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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"

A delightful 1940s Australian children's book with charming illustrations & colour plates. Written & illustrated by D.H. Gilmore. Includes colour frontispiece, plus all 5 additional colour plates, as issued. Also with several smaller b&w illustrations throughout (some full page). HARDCOVER with DUSTJACKET. Dustjacket with wrap around artwork, also by D.H. Gilmore. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small tears so now in protective Mylar. Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition. First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press

Stated First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with uncut pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman's journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune

Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: G. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards and pages clean and tight. Overall aIl a very well-preserved copy. Includes index.Subjects : Annuals (Plants) | Biennials (Plants) | Flower gardening.

Quarter cloth pictorial boards. Illustrated by the Author. Head and foot of spine and edges of boards slightly rubbed; corners of boards worn. A good copy. Original colour illustrated paper covered boards, rubbed to extreme edges but colours still bright. Internally the illustrations are brightly coloured, bold and fascinating. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Pages clean with B&W illustrations throughout. Hardcover. with Dust Jacket and mylar protective cover, no names or marks inside. B&W Illustrations. Dust Jacket unclipped.The Corfu Trilogy #2 Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts and Relativesis filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder. Durrell's account of his early years as a keeper at Whipsnade Zoo are filled with the usual assortment of animal characters, including Albert the lion, Durrel's first charge, who had the habit of hiding behind bushes and leaping out at unsuspecting old ladies.

Original green decorative cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Contains twelve black & white illustrations. Book plate with original name plate and previous author's inscription. Very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a very clean, tight copy. The journal of a sixteen year-old boy who went to sea from Yorkshire to Australia because of an "inflammation of the lungs". Tells of his time in Victoria and his return via American continent.

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.

Hardback, Very nice blue pebbled/textured cloth with decorative black paneling to front with coloured vignette plate of a small boy in centre of front cover, with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, rear top corner slightly rubbed at edge. Cover clean and smart. Some minor darkening and minor foxing to free endpapers. Inside pages all very clean and tight (bright semi-gloss type paper) Illustrated with 22 B&W illustrations from original drawings by L. Rossi

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. Condition: Good. 8th edition. pale blue cloth. no dust jacket. colour frontispiece. many b/w illustrations plus fold-out plans. cloth lightly worn at edges but a good tight and clean copy with only light foxing. Contents : [Color Scheme in the flower garden][March Studey & the Border of Early Bulbs; The Wood; The Spring Garden; Between Spring & Summer; The June Garden; Main Hardy Flower Border; Flower Border in July; August; Bedding Plants; Climbing Plants; etc]

Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some mild foxing with blue endpapers. Bumping to spine and edges, wear consisent with books of this age. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

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.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition.. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Clean pages with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket now in protective mylar.

Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
Blue soft cover with gold lettering
Crest at the top says British Empire Service League
First page is a full colour portrait of the Queen, with a tissue overlay
Includes the text for the broadcast to the Commonwealth and Empire on Coronation Day and the Oath to the British Empire Service League
Beautiful black and white photos, many of the Empire troops - New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, to name only a few
Names of the Coronation present contingents - Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, plus the other Empire countries represented
This was a special program issued to the British Empire Service League, and is a highly collectible piece of history, particularly to the remaining WWII veterans and their descendents.

Quarto format black hardback brown lettering to the spine. Price un-clipped DJ. Illustrated with more than 150 colour photos, drawings. Clean pages. . 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, full number line present. In excellent condition. Not price clipped. No inscriptions. Special illustrated edition. SCARCE in 1st/1st. This is heavy book postage to be advised.

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.

The complete and unexpurgated editions with the original 16 plates by Louis Challon reproduced and coloured by hand. Volume 1 ; 332pp. Volume 2: 404pp. 1.24Kg.
Vol 1 & 2 with illustrated introductions and sixteen hand-coloured illustrations (some nicely erotic) from original drawings by Louis Chalon
Hardbacks. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped Dust Jackets Condition: V. Good in protective covering. Undated: circa 1960. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions.
ORIGINAL PRICE 63/- FOR THE TWO VOLUMES.
Extra postage for the TWO VOLUMES HARDBACKS.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: F. D/J protected in mylar. Heavy book, black line-embossed cloth boards, embossed title at top front, very bright gilt lettering at spine. Uncut quality pages clean and tight. 1st US. (Originally published in Italian, 1957, a First Thus) New Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Velokhonsky. Includes translation notes, notes to pages, epilogue and the Poems of Yuri Zhivago.In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.Overall a fine copy.