Search Results: AUSTRALIA from Booked Experiences

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. pp.320 clean tight copy d/j shows minuscule creasing to corners and edges with small tear to lower spine edge and small chip top back Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Reed Books, 1993. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Fine/No Jacket. Ken Gilroy. Fine. Fine/no Dust Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.95 The author worked out a system of gardening which relied more on observation and common-sense than chemical control. clean tight copy.

Macmillan, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.96 with notes to plates, bibliography, and glossary. The author discusses the lives and works of 19 convict artists who depicted the flora, fauna and topography of the new land and later its development. clean copy front and backpiece spine broken, d/j taped on inside to keep together a 4" tear front cover near spine with small piece missing, top and head of d/j spine taped horizontally as well as corner flap edges. bumped corners.

St. Martin's Press, 1998. First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp.495 clean tight copy some creasing to d/j edges Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

McPhee Gribble, 1988. Soft cover. Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.297 with index, glossary and bibliography. Explores the nature of the changes in gender relations in Aboriginal society. tight copy sporatic yellow and sky blue highliting throughout whole book, soiled edges slight edgewear good reading copy.

Rigby Limited, 1969. Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ainslie Roberts. pp.79 Beautiful colored paintings. gift inscription of frontpiece d/j price clipped rubbed extremities, wrapped in mylar Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 2003. Second Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. pp.260 clean tight copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1999. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.286 with index, bibliography and notes. This story begins among Greek philosophers on the shores of the Mediterranean and ends two millennia later in the vast Southern Ocean. The author tells an absorbing tale of mapmakers, lonely caravels, Spanish hidalgos and Dutch merchants, remote coasts and castaways, buccaneers and dreamers. This book tells how the speculations and visionaries became Terra Incognita and then Australia. clean tight copy, slight edgewear.

Anvil Press, 1986. Fourth Printing. . Hard Cover Laminated. Fine. Ronald Revitt. pp.64 clean tight copy

Robert Brown & Associates, 1985. First. . Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.92 30 plates of art clean tight copy white covers show sunning to edges and spine with minuscule edge and corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Sydney: Double Day. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Photographs taken around 1880-1936 by Charles Kerry & Henry King. clean tight copies with slight sunning to edges.

Knopf, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.688 with index. clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Victoria: Australia: Magazine Art (AUST) Pty. Ltd. 1989. Good/Good. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 160. A pictorial history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Include black and white and color pictures, maps, graphs, chapters include: A 1912 Vision, The Road to the Bush, Flynn's Mob is Born, Enter. The Fighter Pilots, Voice of the Outback, The First Flights, The Network Begins, Flynn's Recruits, Bombs and the Aftermath, Dreams Fulfilled, The RFDs Today. edges of front cover shelf worn.

Hobart: Tasmania: Drinkwater Publishing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Unknown. Near Fine 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.466 A chilling look at the inhumanity and suffering in an Australian penal colony. clean tight copy minuscule edgewear.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp.446 with bibliography The grim and tragic story of life in an Australian penal colony. clean tight copy minuscule corner wear gift inscription on frontpiece Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Alfred A Knopf, 1973. First American Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. pp.334 clean tight copy but for some spots to outer edge, d/j small tear lower front and top front on hinge, slight corner wear, some small tears/creases to top/bottom spines Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Australia: Rigby Limited, 1962. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good ++. pp. 240. b/w photos SIGNED BY LOCKWOOD and WAIPULDANYA who also goes by the signed name Phillip Roberts. The story of Waipuldanya of the Alawa tribe of Australian Aborigines. signed by Lockwood and Waipuldanya. plus a gift inscription on title page, title page cut diagonally top right corner, crease to bottom front corner with small tear, small chips to top/bottom spine else slight rubbing and creasing to edges and corners, 1/2" tear down back top corner with faint creasing to top back edge, slight bumping to lower boards and spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Australia: Rigby, 1980. First Illustrated Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ainslie Roberts. Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.200 Dedicated to Waipuldanya of the Alawa tribe of Australian Aborigines whose story this is. First illustrated edition-45 illustrations. First published in 1962. clean tight copy d/j 1/2" tear bottom spine near hinge. else minuscule edgewear.

London & Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, Ltd, 1894. First. . Hardcover. Very Good. W.S. Stacey. pp.312 plus books suitable for prizes and presentations, tanning to text pages and inside front and back covers, blue cloth covers with gold print on cover and spine with black print also. shelf wear to top/bottom spines of creases and small tears, wear to corners, slight soiling to blue covers and rubbed spine hinges but still a great copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp.307 with bibliography. Humor, wonder and unflagging curiosity. clean tight copy minuscule edgewear to d/j Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall