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Millar Ann
I See No End to Travelling. Journals of Australian Explorers 1813-76
Sydney: Bay Books Foreword by John McQuilton. 287pp index bibliography 265 ills bw & col. Or brown cloth heavily worn at the lower edge with some wear at the upper edge in dust-jacket which is foxed on its blind side. Fascinating accounts from the personal journals of the early Australian explorers and pioneers. Apparent First. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Folio. Bay Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026514 ISBN : 0858358131 9780858358133
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Galer Lois
Houses and Homes. Edited by Robin L Charteris
Dunedin New Zealand: Allied Press 1985. 96pp illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Pictorial card cover lightly worn at the edges unevenly faded and with a creased lower front corner. The book contains a selection of 51 of the 100 homes in the first three series of the Otago Daily Times feature 'Houses and Homes' 1977-80. Fifth Impression. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 4to. Allied Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026484
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White M W D
An Early Settler: The Duckett White Family in Australia
Ashgrove Qld: Hennessy Investments 1990. vii 266pp illustrated with contemporary photographs and many previously unpublished maps and letters of historical interest genealogical tables one folding index. EX-LIBRARY copy with stamps on first three and final two pages and on page edges. Errata slip attached at the spine edge over the frontispiece portrait of the Hon W D White. There is a trace of damp with minor staining by the heavily bumped upper edge. Pp 128 to the end are affected with quite a number of pages stuck together near the upper edge. It looks as if these could be separated without loss of text given time and care. Clear Contact has been attached to the covers with two presumably library stickers on the front and one by the spine foot. The book brings to life the story of one of Queensland's pioneering families with details of the Hon William Duckett White's family and vast cattle runs in South East Queensland and later at Bluff Downs and the building of Lota House at Manly. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fair. 8vo. Ex-Library. Hennessy Investments Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025968 ISBN : 0646018167 9780646018164
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Woodward Jack
Three Times Lucky
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications with J Woodward 1991. vi 230pp b/w ills index. Endpages and page edges lightly foxed. Pictorial boards in dust-jacket which has the remains of a sticker on its front panel. The book is based on the story of an airman who volunteered in the RAAF during World War II. He was mustered in Air Crew as an Observer and trained in Australia before being sent to Singapore with 27 Squadron. The name of the story is based on lucky escapes from two aircraft crashes and one near crash. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Boolarong Publications with J Woodward Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025965 ISBN : 0646029703 9780646029702
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Fidlon Paul G and Ryan R J editors
The First Fleeters: A Comprehensive Listing of Convicts Marines Seamen Officers Wives Children and Ships
Sydney: Australian Documents Library 1981. ix 86pp. A stain affects the lower front corner from about page 40 to the end. Pictorial card cover lightly rubbed with creased lower corners. The book gives the names status and ships in which they sailed of the 1350 men women and children who left England on the First Fleet of 11 ships in 1787. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. Australian Documents Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025964 ISBN : 0908219032 9780908219032
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Grenfell Price A
Island Continent: Aspects of the Historical Geography of Australia and Its Territories
Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1972. xix 283pp 8pp b/w plates maps appendix index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book 'makes a fresh approach to the study of Australia seeing its history and geography as a whole filling in gaps and giving new insights into past and present'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus and Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026034 ISBN : 0207124124 9780207124129
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Gibb D M and Hannan A W editors
Debate & Decision: Political Issues in 20th Century Australia
South Yarra: Heinemann Educational Australia 1975. xii 316pp two appendices period and subject indexes. Paperback. The book's sections cover Economic Policy Industrial Relations Civil Liberties Education Aboriginal Policy Social Security International Relations and Political Power. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Heinemann Educational Australia Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026029 ISBN : 0858591049 9780858591042
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Darlington Robert
Sudan to Vietnam. Library Reference Series
Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press 1987. HEAVY. 232pp illustrated throughout in colour and b/w maps further reading. Prelims and endpages foxed. Illustrated laminated boards in dust-jacket which is unevenly faded. The Australian military in Colonial Wars the two World Wars Korea Malaya Borneo and Vietnam. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 4to. Shakespeare Head Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026062 ISBN : 073020202X 9780730202028
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Buddee Paul
Airways: The Call of the Skies. Australian Life Series No 4
Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. 1978. 117pp b/w photos maps important dates in aviation biographical index. Pictorial card cover with a nick at the spine head. The author trances the story of flight in Australia from the earliers days of Lawrence Hargrave's aerodynamic research in the late 19th century to the landing of Concorde in Australia. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Lothian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026069 ISBN : 0850910552 9780850910551
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Australian War Memorial
Journal of the Australian War Memorial No. 4
Canberra: Australian War Memorial 1984. 64pp colour and b/w ills. The upper edge of the pages from about p31 to the end have been damp and are lightly stained and wrinkled. Pictorial card cover. Articles recent acquisitions and book reviews. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to. Australian War Memorial Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026058
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Price John E
They Proved to All the Earth: Listing of All Those Victorians Who Gave Their lives through Service to the British Empire During the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902
Cheltenham Vic: The Author 1982. Foreword by Warren Perry. 119pp b/w ills appendixes glossary index of names. SIGNED by the author on the half title. Pictorial card cover. The book covers the 262 Victorians who died in the conflict with a record of memorials. Signed by Author. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Author Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026064 ISBN : 0959378103 9780959378108
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Sexton Michael
War for the Asking: How Australia Invited Itself to Vietnam
Sydney: New Holland 2002. 240pp 8pp b/w plates appendix index. Paperback. In this new edition the author goes behind the scenes of the high-level meetings of politicans and diplomats in Canberra and Washington depicting those who took their countries into Vietnam and demolishing the myths that have grown up around the Vietnam years. New Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. New Holland Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026063 ISBN : 1864367601 9781864367607
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Lewis Tom
Darwin Sayonara
Brisbane: Boolarong Press 1991. 104pp b/w photos positional map showing extent of Boom Net and location of Japanese submarine I-124 sunk 20 January 1942 historical note maps on the inside covers: front Darwin 1942; rear location of ships in Darwin Harbour showing vessels damaged and sunk by Japanese bombs. Endpages foxed. Pictorial card cover. A novel based on the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 when 243 people were killed and hundreds wounded in the raids. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Boolarong Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026070 ISBN : 0864391331 9780864391339
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Odgers George
Pictorial History of the Royal Australian Air Force
Sydney: Ure Smith 1977. 160pp illustrated throughout in colour sepia and b/w index. Blue boards in dust-jacket. The book tells the story of the Australian military aviation from its beginnings at Point Cook in 1914. It covers the history RAAF and its predecessor the Australian Flying Corps as well as the RAAF as it was in the 1970s. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Ure Smith Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026057 ISBN : 0725403942 9780725403942
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Horner David editor
The Battles that Shaped Australia
Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1994. Foreword by Paul Kelly. xiv 293pp 16pp b/w photos index. A name has been blacked out with marker by the upper edge of the title page. Paperback. The book includes the best of the articles from The Australian's series of 50th anniversary special features on the battles of Pearl Harbor The Kokoda Track Guadalcanal The Battle of the Coral Sea The fall of Singapore Milne Bay and the Battle of El Alamein. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. Allen & Unwin Paperback
Bookseller reference : 026051 ISBN : 1863737049 9781863737043
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Day David
Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan 1942-45
Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1992. x 366pp 8pp b/w photos bibliography index. Blue boards in dust-jacket. This is the second part of a two part study of Australian defence and foreign policy during the Second World War. It examines Australia's reaction to her plight in 1942 how she met the Japanese challenge. Based on extensive use of private diaries and confidential papers the author has written a wide-ranging re-intepretation of the Pacific war. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026112 ISBN : 0195532422 9780195532425
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Pate Michael
An Entertaining War
Sydney: Dreamweaver Books 1986. 189pp index illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The story of the concert parties and entertainment units of Australia's armed forces wherever they were around the world bewteen 1939 and 1946 as related by Australian actor and film-maker Michael Pate. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Dreamweaver Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026109 ISBN : 0949825131 9780949825131
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Lord Walter
Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons
New York: The Viking Press 1977. xii 322pp b/w photos maps index end-paper maps: Solomon Islands. Front eps lightly soiled foxed. Cloth-backed papered boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. The story of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons who operated deep behind Japanese lines in 1942-1943. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. The Viking Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026086 ISBN : 0670437654 9780670437658
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Savage J Russell
A Guest of the Emperor
