Verlag: Melbourne, MUP/Miegunyah Press 1988., 1988
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
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xxii+282pp. 4to. Original cloth in bright dustwrapper. A near fine copy. First edition. With colour plates in addition to many b/w illustrations.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2013
ISBN 10: 0522862454 ISBN 13: 9780522862454
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
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1st ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition. 304 pp. The Sydney Morning Herald journalist provides the definitive account of the fate of Fairfax. It is the story of greedy media moguls, angry and ambitious politicians, foolhardy heirs and heiresses, zealous journalists, muddling management and the rise of digital media (which Fairfax completely missed). The once-mighty Fairfax has been a victim of them all.
Verlag: miegunyah (mup), 1999
ISBN 10: 0522848052 ISBN 13: 9780522848052
Anbieter: Hill End Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australien
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with pictorial dustjacket. 589 pages. Book in vg condition. Internally clean well bound copy. A few small chips out of dj at spine crown and some very light foxing to outer page edge here and there, ow book is vg clean, well bound.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2011
ISBN 10: 0522858422 ISBN 13: 9780522858426
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Reprint ed. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, colour photos (some full-page), black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) drawings, minor edgewear. 253 pp. This special book is a personal tour of the artworks most loved by Betty Churcher, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the art, and the processes involved in their creation. The author is best known for making art accessible through her popular television series. She was Director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press (imprint of MUP), Carlton South, Vic, Australia, 2000
Anbieter: Taipan Books, Inglewood, WA, Australien
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 384pp incl index and several maps. Plus 16 pages of b&w photos and 8 pages of colour photos.Teal textured boards with gold lettering to spine. Inscription in shaky hand from nanna to grandson at top of prelim page xvii. Jacket has only a hint of wear. Both book and jacket in lovely condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press / MUP Melbourne 2004. ISBN 0522850995., 2004
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
Large quarto card covers with flaps, 186pp, b&w and colour images of art works. Light wear to card edges; a very good copy. Published to accompany the Film Australia/SBS TV series of the same name. This book is illustrated throughout, featuring images as diverse as George Lambert's dramatic battlefield panoramas, Will Dyson's political cartoons, Ray Parkin's prison-of-war camp sketches and Gordon Bennett's graffiti-influenced works produced in the wake of the September 11 attacks on New York. Using works created to inspire patriotic sentiment, to record personal insights or to protest the senseless loss of human life, Churcher shows that where war has influenced movements in art, art has also changed attitudes to war.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2006
ISBN 10: 0522852491 ISBN 13: 9780522852493
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
New or 2nd ed. Paperback large trade, very good plus condition, frontispiece photo, minor edgewear. 370 pp. (This copy: Paperback.) Sylvia Lawson records a different kind of radical but expressive and entertaining journalism. This is the story of young J. F. Archibald's founding and editing 'The Bulletin' newsmagazine, and his adventures (good and bad) in the 'print circus' of 1880 to 1903 in Sydney. Originally published in 1983, this new (or second) edition contains a 13-page epilogue by the author.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press (imprint of MUP), Carlton, Vic, 2008
Anbieter: Taipan Books, Inglewood, WA, Australien
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 403pp incl numerous photos in colour and b&w. Jacket reverse side also features a photo montage in colour and b&w. Cream textured boards with silver lettering to spine. Book is in lovely condition. Jacket has only light general wear, but the top edge is quite frayed & creased, particularly at the spine and flap folds (small split to rear flap fold). Jacket is now protected and enhanced with a clear, removable sleeve. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2009
ISBN 10: 0522857191 ISBN 13: 9780522857191
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Paperback large quarto (with flaps), very good plus condition, many colour & black & white text-photos (some full-page, some reproductions). Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 250 pp. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fiction, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers of powerful ideas. Beautifully illustrated, this book celebrates this age-old tradition, drawing upon the rare collections of the State Library of Victoria. Within these covers you will discover an illuminated manuscript created for the Medici family of Florence in 1479, masterpieces of early printing - such as Gutenberg's Bible, books recording the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, atlases and illustrated accounts from the great age of travel and exploration, works by the great botanical and natural history artists such as Audubon, the lavish productions by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, etc. A book for browsing and admiring, as much as for reading.
