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| *a4046 Penoyre, John, ARIBA and Ryan, Michael, ARIBA |
| The Observer's Book of Architecture Describing and Indexing The Development of Building in Britain from Saxon times to the present day with over 250 illustrations, many of which are coloured. |
| (London: Warne: 1958) Revised Edition. No. 13 in The Observer's Pocket Series. Bds pp. 224 (145 x 92 mm) Fine in good dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4072 Summerson, John |
| Georgian London |
| (London: Barrie and Jenkins: 1978) Third Edition. Bds pp. 349. Illust. Maps. Appendix 1: Existing Georgian Buildings in the City and Former County of London. Appendix 2: Books. Index. Title first published by Pleiades Books 1945; Second revised edition by B and J 1970. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4021 Dalladay, Arthur J, A. Inst.P, FRPS, FIBP (Edited by) |
| The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographers' Daily Companion with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and the Photographic Annual - 1958 |
| (London: Harry Greenwood: 1958) Ninety-ninth year of publication. Dec. cl. pp. ii, 616, ii. Illustrated, including 32 Gravure Pictures. An Ownership Inscription About fine |
| $40 |
| *a3914 Bunny, Rupert |
| The Art of Rupert Bunny |
| (Sydney: Ure Smith: n.d.) (1948) Gilt dec. cl. pp. 75 (330 x 253 mm) Appreciation by Clive Turnbull. Biographical Sketch by Tristan Buesst. With 10 Colour and 32 Monochrome Plates and reproduction of a Pencil Drawing and a Pen Drawing. List of Works and Owners. Edition of 1200 copies. Lower edge uncut. Strip cut from head of free front endpaper o/w fine or thereabouts. |
| $150 |
| *a3993 Ede, HS |
| Savage Messiah |
| (London: Heinemann: May 1931) New Impression (first was April 1931). Spine of dust-jacket says 'First Cheap Edition'. Cl. pp. xii, 272. Illust. Henri Gaudier and Sophie Suzanne Brzeska. Illust. Fore and lower edges uncut. Fine in dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4084 Levi, Beniamino |
| The Dali Universe |
| (Inter Art Resources: 2000) Pict. wrs pp. 147 (260 x 240 mm) Richly illustrated. Printed in Italy. Text and documentation Editors: Kathryn Tomasetti and Antonia Spanos. Of the seven articles, four by Beniamino Levi who was Curator of the exhibition 'The Dali Universe' Organised by The Stratton Foundation in association with The Times; other articles by Enric Sabater, Ralf Michler and Albert Field. Biography. Index. Fine |
| $30 |
| *a4085 Blake, William (Illustrated by) |
| The Book of Job |
| (NY: Paddington Press Ltd/Two Continents Publishing Group: 1976) First publication of this Paddington Masterpieces of the Illustrated Book series edition. Pict. wrs pp. 52 (text) and 44 (the illustrations) (277 x 212 mm). 'This edition contains all twenty-two of the illustrations...and a new introduction' (by Michael Marqusee). Near fine |
| $25 |
| *a4088 Rubin, William |
| Anthony Caro |
| (London: Thames and Hudson: 1975) First British Edition Cl. pp. 196 (285 x 235 mm) Illust. Notes. Chronology. List of Exhibitions. Bibliography This book was originally published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of Anthony Caro's work presented by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston An owner's name. About fine in good dust-jacket which has a couple of small tears. |
| $40 |
| *a4089 Stubbs, Dacre |
| Prehistoric Art of Australia |
| (South Melbourne: Macmillan: 1974) First Edition Bds pp. 112 (297 x 247 mm) Illust. Bibliography Index. An owner's name. V.g. in fair worn dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4090 Bolger, Doreen; Simpson, Marc and Wilmerding, John (Edited by) |
| William M. Harnett |
| (NY: Published by Amon Carter Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Harry N. Abrams, Inc, NY: 1992) First Edition Pict. wrs pp. xvi, 334 (292 x 220 mm) Illust. Chronology. Selected Bibliography Index. 'This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition William M. Harnett...' Fine |
| $30 |
| *a4092 Wilson, Eva |
| Ancient Egyptian Designs for Artists and Craftspeople |
| (NY: Dover Publications: 1987) This Dover edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published as a volume in the 'British Museum Pattern Books' series in 1986 under the title 'Ancient Egyptian Designs'. Pict. wrs pp. 128 (285 x 212 mm) With 437 Illustrations. Notes on the Designs. Further Reading. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. V.g. |
| $30 |
| *a4095 Clark, Jane and Whitelaw, Bridget |
| Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond |
| (Published by the International Cultural Corporation of Australia in 1985: This Revised Edition, printed by Griffin Press Limited, issued in 1986) Pict. wrs pp. 202 (296 x 223 mm) Illust. Maps. Biographies of the Artists. Bibliography Index. Substantial catalogue of important exhibition of Australian art covering its 'most celebrated period' ie from 1885 until shortly before the turn of the century (dominated by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and Fred McCubbin) An owner's name. About fine |
| $30 |
| *a4097 Holm, Bill and Reid William |
| Form and Freedom: A Dialogue on Northwest Coast Indian Art |
| (Houston, Texas: Institute for the Arts, Rice University: 1975) First Edition Wrs pp. 263 (226 x 216 mm) The Dialogue is between Bill Holm and William Reid. Concludes with Notes, Meaurements, Conservation Reports, Explanatory Design Diagram. Well illustrated. An owner's name. Externally used, internally v.g. |
| $25 |
| *a4106 Wilson, JLJ (Editor) |
| Black and White Art in Australia |
| (Current Affairs Bulletin Vol 33, No 3, December 23, 1963) Pict. wrs pp. 16 ie 33-48 in the series (232 x 146 mm) Illust. Dyson, Lindsay, Low, Lambert, Souter, etc. Fine or near. |
| $25 |
| *a3905 Williams, Bruce |
| The Socialist Order and Freedom |
| (Melbourne: Reed and Harris: 1943) First Edition Dec. wrs pp. xii, 72. Introduction by Professor KS Isles. Printed at the Hassell Press, Adelaide. An (owner's name) snipped from head of title-page. Scattered underlining and annotations, some in biro, some in pencil, throughout. Good copy. |
| $30 |
| *a3941 Baker, Sidney J |
| The Drum: Australian Character and Slang |
| (Sydney: Currawong: 1959) First Edition Bds pp. x, 158. Part Two is 'Australian Slang Dictionary' pp. 81-158. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3943 Greenwood, Gordon, Lecturer in History, University of Sydney |
| Early American-Australian Relations from the arrival of the Spaniards in America to the close of 1830 |
| (Melbourne University Press: 1944) First Edition Cl. pp. x, 184. Illust. Folding Table of Shipping Returns: North American Trade. Head and Foot of spine rubbed or nicked. V.g. |
| $25 |
| *a3944 Bottomley, Gillian |
| After the Odyssey: A Study of Greek Australians |
| (University of Queensland Press: 1979) First Edition Bds pp. x, 208. Tables and Figures. Bibliography Index. Fine in about fine dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3945 Meredith, John and Anderson, Hugh |
| Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women Who Sang Them |
