London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd, 1984. First UK Edition. Pictorial cover. Tall softcover (30 x 22cm); 256pp., richly illustrated with photographs from the tour; laminated glossy covers with Bowie on the front cover and the album cover artwork on the back cover. Laminate lifting along the joints, leaves showing a hint..... More
2004. Softcover (25 x 17cm); 326pp., b&w illustrations; illustrated soft card cover (from original painting by Drew Harrison on display in the Adelaide Aviation Museum), lettering in balck. Corners ever so slightly bumped. The history of the first Australian Beaufort Squadron; set in the war against the Japanese in the South..... More
London: Sandle Brothers Ltd., n.d. First Edition. Oblong hardcover (20 x 27.3cm); 3 unpaginated boards; two double page pop-ups; illustrated covers, red cloth backstrip. Corners a little bruised; both pop-ups working. More
London: Dean and Son, [c. 1935]. Hardcover (25.5 x 18.5cm); 48pp; 30 line illustrations and four double page pop-up scenes; illustrated boards (upper and lower); illustrated endpapers. Head and tail of spine frayed, three corners bumped and abraded, three working pop-ups (with a tape repairs) and the fourth in need of..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., n.d. Cloth. Hardcover (19.2 x 12.3cm); pp. xii, 13-158, 2 (blank), 12 (Publisher's advertisements); 12 leaves of plates adn 3 diagrams; red cloth vobered boards with black lettering on upper board and spine. Head and tail of spine a little tender, corner sharp but rubbed, top..... More
Traralgon, Victoria: Self published, 2013. First edition, 21st printing (of 24 copies), hardcover; (8) 214, 20 (Addendum), 2 (blank); illustrated; green textured boards with the double black diamond, colour patch of the 2/5th Australian Independent Company and the "Z" symbol of the secret Z - Special Unit , green endpapaers..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, January 1912. Twelfth edition. Small hardcover (18 x 11.5cm); pp. (30, advertisements, preface to the twefth edition, contents), 214; illustrations; Red cloth covered boards with black lettering, endpapers and lower cover printed with advertisements. Loosley inserted, a news clipping with more recipes (Lady's Coat on verso), a...... More
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1967. Soft wraps (17.3 x 11.3cm); 172 pp. (174) b&w illustrations; orange textured wraps with black lettering on upper wrap adn spine, map endpapers in orange and white. Upper wrap a little soiled and previous owner name in ink above title. A survival handbook specifically for the..... More
New York: Murray Hill Publishing Co., 1892. Soft staplebound pamphlet (16 x 11cm); 150pp (152); illustrated; front wrapper light blue with a medical stave device and an Aladdin's Lamp illustration. Edgeworn and generally soiled wraps, some insect damage with minor loss of text at pp. 30-36, 141 and 150. Numerical sticker..... More
Herts: Model and Allied Publiscations Ltd, 1971. First Edition. Hardback (24.5 x 15cm); 200pp., many illustrations and diagrams; black cloth covered boards, illustrated dustwrapper. Minor foxing to edegs of the text block, dust wrapper rubbed, soiled, price clipped and with a 1.5cm vertical tear at the head of the front..... More
Herts: Model and Allied Publiscations Argus Books Limited, 1975. Reprint. Paperback (24 x 14.5cm); 200pp., many illustrations and diagrams; illustrated card covers. Slight crease to bottom corner of top cover, lower corners slightly bumped, lower cover a trifle soiled with original QBD price sticker affixed at a rakish angle. Describes..... More
London: Namara Publications / Quartet Books, 1976. Hardcover (82 x 22cm); 95pp (96); illustrated with stills from the film; blue cloth covered boards, sky blue endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper. The dust wrapper is price clipped and creased at thte head and tail of the spine. Adaptation of an original scrpt by Bryan..... More
London: Routledge / Thoemmes Press, 1997. Complete in six cloth-bound hardcover volumes in a matching slipcase; maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spines and on the top edge of the slipcase. [Vol 1] pp. xxiii, vi, (14, advertisement, blank, Table of Contents), 704; [Vol 2] pp. 4, 14 (Half title..... More
Brisbane: UQ Vanguard, 2004. Softcover (20.8 x 14.2cm); 79pp., glossy black covers with lettering in white. Dust toned top edge and wear marks on lower edges. The UQ Vanguard Literary Award was a nationwide writing competition established in 2001 with the support of Archives Fine Books and then owner Dr Ross..... More
Melbourne: Globe Press, 1991. Hardcover, (25 x 16.5cm), 342pp., map endpapers (upside down at the back), photographs and maps; red cloth covered boards, dustwrapper illustrated by Tracie Grimwood. Head and tail of the spine a little rubbed, previous owner sticker on inside flap of the dust wrapper. The only Australian field..... More
London, New York, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover, pp.x, 180; numerous illustrations and graphs; blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, green dustwrapper with dark green lettering and illustration of a fish skeleton. Dust wrapper foxed, some foxmarks to the edges of the text block and..... More
Brisbane: Smith and Paterson Pty Ltd, 1950. First Edition. 376pp., numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs; blue cloth covered boards with lettering in dark blue on spine; front portion of dust-wrapper; map endpapers. Head and tail of spine a little abraded, corners pushed, ownership signature and address on front paste down and..... More
Brisbane: A. Green, 2009. Facsimile. Facsimile Edition No. 12 limited to 250 copies prepared from Savage Life in Central Australia, Horne, G. & Aiston, G. MacMillan: London, 1924 first edition, cloth boards, front board vignette, gilt spine, 184pp., index, 90 b/w images, list of illustrations, colour fold-out map, (near A3..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1920. 81pp, coloured frontis & 18 full page monochrome illustrations; grey decorated boards with cloth spine and colour illustration pasted onto top board; tan dust-wrapper with black lettering. [Muir 5918] Head and tail of spine abraded and a little tender, corners rubbed, boards a little bowed..... More
Sydney: Paper Bark Presss, 1989. First Edition. [Signed] Octavo (24 x 15cm); pp. 118 (119-20, blank); black cloth covered boards, lettering in gilt on spine, white glossy dust wrapper with photographic illustration on top wrapper and photograph of the poet on lower wrapper. Sigend by the poet at the ffep, light..... More
n.p., n.d. Soft wrappers, stapled (25 x 17cm), 16pp; yellow wraps with black lettering. Upper wrapper faded along spine, lower wrapper with a distinct strip of sunning along the spine and a 2cm crease, corners and edges just a tad worn; Australian Book Auction catalogue description of this item and two..... More
Townsville: Australian Insititute of Maritime Science, 2000. First Edition. Three volumes in slipcase; hardcover (30 x 21cm); pp. xii, 463 (464, blank), viii, 429 (430-32, blank), viii, 490 (491-2, blank); richly illustrated with photographs, drawings and distribution maps; glossy illustrated boards, coral endpapers (white on blue), blue cloth bookmark in..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. First Edition. Large hardcover (31.5 x 25cm); 543pp (544, blank); With 110 colour plates, 592 black and white plates, 187 line drawings, and 55 maps, tables and diagrams; black cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated unclipped dustwrapper, illustrated endpapers. Top edge..... More
Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2002. Large hardcover (30 x 24cm); pp xiii (xiv) 378; illustrated endpapers; illustrated paper covered boards. More
London & New York: The Studio/Studio Publications, n.d. Cloth. Water colour by Australian illustrator Maivs Dowling tipped in at the front gutter. Hardcover (29.5 x 20.5cm), 128pp, richly illustrated with b&w photographs; red cloth covered boards with lettering in blue on the spine. Lacks dustwrapper, the head and tail of the..... More