Doyle Arthur Conan
The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1916. Volume 3 of 6 Only
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1918. xi 339 pages book catalogue maps and plans some folding index. Prelims and endpapges lightly foxed. Hinges cracked. Cloth boards flecked soiled with some loss at the spine head. Gilt titles clear on flecked spine. The detailed story of the events which occurred upon the British Western Front during 1916 the first of the years of attack and advance. The work was heavily censored and was published with the loss of all personal names save those of casualties or of high Generals. It does reveal the exact identity of the units engages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair to Goo. 8vo. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 025023
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Pearce Steve text
Making Money: The Story of the Royal Australian Mint
Mulgrave Vic: Nucolorvue Productions No date 2002. 32pp colour ills throughout glossary. Stapled pictorial card covers with a floor plan on the inside rear cover. From the opening in 1965 to the medals for the 2000 Olympic Games covering coins from the time of the First Fleet the Gold Rush Commonwealth Coinage Currency Day and coinage as well as production and design at the Mint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Nucolorvue Productions Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 025116 ISBN : 0858581558 9780858581555
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De Vries Susanna
Desert Queen. The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates
Sydney: HarperCollins 2008. 294pp endnotes bw ills. Or card covers. As new. One of the best known and most controversial ethnologists and one of the first to put Aboriginal culture on the map. Migrating in 1883 on a boatload of orphans she passed herself off as an heiress who taught for fun. She married Breaker Morant and then two other husbands bigamously. A complex portrait of the 'Queen of the Never-Never'. First Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. HarperCollins Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 025196 ISBN : 0732282438 9780732282431
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Boyle James
Railraod to Burma
Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1991. xii 198pp b/w photos facsimiles maps glossary index. Pictorial card cover. The author kept a shorthand record of life on the railroad and buried it for safekeeping when the his group withdrew to Singapore. After liberation in August 1945 he retrieved his record of a visit to the edge of hell. That small notebook forms the core of this story. Paperback Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Allen & Unwin Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 025238 ISBN : 0863630087 9780863630088
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Park Alby compiled by
Disorderly Members: 100 Years of Australian Prime-Ministerial Quips from Parliament
Sydney: Sponne Publishing 2000. 221pp text-ills. Pictorial card cover. From Toby Barton to John Howard. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Sponne Publishing Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 025216 ISBN : 0646383159 9780646383156
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Adams George Martin
Birdscaping Your Garden
Adelaide: Rigby 1980. 144 pages illustrated with colour plates b/w photos and line drawings bibliography index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book's text and pictures show how the average backyard can be transformed into a miniature sanctuary. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Rigby Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024478 ISBN : 072701367x 9780727013675
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Stanley Peter.
Tarakan. An Australian Tragedy.
Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1997. xiii 274pp index endnotes bibliographic notes roll of honour appendices bw ills maps. Or card covers. Slight edge wear light foxing to page edges small corner snipped from first page. In 1945 240 Australians died taking the small Borneo island of Tarakan from the Japanese- the tragedy was that by the time they succeeded they need not have begun. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Allen & Unwin Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 024504 ISBN : 1864482788 9781864482782
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Lind Lew text
Australia's Men o' War
Sydney: A H & A W Reed 1980. Foreword by Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot. 64 pages with the reproductions of 25 full-page colour paintings on page rectos with text facing index illustrated end-papers. Blue cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. Here is 'the collective and dynamic essence of Australia's fighting ships'. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Paintings by Geoff Volmer. Oblong 4to. A H & A W Reed Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024543 ISBN : 0589502484 9780589502485
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McIvor Shirley and Trevor
Salute the Brave: a Pictorial Record of Queensland War Memorials
Toowoomba Qld.: USQ Press 1994. HEAVY. 340 pages illustrated throughout with photos in colour sepia and b/w bibliography maps. Pictorial card covers with French flaps. The covers are in clear plastic which is lightly attached to the inside covers. The book's release coincided with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. USQ Press Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 024537 ISBN : 0949414549 9780949414540
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Shearer J D
