum The University of Queensland , 1993. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. sm 4to. b&w illustrations Catalogue for the Robert MacPherson exhibition of drawings 1973-1978, University Art Museum (University of Queensland), and touring; foreword and occasional notes to drawings by the artist, afterword by Dr. Nancy Underhill; numerous full-page b&w plates throughout; includes a list of solo and group exhibitions, public collections, and bibliography; very mild bowing to text block, o.w. Very Good.

Brisbane: The University of Queensland Art Museum , 2013. 1st Paperback. paperback. Very Good. landscape 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson and Joseph Marioni, 13 April - 23 June 2013 University of Queensland Art Museum; texts by Rex Butler, Ingrid Periz, Michael Fried; colour and b&w plate illustrations throughout; stiff card wraps with french flaps doubling as gate-fold illustrations (Marioni to front MacPherson to rear); Very Good clean copy.

Lisbon: Culturgest, 2008. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. profusely illustrated Scarce catalogue for the exhibition featuring the work of three artists, Robert MacPherson, Manfred Pernice, and Katerina Seda - the first in a series to take place at Culturgest (Lisbon), in which three solo shows run concurrently such that a dialogue opens up amongst the various works on show; text by Trevor Smith (in English and Portuguese); colour and b&w illustrations throughout; brown cloth boards with white titling; Very Good clean copy; no dustwrapper (as issued).

Brisbane: QAGOMA, 2015. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. landscape 4to. profusely illustrated Published to accompany the major exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson (with focus on the important Boss Drovers), Qld Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) 25 July - 18 October 2015, this copy Signed/dated to front endpaper by MacPherson (the signature characteristically close-tonal, in black texta on black paper); curated by Ingrid Periz, texts by Angela Goddard and Trevor Smith; copiously illustrated with MacPherson's work throughout; includes chronology, list of works, exhibitions and awards, select bibliography; signed copies very scarce; cloth boards with illustration of 'Scale from the Tool', and black and red titling to front board; minor stains to text block, o.w. Very Good.

Sydney: Various Artists Ltd, 1987. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Scarce catalogue for the Robert MacPherson show (as per Various Artists Ltd), the works being exhibited in two hangings (thus the Exhibition 1 and Exhibition 2 in the title); curated and with an essay by Ingrid Periz (for V.A.L.); 4 b&w illustrations, and with MacPherson's short text 'I see a can of paint as a painting unpainted....'; wraps lightly curled at edges, o.w. Very Good.

Brisbane: QAGOMA, 2015. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. landscape 4to. profusely illustrated Published to accompany the major exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson (with focus on the important Boss Drovers), Qld Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) 25 July - 18 October 2015; curated by Ingrid Periz, texts by Angela Goddard and Trevor Smith; copiously illustrated with MacPherson's work throughout; includes chronology, list of works, exhibitions and awards, select bibliography; cloth boards with illustration of 'Scale from the Tool', and black and red titling to front board; Very Good clean copy.

Milan: Kodak Societa Anonima Milano, no date (1930's?). 2nd Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed/foxed wraps. 8vo. b&w illustrations Italian (text in Italian) Kodak camera publication, being a guide to better photos for the amateur; 2nd Edition; b&w illustrations throughout; no publication date, appears to be c1930's; advice on composition, lighting, camera technology, etc; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed/tanned, occasional light foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps heavily foxed and tanned; very scarce.