Willow Pattern Walkabout by Kirwan Ward and Paul Rigby ||  Very Good Condition
Very Rare – No other copies available online
Wholly set up and printed by West Australian Newspapers Ltd.

Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. They went, they saw, and they produced a picture of China at a key moment in its history, still feeding off the exhilaration of the creation of “People’s China” in 1949, and full of optimism and blind idealism.

Who are Edward Bernard Kirwan Ward and Paul Rigby?

Edward Bernard Kirwan Ward (1909-1983) was a English journalist, who moved to Australia at age 18. Following WWII, he became a popular and prolific columnist on various topics, and later a radio personality and ten books.
Paul Rigby (1924-2006) was the best-known Australian cartoonists of his era, producing as many 15,000 works in his prolific 59-year career. He is best known for his works for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney Daily Mirror, The Sun and New York Post, for which he won numerous international awards. The pair began working together in 1952, forming a lifelong friendship and an artistic partnership that produced countless articles and several books.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-rigby-430520.html

Tales from the Arabian Nights by James Riordan, Illustrated by Victor G Ambrus published Hodder and Stoughton, Lane Cove, Australia (1983)
1st Australian Edition
Very Good Condition, Hardcover, some light foxing was 90 now 80
Very Rare. Only one other copy currently available on the net.

Sources for this collection of Arabian Tales includes:

The Arabian Night’s Entertainments, London 1954 by Sir Richard Burton
The Thousand and One Nights, London, 1883 by Edward William Lane
Arabian Nights, London, 1898 by Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, London, 1899

Once upon a time Shaharazad’s tales of a thousand and one nights so charmed the Shah of Tartary that he spared her life. Retold here are some of Shaharazad’s favourite stories, including Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, The Fisherman and the Brass Bottle, Sinbad the Sailor, The Flying Horse, The Merchant and the Genie and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

All the enchantment of the east, with its mysterous genies, magic lamps, mythical animals, rajahs, princesses and flying carpets, is conjured up by James Riordan’s enthralling storytelling and Victor Ambrus’s beautiful illustrations, ensuring this will be a fvourite children’s classic.

The Way To Live: Health & Physical Fitness by George Hackenschmidt
Published by Health & Strength Limited, London. The Arden Press, W.H. Smith.
Once sold through T.L. Smith Bookseller & Stationer at 406 George St, Brisbane.
Very Good Condition Oct. 1908
Originally 220 now only 180

Covering topics such as:

Why Should we be strong?
Adaptability and Characteristics
Physical Perfection and Strength
Nutrition
Rest and Wholesome Sleep
Training
Exercises without Weights
Muscle Exercises with Weights
Weights for Exercises
Exercises for Athletes
Time Tables for Training
Dr von Krajewski, the Father of Athletics and his System of Life
And also a bit of autobiography

“Who shall have the daffodillies in my
           garden growing,
Daintily befrill’d in white, with yellow
           furbelowing?
Baby boy and baby girl,
Cheek of rose and tooth of pearl,
Golden head and dancing feet,
Drops of life all perfect-sweet,
You shall have the daffodils within my
          garden growing.”

Nursery Lyrics by Mrs. Richard Strachey with Illustrations by G.P. Jacomb Hood
Published by Bliss, Sands & Foster – Craven Street, Strand 1893 – Very Rare (no other copies listed)

A true story of friendship, cocaine and South America’s strangest jail.
Like New (2008 Edition) Published by MacMillan

George Grosz: Life and Work by Uwe M. Schneede with contributions by Georg Bussmann and Marina Schneede-Sczesny. Translated by Susanne Flatauer
Published by Gordon Fraser, London 1979
Was 45 Now 33

“Throughout the twenties there was never any shortage of suitable subjects to challenge his aggressive humanity. His anger found expression in a style frequently reminiscent of vitriolic graffiti.”

UFOs – The Case for Scientific Myopia by Stan Seers Very Rare (No other copies currently available)  in Very Good++  Condition with Dust Jacket. First blank page missing.
Hardcover (1983) Vantage Press 1st Edition Was 444 Now 556

“…an engaging literate acocunt (word as printed) of how one man’s burgeoning interest in UFOs led him not only to a belief in their existence, but also to a discovery of the government’s blatant refusal to do research on the subject, and to desire to dispel the misinformation inundating the public.

For three or four years Stan Seers remained convinces that a ‘simple, conventional explanation’ for UFO sightings and encounters was available. However, after meeting with the Reverend Bill Gill of Bionai, Papua, New Guinea, he reversed his opinion, becoming more curious than ever in extra-terrestrial phenomena.

When he found his inquiries met with outright ‘rude’ resistance by the scientific community and the air force, Seers concluded that, in their skepticism, these two groups were ‘falling down on the job’.

Spurred on by their attitude, he made it his business to locate all the evidence he could to support his contention that UFOs exist. He wanted to prove the officials wrong, and wanted as well to alert the public to the facts, in order to counter the ‘science fiction rubbish’ with which it comes into contact.

Seers has always found the audiences to whom he lectures intensely interested in what he has to say concerning UFOs. His own research into UFOs will continue until the as yet unanswerable questions he is always asked are answered.”

Aboriginal Art of The Western Desert by Geoff Bardon  published by Rigby
(1979) 1st Edition | Fine Condition – Was 170 now 150

“As well as giving some fascinating insights into Aborigines and their legends, presents twenty-four of the best paintings by twenty artists who are recognised leader in this, for them, new medium at Papunya–an Aboriginal settlement approximately 200km west of Alice Springs.

Together with the glorious colour paintings are diagrams pointing out the salient features of each work and short biographies of the artists.

The book is the culmination of the author’s experiences as an art teacher at the settlement. In spite of their being unaccustomed to using board as a surface (sand and rock were their usual fabric) these friendly people, with Geoff Bardon’s encouragement and supply of materials, determined that most of their spare time would be taken up in painting the stories of their ‘Dreamings’.

Always there when the artists wanted advice he eventually helped to form them into a company for the sale of their works—the Papunya Tula Artists Company—with the proceeds going to the artists concerned. Before the author left the settlement the company flourished, which gave him immense pleasure as well as the Aborigines.”

“Speak to the Earth , and it shall teach thee”

“Mesmeric almost in their dark yet starry splendour”

The Spirit Of The Child by Tullie C. Wollaston 150
2nd Edition 1914 published by Thomas C. Lothian
Very Good clean copy with tight Dust Jacket

“Some years ago a very close friend of mine since boyhood deserted his ship (for some occult reason) and vanished into the Never-Never. He assumed his mother’s maiden name, and for long has been known for no other-infact, nobody knows his true name, for I made a point of forgetting it long ago, although I am sure there was no disgrace attaching to it-that much is certain.”