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American Negro Songs and Spirituals: 230 Songs
Work, John W.
Book Number: 68182
ISBN: 
Publisher: Bonanza Books New York, n.d. 3rd edition.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 259pp. Musical score.

Price: $18.00


Madman's Island
Idriess, Ion L.
Book Number: 68179
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941
8vo. hardcover. 253pp. b/w illus. good+, spine slanted, price mark on fep., endpapers foxed. fep torn (repaired). / good+ d/w. The works of Ion L. Idriess National Edition Vol. XII.

Price: $25.00


Bing Crosby. A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903-1940
Giddins, Gary
Book Number: 68183
ISBN: 0316881880
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 727pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


Turner Sketches 1789-1820
Wilkinson, Gerald
Book Number: 68178
ISBN: 0214203875
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins, London 1977
8vo. softcover. 160pp. index. Very good.

Price: $18.00


The Trials of Isabella Mary Kelly
Garland, Maurie
Book Number: 68181
ISBN: 1920785698
Publisher: Brolga Publishing, Australia, 2005
8vo. softcover. 434pp. b/w illus. Very good.

Price: $12.00


The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
Nordenskiold, A. E. translated by Alexander Leslie
Book Number: 68180
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillam. London 1883.
8vo. hardcover, 413pp. Two colour maps, one folding. Two b/w portraits engraved by G. J. Stodart of which one is the b/w frontis with tissue guard. B/w illus. Good+, tissue guard foxed, some light foxing throughout. Light stain on cover, light wear to cover corners, spine slanted.

Price: $250.00


Around the Moon
Verne, Jules
Book Number: 68170
ISBN: 0460050877
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd / E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, London / New York, 1970
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. Colour plates and line drawings by W. F. Phillipps. Near Fine, bookseller stamp on fep./ Very good+ d/w with some tiny edge tears, a tiny chip and some minor rubbing . Translated by Jacqueline and Robert Baldick.

Price: $95.00


Zumbarons
Zumbo, Adriano
Book Number: 65701
ISBN: 9781742669700
Publisher: Murdoch Books, Australla, 2012
8vo. illustrated boards, hardcover. 117pp. index, colour illus. Very good+, slight wave to top edge of pages. Scarce.

Price: $55.00


Story of the Snowy Mountains: Its history and people
Larkins, John
Book Number: 68175
ISBN: 0589502018
Publisher: A H & A W Reed, Sydney 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. colour & b/w plates. very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


A Voyage to New South Wales: The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of HMS Sirius 1786-1792: Volume I & II
Bradley, William
Book Number: 68172
ISBN: 
Publisher: Ure Smith Sydney 1969
Two volumes, volume I: Large 8vo. hardcover 495pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine, light toning to endpapers. / Very good+ d/w. Volume Two is box containing charts in excellent condition except for some toning to the edges of charts list. Box and cover Near Fine.

Price: $95.00


Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo''s Fantastical Kitchen of Other-Worldly Delights
Zumbo, Adriano
Book Number: 68177
ISBN: 9781741968040
Publisher: Murdoch Books, Australla, 2011.
4to. hardcover. 256pp. index, colour illus. Good, wear to cover spine ends and corners. / no d/w.

Price: $25.00


Cooma Country
Neal, Lauri
Book Number: 68174
ISBN: 0950090328
Publisher: Cooma - Monaro Historical Society, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 315pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w with wear on front panel corner.

Price: $25.00


Black Cockatoos Mean Snow
Mitchell, Elyne
Book Number: 68176
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. Very good, owner's name on front pastedown. / Good d/w with chipped edges.

Price: $125.00


Forest Trees of Australia. Over 200 of Australia's most important native trees described & illustrated.
Boland, D.J. M.I.H. Brooker, G.M. Chippendale, N. Hall, B.P.M. Hyland, R.D. Johnston, D.A. Kleinig and J.D. Turner
Book Number: 68171
ISBN: 0170062643
Publisher: CSIRO. , New Edition 1987.
4to. hardcover. 687pp. index, b/w & colour illus. very good, light spots on top edge of text-block. / very good d/w with tiny tears on top edge and rubbing on front edge.

Price: $40.00


Dr. John Lhotsky - The Turbulent Australian Writer, Naturalist and Explorer
KRUTA, VLADISLAV., WHITLEY, GILBERT P., VALLANCE, THOMAS G., WILLS, JAMES H., WAKEFIELD, NORMAN A., ANDREWS, ALAN E.J., PASZKOWSKI, LECH.
Book Number: 67287
ISBN: 
Publisher: Melbourne, (Australian Felix Literary Club), 1977. Documentary and Historical Series No. 2
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 176; 7 maps, 25 illustrations, index of persons, index of geographical names, original illustrated stiff wrappers, Near fine.