Bound for Botany Bay: Impressions of Transportation and Convict Life. With an Introduction by Olaf Ruhen
Sydney: Summit Books 1976. 71 pages illustrated with full-page reproductions of colour paintings drawings tinted end-papers. Cloth boards chipped and worn at the edges and at the spine in dust-jacket which is unevenly sunned. The paintings are accompanied by excerpts from writings of the priod. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Oblong Folio. Summit Books Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024645 ISBN : 072710084X 9780727100849
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Fairfax J F
The Story of John Fairfax: Commemorating the Centenary of the Fairfax Proprietary of The Sydney Morning Herald 1841-1941
Sydney: John Fairfax & Sons 1962. 169 pages coloured frontis with tissue-guard: John and Sarah Fairfax in 1827 b/w ills. Quarter leather worn at the spine foot papered boards with a stamped portrait of John Fairfax at the centre of the front board. The story commemorates the centenary of the Fairfax proprietorship of The Sydney Morning Herald which John Fairfax first built up to greatness. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Adrian Feint. 4to. John Fairfax & Sons Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024652
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Flett Trevor; Kelly Lynette; and Milne Rick
People's Paraphernalia. Issue 1
Melbourne: People's Paraphernalia 1987. 128 pages illustrated throughout in full colour price guide decorated end-papers. Pictorial boards. This first issue includes articles on Aboriginal Art kookaburras money boxes hardware ink blotters camels negro dolls militaria and pocket knives. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. People's Paraphernalia Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024654 ISBN : 0731608119 9780731608119
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Bonython C Warren
Walking the Flinders Ranges
Adelaide: Rigby 1971. 231 pages colour and b/w photos maps diagrams appendices index end-paper maps. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Accompanied by a series of companions on successive walking stages the author walked the Flinders Ranges from end to end. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024723 ISBN : 0851792863 9780851792866
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Henderson George HEN
Centennial Scratches by Hen. 1848 and All That
New Zealand: Printed by Whitcombe & Tombs 1948. Unpaginated. Stapled pictorial card cover. A collection of cartoons Issued to celebrate the founding of Otago. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Cartoons by Gordon McIntyre. Oblong 8vo. Printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 024806
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Blackburn Julia
Daisy Bates in the Desert: a Woman's life Among the Aborigines
New York: Vintage Books 1995. viii 232 pages bibliography. Pictorial card cover with clear tape covering the spine. 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. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Vintage Books Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 024917 ISBN : 0679420010 9780679420019
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Hiener W and J E editors
A Burglar's Life or The Stirring Adventures of the Great English Burglar Mark Jeffrrey
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1968. xxi 194 pages. There is a small section of black marker by the upper corner of the front flyleaf. Cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. A history of the dark days of convictism in Australia. The book was first published in Launceston Tasmania in 1893. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 024897
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Cromer Bill editor & compiler
The Tasmanian Book of Lists
Taroona Tasmania: William C. Cromer 1989. viii 196pp index line drawings. Or yellow card covers. Covers creased. Book has been folded resulting in light crease to most pages. Prev owners name inside front cover. Quite scarce pot pourri of facts and opinions about Tasmania. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. Illus. by Dazely Graeme. 8vo. William C. Cromer Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023404 ISBN : 0731679083 9780731679089
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Flannery Tim Edited and Introduced by
Life and Adventures 1776-1801 John Nicol Mariner
Melbourne: Text Publishing 1997. 198 pages map of the world index. Two-line note by the upper edge of the half title page. Paperback. In 1790 Nicol visited Port Jackson as the steward on board the Lady Juliana with its cargo of female convicts and fell in love with Sarah Whitlam. He tells the story of their affair of the birth of their son at sea and how they came to be separated forever. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Text Publishing Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023502 ISBN : 1875847413 9781875847419
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Beasley Jack
A Gallop of Fire. Katharine Susannah Prichard: On Guard for Humanity. A study of Creative Personality
Earlwood NSW: Wedgetail Press 1993. 187 pages index. Red remainder line at the lower page edges. Paperback. Jack Beasley 'portrays a great woman who as Katharine Susannah survivied and surpassed her own tragedies; and who as KSP was the literary artist re-creating life in ultimate triumph'. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Wedgetail Press Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023503
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Towndrow Jennifer
Philip Cox: Portrait of an Australian Architect
