Search Results: Australia from Sad Paradise Books

Melbourne: Marsh Walsh Publishing, 1975. Very Good. And a List of the Civil and Military Establishment. To Which is Added an Historical Narrative of the Discovery of New Holland, or, New South Wales. A very neat bright copy of the numbered limited edition of 350 copies. Facsimile of edition published in London 1789. Octavo bound in full calf, raised bands, gilt embossed ship device to front and rear panels, leather title label to spine (with spare in pocket at rear board) 54 pages including folding chart. An important book; the earliest authentic eyewitness account of the first settlement of Australia. Attractive copy, perfect gift.

Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 276 pages, appendices, frontispiece portrait, black & white photographic plates. Pages slightly aged toned, bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Biography of a distinguished English poet and man of letters who spent seventeen years in Australia - "A combination of troubadour and prize fighter", says Edmund Gosse. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A quite neat, very sound copy. Fourth edition. Octavo in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 565 pages including 150 black & white photographic plates and maps, index. Cloth is slightly blotchy, gilt lettering is faded, dustjacket only slightly chipped, creased at the head of the spine, otherwise bright and clean. An attractive copy of Bean's condensation of his twelve volume Australian Official History of the 1914 - 18 war.

Sydney: PR Books, 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Reprint, pictorial laminated boards, pp160, index, black and white photographs. Boards covered in clear adhesive covering, previous owner's name on front pastedown. Describes Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War from a few advisors in 1962 to a commitment of 8,000 combat troops. A clean, tight copy.

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 176 pages including tipped in black & white frontispiece, maps. Spine faded, some spotting to preliminary pages, erasure scar on flyleaf. A boyhood encounter with 'The Breaker' led to Cutlack's continuing interest and research on this controversial figure. A very sound copy.

Milsons Point: Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original charcoal boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 818 pages including 32 black & white photographic plates, bibliography and index. A highly engaging biography of the passionate, controversial interpreter of Aboriginal culture. A major work of scholarship. A very nice copy of this scarce edition.

London: Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, endpaper maps, black & white, colour illustrations, index. Previous owner's name / date on half-title, price-clipped dustjacket. A lively and graphic account of the great explorer. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very neat, clean copies. First impression. Two companion volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 192 and 262 pages profusely illustrated with half-tone plates, line drawings, charts, and a large foldout chart in each volume redrawn from Cook's original maps.Top edge on NZ volume spotty. The dustjackets have light rubbing and creasing to edges, a few very small closed tears. These volumes bring together Cook's journals of his voyages to the east coast of New Holland, Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. These journals have been edited and annnoted to provide an interesting, important reference.

Melbourne: Pan Publishers , 1944. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Near fine - a very neat copy. Slim octavo in original illustrated wrapper, 96 pages including a photographic frontispiece portrait of Ludwig Leichhardt, a black & white line portait and a map. Introduction by Alec H. Chisholm, F.R.Z.S and appendix by Dr. G. Neumayer ( formerly Director Flagstaff Observatory) `Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt as Naturalist and Explorer'. A little discolouration to the back panel, but in surprisingly nice condition for a softcover of this age.

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1966. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Near fine - a bright very neat copy. Second edition. Octavo in original brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 248 pages including table, index, illustrated endpapers. Originally published 1864-5, Mortlock's account of his experiences as Australia from 1844 - 1864 provides an unusually broad overview of the convict system. A very nice copy.

Sydney: The Coral Press, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 194 pages, appendices, glossary, index, charts, figures, numerous superb black & white photographic plates. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, corners very lightly bumped, a few insect nibbles to flyleaf. A classic study on the structure and extent of the Great Barrier Reef and its extraordinary inhabitants lavishly illustrated. A clean, sound copy.

1971. Second revised. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat, tight copy. Slim quarto in card covers; unpaginated - includes frontispiece map of Fort Queenscliffe, six pages of photographic illustrations. The editor states 'The aim of this booklet is to provide the student or visitor with a brief history of Fort Queenscliffe and the Australian Staff College.' In this edition a brief history of the Staff College Crest has been included. Annex G-Graduates has been changed from an alphabetical list of all graduates to a listing by courses. Loosely inserted a card' With the compliments of Brigadier W.J. Morrow CBE Commandant Australian Staff College.'

Sydney: Landsdowne Press, 1985. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Reprint. pp152, map, index, black & white, coloured illustrations and plates, illustrated endpapers. Colwell's text is supported by over 180 pictures in all making this excellent production the most comprehensive pictorial record of the Burke and Wills expedition ever published. A tight, clean copy. Great gift idea.

South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A quite neat, very sound copy. Originally published as 'The Mammals Of Australia Volume II' (1863), this book retains Gould's text together with Dixon's additional observations. The slipcase is bumped and worn, but the book itself is in very good order, and all the plates are in excellent condition. Folio in original black illustrated boards with white title to spine in slipcase. 152 pages including indices, references cited, 70 full-page magnificent colour reproductions of plates by Gould accompanied by detailed descriptions of specific species, habitat and habits. A classic.

South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very bright attractive copy. First printing. Quart in publisher's original tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, 304 pages. Alphabetical entries on people, institutions, places, ideas, movements, events, artefacts, and documents considered to be of significance in Australian history, profusely illustrated with mostly black & white photographic illustrations and line drawings. A lovely copy.

Harpercollins, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. A very neat tight copy. Octavo in original bleu cloth boards with silver title and credits to spine, 467 pages including black & white frontispiece of James Cook, map endpapers, appendices, index, numerous black & white charts and illustrations. Paper stock slightly toned. The book recounts the adventures and mishaps of the successive voyages to discover the elusive 'maritime philospher's stone' - a navigable passage through the icy seas of the Atlantic from Hudson Bay to the wealth of the Pacific Ocean