Price: $15.00


Heroes Denied - The Malayan Harrier Conspiracy
Frisch, Colin, foreword by Chris Hill
Book Number: 61817
ISBN: 1875165177
Publisher: Marlin Publications Wheelers Hill Victoria 1990
8vo. Softcover. 176pp. Very good. The amazing story of fifteen Australian soldiers who refused to surrender to the Japanese when they steamrolled the Malayan Peninsula in 1942. They evaded capture and enduring starvation, illness, and hardship returned to Australia. Far from being greeted as heroes they were met with disbelief, accused of deserting and given the title The Malayan Harriers. In 1990 with only nine of the original fifteen alive it was time for their story to be told.

Price: $6.00


A Life on Pittwater
Duncan, Susan
Book Number: 68100
ISBN: 9781741666694
Publisher: Random House, Sydney, 2009.
4to. hardcover. 240pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.

Price: $25.00


The Life and Death of John Price
Barry, John Vincent
Book Number: 68155
ISBN: 
Publisher: 1964 Melbourne University Press.
8vo. 204pp. index. b/w illus. + b/w plates. very good/very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


Bon: The Last Highway
Fink, Jesse
Book Number: 68167
ISBN: 9781761343223
Publisher: Ebury Press / Penguin, Sydney 2023.
8vo. softcover. 461pp. index, Colour Plates. 461pp. index. Near Fine.

Price: $20.00


To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
Brock, Daniel George
Book Number: 68151
ISBN: 0909112002
Publisher: The Royal Geographical Society Of Australasia South Australian Branch, Adelaide1975.
8vo. hardcover. 222pp. colour frontis. Very good+. / Very good d/w with faded spine.

Price: $28.00


Hawkesbury Journey. Up the Windsor Road from Baulkham Hills.
BOWD, D.G
Book Number: 68162
ISBN: 0908120613
Publisher: Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1986.
8vo. hardcover. Companion volume to Maquarie Country. 252pp. index, b/w illus. Local history of the Hawkesbury area, North West of Sydney, New South Wales including many brief biographies of early settlers in the area. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $22.00


History of the Staffordshire Potteries
Shaw, Simeon
Book Number: 68161
ISBN: 
Publisher: Praeger Publishers, New York 1970.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 241pp. index, Good+. / Good+ d/w.

Price: $15.00


The Cruise of H.M.S. Galatea, Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1867-1868.
Milner, John, Brierly, Oswald W.
Book Number: 68163
ISBN: 
Publisher: W. H. Allen, London 1869.
8vo. hardcover. 488pp. Colour & b/w plates, Folding map. Good, wear to cover corners, small tears on title page and map, small stain on top edge of frontis & title page & some of the colour plates. Some light foxing. Bottom cover corners bumped.

Price: $150.00


The Hoskins Saga
Hoskins,Sir Cecil
Book Number: 68156
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sir Cecil Hoskins, Australia, 1969.
8vo. hardcover. 140pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $28.00


Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer Of Bayreuth
Millington, Barry
Book Number: 68168
ISBN: 9780500516430
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London 2012.
8vo. hardcover. 320pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Near Find, owner's name on half-title. / Near Fine d/w.

Price: $25.00


In Step with Sturt.
SWAN, Keith. and, Margaret Carnegie.
Book Number: 68157
ISBN: 0959636552
Publisher: Graphic Books, Armadale, Victoria, 1979.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 115pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good.

Price: $20.00


The Invasion Before Normandy. The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
Hoyt, Edwin P.
Book Number: 68158
ISBN: 070902598x
Publisher: Hale, London 1987.
8vo. hardcover. 210pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


Chasing the Moon
Stone, Robert & Andres, Alan
Book Number: 68166
ISBN: 9780008307868
Publisher: William Collins Publishers, London, 2020.
8vo. softcover. 359pp. , index, colour plates. Very good,tiny bumps top corners.

Price: $18.00


To Sandakan: The Diaries of Charlie Johnstone, Prisoner of War 1942-1945 British North Borneo
Dawson, C
Book Number: 38698
ISBN: 1863738185
Publisher: Allen Unwin, Australia, 1995.
8vo. Pictorial softcover. 120pp illus. Very good. Within 7 fateful weeks, from the fall of Rabaul to the surrender in Java in March 1942, more than 22,000 Australians became prisoners of the Japanese. This was Austalia's greatest wartime disaster. This is the story how one man survived. Serving with the RAF. Singapore, capture in Java, moved to Jesselton, Kota Kinnabalu, brutal Sandakan, Kudat and Kuching, in Sarawak. His ordeal and revisit 50 years later.

Price: $14.00


Thomas Doggett Deceased A Famous Comedian
Cook, Theodore Andrea & Nickalls, Guy
Book Number: 68159
ISBN: 9781904799504
Publisher: Tiger of the Stripe, Surrey 2009.
8vo. softcover. 179pp. b/w illus. Near Fine.

