George Giffen. A Biography (Signed Copy) by Whimpress, Bernard - 2020

Adelaide: Published by Author. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint - a new copy. Profusely illustrated with over 500 photographic postcard images taking the reader on a nostalgic trip into Australia's past. Colour and black & white illustrations. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 260 pages. George Rose, a Melbourne photographer, commenced production of real type postcards in 1913 due to their enormous popularity in Australia and around the world. With attractive images on the front people loved and saved these cards, keeping them in albums and shoe boxes. Today they are collector's items. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co. 1986. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine copy in Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. New Book. Illustrated with colour paintings and drawings by Clifton Pugh. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. A story of drought and flood, powerfully illustrated by the Pugh. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback.

North Adelaide: Greenhill Galleries. 1989. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Card covers. Full page quality reproductions of Clifton Pugh's paintings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 78 pages. A ' forgotten' Mexican series of paintings by Clifton Pugh completed over 1965-1966. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Le Havre: Editions du Museum d'histoire naturelle du Havre/MkF editions. 2016. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Translated from the French by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 391 pages. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, during a golden age for natural history and learned societies, he travelled constantly throughout his life. His sketchbooks and vellums provide a record of the animals, landscapes and indigenous people he encountered. . New. 1st Australian Edition. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2018. MINT - a NEW copy. Signed by the author. 290 pages. Judicial appointments, the rule of law, activism on the High Court, the push for indigenous recognition, the role of style in writing judgments, legal images in fiction's cave of shadows - novelist and former judge Nicholas Hasluck covers these and other issues in this intriguing collection of occasional pieces. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: Published by Author. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint - a new copy. Profusely illustrated with over 500 photographic postcard images taking the reader on a nostalgic trip into Australia's past. Colour and black & white illustrations. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 260 pages. George Rose, a Melbourne photographer, commenced production of real type postcards in 1913 due to their enormous popularity in Australia and around the world. With attractive images on the front people loved and saved these cards, keeping them in albums and shoe boxes. Today they are collector's items. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2015. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. 366 pages. Alias Blind Larry is a convict story, an adventure story, a colonial story, a Jewish story, a theatrical story. A story of cruelty, resilience, cheek and humour, and it is (mostly) true. James Laurence was transported to NSW in 1814 for jewel theft. He served time in every penal settlement in NSW, singing and thieving when he was free. He wrote his memoir on Norfolk Island in 1842, just before his release. Then even more adventures followed. A fascinating piece of history, untold until now. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Le Havre: Editions du Museum d'histoire naturelle du Havre/MkF editions. 2016. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Translated from the French by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 391 pages. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, during a golden age for natural history and learned societies, he travelled constantly throughout his life. His sketchbooks and vellums provide a record of the animals, landscapes and indigenous people he encountered. . New. 1st Australian Edition. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2017. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 260 pages. With unprecedented access to private collections and showcasing his extraordinary photographs, this book charts Mitchell's rise from his struggles as a migrant in New South Wales and Queensland to significant image-maker in Western Australia. It then follows the journeys of individual photographs across the world, and traces the stories behind the survival and destruction of parts of his archive. 'Agents of Empire' breaks new ground in showing ways that photographs can be used as historical evidence and how archives can shape our understanding of the past. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2018. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Prologue by the Poet. Introduction by Dr Thanasis Spilias, La Trobe University. 122 pages. Famagusta Regina is regarded as one of the best poetical works written in the Greek language in the last forty years. These poems by Kyriakos Charalambides explore the fate of a captured modern-day city which used to be one of the jewels on the Mediterranean coastline. . New. 1st thus. Softcover.