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By: N/A
Price: $13.16
Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallary of Victoria: 1936
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005863
Unpaginated (28 pages). Colour-art frontispiece, plus b/white art-portrait halftone plates. Saddle-stitched, staple-bound format. Staples firm, but slightly rusted. Leaves clean. Printed, yapped wrapper soiled, bumped and creased. A concise biography of Victorian benefactor Alfred Fenton, born Maldon, Essex, England in 1831. He arrived in Victoria in 1853, becoming a very successful druggist. On his death on 8 January, 1904, he left a large fortune to Victoria, a part of... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $26.32
Publisher: Boston, MA, United States, The Christian Science Publishing Society: 1932
Edition: 5th Edition, Revised & Enlarged
Seller ID: 010248
629pp. All textblock edges tinted dark blue. Book clean. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Head and foot of backstrip mildly rubbed. Gilt title and blind-embossed decoration to front panel of plain blue boards, which are minimally edge-rubbed and bumped only. Light tanning to endpapers, and random pages, previous owner's pencilled notations to rear free endpaper and pastedown, else leaves clean. "With seven hymns written by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and fou... View more info
By: "Semaphore"
Price: $12.41
Publisher: Melbourne & Sydney, Australia, E.H.Gibbs:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000265
32pp., text only. No date [circa early 1940's]. Lightly browned pages clean. Soft grey wrap undamaged, except for minor random faxing. Humourous short ditties and stories from an Australian's perspective. Weight approx. 50g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
By: 'The Penman'
Price: $9.40
Publisher: Auckland, Brookdale Press:
Seller ID: 010157
29pp. No publication date (c. late 1940s). Saddle-stitch, staplebound format. Staples firm. Leaves clean, mildly tanned, foxing spots to several pages, short, closed tear to one leaf. Printed card wrapper is also foxed and lightly marked. "An intelligent study of graphology will not only provide the reader with an entirely new and fascinating hobby, but will also prove of incalculable value in judging the type of person with whom he or she contemplates entering upon ... View more info
By: (Adapted By William Cowper)
Price: $30.77
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.:
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 006068
No publication date (c. 1870-1880). Unpaginated (48 pages). Illustrated throughout (recto pages, verso blank): Engravings by J.C. Whymper from the illustrations of H.Fitz-Cook. Book clean and square. Bevelled edges, bright gilt title and decoration, blindstamp borders over original dark green cloth. Minimal edgewear and foredge corner fraying. Dark brown endpapers. All textblock edges bright gilt. 'With compliments' inscription, initialled 'D.J.M', together with original... View more info
By: (None Noted)
Price: $26.32
Publisher: Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co.: 1880
Edition: 1st Thus
Seller ID: 005887
108pp., colour-plate frontispiece, plus small b/white chapter illuminations and sketches. Book clean. Spine firm. Original green cloth decorated with blind, and printed embossing, with bright gilt title and surround. Mildly abraded edges and corners. Dark brown endpapers. Bright gilt text-block edges. Splotched and marked on several leaves. In very good condition for its age, with undamaged hinges, this story of Joan of Arc is written for boys and girls. Book weight appr... View more info
By: (None Noted)
Price: $22.56
Publisher: London, Sweet & Maxwell: 1916
Seller ID: 006356
vii, + 234pp. Book clean and square. Red, quarter-cloth spine mildly bumped on head and heel. Endpapers flecked and splotched. Pink-tint speckled text-block edges. Boards abraded and bumped on foredge corners. An amusing collection of legal cases from the annals of the Birmingham Court of Requests, listed under the headings: 1/ Cases in the Birmingham Court of Requests. 2/ Witch Trials. 3/ Amusing Actions at Law. Book weight approx. 480g. View more info
By: (Staff Writers)
Price: $17.58
Publisher: Hulls, York, U.K., National Radiator Company: 1933
Seller ID: 006379
208pp., illustrated throughout: halftone plates, and schematic diagrams. Patinated gilt titles over black, flexi-cloth covers, which are mildly abraded and bumped. Several supplier's stamps on free endpapers, and textblock edges, generally fingermarked and soiled, with a crack on front pastedown. A trade price, and supply catalogue for the National Radiator Company, of Hull, Yorks., manufacturers and suppliers of the 'Ideal' range of radiators and boilers. Includes a sec... View more info
By: A Yorkshire Doctor [Dr. R.W.S.Bishop]
Price: $14.06
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1926
Edition: 3rd.cheaper
Seller ID: 000399
x, 242 pp., red cloth boards, four b/w plates, including frontispiece. Book square, random foxing throughout and edges. Minor scuffing, bumps and marks. Previous owner dedication on front pastedown. No dustjacket. A humourous narrative of happier times for the author, in and around the Yorkshire Moors. Contents include: Moors and Moorland Patients, Old Yorkshire Words, Moorland Tragedy, Yorkshire Wit and Humour, Parsons and Squires, Funerals, Curious Cases, Insanity, Hos... View more info
By: A.S.L.
