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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
Viking,Melbourne, 2006. Large format quality paperback.pp.561.crease to spine else Very Good. A tempestuous journey through one hundred years,
MORE ANNOTATED ALICE,Alices Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.; Illustrated by Peter Newell With Notes by Martin Gardner.
Random House, New York, 1990. First edition thus.4to pp.xxxiii + 359.illusrated throughout. Very Good hardcover in Very Good protected dust wrapper. Illustrated by peter Newell from his 1902 and 1905 versions, This second Annotated Alice adds much to the Carroll scholarship and the Wasp in a Wig here discussed for.....
SIXTY CURIOUS AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES RESPECTING EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS.
London, Published by William Hone, 1819. First Edition. 8vo. pp.288 with an engraved frontispiece by Cruikshank. Titles in red and black/ original black calf with raised bands and gilt detailing to spine and boards/ some rubbing to extremities marbled endpapers and foxing to the title page.Interesting contemporary binding. William Hone.....
CULTURAL ATLAS OF JAPAN.
Time Life, 1995. 4to. pp. 240 plus maps and colour and black & white illustrations. Original black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. The spine of the dust wrapper is slightly sunned else Very Good.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF CANARIES.
Sydney, Lansdowne, 1987. 4to. pp.144. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Quality pictorial softcover. Fine.
THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND THOROUGHBRED.; Foreword by Colin Hayes.
Nelson,Melbourne, 1980. 8vo.pp.xvi +317.Illustrations.Very Good hardcover in very Good dust wrapper. In depth analysis of the post war thoroughbred development in Australasia.
THE MAGIC BICYCLE.; Illustrated by G W Goss
Hammond, Hammond, London, 1946. Small 4to. pp.96. Colour illustrations,pictorial endpapers,Original blue cloth hardcoverin illustrated dust wrapper.Little bit of fading at the top of boards,small closed tear at the base of the price clipped dust wrapper else a very good copy. "Here is the fascinating story of how Reggie is carried.....
A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S.BEAGLE.
Folio Society, London, 1979. Third Impression.8vo.pp.359 + 12 colour illustrations,map endpapers.Original pictorial cloth hardcover in slipcase. A very good copy.
ANCIENT MACEDONIA.
Athens, National Hellenic Committee, 1988. 4to.pp.xxxii + 418. Printed in Greek and English, profusely illustratedin colour. Quality softcover with french flaps. An exhibition of goodwill to Australia for its bicentenarry by the Government of Greece,it was a major exhibition full of the most exquisite objects.Ancient History.
BATTLESHIPS OF THE WORLD.; Translated from the original German by Geoffrey Brooks.
Greenhill Books, ,London, 1997. 4to.pp.259, 300 photographs & drawings in black and white nearly 120 ships/classes..Black cloth hardcover fine in pictorial dust wrapper. Superb reference work by a leading naval authority contains reliabledetails of all big gun capital ships,built since 1905, and the large pre-dreadnoughts built that year.
AUSTRALIA'S FIRST GARDENING GUIDE OF 1806 .Observations on Gardening .
Mulini Press , Canberra, 1980. 8VO. Oiginal card covers pp.16. ISBN 0959841474 The First Gardening Guide was published by George Howe in his New South Wales Pocket Almanack and Colonial Remembrancer in 1806, just eighteen years after the arrival of the first settlers. The gardening conditions were very different in.....
AIR DISASTER. Volumes 1-4.
ACT, Aerospace Publications, 1994-2001. 4to.pp.183, pp.218, pp.155, pp.184. with black & white photographs, maps, diagrams etc. Original quality softcover pictorial wrappers. Previous owners ticket else fine.
THE BUILDING OF BRISBANE 1828- 1940.
Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 2002. Royal 8vo.pp.xii+ 306. Illustrated by the author in black & white.chronology and index. Original quality softcover in pictorial wrappers. Very Good.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE PRINTS- SARASA & PAISLEY.
Published by Kaigai ,Osaka, 1980. Folio. Ninety Four superb full page plates containing 571 designs in colour.Plates housed in a beige card folder and then in an original slipcase. The slipcase has some marks and some damp stains. The plates are in excellent condition. Very heavy and large item will.....
THE MAPLETON TRAMWAY. A Line of Diminutive Shay Locomotives.
Brisbane': Published by The Author, 2004. Tall 4to. pp.92 with black & white photographs, diagrams, maps and addenda sheet. Original quality pictorial wrappers.
STORIES.; Illustrated by Jane Sterrett.
Franklin, Pennsylvania , 1978. Full tan leather decorated in gilt .Limited Edition. 8vo. pp.xii + 317 aeg., shot silk endpapers.Near Fine hardcover with sewn in ribbon marker. DEATH IN VENICE,TONIO KROGER, MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN ,DISORDER AND EARLY SORROW, FELIX KRULL.
AUSTRALIA'S ROAD TRANSPORT HERITAGE. A Story Honouring The Pioneering Past of Our Road Transport Industry.The men, women and machines.
Sydney, Published by The Author, 1995. 4to. pp. 172 with black & white photographs. Quality pictorial softcover. This copy has a slight crease to the front wrappers and first pages.
THE TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN.
Shepperton, Surrey. Ian Allan Ltd., 1982. Royal 8vo. pp.128, bibliography. Illustrated with maps and photographs in black & white.original black hardcover in pictorial price clipped dust wrapper. The fist major amphibious operation planned and executed by the Allies.It was the campaign that taught the Allies to work together for better.....
THE BEST OF DOROTHY PARKER.
London, The Folio Society, 2002, 8vo. pp.233 plus 8 illustrations by Helen Smithson. Hardcover decorated in silver and black to upper board and spine. in grey slipcase. A Fine Copy.
CHESTER PORTER.Walking On Water. A Life in the Law.
Random House , Sydney ,2003. 8vo. First Edition.pp x + 309. , illustrations .Very Good Hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN1740511581 Some of Australias most controversial cases were won by Chester Porter QC. A life in the law and a insight into the changes in five decades of practice.....
THE RAILWAY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. IN STEAM. SHORT NORTH.
NSW, Published by Orion Fine Arts, 2000. Oblong 8vo. pp. 80 with black & white photographs Original pictorial softcover wrappers. A Very Good Copy.
AUSCHWITZ. The Nazis and the Final Solution.
London, BBC Books. 2005. 8vo.pp.320.Illustrations in black & white. Original black hardcover, titled in silver in pictorial dust wrapper. Very Good.
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. A History of Australian Lighthouses.
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1988. 4to. pp.xv + 264 with colour and Black & white illustralions. Decorated endpapers, original blue cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Very Good unmarked copy.
GLITTERATI. Shooting Fashion, Fame & Fortune.
London & Sydney. New Holland, 2017. 4to.pp.352 with many colour and black & white illustrations.Original embossed papered hardcover boards.No dust wrapper as issued. Very Heavy will require extra postage.