Search Results: Authors starting with P from Muir Books

WA: Western Australian Museum. 1993. Text in English and Bardi, quarto, stiff illustrated wraps, b&w text illustrations and plates, pp 33. Some scuffing to wraps. Clean. Very good condition. Plants used by the Bardi people of WA's Dampierland Peninsula. Includes line drawings, local names, Latin names, and the use of each plant, with text next to plants in Bardi and English and an additional list of Bardi and botanical names (pages 30-31). Note in Introduction states, "Readers are warned NOT to try the fruit as the majority of plants described are medicinal". Revised Edition. Wraps.

Massachusetts: The Figures. 1990. Original side stapled wraps, unpag. One of 500 copies. Worn to inner edge. Very good condition. Poetry Limited Ed.. Wraps.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial. 1983. 4to, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 110. Near-fine in like d.j., protected. Boards.

London: Hurst and Blackett. 1912. Original cloth boards, octavo, pp 359. Boards worn and marked, foot of spine fraying, previous owner's signature, fair condition only. Boards.

London: S.W. Partridge. 8vo, original pictorial boards w/ gilt title, b&w full-page illustrations, pp. viii, 160 plus 32 pp publisher's ads. N.d., c. 1900. Front board shows man on horseback w/ teepees in background, spine shows floral design. Sunday school prize plate (1908) ffep, previous owner's bookplate fep. Clean and bright, binding firm, attractive. Boards.

Bombay: The Times Press. 1928. Royal 8vo, pp. vi, 104, col and b/w plates, prev owner's inscr., some light yellowing of pages, occasional foxing scattered throughout, stitching weak, shaken, orig cl bds., fished and some stains, edges worn Hindu sects discussed, including mythology, symbolism, and rituals 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Canberra: Army History Unit. 2006. Small 4to, wraps, b&w illus, colour illus, maps, pp 173. Includes DVD (for PCs). Fine condition. Wraps.

Vicenza, Italy: Giovanni Rossi. 1796. 1st ed. thus, being the first Italian edition in Quarto, Vol. 1 (of 4), text in Italian, pp.iv, 128, b&w engraved fronts port of Palladio, light chipping to edges, 52 engraved plates (some folding), lacks plate 2 but includes additional plate (facing page 35), some foxing to title page and several other pages, rear free endpapers possibly removed. Bound in original contemporary quarter leather marbled boards, heavily rubbed with some loss to cnrs, remnants of paper covering to front board. good condition. The first edition was published in1776-1783. This is the small quarto editon of the same work published in 1796. The Buildings and Designs of Andrea Palladio. A reasonably early reprint of part of the work of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), the highly influential architect. Palladio is best known for Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), which was published in 1570 and is considered the foundation of modern architecture. This… Read More

Canberra: Roebuck. 1981. pp. xvi, 387, Index, b/w plates, ep. maps, or. bds., v.g. in like d.j.

London: History Book Club. 1972. pp. 224, Index, col. & b/w plates, or. bds., gilt dec., v.g. in like d.j.

Victoria Park: Hesperian Press. 1993. 8vo, wraps, folding map, pp x, 93. Near-fine condn. Wraps.

North Lake, WA: LAP Industries. 1989. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, maps, pp viii, 184. Very good condn. History of the ex-goldmining centre. Includes early photographs and diagrams of the mine sites. Reprint. Wraps.

Bayswater: The Author. 1995. 4to, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp v, 313. Gift inscription ffep. Addndum list (4 pp) loosely iserted. Very good in like d.j. 1st edition. Boards.

New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. 1991. Repr., 12mo, pp.x,180, orig red bds., bookseller's ticket to rfep, stitching weak, gilt title faded to front and spine, good condn. Facsimile of the 1891 edition, first published in 1876 Reprint. Boards.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1973. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus (from photographs)), pp x, 233. Pen mark rear cover, otherwise clean. Very good condition. First published in 1871, 'Kidnapping in the South Seas' is a first hand account of the conspiracy between Sydney merchants, Queensland traders and 'blackbirders' to kidnap Pacific Islanders for work on sugar plantations in Australia. Facsimile Edition. Wraps.

London: Leo Cooper. 2002. pp (xii), 164, Index, b/w plates, orig boards, fine in like d.j. As a young Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer, the author spent the greater part of the Second World War on convoy escort duties during the height of the Battle of the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean. Boards.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1979. 8vo, pp. (viii) 256, Index, b/w plates, original boards, very good, in lightly rubbed d.j. Collection country songs, including 'The Lincolnshire Poacher,' and 'Green Bushes.' Includes music and notes on origins. Boards.

Singapore: Ethos Books. 2000. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wraps with metal rivets inner edge, pp 207. Fine condition. Poetry anthology focusing on Singapore as a modern Asian city-state. 1st Edition.

Singapore: Ethos Books. 2003. Tall octavo, wraps inside a grey raincoat-like material with title tag, pp 100. The buttons on the 'raincoat' don't button, otherwise in near fine condition. Collection of poetry by a Singaporean poet. 1st Edition.

Orissa: Reception Committee, international seminar on Buddhism and JainismReception Committee, international seminar on Buddhism and Jainism. 1976. Quarto, pictorial wraps, b&w frontis illus, pp 80. Previous owner's blindstamp, good condn Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991) was a noted Odia poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist, and essayist. He was one of the members of the Odia literary group Sabuja Goshthi (the Green Group). He was influenced by the romantic thoughts of Rabindranath Tagore during the 1930s. Panigrahi was part of the editorial board on this publication