Search Results: Titles starting with W from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Methuen & Co, London, 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Various. 950 g; X, 270, 8 pages, in the original dark green boards, and illustrated with a frontispiece and seven other plates, and other illustrations within the text, includes bibliography and index.. Illustrated dust jacket. The price has been neatly clipped out of the spine section of the dust jacket, the edges of the text block foxed, original bookseller's sticker on the lower right-hand corner of front paste down, and some foxing to the first couple of pages. The final eight pages of the book has a list of other books for sale by the publisher. . Biography Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Theatre; Biography -- Arts; Inventory No: 0223636. .

Ace Books, New York, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Good. acknowledgements. 1/4 black coloured backstrip with silver titles. 3/4 black coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper with green and black coloured titles to the front panel and green and white coloured titles to the backstrip. When a young woman is given the opportunity to have an implant that will give her sight for the first time in her life, she jumps at the opportunity. But what she finds is that she can see the World Wide Web. It explodes all around her in shapes and colours, and while she is exploring this amazing realm. She discovers something – "some other – lurking in the background. And it's getting smarter ..." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Minor rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges and softening to the heel of the backstrip. Black remainder stripe to the lower edge of the textblock A hint of ruffling to the… Read More

Duckworth & Co, London, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: drawings & reproductions of statues & weapons. second-hand copy, dust jacket is separated at the front panel, left-hand side next to the spine, previous owner's details written at the top of the inside of the front cover in pen, there are some pencil notes and pencil underlining starting at page 100 which appear to cease at page 132. This book examines the relationship between the ideals and practice of chivalry at a time when they are often said to have fallen into decay: Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 206 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: drawings & reproductions of statues & weapons. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Medieval 10th to 15thc; history. ISBN: 0715610422. ISBN/EAN: 9780715610428. Inventory No: 0276854. . 9780715610428

British Film Institute Publishing, London, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by authors, acknowledgements, appendices, glossary, bibliography and filmography. The text is illustrated with the very occasional black-and-white film still. Plain text paperback binding with green and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. "In 1971 Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), the Cologne television station, broadcast Rote Fahnen sieht man besser (Red Flags Can Be Seen Better), a documentary on the closing of a chemical works from the point of view of those who made redundant. This was the first example of an experimental new genre which came to be known as the Arbeiterfilm ('worker film'). As developed by WDR the Arbeiterfilm if evolved into a form of programming which put the lives of the West German working class on the screen." -- from the rear panel blurb. Minor creasing to the book… Read More

The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1983. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: William Ellis Green -- WEG. not paginated, introduction by author. The text is illustrated with black and white cartoons drawn by WEG over a 35 year period for the Melbourne newspaper The Herald. The book is sectioned into time periods, 1949 to 1953, 1954 to 1958, 1959 to 1963, 1964 to 1968, 1969 to 1973, 1974 to 1978 and 1979 to 1983. Each year section has a small description of the influences that caused WEG to draw his cartoons. Illustrated covers, by WEG, with white background and red and black titles to the front panel. Rubbing to the book corners and there is a bump to the front fore edge of the front panel. The white of the background has become a little grubby and dull. The remains of a sticker can be seen to the top left-hand corner of the rear book panel. 35 years of WEG cartoons. Size: Oblong 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" tall but… Read More

Lothian Publishing, Melbourne, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 93 pp., Title block tipped in on fron board. The rear fold of the spine is rubbed, both the boards are foxed, as are the edges of the boards, and the edges of the pages, and indeed most of the pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 0205910. .

Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1977. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Previous owner's name on the 1st page, crossed out, some pencil comments on pages. A young husband goes missing for 8 years, he suddenly returns, his wife is overwhelmed by renewed bliss, but as time passes she becomes possessed baby terrible fear that the man she has welcomed is not her husband. Impelled by an oppressive sense of sin and intense hatred for her betrayer, she is driven to accomplish her own tragic downfall – paraphrasing the rear panel blurb Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 96 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0140041931. ISBN/EAN: 9780140041934. Inventory No: 0251873. . 9780140041934

Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1977. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. the clear protective plastic that the previous owner placed on the book has started to lift on the left-hand margin. Previous owner's name on the 1st page, some pencil comments on pages 70 through 74. A young husband goes missing for 8 years, he suddenly returns, his wife is overwhelmed by renewed bliss, but as time passes she becomes possessed baby terrible fear that the man she has welcomed is not her husband. Impelled by an oppressive sense of sin and intense hatred for her betrayer, she is driven to accomplish her own tragic downfall – paraphrasing the rear panel blurb Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 96 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0140041931. ISBN/EAN: 9780140041934. Inventory No: 0251864. . 9780140041934

Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1977. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Previous owner's name on the 1st page, no other damage to describe. A young husband goes missing for 8 years, he suddenly returns, his wife is overwhelmed by renewed bliss, but as time passes she becomes possessed baby terrible fear that the man she has welcomed is not her husband. Impelled by an oppressive sense of sin and intense hatred for her betrayer, she is driven to accomplish her own tragic downfall – paraphrasing the rear panel blurb Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 96 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0140041931. ISBN/EAN: 9780140041934. Inventory No: 0251874. . 9780140041934

Penguin, Ringwood, Victoria, 1977. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Previous owner's name on the 1st page, some pencil comments on pages. A young husband goes missing for 8 years, he suddenly returns, his wife is overwhelmed by renewed bliss, but as time passes she becomes possessed baby terrible fear that the man she has welcomed is not her husband. Impelled by an oppressive sense of sin and intense hatred for her betrayer, she is driven to accomplish her own tragic downfall – paraphrasing the rear panel blurb Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 96 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0140041931. ISBN/EAN: 9780140041934. Inventory No: 0251872. . 9780140041934

