Search Results: Authors starting with W from exPB

(Sydney: Deaton and Spencer for the Proprietors of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills: no date) Second Edition enlarged and revised. Foreword dated January, 1908. Decorated wrappers plus pp. 32. Index. Numerous Australian testimonials. Spine rubbed and chip to its head; has been vertically folded; otherwise a very good copy.

(Adelaide: Investigator Press: 1982) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 128 (245 x 183 mm). Illustrated. Maps. Appendices. Sources of References. Index. Top edge foxed; a near fine copy.

(Melbourne: J.T. Picken and Sons print: 1950) First Edition. Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 235. Illustrated. Technical Appendix. Index. Chapters include ‘On Angling Books’, ‘The Effect of Temperature and Pressure on Trout’, ‘Insects which the Trout will Take’, ‘Observations on the Technique of Fly Tying, and the Selection of Flies for Imitation’, ‘Tactics on the River’, Etc. First Edition. Gilt lettering faded (as to be expected). an owner's signature on the front fixed endpaper.A very light wrinkling at fore edge margins. Otherwise a near fine copy in very good dust-jacket which is a little sunned on its spine.

(Adelaide: Printed by The Griffin Press: no date) First Edition. Cloth pp. x, 270. A story of the romantic pioneering days in the Colony of South Australia: Historical, Geographical and Domestic. 'Founded on Fact'. Ownership label. A few relevant cuttings pasted on front endpapers, and others loosely in the book; annotations to p. 209. Otherwise near fine.

(London: George Redway: 1898) First Edition. Decorated cloth, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 168, 8 publisher’s advertisements. With 95 Illustrations. Index. Top edge gilt. First Edition. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed; fore edge of boards a little discoloured from damp; otherwise near fine.

(New South Wales: Lifetime Distributors: 1995) First Edition. ISBN 0 908048 20 3. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 32 inclusive of the boards (312 x 235 mm). Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. Edges of boards a little bumped; an about fine copy.

(Sydney: Published by Sam Ure Smith at the Fine Arts Press Pty Limited: 1986) Second Edition limited to five hundred copies. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xviii, 398 (285 x 210 mm). Illustrated. Bibliography. A near fine copy in clear dust-jacket.

(London: Hamish Hamilton: 1939) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 46 (265 x 205 mm). Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. Lacks the backstrip; wear to edges and corners of boards; internally a very good copy.

(London: Blackie: no date) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. 16 (280 x 230 mm) Gift inscription on verso of front wrapper. Spine split and chip to corner of front; marginal marks and a little colouring-in; a good copy.

(London: Gale and Polden Ltd.: no date) Suggest about 1920. Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 36 inclusive of the boards (285 x 220 mm). The illustrations include six pages in full-colour, one of which, an attractive green-eyed ginger feline as Cinderella, is repeated on front board. Owner’s name on front free endpaper and repeated at head of title page. A few marks and a little silverfishing to rear board; boards are rubbed at edges and worn at corners; a very good copy and internally near fine.

(London: The Alexandra Publishing Company: no date) Suggest early 1930s. Pictorial boards of two laughing cats on a fence on front panel and show cats and puppy on rear (that is, hard covers) pp. 92 (252 x 190 mm). Illustrated by Wain throughout, including three coloured plates additional to pagination. Incomplete: only three of the called for four plates present. Prize label on front fixed endpaper. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; external hinges starting to crack; light marginal marks internally; while the leaves are firmly stitched the gatherings are loosening and would respond to judicious re-gluing; leaves yellowed; otherwise a very good copy.

Edited by R. Harre. (London: Macmillan: 1968) Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 260. Index. An about fine copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket.

Part 1 [IN Memoir IV. Scientific Results of the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. ‘Thetis’, off the Coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898]. (Sydney: Australian Museum: [23rd December, 1899]) Wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 132, plus 31 plates with captions on adjacent leaves, plus folding coloured ‘Sketch of Portion of the Coast of New South Wales to Illustrate the Trawling Expedition of H.M.C.S. ‘Thetis’. Illustrated. Lacks wrappers; a very good copy.

(Adelaide: Harrison Weir print: January 31st, 1929) Wrs pp. 272. Edited by Herbert M. Hale, Curator, SA Museum. With 192 illustrations. Index. Handbooks of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia (series). Fine

Edited by John Meredith for The Bush Music Club Series No. 2. (Sydney: Southern Music Publishing Co. [A/asia] Pty. Ltd.: n.d.) Pictorial wrappers pp. i, 21 (begins with photograph and biography of Stan Wakefield). Music & Words throughout. Price blacked out. Very good copy.

(Sydney: Collins: 1984) Reprint of the Second Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 96 (240 x 170 mm). Illustrated by Desmond Digby. Bookseller's mark on lower edge; otherwise near fine.

With an Introduction by James Collier. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press: 1914) Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxiv, xxiv, 510. All edges uncut. An ownership inscription at the head of the front free endpaper. Spine sunned; a very good copy.

(Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House: October 1992) First Edition, limited to 1000 copies. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 144 (245 x 183 mm). Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Signed by the Author on the title page. First Edition. An owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. An about fine copy.

With Preface by Lt.-Col. R.A. Currie, D.S.O., General Staff. (London: Hugh Rees: 1916) First Edition. Cloth pp. 174 and 5 advertisements. Stars and Constellations map. In their Introduction the Authors express the hope that the book ‘may prove of service in the field’, being not a substitute for the Field Service Pocket Book, but rather ‘a very portable form of its contents summarised’. First Edition. Very good copy.

(Adelaide, South Australia: The Advertiser Printing Office: 1946) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 182 (225 x 165 mm). With photographic illustrations additional to pagination. A very good copy.