Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life (1839)
Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2008. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. [iv] 9 - 336 [340] : white and blue glossy boards. Scratching to head and tail of spine. More
Autobiography and memoir
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A Memoir of Jacques Cartier sieur de Limoilou; His voyages to St. Lawrence. A Bibliography and a Facsimile of the Manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. Octavo (248 x 170 mm.), ix, 464 pp., 29 ill., index, bibliography, facsimiles, genealogy (folding), maps (2 folding), cloth with paper label on spine, top edge gilt. Good, binding including spine label and feps soiled, corners and fore edges bumped, internal hinges cracking..... More
The Memoirs of Baron Thiébault Volumes I and II.
Felling: Worley, 1994. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. [v] x [1] 491 [3 blank] : [iv] [1] 438 [439] [7 blank] : index of proper names, vol II : mapped endpapers : blue cloth boards : gilt to spine. Very gentle push to spine head of vol I. Published from the..... More
The Diaries of Donald Friend
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2001-2006. First Edition. Complete in four hardcover volumes : pp. lviii, 485 (1, blank); xxxix, 711 (1, tailpiece); xxiii, 711 (1, tailpiece); xxiii, 711 (1, tailpiece) : illustrated in colour and b&w : black boards lettered in gilt to spine : each dust jacket with..... More
The Life of David Hume Esq. Written by Himself.
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. First Edition. Octavo : pp.iv, 62 : portrait of Hume engraved by T. Cook : contemporary marbled paper wraps. Lacks half title and advertisement, otherwise complete. The paper wraps are considerably edgeworn and frayed; the spine is largely chipped with the gatherings..... More
Sky Roads Of The World
London; Edinburgh: W.& R. Chambers, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [5] 314 [2] : frontispiece portrait of author : blue cloth boards : black lettering to spine : brown dust jacket, blue lettering and plane design : not price clipped : newspaper clippings on author and original receipt loosely..... More
The Knockabout
Sydney: E. A. McCombe, 1968. Hardcover : pp. [iv] x,198 : signed dedication by author on half-title page : signed letter by author loosely inserted : bookseller's stamp front paste-down : light grey cloth boards with title in red : red lettering to spine : protective plastic cover. Edges age toned;..... More
Three Dog Nightmare; The Chuck Negron Story
USA: Chuck Negron, 2013. Third Edition. Paperback (21 x 13cm); xi (1, blank) 316 (42), note about the author (one page) and b&w photos; soft photo illustrated card covers. Signed by Negron inside front cover. Front joint just beginning to separate (3mm) at the tail, otherwise intact, corners a little soft..... More
Memoirs
London: Souvenir Press, 1977. First British Edition. Hardcover : pp (10) (4) 5-370 (4, blank) : plain eps : yellow and black boards lettered in black to spine : unclipped dust wrapper. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. His..... More
Memoirs of a Stockman
Melbourne: Stockland Press, 1942. Third Printing. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [1] 359 [1 blank] : frontispiece, portrait of the author at 81 : 16 illustrations : rust red cloth boards : title in gilt : bookseller's sticker to front e.p. : inscribed from sister to brother in 1948 to half-title..... More
The Last Shenachie
Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1976. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] 47 [1 blank] : 2 pages of illustrations : olive green paper covers with decorative border. Covers a little creased near spine. Angus Macdonald (1900-1975) was well known in Sydney's Scottish circles for his willingness to teach Gaelic for free..... More
Insanity Fair
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. New edition. Hardcover : pp. [1-4] 5- 427 [428] 429431 [432] : Burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine : Top edge dyed red : Black dust jacket with red and white illustration by R. A. Atkinson: Price clipped : Book shop stamp on..... More
Praeterita; Outlines of scenes and thoughts perhaps worthy of memory in my past life
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889. Three quarter leather. One large Quarto : three (four) volumes (28 chapters) bound as one, each with a steel engraving : Volume one (1885 & 1886) in 12 chapters with a steel engraving of Ruskin's two aunts : pp. (v)..... More
The Golden Reign; The story of my friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia"
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
An Autobiography
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1975. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 101 [1 blank] : frontispiece : Introduction by Jeanne F. Young : grey/brown leatherette board : gilt to spine. Originally published in Adelaide in 1910. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 199. More
Private Domain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [x] [4] 371 [374] : more than 40 b&w photo illustrations : blue paper boards : pink cloth spine : white illustrated jacket : fore-edge untrimmed. Few small fox spots to top edge of block; very faint foxing to..... More
Taken on Trust
London: BCA by arrangement with Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. Hardcover octavo; pp xii [xiv] 370; b&w photo illustrations; green boards lettered in gilt to spine; photo illustrated dust wrapper. Prize presentation pasted to ffep; loosely inserted is a menu for the Larrakeyah Barracks Officers' Mess for Saturday the 15th October..... More
Recollections ; 50 Years in the Service of India
Lahore, India: The Civil & Military Gazette Ltd., 1942. M.G. Anderson. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [1] 212 : 1 plate : drawings throughout by M.G. Anderson : foreword by G. Cunningham : green cloth boards with black illustration and lettering : 101 written in ink to front free endpaper near..... More
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