Moorooka Qld: Boolarong Press 1995. xiv141pp b/w ills end-paper maps: front extent of Japanes military expansion -- 1942; rear travel as a PoW torpedoeing. Pictorial laminated boards with a light bump at the spine foot. The experiences of 'a youthful gunner during his AIF years chiefly of the time he spent following the fall of Singapore as a prisoner of war'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Boolarong Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026092 ISBN : 0864391900 9780864391902
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Perry Warren Major
The Naval and Military Club Melbourne: a History of Its First Hundred Years 1881-1981
Melbourne: The Naval and Military Club Melbourne in Conjunctin with Lothian Publishing Company 1981. Centenary Message from The Duke of Edinburgh. Foreword by The Hon Sir Edmund Herring. xxx 435pp chronology b/w plates 14 appendices bibliography index. Prelims endpages and page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards flecked in places gilt decoration and spine titles. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. The Naval and Military Club, Melbourne in Conjunctin with Lothian Publishing Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026091 ISBN : 0850911494 9780850911497
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Massey Higgins Patricial in Collaboration with The Royal Australian Air Force
They Sped Eagles: The Story of the W.A.A.A.F. The Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
Sydney: F H Johnston Publishing Company 1943. With a message from HRH the Duchess of Gloucester. Foreword by Group Officer Clare G Stevenson. 88pp with 16pp b/w photos line drawings. Papered boards in edge-worn dust-jacket. The women of the WAAAF. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Elaine Haxton. 8vo. F H Johnston Publishing Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 026106
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Mercier Emile
Sauce or Mustard
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1951. 122pp. Edges rubbed spine strip lacking prev owners name inside front cover. A collection of cartoons by prominent Australian cartoonist and humorist Emile Mercier. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good. Illus. by Emile Mercier. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025611
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Colwell James
The Illustrated History of Methodism. Australia: 1812 to 1855. New South Wales and Polynesia: 1856 to 1902. With Special Chapters on the Discovery and Settement of Australia the Missions to the South Sea Islands New Zealand and the Aborigines
Sydney: William Brooks and Co 1904. VERY HEAVY. Introduction by the Rev. George Lane. 669pp portrait frontis: John Wesley with tissue guard bw illustrations appendices index decorative endpapers. Front hinge cracked. Top edge gilt. Binding worn at leather spine and corners with loss of sections at the spine head and foot with some loss at the spine. Tape has been placed over joins between cloth and leather on the rear board. Or red cloth lightly worn rubbed stained and flecked. Internally the book is in good and clean condition. The book is in two parts: The Mission; and The Church. It was the first attempt to set out the beginnings of Methodism in Australia and Polynesia; and was the first history of any section of the Protestant Church in New South Wales. First Edition. Half-Leather. Fair to Good. Illus. by D H Souter. 4to. William Brooks and Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025715
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Manne Robert editor
The New Conservatism in Australia
Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1982. 290pp contributors. Errata slip loosely inserted. Paperback. A collection of essays in a conservative voice 'hostile to the anti-anti-communist consensus of the 1980s and to the fashionably anti-American rendition of post-war international history'. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Oxford University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025757 ISBN : 0195543270 9780195543278
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Christie's Australia
Contemporary Art. Sydney 13.08.00
South Yarra: Christie's Australia 2000. 132pp colour ills throughout. Pictorial card covers. Includes works by Gordon Bennett Peter Booth Jack Britten Dale Frank Rosalie Gascoigne Richard Goodwin Bill Henson Emily Kame Kngwarreye Ildiko Kovacs Tracey Moffatt Susan Norrie Wilma Tabacco Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri and John Mosquito Tjapangarti. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Christie's Australia Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025739 ISBN : 1875887040 9781875887040
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Programme for the Visit to Australia of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh 3rd February to 1st April 1954. Commonwealth Programme
Adelaide : Not Stated 1954. 133pp maps1954 calendar the Advertiser Printing Office Adelaide. Pictorial wrappers. As no other printer/publisher details are in the book other than that on the calendar it is assumed that the book was printed in Adelaide by the Advertiser Printing Office rather than that information pertaining only to the calendar page. Following coverage of the Royal Party; Minister-in-Charge; Commonwealth Royal Visit Staff; His Excellency the Governor-General; and the Commonwealth Government the book covers the Australian Itinerary pp8-10 followed by the Programme for NSW the ACT Tasmania Victoria Queensland South Australia and Western Australia with a map for each. The pages are printed on page rectos with facing versos blank for notes. . Second Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Not Stated Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025828
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Kennedy Royd
Firefighter: An Autobiography
Whatamango Bay NZ: Cape Catley Ltd 1997. Foreword by Derek Varley. 190pp 4pp colour and 8pp b/w photos. Paperback. The life of an Auckland firefighter. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Cape Catley Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025826 ISBN : 0908561636 9780908561636
