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Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: [Editor], 1942. B/w halftone and line-drawn sketch-art throughout. Book clean, square. Leaves clean. Red-speckle text-block edges. Red cloth boards mildly bumped and abraded, with two tiny pin-holes on foot. Lightly patinated gilt title. Professionally bound Catholic School Papers, with numerous short stories of interest, poetry and history, for the school year 1942, February to November. Sequentially numbered issues covered are: Vol. 12, nos. 1-9 [Part 2] Classes v & vi. Vol. 12, nos. 1-9 [Part 1] Classes iii & iv. Book weight approx. 420g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. Black Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Melbourne, Australia: [National press], 1955. 96pp., unpaginated, 16 page section of b/w contemporary advertisements at rear. Book clean, spine holding. Foxing spot and minor damage on foredge, otherwise leaves clean. Art-illustrated limp wrapper slightly edgeworn, bumped lower foredge, fingermarks and spots. Numerous contributors and short stories, viz: Public Library Melbourne, D.B.Dawe, The study of English, A.D.Hope, Jazz from New Orleans, Lloyd Evans, Gandhian philosophy, 'An Indian', Gold dust, Andrew Deacon and Art and Anna Russell by Kenneth Hince. Many others. Book weight approx. 150g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Werner Laurie, 1951. 102pp., several intext, b/w sketch illustrations. Book clean, square. Cloth backstrip firm, patinated gilt title there-on. Printed boards nominally specked. Text-block flecked on edges, otherwise slightly acidic. Art-illustrated [Roy Sanford], loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn, tiny nips and specks, partially U.V. affected on spine. 'Laurie's Lucky Dip' is a selection of extracts, each complete in itself, of eleven authors who have appeared under the Werner Laurie imprint. Representative of the publisher's stable, they are [alphabetically]: Denzil Batchelor, E.C.Bentley, John Keir Cross, R.F.Delderfield, Henry Longhurst, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Guy de Maupassant [in the famous translation of Marjorie Laurie], Donald Peers, Wilfred Pickles, R.C.Robertson-Glasgow, and Upton Sinclair. Book weight approx. 200g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Quarter Cloth Hardback & DJ. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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