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
London and New York: Macmillan, 1980. Complete in twenty volumes; hardbound (25 x 18 cm); many b/w photographs, music scores and line illustrations, bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine. This is a heavy item and will require extra postage. First planned, edited and published in 1878 by Sir..... 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
Paris: Éditions STOCK, 1997. Hardcover (27.5 x 18.5cm); black moire endpapers, inscribed at half title, 160pp, amply illustrated; black cloth covered boards, glossygold dust wrapper illustrated with a photograph of the Château. Two small white stains at the foot of the ffep. Special numbered edition reserved for Château Palmer. This..... 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
Melbourne: Miegunyah and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2009. First Edition. Almost square hardcover(22.3 x 21.5cm); pp x, 309, (1), cobalt endpapers and all edges dyed cobalt, richly illustrated; glossy hardcover illustrated with a detail from Robert Rooney's After Colonial Cubism (1993). Top board has a 2mm abrasion to the..... 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
Sydney: Horwitz, 1965. First Edition. Paperback pulp fiction recased in cloth covered boards with the title typewritten on a paper label on the spine (19 x 12.5cm); 130pp; illustrated endpapers; original covers preserved with new endpapers inserted (possibly with the intention of stabilising the original covers). The original front cover is..... 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: Rivingtons, 1871 and 1874. mixed editions. Complete in four uniformly bound volumes; octavo; three quarters black morroco over navy pebbled boards; marbled endpapers with small square bookseller sticker on the front paste down of each; all edges marbled. Pp. viii, 924; viii, 723, [3]; viii, 435, [3]; vi, 750; [2]..... More
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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
London, New York, San Francisco: Academic Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover, octavo (24 x 16.5cm); pp. vi, 495; coloured frontispiece and numerous b&w illustrations by Celia Rosser; green cloth covered boards with AP embossed in a circle at the centre of the top board; lettering on the spine in gilt;..... 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