Milan: Automobilia, 1997-2006. Nineteen volume set. Quarto, charcoal-grey hardcover, spine and cover embossed with red lettering, illustrated endpapers. Volumes range from 126 pp. to 142 pp., total of 2,560 pp. with additional leaves of advertising (unpaginated). The set is illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white photographs, tables, charts, diagrams and..... More
Coventry: printed by Curtis & Beamish for Alfred Herbert Ltd., 1902. Oblong quarto, original printed wrappers and cloth backstrip; separately paginated in sections alphabetically arranged from A to V (and numbering some hundreds of pages in total). Section of the cloth backstrip is missing, very good condition, internally fresh. Industrial..... More
London: Allen & Hanburys Ltd, 1930. Large thick octavo, original cloth; frontispiece, [32], 1974, 90 pp. Very good condition. A cursory examination of this exhaustive catalogue reveals anaesthetic apparatus (over sixty pages), surgical tools, ligature and suture materials, blood transfusion equipment, cystoscopes, artificial limbs, and a whole section of tools..... More
Cleveland: The Corday & Gross Company, 1949. Octavo, illustrated blue cloth, xi, 691 pp., additional 13 unpaginated leaves including index, chronology, list of goodyear plants, and sales by years after 1907, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with photograph in black and white. Rubbed at spine ends, some foxing, rear endpaper scratched, otherwise..... More
London: Orbis, 1984. Quarto, blue cloth, dust jacket, 224 pp., profusely illustrated with colour. Tape-marked and foxing on dust jacket, tape-marked on cloth, spotting and torn on endpapers, otherwise a good copy. Entering Space gives a detailed account of a shuttle flight, from the tension of the launch and the..... More
London: Orbis, 1984. Quarto, blue hardcover, spine and cover embossed with white lettering 224 pp., profusely illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Very light spotting on edges of text block, very light foxing on leaf edges throughout, foxing on inside edges of dust-jacket, first leaf has a "50 Years NASA" sticker..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1986. Octavo, quarter cloth and marbled boards, 294 pp. A fine copy. One of 250 numbered copies of the first edition of The Old Devils, signed by the author and specially bound. More
London: Hutchinson, 1994. Octavo, quarter cloth and marbled boards, 306 pp. A fine copy. One of 150 numbered copies of the first edition of You Can't Do Both, signed by the author and specially bound. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Octavo, quarter cloth and marbled boards, 176 pp. A fine copy. One of 200 copies of the first edition of Time's Arrow, signed by the author and specially bound. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Octavo, blue hardcover, spine embossed with silver lettering, 206 pp., frontispiece, 12 double-sided black-and-white plates, three maps included, three appendices included. Tail end of spine a little bumped, spine a little faded, top edge of text box lightly spotted, light foxing throughout, signature (unclear) on free..... More
Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. Quarto, black hardcover, spine embossed with gilt lettering, 144 pp., illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps throughout. Spine ends and corners rubbed, foxing on first few leaves, foxing on inside of dust-jacket, spine of dust-jacket and section of the front cover faded; otherwise a...... More
Brisbane: Hema Maps, 2000. Quarto, printed wrappers, 78 pp., profusely illustrated. Cover a little worn, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce copy. The history and evolution of the city of Sydney through maps from 1788 to 2000. More
Detroit: Automobile Quarterly Publications, 1983. Small quarto, hardcover, 224 pp., numerous illustrations in colour. Previous owner's details to front endpaper, near-fine copy. Second edition. A seventy-five-year history of General Motors Corporation through the nostalgic and colourful prism of the past. More
Connecticut, USA: The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998. Quarto, navy-blue cloth, spine embossed with silver lettering, front cover embossed with silver image and lettering, 176 pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout with numerous full-colour reproductions of the author's paintings. Very light spotting on edges of text block, some foxing on title..... More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1950. Octavo, blue cloth, xiv, 258 pp., frontispiece and plates. Near-fine copy in chipped dust-jacket. An account of Church of England and denominational private schools by Charles Bean, official Australian war correspondent during the First World War. More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1950. Octavo, blue cloth, xiv, 258 pp., frontispiece and plates. Near-fine copy in similar dust-jacket. An account of Church of England and denominational private schools by Charles Bean, official Australian war correspondent during the First World War. More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1945. Octavo, printed wrappers, 210 pp. Some browning, otherwise a good copy. From the Australian Pocket Library series. More
Kent, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Quarto, illustrated gloss hardcover, 64 pp., illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout with colour photographs and paintings as well as black-and-white photographs and drawings; dust-jacket is printed with a full-colour image that can be displayed as a poster. As new. First edition. One in the series..... More
Huntingdon, UK: Bluntisham Books, 1995. Tall octavo, black hardcover, spine and front cover embossed with silver lettering, x, 230 pp., frontispiece, eight double-sided black-and-white plates, three maps included. Spine ends bumped, right corner of front cover bumped, small spot on fore-edge of text block; otherwise a very good copy. First..... More
Melbourne: Lothien Publishing Company, 1978. Octavo, illustrated printed wrappers, 104 pp.; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, maps and graphs. Tail end of corners slightly bumped, small mark on fore-edge of text block, faint crease on first leaf; otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition, signed by the author. Part of the..... More
Sydney: Millard Press, 1990. Quarto, blue hardcover, 192 pp., profusely illustrated throughout. with photographs and drawings Small tear at top corner of dust jacket, otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition in Australia and New Zealand (1990). An anthology of stories, poems, and illustrations dedicated to Tolkien that celebrate the author..... More
Sydney: Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library, 1970. Quarto, original blue cloth, xvi, 894 pp, index. Spots along spine, otherwise a very good copy in a worn and thumbed dust-jacket. Second edition. A revised an extended version of the first bibliography compiled by D. H. Borchardt in 1928. This..... More
Firenze (Florence): R. Bemporad & Figlio Editori, 1930. Octavo, quarter bound with gilt spine lettering, [ii], 248 pp., frontispiece, 21 double-sided plates. Some foxing, hinge slightly split at rear, otherwise a good copy. Fourth edition. Written all in Italian. An account of the ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole..... More
Bathurst, NSW, Australia: Robert Brown and Associates, 1982. Small quarto, illustrated printed hardcover, 80 pp., frontispiece, endpapers illustrated with maps, illustrated throughout with numerous photographs in colour, some photographs in sepia. A near-fine copy. A fascinating and fully illustrated guide to the colourful postage stamps of Papua New Guinea issued..... More
Sydney: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1977. Tall octavo, turquoise hardcover, embossed on spine with silver lettering, [x], 210 pp., endpapers illustrated with maps, six double-sided black-and-white plates. Corners a little bumped, edge of dust-jacket a little worn; otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hilary. Australian..... More
