Search Results: Authors starting with W from Gordon Hughes

Appleton, first edition 1918.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with four plates by Henry Hutt. 361 pages, 19 x 13cm. A very good clean copy, with only slight age browning of the preliminary pages. In the original price clipped dust jacket, which is a little soiled and edge frayed. Robert W Chambers, 1865-1933, was a popular and prolific American novelist, active in the last quarter of the 19th century and in the first third of the 20th century. He is better known today for his pioneering supernatural and weird collection of short stories The King in Yellow, published in 1895. Very scarce in dust jacket.

Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1987.. Hardcover. Very Good. 173 colour illustrations of the artist's work, 108 pages, 26 x 19 cm. Laminated boards. Three articles complement this profusely illustrated monograph on Polish/Jewish/Australian artist Shavali Sam Waldman, born in Lodz in 1910. There is also a list of exhibitions from 1950 to 1991.

Sydney: Director of Civil Defence For New South Wales, no date, about 1962.. Soft cover. Very Good. 15 pages, illustrated, paper covers, 16 x 24 cm. Very good. How to protect crops and animals in nuclear war, issued at the height of the Cold War.

London: George Allen. First edition in one volume, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 'Eva' and 'Ruth' bound in one volume, iv,383, ii,405 pages. Very good clean copy with small bookplate on front free endpaper. With very good price clipped dust wrapper with two minor grease spots on top cover.

Eastwood, Sydney: A Budawang Commitee publication, 2004.. Soft cover. Very Good. 20 maps, photos, 392 pages. Colin Watson. Order of Australia-OAM. Friend of the Century for Conservation and Bushwalking. Blue Mountains of NSW and the Budawangs.

London: John Mason. 1841.. Hardcover. Good. 12 portraits, plate of Wesleyan Centenary Hall. iv,1072 pages. Some browning of portraits with some offsetting onto opposite page of text. Some occasional browning of contents. A good clean tight copy in 1/2 brown calf of the era with marbled boards Spine with surface wear and slight rubbing to the boards . Remains of manuscript library number at base of spine. Overall a sound clean copy in original condition with few signs of use. With the old ownership label of Thomas Richards, Helston. From the Royal Cornwall Gazette of 30 May 1874: DEATH OF A NONAGENARIAN. Helston has lost its oldest male inhabitant Mr. Thomas Richards, who formerly carried on an extensive business as a builder, died onThursday night at the advanced age of 93. Identified with Wesleyan Methodism before the commencement of the present century, he soon afterwards commenced to preach, and in the current quarterly plan of the Helston circuit, Mr Richard's name appears at the head of… Read More

London: John Mason, 1849.. Hardcover. Fair. With only one of the six called for portraits, ii, 671 pages (pps 673 -1344). Slight browning of the portrait with some offsetting onto opposite page of text. Some occasional browning of contents. A good clean tight copy in 1/2 brown calf of the era. A still firm copy, although the backstrip is almost detached and is frayed at top and tail, and rubbed, as are the boards. Overall a sound clean copy in original condition with few signs of use Contains much of missionary interest, including work in the South Seas including Australia, Feejee, Southern Africa, Canada, India, the West Indies, and so on.

Leo Cooper: 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated, 270 pages Very good in dustwrapper. 24 x 16 cm.

Groombridge and Sons, London, second edition, 1871.. y . Hardcover. Good. six coloured plates, viii,407 pages 205 x 14 cm. Binding only slightly marked Top of spine a little torn Some light spotting, and light damp marks in a few top margins Hinges slightly pulled but very secure. The first edition did not contain any plates.

New York: The Young People's Missionary Movement. 2nd edn. 1907.. Hardcover. Good. 237pp. 19 x 13.5 cm. Library number and stamps on fep and title. Green cloth, slightly marked on spine A good clean copy

Herbert Jenkins, 9th printing, no date, about 1940.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 280 pages, 19 x 13 cm. A very good clean copy in the original dust jacket, which has minor edge wear, especially at top and tail of spine, and slight soiling. Slight foxing to edges.

Canberra: Linguistic Circle of Canberra Publications. Series B-Monographs, No. 1.. Soft cover. Good. vi,81, pages. 25 x 21 cm. Very clean ex-institutional library