Recent book additions at Dial a Book Sydney

The Travels of Tramp-Royal Being the Account of His Two Journeys Afoot Through the Wild Highlands of Scotland and in the Isles of Skye and Mull....
Marshall, Matt
Book Number: 66299
ISBN:
Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh & London, 1932 8vo. hardcover. 324pp. Very good, cover faded at spine ends, large gift inscription dated 1932 on fep. / Poor torn d/w(repaired).
Price: $150.00

The Plants of New South Wales: An Analytical Key to the Flowering Plants (except Grasses and Rushes) and Ferns of the State, Set Out in an Original Method, with an Up-to-date List of Native and Introduced Flora.
Dixon, Will.
Book Number: 66298
ISBN:
Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1906. Small 8vo. brown cloth hardcover. 322pp. b/w illus. Good+, flecking to cover.
Price: $18.00

Collected Poems 1942-1970
Wright, judith
Book Number: 66297
ISBN: 0207125139
Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1972. 8vo. softcover. 302pp. index. Very good, owner's name on fep.
Price: $15.00

The Generations of Men
Wright, Judith
Book Number: 66296
ISBN:
Oxford University Press 1959. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover. 222pp. b/w illus., map. Very good, light wear on top cover edge, some toning on front endpaper from loosely inserted news clipping(review of book). / Very good d/w. Judith Wright's story of her family's early days in NSW and Queensland.
Price: $30.00

Douglas Stewart
Semmler, Clement
Book Number: 66295
ISBN: 0805728635
Twayne Publishers, New York 1974 8vo. green cloth hardcover. 170pp. index, b/w frontis. Very good.
Price: $22.00

Bill the Whaler. And other verse.
Lawson, Will
Book Number: 66294
ISBN:
Sydney; Dymock's Book Arcade 1944. Small 8vo. stiff boards with wrapper. 140pp. b/w illus. Good, tape marks on endpapers, last 20 pages quite toned. Some tiny tears to wrapper on edges & spine.
Price: $30.00

Bivouac tales, or, Fires of the North West Arm
Harris, Reginald
Book Number: 66293
ISBN:
Sydney, The Denley Print Granville & Burwood 192-? 8vo. softcover. 86pp. Good, top edge of book cut at an off angle, toning & foxing to pages.
Price: $55.00

Out of the Dust
Kate, Rickety.
Book Number: 66292
ISBN:
Sydney, Lawson & Bray, Printers 194-? 8vo. stapled wraps. 28pp. Very good, covers toned.
Price: $35.00

Bralgah : a Legend
Kate, R.
Book Number: 66291
ISBN:
Jindyworobak Publication, Adelaide 1944. 8vo. stapled wraps. 18pp. Very good, covers & endpapers toned.
Price: $35.00

Bralgah : a Legend
Kate, R.
Book Number: 66290
ISBN:
Jindyworobak Publication, Sydney 1944. 8vo. stapled wraps. 18pp. Very good, covers & endpapers toned.
Price: $35.00

The Small Treasures of a Lifetime. Some Early memories of Australian art and Artists
Rees, Lloyd
Book Number: 66289
ISBN:
Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969. First Edition. Small 4to. hardcover. 162pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

The Principal Club: A History of the Australian Jockey Club
Painter, Michael & Waterhouse, Richard
Book Number: 66288
ISBN: 1863731962
Allen & Unwin 1992. 8vo. hardcover. 252pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good./ Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

John Betjeman : A Life in Pictures
Hillier, Bevis [ Compiled By ]
Book Number: 66287
ISBN: 0719541816
John Murray, London 1984. Square 8vo. hardcover. 160pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The South West Book : A Tasmanian Wilderness
Gee, Helen; Fenton, Janet (editors)
Book Number: 66286
ISBN: 0858020548
Australian Conservation Foundation, 1978. 4to. softcover. 307pp. Colour & b/w illus., colour map. Very good.
Price: $15.00

Yet Once More. A collection of light verse.
Schroder, J. H. E.
Book Number: 66285
ISBN:
Pegasus Press, New Zealand 1969. 8vo. softcover. 47pp./ Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $250.00

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PAINTINGS. In Western And Central Arnhem Land. Temporal Sequence and Elements of Style in Cadell River and Deaf Adder Creek Art.
Brandl, E. J.
Book Number: 66284
ISBN: 0855750294
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Canberra 1973 4to. hardcover. 214pp. index, b/w illus. endpaper maps. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good foxed d/w.
Price: $45.00

