Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1939. Octavo, green hardcover, vi, 334 pp. Some flecking affects the cloth, spine ends rubbed and worn, bowed, rear inner board hinge split but firm, dust jacket worn and torn; overall, a good copy. First edition - second printing dating June 1939. The Wolf has become..... 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: 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
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
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, original green cloth, xviii, 296 pp., frontispiece and seven plates. Cloth scuffed, two of the plates are chipped and creased, last third of the text tide-marked. Working copy only. An account of the Australian wool industry by Charles Bean, then employed before the War..... More
Sydney: D. Davis & Co., 1912. Quarto, printed wrappers, 4 pp. Wrappers a bit worn and slightly torn with no loss of text. Music sheet of The Ragtime Soldier Man by Irving Berlin. More
Poole: Special Interest Model Books Ltd, 2006. Quarto, printed wrappers, 144 pp., illustrated with photographs and diagrams. A fine copy. This book provides all the information any ship modeller interested in powering a model boat using live steam will need. More
London: Hamlyn, 1986. Folio, illustrated hardcover, 190 pp., profusely illustrated. Light foxing on rear endpapers, frayed on inner front hinge, otherwise a near fine copy. High technology and high politics combine in this profusely illustrated analysis of the future shape of land warfare in Europe. Drawing on the US Army's..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. Large octavo, early half burgundy roan with gilt spine, xvi, 702 pp., mezzotint portrait frontispiece and numerous other maps and illustrations throughout. Binding a little scuffed, slight offsetting from the frontispiece to the title-page, internally excellent and a most handsome copy overall..... More
New York: New Directions - Christine Burgin, 2016. Small octavo, illustrated grey hardcover, 96 pp., illustrated with coloured photographs of the author's envelope poems. As new. Although a prolific poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of ehr eighteen hundred poems. She preferred not to, and among the..... More
New York: New Direction Books/Christine Burgin Books, 2013. Tall quarto, illustrated hardcover, 256 pp., profusely illustrated throughout with envelope poems. As new. Reprint. The first full-colour facsimile publication of Emily Dickinson's fifty-two manuscript envelope poems and writings offering a glimpse into the process of one of the most important American..... More
Crawley, Western Australia: The University of Western Australia Publishing, 2010. Quarto, silver grey hardcover, xvi, 480 pp., frontispiece, profusely illustrated in colour. Library stamp 'cancelled' on title leaf, otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket. An extensive work bringing forth the talented and renown goldsmiths and silversmiths in Western Australia..... More
Stockholm: Norstedt and Bonnier Publishers, 1960. Octavo, black cloth, two preliminary pages, 80 pp., illustrated. A good copy in worn dust-jacket. First edition. The rediscovery of the Swedish warship Vasa is perhaps the greatest event in the short history of marine archaeology. More
Shoreditch: G. Kennon & Co., circa 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers, 24 pp., illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Wrappers browned, otherwise a good copy. A revised purchase catalogue with a list of blueprints, castings and parts, materials and tools as well as other supplies which was useful for model and experimental..... More
London: Shire publications, 2011. Octavo, illustrated printed wrappers, 32 pp., illustrated with photographs in black and white. A near-fine copy. A reference book for steam engine enthusiasts of all ages. More
Chicago: B&B Enterprises, 1986. Octavo, printed wrappers, 38 pp., illustrated throughout. Wrappers a little worn and slightly dog-eared, bottom-edge corner of the back wrapper is cut, a few leaves dog-eared, otherwise a good copy. Stagebill program for September 1986 relating to Billy Bishop Goes to War, a musical production written..... More
London: Read Books Ltd, 2013. Octavo, printed wrappers, [x], 144 pp., illustrated with diagrams. A fine copy. A manual on model steam engines with chapters on the principles of the steam engines and the various types of engines such as: self-acting toy engine, oscillating engines, horizontal engines as well as..... More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1935. Quarto, dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, viii, 372 pp., frontispiece, 12 plates, one folding map at rear end. Endpapers foxed, otherwise a good copy in a worn and torn dust-jacket. First edition. A scarce copy. An account of T. H. Huxley's voyage to..... More
London: Macmillan, 1921. Large thick quarto, original green cloth, xvi, 748 pp. (last blank). A little inoffensive browning affects the head of the spine, some preliminary foxing; overall a very good and sturdy copy. The dust-jacket is worn and incomplete. The definitive reference on the subject. In the preface, Sir..... More
New York: William Rudge, 1928. String bound folio of 13 pages, in the original card folder. Folder is a bit worn at extremities, very good condition overall. Prospectus for the ambitious, fiscally catastrophic yet typographically impressive edition of the Boswell papers. The prospectus itself is an impressive piece of composition..... More
Kenthurst, Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1997. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 127, eight double-sided black-and-white plates. A very fine copy. This book tells the story of the Royal Australian Navy in the years following W.W.II. More
