Ellen Mcculloch (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 140 pages, coloured & b/w drawings, no inscr., good copy. Small 8vo size. Rex Davies (illustrator).

Octavo,80 pp.,photographs, softcover. "With the author's compliments Ellen McCulloch 1987".

hardcover and dustwrapper in good condition, first and last few pages foxed; 192 pages, colour illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia. Peter Trusler (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 140pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills. Or green cloth in jacket. No date-c1969. Very light edge wear to jacket. Size: 8vo. Davies, Rex. (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. F. Large 4to. hardcover. 78 col. plates + 15 b/w drawings. Very good,some light foxing, foxing to premilms and outer page edges. / Very Good d/w. Peter Trusler (illustrator).

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The dust jacket is a little chipped one corner and a little on the spine extreme. Trusher, Peter (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - Collins, Sydney and London, 1970. 1st ed. Illustrated by Rex Davies. Very good condition, scattered spotting to page edges. Unclipped jacket very good with light wear to top edge and one small tear.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine folio 192pp., col. & b/w pls., bibliog., index.

Small folio,192 pp.,colour plates by Peter Trusler. Publisher's canvas cloth and slipcase, the collector's issue, limited to 200 copies and signed by authors and artist. A landmark book of Australian bird art, with an excellent text by well known Bird Observer Club stalwarts Tess Kloot and Ellen McCulloch. The technical skill of the paintings is unsurpassed but what makes the artwork so striking is the clever positioning of the subjects in urban and suburban settings. For example the Indian Mynah on the kerbside with an empty cheese packet, or the Little Raven calling on a telegraph pole. Peter Trusler (born 1954) completed a science degree in 1974 at Monash University, majoring in zoology. The paintings were completed in 1978-1979. In his artist notes (page 11) he says "where possible I prefer to work from life. A number of the paintings are portraits of individual birds and all of the backgrounds and plants have been painted from actual specimens. The paintings for the plates were executed with transparent watercolour and gouache. While they were executed in a period of just over two years, the information needed has involved many more years of observation and study". Peter Trusler (illustrator).…

Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, jacket slightly age-toned. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall EXCELLENT book in a EXCELLENT dust jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition printed by Boxcar and Caboose Bookshop in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Pictorial wrappers illustrated by Claire Van Vliet. Front fly partially stuck to front cover, else near fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. Poetry.…