3 315 résultats
BIB143052Adelaide: Austaprint. 19781864. Octavo Size approx 14x22cm. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy in decorated faux leather boards - gilt & red detailing to front board. Fold-out map. Limited edition of 320 numbered copies - this is copy No 279. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 37 pages. First published in 1864. . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Austaprint hardcover
200294370Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2002. Quarto 88 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. 'Nick Mount is an iconic figure in the hothouse of contemporary glass'. Signed by the artist 2002 on the half-title. Wakefield Press paperback
1947140778Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1947. Small quarto 110 pages with a colour map and numerous colour vignettes. Quarter cloth and decorated papered boards; extremities a little bumped; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little chipped and rubbed with a few short closed tears. Warmly inscribed and signed by Marjorie Cornell active for many years in music art and theatre circles in Adelaide. 'In the 1950s and 1960s Rowe Street was the place to go for Sydney's 'touch of Paris'. A narrow laneway running between Pitt and Castlereagh streets it was small-scale personable cosmopolitan and fun. Its speciality shops offered a mix of fashion tearooms homewares art music literature and good coffee. Art was always part of Rowe Street. At the start of the twentieth century it had garret studios for artists such as Antonio Datillo-Rubbo and Lionel Lindsay. By mid-century Russell Drysdale Sidney Nolan Bill Dobell and James Gleeson gathered at Carl Plate's Notanda Gallery to cast their eyes over prints postcards and books from the overseas art world' 'Dictionary of Sydney'. Angus and Robertson hardcover
1992012552Tranter Enterprises Katoomba 1992. Book. As New. Bound Pictorial Card Cover. Signed by Authors. 1st Soft Cover Edition. 30cm. Very well researched and presented book by one of Australia's most premier bushranging historians. This copy is especially interesting as it is signed by the Author and the book is in excellent condition. Tranter Enterprises, Katoomba paperback
1986037939Sydney: Historic Australia Book Publishing Company 1986. 191pp index references num bw ills map. Or pictorial card. Covers rubbed with bottom front corner creased small chip from head of spine. SIGNED by author on title page. The story of Ben Hall by Australia's foremost authority on bushrangers. Signed by Author. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Good. 4to. Historic Australia Book Publishing Company Paperback
208181William Applegate Gullick Government Printer Sydney 1908. 160 pp oblong format coloured map b&w photographic plates near fine copy in illustrated blue cloth boards. William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, Sydney, 1908 hardcover
1966056291Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1966. 214pp bw ills pictorial endpapers. Green cloth in jacket. 1cm tear at top front of jacket small chip at top of jacket spine faint bookseller stamp on front free endpaper along with small blacked out line old price minor foxing/toning to page edges. After writing of adventures around the world Pinney concentrates on Australia. Included among the material in this volume is crocodile hunting in the Northern Territory prawn trawling off Queensland rat catchers in Brisbane mutton thieves north of Capricorn shark fishing out of Mackay and much more. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
2015054905Darwin: Historical Society of the Northern Territory 2015. xi 242pp indexappendix endnotes tables bw ills. Pictorial card. Illustration pages loose but present due to publishers binding several pages with ink marking/notations and inked notes on rear blank. Narrative of the management of leprosy in Queensland. From the shock finding of the earliest presentations through the harshness of the isolationist policies and racism of the lazarets to the final humanising influences of modern antibiotics. Includes account by people who lived in the institutions and their carers. Whilst primarily a Queensland story practices and attitutudes were similar in the Top End and Kimberley. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Large 8vo. Historical Society of the Northern Territory Paperback
19691709011Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very neat clean copies. First impression. Two companion volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 192 and 262 pages profusely illustrated with half-tone plates line drawings charts and a large foldout chart in each volume redrawn from Cook's original maps.Top edge on NZ volume spotty. The dustjackets have light rubbing and creasing to edges a few very small closed tears. These volumes bring together Cook's journals of his voyages to the east coast of New Holland Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. These journals have been edited and annnoted to provide an interesting important reference. <br/><br/> A.H. & A.W. Reed hardcover
1953140741Adelaide: RGSSA 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA December 1953. Octavo pages 23-33. Original wrappers; a fine copy. 'Among the men interested in the founding of South Australia there were not wanting those who had seriously considered the introduction of Chinese coolies as one way of overcoming the shortage of labour which plagued new colonies'; such men included Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Robert Gouger. This issue also contains LINDSAY H.A.: Across Australia in 1886 pages 35-41 with a map plus 2 plates and FINNISS H.J.: The Murray Mouth pages 1-21 with a facsimile of a log entry plus 2 plates. RGSSA paperback
1978125298Adelaide: Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Incorporated 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Incorporated 1978. Quarto; brown cloth; a fine copy with the original transparent acetate dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Number 125 of 300 copies signed by the author. Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Incorporated hardcover
