Search Results: Authors starting with A from Muir Books

London: James Nisbet & Co. 1867. Small quarto, original cloth boards with gilt title, all edges gilt, hand-cloured floral fontispiece, pp viii, 152.N.d. (1867] Ex-library with usual markings, boards faded and marked, loss of cloth to top edge of spine. Acceptable copy of uncommon title. Collection of poetry and essays by Susan Nugent Wood (nee Lapham), 1836 - 1880. 1st edition.

London: Alfieri Picture Service. 1st ed., oblong 8vo, original pictorial wraps detached, lacks most of pictorial onlay (Walker's Ridge) from front of wrap. Anzac flags embossed on rear wrap, b&w illus, map, pp 110., lacking title-page, water staining to inner edge of plates, foxing to despatch section. Complete with 93 plates and map. Scarce. 93 full-page photographs taken at at and around Gallipoli, plus 12 page Description of Operations by General Sir Ian Hamilton. 1st Edition. Wraps.

London: Incorporated Church Building Society. 1951. 8vo, paper wraps, b&w plates, pp 8. Very good condn. Wraps.

Groombridge & Sons. 1886. Small octavo, original cloth boards with stamped decoration and titles,, pp xii, 160, plus 16 pp publisher's catalogue. Nineteenth-century inscription front free endpaper, with later pencilled inscription. Pen marks rear endpaper. Binding somewhat worn and shaken, overall in good condition. Uncommon. A wealth of nineteenth-century recipes, including soups, sauces, 'made' dishes, game, puddings, preserves, pickles, liqueurs, and cookery for invalids. Cooking for the Victorian household. Boards.

Auckland: Robert J. Creighton and Alfred Scales. 1863. 1st edition, 8vo, rebound in quarter leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, pp xiv 239. Library inscription to title page 'Mount Korong Miner's Literary Institute', dated 1865, very good condn. "A Pakeha Maori" was the pseudonym for Frederick Edward Maning (1811-1883), a notable early settler in New Zealand and a judge of the Native Land Court. The book describes the author's first views of New Zealand and his encounters with the Maori people. Maning, who at thirteen, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land with his family, moving to Hobart in 1829. It is quite likely that Maning participated in the infamous Black Line and at least witnessed aspects of the Black War. He reportedly did not speak of this period much in his later life. It is possible that these incidents may have contributed to his decision to leave Hobart. By 1832, Frederick had left home to manage a remote outpost in the north of Tasmania.… Read More

Melb.: R.A.N. Education Office. 1955. pp. 48, b/w plates, fold map, or. papered bds, stained. "Intended as a textbook to cover educational tests held in the Royal Australian Navy."

New York: Macmillan. 1998. Reprint ed., 628 p., index, b/w plates, or boards, slight creasing to upper spine, slight yellowing to pages throughout, as new d.j. 628 The biography of Charles A. Lindbergh, the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. Reprint. Boards.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. 1896. 8vo, pp. (vi) 288, b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., prev owner's inscr., minor foxing prelims., orig gilt dec cloth, edges and spine sunned, top cnrs bumped, good. Charming book of a naturalists observations 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Adelaide: Rigby. 1971. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 205. Very good condition in good d.j. Boards.

London: Methuen. 1905. 8vo, cloth boards, top edge gilt, pp 296, 40. Very good condn. 2nd impression. Boards.

New York & London: First Second. 2012. Oblong, wraps, b&w illus, pp 318. Ex-library marks on covers, otherwise clean and in very good condition. An essential course of study for authors, artists, teachers, and budding cartoonists. Covers advanced topics, including: technique, story generation, narrative tools, industry insigts, and much more. 1st Edition.

Lariano, Italy: Privately Published. 1989. Square, wraps, b&w illus, pp 50. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Very good condition. Uncommon. Wraps.

Tokyo: Wayward Press. 1968. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 104. Spine fraying, with some loss at the head and the foot of the backstrip, chip to the inner corner of the rear cover.Internally clean and in good condition. Cartoons about "the lighter side of war" 5th printing. Stiff Wraps.

Perth: Western Australian Museum. (c.1980). Wraps, pp 12, b&w illus, approx. A4 size. N.d., c. 1980. Toning to top edge of wraps, o/w very good condn. Scarce. Wraps.

London: Oxford University Press. 1947. 8vo, pp. 240, b/w frontis, b/w ills., light marks eps., few marks fore-edge, orig cl bds., slightly yellowed. Children's story of a young gir'ls imaginative adventures.(The childhood of Eileen Joyce the pianist.) 1st edition. Cloth Boards.

Canterbury (Vic): Five Mile Press. 1983. 1st ed., oblong octavo, unpag., 28 col. plates, very good condition, two closed tears to d.j. Signed by the author to title page. Previous owner's signaure ffep. 1st edition.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. 4to, pp. (x) 1283, original cloth boards, small label bottom rear, very good. Cloth Boards.

Utah: The Author. 1962. 8vo, pp. (viii) 568, b/w plates and ills., minor foxing and toning endpapers, occasional mark, edges toned, orig cloth boards, front board slightly rubbed, cnrs worn. Collection of articles on hunting tours, cartridges, powder, loading, wind drift, and barrel steel. Ackley was associated with the development of high velocity 'wildcat' cartridges, and became a well know custom rifle builder. Cloth Boards.

London: Chatto & Windus. 2002. 2nd printing, large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colur plates, b&w illus, pp xxii, 516. Near-fine condn. Exploration of centuries of English cultural tradition. 2nd Printing. Boards in d.j..

Perth: Government Printer. 1940. 8vo, pp. 94, xvii Index, loosely inserted errata slips and pamphlet, waterstain top edge pp. 41 onwards, wraps, prev owner's inscr front, waterstained, minor chips. Paper Wraps.