Marsh, H.: EditorMareMagnum
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400 pages. Prior owner's details upon title page, otherwise tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 19 plates; original green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. The standard reference not only on the voyages, but also the structure, logistics, conditions and statistics. The original edition is very scarce.
8vo., First Edition [?], with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 2 plates, one plate dust-soiled at outer margin, very neat gift inscription (dated 1904) on half-title verso; original pictorial green cloth, upper board blocked in red, orange, yellow and black, pictorial backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), small closed tear at tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in remarkably well-preserved pictorial binding. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. A minor Australian classic. BL gives a publication date of 1902; Muir concurs. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo [23 x 15 cm]; [xii], 304, 16 [ads] pp, frontis, 46 illustrations from photos, mostly full-page, folding map (split in fold), index. original blue pictorial gilt cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilted, spine faded, edges rubbed, corner bumped, few leaves bit foxed, good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author first travelled to New Guinea from Australia in 1899, where he travelled extensively throughout the British New Guinea, Papua, over a 14 year period, describing the peoples in detail, their customs, rituals, society, etc. The illustrations are quite good.
Railways and unfinished railways indicated. Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
Numerous exquisitely beautiful colour plates and b/w text illustrations, 4 maps, gilt lettering to spine. Gift-note to David Butler on half-title page, text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Heavy! Clean Copy
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; original pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, fore-edges very lightly spotted else a remarkably bright, clean copy of a very scarce work.
Large coloured map (650 x 900 mm), folding down to 16 sections, small hole to one fold otherwise in excellent condition.
4to (300 x 275 mm), 340pp., numerous coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Contents: early Sydney & Parramatta; the development of topographic painting; local artists; visiting artists; dating the views; the first Australian printmakers & printers; paper to publishing; printed views of Sydney; governors & ministers.
vol.I: 307pp.ill.+ 380 ills.out-of-text (of which some in colour) & vol.II: 274pp.ill.+ 238 ills.out-of-text (in bl/w & colour), cloth, dustwrapper, 25.7x 22.5cm., VG, text in german
PARIS, Le Doyen, Lib. Ed. - 1857 - In-8 - 1/2 Reliure basane - - Plats & gardes marbrés - 234 pages - rousseurs - Rare
Madrid, 1964. Ocho folletos en 4to. Facsímiles. Cubiertas originales.
101 magnificent black and white photographic plates. "Laurie Wilson (1920-1980) was an Australian photographer who seldom travelled far from his home base in Geelong, Victoria, Australia ...His photographs celebrate what he called 'Natures's unrepeatable moments', rather than describing scenery ...(He was) a remarkable and original photographer who received little recognition during his lifetime" - from dust jacket. Average overall wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
144 pages. Selected bibliography. Index. "Considers the past, present and future of the comic from an international perspective, from Hogarth's prints via the birth of the superhero to the graphic novel. Along the way they examine the development of comics in Japan, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Holland, France, Germany and Italy - in short, any country with an indigenous comic industry. Illustrated with more than 250 specially commissioned colour photographs, many of rare publications from the author's private collection." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A beautiful copy - gift quality. Book
Includes the following issues from 1992: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Holiday Diving on Fiji's Matagi Island; Skookumchuck Narrows; Heron Island, Australia; Slides from Prints; Bahamas - 500 years since Columbus; Bella Bella - in Remote B.C.; Red Sea; Fate of the Falconer; The sprightly Seasprint; Floriday Keys; Bonaire; RCMP's Regina; Whidbey Island; Sea Stars; Diving the Capilano; Shoot Like a Pro; The Straits of Mackinac; MCD Strobes; Raratonga; Sherkston Quarry; Georgian Bay Wreck Dive; Luxury Diving abour Truk Agressor; Sipadan Island; Lost Cities of Micronesia; Artificial Reefs of Porteau Cove, B.C.; The Manatee; Fraser River Wreck Dive; Guanaja; Cabo San Lucas; Lake Dive; Underwater Video; The Green Sea Urchin; Scotia Cape; Cayman Connection; 'City of Vienna' in Halifax; Alaska - an exotic dive; The Cunner; Queen Charlotte Islands; Gulf Islands - B.C.'s Playground; Calabogie; Cozumel; Behind the Dolphin Smile; Ucluelet, Vancouver Island; Nova Scotia Wreck Challenge; Canada's Ice Diving; Belize Resort; Alberta's Project Habakuk; Dodd Narrows - current-swept passage in B.C.; Bristleworm. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
Features: Cover photo of Peter Eustace (Sheffield Wednesday); Bobby Moore writes "The striker I most fear is Gordon Banks"; Super full-page black and white photo of Bobby Charlton beside George Best on the field; A Head Start for Crystal Palace! - Manager Bert Head writes; Colour photos of Jimmy Robertson (Arsenal) and John Hall (Bradford City); Colin Bell, the Manchester City and England forward, relives his most memorable match; George Yardley went to Australia to become a hit in Britain; Great colour centerfold photo of Cardiff City - Bluebirds of Ninian Park; Focus on Alan Mullery (Spurs); The team behind the team at West Bromwich Albion; Six Super Scots - John Fallon, Arthur Duncan, Ron McKinnon, Roy Barry, Dough Smith, Stan Rankin; Third time unlucky for Benfica - Man. United pluck the Eagle's Prize; Colour photos of Bobby Graham (Liverpool), Alan Hill (Nottingham Forest), and Roy McFarland (Derby County) on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Modest wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: England's place in the sun - Selwyn Lloyd; Birmingham, Alabama - a City in fear as racial violence smolders in this Deep South inderbox - with black and white photos; The new pulse of Australia - Jolly swagmen, kangaroos and tough outback cowboys are waltzing, like Matilda, toward a new destiny; Buck$ Benny Rides Again - the world's best-paid comedian, Jack Benny, still 39, returns to Broadway after a 32-year absence; Why I Didn't Quit the Ministry - by Norman Vincent Peale; Funny Side of the Bunny Business - a new Playboy Club whirls in a tangle of corn, beefs and cabbage; Dishrags to Riches - The Saga of Heloise Cruse; The Convict Volunteers - when scientists need human guinea pigs to submit to cancer shots or to test drugs, thousands of prisoners step forward, for surprising reasons; Atomic Bombs for Everyone - the exclusive 'nuclear club' may become crowded with new members including Egypt, Indonesia, the Congo. Absolutely *fantastic* colour full-page ad for 12 huge Cadillac models of varying colours. Book
Features: Now that I am a Private Citizen - Dwight D. Eisenhower; Major-League Intellectual - Cincinnati Red, Jim Brosnan; Working Their Way out of Trouble - In Park Forest, Illinois, teen-age lawbreakers are sentenced to old-fashioned work, and they rarely come back for more; Oddballs of the Animal Kingdom in Australia and New Zealand; Adventures of the Mind - Why Philosophy, by Susanne K. Langer; Are Southern Ministers Failing the South? - Many are compromising their beliefs by playing it safe on the integration issue. Uncommon 2-page colour ad for Tidewater/Flying A service stations. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Book
95 pages. Black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Unmarked. Covers tanned with age. Book
126 pages. Black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
115 pages. Black and white photos. Above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Unmarked. Covers tanned with age. Faint name atop front cover. Book
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
