Pp. 12(last blank)+[116], pictorial double title page plus numerous text illustrations (a couple double page); narrow cr. 4to; bottom fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, the laminate lifting slightly (as usual), the backstrip and top edge of front panel lightly faded; a little light foxing; John..... More
Pp. x+134, illustrated (some full page), endnotes; boards a trifle sprung, the top fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, rubbed, edges slightly split, with tape repair to closed tear at top edge of front panel; text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing; the author, Melbourne..... More
A History of the Melbourne Cricket Club and its Ground. In two volumes. Pp. xxii+430+[viii]+[431]-896(last blank), 240 plates (44 coloured, part-coloured or tinted), pictorial endpapers, notes, bibliography, indices; med. 8vo; qr. cloth (Volume I red, Volume II blue), spines lettered in silver, pictorial papered boards; within a white cloth covered..... More
The Melbourne Cricket Club and its ground in World War I. Pp. [xiv]+558, 36 pp. photographs, index; demy 4to; brown art. leather, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind; dust wrapper, several small splits in edges; some light offsetting of index leaves; published for the author by MP Publications..... More
The story of Melbourne's lanes. Pp. 128, photographic illustrations throughout, text maps plus endpaper street map, indices; oblong 4to; dust wrapper; the free endpapers slightly tape marked; City of Melbourne/State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 1994. First edition. 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. 64(last colophon), numerous illustrations (mostly full page); oblong cr. 4to; yellow textured papered boards, spine lettered in white, bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, backstrip faintly faded; Rigby, Adelaide, 1977. First edition. *The Sketchbook series. More
Drawings by A. Roger-Genersh. Pp. 64(last blank), full page illustrations, pictorial endpapers; demy 8vo; red textured papered boards, spine lettered in white, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly faded; Rigby, Adelaide, 1974. First edition. The Sketchbook series. More
Pp. 256, 16 black & white plates, the title page vignette printed in dull green, full page street map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1980. First edition. More
Pp. 88(last blank), title page vignette, pictorial head & tailpieces; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; hinges occasionally tender; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1977. Second printing. *'A series of ABC radio talks by Melbourne residents Keith Dunstan, Graham McInnes, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Kris Hemensley, Dr. Walter McRae Russell, and..... More
Being the Journal of preparations for departure to and proceedings at Port Philip. Edited and with an Introduction by C. P. Billot, and a Foreword by Manning Clark. Pp. xviii+108, text map, plus 6 facsimiles (reproductions from Fawkner's Journal), index; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; text block faintly..... More
Edited by L. J. Blake. Foreword by R. J. Hamer. Pp. x+96, frontispiece plus 12 plates (8 coloured), text illustrations, notes, sources, index; small cr. 4to; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; vertical production crease from top edge of several leaves; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1975..... More
Commentary and catalogue. [cover title]. Pp. [16](including wrappers), printed in blue & black, illustrated; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle rubbed, the lower wrapper slightly soiled and foxed, name in ink at head of upper wrapper; pages faintly foxed and browned; [National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Melbourne, 196-]. *Booklet for..... More
written on the Steamship 'Mariposa', 'off Honolulu, June 25, 1890.' Six page letter (2 closely written sheets, one of which is folded to form 4 pages) from American Thomas B. Merry to Colonel J. D. McCutcheon, written near the start of Merry's return trip from Australia to San Francisco. *The..... More
Melbourne, 1841-1865. Edited by Hugh McCrae, grandson of the diarist. Pp. xxiv+262, 34 plates (2 coloured, including the frontispiece), pictorial tailpiece, index; med. 8vo; corners of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, edges worn and creased, with a few small chips and tears; bookseller's sticker at foot of..... More
Pp. xii+212(last blank), full page map; boards slightly canted, the top fore-corners lightly bruised; top edges blue; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and rubbed, edges a trifle worn and split; a little light foxing; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1968. Second impression. *The fourth and final volume of the author's autobiography. More
Drawings by George Haddon. Pp. 64(last blank), full page illustrations; demy 8vo; red textured papered boards, spine lettered in white, upper board a trifle bowed; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, two small surface grazes to front panel near fore-edge, the backstrip a trifle faded; Rigby, Adelaide, 1975. First..... More
etc., etc., taken at the Melbourne Observatory, during January 1876; together with abstracts from meteorological observations obtained at various localities in Victoria. Under the superintendence of E. J. White, Acting Government Astronomer [and from April 1876 onwards, under the superintendence of R. L. J. Ellery, Government Astronomer]. A bound run..... More
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. 150+[8](advertisements); f'cap. 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; Library of Australian History, North Sydney, 1979. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Facsimile Series No. 20. *Originally published Melbourne 1847. From the library of Doug Mills, with his card tipped onto the upper free..... More
Issued by the Committee of the Club, 1962-3. Pp. xiv+106, coloured frontispiece, 10 black & white plates, the title page printed in red & black; med. 8vo; spine cloth and edges of boards faintly faded; original clear plastic wrapper, edges chipped and split, with large piece torn from back panel;..... More
A book of paintings, poetry and prose. With a Foreword by Sir John Bloomfield. Pp. [viii]+[112], featuring 56 full page coloured illustrations with poem captions, and text on reverse, endpaper map; small oblong 4to; boards a trifle scratched and with a couple of bruises to edges; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed;..... More
Text by Frank Van Straten. Design by Geoff MacQualter. Co-ordinated by Elaine Marriner. Pp. 94, illustrated in colour and black & white; narrow med. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; dust wrapper; hinges starting; ELM Publishing, Melbourne, 1996. First trade edition? *Published to celebrate the re-opening of the Regent Theatre. More