Price: $20.00


Louis Becke.
Day, A. Grove.
Book Number: 68160
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 176pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $18.00


The Inland Sea and the Great River: The Story of Australian Exploration
Cumpston J. H. L.
Book Number: 68165
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1964.
8vo. hardcover. 205pp. index, b/w maps. Very good. / Good+ rubbed d/w.

Price: $35.00


A History Of The Berrima District 1798-1961
JERVIS,JAMES
Book Number: 68164
ISBN: 0959971165
Publisher: Genealogical Publications of Australia / Berrima County Council, 1973.
8vo. hardcover., b/w ills. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good, foxed d/w with small tear. A local history of the NSW town of Berrima and district over 163 years of European settlement.

Price: $15.00


Hell West and Crooked
Cole, Tom
Book Number: 68154
ISBN: 0207168539
Publisher: Sydney Angus & Robertson 1990
4to hardcover 292pp index, colour & b/w illus, maps. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


International School of Sugarcraft, The: Book One Beginners
Lodge, Nicholas; Murfitt, Janice
Book Number: 68153
ISBN: 0948075775
Publisher: Merehurst Press, London, 1988
4to. hardcover. 256pp. colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. Inscribed & signed by author (Lodge).

Price: $18.00


A Research on the Pines of Australia.
Baker, Richard T. & Smith, Henry G.
Book Number: 58934
ISBN: 
Publisher: Technological Museum, New South Wales., Sydney, 1910.
4tol blue cloth hardcover. 458pp. colour & b/w illus. Good- Very good, some insect damage to cover. Very good inside.

Price: $95.00


Drake's Island of Thieves, Ethnological Sleuthing
Lessa, William A.
Book Number: 68146
ISBN: 0824803337
Publisher: The University Press of Hawaii Honolulu 1975.
8vo. hardcover. 289pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good. / Good+ d/w with small chips at top of spine and faded spine.

Price: $25.00


Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales Vol IX part I 1909
Harper, L. F.
Book Number: 65402
ISBN: 
Publisher: Department of Mines, Sydney 1909.
8vo. stiff boards with cloth spine. Good+, cover & last few pages toned, some maps/charts foxed. Some rubbing to cover. Contents: The geology of the Murrumbidgie District near Yass. 54pp.+ 12 b/w plates(1 folding). 4 folding maps/charts in pocket at rear.

Price: $150.00


The Lore of the Lyrebird
Pratt, Ambrose
Book Number: 68148
ISBN: 
Publisher: obertson & Mullens, Melbourne 1947.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. b/w plates. Good, pages toned. Front hinge cracked (repaired). / Fair, torn & chipped d/w.

Price: $15.00


Dig. A Drama of Central Australia
Clune, Frank
Book Number: 68150
ISBN: 
Publisher: Angus & Robertson Australia 1951. New edition.
8vo. hardcover. 240pp. b/w plates. Very good, light foxing to prelims. Fair, chipped d/w. Signed by author.

Price: $75.00


A Jubilee History of the Municipality of Botany 1888 - 1938
Jervis, James & Flack, Leo
Book Number: 68149
ISBN: 
Publisher: Botany Council 1938
4to. papered covered boards with green cloth spine and small colour illustrated pastedown on front board. 399pp. b/w illus. Good, cover edges repaired & re-inforced, owner's details on front pastedown, small hole on the edge of the first 19 pages. Scarce.

Price: $75.00


Norman Lindsay's Cats.
Lindsay, Norman.
Book Number: 68147
ISBN: 0333175611
Publisher: Melbourne: Macmillan, 1975. First edition.
4to. hardcover. b/w illus. very good / Fair d/w.

Price: $20.00


Francis Drake - Privateer : Contemporary Narratives and Documents
Hampden, John (editor & compiler)
Book Number: 68145
ISBN: 0413284301
Publisher: Eyre Methuen, London 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 286pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, foxing to top edge of text-block. / Very good d/w with some wear to corners.

Price: $25.00


The Voyage of Magellan: The Journal of Antonio Pigafetta; A Translation by Paula Spurlin Paige from the edition in the William l. Clements Library.
Pigafetta, Antonio; Translated by Paula Spurlin Paige
Book Number: 68144
ISBN: 
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, USA 1969.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 153pp. + b/w maps at rear, b/w frontis. Very good, light foxing to edge of text-block. / Very good d/w. with some small tears at top of spine(repaired), small chip on rear top corner, rubbing to bottom front edge, creased rear top edge and faded spine.

