Across the years : the lure of early Australian books by edited by Charles Barrett - 1948

Chicago, 1977. Paperback. Good; creased and edge-worn wrappers. Otherwise a sound and unmarked copy. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.

Melbourne: N. H. Seward, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small quarto, 176pp., illustrated. A very good copy in the publisher's red cloth with some foxing to the edges (clean internally). Tipped-in colored frontispiece of a beautiful southern golden bird of paradise. There is a clear plastic dust jacket, which is somewhat rippled and clouded (we are unsure if this is original to the book).

AUSTRALIA: N.H. Seward, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A few spots of discolouration on cover o/w good hardcover, no inscription, with coloured tipped in frontispiece & b/w photos

Sydney: Cassell & Co, 1947. 192pp, bw ills. Plain card in pictorial jacket. Price clipped, small bookseller label inside front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo.

First Volume in the series. (Melbourne: The Herald and Weekly Times: 1921) Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 708 including Table of Contents at rear (285 x 215 mm). Illustrated. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed; small patch of light discoloration to the front board; a very good copy.

Sydney: Truth and Sportsman Ltd, 1943. 111pp, bw ills. Orange pictorial wraps. Slightly faded at spine, pulled at staples, minor damp marks to first couple of pages. Dedicated to Ion Idriess.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne, Oxford University Press first edition - h/c in d.j. In this small gem are passages that tell of the early voyages, pioneer missionaries, naturalists, traders and travellers. Others describe coral islands, tropic scenery and the wild life of the jungles. 192 x 128mm., pp. col. plate (frontis.) + 10 + 185, b/w plates & line illust. t/out, content pages v.g.+, d.j. has a little creasing & closed tears (repaired) across top & spine - bright & clean, v.g.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter ivory cloth spine with gilt lettering, green cloth boards. Spine toned; boards show some general wear and soiling. Endpapers toned. Interior is unmarked, pages clean. Frontispiece portrait of Massey. pp. iv, 227. Scarce. Seven copies noted on OCLC (Nat Lib Scotland, Cambridge, The British Library, The London Library, Trinity College Dublin, McMaster Univ, and Haverford College, Penn.). A collection of unpublished letters and some essays by the English Christian mystic and psychical researcher, Charles Massey (1838-1905). Massey was the first president of the British Theosophical Society and one of the founding members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1882. This posthumous collection was edited by William F. Barrett (1844- 1925), also a founding member of the SPR and the founder of the American Society for Psychical Research. Massey's letters and essays here address various psychical… Read More