Sydney: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (248 x 185mm.), xli 1139 pp., ill., maps, index, bibliography, chronology, cloth in pictorial dustjacket, maps on endpapers. Fine, very light wear to board edges and top edge of dustjacket. "Fighting to the Finish...
Kobe, Japan: Tagaki Photo Co., [c.1920s]. Good. [Presentation copy] Landscape format (18 x 25cm), title leaf on light brown textured paper followed by 50 leaves of 50 hand tinted photographic images, English captions underneath each image, all edges gilt, brocade covered boards with silk tassles, enclosed in a linen covered...
New York City: ipso facto, 1998. Diecut card covers in slipcase with paper label, 186pp (unpaginated), text in French and English. Slight wear to the bottom edge of the top cover, otherwise fine. According to their shorte biographies at the rear of the book, Garçon is a designer who dresses.....
2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion Association, 1978. Second Edition. Original cloth. Octavo, 22 x 16 cm, ix, 454 pp., ill., maps, portraits, index. Bottom edge of binding rubbed, also head of spine and top of back board. top corners a little tender and abraded. ex libris blind stamp (Richard G. Wilson)...
London: Stanley Paul, 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (220 x 145 mm.), 235 pp., ill., cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in fair dustjacket, light spotting on top edge, offsetting on endpapers, dustjacket rubbed and scraped, top edge chipped, spine sunned, 13 mm tear in front top edge and...
Swanbourne, W.A. John Burridge Military Antiques, 1992. Facsimile. Cloth. Octavo (220 x 145 mm.), 354 [4], ill., portraits, cloth. Near fine, ex libris blind stamp (Richard G. Wilson) onffep., light spotting on top and fore-edge. Facsimile of: [Sydney : New Century Press, 1942] The 2nd Battalion was one of the...
London: Macmillan, 1934. Hardcover. Octavo (223 x 150 mm.), viii, 366 [2] (advertisements) pp., 13 maps, cloth in dustjacket. Good in poor dustjacket, edges foxed, pages close to boards foxed with a few other pages lightly stained, ink 1935 ownership signature on ffep, binding rubbed, upper edge of biniding bumped...
London: S.Virtue, 1889. Revised Edition. Full leather. Octavo (253 x 195 mm.), xi, 388 pp., ill., blue leather with 5 raised bands, title in gold in second compartment, all other compartments with blind embossed decoration, double blind rule around edges of boards, school crest in gold on front board, marbled...
London: Methuen, 1915. First. Hardcover. Octavo (197 x 140 mm.), vi 336 [4](advertisements) 31(advertisements) pp., cloth with gold tooling on spine in pictorial dustjacket. Very good in poor dust jacket, edges foxed, offsetting on endpapers, foxing on pages close to boards, dustjacket rear spine-fold split, edges chipped, particularly along top...
London: Vizetelly. front of shop above lit behind glass. Hardcover. Octavo (255 x 182 mm.), [2] 123 [2] pp., bookplate on front pastedown (J. Laurence Brown with motto Floreat Majestas), quarter cloth with boards covered in a decorative gold-embossed paper. 'Of the present volume there have been printed: 150 copies...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), 192 pp., cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Very good in fair dustjacket, foxing on edges and on pages close to boards, name has been erased and whited out on title page with resultant tiny hole, bookseller's stamp on front...
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing co., 1925. Student's Edition. Stiff wraps. Folio (520 x 360 mm.), 2 vols., 2 x title pages + 136 plates, 2 large folded plates, loose in publisher's portfolios, original quarter cloth over paper covered boards, vol 1: plates 1-69; vol. 2 pl. 70-136, ribbon...
New York: Assouline, [2011]. Cloth. Folio (345 x 274 mm.), 268 pp., ill., cloth in pictorial slipcase in corrogated board packing case. New. One corner of slipcase lightly bumped. The popularity of the district of eastern Long Island known as the Hamptons as a resort for New York City high...
Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2004. Cloth. Quarto (284 x 222 mm.), 304 pp,. ill., maps, diagrams, ill., index, bibliography, colour ill. endpapers, cloth with pictorial dustjacket. As new in near fine dustjacket, 2cm tear in rear dustjacket near fore-edge. Through photographs, contemporary plans, drawings and first hand accounts this book details the...
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1856. Boards. Octavo (250 x 180 mm.), xviii 438 pp., 287 illustrations including 2 x 2 page chromolithographs, plans including 1 folding plan, 1 folding lithograph view, maps, colour lithographed pictorial paper covered boards. Good, foxing and browning throughout, covers soiled and rubbed, corners bumped, spine chipped...
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, [1908]. First Edition. Cloth. Landscape format octavo (185 x 255 mm.), 159 pp., ill., pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, blue paste-paper endpapers. Good, coloured frontispiece absent, endpapers spotted, title page lightly browned but text block clean, cover soiled and flecked, tiny tear to lower spine, bookseller's...
New York: Macmillan, c. 1918. New illustrated edition. Cloth. Octavo (212 x 148 mm.), xxii [8]221 pp., ill., cloth with gold blocked decoration on front board, fore and bottom edges uncut. Near fine, one ffep browned, ink owner’s signature and date on the other. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), generally regarded as...
Canberra: Air Power Development Centre, c. 2010. Hardcover. Octavo (260 x 260 mm.), vi 230 pp., ill., paper covered boards with glossy photograph on front cover. Near fine, boards lightly rubbed and scratched. Covering the period from 1999 to 2009, this pictorial tribute to RAAF service includes theatres of war...
Loftus, N.S.W. Australian Military History Publications, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (307 x 215 mm.), xvi 112pp., ill., maps, indexes, bibliography, pictorial glossy paper covered boards. Fine, bottom of spine lightly bumped. The 2/8 Independent Company (later to be named the 2/8 Commando Squadron) was formed in July 1942. Until...
London: The Fountain Press, [1937]. Cloth. Hardcover, 27 x 18cm, 38pp, 32 full page plates. Cloth covered boards with classical nude with urn embossed in red line on top board. Chipped and abraded at the head and foot of the spine, with fabric separating at rear joint. The covers are...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1926. c. Cloth. 31.5 x 24cm, pp.: x, 1 blank, 119 plates of 120 called for [LACKS plate 64]. Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked border and title, top edge dye (yellow), scarce textured dustjacket protected in plastic, small square bookseller sticker on front of jacket...
East Hills: 2/20 Battalion Association Secretary, 1985. First Edition. Cloth. Hardcover in dustjacket, 25 x 18cm, (22), 377, (1) Blank, b&w ill., maps. Green clot boards with title in gilt on top and spine, faint coffe cup ring under title, boards are worn at the edges and along the joints...
Paris: Stromboli at Steidl, 1999. First Edition. Stiff boards. Hardcover in slipcase, 29 x 23cm, pp (8) comprising half title, blank, title, blank, dedication, blank, list of 46 models, blank, followed by 46 full page duotone illustrations of standing nudse on the recto of each. Stiff oatmeal coloured card boards...
The 4th Battalion (Commando) The Royal Australian Regiment, 1997. cloth covered boards. Hardcover with glossy pictorial dust jacket, 29 x 22cm. pp. xiii, 14-198, photographic illustrations throughout, includes Nominal Roll and Roll of Honour. Red boards with title in gilt on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket with silhouette of soldiers...
Brisbane and the Gold Coast: General Aviation Maintenance, Pty Ltd., 1998. First Edition. Glossy pictorial cover. Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 22 x 15.5cm, pp. xiv, 250, 35pp of photograpic illustrations, includes the Supply Line, Nominal List and Bibliography. Signed by the authors at the ffep recto. Ownership signature on...
