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19828vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps in the text and coloured endpaper maps; red boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, , uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.173.
19578vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, headpieces and full-page illustrations in the text; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.
19478vo., Second Australian Edition, with a frontispiece, 16 plates on 11 and a double map in red on blue stock; handsomely bound in red full morocco, backs gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on title. Daisy Bates's classic work was first published by Murray in 1938; with a first Australian edition following in 1944.
19998vo., First Edition, with several illustrations in the text, front free endpaper creased; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19698vo., First Edition, with 21 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lambe (1900-1960) began his career as a midshipman in 1917 and rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. His WWII service included command of Dunedin, several staff appointments (lastly as Director of Planning) and finally a year is command of Illustrious, principally in the Pacific. Law, 0709; see Heathcote, pp.149-150.
19088vo., with numerous plates and maps, wanting front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, clean copy. Scarce
18578vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.
19884to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the scarcest titles in Conway's splendid 'Anatomy of the Ship' series.
19608vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 11 plates on 6, 6 maps in the text and endpaper maps, neat signature on half-title; blue cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Classic early account with valuable chronology of the battle. Published simultaneously with the US edition. Enser, p.274.
19028vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 6 large folding charts (one coloured in outline; several marginal tears neatly repaired); original red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Very scarce.
19522 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes, several illustrations in the text and 2 maps (one double-page) on green stock; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides framed in gilt, backs gilt with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, white blocking from original upper boards preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Bright set of Grimble's classic travel-autobiography set in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Central Pacific
19848vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Barbara Walton
19648vo., First Edition, with a map as frontispiece, 11 plates on 4 and tables in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
20068vo., Second Edition, with plates and maps in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harrowing accounts of atrocities in Japanese captivity from different theatres of the Pacific. First published in 1994.
19778vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author was a young nurse fighting the Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
1997Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous portraits and photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT INNER WRAPPER. Privately compiled and printed summary of the twelve destroyers of the Allen M. Sumner class, all completed as light minelayers during 1944. The author served on Thomas E Fraser (DM-24), attached to Mine Division Seven and present at Okinawa and Iwo Jima; her war service is described in some detail. The other eleven vessels comprised Smith, Shannon, Bauer, Adams, Tolman, Wiley, Shea, Ditter, Lindsey, Gwin and Ward; their war service is given in summary with pictures. Many useful photographs (including some striking shots of war damage). All twelve vessels survived WWII. Scarce
19988vo., Second Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, many maps and plans in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Substantially revised and enlarged version of the original edition of 1982 which was never reissued. A LOVELY COPY OF THE BEST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT.
19958vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
20028vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19908vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 12, and 3 full-page maps and a double-page map in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first full and detailed account, and now quite scarce.
19708vo., First UK Edition, with photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Detailed account of the P-40 Curtiss Warhawk and its operations in WWII. Enser, p.171
19578vo., First English Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by John Robinson. First appearance in English of Ooka's most famous novel Nobi (1951), widely regarded as one of the most important novels of the post-war period and now a modern classic. Based on the author's own experiences in the Phillippines, it tells the harrowing story of a lone Japanese soldier seeking to escape the island of Leyte after the conflict. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
20018vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 18 plates on 8, several maps and charts, and a full-page diagram in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Albeit fifty years on, a well-written and dramatic account of Hezlet's command of Trenchant, including the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Ashigara (the largest enemy warship sunk by a British submarine in WWII). Includes a roster of the ships' company 1943-45.
20018vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
18968vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 3 plates and double-page coloured map in the text, wanting front free endpaper; grey pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red, white and black, gilt back, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Juvenile novel based on the disappearance of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. VERY SCARCE. Muir, 2438, McLaren, 11415
