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AUSTRALIA
PICTURESQUE AUSTRALIA
Australian National Travel Association 1933. 32pp. Illustrated throughout with sepia photos. Corners a trifle bumped otheriwse fine. Neat owners inscription dated 1933. A large format pictorial marketing portfolio showing Australia as a place to visit. Brown card wrappers with kangeroos illustrated to the attractive period covers. Rear half is adverts for hotels etc 36x25 cms. Soft Cover. V.g. Folio. Australian National Travel Association Paperback
Bookseller reference : MH087
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AUSTRALIA
PICTURESQUE AUSTRALIA SYNDEY FESTIVAL ISSUE November 1934
Australian National Travel Association 1934. 24pp. Illustrated throughout with sepia photos. Corners a trifle bumped otherwise fine. A large format pictorial marketing portfolio showing Australia as a place to visit. 36x25 cms. original edition. paper wrappers. V.g. Folio. Australian National Travel Association Hardcover
Bookseller reference : MH088
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Vandercook John W.
King Cane: The Story of Sugar in Hawaii
New York and London: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed corners bumped pages toned some offsetting to pages surrounding plates. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. xii 192pp index. Halfbound green cloth with green sugar cane-patterned paper sides. Map endpapers and many illustrations and photos. Laid in is TLS on Congressional stationery of Samuel Wilder King Delegate from Hawai'i who later served as Governor. The December 28 1939 letter is addressed Dear Colleague and accompanied a gift of this book. The letter is folded in half and toned. This book looks at Hawai'ian history and the operation of the sugar cane industry including wages working conditions and the provision of medical care and housing by plantation owners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Harper and Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44478
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Osterstock Alan
Time: On Kangaroo Island
Adelaide: Published by the Author. 1973. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black and white map to inside over and one other in-text. 102 pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover. Published by the Author paperback
Bookseller reference : BIB309983 ISBN : 0858720485 9780858720480
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Neill Rosemary
White Out. How Politics is Killing Black Australia
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2002. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. 311 pages. This book engages the reader in a frank and fearless discussion of one of the most pressing moral issues confronting Australia. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover. Allen & Unwin paperback
Bookseller reference : BIB310006 ISBN : 1865088552 9781865088556
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Western Australia Stirling Capt. James
Western Australia as reported in The Annual Register or a View of the History Politics and Literature of the Year 1828
London: Baldwin and Cradock 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. Highly important early Western Australia content with report by Captain Stirling on his expedition to the Swan River undertaken in the year prior to the first settlement. A 7 page report from Captain Stirling's despatches describes the results of his 1827 expedition. Other topics include: The Netherlands: Progress of the Insurrection in Java; Russia: Hostilities with Persia renewed; Russia declares War against Turkey; Piracies in the West Indies; Account of Franklin's Second Journey to the shores of the Polar Sea; Present State of the Jews; Steam Boat; American Great Western Canal; and the First English Newspaper established in China. Single 8vo volume in two parts. Part I: viii 1 - 267pp 1; Part II: 545pp Index 11. Rebacked with the original leather spine laid down still quite rubbed and worn. Part of the original label loosely inserted inside paper label laid down at top of front board. Text clean and bright. Hard copy not found in Trove. <br/><br/> Baldwin and Cradock hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22252
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Connah Graham Editor
Australian Field Archaeology A Guide to Techniques
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1983. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 182 pages. Contents include Contacting Aboriginal Communities Archaeology and Legislation in Australia Surveying Techniques Subsurface Survey Stone Implements Recovery and Analysis of Bone in Australian Archaeological Sites - and more. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies paperback
Bookseller reference : BIB276037 ISBN : 0855751363 9780855751364
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Kelly DG. D. G.
