Gemes Adamson (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Illustrator. 27cm x 24cm. 168 pages, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, silver lettering, pictorial french fold jacket. Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. This copy inscribed by the photographer, Juno Gemes. Very minor foxing to top edge. Category: Photography; Poetry; Australia|New South Wales; 20th Century: 1990s; Farming, Gardening & Rural Life. Inscribed by Illustrator. ISBN: 9057031019. ISBN/EAN: 9789057031014. Inventory No: 0035930.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by Adamson and Gemes on half-title. Photo and poetry book on the lives of the oyster farmers on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. First Edition. Sydney: Craftsman House, (1997). 4to. Original maroon publisher's cloth hardcover in original unclipped dust jacket. Pages: 168. Fine. Dust jacket unclipped. Book presents as new. In stunning condition. Please note: This item is large and/or heavy. It may require additional postage costs to be paid. If so, we will contact you after purchase. Juno Gemes (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Boards in d.j. 1st Edition. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, b&w plates, pp 168. Near fine condition in like dust-jacket A celebration of the Hawkesbury River and the oyster farmers and fishing families who live there, with text by the award-winning poet and publisher Robert Adamson and images by the celebrated photographer Juno Gemes.…

First Edition. Laid in is a photograph of the print found on p.146, with a blind embossed stamp, Geme's signature to its front margin, and her description to rear "Section VII Right Page - No. 85 1993". Quarto (27.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [5],6-168pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Inscribed by photographer and poet on front endpaper to Nathaniel Tarn: "Dear Nathaniel - Have a message as a Fellow Showman!! Warm greetings flow the river! Love Juno Gemes" and "Dear Nathaniel, I've been reading; living in your poetry all week, hanging with you over the years, finding the 'correspondences' we have and looking forward to our continuing work into the future-- with love and admiration / Bob / Robert Anderson Mooney Creek, Spring 2006". Modest rubbing to cloth of lower corners and spine tail, and trace shelf-soil to covers; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with light crinkling; Very Good. Australian partners Adamson and Gemes co-established Paper Bark Press (1986) with Michael Wilding, and this is the couple's first collaborative publication of their works. Gemesfocuses her work on social history among Aboriginal Australians, and she was invited to photograph the National Apology in Canberra in 2008. This collection of verse is organized into five sections, each beginning with a selection of Gemes's full-page photographs, and includes Adamson's "Meshing Bends In The Light", "Green Prawn Map", "Songs for Juno", and "Rock Carving with Kevin Gilbert". While not explicitly marked as such, this copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) and is inscribed to him by both the poet and photographer. [87764]. Signed. …