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John Ruskin. Selected and Edited by JOAN EVANS. (London: Phaidon Press: 1959) First Ed. Pict. cl. (gilt) pp. 344 (250 x 180) With 78 Illustrations. Index. First Edition. Very good or perhaps near fine in good dust-jacket.

(Paris: Editions Gautier-Languereau: 1930) Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 64 (317 x 233 mm). Illustrations en Colours de J.-P. Pinchon. Corners of boards bumped; a near fine copy.

(London: Smith, Elder: 1875) Third Edition, Revised According to the Latest Documents . Cl. ruled in gilt, bevelled boards pp. xxiv, 587. Frontispiece. Index. Gilt lettered titling piece on spine a little scuffed. Very good copy

(Adelaide: Printed by Vardon and Pritchard: 1890) First Edition. Not in Ferguson who does, however, list Masonic publications by the same author. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxxii, 487. Index (extensive). With inscription on front free endpaper: ‘F. Pelham Rowley from W. Barlow. 9th Septr 1892’. The recipient’s ownership stamp a few times. First Edition. Lacks the backstrip and both boards detached as a result; the stitching in part loosened. Offered as a serviceable, textually good, reading or study copy.

Printed by Order of the Trustees. (Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer: 1889) ‘5e 26-88 (A)’. First Edition. Boards with later replacement cloth backstrip (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 132 plus plates. Folding maps front and rear, being ‘Sketch showing position of Lord Howe Island with reference to the Coast of New South Wales’ (frontispiece) and ‘Geological sketch-map of Lord Howe Island, etc., by the late H.T. Wilkinson, J.P., Visiting Magistrate’ (Plate X, at rear). The other eight plates, with their leaves of explanatory text opposite, follow the text, most relating to natural history but two of them being Charts. The Preface points out that ‘From unavoidable causes the descriptive account of the Mollusca is not yet ready for publication, although the plates are issued in advance. The former will appear subsequently as a second part of this Memoir’. First Edition. Some darkening of the boards and especially near the spine where an owner long since… Read More

(København: Centraltrykkeriet: 1949) 6. Udgave. Gilt decorated boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 346 plus folding coloured pictorial table of Semaphore and Morse communications at rear. Illustrated. Several related enclosures present. Form printed on front fixed endpaper filled in; annotations on front free endpaper; annotations on four blank pages at rear, including two pages of autographs with Naval Service Numbers. Spine sunned, and gilt faded; head and foot of spine rubbed and nicked; a few marks to the boards; otherwise a very good copy.

Version No. 1. (Paris, Emile Gallet: no date) E.G. 4744. Suggest 1880s. Pictorial wrappers pp. 8 (332 x 265 mm). Scattered foxing; has been disbound from album; a very good copy.

([Paris]: Librairie Grund: Copyright 1947) Pictorial boards (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 24 (230 x 180 mm). Illustrated. Foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed; a very good copy.

(Melbourne: Lansdowne: 1963) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 192. Signed by the Author (‘Arthur Calwell’) on the front free endpaper. First Edition. Fine copy in near fine dust-jacket whose spine is slightly sunned.

(London: T. Fisher Unwin: no date) Fourth Edition. Lives Worth Living series. Pictorial cloth, partly gilt (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 335. Frontispiece. Eight inspirational biographical studies for children, including Bishop Selwyn (Melanesia). Gift inscription dated 1888 on recto of frontispiece. Head and foot of spine lightly rubbed; top edge dusty and foxed; a touch of foxing to the fore edge; otherwise a very good copy.

(Melbourne: George Robertson and Co. Pty. Ltd.: 1919) First Edition. Red cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 208. An owner’s signature on front free endpaper and at head of title page. Cloth discoloured; abrasion to lower edge of rear board; a good copy.

A Chinese Detective Story. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: no date) ‘A.-10.69(JU)’ Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 183. With ten illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. Endpaper pictures depicting the four Seasons. Front of the jacket says ‘New Judge Dee Mysteries’. An owner’s name at head of front free endpaper. Near fine copy in very good dust-jacket.

(London: Collins: 1980) First Edition. ISBN 0 00 184711 2. Boards pp. 116. First Edition. Fine copy in like dust-jacket.

(Bury St. Edmunds: Paul and Mathew: 1914) First Edition. Gilt lettered cloth, ruled in black and gilt (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 398, 1 publisher's advertisement. Indexes. Inscription on front free endpaper indicating that the book was a gift from the Author. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; spine sunned and rear external hinge splitting; a very good copy.

Vol V. –No. 3: The Most Popular Home Magazine. Devoted to the Interests of Women. (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Cape Town: Sole Agents for Australasia and Africa Robt. A Thompson and Co.: April 21, 1894) Australian Edition. Wrappers plus pp. 16. Illustrated. Unremarkably, the loosely inserted free paper pattern for the new Paris mantle illustrated on the front is no longer enclosed. Trimmed at fore and lower margins; a very good copy.

Vol V. –No. 1: The Most Popular Home Magazine. Devoted to the Interests of Women (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Cape Town: Sole Agents for Australasia and Africa Robt. A Thompson and Co.: April 7, 1894) Australian Edition. Wrappers plus page 16. Illustrated. Unremarkably, the loosely inserted free paper pattern for the new skirt illustrated on the front is no longer enclosed. A few marks to front wrapper; trimmed at fore and lower margins; one small excision (14mm x 66mm) from 'Mutual Help' column p.16; a good copy.

Vol V. –No. 2: The Most Popular Home Magazine. Devoted to the Interests of Women (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Cape Town: Sole Agents for Australasia and Africa Robt. A Thompson and Co.: April 14, 1894) Australian Edition. Wrappers plus pp. 16. Illustrated. Unremarkably, the loosely inserted free paper pattern for the new bodice and drapery illustrated on the front is no longer enclosed. Lightly trimmed at fore and lower margins; a very good copy.

(London: Chapman and Hall: 1874) Two volumes bound as one. The sheeets of the two-volume first edition are here reissued without the volume two title page in one volume. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 317; v-viii, 314. The title-page is a cancel. An owner’s armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Head and foot of spine rubbed and corners of boards worn; lower external hinge split near head of spine; two-thirds of the front inner hinge is split and the rear inner hinge is cracked; name torn from head of title-page; otherwise a very good copy.

Novel. (Stockholm: Jan-Forlag: no date) Copyright 1942 by Jan-Forlag, Stockholm. Printed by Victor Pettersons Bokindustri, Stockholm, 1942. ‘Unexpurgated authorized Edition’. In English throughout. Wrappers pp. 384 inclusive of free endpapers. Edges uncut. An owner’s name at head of title-page. Spine sunned, as are some of the margins of the red wrappers. Spine has incipient vertical cracks. Head of backstrip and corners of wrappers chipped; internally near fine.

Roman. Ubertragen von Herberth E. Herlitschka. (Leipzig: E.P. Tal and Co.: 1930) Quarter leather (that is, hard covers) pp. 453. Spine rubbed; corners and edges of boards worn; lacks front free endpaper; a good copy.