![Item #106976 The Second World War. Six Volumes [First Editions, Cottage Bindery]. Winston S....](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/106976.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1794384241)
London: Cassell & Co, 1948-1954. First editions, first impressions. Six volumes, octavo, pp. 640, 684, 818, 917, 673, 716, Index each volume, b&w maps some folding. Rebound by Cottage Bindery in half-leather, spines decorated and lettered in gilt. The first volume has a gift inscription and a previous owner's signature.....
WA: Author, 2020. 1st ed., quarto, pp.xiv, 537, profusely illustrated with b&w and colour plates, pictorial end-papers., fine in d.j. Limited edition of 950 copies. [PLEASE NOTE: this is a very heavy book and will require additional postage of Australian $40] The essential reference for collectors, dealers, auctioneers, investors, curators.....
NSW: Walla Walla Press, 2012. 1st edition, pp.142, incl Index, limited to 250 copies, signed by both authors (Bonness and Sproul), original boards. Near fine condition Albert "Tibby" Cotter (1883-1917) was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 tests between 1904 and 1912. Cotter joined the 1st Australian Light Horse.....
Melbourne: Black Inc., 2001. 1st ed., octavo, stiff illustrated wraps, pp 113, very light marking rear wrap. Near-fine condition. Robert Manne attacks the right-wing campaign against the 'Bringing Them Home' report that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. A polemical essay which doubles as a......
Sydney: Cyclops Press, 1999. 1st ed., square quarto, pp.216,, profusely illustrated with colour & b&w plates, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Near-fine condition in like dust-jacket A stunning and emotive book, charting the photographic history of Indigenous Australia from the first photographs by Douglas T. Kilburn in 1847 through to the.....
London: Cassell & Company, 1938. 1st ed., octavo, original green cloth boards with gilt dec and title to spine, b&w frontis map, b&w maps, pp. x, 528. Discolotation to spine. Bummped and rubbed to corners: heavily rubbed to the bottom rear corner with some fading. Ex-library, with usual marks to.....
New York: Disinformation Books, 2005. First edition, first printing. Octavo, black cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, illus endpapers, pp 336. Near fine condition in like dustjacket, protected. Scarce. Brion Gysin (1916 - 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best.....
New York: Doubleday, 1900. First edition. Rebound in halfleather with marbled sides: spine with gilt lettering and raised bands. New endpapers. Colour frontis plate, colour plates, map, b&w plates, diagrams, text illus, pp xxiv, 478. Small number inscription facing the copyright page, loose plate opposite page166. Chip to the edge.....
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press/Longmans, Green and Co., 1883. Octavo, original cloth boards with blind-stamped decorations, restored with new cloth spine and the original gilt-stamped title label laid on, pp 804. Nineteenth-century previous owner's signature front endpaper, later owner's bookplate front free endpaper with different ownership stamp partially visible.....
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1925. Octavo, original green cloth boards with black illustration and title to spine and upper board, pp 752. N.d., c. 1930. Previous owner's stamp front free endpaper. Very good condition. Classic adventure story with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness.....
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. Foreword by Marcus Clarke. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt to spine and gilt stamped school crest to upper board, small blindstamped decorations to corners, b&w frontis plate, pp xxiv, 320. N.d., c. 1920s? Gilt stamped crest of the Church of England Girls'.....
![Item #106966 Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. [1701]. Virgil](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/106966.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1792743485)
Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Jacob Tonson, 1701. 1st thus, quarto, full leather binding in contemporary calf, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, raised bands, b&w engraved frontis plate, engraved headpieces and tailpieces, marbled endpapers, pp 686. Several sections toned, very occasional light spotting: in general the pages are clean and bright. The.....
London: Heinemann, 1909. 1st ed., quarto, two volumes, original blue cloth boards with silver gilt illustration upper boards, top edges gilt, pp xlviii, 372; xv, 419. Profusely illustrated: frontis portrait of author, colour plates, b&w plates, maps. All illustrations and maps complete, including the three folding maps and the folding.....