Guy Boyd
von Bertouch, Patrick Hutchings, Anne
Book Number: 66283
ISBN: 0701800798
Lansdowne, Australia, 1976. Folio. hardcover. Full page illus. Very good+, very light wave to front page edges. Very good original clear wrapper with a small chip on bottom corner. In very good slipcase. In original, titled, packing box Limited edition of 1,000 copies, signed by Guy Boyd, this copy #812.
Price: $300.00

Watercolours.
Lindsay, Norman
Book Number: 66282
ISBN:
Ure Smith Sydney, 1969. 4to. hardcover. 35pp. + 19 tipped-in colour plates. very good, minor foxing to endpapers, some foxing to edges, small tape marks on endpapers. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $145.00

Pencil Drawings
Lindsay, Norman
Book Number: 66281
ISBN: 0207952175
Angus & Robertson, 1969. First edition. 4to. hardcover. full page b/w illus. Very Good, some light foxing. Good d/w with some wear to top edge & bottom corners.
Price: $95.00

Klee
Lynton, Norbert
Book Number: 66280
ISBN: 0600353311
Hamlyn, London 1975. 4to. hardcover. 96pp. index, colour illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good d/w with a small chip on rear top edge and some small tears.
Price: $18.00

Norman Lindsay's Pen Drawings.
Lindsay, Norman
Book Number: 66279
ISBN:
Art in Australia, Sydney 1931. 4to hardcover, rebound in half leather with gilt titles. 64 full-page b/w plates + text. very good, text pages & endpapers foxed, gilt on spine faded.
Price: $150.00

Lost Glories: A Memorial to Forgotten Australian Buildings
Latta, David
Book Number: 66278
ISBN: 0207152683
Angus & Robertson 1986 Oblong 4to hardcover 176pp index, b/w illus. very good, multiple inscriptions on fep. and half-title / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
Murray. Les (chosen by)
Book Number: 66277
ISBN: 0195533623
Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1991. 8vo. softcover. 420pp. index. Good+, corners bumped.
Price: $15.00

The Etched Works of Sydney Long, A.R.E. A Complete Catalogue of His Etchings
Paul, Dorothy Ellsmore (Editor)
Book Number: 66276
ISBN:
The Attic Press, Sydney 1928. 4to. paper covered boards with cloth spine. 29 tipped-in b/w plates, catalogue at rear with b/w thumbs. Good condition, top edge of catalogue pages wavy. Small tear on bottom edge of half-title page, small tear on the front edge of the following two pages, small tear and small chip on the front edge of tissue guard for title page. Tipped-in photo of Long has 6cm tear with some scuffing to the page at the top edge of the photo. Some foxing to pages. Small pastedown on front cover scuffed. Limited edition of 300 copies, this copy # 131, signed by artist.
Price: $250.00

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ships Boats Vessels and Other Water Borne Craft
Blackburn, Graham
Book Number: 66275
ISBN: 0719536154
John Murray, London, 1978. 4to. hardcover. 447pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & outer page edges. / Good d/w with small tears at top of a foxed spine.
Price: $18.00

A History of Tasmania. Volume I : Van Diemen's Land from the Earliest Times to 1855.
Robson, Lloyd.
Book Number: 66274
ISBN: 0195543645
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1983. 8vo. hardcover. 632pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, small mark on page block edge, owner's inscription on half-title. / Very good+ d/w. The first serious and substantial history of Tasmania.
Price: $125.00

The Ashley Book of Knots
Ashley, Clifford W.
Book Number: 66273
ISBN:
Doubleday, New York, 4to. hardcover 620pp. index. b/w illus. Very good, foxing to endpapers and outer page edges, one knot tying illustration has been hand coloured on page 118. / Very good foxed d/w with some tiny tear at top of spine(repaired).
Price: $65.00

Shadows of our Dreaming: A Celebration of Early Australia
Fairbairn, Anne
Book Number: 66272
ISBN: 0207145482
Angus & Robertson 1983 8vo. hardcover. 250pp. illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. Series of short poems and stories, each with an Aboriginal title, many relating to experiences of her pastoralist forebears at Keera Station in northwestern NSW; includes many quotations from diaries re Aborigines in accompanying notes.
Price: $12.00

Behind The Picture : HMS Rattlesnake's Australia - New Guinea Cruise 1846 to 1850.
Bassett, Marnie.
Book Number: 66271
ISBN:
Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1966. 8vo. hardcover. 112pp. index, b/w illus., maps, folding colour illus at rear. Very good, foxing to prelims, light foxing to outer page edges. / Good+ rubbed d/w.
Price: $18.00

Selected Poems 1939-1975
Blight, John
Book Number: 66270
ISBN: 0170050904
Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1976 8vo. hardcover 287pp. Very good, light foxing to outer page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

