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
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
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
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
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
Gold Coast: Boolarong, 1990-92. First Edition. [SIGNED] Two tall octavo volumes (30 x 20.5cm); Volume One, "Yesterday's Heroes 1885-1950": pp. viii [2] 310; map endpapers; green cloth covered boards letterered in white, white lettering to spine, glossy green jacket with lettering in yellow and white; Volume Two "Keeping the Peace..... More
[London?]: Printed and published by the author, June 1923. First Edition. Octavo, staplebound pamphlet (21 x 14cm); 51pp; Orange covers with black lettering framed by doubple lines between which run a leaf and petal motif. Extremely fragile. Covers with tape repairs, first 8 pp detached; tape repair to title page which..... More
Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996. Two volumes offered together. Octavo (24 x 15cm); volume one: xiv, 468pp, 8 maps; gold dust wrapper; volume two: xvii, 508pp, 26 maps; silver dust wrapper; both with red endpapers and red lettering on jackets. Volume one has three abrasions to the ffep where it appears..... More
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1949. Pocket Edition. Hardcover 16mo (17.5 x 11.5cm); pink and white cloth covered boards; lettering in gilt; aqua endpapers; pink border to the title pages; glassine wrapper; signed photo of Clare Sydney Smith dated 1955 tipped in on first title page. Spine a touch cocked; head..... More
Manly: The Runciman Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (21.5 x 29.5cm), pp. 288; black cloth covered boards with lettering in white on the spine; pictorial dust wrapper with lettering in white on the spine and yellow on the front cover; richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Head and tail of..... More
Maryborough: Banner Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover (26.8 x 19cm), pp. viii, 229, [1, blank]; navy cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine; map endpapers; blue pictorial dust wrapper with lettering in black and white on the spine and covers; illustrated with black and white photographs. Head of..... More
Maryborough: Banner Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover (26.8 x 19cm), pp. xii, 321, [3, blank]; navy cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine; map endpapers; blue pictorial dust wrapper with lettering in navy and white on the spine and covers; illustrated with black and white photographs. Head of..... More