Search Results: Australiana from Lansdowne Books

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs.Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class Australian family in the Victorian era.

Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. In very good condition for age with some yellowing of pages. Some bumping to spine but otherwise a tight copy. A very rare copy and delightful read for poetry recitation.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 215. Illustrated with full-page sepia-toned plates by Frank Harding.

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

Hardcover in tight binding with some foxing to front pages and end pages otherwise a clean copy with little foxing throughout. Dust jacket in protective mylar.

Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and image front cover with pages clean and tight. Light foxing due to age. Overall a very nice copy.

First Edition Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Ainsle Roberts (Artist). Illustrated brown boards/Fine. DJ/NF in protective mylar. previous owners inscription. 32 colour plates Full-color companion volume to The Dreamtime (1965) and predecessor to The First Sunrise (1971) Anthropologist and photographer Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890 - 1976) and artist and photographer Ainslie Roberts (1911 - 1993). Superb record of Aboriginal mythology with line drawings and painting produced in full color.

Black and white illustrations, Original cloth (Hardback) in dust jacket, #869/1295, Very Good/Good, signed by author, jacket complete, but rubbed and worn. ISBN: 0 909 75900 6 Weight: 630g.Ex library with number on front and stamp on back end pages

Orig. cloth. Portrait frontisp. numerous b/w plates and a map. Boards are clean with Dust jacket in protective mylar. Pages clean and age-toned,.Author's signed to previous owners. " To Teddy and Eileen with old-time memories and every good wish, from Ethel Jarman."

Blue boards in protective mylar. Maps and photographs. Pages in good conditions with some yellowing due to age.

Original publisher's cream cloth hardback, dark-blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering spine and front cover, coat of arms in gilt to front cover. Top edge of pages gilt, others uncut, pages clean and tight, some wear to bottom spine, frontispiece portrait William Dampier, 16 black and white plate illustrations, table of contents, appendix, lacks the folding map. Text complete. Decorated end papers. Overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective Mylar. Ainslie Roberts (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2nd. Printing. Previous owners inscription.This was the third of the Roberts/Mountford trilogy of myths of the Aboriginal First Nation people. It began in 1963 with an exhbition of Ainslie Roberts' remarkable paintings of central Australia, its people and stories. Part of the co-authorship of The Dreamtime", next "The Dawn of Time", (1968) followed by this volume "The First Sunrise" with 32 new paintings by Roberts based on First Nations People explaining the creation of the world with texts and interpretation by anthropologist Charles Mountford. Both men for years were very close to the people. Cultural ownership has shifted since then but it is a trilogy the publisher then could claim had no parallel in Australian literature.

Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy printed on yellow paper. Dust Jacket is in very good condition with mylar protective cover. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Delightfully illustrated throughout with images from the times. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australia; Australian History; Biography & Autobiography.Title: A Girl at Government House:
Publisher: Currey O'Neil
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon Lea' Elsternwick, Vic. 'Retford Park',Bowral, N.S.W. Mount Wilson, N.S.W. Mount Macedon, Vic. 'Forest Lodge' Stirling, W.A. Pioneer Sugar Mill Plantation, Brandon, Qld. 'Admiralty House' Kirribilli, N.S.W. 'Mawallok' Beaufort, Vic. 'Dalvui' Mount Noorat, Vic. 'Marathon' Mount Eliza, Vic. 'Milton Park' Bowral, N.S.W. 'Eryldene' Gordon, N.S.W. 'Micalago' Michelago, N.S.W. 'Nurney House' North Adelaide, S.A. 'Willyama' Medindie, S.A. A town garden in Grant Avenue, Toorak, Vic. A town garden in St. George's Road, Toorak, Vic. 'Cruden Farm' Langwarrin, Vic. 'Mawarra' Sherbrooke, Vic. 'Markdale' Binda,… Read More

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.

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Textured Boards with pages clean and tight. Indexed Overall a very nice copy. A heavy item and may require additional postage. Collection is available.