Verlag: The Miegunyah Press (MUP imprint), 2011. ISBN 9780522860801., 2011
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
Hard cover dust wrapper, 297pp, b&w and colour photos, b&w and colour art reproductions. Bottom free corners bumped else a very good copy. In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. By the mid-1960s Brown was already the most controversial figure in Australian art. In 1963 a key work was thrown out of a major travelling exhibition for being overtly sexual; a year later he publicly attacked Sydney artists and critics for having failed the test of integrity. Finally, in 1966-67, Brown became the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity. Brown spent the last 28 years of his life in Melbourne, where his reputation for radicalism and nonconformity was cemented with his multiplicity of styles, exploration of themes of sexuality, and transgressive commitment to the ideal of street art and graffiti. Against a background of the counter-culture and the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, Brown's art and remarkable life of personal and creative struggle is without parallel in Australian art.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2005
ISBN 10: 0522851657 ISBN 13: 9780522851656
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
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1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket (small closed tear & scuff rear side), tiny dent rear cover. 334 pp. This book is the compelling story of the life of Marsden Hordern from a happy childhood growing up in Sydney during the Great Depression, to his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947 (Timor and New Guinea). He has used the letters and journals he wrote at the time, to recount his triumphs and disasters as a naval officer, detailing his rise from a young sub-lieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ship. This is a wonderful memoir of a young man coming of age in wartime.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, Carlton, 2009
ISBN 10: 0522851142 ISBN 13: 9780522851144
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
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1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) & colour text-photos, light foxing top edge, minor foxing front flyleaf, protected in removable archival plastic sleeve. Heavy (1.3 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 415 pp. The fascinating story of the only treaties ever created in Australia. Examines why these agreements were forged, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why governments repudiated them, and how settlers claimed to be the rightful owners of the land. The author reveals the ways in which the settler society has endeavoured to make good its act of possession - by repeatedly creating histories that have recalled or repressed the memory of Batman, the treaties, and Aboriginal destruction and dispossession. Also charts how Aboriginal people have unsettled this matter of history through their remembering.
Verlag: The Miegunyah Press, MUP, Victoria, 1995. ISBN 0522844510., 1995
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
Hard cover dust wrapper, octavo, 318pp. Light wear to dust wrapper edges, previous owner's signature top right of half-title page, else near fine. Record of the mission - two ships led by Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux - to find the French explorer, Comte de La Perouse, who had been overdue from the Pacific since 1788. The mission failed to find La Perouse, but it was successful in other ways with valuable discoveries in Tasmania, Western Australia and Papua and New Guinea. D'Entrcasteaux's principal botanist, Labillardiere, published the first flora of Australia. Also his voyage resulted in the first detailed diarised record of European contact with the Aborigines of Tasmania.
Verlag: Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press at MUP 1997., 1997
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
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xii+276pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Frontis, colour illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers, map, a near fine copy. First edition.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press (MUP), Carlton, Victoria, 2006
ISBN 10: 0522852432 ISBN 13: 9780522852431
Anbieter: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Forsyth, Holly Kerr (photographs) (illustrator). Previous owner's label ffep. Colour photos throughout. 29 x 21 cm. 273 pp. Over 1 kg.
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP) / State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW), Melbourne / Sydney, 2011
ISBN 10: 0522861172 ISBN 13: 9780522861174
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Reprint ed. Hardback oblong quarto, pictorial covers, very good condition, colour & black & white & a few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minimal edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 275 pp. This fascinating book is about the secret histories of the Macquarie and Dixson Galleries collectors chests. The Macquarie collectors' chest is an enigmatic wooden cabinet filled with painted panels and exotic treasures, created in Australia for Governor Lachlan Macquarie around 1818. It was taken to the United Kingdom, and left forgotten and unnoticed in a Scottish castle until it was rediscovered in the late 1970s. The Mitchell Library of New South Wales acquired the chest, and its remarkable similarity to the Dixson Galleries collectors chest, acquired by the Library in 1937, raised questions about the cabinets creators, owners and purpose. The chest is filled with more than 150 stunning photos and paintings. This beautiful book tells the story of these unusual chests.
