A history of the 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment 1941-1946. Pp. xx+444, text illustrations and maps (some full page), bibliography, glossary, appendices, index; cr. 4to; pictorial laminated boards; Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 2004. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
The story of The 3rd King's Own Hussars. Pp. xiv+342(last blank), coloured frontispiece, 8 plates, full page text plus endpaper maps, appendices, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, spine browned, boards flecked and edges lightly worn; top edges blue; closed tear from top edge of upper free..... More
A detailed history of the 4th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, 1914-19 Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine, France and Belgium. Pp. xxxii(including frontispiece)+874, 9 coloured plates (including portrait of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales), numerous black & white illustrations, 23 text maps and 2 charts, appendices (including the original embarkation roll, a...... More
A history of the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment and its predecessors. Pp. xiv+850, coloured frontispiece, 32 black & white and 8 coloured plates, text illustrations and maps, glossary, appendices, endnotes, index; thick cr. 4to; black cloth, spine lettered in silver, silver insignia to upper board; dust wrapper;..... More
Pp. 68 followed by annexures paginated A 1-66, B 1-162 and C 1-23+[1], coloured frontispiece, coloured and black & white text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers, annexures (Rolls); med. 4to; pictorial laminated boards; dust wrapper; Victoria Barracks Historical Society, Brisbane, Inc., Brisbane, 2010. First edition, being number 20 of..... More
Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's Doings in Egypt, France and Belgium. With maps, charts, photographs, and appendices. Foreword by Marshal F. Foch. Pp. xx+468, frontispiece portrait, 13 full page plates plus 2 tipped-in coloured plates ((unit colour patches), numerous maps and diagrams in text plus 3 folding maps..... More
The Story of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1929-1978. lang2057 Together with a short Account of their parent regiments The 5th Princess Charlotte of Wales Dragoon Guards and the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Foreword by General Sir John Anderson. Pp. xxx+210, coloured frontispiece, 4 plates, 6 full page maps, appendices;..... More
The Records of An Old Heavy Cavalry Regiment. Pp. xvi+356, title page printed in red & black, photogravure frontispiece, tissue guard, 27 plates (8 coloured, lettered guards, 19 photogravure plates, with guards, browned and lightly foxed), 2 maps at end, appendices, bibliography, index, errata slip; med. 8vo; yellow cloth, lettered..... More
The Record of a Cavalry Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902. Pp. xiv+366, frontispiece, 58 plates, large folding sketch route map at end, appendix, index; demy 8vo; tri-colour cloth in the Regimental colours, spine lettered, decorated and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia to upper board along with library number in..... 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. [vi]+266, 32 plates, list of other works by Patsy Adam-Smith; boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; hinges tender at a couple of points; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1994. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. xii+416, pictorial double title page, numerous text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers, full page map, notes, bibliography, glossary, index; cr. 4to; yellow boards, spine lettered in black & white, the boards slightly sprung, two of the fore-corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; edges lightly foxed; Thomas..... More
Pp. viii+240(last blank), title page vignette, numerous text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers, text maps; tall cr. 4to; tiny damp stain near bottom edge of upper board dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; edges of leaves faintly marked, the last few leaves a trifle creased; Nelson, Melbourne, 1983. New one..... More
An Aerobic ABC. Illustrated by Julie Kingston. Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and occasional black & white; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Hodder Children's Books, Sydney, 1996. First edition. White (Volume 3) 39. *Inscribed and signed by the illustrator (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin), on the upper free..... More
Pp. [x]+292(last blank); dust wrapper, with Miles Franklin Award and NSW Premier's Award stickers at foot of front panel, the back panel a trifle scuffed; Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1987. First Australian edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the..... More
Pp. [iv]+340(last blank); demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, the back panel a trifle creased; endpapers faintly offset, with slight surface graze to upper free endpaper; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1990 The..... More
Pp. [iv]+300(last blank); dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1996. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. With the publisher's erratum slip (about transposition of text on pp. 36 & 37) loosely inserted. Glenda Adams won the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for..... More
Pp. xvi+448, 48 plates, double page map, appendix, bibliography, references, index; upper board a trifle marked, edges slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, edges lightly worn; one leaf lightly marked (pp. 311/312); Tambo Shire Council, Bruthen, Victoria, 1981. First edition. *Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the Shire President, the..... 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
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
Stories in Verse by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Charlotte Voake. Pp. 48, frontispiece, plus text illustrations; post 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; Viking Kestrel, Harmondsworth, 1988. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the half-title page. Poems. 'Here, in verse, are stories of..... More
Janet Ahlberg 1944-1994. A Memento. Pp. 64, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, patterned endpapers; small oblong 4to; cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with sepia pictorial onlay (photograph of Janet Ahlberg) on the upper board; within green card slipcase with circular die-cut revealing part of the portrait..... More
Pp.[vi]+18+[2](colophon, verso blank); narrow demy 4to; navy cloth backed green marbled papered boards, the gilt lettering on upper board quite dulled, boards lightly marked and grazed, edges rubbed; uncut; The Hours Press, Chapelle-Reanville, Eure, France, 1929. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Ransom Selective Checklistp. 62..... More
Pp. [vi]+182; dust wrapper; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated Dec 14, 1985) on the upper free endpaper. More
An American Theme and its application to Australian History. Pp. [viii]+48, frontispiece portrait [of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner], bibliographical note, appendices; post 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faded (heaviest on backstrip), edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; endpapers slightly offset, the..... More