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.
Koln: Taschen, ( 1665) 2005. 1st ed. thus, folio, text in English, German and French. Profusely illustrated with 594 colour maps with some folding reproduced from the original Atlas published in 1665, original pictorial bds., dustjacket. Slight edgewear to the top edge of the dustjacket. Near-fine condition. This is a......
London: B.T. Batsford, 1936. 1st ed., octavo, pp.viii, 63 (illustrations), illus eps., small piece missing lower rfep, cnrs bumped, original bds in remains of backstrip, contents clean. Very good condn. Brandt was a British photographer and photo journalist best known for his documentation of British Society. This book published two.....
Sydney: Standard Publishing House, 1999. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, pp 180. Near-fine condition. Scarce. Essays on voting 'No' on the proposed model of an Australian Republic. Published the year of the 1999 Australian Republic referendum. Contributors include Phil Cleary, Bob Ellicott, Harry Gibbs, Bill Hayden, Richard McGarvie, Ted Mack, Peter.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. 1890. Large octavo, decorative red cloth boards (upper board lettered and decorated in gilt and black. spine decorated in gilt and black with a green gilt decorated shield-shaped title, lower board dec blind-stamped), all edges gilt, b&w engraved plates, red dec border to each.....
London: Folio Society, 2010. Joe McLaren [Illus.]. Original illustrated boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, noes and index, pp xiii, 502. Near fine condition in llike slipcase. William Cobbett (1763 - 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer. He advocated for the poor and working class. In 1822.....
Melbourne: Gold Star, 1972. 1st paperback edition, octavo, pp.(vi), 312, Introduction by Morris L. West, original pictorial stiff wraps, light marking to rear wrap and chipping to upper corners, contents exceptionally clean, appears to be unread. Near fine condition. Autobiographical stories of teenage gangs in Footscray, Melbourne (Australia) in the.....
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Surrey: Genesis Publications Limited, 1979. Roy Williams (Illus.). Limited edition, no.382 of 500 copies, Introduction by Bounty historian, Stephen Walters, signed, pp.(vi), (7)-42, (85 pages of Fryer's manuscript), (7), b&w fronts and another illus plate by Roy Williams, colour, b&w plates and text drawings., folding map, half dark blue leather.....
Privately Published, 1834. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, gilt stamped title, frontis portrait plate (Mrs John Gunn), b&w plates, b&w text illustrations, pp vii, 127. Hand-drawn illustrations, some of which are hand-coloured. With a presentation inscription from Dawson Turner to to Joseph D. Hooker, "from his affectionate grandfather, the.....
Sydney: Currency Press, 1972. 1st ed. thus, octavo, pp. 93, (1 advert), original stiff wraps, small chip to upper spine otherwise near fine condition. Play by Dorothy Hewett.
Perth: The Western Mail, 1981. Oblong quarto, pp. 75, colour frontis. plate., colour & b/w plates, dec. endpapers. Original cloth boards with gilt facsimile signature, no d.j.. Edges rubbed, light fishing to upper bds., light spotting head and foot of spine. Very good condition. Reproductions of the artist's work spanning.....
1977. Illus. Joan Koster. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp ix, 230. Bookplate of a Western Australian anthropologist. Very occasional pencil note in margin. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Collection of interesting recipes gathered from anthropologists around the world. Anthropological discussions include the significance of specific dishes, the preparation.....
Darwin: Northern Territory University Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management, 1998. 1st ed., slim ctavo, illustrated wraps, map, pp (vi), 89. Pencilled notes on halftitle page, occasional pencil marks in text. Very good condition. Examination of environmental issues facing Aboriginal peoples in northern Australia; discusses the impact of.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Robert P. Golman (ed.). 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, light fading along edge of dustjacket, colour frontis plate, pp xvi, 397. A clean copy in near-fine condition, in very good dustjacket, protected. Scarce. The epic story of Rama, in a scholarly critical edition with extensive.....
Barnes & Noble, 2016. John Coulthart (Poster artist). Large octavo, leatherette pictorial boards elabrately illustrated in gold, green, and silver, all edges gilt, illustrated title page, illus endpapers, ribbon marker, pp 594. Includes large folding colour poster, "Cthulhu Rising", in fine condition. (Poster, cover art and endpapers all by John.....
London: Jupiter Books, 1981. Reprint, quarto, pp.vi, (7)-31, 130 full page colour and b&w plates, original gilt titled leatherette boards, closed tear, creasing and chipping to d.j. now in protected mylar. Contents clean and in very good condition. English artist who depicted people and urban landscapes of Greater Manchester mainly.....
George Bell and Sons, 1900. Ilus. W. Heath Robinson. First edition thus. The publisher's 'Endymion' series, printed at The Chiswick Press. Original pictorial cloth boards decorated and lettered in gilt, many b&w illus by W.Heath Robinson (both full page and text illus), title page printed in red and black, illus.....
Sydney: 1978. Oblong, original full leather binding with blindstamped title, many colour and b&w plates. Deluxe limited edition, number 61 of 100, with additional numbered etched plate 'Deloraine Tasmania' numbered and signed by the artist. Signed, numbered and dated on the limitation page, and also signed and dated on the.....
London: Thames and Hudson. Limited and numbered edition, number 20 of 3000. Tall octavo, burgundy cloth boards decorated in gilt, colour plates, biblography, 48 pp. Near-fine conditiom in like original dec gilt slipcase with ribbon tie. Le Livre Du Cueur D'Amours Espris (The Book of the Love Struck Heart) was.....
Melbourne: Privately Published, ( 1933). 1st ed., pp. 126, orig papered bds., marked, sl. cocked, cnrs bumped, o/w very good condn.
George Bell and Sons, 1898. Robert Anning Bell [Illus.]. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards decorated in gilt, black, and yellow, top edge gilt, b&w illus, dec endpapers, pp.222. Some light foxing, mainly halftitle page and last blank pages. Bottom corners heavily bumped, top corners lightly bumped, light chipping to.....
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London: HarperCollins, 7 December 2008. Illus. Alan Lee. Deluxe Edition stating "This de luxe slipcased edition published by HarperCollins Publishers 2008" on copyright page. Quarto, pp.432, fold-out colour frontispiece painting by award-winning artist Alan Lee, and more than fifty pencil drawings specially commissioned from Lee. Includes a specially written introduction.....