1995144610Melbourne: The Author 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Melbourne The Author 1995. Quarto viii 286 pages with numerous illustrations plus 8 pages of colour plates. Papered boards a little marked and bumped with a tiny tear to the head of the spine; an excellent copy lacking the dustwrapper. Number 850 of 1500 copies. [The Author] hardcover
198198332Adelaide: South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board 1981. Quarto 81 pages with 34 colour plates plus endpaper maps. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper a little unevenly sunned. Number 345 of 750 numbered copies. South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board hardcover
1957032678Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty. Ltd. 1957. xli 449ppindex maps. Or red cloth in jacket. Slight silverfishing to extreme edges of boards Jacket rubbed at fold with several short tears and small chips holed along rear flap fold. Piece torn from top margin of one page not affecting text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. W.R. Smith & Paterson Pty. Ltd. Hardcover
1942053672Sydney: Pacific Publications. 1942. 414pp b/w ills maps folding general index index of place names. Green cloth backed boards. Covers evenly toned top edge evenly toned-a very nice copy indeed. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Pacific Publications. Hardcover
1995033241Brisbane: Annerley Recreation Club 1995. HEAVY. 276pp num bw ills. Or card covers. Slightest of edge wear. Extensive history of the first 50 years of the Annerley Recreation Club- includes basketball soccer cricket cricko netball vigoro table tennis tennis and more. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio. Annerley Recreation Club Paperback
1995140223North Adelaide: The Author 1995. Very Good. North Adelaide The Author 1995. Foolscap folio v v 74 4 examiner's report pages of duplicated typescript with 18 xerographically reproduced illustrations. Quarter card and clear plastic covers; front cover and first leaf a little creased; an excellent copy. 'A thesis submitted in part fulfilment of requirements for Master of Letters. Department of History University of New England Armidale November 1993'. The Author unknown
1987119361Marrabel: Marrabel Rodeo Club 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Marrabel Marrabel Rodeo Club 1987. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Marrabel Rodeo Club hardcover
1881BIB258229Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son. 1881. Octavo Size. Very Good Condition. Errata slip to prelims. Nice copy. Author was Dean of Adelaide at time of publication. Gift inscription to preliminary pages very neat a couple of spots of foxing to preliminary pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 59 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
2007BIB296157Adelaide: Mount Lofty Golf Club Inc. 2007. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition. No dustjacket as issued. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 113 pages. The history of one of the most picturesque of South Australia's golf courses. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Mount Lofty Golf Club Inc hardcover
2001131507Hallett: Hallett Cricket Club 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hallett Hallett Cricket Club 2001. Folio ii 54 pages with numerous illustrations. Pictorial wrappers lightly cockled; a very good copy. Dated 15 September 2001 and signed in ink on the title page by the author. This copy bears the ownership signature twice of John Honan a key player. Loosely inserted are five original black and white snapshot-sized photographs of HCC teams only one of which is reproduced in the book with an inscribed note attached to four of them identifying the year and the players for the record those teams are: 1954 1964-1965 1965 1971-1972 and 1972-1973. Hallett Cricket Club] paperback
1992145279Adelaide: Royal Geographic Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Inc. in association with Giles Publications 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographic Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Inc. in association with Giles Publications 1992. Quarto x 174 pages with numerous illustrations and maps many in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Royal Geographic Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch Inc.) in association with Giles Publications hardcover
1994145278Chatswood: Reed 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Chatswood Reed 1994/ 1992 first edition published by the Royal Geographic Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Inc. in association with Giles Publications. Quarto x 174 pages with numerous illustrations and maps many in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Reed hardcover
1894143877Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1894. Very Good. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1894. Foolscap folio 4 pages. Needle-holes and notches in the left-hand margin where previously bound now disbound; glue residue and binding remnants on the spine; margins very slightly tanned; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 93 of 1894; one of only 650 copies. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer unknown
2001054319St Lucia Qld: University of Queensland Press 2001. xvi 294pp index bibliography notes appendices tables. Pictorial card. Page edges and margins evenly toned. Examines Australia's first federal election following Federation in 1901. The election was a proving ground for Australian democracy but the founding fathers themselves published little of consequence about it and further generations of writers largely ignored it. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. University of Queensland Press Paperback