Ringwood: Viking Penguin 1991. x 283 pages 32 pages of b/w photos appendix index. Page edges lightly tanned. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. This biography probes the nature of Cox's genius and reveals the development of a complex and contradictory personality an architect of great vision. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Viking Penguin Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023528 ISBN : 067083470X 9780670834709
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Noonan William
The Surprising Battalion: Australian Commandos in China
Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd. 1945. 194 pages. Pages slightly tanned. Page edges tanned. Light foxing to endpages. Red cloth boards with light bumps at upper and lower edge of the front board. From the Introduction the book is 'a glimpse of the Far East through the eyes of a private solider. The experiences and impressions of the A.I.F. in Burma and China -- the members of the British Mission 204 -- are unique. The book constitutes a record of the 'Marco Polo' Diggers whose two years spent in four countries of the Far East makes a highlight in the history of the A.I.F.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd. Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023525
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Long Gavin
To Benghazi. Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Series One Army. Volume I
Canberra: Australian War Memorial 1952. HEAVY. xiv 336 pages b/w plates maps sketch maps chronology appendices: AIF in the UK; The 6th Division's operation order for the capture of Bardia; AIF Colour Patches 1941 index. Or red cloth boards flecked and lightly marked in places with damage and minor loss at the spine head and foot. The front board is slightly bowed. A large part of this volume is concerned with the period before military operations began and to a great extent it forms an introduction as a whole to the military series of seven volumes. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo. Australian War Memorial Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023650
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Bruce Mary Grant
A Little Bush Maid
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1996. 178 pages illustrated in colour. Afterword by Barbara Ker Wilson. Four-line Christmas greeting by the upper corner of the front flyleaf. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. All the glorious adventure and excitement of the classic tale is captured by this lovely edition. Deluxe Hardback Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by John Lennox. 4to. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023742 ISBN : 0207185867 9780207185861
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Cannon Michael
The Exploration of Australia
Sydney: Reader's Digest 1987. HEAVY. 304 pages illustrated throughout in full colour with photographs drawings and paintings more than 60 maps index. Prelims and endpages lightly foxed. Pictorial boards. The book covers exploration from sea voyages to satellite discoveries from the earliest settlers to the age of scientific expeditions. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Reader's Digest Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023743 ISBN : 0864380364 9780864380364
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Daws Gavan
Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific
New York: William Morrow and Company 1994. 462 pages 16 pages of b/w photos notes index. Paperback. The author reveals the survivors' haunting experiences fromthe atrocities perpetrated during the Bataan Death March and the building of the Burma-Siam railroad to descriptions of diseasetorture and execution. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. William Morrow and Company Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023779 ISBN : 0668143709 9780668143707
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Kannengeisser Pascha Hans. Kannengeiser
Gallipoli. Bedeutung und Verlauf der Kampfe 1915
Berlin: Schliessen Verlag 1927. 239pp appendices 28 bw ills 2 folding maps. Or light brown cloth. Place/year written on front free endpaper bookplate on front pastedown-otherwise excellent. Extremely scarce first edition of this account of the Gallipoli camapign from the 'other side of the hill' by the Prussian and Turkish Major-General. Text in German/auf Deutsch. Printed in Gothic type. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Schliessen Verlag Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022941
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Joint Council for Religious Instruction in State Schools Victoria
Bible Lessons for State Schools. Series 3
Brisbane: The Department of Public Instruction Queensland 1939. 180pp. Or maroon tan wraps. Tiny chip at base of spine. Bible lessons for Victorian State Schools with sections for Junior Intermediate and Senior Lessons. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Department of Public Instruction (Queensland) Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022975
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Department of Public Instruction Queensland
Bible Lessons for Queensland State Schools. Senior Course Classes IV V VI
Brisbane: The Department of Public Instruction Queensland 1937. viii 162pp. Or maroon limp cloth covers. Faded at spine. Lessons arranged from the Old and New Testaments for use in Queensland State Schools for senior classes. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Department of Public Instruction (Queensland) Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022974
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Chatterton Percy.
A Primer of Police Motu.