Verlag: miegunyah (mup), 2004
ISBN 10: 0522851339 ISBN 13: 9780522851335
Anbieter: Hill End Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australien
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with pictorial dustjacket in very nice clean well bound condition.
Verlag: The Miegunyah Press (MUP), 2007. ISBN 9780522854343, 2007
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
Card covers with flaps, large quarto, xxiii/527pp, colour and b&w illustrated. Very light wear to card edges, 2005 Qld Premier's Literary Awards Winner sticker top left of front cover, gift inscription top right of front fep; a near fine copy. A first-hand account of the artists and works emanating from Papunya. Features more than 500 paintings, drawings and photographs from Bardon's personal archive. Heavy item - customers outside of Australia please obtain postage quote before ordering.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press/MUP VIC 2009. ISBN 9780522855296. This is an updated edition of Don't Forget Me, Cobber. The Battle of Fromelles 19/20 July 1916. An Inquiry, 2009
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
Hard cover dust wrapper, xxii/505pp, b&w photos and maps. A little wear on board/dw edges; a very good copy. On the evening of 19 July 1916 on a strip of farmland north of Fromelles, the AIF fought its first battle in France. Outnumbered two to one, a well-organised German division faced two divisions, one Australian and the other British, and yet inflicted a costly defeat. By dusk the following day there were 2436 Allies dead and 4123 wounded, no territory gained and only 501 Germans killed and 943 injured.This is the extraordinary story of the lead up to the battle, the battle itself, as well as the successful search for the 'missing of Fromelles'. Lost in mass grave pits since 1916, some 190 Australians and 328 British soldiers have been discovered after seven years of campaigning by Lambis Englezos, who also writes of his experience here. The book also includes a complete Roll of Honour of the British and Australians killed, as well as some of the Germans.
Verlag: The Miegunyah Press at MUP, Australia, 2000. ISBNs 0522847978, 0522849350, 0522849369., 2000
Anbieter: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australien
3 hard cover volumes in dust wrappers, vol 1 xxxv/623pp, vol 2xxviii/531pp, vol 3 xxii/767pp. light shelf wear to edges otherwise the three volumes in fine condition.
Verlag: Miegunyah/MUP, 2009
ISBN 10: 0522855296 ISBN 13: 9780522855296
Anbieter: Littera Scripta, Golden Square, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. A FINE COPY WITH A FINE DUST JACKET. This is an updated edition of Don't Forget Me, Cobber. The Battle of Fromelles, 19/20 July 1916. Hard cover, dust jacket, 505pp, b&w photos and maps. 8vo. An examination of the disaster of the Battle of Fromelles. Includes a complete Roll of Honour of the British, Australians and Germans killed and an index of names mentioned in the text. Appendix of the Manual of Military Law.
Verlag: Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, 2003
ISBN 10: 0522850502 ISBN 13: 9780522850505
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Hardback octavo, dustjacket, as new condition (in as new dustjacket), black & white & colour photos centre spread, few maps & tables, minimal edgewear, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 385 pp. Australian historian Alan Frost (La Trobe University, Melbourne) provides a study of British maritime and imperial expansion in the Indian and Pacific oceans, including maritime discovery, wartime strategy, and the creation of infrastructure to support the worldwide maritime activity, colonization and trade. Places the colonization of Australia, involving the First Fleet sailing for Botany Bay, in a broad context and shows its relationship to other imperial strategies of the period. (A limited edition of 1000 copies.).
Verlag: Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press (MUP), Melbourne, Carlton, 2008
ISBN 10: 0522853153 ISBN 13: 9780522853155
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
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1st ed. Hardback large quarto, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket, red cloth boards, white lettering on spine, colour & sepia (brown-tinted) photos (many full-page), frontispiece, errata slip loosely inserted, base spine little rubbed, protected by removable archival plastic sleeve. Very heavy (2.4 Kg), and not available for postage to destinations outside Australia. 393 pp. First edition. The dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals - both black and white - caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period in history. Based on the SBS-TV award-winning series. (The scarce lavish first edition. This is number 112 in the second series of the Miegunyah Press.).