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
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: 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
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
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
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
New York? circa 1930. Bookplate measuring 82 x 136 mm. Well preserved. A curious piece of Chalie Chaplin ephemera, depicting a silhouette man walking his dog against a big city skyline. The bookplate is from the personal collection of Australian Olympic swimmer Fred Lane (1880 - 1969). More
North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1987. Quarto, burgundy red hardcover with spine lettering, 296 pp., frontispiece, 13 plates. A fine copy Illustrated edition 1987. A classic account of the early days of British settlement in Australia, John Cobley brings together the words of surgeons John White and Arthur..... 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
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1930. Octavo, richly illustrated boards and gilt spine lettering, 356 pp., frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout, 16 plates in colour and black and white. Bumped at corners, light foxing, otherwise a very good copy in chipped dust-jacket. First edition: largely the work of Unaipon, appropriated..... 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: 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