Witwatersrand University Press, Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 900 g; XVI, 432 pages, last five pages blank, includes notes to chapters, and index. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Slight handling marks to the front edge of the text block. "In the period between the outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the enactment of University apartheid by the Nationalist Government in 1959,, the University of Witwatersrand developed as an "open University", admitting students of all races. This, the second volume of the history of Wits, has as its central theme the process by which Wits became "open," the compromises this process entailed, and the defence the University mounted to preserve its "open" status in the face of the challenge posed by the Nationalist Government." -- front fold over blurb Size: 4to… Read More

The Company, Melbourne, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. VI, 68 pp., underwriting activities. Black and white photographic frontispiece, showing founder. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and line drawings. Photographic front cover, showing a portrait of Melbourne, with black writing on front panel. Corners are slightly rubbed and bumped. The head and the heel of the spine are also rubbed and slightly bumped. Slight fading to the covers. Loosely inserted into the book is a small card saying "With the Compliments of WM. Noall & Son". History of Australian sharebroking and investment company. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Company History; Australia; Inventory No: 0113829. .

Magpie Books, London, 2004. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. a fascinating collection of crimes, hoaxes, swindles and scandals from around the world, of robberies and consumer terrorism, sporting cheats and literary forgeries & Wall Street's fraudsters – – – This collection was first published as Colin Wilson's World-Famous Crimes in 1995 apart from creasing of the spine from reading, there is no damage to describe. Size: Trade Paperback. VIII, 452, [4] pages, illustrated with black-and-white photographs within the text. The book is 2nd hand, there is no damage to describe.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; True Crime; ISBN: 1841198587. ISBN/EAN: 9781841198583. Inventory No: 0277787. . 9781841198583

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Gregor Duncan. Burnt orange coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white illustrations by Gregor Duncan. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured embossed illustration to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper, again by Gregor Duncan, with white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. The story of a small boy, Wacky, who learns that " ... being a little boy isn't as good as being a good little boy." – from the rear fold over panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges with a little softening of the back strip. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners name to the top edge of the front fold over panel. Minor chipping of the dustwrapper corners and back strip edges. Rubbing of the dustwrapper. Sunning of the back… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 650 g; XVI, 228t pages, last three pages blank, chapter notes, index, chronology, 18 pages of black-and-white photography, Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Samuel Wadham arrived from England in 1926 As Professor of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. A man who was prepared to ignore heat, dust and flies to talk to farmers in remote districts, Wadham defied the then accepted image of a university educator. He was unpretentious in dress and manners, and antisocially in all surroundings. Ross Humphreys skilfully documents the broad panorama of Sir Samuel Wadham's concerns and interests and, through access to the Wadham family papers, also reveals the complexities of his character and his family life. -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More

Breckling Press, Elmhurst, Illinois, 2007. First Edition. Softcover (with flaps). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Colour illustrated end pages. The text is illustrated with both colour photographs, line drawings and coloured illustrations. Photographic paperback binding, with French flaps, with yellow, white and red coloured titles to the front panel and yellow and white coloured titles to the back strip. 20 projects using the Japanese technique of Wagashi. Some rubbing of the book edges and of the panels. Size: Sqare Octavo. [4], V - VII, [1] 151, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Japan; ISBN: 1933308141. ISBN/EAN: 9781933308142. Inventory No: 0286781. . 9781933308142

St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, 2008. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. a clean copy with no damage to detail, this is the 1st of the Cin Craven novels Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 352 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Romance; Gothic; Science Fiction and Fantasy-Fantasy-Contemporary; ISBN: 0312946163. ISBN/EAN: 9780312946166. Library of Congress No: 2009510900. Inventory No: 0261935. . 9780312946166

Princeton University press, New Jersey, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. the softcover binding with attached fold over flaps shows no damage. The book itself is clean and free of annotation. This new edition of Waiting Piece provides a unique insight into the critical debate on the future of the Middle East. The author also studied the broader political, cultural and increasingly religious conflict between Israel and Arab nationalism and discusses the region in international context. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). Marking pen stripe on bottom edge.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Judaica; Israel; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0691119821. ISBN/EAN: 9780691119823. Inventory No: 0246256. . 9780691119823

Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, London, 2000. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. 500 g; 320 pages, indexed, with several sections of black-and-white photography throughout the book. Personalised gift inscription dated June 2000 on the title page. "For generations, the Wagner family had been revered in Germany: rich, powerful, politically influential -- in many ways the closest thing the country has to royalty. By the story of the Wagner's is also one of anti-Semitism and nationalism, the extent of which has been kept within the confines of the family. Until now. -- Ostracised, disinherited but staunchly vocal, Gottfried has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagner's legacy and a champion of greater understanding between Germans and Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants worldwide. This is his story." -- Rear panel blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The… Read More

Daily Mirror, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: R. Wilson & J. Challen. VI, 125 pages. Illustrated endpapers, showing a wagon train. On the verso of the free front end paper is an illustration of a single wagon pulled by two horses with a man and woman sitting in the front. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, by J. Challen. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations, with each illustration having one other colour added, by either R. Wilson or J. Challen. Photographic laminated boards, showing the two actors playing Major Seth Adams and Clint McCulloch, with white and black titles to the front panel and white to the spine. A series of eight stories and five articles based on the television series of " Wagon Train ". The first story in the book is " The Weather Expert ". Bumping and creasing to the top `edge and a little rubbing to the lower back strip edge. Bumping to the rear top book… Read More