London: The Illustrated London News, 1900. Herbert Gandy (cover). Folio, colour illustrated wraps, pp. 84, three adverts, eight photogravures including frontis plate with tisue guard, b&w illus., one-third of page 84 (last page) trimmed (missing). Markings (water damage?) to frontis plate, title page and page one and mild damage to.....
Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999. 1st ed thus, square octavo, pp. 184, full-page colour illustrations, original stiff wraps. Near fine condition. Details the field work of the authors/artist on field trips through granite outcrops in Western Australia. The animals and plants of Australia's rocky landscapes. Beautifully illustrated by Nikulinsky.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1855. 1st thus, octavo, blindstamped decoration to boards, blindstamped decoration and raised bands to spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt gauffered edges (textured pattern), gilt dentelles, b&w engraved frontis plate, engraved illustration title page (dated 1851), b&w engraved plates, folding plate with facsimile Scott manuscript, pp.....
London: J.M. Dent, 1960. Two volumes (complete novel), original blue cloth boards, decorated endpapers, pp xiv, 316; v, 309. Silverfished to the bottom edge, fore-edge and near top corner of volumes. Gift inscription front free endpaper both volumes. Boards very clean. Good condition. "The Possessed" is also often translated as.....
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. 1st ed., two volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped cloth boards. Vol. I, engraved frontis plate view of Adelaide, pp xii, 317 plus 16 pp publisher's advertisements. Volume II map frontis plate (Summer Hill and Lewis Pond Creeks) [the site of Australia's first payable gold discovery in.....
Auckland: H. Brett, Star Office, 1886. First edition. Royal octavo, original cloth backed red boards with black lettering and decoration, green cloth spine, pp 55. 26 lithographs, mostly in colour. Previous owner's inscription and remainder of tape marks to front free endpaper. Some rubbing to boards, light markings and scuffing.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1903. 1st ed., octavo, original blue gilt pictorial cloth, pp xi, 247. Previous owner's Western Australian bookplate front endpaper. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Some rubbing to the corners. Very occasional pencil note in margin. Very good condition. Travels in Western Australia, including exploration, working in.....
![Item #106741 The Merry-go-Round in the Sea [First US Edition]. Randolph Stow](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/106741.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1792470787)
New York: Taplinger, 1984. First US printing. Original black cloth boards with white lettering to spine, pp 276. Very lightly rubbed to the head and foot of spine, corners. Very clean. Near-fine condition. Lyrical Western Australian novel set in Geraldton, looking back on childhood. "I think it is the loveliest.....
Crawley: University of Western Australia, 2008. Foreword by Prof Fiona Stanley. 1st ed., folio, pp xvii, 421, original pictorial boards, colour plates, maps, pictorial endpapers, very light marking to rear board. Contents clean. Near fine condition. Scarce. A valuable comprehensive reference of Western Australian native orchid species beautifully illustrated and.....
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 2023. 1st ed., quarto, original stiff pictorial wraps with French flaps, colour and b&w illustrations throughout, maps, pp xiii, 177. Fine condition. A detailed study of the Aboriginal use of pearl shell in both the traditional and contemporary worlds. Copiously illustrated with colour photographs. Main chapters include.....
Nedlands (WA): University Of Western Australia Press, 1989. 1st ed., octavo, b&w illus, pp xix, 211, 8 b&w plates, map of King George Sound (Albany), some neat previous owner's pencil annotations (providing additional information), original boards. Near fine condition. Scarce. An exceptionally scarce collection of reasearch on Aboriginal people living.....
Perth, Western Australia: Western Australian Fingerprint Bureau, 2003. Quarto, spiral-bound with historical photos cover sheet, b&w illus, references, pp (iii), 70. The author's name is not stated, but the author is stated to be a member of the fingerprint bureau of the WA Police (with main researcher being Peter Conole).....