Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Gotcha By The Books

Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 1986. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 22.5 x 21cm). b&w illustrations Scarce catalogue for the exhibition held at Institute of Modern Art Brisbane 7 October - 25 October 1986, being an overview of the Q Space and Q Space Annex art movement (which operated for only two years 1980/81), addressing ways of reorienting and remodelling contemporary art practice; curated by Peter Cripps, artists include Bob MacPherson, John Nixon, Anti-Music, Hilary Boscott, John Smith, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson; b&w illustrations throughout, and including a list of Q Space and Q Space Annex exhibitions; Very Good and clean throughout; very minor stain top rh front.

Brisbane: P.A. Meehan Publicity Service, no date (1938?). paperback. Good. landscape 12mo. b&w and colour illustrations/maps/period advertising 1930's Queensland Government tourist guide, wich chapters on Brisbane, South Coast, Darling Downs, Wide Bay and Burnett, Rockhampton, Mackay, The Magic Northlands, Cairns, Great Barrier Reef; lots of nice period advertising (hotels, bakeries, automotive, etc); includes extracts from poems by Emily Bulcock, George Essex Evans, Victor Daley, EJ Brady; b&w photo illustrations and maps; text block tanned, occasional minor foxing, o.w. Good throughout; wraps rubbed and creased.

Brisbane: University Art Museum University Of Queensland, 1985. 1st Edition. paperback. G-VG. 4to. profusely illustrated Exhibition catalogue for this survey of artists from Queensland from 1950-1985, held May 7 - May 30, and 6 June - 28 June 1985 (two hangings being necessary to present the exhibition); marked the 75th anniversary of the University of Queensland; works by Davida Allen, Blackman, Churcher, Crooke, Dickerson, Fairweather, Fullbrook, MacPherson, Molvig, Nixon, Olley, Parr, Peart, Redford, Luke Roberts, Robinson, Shepherdson, Sibley, Staunton, and many more; exhibition curated by Malcolm Enright and Nancy Underhill; this copy with minor knock top rh corner (with mild creases to some pages), o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and lightly edgeworn, coffee-cup stain to front.

Ipswich: Ipswich Art Gallery, 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of Queensland Folk Art Ipswich Art Gallery 6 June - 9 August 2009; texts by Michael Beckmann, Judith McKay, Glenn Cooke, edited by Sharon Marsh; colour photo illustrations throughout; wood carving, chip carving, tramp art, crochet, gumleaf painting, pottery, shell work, metal work, and much more; wraps lightly toned to spine, very mild toning to edges of some pages, o.w. Very Good clean copy.

Lismore: Tankard Books, 2012. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations History of far western Queensland from the mid-19th Century to modern times; illustrated throughout with b&w photos and maps.

London: George G. Harrap, 1930. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Study of Queensland poets, from the mid-19th Century to the 1920's, with chapters on pioneer poets, women poets, bush poetry, The Rockhampton Group, and more; blue cloth boards with gilt titling to front board and spine; foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, light worn patch to spine, o.w. Very Good throughout in Very Good dustwrapper with original price 12/6 to front flap.

Brisbane: Home Secretary's Department Frederick Phillips govt printer, 1931. revised edition. paperback. G-VG in chipped & rubbed covers. 8vo. b&w illustrations 1931 (revised) edition of the Queensland Mothers' Book, put out by the Home Secretary's Department, and designed to help mothers cope with very young children; infant feeding, care of the baby, teeth, feeding, clothing, sick babies, emergencies, simple recipes, and also including advice for expectant mothers; b&w illustrations; includes a loose-leaf Weight Card for a baby born 21st July 1930 for the Baby Clinic in the Valley (Brisbane), although there is only one entry for the weight when the baby was born, and one for week 37; staple-bound; short closed tear to title page (with archival tape-repair), minor occasional foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; covers edgeworn and lightly rubbed/foxed, tanned to rear panel and spine, closed tear to front cover (with archival tape-repair), minor loss lower rh corner of front cover.

Brisbane: A.J. Cumming Govt. Printer, no date (1919). presumed 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w plates History of politics in Queensland during the years 1859-1919; illustrated title page showing Parliament House, frontispiece plate with dual portrait of Premier Robert Herbert (1859) and Premier Thomas Ryan (1919); tanning to text block, mild toning to edges of pages, heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, o.w. G-VG throughout; boards rubbed, sunned to lower front and spine.

Brisbane: The Association, 1964. paperback. Good-Very Good. large 8vo. b&w illustrations Vol 15 No 2 February 1964 issue of The Queensland Hairdresser, with articles on new products for barber stylists, a potted history of shaving, the world cup (hairdressers') tour; b&w illustrations, period advertising; photo illustration to front cover showing a 'part-variant'; scarce, one copy (1959) in the National Library; occasional minor creases, o.w. Very Good; wraps lightly rubbed, and with worn patches top front.

Brisbane: University Art Museum University Of Queensland, 1985. 1st Edition. paperback. G-VG. 4to. profusely illustrated Catalogue for the exhibition of work by Queensland artists, covering a period from 1950-1985; May 7 - May 30, and 6 June - 28 June 1985 (two hangings being necessary to present the exhibition); marked the 75th anniversary of the University of Queensland; works by Davida Allen, Blackman, Churcher, Crooke, Dickerson, Fairweather, Fullbrook, MacPherson, Molvig, Nixon, Olley, Parr, Peart, Redford, Luke Roberts, Robinson, Shepherdson, Sibley, Staunton, and many more; exhibition curated by Malcolm Enright and Nancy Underhill; foxing to title page, worn patches top last page and reverse side of rear cover, general mild creases to some pages throughout, o.w. G-VG; wraps rubbed, vertical crease to front, scuffed and creased to spinea and rear.

Paris: La Petite Maison, 1995. limited edition. paperback. Very Good tight clean copy/paraffin paper dustwrapper. 12mo. Scarce bilingual edition of poems by RF Brissenden, with original English and French translation on facing pages (translated into French by Louise Herlin; a volume in Collection Ici Aussie, a series of Australian poets published in France, edited by Jean-Paul Delamotte; No. 12 of 200 numbered copies; uncut pages; ribbed blue card wraps with original paraffin paper dustwrapper.

London: Phaidon , 1993. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 30 x 30cm. profusely illustrated A study of Carlo Scarpa's rearrangement of the ground floor and garden of the sixteenth century Palazzo Querini Stampalia; a volume in the Architecture in Detail series, text by Richard Murphy; colour and b&w photo illustrations, and with numerous architectural drawings; Very Good throughout, wraps very lightly rubbed.

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1940. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG/no dustwrapper. 8vo . 1st Edition of this collection of poems by Paul Grano, Signed and with gift-inscription to title page by Grano ""To Percy Bennett with best wishes for the years to be from Paul L Grano April 1940"" - limited to 200 copies (limitation page unnumbered/unsigned); light foxing to endpapers, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, and with worn spots along spine

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1964. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. sm 8vo. jacket design Arthur Hawkins 1st Edition detective fiction by the Lockridge husband and wife writing team; green boards with Main Line Mysteries train/skull motif to front board, black titling to spine; text block and edges of pages tanned throughout (as common with this publication) o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, and with mild creases, o.w. Very Good.