Price: $28.20
Publisher: London, Philip Wellby: 1907
Edition: Second Impression
Seller ID: 012014
xix, + 172pp, plus (iv). Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Gilt border, plus a blind stamp decoration over lightly bumped green cloth boards. Rough-trimmed (not deckle-edged) textblock uniformly tanned, else unmarked. Top edge gilt. No dustjacket. Contents include: Prelims., Introduction, 10 chapters, Publisher's promo. Book weight approx. 300g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
Price: $17.58
Publisher: London, Health for All Publishing Co.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003911
No publication date [c. 1947]. 168pp., b/white intext illustrations throughout; halftone and line-drawn, the majority instructive. Book clean and square. Cloth spine firm, but bumped and faded on head and heel. Illustrated, papered boards bumped and nipped on foredge corners, otherwise light specks and soiling. Original seller's sticker on front pastedown, same seller's stamp on ffep., else leaves clean. No dustjacket. "Showing a safe, certain way to youthful slimn... View more info
Price: $12.22
Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1941
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 000526
vii, + 200 pp. First printed December, 1940. This reprint edition, January, 1941. Book almost square, with barely a hint of cocking. Endpapers uniformly brown, one or two small foxing spots on head, else leaves clean. Loose-plastic protected, subject portrait dustjacket is price-clipped, previously clear-tape reinforced on rear, has grubby marks on rear panel, fold marks on rear flap, small corner chips and red border abrasions. Written by an old soldier and experienced ... View more info
By: Atkins, Walter
Price: $75.20
Publisher: Fleet Street, London, "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Company: 1914
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 000734
x, + 180pp., 162 b/w diagram illustrations intext. Advertisements on f.e.p.'s, section of electro-technical book advertisements at rear. Book square, illustrated cloth has a short pen scribble on rear cover, else cloth in very good condition. No dustjacket. Other than a few foxing spots to edges, finger marks on endpapers and former owner's name on fly, leaves are clean. First published September. 1912, contents include: Introduction, Main frame and apparatus room, Subsc... View more info
By: B.T.J.Glover and G.L.Wakefield
Price: $12.22
Publisher: London, Fountain Press: 1947
Edition: 7th Edition, 2nd Impression
Seller ID: 002644
110pp., paginated, 8 page b/w halftone plate section, plus intext line-drawings and graphs throughout. Book clean, square. Slightly shaken. Spots and mild dampstain on cloth. Leaves tanned, particularly endpapers and title-page, otherwise clean. No dustjacket. First published on 1923, this book has been completely rewritten. Intended primarily for beginners, however experienced photographers may derive some benefit . . . Contents, in 10 chapters, include: Prelims., Intro... View more info
By: Balzani, Ugo
Price: $21.62
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1889
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000421
From the 'Epochs of Church History' series, viii, 261pp., most leaves clean, edges grubby, foxing spots on a few random pages. Two names written top of decorative ffep. Short splits to hinges [top], frayed corners, small stain spots. 16 chapters including: Eugenius 111 and Conrad of Hohenstaufen-Election of Frederick 1, Hadrian 1V and Rome, Alexander 111 and the Lombards against Schism and the Empire, last years of Frederick 1, Innocent 111, Gregory 1X and the Crusade, I... View more info
Price: $16.92
Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnells Company: 1886
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006670
viii, + 365pp., plus (v). Book clean and square. Gilt titles on soiled, decorated green cloth. Original supplier's stamp on ffep., top edge gilt. B/white halftone plate frontispiece, with captioned tissue-guard. Noticeably sun-affected spine. "The sermons in this volume were delivered in Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., during the month of January, 1896, in a series of Revival meetings . . . " Book weight approx. 745g. View more info
By: Barnard, Peggy
Price: $18.80
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Consolidated Press: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012652
Unpaginated (32 pages). Saddle-stitched, staplebound landscape format. Staples clean and firm. Colour-art illustrated (Mollie Quick) stiff card cover lightly edgeworn, with a name written on front, plus a noticeable beverage stain on rear cover and small area adjacent to front foredge. Monochrome printed verso of card cover. Colour-art illustrations throughout by Mollie Quick. "Under a big Coolabah tree in the bush of Northern Queensland the busy little bush turkeys ... View more info
By: Barron, C.J. [authorised by]
Price: $21.62
Publisher: Mill Place, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, C.J.Barrow/C.W.Burford, Printer: 1918
Seller ID: 003480
143pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, mildly bumped on head and foot. Gilt title. Minor specks on cloth. Endpapers tanned, otherwise small splash stain on foot of text-block. Containing the General Charges, Laws and Regulations, & c., & c. 1918; The Constitutions are published under the authority of the Grand Lodge by C.J. Barrow, Grand Secretary. Includes Index. Book weight approx. 180g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight... View more info
By: Barry, Keith
Price: $15.04
Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Robertson & Mullins: 1941
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 012809
130pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Flapped card wrapper lightly edgeworn only. Textblock edges minimally flecked, else leaves clean. The author has written this book "with the object of helping people appreciate music by setting forth in simple, intelligent form, the rules, as he expresses it, of the game of music . . . " Contents include: Prelims., Acks., Foreword, Introduction, 15 chapters, Index. Book weight approx. 130g. *Postage charge will be reduced... View more info
Price: $18.80
Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1948
Edition: First U.K. Edition
Seller ID: 012339
xiv, + 201pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, plus intext, instructional line-drawings throughout. Vivid silver title over mildly faded spine. Plain blue original cloth boards lightly bumped on foredge corner, blind-stamp publisher's device on rear board. Textblock egdes flecked, leaves uniformly tanned. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket edgeworn, with short, jagged tears, creases and colour-fading on spine. " . . . an extremely thorough b... View more info
