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Backblock Ballads and Other Verses By "Den
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Backblock Ballads and Other Verses By "Den

by Dennis, C. J

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First Edition
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E. W. Cole, Melbourne, No date. First Edition. Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 200 pages with double front and rear end pages. includes a glossary. Rebound in dark brown leather, gilt tooling to the margins front and back, and to the edges of the boards, gilt tooling and titling to the spine with 5 raised bands. rubbing of the edges of the boards, and the heel of the spine. The rear board has a moisture mark to the right hand side front the centre to the hinge rising to 2/3rd of the height of the board, with a couple of pressure indentations. Both marbled endpages have short cracks at the hinges, BUT the hinges are sound. Marbling of the text block edges. Pasted to the front paste downs the book plate of M. J. McNally, featuring a dorsal view of a naked woman looking at an opened book that is just slightly smaller than herself. The bookplate has "H.T.P." printed at the lower rhs of the image; The half title page in inscribed in ink pen "To my friend M. J. McNally,… Read More
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke with cover design and decorations by Hal Gye and foreword by...
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke with cover design and decorations by Hal Gye and foreword by Henry Lawson

by Dennis, C. J

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Used - Very Good Condition
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
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Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Hal Gye. X, 11-126, (2) pages, in original green cloth over boards, with green illustration on front panel. Slight bumping (curving) of all 4 external corners of the boards. Very slight rubbing to either side of the spine, slight loss of colour but no damage to the cloth. Softening of the tail of the spine. Light offset tanning of front and rear end pages. Small mark (approximately 3 mm long by about 2 mm wide) at the top of page 57. Otherwise a beautiful copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Hal Gye. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 0232489. .
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Mister Punch

Mister Punch

by Harsent, David

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Used - Very Good Condition
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, Britain, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Ralph Steadman -- Jacket. 72 pages in original illustrated softcover binding. The book shows no damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Ralph Steadman -- Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0192119664. ISBN/EAN: 9780192119667. Inventory No: 0239588. . 9780192119667
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Last Bus to Woodstock
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Last Bus to Woodstock

by Dexter, Colin

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Used - Very Good Condition
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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melbourne, Victoria
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Macmillan London Limited, London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Tan coloured boards with black coloured titles to the backstrip. SBN 333179293. Photographic dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. "... the memorable first appearance of Morse (Inspector), humour and suspense." – from the front bowled over panel blurb. Top left-hand corner of the backstrip has a 1 mm depression. Uniform browning of the textblock edges and pages. There is browning along the front edges of the endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 5-255, [1] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Britain/UK; Inventory No: 0115001. .
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Pünktchen und Anton ein roman fur kinder
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Pünktchen und Anton ein roman fur kinder

by Kästner, Erich

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Used - Very Good Condition
Edition
First Edition
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Hardcover
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Williams & Co. Verlag, Berlin-Grun, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Walter Trier. The book is bound in light blue silk cloth covered boards. The half title and Title pages appear to be hand scribed. the verso of the title page has written in pencil at the top "Alle Rechte vorbehalten, ....." and at the bottom "Auflage ???? Aldus ???? Berlin. Printed in Gerny, Copyright 1932 by Williams & Co. g.m.b.h. Berlin-grunwald" The pages then 'appear' to be typed copies interspersed with hand lettered pages, and what appear to be 10 original drawings, with some original pencil sketch lines just visible, including one that has been coloured. A small drawing of Emil and Anton is not listed in the illustrations list, and appears on the last page of the story. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 224 pages. Text is in German. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Walter Trier. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read More
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Soldier Boy the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac

Soldier Boy the true story of Jim Martin the youngest Anzac

by Hill, Anthony

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Condition
Used - Very Good Condition
Edition
Reprint
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Paperback
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Penguin, Camberwell, 2004. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The true story of Jim Martin, the youngest Anzac. On 28th June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne on the troopship Berrima, bound ultimately for Gallipoli. He was just 14 years old. This is Jim's extraordinary story of how an inexperienced & enthusiastic school boy became Australia's youngest Anzac. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage to report.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; European History; Australia; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0141003308. ISBN/EAN: 9780141003306. Inventory No: 0258824. . 9780141003306
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The Library Atlas; Consisting of One Hundred Maps Modern, Historical, and Classical Geography,...
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The Library Atlas; Consisting of One Hundred Maps Modern, Historical, and Classical Geography, &c

by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount), William Francis Collier, Leonhard Schmitz

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good Condition
Edition
Edition Unstated
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Hardcover
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William Collins, Sons, & Company, London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, 1875. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition. The Library Atlas; Consisting of One Hundred Maps Modern, Historical, and Classical Geography, &c.; With Descriptive Letterpress Of Modern Geography by James Bryce; Historical Geography by William F Collier; and Classical Geography byLeonhardSchmitz with Copious Indices All 98 maps are present along with two astronomical maps and two diagrams. maps are present, errata slip tipped in contents page, no year of publication, however the preface is dated January, 1875. I can find no evidence of annotation, all the maps are present, and without tears; the book was rebound, or should I say sympathetically repaired retaining as much of the original leather of the spine as possible, and backing it over new leather, new endpapers, old free end pages retained. The book is good for another 150 years. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], 208, [102… Read More
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