Search Results: Authors starting with U from exPB

(Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies: 1977) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 486 (260 x 260 mm). Illustrated. References. Index. Cloth a little flecked, otherwise a near fine copy in very good dust-jacket which is sunned on its spine.

(no place: roneoed: no date) Three and fourteen leaves roneoed on rectos only, including two maps and related key. The status of this edition is unclear, presumably pre-dating the official Bread and Cheese publication of 1957. Front wrapper which doubles as title page a little frayed and soiled; otherwise very good.

(London: Evans Brothers: 1949) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 150. Illustrated by Rosemary Brown. First Edition. A prize label pasted on the blank verso of the front free endpaper; the inscription is repeated on the half-title page. About fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket (by Eileen Soper).

(Issued by the Japanese Government Railways, Japan Tourist Bureau, Japan Hotel Association, Tokyo, Japan/Published by the Japanese Government Railways: 1926) Pict. wrs plus pp. viii, 86, ii (185 x 125 mm) and with 82 Illustrations (5 Colortypes) and 9 Maps, Specially Drawn, inc. folding map at rear, plus folding table 'Second-Class Passenger Fares' also at rear; all extra to pagination. Cover title simply 'Japan 1926'. A (very) little external wear otherwise fine.

(London: Henry Colburn: 1844) Gilt pict. cl. pp. xvi, 472. With two portraits. The first of a proposed annual series. A shaken, well used copy with replacement backstrip by an amateur; scattered foxing; wax stains to title-page. Offered as a serviceable study or reference copy.

From 'The Earthly Paradise' of William Morris. (London: Nelson: no date) Pictorial cloth, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 299 and 5 publisher's advertisements (237 x 185 mm). Illustrated. Top edge gilt. Prize label on recto of frontispiece. A little rubbing to head and foot of spine; a near fine copy.

(London: Thomas Nelson and Sons: n.d.) Inscription dated 21-2-1936. Richly dec. cl. (gilt) bevelled boards pp. 270, 2 p.a. (235 x 185) With Sixteen Coloured Plates and Numerous Marginal Illustrations by Anne Anderson. Top edge gilt. Very good

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner and Co.: 1902) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is paper covers) plus pp. 43. Underhill’s first book and a rarity. Dedicatory verse to her cat, Johnny Bootles. An ownership signature on front free endpaper. Wrappers a little chipped and frayed at edges, the largest chip to the upper inner corner of the rear wrapper; tide-mark along the spine which is rubbed at its head and foot; free endpapers a little marked and foxed; otherwise a very good copy.

(London: Methuen Children’s Books: 1984) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 32 (305 x 215 mm). Illustrated by the Author including ‘peep-hole’ effects. First Edition. A near fine copy.

(Bendigo: Bolton Bros. Print: 1924) Third Edition. Wrappers pp. 128. Index. Dampstains and wrinkling, especially to rear wrapper and final leaves, otherwise good copy.

(Printer not given) Wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 24 (185 x 112 mm). Spine sunned. Near fine copy.

Translated from the Swedish by Lilian Seaton. (London: Michael Joseph: 1964) First (British) Edition. Gilt pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 168. Illustrated by Ilon Wikland. Near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket (by Margaret Eastoe).

(NY: Knopf: 1971) First Edition Cl. pp. viii, 408. First Edition. Fine in fine dust-jacket.

(London: Andre Deutsch: 1962) First British Ed. Boards pp. x, 245. About fine in very good dust-jacket.

(London: Heinemann: 1956) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 226. First Edition. Near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket which is neatly repaired on its blind side.

(London: Heinemann: 1966) First Ed. Boards pp. vi, 184. First Edition. Prize label on front free endpaper, a few scattered marginal marks, a very good copy in good price-clipped dust-jacket which has a small chip to the head of its spine and three neat repairs on its blind side.

Novel. (London: Heinemann: 1951) First UK Edition. Boards (hardcovers) pp. vi, 246. 'Introducing the Australian Detective Napoleon Bonaparte'. An ownership inscription on front fixed endpaper. Edges foxed; a very good copy in repaired price-clipped dust-jacket which is heavily chipped at the head of its front flap and at the head and foot of its spine, and chipped and worn at its corners and edges.

Novel. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 1939) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 256. Map (‘Bony’s Key-Plan’). First Edition. A discreet ownership inscription at head of half-title page. Front board slightly canted; spine sunned and a little foxed; head and foot of spine a little worn and an old glue repair to head of rear external hinge; top edge dusty; a touch of foxing to the edges, and a little internally; a good copy, and textually very good.

(London: Hutchinson: no date) Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 200. Hutchinson's Girls' Adventure Series advertised on rear panel of dust-jacket. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Edges a little foxed; a near fine copy in very good repaired and price-clipped dust-jacket.

(Sydney: Art in Australia: 1928) First Edition Pictorial wrappers pp. ii, 27 (text, plus a woodcut on p. 27) plus 55 plates, those in colour tipped in (252 x 192 mm) First Edition. Endpapers and edges foxed and scattered foxing to margins and blank areas of leaves throughout but illustrated not affected, and apart from that about fine.