Recent Arrivals from Adelaide Booksellers

Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2009. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition in a Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world.… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 1948. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is age-toned with a small chip to top of spine and some light chipping to corners. Some light age-toning to book interior. Illustrated with Black and White… Read more about this item

Lane Cove, NSW: The Samuel Griffith Society. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in a Very Good Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy with just a hint of fading to DJ spine. 328 pages. The Samuel Griffith Society is an Australian conservative legal organisation founded in 1992.… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1995. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. 279 pages. Following a ship's mutiny, 17th-century naturalist Edward Popple and his daughter Rosamund find refuge on an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. … Read more about this item

St Leonards: The Centre for Independent Studies. 2005. Near Fine condition. Excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvi, 237 pages. Speical Publication No 8. . Updated Australian Edition. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: Barr Smith Press. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition. Pictorial Card covers with French Flaps. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 177 pages. Describes the influence of architects and planners and the academics, administrators and students whose lives were… Read more about this item

Kent Town SA: Wakefield Press. 2008. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. A lovely copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs by Geoff Brooks. Foreword by Heather Caddick and Preface by Chris West. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 104 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Profile Books. 2002. Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 294 pages. Nicholas Jose sets out to discover, Roger Jose, perhaps a distant relative, and his… Read more about this item

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2004. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. 105 pages. Coetzee's finely wrought translations side-by-side with the original Dutch poems. Highlights the work of six of the most important modern… Read more about this item

Swansea: City of Swansea. 1994. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. xvi, 179 pages. Brings together a series of contemporary reports from British and German sources. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Ryde: Angus & Robertson. 1988. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Colour and black & white illustrations by Walter Cunningham. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. unpaginated. Young Australia Series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988. Large Square Quarto Size [approx 27cm x 28cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello.Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 385 pages. Essays: ' Painting in Renaissance Siena' [Christiansen] &… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books. 2013. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Coloured maps to inside of covers. 395 pages. A narrative history of Australian mining. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1985. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 134 pages. Explores various… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Council of Governors of St. Peter's College. 2010. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Ribbon bookmar. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 478 pages. The extensive history of Adelaide's Collegiate… Read more about this item

Havertown, PA: Casemate. 2002. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 35 Black & white maps at rear. Ten Appendices, bibliography and comprehensive Index. 360pages plus maps.. The author analyses each of… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co.. 1890. Octavo Size [approx 13x19cm]. Very Good condition - square, clean and tight. School prize full leather binding. Gilt to spine and edges of boards. Red title patch to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block edges [quite attractive]. Black & White frontispiece with tissue guard. School prize plate to front free endpaper. Robust,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A Knopf. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 496 pages. Heroes, Saviours, Traitors and Supermen-… Read more about this item

Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer. 1989. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.… Read more about this item

London: Titan Books. 2019. Quarto Size [approx 24x32cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 192 pages. Orson Welles, noted for his cinematic achievements, had aspired as a young man to be a musician… Read more about this item