A Need of Similar Name
Dawe, Bruce
Book Number: 66269
ISBN:
Chesire, Melbourne 1965. 8vo. hardcover. 48pp. Very good. Good d/w with some small tears.
Price: $10.00

Woolgoolga 1872-1976
Richards Val , Comisari Mary
Book Number: 66268
ISBN: 0909228000
The North Central Coast 1976. 4to. stapled wraps. 64pp. Very good.
Price: $45.00

Eloise in Paris
Thompson, Kay
Book Number: 66267
ISBN:
Max Reinhardt, London, 1958. 1st English edition. 4to. hardcover. illus. very good, light tape marks on endpapers. / Good+ lightly foxed d/w chipped on corners.
Price: $75.00

The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley with an Appreciation by Arthur Symons.
Harris, Bruce [Edited by]
Book Number: 66266
ISBN: 0517083264
Bounty Books, New York, 1967. 4to. hardcover. 212pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w with some small tears on bottom edge.
Price: $25.00

The Prose And Verse Of Dowell O'Reilly.
O'Reilly, Dowell
Book Number: 66265
ISBN:
Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1924. 8vo. hardcover. 298pp., b/w frontis. Good, cover faded, tape marks on endpapers.
Price: $15.00

The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Fowler, H. W. ; Revised by Sir Ernest Gowers
Book Number: 66264
ISBN: 0198691157
Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1982. 2nd edition. 8vo. hardcover. 725pp. Very good. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $150.00

The Land That Waited
Harris, Max & Forbes, Alison
Book Number: 66263
ISBN: 0701804416
Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1971 Oblong 4to. hardcover. 114 b/w illus. + list of illustrations by David Thomas. Very good, some foxing to endpapers & edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Essentials of English Grammar
Jespersen, Otto
Book Number: 66262
ISBN:
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1950 8vo. hardcover. 387pp. index. Very good, small tape marks on endpapers. / Good+, foxed d/w.
Price: $35.00

I, Maya Plisetskaya
Plisetskaya, Maya
Book Number: 66261
ISBN: 0300088574
Yale University Press 2001. 8vo. hardcover. 356pp. b/w illus. Very good, owner's details on prelim. / Very good d/w. with crease on top edge.
Price: $45.00

Men and Machines. The Brambles Story.
Manuel, D. L.
Book Number: 66260
ISBN: 0725400161
Ure Smith, Sydney 1970. 8vo. hardcover. 56pp. colur & b/w illus. Very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $15.00

The Surveyors Guide
Author unknown
Book Number: 66259
ISBN:
Publisher unknown 1735? Small 8vo. bound in leather. 144pp. folding illus. Poor condition, missing title page and endpapers, cover worn spine split.
Price: $250.00

And there was Light. The Discovery of the Universe. Translated from German by Richard and Clara Winston.
Thiel, Rudolf
Book Number: 66258
ISBN:
Readers Union, London 1959 8vo. hardcover. 396pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Good d/w chipped on top edge.
Price: $18.00

Early Tasmania: Papers Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the years 1888 to 1899.
Walker, James Backhouse
Book Number: 66257
ISBN:
Government Printer, Hobart, 1973 8vo. hardcover. 294pp. b/w illus. Six folding maps in pocket on rear pastedown. Very good./ Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
Paterson, A. B.
Book Number: 66256
ISBN:
Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1910. 8vo. hardcover. 178pp. uncut pages. Very good.
Price: $25.00

When I Was King and Other Verses.
Lawson, Henry
Book Number: 66255
ISBN:
Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1905. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 270pp. +32pp publisher ads. B/w frontis illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Good, foxing, mainly to endpapers & edges. Some insect damage to cover.
Price: $75.00

Thrusting Into Darkness
Clark, Robert
Book Number: 66254
ISBN: 0855510137
Edwards And Shaw, Sydney, 1978 8vo. hardcover. 60pp. Near Fine. / Very good rubbed on top of spine.
Price: $18.00

Medical Practice in Early Sydney: With special reference to the work and influence of John White, William Redfern and William Bland
Ford, Edward
Book Number: 66253
ISBN:
Australasian Medical Publishing, Sydney 1955. 4to. stapled wraps. 35pp. b/w illus. Very good, cover edges toned. The Charles Mackay Lecture, delivered 1954 at the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra. Reprinted from the Medical Journal of Australia July 1955.
Price: $75.00

Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales
Kerr, Joan and Broadbent, James
Book Number: 66252
ISBN: 090819711x
The David Ell Press, Sydney, 1980 4to. hardcover. 156pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. Limited to 1500copies, this copy #157. Signed bu authors.
Price: $45.00