Search Results: Australian Interest from Marion Pitman Books

London: Jarrold & Sons, 9999. No date, late 19th cent. Decorated dark blue cloth with decorative gilt title. Vignette on title page by C.Hewitt. 531pp + catalogue; errata slip. Decorated endpapers. Spine dull, edges and ends rather worn; cloth bit darkened; odd line of staining inside each cover; v. few spots foxing; neat name written on title page; generally nice. Australian novel. Not Known. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Melbourne & Sydney: Lansdowne, 1964. Photographic illustrations; story of a boy and a kangaroo. Dustwrapper price clipped, bit frayed & torn top edge, bit worn ends of spine.. First. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Gordon De'Lisle. 7.5" x 10".

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1980. Illustrated with drawings and plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Lorraine Hannay.

London: Faber & Faber, 1953. Ex-library with labels and stamps; binding bit worn; text clean and sound. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

London: Hurst & Blackett Library rebinding, labels and stamps; spine leaning; pages rather brown and thumbmarked; however text is complete, readable and mostly clean. "Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (3 February 1870 - 30 June 1953) was a writer and traveller of Irish origin, for many years based in Papua New Guinea.". Edition not known. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket.

Harmondsworth: Penguin / Puffin, 1972. Some creasing to covers, small amount of writing inside front cover, page edges bit brown. First Puffin Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Desmond Digby .

London: Faber & Faber, 1988. Some marks to d/w, very slight marks to edges of boards. Australian crime novel. First GB. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: Hutchinson, 1938. Front hinge badly broken, coming away from spine; prelims foxed, spine slanting. Dustwrapper worn on folds and frayed at top of spine, seems to be clipped but price is still there. Lost race adventure novel for boys, set in Australia. Five half-tone plates by E. Boye Uden. Red-brown cloth, black lettering. Uncommon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fairly Good. Illus. by E. Boye Uden.

Melbourne, Australia: Carmelite Fathers, 1960. Name on flyleaf, bookplate on half-title, slight tanning to endpapers, corners a little bruised, else very clean and bright. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. (Printed in Ireland). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Mills and Boon, 1910. Blue cloth worn, hinges cracked; ex Chelsea Hospital library and another, label and stamps. 32 page catalogue at back for 1910. Two pages of catalogue loose. 284 pages of text, complete. Cheap paper, brown and brittle on edges. otherwise clean.. Stories set in Australia and South Pacific.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2010. Life of a New Zealand minister and missionary. Couple of creases to dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London & Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons, 9999. Binding is damp stained, and the colour has affected the edges of the frontispiece and first few pages. Rear hinge cracked; piece missing from rear endpaper. Cardiff bookseller's label on flyleaf. No date, early 20th century. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by E. F. Skinner (?).

London: Empire Finance Corporation, 1916. 6 issues of a weekly periodical. Topics such as The War Boom, Chartered, 5% Exchequer Bonds, Silver, Rhodesia Broken Hill - Shamva - Fal;con, The Paris Economic Conference, Open letter to Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, on Industrial Banking, Gold Fields Rhodesian Development, Foreign Exchanges, Coronation Syndicate, Mines of Servia. Stock Markets. 6 issues, from May 27th to July 1st 1916. Each issue is 8.5 x 10.5ins, with 8 pages, back page of each advertises the Empire Finance Corporation, with Authorised Capital of £50,000, advances made on approved securities. The are also short news pieces on various companies. Some foxing, otherwise good condition.. Not Known. Paper Covers. Good/No Jacket.

London: Ward, Lock, 1915. Dark blue cloth, worn and dull, picture laid in to front cover, worn and creased; some foxing, front hinge weak, gift inscription on flyleaf. Cover picture repeated as frontispiece, in good condition, man and woman in evening dress. Adventures of a Society crook. Very scarce. "Max Rittenberg (1880-1965) was an Australian author of German desent. A prolific author for several English magazines, he is best known as the creator of the character Dr. Xavier Wycherley, a psychologist and psychic who helped solve crimes". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

New South Wales : Angus & Robertson, 1985. Few marks on back cover, name and gift insc. on title page, frontispiece seems to be glued to front cover. Otherwise OK. Facsimile Reprint. Soft Cover. Fairly Good/No Jacket. Illus. by May Gibbs .

London: Knight Books (Hodder & Stoughton), 1979. Stories by Ivan Southall, James Menzies, Hesba Brinsmead, Colin Thiele, Celia Syred, David Martin, Mavis Thorpe Clark, Nance Donkin, Sally Farrell, George Finkel, Sinclair Buchan, Olaf Ruhen, Barbara Ker Wilson. Cover bit creased & worn on edges.. 2nd Impression. Paperback. Good/No Jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1953. Cloth and dustwrapper bit dampstained lower edge; wrapper bit frayed; some foxing on fore-edge. Novel of a Lollard plot to assassinate Henry Vth after Agincourt. Dark blue cloth, 320 pages.. Cheap Edn.. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

London: Hutchinson, 9999. Cloth faded, bit stained; slight spine lean, few small marks. No date or edition given, produced in conformity with authorised economy standards. Light green cloth, 256 pages. Henry VIIIth on his deathbed, thinking of his wives, who come back and answer him. . First Edition ?. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Book Club Associates, 1982. Green boards; illustrated. Some page corners creased; slight damage to edges of boards; dustwrapper damp damaged. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Fairly Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Dustwrapper a little scuffed. Australian novel about National Service. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus.