Death
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Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
$40.00 Add to cartJoanna Gilmour
Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2015.
“Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put carte de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their ‘Chambers of Horrors’, turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Meaning Reconstruction & the Experience of Loss
$50.00 Add to cartRobert A. Neimeyer
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007. -
Inter-Traveller: People Playing with the Dead
$60.00 Add to cartTomoko Konoike
Tokyo: Hatori Press, 2009. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Very minor chipping to spine crown. Minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Some foxing to extremities of first page. Minor tanning. Very Good Condition. -
The Egyptian Book of Gates
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. 475 pages, illustrations. Green cloth, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
Translation of The Book of Gates, an ancient Egyptian funerary text, showing for the first time the scenes in image, hieroglyphs, transcription, and English.
Near Fine Condition in Very Good Jacket. Very minor shelf and handling wear to book. 1cm closed tear to tail edge of jacket front panel. Near Fine Condition. -
Crossing the Great River: A Glimpse into the Funeral Rites of Afrikan-Amerikan People
$20.00 Add to cartSkobi Matunde
Philadelphia: Freeland Publications, No date. -
Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill
$50.00 Add to cartPhilip Nitschke; Fiona Stewart
Melbourne: Penguin, 2005.
This copy inscribed by both authors. -
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post-Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive
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Eighth Edition.
24cm x 19cm. 199 pages, colour illustrations. Full leather, gilt lettering
. New Book. -
We Die as We Live
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First Edition.
14.5cm x 21cm. 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
An exhibition in St. Vincent’s Private Hospital Foyer, East Melbourne, 1-30 November 2017, showing the results of a residency at the hospital and a year long, art in health research project.
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Mother Lode: stories of home life and home death
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First Edition.
18cm x 13cm. [xii], 314 pages, black and white illustrations. Green papered boards, white lettering, illustrated jacket.
Minor foxing to edges, very minor to jacket verso. Very Good Condition. -
Mother Lode: stories of home life and home death
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First Edition.
18cm x 13cm. [xii], 314 pages, black and white illustrations. Green papered boards, white lettering, illustrated jacket.
Minor foxing to edges, very minor to jacket verso. Very Good Condition. -
Elmwood 2002: In the Shadows of the Elms
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First Edition.
Introduction by Shelby Foote.
Historic Elmwood Cemetery tourist booklet laid in, includes fold out map.
Book is in Very Good condition, by which we mean it has light marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
Architecture and the After-Life
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First Edition.
Book is in Good condition, by which we mean it has marks of age and is well worn from handling, but is still intact and good for reading. Good Condition (ex-library). -
Guide to the Vatican Necropolis
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 90 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Moderate tanning and very minor insect damage to wrappers. Minor foxing. Good Condition. -
Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 15cm. xxi, 162 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Foreword by Felice Picano.
Foxing to edges. Bookplate of Dr Gary Simes. Very Good Condition. -
Histoire des Embaumements et de La Preparation des Pieces d’Anatomie Normale, d’Anatomie Pathologique et d’Histoire Naturelle; Suivie de Procedes Nouveaux
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Second Edition.
21cm x 14cm. vii, 448 pages. Quarter leather, marbled papered boards and endpapers, gilt lettering. Text is in French.
A journal on the history of embalming and of the preparation of pieces of normal anatomy, pathological anatomy, and natural history. By renowned French pharmacist, chemist, and inventor Jean-Nicolas Gannal.
Minor cracking to the joints at crown. Minor wear and rubbing to leather and boards. Minor foxing. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Medicine and the Care of the Dying: A Modern History
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. [viii], 277 pages. Black paper covered boards, copper lettering, illustrated jacket.
. Fine Condition. -
Mauna ‘ala: Hawai’i’s Royal Mausoleum: Last Remnant of a Lost Kingdom
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First Edition.
Book is in Very Good condition, by which we mean it has light marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Moderate shelf wear. Minor creasing to corners. Minor tanning. Good Condition. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Very minor tanning and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Traite des Embaumemens: Selon les Anciens et les Modernes
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First Edition.
15cm x 9cm. [xxiv], 315, [3] pages. Full brown leather, gilt lettering and decoration. Text is in French.
A journal on the trade of embalming according to the Ancients and the Moderns. With a description of some balsamic & fragrant compositions. By Louis Penicher, former guard of the apothecary merchants of Paris and renowned master of pharmacy. First and only edition of this rare French treatise on embalming.
Aged reback, some chipping to spine. Foxing and minor soiling. A few small closed tears. Good Condition. -
The Spirit of Hiroshima: An Introduction to the Atomic Bomb Tragedy by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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Sixth Printing.
29.5cm x 21cm. 128 pages, illustrations, some colour, 2 folding colour maps. Pictorial wrappers. Text is bilingual, Japanese and English.
Includes envelope containing a map of Peace Memorial Park and Vicinity and a Guide to A Bombed Buildings and Trees.
Very minor foxing to top edge. Near Fine Condition. -
The Spirit of Hiroshima: An Introduction to the Atomic Bomb Tragedy by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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Sixth Printing.
29.5cm x 21cm. 128 pages, illustrations, some colour, 2 folding colour maps. Pictorial wrappers. Text is bilingual, Japanese and English.
Includes envelope containing a map of Peace Memorial Park and Vicinity and a Guide to A Bombed Buildings and Trees.
. Fine Condition. -
Embalming: Theoretical and Practical
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Second Edition.
22cm x 14cm. [viii], 223 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering.
Minor rubbing and bumping to cloth. Minor soiling to edges. Minor stain to tail of last few pages. Card of Metropolitan Funerals, Brisbane affixed to front pastedown. Very Good Condition. -
Revelation of the Malagans: The Ritual Art of New Ireland
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24cm x 16cm. 36 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Catalogue for a travelling exhibition of Melanesian masks, figures, and plaques presented by eccentric American-Australian collector John Peter Hallinan.
Minor soiling to top edge and wrappers lower panel. Very Good Condition. -
The Elizabethan Underworld
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First Folio Printing.
24cm x 16cm. xviii, 248 pages, colour illustrations. Illustrated cloth, slipcase.
Introduction by Michael Wood.
Foxing and small soil to edges. Good Condition. -
Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xi, 354 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Ex-Brisbane City Council Library, stamps, stickers, adhesive clear coat protective wraps. Very minor general wear. Good Condition (ex-library). -
The Dance of Death
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23cm x 14.5cm. [ii], 70 pages, 31 plates (of 33). Quarter cloth, papered boards.
From the original designs of Hans Holbein. Illustrated with thirty-three plates engraved by W. Holllar (here only 31, missing the 2 engraved portraits of Holbein and Hollar). With descriptions in English and French.
Aged reback. Papered boards shelf worn, rubbed, tanned, and stained. Minor foxing and soiling to interior, staining to frontispiece plate. Missing the 2 engraved portraits.. Good Condition. -
Revelation of the Malagans: The Ritual Art of New Ireland
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Book is in Very Good condition, by which we mean it has minor marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
Muerte! Death in Mexican Popular Culture
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First Edition.
. New Book.