Price: $95.00


BUILDING AND ORNAMENTAL STONES OF AUSTRALIA
Sydney Tech
Book Number: 68143
ISBN: 
Publisher: Gov. NSW 1915
Oblong 8vo. softcover. Technical Education Series No. 19. Technological Museum Sydney. Lots of B&W plates throughout, colour plates of examples and a map. Good, corners bumped, wear to cover corners, foxing to edges of text-block,

Price: $65.00


The Cornhill Magazine January 1860-June 1861
Thackeray, William Makepeace (ed.)
Book Number: 68142
ISBN: 
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co. 1860-1861, London, 1860
4 volumes 8vos. hardcovers, b/w illus. Good, some foxing.

Price: $200.00


Tablets of memory: The Bendigo Cohns and their descendants, 1853-1989
Cohn
Book Number: 32217
ISBN: 0731646290
Publisher: Doncaster, Australia Antelope Press 1990
Large 8vo hardcover 270pp index, b/w illus. fine / very good+ d/w.

Price: $25.00


The Brisbane Water Story Part One : Gosford; Part Two Woy Woy & Hawkesbury River; Part Three Enchanted Waters; Part Four The Rest of the Story
Swancott, C.
Book Number: 68140
ISBN: 
Publisher: Brisbane Water Historical Society, Woy Woy, 1953, 1954, 1961, 1955.
8vo. Part One softcover. 112pp; Part Two 144pp. stiff boards with cloth spine; Part Three stiff boards with cloth spine in d/w.; Part Four stiff boards with cloth spine. Very good some toning to endpapers, spine damaged on Part four.

Price: $95.00


Blue Gum Flat to Budewoi: The Story of Wyong Shire's Wonderful Valleys, Lakes and Beaches.
Swancott, Charles.
Book Number: 68141
ISBN: 
Publisher: Brisbane Water Historical Society, 1963.
8vo. Stiff boards with cloth spine. 269pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Fair d/w with some tears(repaired).

Price: $35.00


Eureka: Victorian Parliamentary Papers, Votes and Proceedings 1854-1867
Anderson, Hugh (collected by)
Book Number: 68139
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1969
4to. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w. includes colour poster of Eureka Stockade Riot 1854

Price: $18.00


Hubert Who? War Hero. Explorer. Spy: The Incredible Life of Unsung Adventurer Hubert Wilkins.
Andrews, Malcolm
Book Number: 68122
ISBN: 9780733323003
Publisher: ABC Books 2011
8vo. softcover. 289pp. b/w illus. Very good.

Price: $15.00


Port of pearls : a history of Broome
Edwards, Hugh
Book Number: 58739
ISBN: 0646193090
Publisher: Tangee Publishing 2009
8vo. softcover. 198pp. b/w & colour illus. very good+.

Price: $9.00


Fatal storm : the 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Mundle, Rob.
Book Number: 68123
ISBN: 0732269237
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W. HarperCollinsPublishers 12001
8vo softcover 337pp colour illus. very good, toning to page edges, ramainder mark on top edge of text-block.

Price: $8.00


Secrets behind My Smile
Dally-Watkins, June
Book Number: 68116
ISBN: 0670041726
Publisher: Camberwell, Vic. Penguin 2002.
8vo softcover 280pp index, b/w illus. good, pages toned, owner's name on fep.

Price: $15.00


Just for the Love of It. The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest from Both Sides
O'Dowd, Cathy
Book Number: 68118
ISBN: 0620247827
Publisher: Free to Decide Publishing 1999.
8vo. hardcover. 320pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $25.00


Tales of old Mosman
McLaren, Don.
Book Number: 68120
ISBN: 0959995625
Publisher: Dungog, N.S.W. Mosman Historical Society 1978
8vo softcover 104pp b/w illus. good, some wear and marking to cover, owners name on fep.

Price: $11.00


Ride to win
Hall, Greg
Book Number: 68121
ISBN: 1877096148
Publisher: Melbourne Melbourne Books 2003
Large 8vo softcover 223pp b/w illus. very good.

Price: $10.00


They Passed This Way. A Coverage of the History of the First 100 Years of Progress in the Parish of St. Mary's Concord N. S. W. 1870-1970.
Delaney W. J. and Dawes J.
Book Number: 68119
ISBN: 
Publisher: Devonshire Press, Surry Hills, 1970
8vo. hardcover. 166pp. b/w plates. Good+, tape mark on rear endpaper, light marks on top edge of text-block. / Poor torn d/w.

Price: $12.00


The war of the running dogs: How Malaya defeated the communist guerrillas, 1948-60
Barber, Noel
Book Number: 58140
ISBN: 
Publisher: London Collins 1971
8vo hardcover 284pp index, b/w illus. very good / good d/w with a few tiny tears(repaired) & slightly faded spine.

Price: $15.00


Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Sydney - Hobart Race
Mundle, Rob
Book Number: 6589
ISBN: 
Publisher: Sydney. Harper Collins. 1999
Large 8vo softcover. Inscription by Author on title page. 315pp. + colour plates. very good condition, light toning to page edges.

Price: $12.00



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