| (Sydney: Ure Smith: 1979) Third Impression. Bds pp. 300. Illust. Comparative Source Books. Index of First Lines, Index of Titles. Index of Contributors. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3946 Coleman, Verna |
| Her Unknown Brilliant Career: Miles Franklin in America |
| (London: Angus and Robertson: 1981) First Edition Bds pp. x, 219. Illust. Notes. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3981 no author |
| The Chronicle Annual 1938 |
| (Adelaide: Printed and published by Advertiser Newspapers Limited) Pict. wrs plus pp. 92 (325 x 250 mm) Profusely illustrated. Front cover by Elizabeth Skottowe. V.g. |
| $30 |
| *a3983 no author |
| The Western Mail Christmas 1940 |
| (Perth, WA: Western Australian Newspapers: November 1940) Pict. wrs plus pp. 88 (367 x 260 mm) Profusely illustrated. V.g. |
| $40 |
| *a3985 no author |
| The Western Mail Annual 1949 |
| (Perth, WA: Western Australian Newspapers: Christmas 1949) Pict. wrs plus pp. 92 (367 x 248 mm) Profusely illustrated. Near fine |
| $40 |
| *a3989 no author |
| The Western Mail Annual 1954 |
| (Perth, WA) Pict. wrs plus pp. 80 (367 x 245 mm) Profusely illustrated. About fine |
| $40 |
| *a4012 Cannon, Michael |
| Series Australia in the Victorian Age: Who's Master? Who's Man?; Life in the Country; Life in the Cities |
| (Melbourne: Nelson: 1974 Reprint; 1974 Reprint; 1975 First Edition) pict. bds pp. 304; 320; 320. All 266 x 190 mm. Illust. Notes, Bibliography and Index to each volume. Stain to top edge of Volume 2, o/w fine in fine dust-jackets. |
| $60 |
| *a4022 Elliott, Joseph |
| Our Home in Australia: A Description of Cottage Life in 1860 |
| (Sydney: The Flannel Flower Press: 1984) First Edition Bds pp. 112 (257 x 185 mm) Illust. Introduction and architectural commentary by Stefan Pikusa. Foreword by Brian Elliott. References. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4030 Carter, Jeff |
| People of the Inland |
| (Adelaide: Rigby: 1966) First Edition Bds pp. viii, 295. Illust. Near fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4040 Kettle, Ellen, MBE |
| Gone Bush |
| (Sydney: FP Leonard: October 1967) First Edition Bds pp. viii, 242. Illust. Account of her fourteen years' work among Northern Territory aborigines. Edges foxed o/w fine in dust-jacket which is rubbed at head of its spine and has a repair at upper margin of front panel but is o/w v.g. |
| $30 |
| *a4045 Edwards, Robert (Curator of Anthropology, South Australian Museum |
| Aboriginal Bark Canoes of the Murray Valley |
| (Adelaide: Published for the SA Museum by Rigby: 1972) First Edition Pict. bds pp. 80 (240 x 184 mm) Illust. Map. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4049 Serventy, Vincent |
| Dryandra: The story of an Australian Forest |
| (Sydney: Reed: 1970) First Edition Cl. pp. 207 (247 x 155 mm) Illust. Maps on endpapers. Index. V.g. in like dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a4065 James, GF (Edited by) |
| A Homestead History being the Reminiscences and Letters of Alfred Joyce of Plaistow and Norwood, Port Phillip 1843 to 1864 |
| (Melbourne: OUP: Third edition, revised and enlarged, 1969) Pict. wrs pp. 206. Illust. Map. Maps on endpapers. Index. Fine |
| $30 |
| *a4105 Jensen, Elfrida |
| Barossan Foundations |
| (Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia: Nuriootpa War Memorial Community Centre Committee Inc: 1969) First impression. Pict. wrs pp. vi, 236. Illust. Maps. History of the establishment of SA's famous wine area (German settlers, predominantly). Fine copy of a book which all too readily is inclined to fall apart: this copy seems to have been unread, but the binding as always is fragile. |
| $30 |
| *a4153 Ussher, Kathleen |
| Hail Victoria! |
| (London: HS: 1934) First Edition Cl. pp. 262. Illust. Biographies of Victorian notables from the early days (Henty, Batman, etc) onwards. An owner's name. Near fine |
| $30 |
| *a4156 Durack, Mary |
| Kings in Grass Castles |
| (London: Constable/Australia: Hutchinson: 1985) New Edition (Illustrated Edition). Bds pp. 445 (240 x 168 x about 38 mm thick). Illust. Maps and tables including Family Tree. Maps on endpapers. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3942 Hartnett, Sir Laurence |
| Big Wheels and Little Wheels |
| (Hawthorn, Victoria: Gold Star Publications Australia: 1973) First publication of this edition - 'The 1964 edition was told to John Veitch. In the current edition Nr. Veitch's work is edited and new chapters written in conjunction with William S. Parsons'. Bds. pp. x, 278. Illust. Important re emergence of the Holden motor. This is a copy of the casebound issue. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a3915 Grey, CG |
| Bombers |
| (London: Faber and Faber: December 1941) First Edition Cl. pp. xx, 252. Illust. By the Author of 'British Fighter Planes'. Includes substantial treatment of World War One bombing, Spanish Civil War and the period between the two World wars generally, and 'Bombing in This War' ie World War Two. Near fine |
| $60 |
| *a3916 Spaight, JM, CBE |
| The Sky's the Limit: A Study of British Air Power |
| (London: HS: August, 1940) First Edition Cl. pp. 160. Illust. An Ownership Inscription Near fine |
| $40 |
| *a3917 Grey, CG |
| British Fighter Planes |
| (London: Faber and Faber: May 1941) First Edition Cl. pp. xvi, 200. Illust. A nick and flecking to spine o/w near fine. |
| $50 |
| *a3918 Cooke, David C |
| War Wings: Fighting Planes of the American and British Air Forces |
| (NY: Robert M. McBride: Copyright 1941) (First Edition) Dec. cl. pp. 202 (243 x 162 mm) Illust. Pursuits and Fighters; Light and Medium Bombers; Heavy Bombers; Flying Boats and Seaplanes; Training Planes; Miscellaneous Types; American Planes in the RAF With a Foreword by Al Williams. Near fine |
| $80 |
| *a3919 Cooper, HJ and Thetford, OG (Compiled by) |
| Aircraft of the Fighting Powers (Volume III) |
| Leicester: Harborough Publishing Company: 1942) First impression of this volume. Cl. pp. xlv including many advertisements, 80 (282 x 218 mm) plus numerous plates including folding plates. Other illustrations in the text. Spine lightly sunned; good copy. |
| $120 |
| *a3904 Herbert, Xavier |
| Disturbing Element |
| (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 1963) First British Edition Bds pp. viii, 271. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3922 Lucas, Robert |
| Frieda Lawrence: The Story of Frieda von Richthofen and DH Lawrence. |
| (NY: The Viking Press: 1973) First Edition of this English translation from the German by Geoffrey Skelton. Cl. pp. xii, 308. Illust. Notes. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3926 Coupland, Sir Reginald, Fellow of All Souls College, Beit Prefessor of Colonial History in the University of Oxford |
| Wilberforce |
| (London: Collins: 1945) Second Edition. Cl. pp. 447. Fr. References. Index. Lower edge uncut. Fine in d /j. which is crumpled at head of its spine which is darkened. |
| $30 |
| *a3929 Ayling, Stanley |
| George the Third |
