Search Results: Authors starting with E from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Geoffrey Cumberledge Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor Condition. Illustrator: Norman Howard. List of illustrations and a word to the reader by author. The text is illustrated with 6 black and white illustrations by Norman Howard. Dark green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper of shellfish, with sharks swimming right to left. White coloured titles to the front panel and ochre coloured titles to the back strip. A Biggles adventure set in the SouthSeas where he and his friends go diving for pearls. There is no publication date, however Australian Children's Books (Marcie Muir) gives the publication date as 1946. (8544 ACB). Little rubbing and bumping of the book corners softening and rubbing of the back strip edges. Browning and faint foxing to the text block edges with Browning and the occasional foxing spots to the pages… Read More

Wakefield Crime Classics, Kent Town, 1992. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. second-hand copy, clean, slight crush at the top left of the front cover, and a grubby mark on the top edge of the text block. No other damage. Written in 1944, this book somehow became displaced from the essential reading list of Australian crime fiction until Wakefield house decided to republish it giving us a female heroine who is gutsy. this is the first publication by this publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 210 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 1862542813. ISBN/EAN: 9781862542815. Inventory No: 0284705. . 9781862542815

Cassell and Company Ltd, London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. Introduction by compiler. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the Right Honourable Winston Churchill. The text is illustrated with another for black-and-white photographs. Red coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. A book of speeches given by Winston Churchill in the early part of WWII – 1942. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges; bumping of the book corners with rubbing of the lower book edges. Fading of the top edge of the front panel, back strip and to the first half centimetre of the rear panel, closest to the back strip. A few rubs marks and stains to the book covers with some flecking to the top edge of the rear panel. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning to the end pages with previous owners' names to the lower edge of the… Read More

John Libbey, Sydney, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. there is no damage to describe. Gift annotation by the author on the front free end page. This bookmarks the first 50 years of the Australian Association of neurologists, their history, and also a history of neurology in Australia. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Australia; History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0861966066. ISBN/EAN: 9780861966066. Inventory No: 0249351. . 9780861966066

Adis Press, Balgowah, 1985. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe, no annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 214 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285312. .

Williams & Wilkins, Balgowah, 1986. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe, no annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 200 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285310. .

Adis Press, Balgowah, 1982. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe, no annotations or underlining. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 214 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285366. .

Adis Press, Balgowah, 1987. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe, previous owner's name the top of the first page, no other annotations or underlining. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 214 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285365. .

Adis Press, Balgowah, 1977. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, small tear to the top of the spine, no other damage to describe, no annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 214 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285364. .

Adis Press, Balgowah, 1981. Periodical. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. clean copy, no damage to describe, no annotations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 214 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 0285311. .

William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. VIII, 215 pp. Frontispiece etching "Gippsland", by David Armfield is repeated on the boards, and also on the dustwrapper with the rear panel showing the etching in reverse. The top edge of book is browned, the bottom edge of the boards, shows signs of wear as do the top edges. The top edge of the dustwrapper has a small tear, and some chipping. The rear panel bottom edge has two tears of approximately one inch long each. Now in protected plastic wrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Local History -- Victoria; ISBN: 0855610247. ISBN/EAN: 9780855610241. Inventory No: 0200774. . 9780855610241

Trojan Press, Ivanhoe, VIC, Australia, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on Half Title Page. 550 g; 416 pages, includes two family trees. Photographic illustrated front panel. There is a crease on the lower portion of the front panel. Gift inscription dated April 1979 and signed by the author. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: 0. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed; Signed by the Author on Half Title Page. ISBN: 0959207724. ISBN/EAN: 9780959207729. Inventory No: 0218594. . 9780959207729

Trojan, Victoria, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Illustrated dustwrapper, red map of northern Australia with an Aboriginal motif superimposed on map. Black titles on white card, black and red writing on white background. A book of 14 linked stories, related by themes of history, music and personal interest. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 379 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges and pages slightly aged toned.. Book is in very good condition with minimal signs of age and wear.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Aboriginal -- Australia; Social History; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0959207740. ISBN/EAN: 9780959207743. Inventory No: 0100065. . 9780959207743

McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 350 g; IV, 156 pages, last five pages blank (intentionally) in illustrated dust jacket. There is a suggestion of dustiness to the top edge of the text block, no other damage to report. "Venerable in local time, the buildings of Melbourne Grammar have echoed to shouts, groans, laughter; to interrogation and exhortation; to chants, lectures, hymns, and prayers." -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Education; Local History -- Victoria; ISBN: 0869140310. ISBN/EAN: 9780869140314. Inventory No: 0236780. . 9780869140314

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. XIII, 447 pp., + 3 blank; 13 double page maps, bibliography, index of authors. Companion to the literary associations of Great Britain and Ireland. Entries on 900+ writers and their connections with cities, towns, villages, houses, castles, schools, inns and districts. Front foldover price-clipped and creased; page edges age toned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Britain; ISBN: 0198691238. ISBN/EAN: 9780198691235. Inventory No: 0206821. . 9780198691235

Oxford University Press, London, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. preface to the second edition, preface to the first edition by Jon Mulgen, notes and list of abbreviations. Plain card cover with blue and yellow coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. First published in 1939, this second edition, which has been revised, giving a little potted history of English literature, subjects, themes, influences etc., alphabetically. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning to the backstrip with browning of the textblock edges and pages. There is a small tear to the top left-hand corner of the front panel. Revised Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 628, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0117098. .

Fairfax Books, Sydney, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Photographic Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Foreword by Prime Minister John Howard, introduction by John Eales and acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with both colour and black-and-white photography. Photographic boards with blue, gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and yellow and white coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper, same images as for underlying boards, with light blue, white and gold coloured titles to the front panel and white and gold coloured titles to the back strip. In this book the author speaks with numerous sporting figures about success both on and off the field. Minor rubbing of the book edges and panels. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. There is a small tear to the lower edge of the rear panel. Size: Square Quarto. [13], 14 - 255, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More

Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston and New York, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with multicoloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Blank beige coloured dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the back strip. In this study the author, an American historian, looks at the history of women in the colonial period of America. The book is in sections and each chapter deals with a particular facet of life – for example Women of Affairs, 'Double-Tongued and Naughty Women', Eighteenth-Century Manners and Daughters of Liberty et cetera. A little softening of the back strip edges with rubbing of all edges and of the panels. Some sunning to the back strip with light tanning of the text block edges and age toning of the pages. The major damage to the book has been the dedication page which has almost completely come away from the text block. Very light offset… Read More

Dean and Son Ltd. by Arrangement with the Thames Publishing, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Textured Boards). Very Good/Very Good. foreword by author. Blue coloured textured boards with black coloured titles to the spine. This book contains 11 (of the 13) stories from the third Biggles book Biggles of the Camel Squadron (Thanks to Biggles info) There is no easily ascertained date of this book's printing, but on the verso of the rear panel it states "Made and printed in Great Britain by Purnell and Sons, Ltd, Paulton (Somerset) and London”, with no SBN. Softening and discolouration of the back strip edges; bumping and rubbing of the book corners. Tanning of the text block edges and pages. Some chipping of the top back strip edge and corners. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Some sunning to the back strip. Browning to the verso of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 182, [2] pages,.… Read More

Dean and Son Ltd. by Arrangement with the Thames Publishing Company, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. Red coloured textured boards with black coloured titles to the spine. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black, blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and black and red coloured titles to the back strip. Biggles has an adventure in British Guiana. There is no easily ascertained date of this book's printing, but on the verso of the rear panel it states "Made and printed in Great Britain by Purnell and Sons, Ltd, Paulton (Somerset) and London”, with an SBN of 603034020. Minor bumping of the lower book corners with softening of the back strip edges stop tanning of the text block edges and pages. There is a horizontal tear to the free front end page measuring 4 inches; some very fine foxing to the end pages. Creasing of the dustwrapper edges with the occasional small tear also present. Minor browning to the… Read More