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Pp. [vi]+234; med. 8vo; tiny bruise to fore-edge of lower board; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First trade edition. *Shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [vi]+234; med. 8vo; tiny bruise to fore-edge of lower board; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First trade edition. *Shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [vi]+216 med. 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, top fore-corners slightly creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Chatto & Windus, London, 2004. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+278(last blank); demy 8vo; light brown boards, spine lettered in black; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text block browned, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1996. First edition. More
Pp. [xii]+140(last blank); demy 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the upper endpapers and top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 1999. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. xxii+490, 32 plates (16 coloured), pictorial headpieces, coloured pictorial endpapers, text maps (4 double page), bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; three-quarter length dust wrapper with 'rippled' top edge, as issued; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, leaves lightly browned, small mark..... More
Pp. 266+[4](pictorial advertisements), numerous text figures, index; cr. 8vo; yellow boards, lettered and decorated in black; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a longer (4 cm.) closed tear from head of backstrip into front panel; inked signature on upper free endpaper; C. Arthur Pearson, London, 1961. Commercial..... More
Pp. 72; printed glazed paper wrappers with flap folds; Red Deer College Press, Alberta, Canada, 1987. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Australian writer Thomas Shapcott) on title page. More
Pp. xiv+386, numerous text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, appendices, abbreviations, bibliography, index; impl 8vo; dust wrapper, backstrip and adjacent portion of panels a little sunned; Nelson, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *A history of Australian women's response to war, from 1900 to 1945. More
Pp. [vi]+266, 32 plates, list of other works by Patsy Adam-Smith; med. 8vo; brown papered boards, spine lettered in white, corners of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly foxed and soiled, edges and front flap lightly creased; both hinges glue marked (especially the lower hinge); Viking Press, Melbourne, 1994..... More
Pp. [viii]+600(last blank), text illustrations, glossary, further reading list, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. *Signed by the author on half-title page. More
Pp. [iv]+138(last blank); boards slightly sprung; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1974. First edition, with second state [i.e. pictorial] dust wrapper. *American novelist and film writer's first Australian novel, set in war-torn Vietnam. More
Pp. [vi]+142; dust wrapper, lightly worn; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *American novelist and film writer's second Australian novel, about a young girl faced with the discovery that her new husband is the son of the richest family of the Mafia organisation. This copy with author's presentation inscription..... More
Pp. [vi]+142; dust wrapper; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975. First edition. *American novelist and film writer's second Australian novel about a young girl faced with the discovery that her husband of a few days is the son of the richest family of the Mafia organisation. More
The full story of the SAS, Delta Force & Spetsnaz. Pp. [viii]+440, 8 plates, text map, notes, glossary, bibliography, appendix, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; Hutchinson, London, 1988. First U.K. edition. More
The full story of the SAS, Delta Force & Spetsnaz. Pp. [viii]+440, 8 plates, text map, notes, glossary, bibliography, appendix, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, edges a trifle worn, with occasional chips; ownership stamp on lower pastedown; Hutchinson, London, 1989. Second printing. *First published..... More
Pp. 256, 16 plates, full page map, appendix, bibliography, references, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, light worn, edges rubbed and split; occasional faint soiling; Narracan Shire Council, Trafalgar, Victoria, 1978. First edition. *The shire of Narracan is in the heart of Victoria's Gippsland province..... More
Underappreciated monuments to our heritage. A Leaf Book. Pp. 348+[4], 58 coloured plates (including frontispiece), black & white author portraits, text illustrations of medals (some printed in blue), title and text decorations printed in blue, notes, appendices, bibliography, index; bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery in full tan morocco, with gilt..... More
Pp. [x]+206(last blank), 8 plates; med. 8vo; tan cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, corners a trifle rubbed, dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; name in ink on upper free endpaper; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1966. First edition. More
Pp. 398(last blank); spine extremities and top fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised, with short split at foot of spine; dust wrapper, the backstrip slightly creased at extremities, with small piece torn from foot, small surface chip to laminate at bottom fore-corner of back panel; edges of leaves faintly soiled..... More
Illustrated by Nicola Bayley. Pp. 32, illustrated in colour throughout; cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, tiny surface graze below publisher's device at foot of spine; Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. First edition. *Signed by the illustrator on the title page. More
Pp. viii+228, 4 plates, references and bibliographies; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges split, with one closed tear from lower flap into back panel tape-repaired; a little light foxing and occasional soiling;Secker & Warburg, London, 1957. First edition. *Baden-Powell, Leverhulme, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, E. D. Morel, and Edward VII..... More
after subcutaneous division for the cure of deformities; with an account of the appearances presented in fifteen post-mortem examinations in the human subject; also A Series of Experiments on Rabbits, and a Resume of the English and Foreign Literature of the Subject. Illustrated by seven lithograph plates and a series..... More
Pp. [iv]+14+[2](blank), processed; cr. 4to; printed paper wrappers, stapled, edges and backstrip lightly faded, top fore-corner of upper wrapper slightly creased; The Fellowship of Australian writers, Sydney, 1963. Edition limited to 250 copies. *Text of a paper given at the Fellowship of Australian Writers meeting held in Sydney in September..... More
Pp. 12, notes; small cr. 4to; printed green paper wrappers, stapled, edges and backstrip faded and slightly worn, with small surface graze and stain from removal of sticker below top edge of lower wrapper; the pages faintly browned and lightly creased; Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1961. Australian Humanities Research Council, Occasional..... More
[All 175 numbers, complete, from Thursday, March 12 to Thursday, October 1, 1713. In two volumes]. Pp. [xii]+348+[12](index)+[xii]+347+[13](index), title page ornaments, head and tailpiece decorations; cr. 12mo; early speckled calf, spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title labels, the boards featuring double..... More