London: Macmillan, 1904. Introd. Illus. Hugh Thomson; introd. Austin Dobson. Reprint of the 1896 Hugh Thomson illustrated edition, restored by Cottage Bindery: original upper and lower boards, red leather with gilt decorative title upper board, new matching leather spine with gilt decoration and title, raised bands, new endpapers, top edge.....
London: Grant Richards, 1898. 1st thus, two volumes, octavo, original green cloth binding with gilt-stamped lettering and decoration (an Art Nouveau-style pattern of vines and leaves). Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. A decorative vignette with Jane Austen's initials printed both title pages. Both volumes have a middle section (approx. 100.....
Stanford (Connecticut): Longmeadow Press, 1995. Large octavo, burgundy-colouured leather boards with gilt decoration and lettering, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, dec chapter headings, pp 849. Small gift inscription, otherwise fine. Three of Jane Austen's greatest novels in one volume.
Penguin Classics, 2008. Coralie Bickford-Smith. Octavo, decorated yellow boards, pp xliii, 435, remains of stcker rear board, ribbon-marker. Near fine condition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. An attractive edition of the iconic novel.
Clevedon and New York: World Publishing Co., 1946. Illus. Edgard Cirlin. First printing thus, stated August 1946. 'Rainbow Classics' series with introduction by May Lamberton Becker. Large octavo, decorative patterned boards, gilt illustrations and lettering to the spine, dustjacket, colour frontis plate, colour plates, b&w plates, decorated endpapers (featuring the.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Large octavo, cloth boards with facsimile signature stamped in gilt, dustjacket, b&w frontis, b&w facsimile title pages, pp lxxxvi, 738. A small previous owner's inscription removed, sticker to rear paste-down, some light wrinking along upper title-page, otherwise, very near fine in like d.j. Very clean.....
London: Cresset Press, 1962. Margaret Turner. pp viii, 198, b/w illustrations, prev owner's signature, orig boards, v.g. In good d.j., slightly sunned & frayed at head of spine The letters of 2 women in Holloway prison, serving 6 months for their part in a demonstration against nuclear weapons...
London: Odhams Press, 1963. with pictures by Livraghi and Aquenza. Quarto, pictorial boards, colour illustrations, pp 29. Spine fraying to head and foot, corners rubbed, original glossy film over cover image partially rubbed off but with no loss of image. Fair copy of uncommon edition. First edition thus. An uncommon.....
1991. Illus. Rene Cloke. Quarto, illustrated boards, dustjacket, colour illus, iillus endpapers, pp 93. Fine condition in near-fine d.j. A re-telling of Alice in Wonderland, with ilustrations by the British illustrator and watercolorist Rene Cloke.
A4 size, remains of spiral binding with stiff paper wraps. 24 pages, plus an additional typed extract from a Sydney Mail article of 1922, entitled "Some Unrecorded Pages of Australian History" which describes Mark Macrae's collection of historical documents inherited from his maternal grandfather Captain Mark Currie including the diary.....
Whittlesea, Victoria: Russell and Jane Dunn, 1987. Quarto, pp.84, original illustrated cloth backed boards, many b&w illustrations including adverts. Near fine condition. Hiram Codd designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks. The bottles are now highly collectable. "Codd, the man and the bottle" is in part a......
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998. Octavo, wraps, bibliography, index, map, pp xvii, 163. Pencilled underlining and annotations in text. Good condition. Offers a new way of understanding how the Aboriginal sacred inhabits the modern nation. Includes discussion of specific sites such as Coronation Hill, Hindmarsh Island, and Uluru...
London: Frederick Warne, ( 1914). Tall octavo, cloth-backed pictorial boards, colour illus, pp 64. N.d., c. 1890s. Pencilled gift inscription halftitle page, dated 1914, giftee's name pencilled front endpaper. Edges rubbed, some foxing, generally very good. Early printing of charming Kate Greenaway book, copiously illustrated with the beautifully-dressed small children.....
Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press, 1986. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xxi, 168 including bibliography and index. Previous owner's bookplate. Near-fine condition. Explores the experiences of the women who lived on the north-west frontier; those who accompanied the male pioneers; women who travelled north as servants, teachers, prostitutes and.....
Shanghai: Shanghai International Culture Association, 2012. 1st ed., oblong folio, original gold-toned boards with embossed and gilt lettering, colour plates. In original titled slipcase. Small closed tear to rear endpaper, light rubbing to slipcase. Near-fine condition. Exhibition catalogue. The work of the Australian photographers Sonia Payes and Jane Burton, with.....
London: John W. Parker, 1837. 2nd edition, 12mo, pp. (ii) xvi, 240, (viii, adverts), b/w frontis, 6 b/w plates, prev owner's inscr. "Jane Augusta Edmonds, Oct 15th, 1839", bookplate (Dr Ian Keith McGill), occasional light foxing scattered throughout, top edge dusty, orig cl bds., spine sunned, head spine lost and.....
North Fremantle: Cape to Cape, 2009. Quarto, wraps, colour illus, pp 104. Fine condition. The colour photographs in this handbook will help you identify 280 species of plants, many of which grow throughout the southwest of Western Australia.
Fremantle: Cape to Cape, 2001. Illus. Patricia Negus. Roy 8vo, wraps, maps, colour illus, pp 108 Near-fine condn. Guidebook to walking the Cape to Cape trail in the south-west, including photographs.
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1815. 1st ed., octavo, original halfleather binding with marbled sides, red and gilt spine title label, b&w engraved frontis plate, pp 214, small mark to pp.64-72, tear along edge page 91. Previous owner's signature, dated 1816. Pencilled annotation ("very wrong") in margin one page (p.55). Edges.....