74996 THE WHEELING YEARS:
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan 1857-1957.
Sydney: The Institute of the Sisters, 1957. With many half tone illusts, (Unpag) Hard cover Sm.4to. Or.beige cloth with red titling, soiled & chipped beige dust jacket with black titling.The Sisters of the Good Samaritan was the first purely Australian Institute to celebrate its centenary $32.00 AUD
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Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour by Corille Fraser.
Sydney/Canberra: Currency Press/NLA, 1998. Frontis with many b/w illusts & facsimiles in text, (xiv,358pp) Hard cover Sm.4to. Or.maroon cloth, gilt titling to spine, neat cancelled library stamps to f.e.p. & title, pict dust jacket.Follows Sarah Bernhardt's wildly successful Australian tour in 1891 which became legend in the country's theatre history $25.00 AUD
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The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane by Ronald Clark.
London: Hodder, 1968. 1st Edition. Port.frontis & 14 b/w plates, (286pp) Hard cover 8vo. Or.black cloth, gilt titling to spine.Biography of a controversial academic, J.B.S.(1892-1964) drawn to the Communist cause during the Spanish Civil War and regular correspondent of the 'Daily Worker'. $22.00 AUD
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Lion Publishing: 1987. 1st Edition. With 8 pages of photoplates, (432pp) Hard cover Roy.8vo. Or.black cloth, dust jacket.Biography of the Victorian novelist and visionary (1824-1905) $33.00 AUD
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(Reprinted with Amendments, 1940).
Melbourne: McCarron, Bird & Co. 1940. Has num half-tone illusts & drawings (1 fold-out), with maintenance schedules, (612pp) Hard cover Sm.8vo. Or.red cloth covered boards with black titling. spine tips slightly rubbed.Reprinted with the permission of the Controller, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. $25.00 AUD
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A Bibliography compiled by Susan Ballyn & Jeff Doyle.
Canberra: NLA, 1996. (iv,200pp) Sm.4to. Stiff pict wrapps.Printing limited to 400 copies $40.00 AUD
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From The Green Berets to Apocalypse Now.
London: Proteus (Publishing) Ltd.1981. (192pp) Hard cover 4to. Or.black papered boards, pict dust jacket.Introduced with a review of the war story tradition from the First World War to the Korean War $28.00 AUD
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Sydney: A&R, 1972. 1st Edition. (158pp) Hard cover 8vo. Or.grey papered boards, mauve titling to dec cover and spine, dec color dust jacket has circular gilt sticker 'Miles Franklin Award 1972'.A novel $28.00 AUD
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London: Dean & Son Ltd. 1959. Color frontis & Title-page, full-page & text color illusts throughout by M.L.A. (77pp) 4to. Color pict glazed boards, red cloth spine, color pict endpapers of chubby 'Hula-Hoopers'.Includes a Big Brave Golliwog! A very nice copy $38.00 AUD
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. 1st edition. (174pp) Hard cover, 8vo. Or. yellow cloth, black titling to spine, yellow/purple dust jacket protected.A violent but humorous story, told from a boy's point of view $48.00 AUD
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Based on Volumes 8, 9, 10.
St. Kilda, Vic: Orin Books, 1993, 1st Edition. Has cartoon comic strips throughout & at endpapers, (80pp) Oblong 8vo. Hard cover Laminated pict boards, dust jacket. $35.00 AUD
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A Play in Five Acts.
London: Allan Wingate, 1958. Frontis portrait, (190pp) Hard cover 8vo. Or.blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, pink dust jacket.Written in 1848, this is the first English edition of the last complete work Balzac wrote $18.00 AUD
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Sydney, 451 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron Assn, 1996. With half-tone illusts maps & facsimiles, (120pp) Sm.4to. Stiff blue pict.wrapps with navy cloth spine.Has the Squadron's Nominal Roll with addenda slip. Printing limited to 350 copies $30.00 AUD
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Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1997. Has 16 color plates with text drawings & pict endpapers by the Author, (viii,208pp) 8vo. Full pictorial kangaroo leather, gilt.Based on an unpublished manuscript of a world trip made by the late Author in 1959. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies signed by his wife $140.00 AUD
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Translation - Rita Inston for Cave Translations Ltd, London.
London: Argus Books Ltd. 1980. Has num color illusts after photos by Albrecht Korner with text & endpaper drawings by Horst Schleef, (179pp) Hard cover 4to. Or.blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, protected pict dust jacket.The first toy railways were exhited at a Spring Fair at Leipzig in 1891. The Author begins his account with the early hand built plate model railways $48.00 AUD
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Shwing how to rear and manage them in sickness and in health.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. N.D.c.1870. Color chromo frontis with num wood cuts in text, (xii,353-832pp) Hard cover Sm.8vo. Or.red cloth with impressed black pattern to covers, gilt dec spine, flecked, marbled edges, scattered foxing to pr...Re-issue in part of the title 'Book of Home Pets' about 1860. This may have been published for the colonies as the re-issue that sold in Britain had a decorative binding with a color pictorial paste-... $150.00 AUD
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Four Lectures delivered on the Twenty-first Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, at Adyar, Madras.
Madras: The 'Theosophist' Office, 1897. 1st Edition ([iv],192pp) Hard cover 12mo. Or.oatmeal cloth with black titling, previous owner's signature on title.The religions covered are Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Christianity $35.00 AUD
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Melbourne: Macmillan, 1982. With 16 sepia plates & endpaper maps, (xiv,230pp) Hard cover 8vo. Or.tan papered boards, white titling to spine, pict dust jacket.A remarkable story of human endeavour and endurance in Antarctica. A Nice Copy $42.00 AUD
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, N.D. Color illusts throughout, (unpag - 42pp) slim 4to. Or.color pict laminated boards, color pict endpapers.Has four stories - Noddy's Car Loses a Wheel; Noddy and Top-Speed the Golly; Noddy and the Invisible Paint; Noddy and the Birthday Flowers. An Enid Blyton COLOUR STRIP BOOK. A nice copy $28.00 AUD
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London: A&R, 1982 (1971) (183pp) Hard cover 8vo. Or.dark blue cloth, white titling to spine, pale blue dust jacket has color cover illustration by Noela Young with circular gilt 'Book of the Year' award (in 1972) by The Chil...A Nice Copy of this warm-hearted Australian family novel set in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales $18.00 AUD
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