| (NY: Alfred A. Knopf: 1972) First American Edition. Cl. pp. 510. Illust. References. Bibliography Index. Family Tree on endpapers. Fore edge uncut. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3940 Johnson, Edgar |
| Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown |
| (London: Hamish Hamilton: 1970) First Edition In Two Volumes: 1771-1821 and 1821-1832. Gilt dec. cl. pp. xxvi, 759, lxxvii (Notes) and x, 760-1397 including Notes, Bibliography and Index to set at rear of Volume II. Illust. Fine set in like price-clipped dust-jackets. |
| $80 |
| *a3948 McIntyre, Ian |
| The Expense of Glory: A Life of John Reith |
| (London: HarperCollins: 1993) First Edition Bds pp. xvi, 447. Illust. Notes. Index. The founder and first director of the BBC. Gift Inscription on free front endpaper. Near fine in dust-jacket which has a scuff to its front panel but is o/w v.g. |
| $30 |
| *a3953 Petrement, Simone |
| Simone Weil: A Life |
| (London: Mowbrays: 1977) First British Edition Bds pp. xiv, 577. Illust. Notes. Index. Translated from the French by Raymond Rosenthal. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $60 |
| *a3956 Hemmings, FWJ |
| Baudelaire the Damned: A Biography |
| (London: Hamish Hamilton: 1982) First Edition Bds pp. xii, 251. Illust. Notes. Appendix: French texts of poems and fragments quoted in translation. Index. Fine in dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3958 Bowlby, John |
| Charles Darwin: A New Life |
| (NY: WW Norton: 1990) (First Edition?) Pict. wrs pp. xiv, 513. Illust. Maps. Brief Chronology. Notes. Bibliography Who's Who. Index. Appendix: Darwin's ill-health in the light of current research. Fine |
| $30 |
| *a3959 Magarshack, David |
| Turgenev: A Life |
| (London: Faber and Faber: 1954) First Edition Cl. pp. 328. Illust. Bibliography Index. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3960 Bate, Walter Jackson |
| John Keats |
| (Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 1963) First Edition Cl. pp. xx, 732. Illust. Appendices: Family Origins; The Length of Keats's Apprenticeship; The Keats Children's Inheritance. Index. Maps. Fine or thereabouts in price-clipped dust-jacket which has a clean tear but is o/w good. |
| $35 |
| *a3961 Karl, Frederick R |
| Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives - A Biography |
| (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1979) First Edition Cl. pp. xvi, 1008. Illust. Notes. Bibliography Appendix: Editions of Conrad. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $45 |
| *a3962 Byron, William |
| Cervantes: A Biography |
| (London: Cassell: 1979) First British Edition Bds pp. xiv, 583. Illust. Notes. Bibliography Index. Book is slightly warped; o/w fine in like dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a3963 Troyat, Henri |
| Pushkin |
| (NY: Minerva Press: 1975) First Minerva edition. Translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux. Wrs pp. xvi, 656. Bibliography Notes. Index. Biography Near fine |
| $25 |
| *a3966 Sinclair, David |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
| (London: Dent: 1977) First Edition Bds pp. 272. Illust. A Note on Sources. Select Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3967 Prater, Donald |
| Thomas Mann: A Life |
| (Oxford: OUP: 1995) First Edition Bds pp. xviii, 554. Illust. Family Tree. Select Bibliography Index of Works. General Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3968 Johnson, Edgar |
| Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph |
| (London: Allen Lane: 1977) First publication of this Revised and Abridged edition. Cl. backed bds pp. iv, 601. Illust. Index. 'Revised in One Volume from Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph'. Fine in dust-jacket which is discoloured on and around its spine from being sunned but is o/w also fine. |
| $25 |
| *a3969 Gill, Stephen |
| William Wordsworth: A Life |
| (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1989) First Edition Cl. pp. xx, 525. Illust. Notes. Select Bibliography Map. Skeletal Family Tree of William Wordsworth. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3971 Ehrman, John |
| The Younger Pitt: The Years of Acclaim |
| (NY: EP Dutton: 1969) First US Edition. Cl. pp. xvi, 710. Illust. Note on Pitt's Papers. Notes on Sources. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3972 Gittings, Robert |
| John Keats |
| (London: Heinemann: 1968) First Edition Cl. pp. xvi, 469. Illust. Appendices: The Jennings and Sweetinburgh Families; Keats's Father; Keats and Venereal Disease; Keats's use of Bawdy. Index. Maps on endpapers. A scuff on free front endpaper where perhaps a bookplate has been removed o/w fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3973 Elwin, Malcolm |
| Lord Byron's Wife |
| (London: John Murray: 1974) Re-issue. Cl. pp. 556. Illust. Geneaological Tables. Notes on Sources. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3975 Dunlop, Ian |
| Louis XIV |
| (London: Chatto and Windus: 1999) First Edition Bds pp. xxii, 488. Illust. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3976 Karl, Frederick R |
| William Faulkner: American Writer - A Biography |
| (London: Faber and Faber: 1989) First British Edition Cl. backed bds pp. xviii, 1133. Illust. Falkner and Oldham Family Trees. Selected Bibliography Chronology. Notes. Index. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3977 Cooper, Philip |
| The Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell |
| (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press: 1970) First Edition Bds pp. x, 170. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3978 Hamilton, Ian |
| Robert Lowell: A Biography |
| (NY: Random House: 1982) First Edition Cl. pp. xii, 529. Illust. Notes. Index. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3979 Bradbrook, MC, Professor Emerita of English, Cambridge University, Fellow of Girton College |
| John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist |
| (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1980) First Edition Bds pp. xiv, 218. Map of Webster's Neighbourhood. Tables of Dates. Notes. Bibliography Webster's Family Tree. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a3994 Mazlish, Bruce |
| James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century |
| (London: Hutchinson: 1975) (First British Edition) Cl. pp. xii, 484. Illust. Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. Near or about fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4000 Kaplan, Justin |
| Walt Whitman: A Life |
| (NY: Simon and Schuster: 1980) First Edition Cl. backed boards pp. 432. Illust. Notes. Index. A Limited Edition of this book had been printed privately. A bookseller's mark on lower edge o/w fine in price-clipped dust-jacket which has one clean tear but is also o/w fine. |
| $25 |
| *a4001 Stock, Noel |
| The Life of Ezra Pound |
| (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1970) First Edition Cl. pp. xviii, 472. Illust. Index. About fine in price-clipped dust-jacket which has a few clean tears but is o/w v.g. |
| $25 |
| *a4003 Hastings, Selina |
| Evelyn Waugh: A Biography |
