Search Results: Australian Fiction from Lansdowne Books

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, endpaper maps. Pages slightly yellow at margins else a fine and tight first printing.

Four stories with numerous coloured illustrations, bound in stiff illustrated boards. A very good copy printed on quality paper. Cover shows signs of wear but pages are very clean and tight. Illustrated by Hans Heysen and sixteen other Australian artists. First Edition First Impression

Bound in dark blue paper covered boards, with a colour illustrated dust jacket. Original blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, endpaper maps. A superb first printing in like jacket.A novel of the bringing of medical care to the Sturt Stony Desert when the leading character becomes a pilot and nurse in the newly formed flying Doctor service . May require extra postage.

Pages clean and tight in original purple boards. First Edition First printing with both the book and jacket in flawless condition.Master storyteller Colleen McCullough rescues Mary from her dreary fate with "The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet," a page-turning sequel set twenty years after Austen's novel closes.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Binding: Hardback ---Publisher: Hutchinson ---Date: 1987 ---Edition: 1st ---Pages: 132Description: All of the pages are unmarked, uncreased and tightly bound in red cloth boards with dust jacket in protective mylar. Delightfully illustrated by Peter ChapmanSometimes fairy tales can come true--even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger... who just might be Prince Charming in disguise.

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger who just might be Prince Charming in disguise. Set in the Blue Mountains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ Norman Lindsay (illustrator). 1954 Reprint. The text is illustrated with both coloured and black-and-white drawings by the author, some full page, some half page and some three-quarter page. Pale coloured boards with dark blue coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and dark blue coloured titles to the spine. The famous children's story of a Christmas pudding that seemed to have a life of its own, and other adventures of the friends Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. A nice copy. Illustrator: Norman Lindsay. Inscription of previous owner. No other annotations.

First Edition; First Printing. Green cloth boards with pages clean and tight withgood dust jacket now protected in mylar.