Lansdowne melbourne vic (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Original gilt decorated boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, small b/w illustrations (including photographs), small 4to.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 168pp, 12pp of black and white photographic plates. Cream cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Reveals for the first time, and with a wealth of human detail, the full story of the aeroplane that vanished from human sight for twenty-seven years and the six men and two women who perished in her. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Facsimile Edition. Good condition. Some wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine tail. Interior and binding are very good. Pages are sunned. Some minor marks on top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at top and tail and some small marks on the top front cover.The Bulletin collection ranges wide across the drama and humour of Australian life, and across the continent itself, from the rough and heroic world of the bush to the striving societies of the young cities.Some of the writers included - Henry Lawson, Banjo Patterson, Victor Daley, Ernest Favene, Edward Dyson and Arthur Davis. (book flap).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top and right foredges. Dust jacket has tearing at spine top. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective cover. Interior and binding are also very good. This book contains all the best stories about Australian and New Zealand birds, fiction and non-fiction and the best poems on birds. It is written for enjoyment and occasionally tugs at the heartstrings and offers a laugh or two at the odd quirks. There are birds like the Kiwi, which cannot fly, the lyrebird, which sings with the voices of other birds and the Australian Mallee Fowl, which builds its own incubator to hatch its eggs! Naturalists and bird-watchers whose work appears include Joseph Banks, John Gould, Neville Cayley, A H Chilsholm and Robin Hill, whose contributions in prose and poetry have been gathered from Xavier Herbert, Mary Gilmore, Olaf Ruhen, Katherine Mansfield and Banjo Paterson. The book is illustrated with a superb collection of bird photographs by leading nature photographers from Australia and New Zealand.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has inscribed inside blank page. Foxing to endpages and foredges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Binding is still very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some marks on tail edge front endpage. Dust jacket is in fair condition with significant tearing to spine. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a protector. Body text and binding are still very good. For this anthology, Bill Wannan has cast his net wide - in time, he has covered the whole nineteenth century and part of the twentieth. His settings range from the wild uplands of Tasmania's Great Lake region to the sun-scorched plains west of Bourke in far outback New South Wales. Some are already classics, others have been culled from long-defunct periodicals and rare out-of-print books, and others again have survived through generations only by word of mouth.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has annotated in pen several pages. Dust jacket is intact but has significant tear to right edge front cover and back covers. Now enclosed in dust jacket protector.This book attempts to capture the changing historical mood of the Australian colonial experience. It is not a potted history of Australia, but rather some kind of theory of Australian history, a theory which is not only confirmed by what ordinary people wrote about their experience of Australia in colonial days but also by the way artists looked at the country. Based on the 1967 ABC documentary film.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has tears to top edge and at spine, now protected with book tape. Front book flap is price-clipped. Interior and binding are still very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good to near fine condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent. The turbulent years of Australia's early colonial history, marked by racketeering, provide the backdrop for this provocative book. Bill Wannan has chosen eminent "gentlemen" from the first 50 years of the New South Wales settlement, including John and Hannibal Macarthur, Reverend Samuel Marsden, Major George Johnston, Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott and many more. Reverend Samuel Marsden had many admirers who likened him to a saint. In this book, he emerges as a loan-shark, trader in arms, political reactionary, magistrate, pious missionary - a man of many masks. This book was initially published in 1962 under the title Very Strange Tales.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Jacket lightly rubbed at top edge, a couple of small closed tears (now protected); Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; (xvi,208) pages.