| (Boston: Houghton Mifflin: 1994) First Edition Cl. backed bds pp. xii, 724. Illust. Source Notes. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a4004 Thomas, Donald |
| Robert Browning: A life within lilfe |
| (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1982) First Edition Bds pp. xiv, 334. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4005 O'Brien, Justin |
| Portrait of Andre Gide: A Critical Biography |
| (London: Secker and Warburg: 1953) First British Edition Cl. pp. xiv, 390 and xiv (ie Index). Illust. References. The Works of Andre Gide. Index. About fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4014 Friedenthal, Richard |
| Luther |
| (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1970) First British Edition (Translated from the German by John Nowell). Bds pp. viii, 566. Illust. Chronology. Sources. Index. Maps on endpapers. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4057 Lysaght, SR |
| My Tower in Desmond |
| (London: Macmillan: 1925) First Edition Dec. cl. pp. viii, 536. Irish author's autobiography including 'Gun-running', 'From Gallipoli to Ballyquin', 'The East Rebellion' etc. V.g. |
| $40 |
| *a4104 Dutton, Geoffrey |
| Founder of a City: The Life of Colonel William Light, First Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: Founder of Adelaide 1786-1839 |
| (Melbourne: FW Cheshire: 1960) First Edition Cl. pp. xvi, 323. Illust. Maps on endpapers. Notes. Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4139 Thomas, M Halsey (Newly Edited by, from the Manusscript at the Massachusetts Historical Society) |
| The Diary of Samuel Sewall 1674-1729 |
| (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1973) First Printing. In Two Volumes. Pict. cl. pp. xxxviii, 612 and xiv, 613-1254 (both matching, 240 x 159 mm). Both volumes illustrated. Index to set at rear of Volume II. Fine set in the original slipcase. |
| $40 |
| *a4146 Monroe, Elizabeth |
| Philby of Arabia |
| (NY: Pitman Publishing Corp) Copyright The Author 1973. Printed in Great Britain. Presumably the first American edition (if not the first edition altogether). Cl. pp. 332. Illust. Maps drawn by KC Jordan, FRGS References. Bibliography Index. Smudge mark to fixed rear endpaper o/w fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3900 Dawson, Raymond (Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford) |
| Imperial China |
| (London: Hutchinson: 1972) First Edition Bds pp. x, 326. Illust. Maps. Chronological table. Index. The History of Human Society series. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4155 David, Elizabeth |
| English Bread and Yeast Cookery |
| (London: Book Club Associates: This edition published 1978) Gilt dec. bds pp. xxii, 591. Illust. by Wendy Jones. Bibliography and Further Reading List. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4158 Boeglin, CH |
| Sundaes: Ices and Cream Sodas - How to Make Them |
| (London: Herbert Jenkins: 1927) First Printing. Dec. bds pp. 119 and 7 p.a. Index. Fine |
| $70 |
| *a4159 no author |
| The Star Cookery Book: Specially Selected Prize Cookery Recipes - Reprinted from The Star |
| (London: 'The Star' Publications Department: n.d.) 'In this further revised and enlarged edition of the 'The Star' Cookery Book an extensive range of specially selected Prize Recipes is contained.' Suggest 1930s. Price 6d. Pict. wrs pp. 128 including advertisements (187 x 124 mm) Some moderate external signs of wear; text clean and v.g. apart from some scattered foxing. |
| $25 |
| *a3901 Alden, John R (James B. Duke Professor of History, Duke University, N. Carolina, USA) |
| Pioneer America |
| (London: Hutchinson: 1966) First Edition Cl. pp. xxx, 310 and x (Index) and ii. Illust. Maps. Essay upon Authorities. Index. The History of Human Society series. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3930 Jusserand, JJ |
| English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages |
| (London: Benn: 1950) Fourth Edition (sixteenth impression). Cl. pp. 315. Illust. Notes. Index. Translated from the French by Lucy Toulmin Smith. About fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3980 Trotsky, Leon |
| 1905 |
| (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press: 1972) First British Edition Cl. pp. xxii, 488. Index. Translated by Anya Bostock. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4053 Read, Jan |
| The Moors in Spain and Portugal |
| (London: Faber and Faber: 1974) First Edition Cl. pp. 268. Illust. Maps. Comparative Chronology. Select Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4054 Hay, Ian |
| Peaceful Invasion |
| (London: HS: October, 1946) First Edition Cl. pp. 238. 'This is the story of the invasion and occupation of our country, not by our enemies but by our friends'. About fine in good price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4059 Garratt, GT (Edited by) |
| The Legacy of India |
| (Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1937) First Edition Gilt pict. cl. pp. xviii, 428. Illust. Folding Map showing trade routes from India to the Levant. Index. The Legacy Series. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $90 |
| *a4060 Arnold, The Late Sir Thomas, CIE, FBA, LittD and Guillaume, Alfred (Formerly Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Durham) (Edited by) |
| The Legacy of Islam |
| (London: OUP: 1943) Reprint. Gilt pict. cl. pp. xvi,416. Illust. Index. The Legacy Series. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4061 Crump, CG and Jacob, EF (Edited by) |
| The Legacy of the Middle Ages |
| (Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1943) Reprint of the 1932 issue which was 'with corrections'. Gilt pict. cl. pp. xii, 550. Illust. Index. The Legacy Series. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4062 Glanville, SRK (Edited by) |
| The Legacy of Egypt |
| (Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1942) First Edition Cl. pp. xx, 424. Illust. Index. The Legacy Series. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4080 Douglas, David C (Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Bristol) |
| William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England |
| (London: Methuen: 1969) First publication of this University Paperback series edition - UP310. Pict. wrs pp. xii, 476. Maps. Select chart pedigrees. Select Bibliography Schedule of selected dates. Index. Fine |
| $30 |
| *a3902 Lambert, Eric |
| Kelly |
| (London: Muller: 1964) First Edition Bds pp. 250 Dust-jacket designed by David Fawcett. An owner's bookplate and a Gift Inscription on free front endpaper. Near fine copy. Dust-jacket is partly dampstained on its back panel and is price-clipped o/w v.g. (the front panel particularly bright). |
| $25 |
| *a3910 Green, HM |
| A History of Australian Literature: Pure and Applied - A critical review of all forms of literature produced in Australia from the first books published after the arrival of the First Fleet until 1950, with short accounts of later publications up to 1960 |
| (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: Reprinted, with corrections, 1962) In Two Volumes. Cl. pp. xxx, 842 and viii, 843-1469. Index at rear of Volume II. Fine in like dust-jackets. |
