TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania Books

Toowoomba: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1984. General wear and some fading to covers.89 pages with b/w illustrations.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Terra Australis Books (Queensland, Australia) +/-

Toowoomba, Qld.: Darling Downs Institute Press., 1984 x, 89pp, map. Or card covers. Slight edge wear, spine faded, top corner front cover creased. Description of pioneer and frontier life in Queensland's Clontarf region.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. ... more information

Offered by Lawrence Jones (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993 HB, glossy pictorial boards, VG+/--, 30pp, full col ills. Mild rubbing to edges, gentle bumps to top corners of covers, inside is square, clean, tight and unmarked Contains three of the author's sought-after stories for the very young: 'Bush Party'; 'Bush Baby'; and 'Bush Walk'. You will not see better and more ravishing illustrations of Australian wildlife than here. This is pure class, and highly collectible. 460g when packed. . Fi... more information

Offered by Grandmahawk's Eyrie (Australia) +/-

Melbourne: Hyland House, 1988 HB, glossy pictorial boards in like DJ, NF/VG, 32pp, colour and b/w illust. Unclipped DJ has a chip to top spine with loss to front side, a tear to rear tail spine, else very good and now in clear archival film. Book is in pristine condition with ravishing illustrations throughout by Jennifer Green. A child's eye view of all the wonderful bugs and butterflies and other creatures that inhabit our yards and are with us further afield. Invaluable help was rendered by the st... more information

Offered by Grandmahawk's Eyrie (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1979. 570 g.; VI, 7-240 pages, last three pages blank intentionally, preface by the author. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Blue coloured boards with white titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Browning to the text block edges. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end paper. The remains of tape can be seen on the endpapers. Photograp... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1967. pp. 212; endpaper maps, black & white plates and cartoons. price clipped dustwrapper, top edge of book is foxed. The story of the selection and preparation of the site for the explosion of Australia’s first mainland atomic bomb. . First Edition. Red Cloth. Good/Good/Price Clipped. Illus. by Various. Octavo- over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Local History. ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1976. 500 g; 192 pages, end page maps and the text is illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, interspersed through the text, drawn by the author, and 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket, and rubbing from shelf contact to the base edge of the boards.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Phil Farmer -- Photography. 8 novel. Local History -- Northern Terr. ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. 600 g; 240 pages, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, with original colour illustrated dustwrapper. There is rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards, a splash mark at the top right-hand edge of the text block, and anti-gift inscription dated 1984 at the top of the front end page. The author spent 16 years as the third Bishop of north-west Australia, the largest land area diocese in the Anglican Communion. A digital image can be provided to confirm condition.. ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1950. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, medium octavo, approx. 81/2 inches (or 220mm) tall, in good general condition. Heavy book. 711pp, incl. glossary of botanical terms. D/J is a little faded and creased, 2 lower corners are mildly bumped. One page, with b/w plate, has gone loose, but the text block is otherwise very tight, only lightly soiled on edges. We attend without delay to requests for more detailed description, scanned images, synopsis, other available information..... more information

Offered by BookSplendour (Queensland, Australia) +/-

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Robertson & Mullens, 1950. Jacket has general wear and small chips. 712 pages with black and white illustrations.. Hard Cover. Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Terra Australis Books (Queensland, Australia) +/-

Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, [1950], First edition. . orig green cloth, spine and cover title lettering, dj (chipped at spine ends, not price clipped), interior is clean and fine, overall very good. . 8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; 711, [i, errata] pp, frontis (portrait), 8 color plates from paintings (one of Cassowary, others of flowers), many other plates and illus from photos, maps, glossary, index. . The botanist author, describes the flora, trees, grasses, etc in each region of Australia as well as botani... more information

Offered by Horizon Books (Ontario, Canada) +/-

Sydney: Universal Books, 1970. 268pp, frontis, b&w plates. Edgewear and small chip to jacket. Jacket neatly protected.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Australian Bushrangers. ... more information

Offered by Bookmark Australia (New South Wales, Australia) +/-

Sydney Australia: Universal Books Pty Ltd, 1970 vg cream hard cover in vg dj now in mylar. Clean tight and unmarked. Shelf wear to bottom edge and light edge wear to dj. Story of many of Australia's outlaws, 268pp vg/vg. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

Offered by Dustjacket Books and Treasures (Nova Scotia, Canada) +/-

Sydney: New Holland, 1998 195pp, index, bw ills, maps. Or pictorial card covers. Slightest signs of edge wear to covers. Surveys the history of bushranging in Australia from the initial brutal days of European settlement and our first convict-bushranger Black Caesar in 1789, through to the capture and death of legendary folk hero Ned Kelly and his gang in 1880. Among those covered in this book are Matthew Brady, Martin Cash, the Eureka Gang and Captain Melville, Frank Gardner, Ben Hall, Mad Dan Morgan, Capt... more information

Offered by Lawrence Jones (Australia) +/-

Melbourne: Cassel Australia, 1973. 112pp., acknowledgements. Aqua coloured endpapers. Illustrated title page by Jack Larkin. The text is illustrated with both black and white and coloured half page illustration and vignettes and the occasional full coloured, full-page illustration, again by Jack Larkin. Illustrated front cover, by Jack Larkin. Slight bumping to the head and the heel of spine and to the corners of the book. Marching to the front and back panels and there is rubbing noted as well. Slig... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1963. 565 g.; 156 pages, last blank, preface by authors, acknowledgements, introduction by authors, 2 appendices. Illustrated endpapers, showing a map of New South Wales and Victoria, and of the towns mentioned within the text. Surrounding this map are small black-and-white vignettes. The text is illustrated with either black-and-white photography, contemporary illustrations and/or photography and reproductions of documents. Maroon coloured boards with blue writing on th... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1978. 350 g; 64 pages, last page blank, includes a bibliography. Illustrated with photographs, and art work which appeared in contemporary newspapers. Many of the illustrations are full page. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Traces of foxing to the top edge of the text block and very light rubbing to the bottom of the spine section, slight fading of the spine of the dust jacket, and a short tear at the very top right-hand corner of the rear panel.. The authors dwell on the personal char... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Wellington, NZ: A.H.& A.W. Reed, 1965. Book has a little dust-staining to page edges. Jacket has edge-wear and chipping to top edge.. First Edition. Cloth over Boards. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by IDLE HOUR BOOK INN Ltd (New Zealand) +/-

1985. Small sticker mark at bottom corner of front cover.180 pages with b/w illustrations.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Terra Australis Books (Queensland, Australia) +/-

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Metropolitan Books, 2004 STATED FIRST EDITION-BRAND NEW. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ... more information

Offered by Page Turners (Maine, United States) +/-