Australia

Guidebook Company/Odyssey, 1994 NEAR-FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition (stated). A very nice copy with pristine pages, perfect binding, nearly perfect boards. DJ has one short closed tear only. Stunning photographs and informative text on the Australian outback. Additional text by Tim Winton. Oversized, 4to, 256 pages.. Hard Cover. more information

Offered by Bruce McLeod (Canada)

London, U.K.: Linscott Publishing Company, 1902 VERY GOOD/no DJ as issued. First Edition Hardcover in full brown leather. Only light wear to spine tips and corners, excellent boards, gilt foredges all around, interiors crisp & clean, hinges and all pages tight, no markings, very nice. 5.75" by 8.25", 468 pages, well-illustrated. - - - Volume 11 of the 26 in the Nineteenth Century Series - The story of human progress and the great events of the century in Australia and territories. Frontispiece of co-author Thomas T. Ewing, Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. Other photographic plates include Captain Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Henry Parks, John McDougall Stuart and Anthony Van Dieman. . more information

Offered by Bruce McLeod (Canada)

London, U.K.: Angus and Robertson, 1983 FINE/FINE First Edition, 1st printing. An exceptional unmarked copy, as-new. 5.75" by 8.5", 133 pages. Includes laid-in newspaper obituary notice of author, who died July 31, 1997. - The author's first novel, written at the age of 72 is set in the Outback of Australia during the Great Depression. The author is a British Army veteran who served as a Captain in the 14th Army Infantry in Burma. He wrote for the Times of London, the Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press. . Hard Cover. more information

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London: Arrow Books, 1990 NEAR-FINE Trade Paperback. A very nice unmarked copy. Crisp, clean, bright, tight, square. Hole punch in lower right corner of front cover and 1st two prelim pages only. 5" x 8", 360 pages, maps, two sections of b&w plates. By the author of "Battle of Long Tan", this book is a highly detailed account of the only unit level battle involving Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. For 26 days during May and June 1968, the 1st Australian Task Force fought a series of actions around Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, north-east of Saigon. Showing more than its share of bravery, the unit stopped the North Vietnamese in their tracks. . Soft Cover. more information

Offered by Bruce McLeod (Canada)