| $80 |
| *a3921 Aiken, Conrad (Selected by) |
| Modern American Poetry |
| (NY: The Modern Library: n.d.) Intoduction (actually Preface) by Aiken 'Copyright 1927'. (First Edition?) Dec. cl. pp. xiv, v, 367. From Emily Dickinson to Maxwell Bodenheim. Fine in dust-jacket which has one chip and is splitting at rear flap but is o/w v.g. |
| $30 |
| *a3923 Chambers, EK |
| Matthew Arnold: A Study |
| (Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1947) First Edition Cl. pp. viii, 144. The Arnold Pedigree (genealogical tables). Classified Index. Lower edge uncut. Fine in dust-jacket whose spine is darkened from being sunned o/w itself is fine. |
| $40 |
| *a3924 Yarmolinsky, Avrahm (Selected and edited by) |
| Letters of Anton Chekhov |
| (NY: The Viking Press: 1973) First Edition Cl. pp. xxii, 490. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3925 Tillyard, EMW, LittD, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge |
| The Epic Strain in the English Novel |
| (London: Chatto and Windus: 1958) First Edition Cl. pp. 208. Map. Index. Fine in dust-jacket whose spine is lightly sunned o/w itself fine. |
| $40 |
| *a3935 Grierson, Herbert JC and Smith, JC |
| A Critical History of English Poetry |
| (London: Chatto and Windus: 1944) First Edition Cl. pp. viii, 528. Index. Top edge tinted, lower edge uncut. Fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a3937 Mendilow, AA |
| Time and the Novel |
| (London: Peter Nevill: 1952) First Edition Cl. pp. x, 245. Index. Introduction by Prof. J. Issaacs. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is a little darkened from being sunned and also has a few stains but is o/w fine. |
| $25 |
| *a3949 Juvenal |
| Woman: A Satire |
| (London: The Casanova Society: n.d.) Cl. backed bards pp. xliv, 132 (265 x 200 mm) Translated into English verse from the Latin of Juvenal. With an Introduction by FA Wright, Classical Department, Birbeck College and Eight Collotype Illustrations by RB Brook-Greaves. This edition is limited to 500 copies on deckle-edged antique laid paper manufactured by Zephyr, of which 465 are for sale in England and the United States. This copy is number ... (duly numbered '64' in ink by hand). All edges uncut. Near fine |
| $75 |
| *a3954 Marceau, Felicien |
| Balzac and his World |
| (London: WH Allen: 1967) First British Edition Translated from the French by Derek Coltman. Bds pp. xiv, 549. Index of Characters Occurring in 'La Comedie Humaine'. Fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3964 Stern, JP (Edited by) |
| The World of Franz Kafka |
| (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1980) Cl. pp. viii, 263. Illust. List (with brief notes) of Contributors. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3965 Thomas, Donald |
| Swinburne: The Poet in his World |
| (NY: OUP: 1979) First American Edition. Cl. pp. viii, 256. Illust. Notes. Select Bibliography Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3991 Lewis, DB Wyndham |
| Francois Villon: A Documented Survey |
| (London: Sheed and Ward: 1945) [First British Edition?] Cl. pp. xxii, 355. Illust. Map. Bibliography Preface by Hilaire Belloc Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3995 Bergin, Thomas C |
| Boccaccio |
| (NY: The Viking Press: 1981) First Edition Cl. pp. viii, 392. Notes. List of Works Cited. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4006 Morley, Edith J (Edited by) |
| Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Writers |
| (London: Dent: First published in this Edition 1938) In Three Volumes. Cl. p. x, 452; iv, 453-822; iv, 823-1136. Frontispiece to each volume. Volume Three contains the Appendices and concludes with an extensive General Index. A sticker at head of front flap of each jacket says 'Cheaper Edition 18/- net the set Three Volumes but it is not clear whose afterthought this was. Top edges tinted. Fine set in dust-jackets; the spine of the jacket of Volume Two has a small piece missing, o/w the jackets are v.g. |
| $75 |
| *a4017 Elliott, Brian (Selected and edited with an Introduction and Bibliography by) |
| The Jindyworobaks |
| (University of Queensland Press: 1979) First Edition Bds pp. lxvi, 330. Glossary. Textual Sources. Portable Australian Authors series. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4024 Hoyle, Fred |
| October the First is Too Late |
| (London: Heinemann: 1966) First Edition Bds pp. vi, 200. Fine or thereabouts in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $60 |
| *a4055 Byrne, Donn |
| Blind Raftery and His Wife Hilaria |
| (London: Sampson Low, Marston: n.d.) (First Edition) Gift Inscription dated 25/5/(19)25. Dec. cl. pp. iv, 124. Fore and lower edges uncut. Spine mildly sunned; o/w v.g. |
| $30 |
| *a4056 Lysaght, SR |
| A Reading of Life |
| (London: Macmillan: 1936) First Edition Cl. pp. vi, 297. Essays including 'Love and Sex', 'Good and Evil', 'Old Age and Death', 'Our Island World' (including Australia, of which he remarks: 'The latest-discovered continents are the least interesting, and there are few parts of the Earth that have so little beauty and romance as Australia'). An Ownership Inscription V.g. |
| $40 |
| *a4079 Hewlett, Maurice |
| Frey and his Wife |
| (London: Ward, Lock: 1916) First Edition Dec. cl. pp. 256. Fr. (by Maurice Greiffenhagen). Novel of Viking adventures. A small Ownership Inscription V.g. |
| $30 |
| *a4141 Canetti, Elias |
| Auto da fe |
| (London: Cape: 1946) First Edition Cl. pp. 464. Novel Translated from the German under the personal supervision of the author by CV Wedgwood. A little (minor) external wear; some foxing mainly to fore edge, half-title leaf and final couple of leaves; a good copy. |
| $45 |
| *a3903 Goldsmith, Frank H |
| Treasure Lies Buried Here |
| (Perth, WA: CH Pitman: 1946) First Edition Cl. pp. 224. Illust. Maps. Concludes with Register of Wrecks, Shipped Disasters and Mishaps off the Coast of Western Australia 1622-1945. References. Lacks free front endpaper o/w v.g. |
| $30 |
| *a4007 Bassett, Marnie |
| Behind the Picture: HMS Rattlesnake's Australia-New Guinea Cruise 1846 to 1850 |
| (Melbourne: OUP: 1966) First Edition Gilt pict. cl. pp. xii, 112. Illust. Maps. Bibliography Index. Maps on endpapers. Folding plate at rear. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4044 Morris, Roger |
| Pacific Sail: Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific |
| (Auckland: David Bateman: 1987) First Edition Bds pp. 192 (220 x 287 mm) Illust. Maps. Glossary. References. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4147 Morey, George |
| The North Sea |
| (London: Muller: 1968) First Edition Bds pp. 285. Illust. Maps. Bibliography Index. An owner's bookplate on fixed front endpaper. Near fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4149 Carter, George Goldsmith |
| Looming Lights |
| (London: Constable: 1945) First Edition Cl. pp. xxii, 167. Fr. ('One of the Lightships'). With an Introduction by Sir Geoffrey Callender, FSA, etc. Director of the National Maritime Museum. An owner's bookplate and a name. V.g. copy |