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Painter Martin
Steering the Modern State: Changes in Central Coordination in Three Australian State Governments
Sydney: Sydney University Press in Associaton with the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration 1987. vii 208pp bibliography index. Paperback. The book 'traces the transformation of Australian state government as it broke away from its 19th-century inheritence of administrative structures and practices. It describes the growth of modern big government and the more recent 1980s climate of cutbacks and scarcity'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Sydney University Press in Associaton with the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025924 ISBN : 0424001268 9780424001265
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Kloot N H and Bolza E
Properties of Timber Imported Into Australia. Division of Forest Products Technological Paper No. 12
Melbourne: CSIRO 1961. 79pp tables. Textured paper wrapper lightly soiled foxed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. CSIRO Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025567
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Tuffley Michael John
The Patriarch and the Good Shepherd
Ernest Queensland: AmJ Productions No date c. 1991 160pp ills portraits pages bordered with twining shamrocks. Cloth-backed laminated pictorial cover. Collection of poems anecdotes and brief biographies of Irish and Irish-Australian content. Portraits include a somewhat unflattering example of Thomas Keneally. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Michael John Tuffley. 8vo. AmJ Productions Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025365 ISBN : 0646065637 9780646065632
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Read V compiler
Scotland and Her World-wide Infuence
Brisbane: Read's Rare Book Shop 1958. No date c. 1958. 38pp chronological table of Scottish rulers selected list of Scotland's great men. Stapled pictorial wrapper. Read's Rare Bookshop stamp by the lower edge of the Introduction page. From the front cover 'A tribute to those splendid men and women of Scottish blood whose industry self-sacrifice and intense loyalty have helped to make the British Empire what it is to-day'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Read's Rare Book Shop Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025364
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Ireland David
The Chosen
Sydney: Random House 1997. 520pp. Papered boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb 'a profound and witty vision of humanity by one of the great masters of Australian writing'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025351 ISBN : 0091836255 9780091836252
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Collinson J W
Early Days of Cairns
Brisbane: W R Smith & Paterson 1939. Foreword by F A Cooper. viii 157pp 7 maps index bibliographia. Page edges lightly soiled. Or brown cloth boards heavily flecked at the spine and at the edges. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is number 267 signed by the author. The history of Cairns and district. Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. W R Smith & Paterson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025388
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Blackburn Julia
Daisy Bates in the Desert: a Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
New York: Pantheon Books 1995. viii 232pp bibliography. A phone number has been written by the upper corner of the rear flyleaf. Cloth-backed papered boards. Part biography part history part novelistic improvisation the life of Kabbarli the white-skinned grandmother who live among the Aborigines for nearly 30 years from 1913. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pantheon Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025402 ISBN : 0679420010 9780679420019
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Barnard Marjorie
A History of Australia
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1966. 710pp frontis and b/w plates 3 maps bibliography index. Decorated end-papers. Page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which has a 2cm closed tear from the upper edge of the front panel. The history of Australia from the beginnings of discovery and settlement to the period of expansion and change in the 1960s. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025382
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Bartlett Norman
The Gold Seekers: The Story of the Australian Gold Rush
Melbourne: Readers Book Club 1967. 249 pages b/w plates bibliography. Pages toned. Cloth boards in edge-worn dust-jacket. The author disentangles truth from legend in the history of Eureka and fills in the whole background of a violent romantic era. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Readers Book Club Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024968
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Hordern Marsden
A Merciful Journey: Recollections of a World War II Patrol Boat Man
Carlton: The Miegunyah Press 2005. xiv 334 pages b/w plates appendix notes bibliography index end-paper maps. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Edition of 3000 copies. A memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. The Miegunyah Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024953 ISBN : 0522851757 9780522851755
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Benson Irving
The Man with the Donkey: John Simpson Kirkpatrick the Good Samaritan of Gallipoli
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1965. 95 pages b/w photos bibliography. Upper edge tinted. Prelims including title page endpages and page edges foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is lightly silverfished in places. The story of a Gallipoli stretcher-bearer who found a donkey and used it to bring wounded men from the top of Shrapnel Gully to the casualty station on the beach. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus. 8vo. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024963
