Recent Arrivals from Adelaide Booksellers

Sydney: Book Division. 1971 to 1977. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Mild age-toning to Part One. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 942 pages. Part One: A Library of Antarctica & Australiana, Bibliography & Cartography, Hydrography & Nautica, New Zealand & Pacific, Voyages & Travels. Part Two: Australian Architecture,… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. 2011. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 245 pages. Notable Australian academic lays out a way in which modern Australia can wright the wrongs that have occurred in the years since the… Read more about this item

London: Brockhampton Press. 1994. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with black and white plates. Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 223 pages. Stories of impossible victories. 11 true stories… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Black and White map. 331 pages. Explores how India's history was shaped by its geography. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.

Published by Author. 1988. Large octavo size [18x25cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine sunned & now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 292 pages. The story of a… Read more about this item

Jacobyte Books. 2001. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Black & white illustrations by James Evan Jones. 249 pages. 26 short stories with a distinctly legal flavour with regular appearances by wily veteran barrister, Shaun Mackie. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Anthony Laube. 1992. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 156 pages. "Trimmers" was a term used to refer to anyone who was a 'character' in the 1900s. Mr Bruce used the term when reminiscing about his youth - delightful memoirs of this interesting… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Quality Books. 1984. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. 62 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

London: Conway Maritime Press. 1981. Quarto Size [approx 21x26cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. For nearly a century a massive oriental empire was administered… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber. 1994. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper and a bookplate to front pastedown. 426 pages. The ninth Adam Dagleish murder mystery. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided… Read more about this item

New York and London: Routledge. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. 218 pages. Explores the ethical, social, and religious dimensions of the 'Gene Myth' . Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

London: Hogarth Press. 1986. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. page edges lightly age-toned. New Introduction by Ian Hamilton. 463 pages. Collection of 30 short stories by Pulitzer Prize winner. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Ringwood: Penguin Books. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to half-title page. 340 pages. An anthology of eighteen pieces about death, from irreverent to philosophical by a range of Australian Authors. Includes contributions by Gabrielle Carey, Anne Deveson, Phillip Adams, Inga Clendinnen, Richard Flanagan, Cassandra Pybus, etc. . 1st Edition. Softcover.… Read more about this item

New York: Norton & Company. 1995. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Full page colour plates and in-text black & white illustrations. 252 pages. This is a collection of fifty-nine of Edward Hopper's most important paintings, in… Read more about this item

2017. Quarto Size [approx 21x30cm]. Very Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Maps. . A trilogy covering three generations of the Smith family who were involved in the iconic invention of the Stump-Jump Plough at Arthurton and Ardrosson, South Australia . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2008. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Spine a little sunned. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 160 pages. Rita Huggins was stolen from her country as a child in the 1920s and taken to the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. This is her autobiography as told to her daughter. … Read more about this item

Elizabeth, NJ: Hollym. 2002. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a near fine dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 248 pages. A concise and… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society. 1994. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition. No Slipcase. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Black & White maps. Edited and with a Foreword by George Vassiltchikov. Introduction by Christabel Bielenberg. 296 pages. Marie Illarionovna Vassiltchikov was a Russian princess and her diaries describe the repeated bombing of Berlin during… Read more about this item

Sydney: ABC Books. 2007. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy, laminated pictorial boards in a Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 192 pages. From the ancient World Map, Babylon to 2005 Blue Marble Map, NASA. Robust, professional packaging and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1943. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned at edges and spine. 206 pages. Noted Australian poet's play. The play was originally written for stage then adapted into radio but was broadcast on radio first.… Read more about this item