| $25 |
| *a4138 Allen, Louis |
| Burma: The Longest War 1941-45 |
| (London: Guild Publishing: This edition published 1984 by Book Club Associates) Bds pp. xx, 686 (240 x 160 x about 47 mm thick). Illust. Maps. Appendixes: Casualty Figures; The debate on the Sittang Bridge; British and Japanese units in Burma, 1944. Bibliography Index. Note: the first edition was published also in 1984 by Dent. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a3992 Wagner, Cosima |
| Cosima's Wagner's Diaries |
| (NY: Harcout Brace Jovanovich) In two volumes. Edited and annotated by Martin Grafor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack. Translated and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Skelton. Volume I 1869-1877; Volume II 1878-1883. Cl. pp. 1199 (Illust.; Notes; Index: RW;s Musical Compositions; Index: RW's Writings; General Index) and 1200 (Illust; Notes; Chronology; Index: RW's Musical Compositions; Index: RW's Writings; General Index). English translation copyright 1978, 1977 (Volume I) and 1980 (Volume II). Both 'First edition BCDE'. Bookseller's mark to lower edge of Volume I and to upper edge of Volume II (near spines and not prominently noticeable) o/w fine or thereabouts in dust-jackets. |
| $80 |
| *a3947 Doogue, Ray |
| Hook Line and Sinker |
| (Wellington: Reed: 1967) First Edition Bds pp. 327. Illust. Glosssary of Fishing Terms. Salt-water angling: the book covers 'the whole field of catching sea-fish for sport'. V.g. in fair dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3913 Watson, Alfred ET |
| King Edward VII as a Sportsman |
| (London: Longmans, Green: 1911) First Edition Gilt dec cl. pp. xxx, 381 (228 x 165 about 56 mm thick). With an Introduction and a Chapter on 'Yatching' by Captain the Hon. Sir Seymour Fortescue, CMG, KCVO Contributions by the Marquess of Ripon GCVO, Lord Walsingham, Lord Ribblesdale, and Others. With 1 Photogravure Plate, 10 plates in colour, 12 Rembrandt-gravure Plates, and 79 half-tone Illustrataions (all additional to the pagination). Shooting, Hunting (in the field), The Indian Tour (big game), horse racing including steeplechasing, yachting. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A number of gift and Ownership Inscription on front endpapers. A cancelled old library label on fixed rear endpaper o/w no library insignia (this was probably a privately owned library pre-World War One). Head of spine damaged though gilt lettering is not affected; foot of spine rubbed as are the corners and lower edges of the boards; upper external hinge rubbed, lower external hinge cracked; both inner hinges starting. The first leaf of the Preface has presumably at some stage been detached and trimmed before being replaced. The captioned tissue guards to the coloured plates are all present. The text is generally clean and more or less v.g. |
| $100 |
| *a3931 Lydekker, R., BA, FGS, etc |
| Mammals |
| (London: John F. Shaw: n.d.) Allen's Naturalist's Library series. Gilt dec. cl. pp. xvi, 340. Illust. with 32 attractive coloured plates. Preface by R. Bowdler Sharpe and another by the Author. Index. Note that the title-page is a cancel. About fine |
| $75 |
| *a3950 Edwardes, Tickner |
| A Country Calendar |
| (London: John Lane The Bodley Head: 1928) First Edition Pict. cl. pp. viii, 300 and 4 p.a. Silhouette vignette (apparently a linocut) on title-page. Fore and lower edges uncut. About fine |
| $50 |
| *a4020 Frey, Jim |
| Wild Animals and their Secrets |
| (London: Muller: 1958) First British Edition (Translated from the French 'Les Fauves et Leurs Secrets' by Edward Fitzgerald.) Bds pp. 230. Illust. Circus Animals: sections are 'In the Jungle'; 'Our Caged Partners'; 'Circus and Menagerie'. Includes Tigers, Leopards, Bears, Snakes, Monkeys, Elephants, the Big Cats, 'Performing Seals'. The training and use of animals and wild animals in circuses, films, etc. About fine |
| $40 |
| *a4025 Heinroth, Oskar and Katharina |
| The Birds |
| (London: Faber and Faber: 1959) First publication of this English edition prepared by Michael Cullen (title Copyright by University of Michigan). Cl. pp. 175. Illust. Index. From 'What Is a Bird?' to 'How Does a Bird Find its Way?' About fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4027 Farrar, Guy B |
| The Feathered Folk of an Estuary |
| (London: Country Life Ltd: 1938) First Edition Cl. pp. xii, 152. Illust. with Frontispiece and 31 other plates from Photographs. Good, perhaps good to v.g. copy. |
| $30 |
| *a4028 Irvine, Lyn |
| Field with Geese: A Book about the Domestic Goose |
| (London: Hamish Hamilton: 1960) First Edition Bds pp. 152. Illustrated with photographs by Edward Leigh. Pictorial maps on endpapers. Some mild foxing to fore edge o/w fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4035 Lendon, Alan H |
| Australian Parrots in Field and Aviary: The comprehensive revised edition of Neville Cayley's standard work |
| (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: This revised edition 1979) Bds pp. xxxvi, 344. Illust. Maps. Appendix: Keeping Australian Parrots in Captivity. Gazetteer. References. Index. Australian Natural Science Library series. About fine in like dust-jacket |
| $60 |
| *a4037 Stankus, Robert E (Editor) |
| Garcia Fishing Annual |
| (Teaneck, New Jersey: The Garcia Corporation: Copyright 1975) This is the 1976 Issue (see front cover). Pict. wrs pp. 96 and 80 (272 x 217 mm) Illust. These are 80 pages of illustrated advertisements for Garcia brand fishing equipment. About fine |
| $30 |
| *a4041 McCristal, Vic |
| Great Fishing with Lures |
| (Sydney: Murray: 1970) First Edition Bds pp. 224. Illust. top edge foxed o/w fine or thereabouts in like dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a4042 Hardy, Wal |
| The Saltwater Angler |
| (Sydney: Murray: 1966) Second printing. Bds. pp. 304. Illust. Bibliography Index. 'The complete how-to-do-it Book for Australian and New Zealand Fishermen' (including Northern Territory waters). About fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $35 |
| *a4043 Eastman, William R, Jr. and Hunt, Alexander C |
| The Parrots of Australia: A Guide to Field Identification and Habits |
| (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 1966) First Edition Cl. pp. xiv, 194 (250 x 187 mm) Illust. by William R. Eastman, Jr. Distribution maps. Index. Old tape stains to free endpapers front and rear o/w v.g. in like dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4052 Heidegger, Martin |
| Existence and Being |
| (London: Vision Press: 1949) Cl. pp. 399. Notes. About fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $80 |
| *a4109 Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Either/Or |
| (London: OUP: 1944) Copyright 1944 by Princeton University Press. In Two Volumes: Volume One translated by David F. Swenson and Lillian M Swenson; Volume Two translated by Walter Lowrie. Cl. pp. x, 387 including Notes and index and xvi, 304 including Notes and Index. About fine set in like dust-jackets. |
| $200 |
| *a4113 Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Christian Discourses and The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays. |