People Places and Serious Business. District Council of Kingscote 1888-1988
Kingscote: District Council of Kingscote. 1988. Oblong Octavo Size. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Black & white illustrations. 188 pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. District Council of Kingscote hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB257606 ISBN : 073163070X 9780731630707
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South Asian Studies Association of Australia
South Asia : Journal of South Asian Studies. Vol. 1 No. 1 - Vol. XX No. 1 1978-1997 a collection of 41 issues
Minor rubbing. VG. Indian Colonial History Univ. of Western Australia Nedlands Australia 1978-1997 orig. wrappers 24x15cm 5579 pp FORTY-ONE 41 ISSUES. Lacking only one issue Vol. XI No. 1 otherwise complete for this period. This is a set of the semi-annual later: tri-annual scholarly journal " South Asia". Each issue bound in original wrappers.Lacking one issue otherwise complete for this period. Issues run 82 to 270 pages each. Includes: Vol. I No.s 1 & 2; Vol.II No. 1/2; Vol. III No.s 1 & 2; Vol. IV No.s 1 & 2; Vol. V; No.s 1 & 2; Vol. VI No. 1 & 2; Vol. VII No. 1 & 2; Vol. VIII Nos 1/2; Vol. IX No. 1 & 2; Vol. X No.s 1 & 2; Vol. XI; No. 1; Vol. XII No. 1 & s; Vol XIII No. 1 & 2; Vol. XIV No.1 & 2; Vol XV No.s 1 & 2; Vol. XVI No.s 1 & 2 special issue " Indian Temples & Religious Culture"; Vol. XVII No.s 1 & 2 special issue " After Ayodhya" ; Vol. XVIII No.s 1 & 2 special issue "North India: Partition & Independence": Vol. XIX No.s 1 & 2 special issue " Asia & Europe: Commerce Colonialism & Cultures". Univ. of Western Australia unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS018911I
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Forrest Peter and Sheila
Battling Territorians and Their War Signed copy
Darwin: Shady Tree. 2012. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. An excellent copy. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author on front pastedown. Previous owners name to front pastedown. 155 pages. When war came to Australia - the story of Territorians' battles to win back their homes and rebuild their lives. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Shady Tree hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB275513 ISBN : 098712952X 9780987129529
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Henri Matisse; Jane Kinsman; National Gallery of Australia
Intimate Matisse
Univ of Washington Pr 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with perhaps a little fading to covers -- hard to tell. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 72 pages in smaller format with plates and poem from page 13 on. Essay at front. Univ of Washington Pr paperback
Bookseller reference : 142434 ISBN : 0642541221 9780642541222
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Lergessner Jim
White Specks on Dark Shore : The Pumicestone Passage Castaways
Brisbane QLD Australia: Boolarong Publications 1993. 69 pages. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Boolarong Publications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021538 ISBN : 0864391471 9780864391476
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Gordon Reid
That Unhappy Race : Queensland and the Aboriginal Problem 1838 - 1901
Australian Scholarly Publishing 2006. Previous owners stamp to minor title page. 248 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Australian Scholarly Publishing Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021526 ISBN : 1740971043 9781740971041
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Hector M. Ferguson
A History of Tara and District 1840 - 1960 with Addenda
Brisbane QLD Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd General wear to jacket. Previous owners name to front endpaper. 161 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good minus. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021397
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Taperell Quentin John
Taperell's Bicentenary Parramatta : Australia's most historic City
W. R Bright & Sons 1988. Small previous owners address stamp to title page. 82 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. W. R Bright & Sons Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021438 ISBN : 0959526307 9780959526301
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Atkinson James J.
An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales
Sydney Australia: Sydney University Press 1975. Gift inscription to front endpaper. 146 pages with b/w illustrations. . FACSIMILE EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Sydney University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021424 ISBN : 0424069601 9780424069609
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James Mudie
The Felonry of New South Wales : Being a Faithful Picture of the Real Romance of Life in Botany Bay with Anecdotes of Botany Bay Society and a Plan of Sydney
London United Kingdom: Angus & Robertson 1965. 215 pages with fold out map at rear. First published in 1837. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021503
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Harold Armstrong
A Century of Progress 1882 - 1982 : Wynnum North State Primary School
1982. Some foxing to covers. 96 pages with b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021359
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Iris Brewer
Memories of Wynnum 1884 - 1984
Small mark from a sticker to the front cover. 91 pages with b/w illustrations. A souvenir publication of the official opening of the restored Shire Clerk's cottage. . SECOND EDITION. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021349
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Haines Robin
Doctors at Sea : Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan 2005. Usual library marks. 248 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021352 ISBN : 1403986851 9781403986856
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Edwards Hugh
Pearls of Broome and Northern Australia
Self Published 1994. Light general wear to covers. 84 pages with colour illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Self Published Paperback
Bookseller reference : 021356 ISBN : 0646193090 9780646193090
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WE. Bill Harney W. E.