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Howard W A
Barrier Bulwark: The Life and Times of Shorty O'Neil
Kew: Willry Pty Ltd 1990. vi 169 pages. Page edges lightly foxed. Pictorial card covers with a rubbed soiled rear cover. Shorty O'Neil worked as a hardrock underground miner at Broken Hill for nearly 50 years from 1917. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Willry Pty Ltd Paperback
Bookseller reference : 024969 ISBN : 0646002872 9780646002873
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Clune Frank
Try Nothing Twice: The Story of Two Dozen Jobs
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1946. 177 pages. Newsagency stamp by the lower corner of the front flyleaf. Upper page edges have been roughly separated. Papered boards a little soiled with spine cocked in edge-worn and lightly soiled dust-jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024970
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Nelson Hank
Chased by the Sun: Courageous Australians in Bomber Command in World War II
Sydney: ABC Books 2002. ix 319 pages b/w photos bibliography index. Pictorial card covers. The author brings to life the experience of the Australians serving in British squadrons. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. ABC Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 024959 ISBN : 0733310702 9780733310706
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Tarlington George
Shifting Sands & Savage Jungle: The Memories of a Frontline Infantryman
Loftus: Australian Military History Publications. 1994. 118 pages b/w photos maps sketch maps. Pictorial card cover. This personal history outlines the dramas of life at war with the 2/2nd AIF Infantry Battalion. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Australian Military History Publications. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 024957 ISBN : 0646181386 9780646181387
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Clarke Hugh V
Twilight Liberation: Australian Prisoners of War Between Hiroshima and Home
Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1985. xii 165 pages b/w photos biographical notes. There is yellow highlighting on approximately 20 pages. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. From the time the Japanese Emperor ordered his people to lay down their arms more than a month passed before the Occupying Forces were able to arrange the repatriation of 2700 Australian prisoners of war. The book tells the story of those days. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Allen & Unwin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024954
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Medcalf Peter
War in the Shadows: Bougainville 1944-45
Canberra/Sydney: Australian War Memorial/Collins 1986. 115 pages maps glossary pictorial end-papers. Upper page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. A true story of the Australian infantryman. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Australian War Memorial/Collins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024949 ISBN : 0642994862 9780642994868
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Montgomery Michael
Who Sank the Sydney
Sydney: Cassell Australia 1981. xii 242 pages b/w photos maps references bibliography index. Prev owner's name with place on the front flyleaf verso. Page edges foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The author examines the various accounts of the disappearance of the Sydney off the coast of Western Australia on the night of 19 November 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Cassell Australia Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024965 ISBN : 0726954764 9780726954764
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JTS. Bird J. T.
The Early History of Rockhampton Dealing Chiefly with Events Up Till 1870
415 pages. First published in 1904. . FACSIMILE EDITION. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 016722
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Prout Denton; Feely Fred
50 Years Hard. The Story of Pentridge Gaol from 1850 to 1900
Adelaide: Rigby 1967. x 266pp bw ills. Or maroon cloth in jacket which is lightly edge-worn with a closed tear from from the spine head with minor loss at the spine head and foot. The history of Pentridge gaol in the fifty years preceeding the 20th century. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024987
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Alexander Fred
Moving Frontiers: An American Theme and Its Application to Australian History
Carlton: Melbourne University Press 1947. 48 pages portrait frontis: Frederick Jackson Turner biographical note two appendices. Prev owner's signature by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. Red cloth boards in dust-jacket which is in two parts with a section of the spine detached and a further section missing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo. Melbourne University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025014
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Hilhouse Taylor T
Parsifal: A Romantic "Mystery"-Drama
Melbourne: Thos C Lothian 1907. ix 136 pages. There are a few spots on the edges. The paper cover is discoloured and heavily worn with loss of the rear cover and some loss at the spine the spine and edges . For this edition cuts and alterations necessary for the dramatic representation have not been included. . Second Edition. Soft Cover. Poor. 12mo. Thos C Lothian Paperback
Bookseller reference : 025033
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Baxter J Sidlow
Enter Ye In
London: Marshall Morgan & Scott Ltd. 1939. 128 pages. Foxing scattered throughout heavy in places. Blue cloth boards bumped at the upper edge gilt spine titles rubbed faded in price-clipped rubbed and edge-worn dust-jacket which is frayed at and by the spine head. The messages in the book were first given as Sunday evening addresses from the pulpit of Charlotte Baptist Chapel Edinburgh. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 025039
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