Port Moresby: By Authority of the Department of Education 1950. 31pp errata. Or red limp cloth. A few light spots of foxing-very nice copy. Scarce little primer for the Police Motu language of Papua and New Guinea mainly comprising of word lists. Not Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. By Authority of the Department of Education Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022976
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Department of Public Instruction Queensland
Bible Lessons for Queensland State Schools. Junior Course Classes I II III
Brisbane: The Department of Public Instruction Queensland 1949. viii 132pp. Or gray card covers. Small chip at base of spine corners creased. Lessons arranged from the Old and New Testaments for use in Queensland State Schools. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Department of Public Instruction (Queensland) Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022973
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Murray J K
The Provisional Administration of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea. Its Policy and Its Problems. Being the John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lectures delivered by J K Murray on the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth April 1947
Brisbane: The University of Queensland 1949. 71 pages b/w photos folding coloured map at the inside rear cover with errata note bound in. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small three-line library stamp on the front flyleaf. No other library marks. Or cloth boards gilt titles on the front board lightly rubbed. Signed & Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The University of Queensland Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023023
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Wilson H. H
Cyclone Coasts: Australia's North-West Frontier
Adelaide: Rigby 1980. 192 pages 4pp colour and 16 pp b/w plates maps three appendices bibliography index. Papered boards showing a trace of damp at the lower section in dust-jacket shows a trace of damp by the lower edge of its rear panel. The north-west coast of Western Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023076 ISBN : 0727013904 9780727013903
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Chessell Pam
And as We Journey. A History of Korowa Anglican Girls' School 1890-1990
Malvern Vic: Coghill Publishing 1990. xiii 337 pages b/w ills bibliography index illustrated end-papers. Dec cl boards gilt with bumped lower front corner in dust-jacket. The growth and development of Korowa Anglican Girls' School. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Coghill Publishing Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023082 ISBN : 0949168882 9780949168887
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Butler Richard
Eureka Stockade
Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1983. 185pp bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Jacket a little faded TV series announcement sticker on front. Prev owners name writ small at top of front free endpaper a little foxing to page edges. Compelling narrative of the 1854 rebellion at the Eureka gold diggings at Ballarat Victoria. Hailed as the first attempt to throw off the British yoke and establish a republic on Australian soil. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023153 ISBN : 0207146462 9780207146466
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Lindsay Jake
Beneath the Brim of Tamworth's Country Music Festival
Tamworth NSW: Shot by Jake Photograpic Studio 1997. Unpaginated captioned photographs throughout. Pictorial card cover. A record of hats and people at the Foster's Siver Jubilee Tamworth Country Music Festival. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Shot by Jake Photograpic Studio Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023202 ISBN : 064632909X 9780646329093
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O'Riley Ivan
The Hunt for Mineral Treasure
Adelaide: Rigby 1971. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with the author's photographs in colour and b/w. Cloth boards lighty worn at the edges with a trace of damp at the spine foot in dust-jacket. Mineral exploration in Western Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Rigby Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023212 ISBN : 0851792308 9780851792309
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Kerr Colin and Margaret
The Gold Seekers
Adelaide: Rigby 1975. 63 pages 4 pages of colour plates b/w ills throughout. Four-line birthday greeting on the front flyleaf. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book covers the period of the gold boom: the gold escorts the bushrangers the sly-grog shanties the fights and feuds and show its social and political effects on a growing nation. In the series Pageant of Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023211 ISBN : 0851798624 9780851798622
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Centenary Booklet Sub Committee
Clermont State School 1867-1967 Centenary Souvenir
Rockhampton: Printed By The City Printing Works 112 pages illustrated with b/w photos. There is a damp stain affecting the first few pages as well as the lower part of the pages in the latter part of the book.Pictorial card covers. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo. Printed By The City Printing Works Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023187
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Melville Robert text. Paintings by Sidney Nolan
The Legend of Ned Kelly: Australia's Outlaw Hero
New York: The Viking Press 1964. Introduction by Alan Moorehead. 60 pages 27 color plates some double-page. Prev owner's name in biro and erasure mark by the upper corner of the front flyleaf. Blue cloth boards in slightly soiled dust-jacket. The paintings together with the text and Introduction produce a fascinating picture of a wild Australia of the 19th century. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. The Viking Press Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 023247
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Hart C. W. M. & Pilling Arnold R
The Tiwi of Northern Australia. Case Studies in Anthropology.