Brimming Billabongs
London United Kingdom: Robert Hale Ltd 1964. Previous owners name to top of front free endpaper. 174 pages. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Robert Hale Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 021185
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Keith Winser
Australian TV Book and Tune-up Manual
1959. 98 pages with b/w illustrations. Book no. 2 for 1959 - 60. The best shows - set buyers guide - the year ahead - tune up and fix your own set. . Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020990
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B. McKeering
History of South Brisbane College of Technical and Further Education
Brisbane QLD Australia: Boolarong Publications 1988. 110 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Boolarong Publications Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020844 ISBN : 0724227911 9780724227914
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RL. Atkinson R. L.
Northern Pioneers
Self Published 1979. Crease to top corner of title page. 136 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. History of the Atkinson family pastoralists of northern Queensland. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Self Published Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020729
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Tall Timber and Golden Grain : Atherton 1885 - 1985
Atherton Centenary Committee Small previous owners name to top of front endpaper. 106 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Atherton Centenary Committee Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020616 ISBN : 0959046909 9780959046908
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Gwen Robinson
Mt Gravatt : Bush to Suburb
Self Published 1986. Foxing to covers. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 55 pages with b/w illustrations. . SIGNED. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Self Published Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020650
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Clarrie Beckingham
The Lanes of Cosme Colona Paraguay 1893 - 1904
Self Published 1993. 79 page booklet. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Self Published Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020636 ISBN : 0646148125 9780646148120
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Glenville Pike
Wings over the Cape : The World's Longest Mail Runs
Pinevale Publications 1990. General wear and creases to covers. 183 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Pinevale Publications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020651 ISBN : 1875375074 9781875375073
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Bill Johnson
Ripcord Australia
A.C.P.A 1985. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. 194 pages with b/w illustrations. The history of parachuting in Australia. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A.C.P.A Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020668 ISBN : 0959028102 9780959028102
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Cleveland State School Centenary Souvenir History 1868 - 1968
Centenary Committee of the Rocklea State School 1968. Usual library marks. 72 page booklet with b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Centenary Committee of the Rocklea State School Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020656
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Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee editors
The Hmong of Australia : Culture And Diaspora
Canberra ACT Australia: Pandanus Books 2004. Inscription to minor title page. 217 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Pandanus Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020694 ISBN : 1740760417 9781740760416
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Edna M. Skewes
Life Comes to Newness : Mount Olivet Hospital Brisbane
Brisbane QLD Australia: Boolarong Publications 1982. General wear to covers. Presentation sticker to front endpaper. 206 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Boolarong Publications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020724 ISBN : 0959363106 9780959363104
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Ion Idriess
The Yellow Joss and Other Tales
Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson 1940. General wear to boards and light fading to spine. Lean to spine. Small bit of white out to front endpaper. 266 pages with b/w illustrations. . Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Good minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020473
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Ron Wilson
Our Lady of Lourdes Armadale 1922 - 1997
Armadale VIC Australia 1997. 64 page booklet with b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020380
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Bonython C. Warren and Fraser A. Stewart
The Great Filling of Lake Eyre in 1974
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch 1989. Usual library marks. 120 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020309 ISBN : 090911210x 9780909112103
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Lloyd Evans and Paul Nicholls
Convicts and Colonial Society 1788 - 1853
Cassell Australia 1978. Small previous owners details to top of minor title page. 250 pages. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Cassell Australia Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020340 ISBN : 0726926620 9780726926624
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Mawer G. A.
