THE RIBBON AND THE RAGGED SQUARE.
An Australian journey. Pp. 408(last blank), double page map, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Viking Press, 1986. More
An Australian journey. Pp. 408(last blank), double page map, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Viking Press, 1986. More
Reminiscences and autobiography of Emily E. Churchward nee Padman 1853-1933. Edited by Stella Mary Macdonald nee Churchward Kelly. Pp. 214, text illustrations (some full page); demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; a little light foxing; Investigator Press, Adelaide, 1984. First edition. *Inscribed by the editor on..... More
Being an enhanced facsimile of Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; With ten plates. First published in 1814 and now faithfully reprinted. Pp. [36], 20 plates in the facsimile (10 coloured, each accompanied by a tinted version of the same image), plus 2 tinted..... More
Being an enhanced facsimile of Field Sports, &c. &c. of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; With ten plates. First published in 1814 and now faithfully reprinted. Pp. [36], 20 coloured plates in the facsimile (10 coloured, each accompanied by a tinted version of the same image), plus 2..... More
Dedicated, by permission, to Rear Admiral Bligh, Late Captain General, & Governor in Chief, in & over His Majesty's Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies. Pp. [20](including index to Foreign Field Sports), plus 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates; demy 4to; later (mid twentieth century?) half calf, brown cloth boards..... More
Pp. x+214(last blank), 16 plates; med. 8vo;edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *The historian's first volume of autobiography, dealing with his early years. More
Pp. xiv+224(last blank), appendix, notes, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, backstrip faded; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. More
Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, backstrip faded; bookplate on upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber,lived for five years among Aborigines in New South Wales in the early..... More
. Pp. 190 (including the lower free endpaper), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), appendices, bibliography, index; square cr. 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Shearwater Press, Norfolk Island, 1998. Reprinted. *First published by Viking, Melbourne, in 1986. Signed by..... More
An Australian Experience. Pp. [viii]+314, pictorial double title page, text illustrations (a couple full page); bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny surface chips to back panel; the title page faintly offset, pp. 304/5 quite..... More
Pp. [vi]+250(last blank); boards a trifle soiled and slightly canted, the spine faintly faded; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, short split to bottom edge of back panel near backstrip; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. *Autobiography. In 1945 the author's debut novel, Love Me Sailor..... More
Pp. [viii]+124(last colophon), title page decoration printed in brown & black, patterned endpapers; dark red cloth, spine lettered in dull gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the cloth faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, browned on reverse and slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split; text block faintly browned..... More
Pp. [xii]+220(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white; narrow cr. 4to; grey bords, spine lettered in white, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1987. New edition. *Originally published in 1968 as Scallywags of Sydney Cove. The 'rascals' include George Barrington, Simeon Lord..... More
The Will that Found the Way. Pp. xviii+190, 16 plates, full page map, glossary, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, rubbed and edges a trifle worn and split; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. *Sir Albert Coates served with the first AIF at the Gallipoli landing and was one of the last..... More
A study of a one-in-twenty sample. Pp. viii+104, processed, frontispiece; post 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip a trifle faded and browned, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper;The Wentworth Press, Sydney, 1965.Edition limited to 500 copies. Studies in Australian and Pacific History - No. 3..... More
In the words of Australia's first settlers: the true story of a nation's birth. Pp. 296, 15 coloured plates (one double page) plus 3 black & white plates (including a double page map), black & white title page vignette and one text illustration, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; maroon boards..... More
Pp. viii+1094(last blank), folding coloured frontispiece map, tables, index; demy 8vo; dark green textured cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, boards with blind ruled borders, slightly soiled and scuffed, fore-corners faintly bruised; bookseller's stamp on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers lightly offset, a couple of tiny chips to half-title..... More
Catalogue with descriptive and bibliographical annotations. Pp. [ii]+viii+194+[4](last colophon, verso blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index, med. 8vo; printed card wrappers, corners of lower wrapper a trifle rubbed; a little light foxing; Gaston Renard, Melbourne, 1965. *Leonard Joel auction catalogue, with the folding Prices Realised sheet loosely inserted. More
Catalogue with descriptive and bibliographical annotations. Pp. viii+196(last colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index; med. 8vo; bound in dark brown half leather, blue cloth boards, corners a trifle rubbed; top and bottom edges red; the original printed stiff paper wrappers bound in, and folding prices realised sheet tipped-in..... More
A Backward Glance at Australian Life and Manners. Pp. [viii]+158(last colophon), index; cr. 8vo; light green cloth, spine lettered in darker green, the boards slightly canted; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; tiny chip to upper hinge, the text block faintly browned, a couple of pages spots..... More
Illustrated by Irvine Green. Pp. 24, text illustrations and maps; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges lightly rubbed, the upper wrapper slightly creased; Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, Donvale, 1981. More
A Memoir. Pp. xiv+254(last blank); demy 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle creased, tiny split at head of backstrip; edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1994. First U.K. edition, Australian printing. *Second volume of autobiography; a sequel..... More
Eight text volumes and an atlas. Comprising: 1. Hawkesworth (John) AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES undertaken by the order of his present majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the..... More
Edited from the original manuscripts by J. C. Beaglehole, with the assistance of J. A. Williamson, J. W. Davidson and R. A. Skelton. Four volumes in five (Volume IV being THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, by Beaglehole), plus a portfolio of Charts & Views. Over 4,800 pages, numerous plates..... More
Pp. [xii]+22+[6](notes); roy. 4to; qr. oasis goatskin, spine lettered in black, brown cloth sides; in original cloth slip-case, slightly marked and lightly foxed; uncut; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, 1979. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies, printed by hand on an Albion press with hand-made white wove paper from the Wookey..... More