A novel. Pp. [vi]+186(last blank), 2 text illustrations; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers, 1991. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards with Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book sticker near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the upper board featuring several die-cuts in the style of a kaleidoscope viewer which reveal the title on the page beneath; Lothian, Melbourne... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, top fore-corners slightly bruised; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2006. First edition. *'Following the invention of the light bulb and recorded sound, Thomas Edison turned his genius to the invention of a doll which could both speak and walk. Thousands... More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2004. First edition. *Robert Ingpen is the only Australian to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. Paperback edition. White (Volume 3) 3298. *With publisher's publicity sheet for this edition loosely inserted. First published in 1999; winner of the Australian Publishers Association Design Award in 2000, and a Children's Book Council... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2002. First edition. More
Pp. 48, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered board, the top fore-corners bumped, and with a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edges; top fore-corners of leaves faintly creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2000. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3303. More
A boy's adventure. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Lothian, Melbourne, 2005. First edition. *The true story of fifteen-year-old John Murphy, who was one of the survivors of Ludwig Leichhardt's ill-fated Northern Territory expedition in 1844. With publisher's publicity sheet loosely inserted. More
Pp. [iv]+172(last blank); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. First edition. More
Pictures by Peter Melnyczuk. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Orchard Books, London, 1989. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Illustrated by Alan Marks. Pp. [ii]+42, illustrated in colour throughout; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; Heinemann, London, 1985. First edition. Banana Books series. *Novella; winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1985. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007, Storm was named one of the top ten winning... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, the fore-corners a trifle creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. More
Pp. [x]+198(last blank); beige cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Clarion Books, New York, 1996. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+122; qr. tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, upper board decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin, New York, n.d.[1995]. Second impression. *Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1996. More
Pp. 64, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; roy. 4to; pictorial papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Doubleday & CompanyNew York, 1972. Reprinted. More
A Children's Story. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Pp. [viii]+120(last colophon), 4 coloured plates, the frontispiece and several text illustrations printed in red & black (one full page), other text illustrations and decorations in black & white, the title page decorations printed in red, green endpapers; narrow cr. 4to; orange/red..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout, with 13 gatefold pages; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, the bottom fore-corners bruised; Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne, 1999. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3405. *'A giant lift-the-flap guessing-game book for the very young' [cover blurb]. More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; small demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; WilliamHeinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1988. First Australian edition. More
A story for children about a family's holiday spent on an Australian sheep station. With illustrations by leading Australian artists... Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. Pp. [48], illustrated in colour and black & white (several full page), artist biographies; square 4to; pictorial boards, slightly soiled, corners a trifle rubbed; Yooralla... More
With illustrations by George Arnold, Max Middleton, Dudley Drew, Betty Paterson, Ambrose Griffin, Esther Paterson. Foreword by Dame Pattie Menzies. Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour and black & white; pictorial papered boards; a trifle foxed and soiled; a little faint foxing; Herald Gravure, Melbourne, 1967. First edition... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; narrow demy 4to; bottom edge of boards lightly shelf worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, a little faint soiling and offsetting, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Dennis Dobson, London, 1969. Second impression. *The story of... More
Illustrated by Terry Denton. Pp. [ii]+138+[2](advertisements), headpiece decorations; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3448. *A Roger Thesaurus book. With the author's signed inscription to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin on verso of upper free endpaper. More
Featuring "Glen's Recipes". Illustrated by David Pearson. Pp. [ii]+136, title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page); pictorial glazed papered boards; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *'Ernest Pickle, loner and computer whiz-kid, builds himself a robot, Glen, whose talents include cookery and home renovation' [publisher's blurb]. More
Illustrated by David Pearson. Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; small square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. White (Volume 2) 2031. More
His Life in Africa. Pp. [48], photographic illustrations, decorative initials printed in red & blue; wide post 4to; bottom fore-corner of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, the laminate lifting at a coupler of points, short closed tear from top edge into back panel; Chatto & Windus, London, 1959... More
