Appleyard Ron (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Oversized.

Landscape 4to, 120pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 21x26cm]. A fine copy in excellent pictorial dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A very nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Exhibition catalogue. 120 pages. Gill arrived in Adelaide, aged 21 and established a studio in 1840 calling for those 'desirous of obtaining a correct likeness' of themselves and their families, friends, animals and residences to contact him. His activities soon expanded to include street scenes and public events, including the newly discovered copper mines at Burra Burra as well as the departure of Charles Sturt's expedition for the interior on 8 October 1844. His sketching tours of the districts surrounding Adelaide, produced a number of watercolours. Gill went with John Horrocks' expedition to the Flinders Ranges in 1846 and his watercolours and pencil sketches provide a narrative of this fateful trip, which saw Horrocks die after being accidentally shot. In 1852, following a series of personal tragedies including bankruptcy and ill health, Gill joined a large group of South Australians heading for the Mount Alexander gold fields, Victoria. Originally intending to turn his hand to digging for gold, he soon returned to portraying images of everyday life, depicting life on the gold fields and the emergence of substantial towns like those of Ballarat and Bendigo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: front and back showing only light scuffing & signs of handling otherwise undamaged, minimal wear along edges and at corners, spine is intact and solid. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 24cm x17.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Light rubbing to spine edges. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages.…

Landscape 4to, 120pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, oblong shaped 4to, viij, 120pp. 115 mostly bl.& wh. illustrations, abbreviations, signatures, notes, bibliography, references.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New small quarto 120pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., notes, Exhibition catalogue.

4to. Or.bds. 120pp. Some col & many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1986. First edition. 1st ed. Near Fine condition. In pictorial card covers, minimal wear to corners and ends of spine. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. oblong, 4to. pp. viii, 120. profusely illus. in b/w & colour. wrs. (minor wear to corners). Published in Conjunction with an Exhibition.