![SOMETHING IN IT [cover title]. Accles, Pollock Ltd](/pictures/thumb/162405.jpg?v=1628162213)
Small single fold trade brochure, promoting the company's stainless seamless steel tube (about half the outside diameter of .0039" tube they exhibited at the New York Worlds' Fair in 1939), with an example of the tube and bore inserted; 13.5 cm. x 11 cm.; Accles & Pollock Ltd, Oldbury, Birmingham..... More
Introduction by Rt. Hon. the Lord Gardiner, Lord Chancellor 1964-70. Pp. xii+236, 8 plates, index; demy 8vo; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, London, 1984. Reprinted. *'In February 1973, Stanley Adams blew the whistle on illicit trading practices of the giant multinational drug company Hoffmann-La Roche, the world's..... More
A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth. Pp. 478, 7 plates (1 double page), notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; grey cloth, spine blocked in maroon and lettered in gilt, edges slightly browned; price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed and worn, with tears at head of backstrip tape-repaired on verso; upper hinge..... More
A Social History of Britain 1945-51. Pp. viii+224(last blank), 48 plates, notes, index; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed; outer leaves faintly offset, a few of the plates slightly damp stained, scattered light foxing; British Broadcasting Corporation/Jonathan Cape, London, 1985. First edition. *From the library of..... 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
Reminiscences and reflections of the first Professor of Modern History in the University of Western Australia, 1916-1986. Pp. xii+150, black & white frontispiece portrait plus 4 plates (3 coloured), appendices (including bibliography), index; dust wrapper, short split at foot of back flap fold; University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1987..... More
A Study of the Years 1820-50. Pp. 72, pictorial title page, 6 full page illustrations, notes; demy 8vo; pictorial purple paper wrappers with flap folds, faintly foxed, edges a trifle creased; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Journeyman Press/London History Workshop Centre, London, 1983. Reprinted. *Originally published in 1976..... More
Being a Social and Economic Sketch History. Pp. 176, 16 plates, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, full length printed title label on spine, the boards a trifle sprung, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; the free endpapers slightly offset..... More
The Anglo-American Relationship since 1783. A revised and enlarged edition of Part I of "Great Britain and the United States: A History of Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1952." Pp. 248(last blank), index; edges of boards bruised and faded at a couple of points, the spine a trifle rubbed and split at extremities;..... More
Pp. x+140, text maps (one double page), tables, bibliography, index; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small stain to top edge of a few leaves; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967. First edition. More
Pp. 240(last blank), notes, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, browned, verso foxed; endpapers offset, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Leicester University Press/Fontana Paperbacks, Leicester, 1988. First edition. Fontana History of European War and Society series. *From the library of Sydney..... More
with some heraldic and biographical notices. Pp. viii+174, text illustrations, index; dark green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards lettered and decorated in blind, a trifle scuffed, edges lightly bruised; slight signs of sticker removal from foot of upper pastedown, early inked gift inscription (from a Barbara..... More
Will Andrade Home of Mystery and Magic! [cover title]. Pp. 24, illustrated; small demy 16mo; self-wrappers, stapled, leaves browned, small chip at foot of backstrip into upper wrapper; Will Andrade, Melbourne, n.d.[1950]. *Trade catalogue. More
Foreword by Melbert B. Cary, jr. Pp. xiv+32+2(blank, colophon), title page vignette printed in blue & black; cloth backed gilt lettered brown papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; uncut; Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, 1932 [Foreword dated 1933]. *Issued in commemoration of Armistice Day, 1918, for private distribution..... More
An intimate biography. Pp. viii+362, frontispiece portrait, plus numerous text illustrations (many full page), appendices, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed, the bottom fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges rubbed and split, with several closed tears and a couple of small chips; occasional faint soiling; Melbourne, n.d.[1959]..... More
![ANGUS & ROBERTSON'S NEW SYLLABUS SPELLER [cover title]. Angus, Robertson, Publisher](/pictures/thumb/134129.jpg?v=1628075797)
Pp. 34(including printed stiff paper wrappers), stapled; 21 cm. x 7 cm.; leaves slightly buckled; inked name on upper wrapper; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1948. More
Pp. xii+354(last blank), half-title and title page vignettes; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; Simon & Schuster, London, 2011. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. 176, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; John Kerr, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. More
An autobiography. Pp. 222(last blank), 16 plates, text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly canted; dust wrapper; a little foxing John Kerr, Melbourne, 1986. Reprinted, before publication. More
Ethics in a world of strangers. Pp. xxii++198(last blank), illustrated title-page, notes, index; demy 8vo; qr. blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, dust wrapper; W. W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, 2006. First edition. Issues of our Time series. More
Pp. 480, 8 plates, 4 maps (one full page), notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984. First edition. *'Written in co-operation with Yasser Arafat and the top leadership of the PLO' [wrapper blurb]. More
A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Illustrated by Berdine Ardrey. Pp. 380, illustrations (two double page), bibliography, index; post 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board decorated in blind, fore-corners of lower board slightly bruised; top edges green; dust wrapper, slightly..... More
A Reassessment. Pp. x+158(last blank), full page school plan, appendices, notes, index; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989. First edition. *A critical look at Arnold's achievements as a headmaster written from a headmaster's point of view. The author was Headmaster of Tonbridge School for eight years, and of Eton..... More
Pp. 32; cr. 8vo; paper wrappers, printed in navy, stapled, backstrip and edges lightly browned; leaves browned; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939. Printed in Melbourne. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs No. 17. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on verso of upper wrapper. More
Foreword by Leslie Dodd. Pp.[viii]+214(last blank), 31 plates (1 double page); dust wrapper, lightly marked; Investigator Press, Adelaide, 1971. First edition. *Story of the teachers and students who make up Australia's radio schools. More