Titles beginning with R from exPB (381 items)

Warehouses - London/Factories: Brownville, Galway and Bateman Street, London, N.E. (London: A. White and Co., Steam Printers and Lithographers: no date) Late 19th Century? Decorated wrappers plus pp. 64 and iv (Index) (240 x 183 mm) Illustrated Catalogue (Brushware, Sponges, Leathers, Games, Fancy Goods). Prices. A few stains to rear wrapper. Very good copy.

(Hawthorndene, SA: Investigator Press: 1980) First Edition Pict. wrs pp. 176. Illust. Notes. Index. First Edition. Near fine copy, inscribed and signed by the Author.

[Novel]. ‘Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the mock-monk “Grichka,” and the consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With Official Documents revealed and recorded for the first time.’ (Melbourne: Melville and Mullen Pty. Ltd.: May, 1918) Second Impression of Australian Edition [first impression of this edition was also May, 1918, with a claimed printing of 10,000 copies each time]. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 160. The yapp edges of the wrappers frayed and worn; most of backstrip chipped off; corners of wrappers chipped, but without loss of print; top wrapper detached; apart from which a good copy (text very good).

(London: T. Woolmer: 1888) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 90 and 6 publisher’s advertisements. Frontispiece (Bau) and decorations. Reward label of Wesleyan Methodist Juvenile Home and Foreign Missionary Society on front fixed endpaper (awarded Christmas 1894 in recognition of the recipient’s services as a Collector for the Society). First Edition. Three small stains to foot of front board and another near the title; patches of darkening to the cloth; a small date stamp twice to front free endpaper, once very lightly; otherwise a very good copy.

(Adelaide: Published quarterly by the Conservation Council of South Australia: June 1977-June 1981) The first seventeen numbers of this periodical: Vol. 1 No. 1 (June 1977) –Volume 5 No. 2 (June 1981) which may now well be seen to have been ahead of its time so far as political and public focus were concerned. All about 295 x 210 mm except for Vol. 5 Nos 1 and 2 which are about 207 x 170 mm. Illustrated. In generally about fine order.

(London: Chapman and Hall: 1853) [title f.p. 1850] Cl. dec. in blind and in gilt pp. viii, 320 and ii, 321-627. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHIZ (H.K. Browne) thirty nine plates plus extra pictorial title-page. All edges uncut. Rubbing to lower edges of bds from being shelved. Very good

(Adelaide: Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc.: October 2014) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 60 (300 x 210 mm). In word and illustration, South Australian printmakers display their work and reveal the philosophies from which it arises. Light marginal marks to the foot of the front wrapper; a very good copy.

(Melbourne: By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer: 1906) First Ed. Gilt cl. pp. x, 349. Illust.: With 55 Plates (including 366 Figures). Glossary of the principal scientific terms used. Literature consulted. Explanation of Plates. Host Index with Rusts. Fungus Index with Synonyms and Hosts. General Index. First Edition. Spine (lightly) sunned otherwise fine

(Sydney: Rydge’s Business Journal: 1935) Comprised in Ten sections, with an additional Special Section titled “Selling Your Ability”, that is, eleven matching books, all in the original pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) and of pp. 28, 24, 31, 27, 20, 44, 28, 28, 28, 23, 24 (221 x 141 mm). A fine set in the somewhat worn original box in which they were sent by post to Lambert’s Service Station, Cnr. Park Terrace and Goodwood Road, Wayville, South Australia (see label on front of box).

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

(London: Routledge and Sons: no date) Suggest 1880s. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. ii, 58 and 4 publisher’s advertisements, dated 10-1-(18)85, plus Second Issue of Routledge’s Railway Library Advertiser front and rear additional to the pagination. In the mid-nineteenth century author wrote on poultry etc, mostly under his pseud. Also a cookbook with his wife. Nine page appendix titled 'To cook pigeons and rabbits'. Light discoloration to the cloth of the rear board and not affecting lettering or pictures on front and on spine; otherwise a very good copy.

(Sydney: View Productions: 1986) Second Edition of the Facsimile of the book first published by Art in Australia, 1922. ISBN 0 908240 36 8. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 184, 6 (Advertisements) (280 x 220 mm). With Paintings by Martin Stainforth. An about fine copy in very good dust-jacket.

(London: Walter Scott: 1900) Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. iv (advertisements), xxiv, 612 and 20 publisher’s advertisements. With 176 Illustrations and two Maps. Index of Authors. Index of Subjects. The Contemporary Science Series. Head and foot of spine, external hinges and lower corners of boards rubbed; a very good copy.

(New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Capetown, Paris, Los Angeles: Boosey and Hawkes: Copyright 1946) Pictorial wrappers plus pp. 32. A near fine copy.

(London: John Long: Copyright 1926) ‘Now for the first time published in volume form’. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 254, 2 publisher’s advertisements, 32 publisher’s advertisements dated Summer 1926. Spine sunned; cloth marked; edges foxed; a very good copy.

(London: Nelson: n.d.) Board book of pp. 14 ie seven cardboard leaves (144 x 180 mm). A 'Little Hercules' Book. Fourteen full-page colour pictures by Groves with captions and brief relevant text at foot. A couple of small marginal scuffs to one plate. Near fine

(London: The Bodley Head: 1956) First Edition Gilt decorated cloth pp. 144 (254 x 190 mm) Illust. First Edition. Near fine in good dust-jacket. which is chipped and somewhat worn.

Volume 1 Prejudice and Xenophobia; Volume 2 Black versus White; Volume 3 Colonialism. (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company: 1972) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 193; x, 266; x, 284. Index to Volumes 1-3 at rear of Vol. 3. First Edition. Small fore-edge stains to volume one; a near fine set in very good dust-jackets.

(Melbourne: United Press: n.d.) Price 1/-. Suggest 1939. Pict. wrs pp. 76 (275 x 200) Illust. The Listener In Handbook No. 14. An owner's signature on front wrapper, staples rusted, near repair to front wrapper; a very good copy and internally near fine.

(Melbourne: Allan and Co.: no date) B 2743. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 29 (305 x 235 mm). Illustrated. An owner’s signature dated 1938 on verso of front wrapper. A near fine copy.