Earning a Crust, an illustrated economic history of Australia
Sydney: Reed, 1977. Roy 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 176. Very good in like d.j.
Sydney: Reed, 1977. Roy 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 176. Very good in like d.j.
Sydney: James Hardie Industries Limited, 1987. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus throughout, pp 256. Near-fine in near-fine d.j. History of one of Australia's largest manufacturing companies - also a history of fibro-cement in Australia.
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1967. 2nd ed., original cloth boards, dustjacket., b&w photographic plates, pp. 296, ink stamp fep, good condition in like dust-jacket. Jeff Carter, photographer and freelance journalist, travels through outback Australia and writes about the men and women - drovers, rabbieters, dingo baiters, rodeo riders, roo shooters, members.....
Melbourne: The Author, 1990. 3rd edition, 8vo, pp. 192, b/w ills., map, wraps, very good.
Sydney: Halstead Press, 1962. 8vo, original blue wraps, b&w illus, pp 48. Very slight wear to the yapp edges, near fine condition. This edition precedes the limited edition of 200 copies. It is slightly shorter and was suppressed by George Mackaness.
NSW: Universal Press, 1995. Quarto, pictorial boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp 192. Signed by the author to front free endpaper. Related newspaper clippings and a maps exhibition catalogue loosely inserted. Slight edgewear to dustjacket. Near-fine condition. A Guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica, and the South Pacific...
South Yarra: Hyland House, 1997. 8vo, cloth boards, b&w illus, pp 288. Near fine in like d.j.
Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1982. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 103. Worn to spine, o/w v.g. The book recreates a period in our history between two catastrophic wars. Life in the depression years relating to Queensland.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936. 1st ed., pp.(viii), 294, foxing to edges, ex-lib with usual stamps and remains of pocket on r.e.p. and number lower faded spine, front e.p. map, bookseller's ticket. From the library of Western Australian writer, Malcolm Uren with his signature to front paste-down and his book-plate.....
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969. 8vo, cl bds, d.j., b&w plates, illus endpapers. D.j very worn and marked, endpapers lightly foxed but o/w good. The Scottish Martyrs advocated parliamentary reform and universal suffrage at a time when the French Revolution had brought such doctrines into disfavour with the authorities, and.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards with gilt flags decoration to upper cover, 2 colour folding maps (Australia and New Zealand), folding appendix plate, pp xx, 364. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition British Empire series, Volume IV. Essays on aspects of.....
Sydney: Government Printer, 1903. 1st ed. thus, Royal 8vo, pp. viii, 209, b/w photos, folded map rear, stamp front free endpaper, minor yellowing prelims., endpapers tanned, minor foxing top edge, original gilt decorated blind-stamped cloth boards, edges a little rubbed, top cnrs bumped, very good. Covers history, grography, natural history.....
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1995. Octavo, wraps, b&w plates, pp 360. Near-fine condition.
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971. Facsimile Edition. Two vols., 4to, Volume I: pp. (ii) xx, lx, 620, b/w frontis map; Volume II: pp. (ii) xvi, 336; colour frontis; b/w plates, maps some folded, original brown cloth boards, green title label spines, label volume I slightly lifted at one.....
Extract from "The Illustrated History of Methodism", published in 1904, rebound in grey paper-backed cloth boards. Part III, New South Wales, pp 223-265: this chapter is complete. Mark to one page, very good condn.
Perth: Brokensha & Shaw, 1938. 2nd ed., octavo, pp 84, b&w plates, b&w folded map rear with some off-setting also to title page, lacks f.f.e.p. (as seen in all copies previously seen), original gilt titled boards, chipped at spine and cnrs. Tipped in portrait of author verso of title page.....
Brisbane: William Thorne, 1882. Octavo, original cloth boards, folding map, pp xiv, 256. Boards spotted and flecked, corners rubbed, bookplate front free endpaper, remnant of paper label to spine, front free endpaper removed. Closed tear to the inner edge of folding map. Fair condition copy of uncommon title. (Note: although.....
Melbourne: The Author, 2001. Quarto, wraps, b&w illus, pp 209. Signed by the author. Very good condition. The family history of the Robertsons, from the first arrivals in Melbourne in 1841, and tracing the descendants.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1988. 8vo, cl bds, d.j., pp. 306. Pages yellowing slightly at edges, o/w good condn. Novel set during WWII about an Irish-Australian brother and sister, one a rear gunner and the other a nun, written pseudonymously by Keneally.
Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1982. Large 8vo, stiff pictorial wraps, pp ix, 359. Near-fine.
Canberra: Mulini Press, 1981. Royal 8vo, pp. vi, 105, Index, b/w frontis map, wraps, very good. Account of the plans to colonise Australia and the first voyage.
Fitzroy (Melbourne): Robert Barr, 1895. Original printed stapled wraps, pp 104 plus advertisements. N.d. (1895). Lacks front wrap and part of backstrip but binding is firm. Title page foxed. Small chips corners of rear wrap. Good condition. Scarce. Scarce dictionary of Australian vernacular terms, A - Z. Among the types.....
Melbourne: Five Mile Press, 1989. 4to, paper wraps, b&w illus throughout, pp. 224. Price sticker in lower corner, front and back of wraps, previous owner's name on ffep, internally clean and sound, good condn. Lavishly illustrated in black and white: reproductions of catalogues showing every aspect of Australian life 1880-1940.....
Geelong: The Author, 1931. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt title to spine, b&w plates, pp 100 plus 1 p. advertisement (for a Queenscliff hotel). Corners gently rubbed, small mark front board, small pen marks several pages, o/w very good condition. Includes four-page hand-written letter (taped to fep) which is dated.....
Sydney University Union, 1925. 4to, paper cloth-backed boards, b&w illus, pp 60. Boards rubbed and flecked, good condn.