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. 1960. ix 118pp bibliography maps bw ills. Or pictorial card covers. Covers slightly rubbed. A anthropological study of the Tiwi aboriginals of Northern Australia incluiding chapters on Tiwi marriahge; Life in the Bush; Prestige and Influence System; Collective Life; Friend and Foe; and the Tiwi Today. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. Sml 4to. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 023293
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Adcock Neville
A History of 309 Radar Station
Sydney: Neville Adcock 1999. 56pp appendix bw ills. Or card covers. Ex-library with usual stamps barcode labels etc inc cancel stamp covered in clear contact plastic. Slim but scarce Australian unit history of the 309 RAR Radar Station from its inception in 1942 to the end of WWII. Includes Darwin Goulburn Island Morotai and Tarakan. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. Neville Adcock Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022555 ISBN : 0646377647 9780646377643
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Fox Terry
Mumbulla - Spiritual - Contact
Canberra: Australian National University 1980. Unpaginated approx 36pp bw photographs most full page. Or card covers with plastic spiral binding. Top 2 binding holes torn minor edge wear. Measures approx 44 x 35cm. Printed on card pages with foreword and final text page on tissue. Photographs and captions relating to Mumbulla Mountain on Australia's south coast near Bega and the Yuin aboriginal people to which it is sacred. Foreword by tribal elder. Prepared for Dept of Prehistory at Australian National University. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Illus. by Stacey Wesley photographer. Elephant Folio. Australian National University Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022557
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Winn John Keeble
Into the Golden West. A Selection of Drawings By Rex Backhaus-Smith Featuring the Old Gold Towns of New South Wales' Central golden West Gulgong Hargraves Hill End Sofala
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications 1979. 44pp num bw & col ills. Or brown clothin jacket. Edges of boards a bit silverfished and some fading to left side of jacket gift note on front free endpaper. Limited edition of 1000 copies this #314 signed by both artist and author on title page. Presents several towns in New South Wales central Golden West including Gulgong Hargraves Hill End and Sofala. . Signed by Author & Illustrator. Signed First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Backhaus-Smith Rex. Oblong 4to. Boolarong Publications Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022672 ISBN : 090817506x 9780908175062
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Sprod George
Bamboo Round My Shoulder. Changi: The LIghter Side
Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press 1981. 68 pages unpaginated section 20 pp of the author's Prisoner of War journals Smoke-oh. There is a short tear from the lower edge of pp 7-12. Illustrated light card clovers edge-worn. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to. Kangaroo Press Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022688 ISBN : 0949924024 9780949924025
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Adams Tony
Masters of the Game: Coaches Who Shaped Rugby League
Sydney: Ironbark 1996. Foreword by Terry Fearnley. xv 314 pages 16 pages of b/w photos. Paperback. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Ironbark Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022711 ISBN : 0330358537 9780330358538
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Mack George editor
Handbook of Queensland. Prepared for the Use of Members of the Association on the Occasion of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting Held in Brisbane May1951
Brisbane: Australian And New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Handbook Committee 1951. 188 pages b/w photos maps. There is some silverfish damage to the surface of the title page and to p15; the map on page 185 has been nibbled with loss only of the border and the last few letters of a coastal town. Decorated wrappers foxed and slightly soiled with a creased lower front corner. Papers on Queensland's physiography goelogy the vegetation of south-eastern Queensland fauna Aborigines history population education soils agriculture sugar pastoral industries forests mineral resources coal engineering water conservation and electrical power and its distribution. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. Australian And New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Handbook Committee Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022699
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Holden Philip
The Golden Years of Hunting in New Zealand
Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton 1983. 345 pages illustrated throughout with b/w photos bibliography. There is a spot on each of the fore- and lower-edges. Papered boards in dust-jacket. Every kind of hunting is covered in this book from the humble rabbiting which provided a living to the poor through to gentlemen's stalking expeditions in search of the noble stag's head. Goats red and fallow deer chamois samba and wapiti all feature in the book. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022683 ISBN : 0340338725 9780340338728
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Smee C J compiled by
First Fleet Families of Australia Containing Genealogical Details of Four Hundred & Fifty Six First Fleeters Their Children & Grandchildren
Sydney: The Author 1988. Unpaginated. Black cloth boards flecked/silverfished by the fore-edge of the front board at the spine head and in a section by the lower edge of the rear board gilt titles on the front board and on the spine. Internally a Very Good clean and tight copy. Following the introduction the book's sections cover a list of the First Fleet families; the families; First Fleet spouse supplement other spouse supplement; son & daughter-in-law index; other marriages; other deaths; bibliography; and family associations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. The Author Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022681 ISBN : 0949345075 9780949345073
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Davenport Len
Sandshoe Kadaicha
No Place: Davells 1982. ix 208 pages. SIGNED by the author on the half title. Paperback rubbed at the edges and with light creasing to the front cover with wrap-around illustration. Adventure and risk in the deserts of Central Australia as a couple attempt to trace a sacred Aboriginal ceremonial stone and recover it for a South Australian museum. Signed by Author. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. Davells Paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 022800 ISBN : 0959594205 9780959594201
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Pryor Dennis
Focus on Milton Moon. Artists in Queensland
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press 1967. 64 pages illustrated throughout in b/w with some colour. End-papers tanned. Prev owner's name by the upper edge of the front paste-down. Decorative papered boards in soiled rubbed and edge-worn dust-jacket. In the series Artists in Queensland the book offers an intimate view of Milton Moon artist-potter. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Good. 8vo. University of Queensland Press Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 022837
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