Search Results: Romance Of Australian Lighthouses by Valmai Phillips

Rigby, Adelaide, 1977. 221 pp including index, small quarto, tinted end-papers, coloured photographic plates, b&w photographic illustrations, fine copy in like, pictorial d/j.

Adelaide, Rigby 1977.. 222pp. 8vo. Original bright boards in dustwrapper, includes numerous b&w and colour photographs throughout. A very good copy.. First edition.

Australia: Rigby. Good. No Binding. 1977. 221 pages. tidy ex library d/j had been plastic protected .

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1977. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), black & white & colour photos (some full-page), minor edgewear jacket (slightly faded, closed tear top edge, light foxing reverse side, spine ends little rubbed), light foxing endpapers & edges, small tear on spine edge, boards slightly faded, some edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 221 pp. Valmai Phillips provides this very special story about lighthouses is the story of people, navigators like Matthew Flinders, sea captains, pioneers, convicts, and the lighthouse-keepers whose long tradition of devotion and service continues to this day. In this technological age when more lights are automated, there are still men and women who spend weeks at a time in remote isolation, maintaining the lights that must never go out. Shows fascinating glimpses into the lives of these people as she tells the story of the many lights… Read More

Rigby, Adelaide 1977. 26.0 x 19.0cms, 222pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper This book details te lives of the sea captains, poioneers, convicts & lighthouse-keepers who sewrved Australia's lighthouses.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket 221pp., col. & b/w pls., bibliog., index,

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 221pp., colour & b/w plates, bibliog., index, Well-illustrated history