| (London: OUP: 1939) First Edition thus (Translated with an Introduction by Walter Lowrie, DD) Cl. pp. xviii, 389. Index. Lower right hand corner of back cover bumped o/w fine or thereabouts in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $80 |
| *a4114 Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Stages on Life's Way |
| (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1945) Second Printing (first was 1940). Translated by Walter Lowerie, DD. Cl. pp. viii, 472. Index. A fine copy apart from a little dampstaining to lower margins of covers and (more obviously) to corresponding part of jacket; spine of jacket browned. |
| $50 |
| *a4116 Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Purity of Heat is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession |
| (NY: Harper and Brothers: 1956) First Harper Torchbook edition TL4. Pict. wrs pp. 220. Translated from the Danish with an Introductory Essay by Douglas V. Steere, Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College. Fine |
| $25 |
| *a4117 Kierkegaard, Soren |
| On Authority and Revelation: The Book on Adler, or a Cycle of Ethico-Religious Essays |
| (NY: Harper and Row: 1966) First Harper Torchbook edition/The Cloister Library TB 139. Pict. wrs pp. lxiv, 206 and 11 p.a. Translated, with an Introduction and notes, by Walter Lowrie. Introduction to the Torchbook Edition by Frederick Sontag. About fine |
| $25 |
| *a3936 Koehler, Wolfgang |
| Dynamics in Psychology |
| (London: Faber and Faber: September 1942) First Edition Cl. pp. 120. Tables and Figures. Index of Authors. Fore edges of covers dampstained; o/w fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4107 Jolivet, Regis (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in the Catholic University of Lyon) |
| Introduction to Kierkegaard |
| (London: Muller: 1950) First British Edition (Translated by WH Barber). Cl. pp. xviii, 233. Bibliographical Note. Notes to Chapters. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $60 |
| *a4118 Knox, RA (Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford) |
| Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion, with special reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries |
| (Oxford at The Clarendon Press: 1951) Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the first edition (first edition was 1950). Cl. pp. viii, 623. Bibliography Index. Lower edge uncut. Fine in dust-jacket whose spine is browned but is o/w complete and good. |
| $80 |
| *a4119 Pringle-Pattison, A. Seth, LLD DCL, Fellow of the British Academy, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh |
| The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy: The Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1912 and 1913 |
| (NY: OUP 1920) Second Edition, Revised. Cl. pp. xvi, 443 and 1 advert. Index. About fine in like dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4120 Goguel, Maurice (Doyen honoraire de la Faculte libre de Theologie Protestante, Paris, etc |
| The Birth of Christianity |
| (London: Allen and Unwin: 1953) First British Edition (Translated from the French by HC Snape). Cl. pp. xx, 560. Bibliography (of Modern Works in english). Index. Brochure of Errata and Corrigenda loosely included. Fine or so in price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is moderately browned but is o/w v.g. |
| $60 |
| *a4122 McNeill, John T |
| The History and Character of Calvinism |
| (NY: OUP: 1967) First publication as A Galaxy Book GB 190. Pict. wrs pp. x, 470. Postscript, mainly bibliographical, to the Galaxy Edition. Book List. Index. Near fine |
| $25 |
| *a4124 Buber, Martin |
| Paths in Utopia |
| (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1949) First Edition (Translated by RFC Hull) Cl. pp. viii, 152. Index. Fine in near fine dust-jacket |
| $50 |
| *a4125 Buber, Martin |
| Right and Wrong: An Interpretation of Some Psalms |
| (London: SCM Press: 1952) First Edition Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. Cl. backed dec. bds pp. 62. Fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket which has a shall chip at head of its spine. |
| $35 |
| *a4126 Buber, Martin |
| Two Types of Faith |
| (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1951) First Edition Translated by Norman P. Goldhawk. Cl. pp. 177. Index. Fine in dust-jacket whose spine is moderately browned o/w itself also fine. |
| $45 |
| *a4128 Cameron, Peter |
| Heretic |
| (Sydney: Doubleday: 1994) First Edition Bds pp. xii, 212. 'The true story of an Australian (Presbyterian theologian) convicted of heresy'. Foreword by Hugh Mackay. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4131 Berdyaev, Nicolas |
| Spirit and Reality |
| (London: Geoffrey Bles: 1946) Reprint. Cl. pp. 181. Index. Translated from the Russian by George Reavey. Fine in like dust-jacket whose spine is mildly browned. |
| $40 |
| *a4132 Dargan, Edwin Charles DD, LLD, Professor of Homiletics in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky |
| A History of Preaching |
| (NY: George H Doran: January 1905 and 1912) In Two Volumes: 'From the Apostolic Fathers to the Great Reformers AD 70-1572' and 'From the Close of the Reformation Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century 1572-1900'. Bibliography and Index to each volume. Cl. pp. viii, 577 and iv, 591. Scattered annotations and underlining, though many sections are unaffected, and they are generally small, o/w good to v.g. in fair to good dust-jackets. |
| $200 |
| *a4133 Avi-Yonah, Michael (Edited by) |
| A History of the Holy Land |
| (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson: n.d.) Translated by Charles Weiss and Pamela Fitton - original Copyright 1969. Cl. pp. 324 (280 x 220 mm) Photography by David Harris. Maps. Index. Near fine in like dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4134 Bradley, Ian |
| The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians |
| (London: Cape: 1976) First Edition Bds pp. 224. Illust. Notes. Suggested Further Reading. Index. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4136 De Chardin, Pierre Teilhard |
| The Vision of the Past |
| (London: Collins: 1966) First British Edition of this English Translation by JM Cohen. Cl. pp. 285. Index. Fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4137 Lightfoot, RH |
| St John's Gospel: A Commentary |
| (London: OUP: 1960) First issue in Oxford Paperbacks (No. 5 in the series). Dec. wrs pp. xiv, 368. Edited by CF Evans. With the Text of the Revised Version. Index of Biblical References. Subject Index. Near fine |
| $30 |
| *a4140 Hitt, Russell,, T |
| Sensei: The Life Story of Irene Webster-Smith |
| (London: HS: 1966) First British Edition Bds pp. xii, 240. Illust. Maps on endpapers. 'A hymn of triumphant Christianity: the story of an Irish gentlewoman who, by prayer and faith, supported her family of 87 little Japanese girls she saved from the life of a geisha.' An owner's name. Small stain to lower edge o/w fine in like price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a3912 Davidson, Ellis A |
