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

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

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

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

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

New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover (23.5 x 15cm), pp. x. (2, Title,blank) 377 (1, blank); glossy grey boards with black lettering. Edges of text block a little foxed. According to the publisher's note on p.iv, this text is electronically reproduced from digital..... More

New York, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with the University of California Press, 2002. Softcover (28.5 x 25cm), 240pp, richly illustrated with 88 colour illustrations and 22 in black and white; card covers with french folds illustrated with a detail of untitled (1960). Hint of..... More

Ravensburg, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000. Octavo (24.5 x 16.5cm), pp. 135 (1, copyright page), 70 illustrations; hot pink boards illustrated with Female Head with Flowers c.1958 on top board, lettering in black on spine, plain endpapers, TEXT IN GERMAN. The pink has lifted in tiny patches (1-2mm) on each of..... More

London: Lawrence and Bullen, n.d. [1902]. Stitched, softcover, (24.5 x 155cm), 28pp (unnumbered), each page with a humourous verse by Tovey and an illustration by John Hassall; Illustrated card wraps. The covers are soiled and creased; clean and bright inside except for some soiling to the edges of the first few..... More

London: Dennis Dobson, 1974 - 1977. First Edition. Complete in four volumes, octavo (23 x 15cm). The Shaping of North America; from earliest times to 1763: pp [10] 261 [1]; plain cream endpapers; red cloth covered boards; circle enclosing a ship blind stamped on the top board, lettering on spine..... More

Edinburgh: P. Neill, 1824. Hardcover 4to (30.5 x 24.5cm), pp. vii, [1, blank], 86, [2, blank]; tan leather, contrasting dark brown panel on the spine, lettering and borders in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. 5mm vertical chip out of the head of the spine, 10mm vertical chip out of the tail;..... More

Sydney: Selected Publications, n.d. Almost square stapled paperback with illustrated card covers (19 x 16cm); 8pp (also card); 6 colour and 6 b&w illustrations. Covers slightly soiled, a little age toned, otherwise very good. More

Sydney: William Maddock, 1885. First Edition. Small hardcover (18.8 x 12.5cm); pp. [iv] 100; original green pebbled boards with elaborate gilt lettering to top board and spine, yellow eps. (Serle, 1925, p.96). A poor copy but offered for the inscription by the poet to Sir Charles Lilley. Endpapers separated at the..... More