Search Results: Authors starting with W from Graham Toms Fine & Rare Books

London : Ernest Nister , 1856 160 pages illustrated throughout,

Sydney : Government of the State of New South Wales, 1930. Rebacked,case binding.new buckram spine and new boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Authority of the Government of the State of New South Wales, maps, illus (some col.) ; 25 cm.

London: John Murray, 1821. 1st . Rebound Leather Half Binding. Very Good. frontis potrait, xxiii, 164, appendix, index .Beautifully rebound in leather, gilt ruled raised bands, Half brown leather binding with grey boards,red spine labels spine devices ,new endpapers. The Memoirs of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715¿63) rank with those of Horace Walpole and Lord Hervey as classics of eighteenth-century political literature. They have an additional significance as a record of the momentous political crisis of 1754¿7, which heralded the break-up of the early Hanoverian party system and laid the foundations for the pattern of alignments of the last half of the century. Waldegrave¿s Memoirs, first published in 1821, played a major part in the development of the Whig interpretation of the English past by apparently providing evidence in support of the Holland House thesis of a new royal absolutism, devised at Leicester House in the 1750s and implemented on the accession of George III… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. Soft cover. As New.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1950 EDGES ARE SLIGHTLY FOXED Price clipped o/w a very good copy

Ward Lock& Co, 1950 Date is a guess , not clipped some foxing on edges

Hodder & Stoughton Most are base of spine chipped, edges rubbed, shelf-worn, page edges browned, contents clean. Some are bette,r some worse

pan. Soft cover. Variable. including: Terror Keep,The Ringer,Again the Ringer, The Door with Seen Locks, The Joker, Sanders, The Mind of J.G. Reeder, The Forger, The Tramp, The Council of Justice, The Four Just Men, The India Rubber man, The Yellow Snake, The Golden Hades

Hodder and Stoughton, London, nd. Hbk, 315 pp, text toned, edges slightly soiled, dj edgeworn & soiled w small edge tears & chipping, pencil pos on back cover, cover slightly edgeworn, good copy. All of our books are in the shop, and are 'real' books. We try to post the same day as the order. Descriptions are conservative. Postage rates may be lower than ABE estimate, please use Ask Bookseller a Question to confirm availability and postage cost, use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (the amount quoted is for an 'average' hard-cover book of up to 1kg in weight)

Haymarket Sydney : Anthony Hordern. First Thus . Blue Cloth , Gilt. Very Good, Some Foxing/No. no date but the only publishers are given as Anthony Hordern and Sons spine is slightly insect eaten aeg 428 pages

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1948 a litttle rubbed and fadded but still a gd copy

Liahona Books, 1980 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Macmillan, 2004. Hardcover. As New/As New. Beginning with the classical period, when it reached its pinnacle of power and cultural genius, Athens: A History is peopled with fascinating individuals. Athens' remarkable ascent had been inspired by the ideals embodied in the ancient Olympic games, but the city deliberately turned its back on those ideals, in Athens' stunning rise and rapid fall lies a timeless tragedy of excessive pride brought low. Contrasting its noble ideals and arrogant actions, Waterfield finds in Athens' story a moral for all time - and vital lessons for the current era."\ xx, 410 p. [14] p. of plates ; 24 cm. Contents The Olympic ideal 1. The festival at ancient Olympia 2. Nineteenth-century Athens and the 1896 Olympics The early city and the foundation of democracy 3. Athens in prehistory 4. Archaic Athens 5. Solon : poet and statesman 6. The peisistratid renaissance and the Athenian revolution 7. The Persian wars The classical city : democracy and empire 8.… Read More

Original Cloth. Very Good. Sydney : Thwaites, [1934?-1936?] 2 v. : port. ; 25 cm. First edition, two volumes, small quarto, original cloth boards. Coloured top edge others uncut, slightly edge foxed, just a little bumped but a very good bright set. All of our books are in the shop, and are 'real' books. We try to post the same day as the order. Descriptions are conservative. Postage rates may be lower than ABE estimate, please use Ask Bookseller a Question to confirm availability and postage cost, use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (the amount quoted is for an 'average' hard-cover book of up to 1kg in weight)

Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1975

CRC Press, 1996

Grimsby: Joint Arbitration Committee, 1912 Scarce. Diagrams, port information, day signals, night signals, other shapes of fishing vessels and their signals and lights. All of our books are in the shop, and are 'real' books. We try to post the same day as the order. Descriptions are conservative. Postage rates may be lower than ABE estimate, please use Ask Bookseller a Question to confirm availability and postage cost, use [Ask Bookseller a Question] option below to confirm availability and get accurate postage quote for this item (the amount quoted is for an 'average' hard-cover book of up to 1kg in weight)

Brisbane : Watson Ferguson Publishing, 2018 This is the fascinating account of how Australia's development was fuelled by alcohol. Discover: how alcohol became the Great Comforter where and why the shout originated how alcohol influenced political elections how booze was used to balance the budget the relationship between alcohol and the Wowsers how booze built physical Australia. viii, 135 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm. Editorial support: Patricia Hart, Editor: Robyn Horsman. SCARCE

NSW : 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Assoc, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY BATALLION MEMEBER . Square 4to. A detailed pictorial history of the two tours of the 7 RAR in the Vietnam conflict. The collection of material covered is astounding in the quality and quantity of the pictures as well as the detail in the descriptions and the order in which it has been presented. Title 7 RAR : the two tours of Vietnam 1967-68 and 1970-1971 : through a soldier's lens / David Webster and Ross Ellis. Also Titled 7th Royal Australian Regiment Seventh Royal Australian Regiment 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Association Published Werrington County, N.S.W. : xii, 366 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 x 29 cm. Contains a 7 RAR Nominal roll.

Illustrated Card. New/New. al six apmphlet