| A Practical Manual of House-Painting, Graining, Marbling and Sign-Writing Containing Full Information on The Processes of House-Painting in Oil and Distemper, The Formation of Letters and Practice of Sign-Writing, The Principles of Decorative Art, A Course of Elementary Drawing for House-Painters, Writers, etc. |
| (London: Crosby Lockwood: 1884) Fourth Edition. Dec. cl. (bevelled boards) pp. xx, 394 and 4 and 32 and 16 p.a. With Nine Coloured Illustrations of Woods and Marbles (ie plates), and numerous Wood Engravings (ie in the text). The covers are flecked and also stained on front and back; both inner hinges cracked; some (ink?) stains to fore edge; some colouring in, and child's drawings on the black endpapers; by and large still a good copy. |
| $150 |
| *a4029 Drury, E, BA, ARIBA (Editor) |
| Builders' and Decorators' Reference Book: A comprehensive handbook providing a standard day-to-day reference on the construction, repair, redecoration and renovation of buildings. |
| (London: Newnes: n.d.) Fourth Edition. Cl. pp. xx plus 50 sections each separately paginated and pp. 28 (Index). 190 x 135 x about 62 mm thick. Illust. Massive compilation of up-to-date knowledge by nineteen experts. Suggest about 1960 publication. About fine |
| $40 |
| *a4039 Vladimirov, Leonid |
| The Russian Space Bluff |
| (London: Tom Stacey: 1971) First Edition translated from the Russian by David Floyd. Bds pp. 192. Illust. Map. 'The inside story of the Soviet drive to the Moon and beyond'. V.g. or perhaps near fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4047 Evans, IO, FRGS |
| The Observer's Book of Geology: Describing the Principal Rocks, Minerals and Fossils with 170 illustrations in black-and-white and 12 pages in colour |
| (London: Warne: n.d.) Printer's Code 720/562. Bds pp. 272 (146 x 92 mm) No. 10 in The Observer's Pocket Series. Fine in good to v.g. dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4066 Copper Development Association (Issued by) |
| Copper for Bus-Bar Purposes |
| (London: Reprinted 1937) CDA Publication Number 22 - 1936. Cl. pp. vi, 162 (222 x 162 mm) Illust. Bibliography Index. An Ownership Inscription Near fine |
| $30 |
| *a4067 Copper Development Association (Issued by) |
| Copper in Cast Steel and Iron |
| (London: n.d.) 1930s. CDA Publication No. 29. Cl. pp. 136 (224 x 160 mm) Illust. References. Index. V.g. if not near fine |
| $30 |
| *a4068 Hart, CA (Member of the American Society of Photogrammetry, Member of the Field Survey Association etc) |
| Air Photography Applied to Surveying |
| (London: Longmans, Green: New impression with minor corrections 1948) Cl. pp. xx, 366 plus four colour plates at rear (247 x 167 mm) With Diagrams and Illustrations. Bibliography Index of Authors. Index. An owner's name. About fine in fair somewhat worn dust-jacket |
| $40 |
| *a4069 Cunningham, Brysson, FRSE, MInstCE, Lecturer on Waterways, Harbours, and Docks at University College, London |
| A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering |
| (London: Charles Griffin: 1928) Third Edition (Thoroughly Revised Throughout and greatly Enlarged). Cl. pp. xvi, 432 (234 x 165 mm) Illustrated including folding plates, many of them maps of harbours etc. Index. V.g. |
| $100 |
| *a4142 Border, Allan |
| Ashes Glory: Allan Border's Own Story |
| (Byron Bay, NSW: Swan Publishing: 1989) First Edition Pict. bds pp. 159. Illust. Signed by Allan Border on the free front endpaper. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4154 Jones, M. Whitmore |
| Popular Games of Patience: Forty-five of the best games clearly described and illustrated |
| (London: 'Bazaar, Exchange and Mart' Office: 1922) Second Edition, Revised and brought up to date by Laurence Morton. Cl. pp. viii, 166. A previous owner has written verse and pasted a couple of cuttings on the endpapers and half-title leaf at the front (in ink) and has written verses in the margin of the final leaf of text and on the rear endpapers (in pencil and ink); o/w about fine |
| $40 |
| *a3911 Rowdon, Maurice |
| The Companion Guide to Umbria |
| (London: Collins: 1969) First Edition Cl. pp. 383. Illust. Maps and Plans. Index of Places. Index of Persons. Assisi - Perugia - Spoleto. The Companion Guides series. Fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4015 Harrer, Heinrich |
| Seven Years in Tibet |
| (London: Hart-Davis: 1953) First Edition (Translated from the German by Richard Graves). Bds pp. xvi, 288. Illust. Map. With an Introduction by Peter Fleming. Bookplate with an owner's name on free front endpaper. About fine in v.g. dust-jacket |
| $80 |
| *a4031 Severin, Tim |
| In Search of Genghis Khan |
| (London: Hutchinson: 1991) First Edition Bds pp. xii, 276. Illust. Maps. Maps on endpapers. Index. Bookseller's remainder-spot to lower edge, o/w fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4032 Troebst, Cord Christian |
| The Art of Survival |
| (London: WH Allen: 1965) First British Edition of this Translation from the German by Oliver Coburn. Cl. pp. 312. Illust. 'A dramatic, illustrated narrative of the ingenious and often hair-raising devices of survival - in the desert, after plane crashes, at sea, and even along our 'safe' highways...' Fore edge uncut. Top edge dusty or slightly foxed o/w near fine in v.g. price-clipped dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4036 Gill, Walter |
| Petermann Journey |
| (Adelaide: Rigby: 1968) First Edition Bds pp. viii, 183. Illust. Maps on endpapers. Search for a forgotten tribe of aboriginals in Central Australia. Some foxing to top edge o/w fine in like dust-jacket |
| $75 |
| *a4050 Serventy, Vincent |
| Southern Walkabout |
| (Sydney: Reed: 1969) First Edition Cl. pp. 160 (242 x 167 mm) Illust. Index. Maps on endpapers. Small Gift Inscription About fine in dust-jacket which has an old tape repair to its back panel and extending to the foot of its spine but is itself o/w v.g. |
| $25 |
| *a4051 Serventy, Vincent |
| Nature Walkabout |
| (Sydney: Reed: 1967) First Edition Cl. pp. 137 (243 x 165 mm) Illust. Maps on endpapers. Index. About fine in good dust-jacket |
| $25 |
| *a4058 Russell, Countess |
| Five Women and a Caravan |
| (London: Eveleigh Nash: 1911) First Edition Pict. cl. pp. 204. A cancelled old Subscription Library label on fixed front endpaper; small Gift Inscription top edge gilt, others uncut. Good copy |
| $60 |
| *a4083 Theroux, Paul |
| The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific |
| (NY: GP Putnam's Sons: 1992) First Edition Dec. cl. backed bds pp. 528. Maps on endpapers. Fine in like dust-jacket |
| $30 |
| *a4157 Ubbelohde-Doering, Heinrich |
| On the Royal Highways of the Inca: Civilizations of Ancient Peru |
| (London: Thames and Hudson: This edition 1967) Apparently First British Edition (Translated from the German by Margaret Brown). Gilt dec. cl. pp. 311 (274 x 222 mm) with 287 photogravure plates and 7 line drawings. Maps. Bibliography Index. The 'List of Illustrations' loosely included as a brochure of pp. 4 (261 x 210 mm) Fine in like dust-jacket in the original slipcase. |
| $75 |
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