Recent Arrivals from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Thames & Hudson. 1984. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine lightly sunned. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions - most full page. 127 pages.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Macmillan. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Covered in clear adhesive film by previous owner. Bookseller stamp to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 128pages. Where to find it, how to pan, metal detectors and how and where to use them… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Aspasia. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs and plates. 315 pages. In 1969 Heide was home to John and Sunday Reed who were close friends of the author’s parents, John Sinclair and Jean Langley. In February of that year, Jean escaped her difficult marriage and went to live in London, taking her children… Read more about this item

Ware, Hertfordshire: Omega Books. 1984. 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. 80 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xvi, 517 pages. The letters in this book were written by Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart order, who were pioneer Roman Catholic missionaries in Kiribati (the former Gilbert Islands). They sent their first news to the home convent in… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvi, 235 pages. Nineteenth-century Australian settlers, in an architectural, cultural and intellectual claiming of their new land, filled their landscape with durable monuments allusions to a remembered, imagined, idealised, far-distant homeland.… Read more about this item

London: Arts Council of Great Britain. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. 24 pages + Plates. The catalogue of the 1973-74 Exhibition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus.… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 453 pages. Between 1912 and 1919 seven weekly Russian newspapers were published in Australia. These newspapers show us a body of immigrants struggling to establish themselves in what some had viewed… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. x, 262 pages. As Victoria embarks on an ambitious social housing program to address a severe housing shortage, this book exposes important lessons for the future. The context is the post-World War 2 housing shortage, when the Housing Commission developed the unique Melbourne suburb of Braybrook. Infrastructure was lacking… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's Publications. 1986. Quarto Size [approx 23x27cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 219 pages. A detailed and visually very appealing study of the single-horned Indian rhinosceros… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster. 2016. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 302 pages. The remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War as seen through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors and nurses who witnessed it. . Reprint.… Read more about this item

Naefels, Switzerland: Bonfini Press. 1983. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with colour and black & white reproductions. Translated form the French by Alice Sachs. Robust, professional packaging… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2023. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 358 pages. ‘King’ O’Malley is known to history as a larrikin and maverick politician, member of the first Australian Federal Parliament and Federal Minister, whose political career spanned two decades. Arriving… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 252 pages. There is more to Frances Sinnett’s secret pain than the loss of her children - including the author - to an orphanage. Battalions of sorrows begin when her grandfather at 11 years old is imprisoned on a hulk in 1865. Then… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: John Grant. 1906. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in dark blue boards. Some mild age-toning to page edges. Minor marks to boards. Gilt top edge. Leading and bottom edge untrimmed. Gilt title etc to spine. Crest blind-stamped to front boards. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages of all volumes.… Read more about this item

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1933. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. The dustjacket is age-toned at spine and edges. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper and pasteodwn (obscured by DJ flap). Some faint scattered… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press. 1949. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ is lightly age-toned with some faint marking. Very light, scattred foxing to fore edge and half-title and title pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press. 1946. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The dustjacket is age-toned (especially at the spine) and has some insect damage to folds. Faint scattered foxing to the book edges and top edges of board are a little… Read more about this item

Sydney: Lansdowne Press. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 196 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.

London: The Hogarth Press. 1950. 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 at spine, with some marking to front cover and light chipping to spine ends and lower corners. The book has a tiny amount of fading to… Read more about this item