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(Adelaide: Rigby: no date) First Edition. Muir 5488. Wrappers with vivid coloured pictorial pastedown on front plus pp. 63 (260 x 206 mm). Richly ‘illustrated in Colour, Wash and Line’ by Pixie O. Harris, including two full-page tipped-in coloured plates. Gift inscription dated December 1930 on verso of front wrapper. Corner crease to tipped-in frontispiece; ten of the line drawings are neatly coloured-in; spine neatly reinforced on the inside, otherwise very good in like dust-jacket which is rubbed and splitting at its spine and front flap fold.

(London: Elliot Stock: 1905) First Edition. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 149. Edges uncut. Author’s signed and inscribed presentation copy. Includes ‘The Landing of Captain James Cook, R.N., Botany Bay, 1770’, the play produced in connection with the Commonwealth Celebrations at Kurnell, Botany Bay, N.S.W., on Monday, 7th January, 1901, under the direction of Lieut. Victor Cohen, Naval Brigade, Hon. Secretary to the Trustees ‘Captain Cook’s Landing Place’. Dramatis Personae: Cook, Banks, Dr. Solander, Tupia (Native of Otaheite), Australia (appearing as a beautiful maiden), Seamen, Marines, Aboriginals. Included is Yarrington’s ‘Commonwealth Hymn’ sung to the tune of ‘Old Hundredth’ by the assembled people, numbering nearly 6000. Rear board soiled; patches of cloth worn away at fore edges and at the foot of the spine; internally near fine.

(Sydney; R. Hickson: 1925) (Australian Edition). Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 47. Illustrated. A very good copy.

(Sydney: The Snelling Printing Works) Wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 112 plus perforated stub left after order form removed (237 x 183 mm). Illustrated. Index. A little wear to foot of spine; a near fine copy.

(London: Black: Autumn, 1939) First Edition. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 216 (207 x 150 mm). First Edition. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper. A few abrasions to the top and lower edges of the front boards otherwise a near fine copy.

(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1975) First Edition. ISBN 0 7100 8100 6. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 140. Illustrated. Notes. Index. First Edition. About fine copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket.

(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1975) Second Edition. ISBN 0 7100 8244 4. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xxviii, 150 plus XII plates at rear (261 x 222 mm) Illustrated throughout. Notes. Index. Fine copy in like dust-jacket.

(London: William Collins: no date) Suggest about 1910. Collins’ School Series. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 132 (245 x 187 mm). Illustrated with ‘Beautiful Coloured Pictures and Maps’. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper, with name crossed out. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed; inner hinges split; a very good copy.

(Sydney: Invincible Press: no date) Copyright 1948. Price 1/9. Pictorial wrappers plus pp. 143. Fine

(Skokie, Illinois, U.S.A.: Publishers' Development Corporation: 1963) Volume Thirty-six. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 70 (280 x 215 mm). Illustrated. Light dampmark to upper corner of front wrapper; otherwise near fine.

In the Field, September, 1945. (Perth, WA: Imperial Printing Company: 1946) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers plus pp. 84 (274 x 214 mm) Illustrated. Maps. Honours and Awards printed on recto of the rear wrapper. Palestine – Libya – Syria – Egypt – New Guinea – Australia – Borneo. First Edition. A little wear to the wrappers otherwise an about fine copy.

(London: A.H. Bullen: 1911) First Edition. Quarter-cloth boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 224 (237 x 155 mm).With designs by Gordon Craig, with tissue-guards. Corners of boards worn and silverfishing at and near the edges of the boards; spine sunned and titling-piece foxed; endpapers foxed; otherwise very good.

Volume I. of Dublin Plays. (London: T. Fisher Unwin: 1912) Seventh Edition (revised). Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. 128. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy.

(London: Macmillan: 1935) First Edition Cl. pp. viii, 71. Preface by Yeats. Poems and Plays. Fore and lower edges uncut. First Edition. Fine in price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is mildly browned and which is otherwise fine.

(London: Macmillan: 1934) First Edition Gilt decorated cloth pp. x, 182. Five New Plays. Fore and lower edges uncut. An owner’s signature and bookseller’s label on front fixed endpaper. Otherwise a near fine copy.

(London: Macmillan: 1919) First Edition Gilt dec. cl. (initialled TSM) pp. viii, 223. Essays. All edges uncut. First Edition. A near new fine, largely unopened copy.

(London: Macmillan: 1952) Reissued and expanded. Gilt dec. cl. pp. vi, 705. Light bump to foot of spine. Fine or thereabouts in price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is mildly sunned.

(London: Macmillan: 1938) First Edition Cl. pp. vi, 74. First Edition. A rectangular patch of offsetting to inner margin of half-title page and to page with printer's colophon at rear; spine very lightly faded, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust-jacket. which has been very lightly sunned on its spine and is o/w fine.

(London: Macmillan: 1936) First Edition Quarter cloth decorated boards pp. viii, 190. Illust. Fore and lower edges uncut. First Edition. Light discoloration to spine otherwise fine in price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is moderately browned and has a large proportion of staining o/w fine.

(London: Macmillan: 1934) First Edition Cl. pp. vi, 617. Frontispiece Top edge gilt. First Edition. Fine in price-clipped dust-jacket whose spine is lightly sunned but is otherwise fine.