Pp. 192, frontispiece, text illustrations (several full page), dramatis personae, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; boards faintly marked and with a couple of tiny bruises to edges; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, with light damp stains on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed and split; the free endpapers offset, top edges of leaves..... 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 extract from "The Unseen Assassins". 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..... More
A social study of the British army in the First World War. Pp. xii+276, text illustrations (most double page), 2 full page maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, lightly foxed, UK price sticker at foot of front flap; text block slightly browned, a little light foxing; Manchester University Press..... More
Pp. xxviii+404, 16 plates, bibliography index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, the laminate lifting slightly at a few points; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly soiled; Hutchinson of London, London, 1967. First U.K. edition. *Posthumously published account of 'the magnificoes, the grandees, the..... More
Pp. [x]+260(last blank), source references, select bibliography, index; bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges red; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; a little faint bleeding of cloth colour onto the free endpapers, a little pale foxing; Constable & Company Limited, London, 1979. First edition. *'The authors trace the origin and..... More
Pp. 320(last blank), 8 plates, sources, index; top edges red; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse; endpapers offset and browned; ownership name on upper free endpaper, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1967. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his..... More
![A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREAD & CHEESE CLUB MELBOURNE. [cover title]. Bread, Melbourne Cheese...](/pictures/thumb/104164.jpg?v=1574735023)
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
The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933. Pp. xvi+236(last blank), 1 full page map, text figures & tables, appendices, notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1996. First..... More
Pp. 96, illustrated in colour throughout (several full or double page); small cr. 4to; tiny bruise to bottom edge of lower board; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Andre Deutsch, London, 1982. First edition. *'To his personal views Anthony Burgess adds a wealth of general bed-lore, illustrated with colour plates which..... More
The Story of Human Development as a Part of Nature. Pp. xvi+336, 56 plates, text illustrations, tables and charts, bibliography, index; boards flecked and slightly damp stained, bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised;; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Weidenfeld..... 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
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
Pp. 240, illustrated throughout, select bibliography, sources of illustrations, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly worn and soiled; bookplate of Australian architect Peter Corrigan on half-title page, lightly offset on verso; Thames & Hudson, London, 1989. First edition. More
With coloured and line illustrations by A. R. Quinton. Pp. xiv+186(last blank), 52 mounted coloured plates (many full page, including the frontispiece), black & white text illustrations, title page decoration, the title page printed in olive green & red, index; demy 4to; olive green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt..... 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
The civilian struggle against Nazism in Holland and Germany. Pp. xxii+282, 8 plates; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse; edges of leaves foxed; Bloomsbury, London, 1988. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. More
Its antiquities, symbols, constitutions, customs, etc. Embracing an investigation of the records of the organisations of the fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany, and the United States. Derived from official sources. In three volumes. Pp. [vi]+504+[iv]+502+[iv]+502, 48 plates with tissue guards (36 coloured, 2 sepia), 6 charts..... 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
Pp. xvi+206(last colophon), title page decoration, plus numerous text illustrations (several full page), appendix, references, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper; University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 2002. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (dated 2009) on the upper free endpaper. 'For centuries, the history and lore of tinkers..... More