Search Results: Authors starting with I from Muir Books

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. 1962. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 125. Ink stain on the rear panel of the dustjacket. Near-fine in very good d.j. Ibsen's play, controversial when first published and performed. With an introduction and an essay on the English stage history by the translator. 1st thus.

London: Brentano's. 1924. Octavo, original paper-covered cloth boards with decoarative border, split to lower spine, pp 91. Clean and in very good condition. Ibsen's play, published by the London office of the US bookstore Brentano's. 1st Edition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1947. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp viii. 234. Extensive chips missing from upper front of dustjacket, head and foot of dustjacket spine chipped, price-clipped, now protected. Boards good. Previous owner's name written along outside edge of pages, o/w text clean. Good copy in poor d.j. Autobiographical account of the author's early days, including horsebreaking, shearing and mining opals at Lightning Ridge. Reprint. Boards.

Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson. March1949. Repr., 8vo, pp. x, 258, b&w frontis, maps f.e.p., glossary, prev. owner's inscr on f.f.e.p., orig cl bds., lightly rubbed, chipped d.j., clean, very good condition. 253 Idriess' adventurous account of New Guinea. Reprint. Boards in d.j..

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1932. 1st edition, 2nd issue (3 days after first) (without endpaper maps), 8vo, pp.379, (iii, adverts), lacks ffep, prev. owner's stamp to pp.(ix) orig cl bds., spine sl toned, very good condition Issued three days after the rare first edition with end-paper maps. An Australian soldier's World War I diary (the original in the War Memorial Library, Canberra). Idriess was wounded during his tour of duty, which included time in Palestine, Sinai, and Turkey. At Gallipoli he served as spotter for Billy Sing, a famous sniper for the Australian Imperial Force. 1st Edition, second issue. Cloth Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1936. Octavo, original yellow cloth boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 251. Previous owner's signature, light foxing to endpapers, very good condition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1954. Repr., octavo, pp x, 296, incl Index, b&w illus, bookseller's ticket (Alberts Bookshop, Perth) to paste-down, light foxing to edges, orig yellow cloth bds, marked, spine tanned, o/w very good condition. With a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough. Reprint. Boards.

Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson. March1948. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, pp. x, 253, b&w frontis, maps front endpapers., glossary. Corners bumped, minor marks rear board. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Good condition. Idriess' adventurous account of New Guinea. 1st Edition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1955. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 244. Nibbling along edge of rear d.j. flap repaired with archival tape, gift inscription halftitle, o/w very good. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1936. 8vo, original yellow cloth boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 251. Slight marking to boards, corners rubbed, good condition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1966. Repr., octavo, pp x, 296, incl Index, b&w illus, cloth bds, unclipped dustjacket. Very good condition in like d.j. With a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough. Reprint. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1936. 8vo, original yellow cloth boards, b&w plates, endpaper maps, pp 251. Gift inscription, mild foxing to edges, good condition. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1935. 7th impr., octavo, original cloth boards, endpaper maps, glossary, pp 388, boards marked, small scorch mark on the margin of several pages, good condition. An Australian soldier's World War I diary (the original in the War Memorial Library, Canberra). Idriess was wounded during his tour of duty, which included time in Palestine, Sinai, and Turkey. At Gallipoli he served as spotter for Billy Sing, a famous sniper for the Australian Imperial Force. 7th Impression. Boards.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1947. Repr., pp. x, 328, b&w fronts., b&w plates, e.p. maps, bookseller's ticket (Dymock's) front paste-down, orig cl bds. Very good condn in chipped d.j. Born in 1857 in South Australia, Sidney Kidman left home aged 13 to work as a sheep drover. Together with his brother he formed a small business droving and trading cattle and horses, S. Kidman & Co Pty Ltd (founded 1899). Kidman went on to become the greatest pastoral landholder in modern history, earning the nickname of "The Cattle King". He died in 1935. Reprint. Boards in d.j..

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1955. Octavo, original cloth boards, ii, pp.210, 14 b/w plates, b/w frontis, endpaper maps. Minor marks to edges of boards. Gift inscription halftitle page. Good condition. Stories of Northern Australia and a journey on the Sepik River, New Guinea. Investigates the cave paintings of the Kimberley. 1st edition. Cloth Boards.

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd. 1977. 8vo, pp. 172, Index, minro foxing top edge, original cloth boards., very good, in like d.j. History of Buddhism. Cloth Boards.

New York: Columbia University Press. 1969. 8vo, cloth boards, small blue decoration and gilt title, top edges blue, pp xii. Previous owner's names to front endpapers, annotations and underlinings in pencil, good reading copy. 3rd Printing. Boards.

Mandurah: Interesting Publications. 2003. Octavo, wraps, pp 91 plus 22 pp of b&w photographs. Signed by the author. Fine condition. Autobiography, including years at Wittenoom. Uncommon. Wraps.

Mandurah: DB Publishing. 1999. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 168. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Autobiography of a Yugoslav migrant to WA. Revised Edition. Wraps.

Berlin: Verlag von Hermann Meusser. 1913. 8vo., pp.(viii), 86, (ii), incl Index, five photographic plates of x-rays, stamp upper first page, loosely inserted four page pamphlet, original cloth bds., near fine condition. Max Immelmann (1864-1923) was a German physician and pioneer of radiology. He was co-founder of the X-ray Association founded in Berlin in 1898. The fifth book of Heinz Bauer's Bibliothek der physikalisch-medizinischen Techniken Cloth Boards.