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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs.Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class Australian family in the Victorian era.

George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of his journey to Ibn Saud at the time when Saudia Arabia was newly formed. Fine book in a dust jacket. Price unclipped.

Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.

Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. In very good condition for age with some yellowing of pages. Some bumping to spine but otherwise a tight copy. A very rare copy and delightful read for poetry recitation.

A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Blanche was the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, a wealthy middle class colonial official who garnered fame and admiration as an explorer, map-maker, artist, scholar, and eminent public figure.

Original green decorative cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Contains twelve black & white illustrations. Book plate with original name plate and previous author's inscription. Very slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a very clean, tight copy. The journal of a sixteen year-old boy who went to sea from Yorkshire to Australia because of an "inflammation of the lungs". Tells of his time in Victoria and his return via American continent.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 215. Illustrated with full-page sepia-toned plates by Frank Harding.

John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the Second World War. Contents are arranged under the following headings : 1) First Journey to the South, 1933 1935. 2) Iraq Revisited, 1935 1937. 3) The Winter In Huraidha, 1937 1938. 4) Greece and Syria: the Year of Munich, 1938 1939. 5) The War, 1939. Condition: Hard cover and contents firm, clean and good. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket but which is not price-clipped. [xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.

Gilt embossed lettering to the front black boards and spine, top of pages green decoration. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs throughout. Fold out map following the title page. Slight shelf wear to bottom of spine, hidden under the wrapper in mylar protective cover. Slight foxing to end pages only. Clean and tight copy in very good condition.

Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and image front cover with pages clean and tight. Light foxing due to age. Overall a very nice copy.

Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
Blue soft cover with gold lettering
Crest at the top says British Empire Service League
First page is a full colour portrait of the Queen, with a tissue overlay
Includes the text for the broadcast to the Commonwealth and Empire on Coronation Day and the Oath to the British Empire Service League
Beautiful black and white photos, many of the Empire troops - New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, to name only a few
Names of the Coronation present contingents - Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Air Force, plus the other Empire countries represented
This was a special program issued to the British Empire Service League, and is a highly collectible piece of history, particularly to the remaining WWII veterans and their descendents.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls, choosing instead to read history at Oxford, where she took a first in only two years. [This book] is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy."

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.

No inscriptions and not price clipped. The DJ is bright and clean with no shelf wear. The book itself is very smart with marbled navy blue boards and red letters to the spine. The book is fine - all tight, bright and clean. Decorative endpapers. 184 pages. Copious sepia and bl/wh photography . This book explores the enduring fascination that the area now known as the Middle East has exerted on western women and the freedom that it offered. Sumptuously illustrated with paintings, engravings and photographs.

Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, owners signature to front: yellow dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 9 inches tall: 297 handcut pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Includes the original newspaper article from The Times Saturday January 10 1981 news article, " Letters from Libya" by Freya Stark as a separate item.Synopsis : Freya Starks autobiographical account of her service with the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office during the Second World War from 1939 to 1946. She recounts details of a mainly persuasive role during her assignment in Aden, where she assisted with the Arab News Service; the Yemen, where she combated fascist influence by operating the only cinema projector in the country; in Egypt where she formed and expanded the Brotherhood of Freedom during the North Africa Campaign ; in Iraq where she extended the Brotherhood Committees in opposition to German influence ( here she was caught up in the German instigated siege of the… Read More

Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition.
Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans in the post-9/11 terrorist war context about the history of a perennial "hotspot" that has long viewed the US as an empire. Includes a map of Asia and photos of US, British, and Soviet players in the region

Orig. cloth. Portrait frontisp. numerous b/w plates and a map. Boards are clean with Dust jacket in protective mylar. Pages clean and age-toned,.Author's signed to previous owners. " To Teddy and Eileen with old-time memories and every good wish, from Ethel Jarman."

As New Hardback in unclipped As New Dust jacket, 631 pages 32 Photographs 23.5cm x 15.5cmEquator Crossings: Travelogue Extraordinary is set against a backdrop of nineteenth-century Africa, Zanzibar, Europe and Oman. An upstage American press magnate's single three-letter-word telegram to his British competitor leads Henry Morton Stanley to 999 gruelling days of exploration in a quest to discover and define the watersheds of Africa's two gigantic rivers, the Nile and the Congo. This geographical and scientific feat, that drastically changed the economic and political history of the world, now provides an epic narrative of adventure, travel and romance.Paul Huygelen's professional career has been mostly involved in international affairs, be it with the United Nations, a multinational corporation or a major Middle East financial institution. His thorough knowledge of East and Central Africa, through his extensive business trips in the region, helped him with the research fo rhis book. In the framework of… Read More

Original publisher's cream cloth hardback, dark-blue cloth covered boards, gilt lettering spine and front cover, coat of arms in gilt to front cover. Top edge of pages gilt, others uncut, pages clean and tight, some wear to bottom spine, frontispiece portrait William Dampier, 16 black and white plate illustrations, table of contents, appendix, lacks the folding map. Text complete. Decorated end papers. Overall a very nice copy.