The Home
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# 23828
WILKINSON & CO. (ADELAIDE)
The Viceroy home guide : useful everyday hints for the home
Adelaide : Wilkinson & Co., 1914. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lower wrapper with view of Wilkinson & Co.’s Grenfell Street headquarters), inner wrappers with advertisements for Viceroy tea and Arab coffee, pp 97, [1], with numerous photographic plates illustrating Wilkinson & Co.’s tea, coffee and general merchant business, advertisements; a good …
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# 23496
THE POTATO MARKETING BOARD OF TASMANIA
[TASMANIA] Chef Brownell’s recipe book.
Burnie, Tas.; Sydney, NSW : The Potato Marketing Board of Tasmania, [1942 or 1943]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with design by Walter Dowman, staple bound, 48 pp, b/w illustrations, advertisements; a very good copy. Hoyle, 1059. Recipes for potato-based dishes, inspired by Tasmanian Brownell and Bismarck varieties. “With the object of stimulating the use of …
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# 24408
MONCRIEFFE, Mona
The magic of colour harmony in dress
Sydney : Bebarfald’s Ltd., 1927. Quarto, publisher’s cloth boards with pictorial onlay and gilt lettering and design to front (small stain to lower board), hinges starting to split, 140 pp (light foxing), illustrated with tipped-in colour plates (a couple of corners creased) and b/w line drawings in the text. A scarce and lavishly produced Australian …
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# 24012
URE SMITH, Sydney (editor)
The Home. Vol. 18, No. 6. June 1st, 1937
Sydney : Sydney Morning Herald, 1937. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (edges worn, loss to corner of lower wrapper), pp. 9-, a good copy. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. colour advertisements and photographs of Australian capital cities. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine was one of the …
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# 24010
URE SMITH, Sydney (editor)
The Home. Vol. 15, No. 3. March 1st, 1934
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1934. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (creased, tears to lower wrapper, loss to spine), pp. 84, a good copy. Concentrates on Australian fashion. This issue includes illustrated articles social life, fashion and art, architecture, house and garden etc. colour advertisements and photographs of Australian capital cities. ‘Sydney Ure Smith’s ‘The Home’ magazine …
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# 24320
GOLD, Frances Joslin
[HOWARD ARKLEY] The instant decorator
New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1976 (1977 second printing). Oblong folio, spiral bound, cloth covered boards, pp. xiii; 104; colour plates, glassine stencilled designs of interiors, internally clean. A very good copy of this classic guide to 1970s interior design. Gold’s ‘Instant decorator’ would be the major source book for many paintings by Australian …
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# 23525
FAHY, Kevin; SIMPSON, Christina; SIMPSON, Andrew
Australian Furniture : pictorial history and dictionary, 1788-1938.
Sydney : Casuarina Press, 1998. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket, cloth slipcase, pp. 527, extensively illustrated. Limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by the authors; fine copy. An essential reference for curators, private collectors, dealers, auctioneers, investors, social and cultural historians, includes entries for 660 Australian furniture and picture frame makers, retailers and designers – …
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# 24220
[WARHOL, Andy]
Art Nouveau and Art Deco : The Andy Warhol Collection
New York : Sotheby’s, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, 377 works of exquisite design, including pottery, homewares, jewellery, paintings, cigarette cases, etc. Illustrated in black and white and colour.
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# 24092
FOSTER CLARK (AUSTRALIA)
Foster Clark’s cookery book.
Redfern, N.S.W. : Foster Clark (Aust.) Ltd. [printed by John Sands Limited], [1934?]. Second edition. Tall octavo, original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 35 pp, colour illustrations; small abrasion upper wrapper, else a very good copy, clean throughout. Hoyle, 527
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# 23884
DREXLER, Arthur
Charles Eames. Furniture from the Design Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly marked), pp. 56, illustrated in black and white.
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# 23693
MALING, E. A.
In-door plants, and how to grow them, for the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse : containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. Octavo, gilt-illustrated green cloth, edges slightly rubbed, front free endpaper detached, coloured lithographic frontispiece, pp. viii; 150; [2], occasional light soiling, a very good copy. First edition of this charming little manual for the domestic horticulturalist, green-thumb or plant-daddy.
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# 23408
JOHN HARPER & COMPANY, LTD.
[TRADE CATALOGUE] Harper housewares
Willenhall, Staffs., U.K. : John Harper & Company Ltd., [circa 1944]. Quarto, printed card covers (vertical creasing, label to front indicating the catalogue was sent to Hudson’s, Melbourne, in 1944), 57 pp, monochrome and colour illustrations, contents fine. A wonderful catalogue of upmarket moderne design that includes all sorts of domestic appliances such as heaters, irons, …
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# 23389
UNITED SOAP & PERFUMERY CO. PTY. LTD.
Pretty Kitty : the new Australian cleaner and polisher : cleans everything but clothes!
At head of title: A solution of the domestic problem! Melbourne : The Exchange Press [for The United Soap & Perfumery Co. Pty. Ltd.], 1910. Advertising broadsheet, 250 x 185 mm, printed recto only, illustrated, small loss at upper right corner, otherwise fine. A great piece of Australian domestic social history. One wonders what chemical ingredients …
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# 23383
[SIMPSON'S GLOVES PTY. LTD.]
Catalogue of leather goods : Simpson’s Gloves Pty. Ltd.
North Richmond, Vic. : Simpson’s Gloves, [circa 1930]. Quarto, textured card covers (a few light marks, punch hole upper left), 28 pp, illustrated, includes losely inserted printed price list, a very good copy. A beautiful catalogue of Australian leather goods, including gloves, aviators’ caps, coats, handbags, wallets and note cases. Copies are recorded in three …
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# 23366
National Safety Council of Australia
Your code for the road
Victorian Edition. Compiled by the National Safety Council of Australia. Melbourne : The Council, [1933]. Duodecimo, illustrated wrappers (marked), pp. 32, diagrams. Some waterstaining and discolouration. Scarce early guide to road safety.
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# 23420
Australian house and garden annual 1964.
Sydney : Australian House and Garden Magazine Pty Ltd, 1964. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 130, illustrated. Fantastic house design, furnishings and household goods from the sixties, with kitsch advertisements.