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We sell full price books and remainders and discounted titles from all over the world, and specialise in good quality books in art, design, photography, graphic design, collectables, literature, music, graphic novels, history .

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Antony Gormley: Inside Australia

Thames and Hudson

'Inside Australia' tells the whole story of the work's creation, from Gormley's receiving the permission of local Aboriginal elders and his persuading the people of Menzies to take part, to the hazardous casting and back-breaking installation of the sculptures.

Was $39.95 Now $29.95

Euro Deco

Grahic Design Between the Wars

Heller and Fili,

Chronicle.

A wide-ranging compilation of Art Deco graphics from six European countries, Euro Deco assembles a wealth of alluring and sophisticated design from an extraordinary period of creative vitality and political turmoil.

Was $49.95

Now $29.95

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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story

Geoffrey Bardon Miegunyah Press

a first-hand account of the artists and the works emanating from Papunya: birthplace of the Western Desert Painting Movement. Based on the exquisitely recorded notes and drawings of Geoffrey Bardon, the man who instigated the Movement's development, featuring over 500 paintings, drawings and photographs.,

Was $59.95 Now $30

Everfresh: Blackbook

The Studio and Streets: 2004-2010 The Miegunyah Press

Everfresh Studio has been at the forefront of the explosion in popularity of street art in Australia. The Everfresh Blackbook will give readers a unique insider¿s view into a thriving underground art world: one that is normally characterised by anonymity.

Was $39.95 Now $20

Kings Way: The Beginning of Australian Graffiti: Melbourne 1983-93

Duro Cubrilo, Martin Harvey, Karl Stamer The Miegunyah Press

A comprehensive account of the first decade of the graffiti-writing subculture in Melbourne, Australia, this compilation pays tribute to the individual writers and crews who established the city's reputation as a global street-art presence.

Was $49.95 Now $20

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The Casual Cyclist's Guide to Melbourne

by Matt Hurst

Hardie Grant

Melbournites everywhere are taking to their bikes: from commuters, fed up with the public transport squeeze, to families, tourists, hipsters and urbanites.This guide to Melbourne brings a fresh and entertaining perspective to this much-loved mode of transport. From the history of cycling in Melbourne to the races and to the wonderful places you can cycle to.

$19.95

Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons

Deborah Hart National Gallery of Australia PB

Price: $49.95

The book highlights Williams's strength as a painter and includes a wide selection of oil paintings and luminous gouaches, along with new material from the artists diaries and his remarkable china sketchbook.

Price: $49.95

Foal's Bread by Gillian

Mears,

Allen and Unwin

the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and the high-jumping horse circuit prior to the Second World War

written in

luminous prose and with an aching affinity for the landscape the book describes, Foal's Bread is the work of a born writer at the height of her considerable powers.

$32.95

The Comfort of Water

by Maya Ward

Transit Lounge

This is the joyful yet heartbreaking true story of four friends who walk a 21-day pilgrimage from the sea to the source of Melbourne’s Yarra River. Its author understands the power of the natural world to transform lives, and writes about the connection between a river and the self with humility, humour, and a clear-headed wisdom.

$32.95

After Words by Paul Keating

Allen and Unwin

Making a point of having written them all himself, Paul Keating has chosen speeches which contain an analytic commentary on Australia's recent social and economic repositioning, in the minds of many, by its principal architect.

Price: $59.95