Most Perfectly Safe : The Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833 - 42
Sydney NSW Australia: Allen & Unwin 1997. 192 pages with b/w illustrations. A lively account of the convict trade in the 1830s and the shipwrecks that plunged it into crisis. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Allen & Unwin Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020347 ISBN : 1864481862 9781864481860
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Malcolm Sealy
The Journeys to Coolangatta : Alexander Berry the Scottish Settler and his Australian Succession
Sydney Australia: Book House 2000. Usual library marks. 235 pages. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Book House Paperback
Bookseller reference : 020171 ISBN : 1740181085 9781740181082
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Christie's Australia
Rare Books Manuscripts Prints Drawings Sport and Pop Memorabilia. Christie's Australia auction catalogue sale date: 28 November 1996
Christie's Australia Melbourne auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th November 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 126 pp ills. 723 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: John Gould's Birds of Australia 8 vols; The John D. Altmann Library of fine and early Australiana including John Gould's Mammals of Australia 3 vols and the Stourhead extra-illustrated set of Captain Cook's Voyages; Important documents and books relating to Eureka sold by the descendants of James and Catherine Bentley and of James and Margaret Oddie; The Archive of Gordon Burt O.B.E. sold by his daughter; The Antarctic Archive of Charles Harrison sold by his descendant. Near Fine. Christie's Australia, Melbourne auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th November 1996 unknown
Bookseller reference : BIBLIO-38368
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Jones Elizabeth
Richmond - Tasmania : A Crossing Place
Tasmania: Richmond Preservation and Development Trust 1973. 80 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Richmond Preservation and Development Trust Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 020156 ISBN : 0959861904 9780959861907
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Chapman Family Book Committee
Hertfordshire to Brisbane and Beyond : A History of the Chapmans 1857 - 1982
Self Published Usual library marks. 94 page booklet with b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Self Published Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019808 ISBN : 0958885508 9780958885508
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Ian Sharp
The Wolston Story
National Trust Queensland 1998. 64 page booklet with colour and b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. National Trust, Queensland Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019922 ISBN : 0908009216 9780908009213
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Edited By Max Charlesworth Howard Morphy Diane Bell and Kenneth Maddock
Religion in Aboriginal Australia : An Anthology
Brisbane QLD Australia: University of Queensland Press 1989. Crease to bottom corner of front cover. Previous owners name stamp to top of minor title page. 458 pages. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. University of Queensland Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019923 ISBN : 0702220086 9780702220081
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Beres McCallum
Windsor Wakens : Residents and Notables of the 1860s
Brisbane QLD Australia: Windsor and Districts Historical Society 2004. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. 134 pages with b/w illustrations. . SIGNED. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Windsor and Districts Historical Society Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019903 ISBN : 0646443844 9780646443843
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Constance Glory Luck Powell
The History of the Luck Family from 1598 to 1986
1987. Usual library marks. 66 pages with b/w illustrations. . Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019904
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Marlay Elaine
A history of Dental Education in Queensland 1863 - 1964
Brisbane QLD Australia: Dept. of Dentistry University of Queensland 1979. 226 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Dept. of Dentistry, University of Queensland Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019666 ISBN : 0909892733 9780909892739
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Don Dignan
The Story of Kolan
Brisbane QLD Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd 1964. Jacket has general wear some fading to spine and 1cm loss to bottom of spine. Usual library marks. Front free endpaper map missing. 149 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 019778
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Jeanne M. Mims
Morella Memories "A Local History"
1992. 162 pages with b/w illustrations. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 019521 ISBN : 0646113674 9780646113678
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Ryan R. J.
The Third Fleet Convicts : An Alphabetical Listing of Names Giving Place and Date of Conviction Length of Sentence and Ship of Transportation
Sydney Australia: Horwitz Grahame Pty Ltd 1983. Illustrated laminated boards. 126 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Horwitz Grahame Pty Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 018733 ISBN : 072551521x 9780725515218
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