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
Pp. 240(last blank), notes, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, browned, verso foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers offset, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Leicester University Press/Fontana Paperbacks, Leicester, 1988. First edition. Fontana History of European..... 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
The Diaries of Maud Berkeley. Adapted by Flora Fraser. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, full page coloured map; square 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board faintly scratched; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded; Secker &..... More
Pp. 286(last blank), notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, browned and lightly soiled, verso foxed; endpapers offset, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Leicester University Press/Fontana Paperbacks, Leicester, 1982. First edition. Fontana History of European War and Society series. *From the library..... More
A Soldier's Story. Growing up in Jewish America, liberating the D.P. Camps, and a new home in Jerusalem. Pp. 264, text illustrations including maps; med. 8vo; brown art. leather, lettered in silver; dust wrapper; Mesorah Publications, New York, 2000. First edition. *Author's inscription on the title page. More
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8 page pamphlet, stapled; leaves lightly browned, with a couple of short closed tears from fore-edges; printed by J. Roy Stevens Print, Melbourne, 1940. First edition. *Issued as a Souvenir of the Club's Australian Art & Literature Exhibition held at Tye's Velasquez Gallery, 100 Bourke Street Melbourne, 1940. More
Pp. 140, tinted frontispiece, numerous coloured, tinted and black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers printed in blue, appendix of members, index; small cr.4to; grey cloth, lettered in navy & blind; The Club, London, 2014. Edition limited to 250 copies. *Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the dining..... More
Masking and festivity in Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier". Frontispiece portrait, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; a little inked marginalia; Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1978. More
Written and illustrated by Margaret Chapman. Pp. [70], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; narrow demy 4to; brown cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed, with short closed tear to top edge of back panel near spine; a little light foxing; Jupiter..... More
75 years: a history. Pp. [64], illustrated throughout in colour and (mainly) black & white, pictorial free endpapers; oblong 4to; edges of boards lightly worn; occasional faint soiling; [Tattersalls Club], Sydney, 1970. First edition. More
Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones. Pp. viii+ 212(last blank)+[4](advertisements), coloured frontispiece, black & white title page decoration, and numerous text illustrations (many full page), printed upper pastedown, index; roy. 8vo; pictorial blue cloth, a trifle soiled, edges and spine lightly worn, the spine faded and with short split at head;..... More
being ninety English and ten Scotch broadsides illustrating the biography and manners of the seventeenth century. Photographically reproduced and edited with an introduction and notes by John W. Draper. Pp. xviii+230(last blank), title page printed in red & black, numerous illustrations (mostly full, a couple double page), indices; roy. 4to;..... More
Pp. 256, text illustrations (one double page), index; qr. cloth, pink papered boards, edges lightly browned; uncut; dust wrapper, a little worn, browned and foxed; endpapers lightly offset, some foxing to outer leaves, edges of leaves quite foxed; Allen Lane, London, 1981. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile..... More
White ships, black cargo. Introduction by Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Pp. [80], profusely illustrated (mostly full or double page), full page map, bibliography, footnotes; large oblong 4to; black cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board decorated in blind; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled and scuffed; Dial Books, New York..... More
Pp. xvi+364, frontispiece, plus 16 plates, index; boards slightly scuffed, edges lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Heath Cranton, London, 1950. First edition. *'How the fortunes of war swayed. Who the architects of..... More
A pictorial anthology of camp followers through the ages. Pp. 224(last blank), text illustrations, bibliography, index; demy 4to; boards slightly warped; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; Midas Books, Speldhurst, Kent, 1979. First edition. More
With a Foreword by David Stafford-Clark. Pp. xxvi+196, 16 plates, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Nelson, 1967. First edition. *Analysis of the range of publications devoted to sexual fantasy in the English-speaking world. More
British Life after the Great War. Pp. 154(last blank), text illustrations; tall post 4to; edges of boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; Buchan & Enright, London, 1987.First edition. More
A study in the history of error and justification. Pp. xii+300(last blank), index; navy cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; name & date (1993) in ink on upper free endpaper; Globe Press, Melbourne, 1992. First edition. *'A critical study in the history of social change in the..... More
Pp. 282, notes, select bibliography, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, browned verso foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers offset, upper free endpaper browned by newspaper cutting (extant), some foxing; Leicester University Press/Fontana Paperbacks, Leicester, 19852. First edition. Fontana History..... More
A White Woman Looks at the Negro. Pp. [viii]+166, suggested reading list; grey cloth, lettered and ruled in black, corners of boards bruised, edges and spine slightly faded, the spine also slightly chipped at extremities and lightly foxed; top edges pink; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled and slightly foxed, edges chipped..... More
A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Foreword by Peter Gran. Pp. xii+220 (last blank), frontispiece, 4 tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index; beige cloth, lettered in green, boards a trifle marked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a couple of faint spots..... More
War and democracy in the age of the Empire. Pp. xviii+428(last blank), notes, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slight signs of sticker removal near bottom edge of back panel; Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books, London, 2005. First U.K. edition. *Hardt and Negri explain how empire, by..... More
A critical examination of socialism as a remedy for social injustice and an exposition of the single tax doctrine. Pp. xxxiv+482(last blank)+[2](advertisements), tables, appendices; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards ruled in blind, lightly flecked and rubbed, fore-corners slightly bruised; uncut and partly unopened; bookplate..... More