Search Results: First Edition 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"

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.

George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of his journey to Ibn Saud at the time when Saudia Arabia was newly formed. Fine book in a dust jacket. Price unclipped.

Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.

Folio Society, London, 2006. Fine Binding in mint condition. This copy is in a fine slipcase also in mint condition. Pages are clean, bright, tight, white and square encased neatly in green slip case in excellent condition. Decorations by John Minton are as per the first edition. Preface by Julian Barnes. Watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy.Elizabeth David's influence on culinary tastes and attitudes was nothing short of revolutionary, bringing the warmth, aromas and tastes of the Mediterranean into Britain s bleak post-war kitchen.Weight 1.1kg

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.

A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell

1st Edition. Hardcover with unclipped jacket light wear at top and bottom of spine panel . Dust jacket is now protected with a mylar cover. Light rubbing to Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. First book club edition. Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a historical novel.Rebecca West's gripping psychological mystery—part thriller, part historical novel—The Birds Fall Down takes readers inside the intrigue of revolutionaries preparing to overthrow an empire. During early revolutionary stirrings in Russia, after an unexpected turn of events, Laura Rowan, the coddled granddaughter of an exiled British nobleman, becomes her grandfather's sole companion on a fateful train ride. In France, a young revolutionary approaches Laura and her grandfather with information that will turn her world upside down, and their travels… Read More

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.

The Bohemians at the Bulletin: illustrators, including Norman Lyndsay, who provided social and political commentary through black and white illustrations from the late 1880s.Full-page black & white drawings The Irish-Australian artist & writer describes his meetings with famous writers for the Bulletin, including Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and Steele Rudd

Hardcover. 1st Edition.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.Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired school master from Provence says, "The religion of France is food. And wine, of course." And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income on food and drink than any other nation in the world. Literally hundreds of gastronomic fairs and festivals take place throughout the year all over France - a frog fair, an hommage to the sausage, to the turnip, to the quiche and the noble Camembert. What kind of person is a snail-fancier? Is there a brotherhood of sausage connoisseurs? How can you devote an entire weekend to the French fry? Peter Mayle finds out and brings to life the people who can get passionate about a frog's leg or a well-turned omelette. Over ten years ago he transformed our… Read More

pp. xxxix, (i), 279, (i). Frontispiece and 15 fabulous colour plates from H M Brock accompany these wonderful stories, head- and tail-pieces and end-papers all by Brock. Uncut pages slightly foxed and now in protective jacket.

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.

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1914. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition to which is added a supplement containing 180 figures of recently discovered flowering plants by John W Salter and the Ferns, Horsetails and Club-Mosses by John E Sowerby. Described with an introduction and a key to the natural orders By C. Pierpoint Johnson.Weight 1.6

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.

Well-preserved cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very good copy.

John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the Second World War. Contents are arranged under the following headings : 1) First Journey to the South, 1933 1935. 2) Iraq Revisited, 1935 1937. 3) The Winter In Huraidha, 1937 1938. 4) Greece and Syria: the Year of Munich, 1938 1939. 5) The War, 1939. Condition: Hard cover and contents firm, clean and good. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket but which is not price-clipped. [xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.

Hardcover in the dust jacket in protective mylar Signed by the author to title page Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.