Search Results: Authors starting with C from A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS

Published by Terrail, Paris, 2001. Tall 4to.pp206, many colour illustrations and a few in black & white.Softcover, original quality pictorial wrappers with french flaps.A Very Good copy Text in English. ISBN 2879392365.

London: Viking Press, 1988. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 258, bibliography, index. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings.Original green hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Fine Copy. Mary Cadogan discusses the literary quality and social attitudes of the stories and some of the reasons for their resilient appeal. In doing so she also builds up a detailed portrait of this engaging, enigmatic, prolific and immensely talented author.

Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1992. First Edition. 8vo.pp.viii + 262. Very good hardcover in very good price clipped dust wrapper. Herb Caen wrote about San Ftancisco in a column in The San Francisco Chronicle. Poingnat pieces on The Milk murders, The Quake of '89 or Patty Hearst to a foggy day on Nob Hill for more than fifty years he was the undisputed voice of the city.

Copyright Publishing, Brisbane,2012. 8vo.pp.xvi+ 336.pictorial endpapers,illustrated. index, Very good pictorial hardcover ,no dust wrapper as issued. a small very discrete name of th previous owner else fine copy. ISBN 9781876344962 Rabaul Papua New Guinea ,in the steaming tropics,with its dark volcanic soils and high yeild crops such as copra and tobacco, required imported labour but the cost was disease and difficult living conditions.The Chinese were brought to Rabaul only to die of sickness and violence during the Japanese invasion of the Second World War.

Published by Oxford University Press, 1992. 8vo. pp.xiv + 284, bibliography, index with black and white photographs. Very good dark blue cloth hardcover in very good pictorial dust wrapper.

Allen Lane , The Penguin Press , London. 1999. Two Volumes 8vo. pp. xxiv + 648 , pp.xi + 896. Illustrations , indexes. Near Fine hardcovers in Near Fine dust wrappers. ISBN 0713993855 ,0713993863 Berlioz was not simply a great and revolutionary composer but perhaps the greatest conductor of his age. He was also defined by great love affairs which influenced his work.This biography is fascinating.

Atherton: Published by The Authors, 1989. Landscape, oblong 8vo. pp. 88 with drawings by Joan Cairns. Mild soiling to upper wrapper. original pictorial quality softcover wrappers. Very good.

Pennsylvania: Published by The Franklin Library, 1980. 8vo. pp. 313. Illustrations by Denis Lyall. Moire end papers. ribbon marker. Full red leather decorated kn gilt. Very good.

Sydney: Published by Angus and Robertson, 1956. 8vo. pp.viii + 486 pages many illustrations in black & white, 3 colour plates + a map with a printed overlay. The endpapers are offset and tanned. The original maroon hardcover boards are a bit rubbed and a little used.

Thomas Nelson , London ,1946.First Edition. 4to.pp.xiii,1+242.Illustrated with photographs and maps.16p plates plus in text. 4.appendix,Very Good hardcover inchipped else good complete now protected dust jacket. A human and historically factual account of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 7th Division.

Reed, Sydney, 1986. 8vo pp.120. illustrated with 300 colour photographs.A laymans guide.Fine in dust jacket.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. Large 8vo. pp.224 + 376 illustrations of which 107 are in colour. Original red cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Fine Copy.

London: Michael Juseph, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. pp.271. Original black hardcover in protected dust wrapper. Very Good. A chilling community being used for Government psychic research programme.

London,Volumes 1 & 2 are n.d..Volume 3. 1731. Three Volumes, Folio. 46 cms x 30 cms.. Volume One; Engraved Title and dedication plus 98 engraved plates.. Volume Two; Engraved title plus 99 engraved plates. Volume Three;.Title page in blackand red.plus 98 engraved plates. The Umberslade not bound in, absent as is usual. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, with raised bands, blind stamped in comparments with red and gilt title labels. .There is a small wormhole from plate 68/69, plate 70 and to plate 71, 72. It is in the gutter and well away from the printed surface. [See Images]. Many of the plates are folding or double paged. The contents and plates are crisp and clean. . Vitruvius Britannicus established Palladian Architecture as the approved style for Britain in the 18th Century. Colen Campbell issued the first three volumes.The plates depict the great country house estates, palaces, government offices and churches..The architects were Inigo Jones, Wren, Vanbrugh et al. with… Read More

London: Adlard Coles Ltd, 1974. 4to. pp. 156 plus many excellent detailed drawings of clipper construction and fit out. Original off white hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Some mild foxing to half title page else a Fine Copy.

Australian Artist Edition. Sydney, 1980. Square 4to.pp.127.45 colour plates aand black & white illustrations. Bound in crash canvas hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. lacks slipcase else A Very good copy in Very good dust wrapper. ISBN 0959839550 Limited to 345 copies Signed by Charles Lawrence.

London: Times Books, 1984. Fine/fine. Small folio, pp. 303 with many colour and black & white illustrations. Original oatmeal coloured cloth hardcover in a pictorial dust wrapper. Fine as new copy in the publishers cardboard box. the box is a little marked. Heavy will require extra postage.

New York: Published by Harper & Row, 1988. Five Volumes. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Small folios. Original hardcovers in pictorial dust wrappers. A near fine set. Very Heavy Set will require extra postage.

London: Published by Hakluyt Society, 2000. 4to. pp. xv + 232 with colour and black & white illustrations and maps.original blue cloth hardcover in dust wrapper. ' In 1819 William Smith, with a general cargo from Montevideo to Valparaiso, sailed further south round Cape Horn than his predecessors, in the hope of finding favorable winds. He sighted land in 62 degrees South. His report to the Senior Naval Officer in Valparaiso was ridiculed, but on a subsequent voyage he confirmed his discovery, taking soundings and sailing along the coast. As a result Captain Shirreff, the Senior Naval Officer, charted his vessel, the brig Williams, and having put Edward Bransfield the master of his ship, HMS Andromache, in charge, sent her to survey the new discovery. Charles Poynter was one of the midshipmen who sailed with Bransfield. His account of this expedition, which forms the principal part of this volume, recently came to light in New Zealand, and is the only first-hand account of the voyage, during which… Read More

London,: Published by The Folio Society, 1987. 8vo. pp.xv + 248.with black & white illustrations by Linda Kitson. Red decorated cloth hardcover Fine in marked slipcase.