Search Results: Authors starting with I from Antique Bookshop

Camberidge Uni Press., 2013.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 221pp. b/w ills. Name on ffe else a Fine copy. 1st ed. The author was Professor of English at the University of Tohoku, Japan.

Syd., 1951. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 248pp. Name on half-title & title pages. b/w plates. Dj sl.torn & chipped at head of spine else a very good copy. 1st ed. A trip from Sydney to Perth and return by car.

Syd. Angus and Robertson., 1948.. (rep) Or.cl. 253pp. Inscription on verso of b/w frontispiece. B/w plates. Endpaper maps. Very good copy. The story of the search for gold in the New Guinea highlands.

Syd. A&R., 1944.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. (torn, recently plastic-wrapped) 222pp. Pages uncut. Sydney High School nameplate on inside front cover. Heavy foxing, else Good copy. An early edition. The story of one of the most remarkable expeditions in Australian exploration.

Balt. Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 345pp. b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. A fascinating compilation of media stories of Einstein's tour of America in 1921.

Adelaide. Jindyworobak., 1945.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 63pp. (sl foxing) to top, foredge & first few pages. Light wear to corners & spine ends. Good copy. 1st ed. Rex Ingamells captures the rough & tumble atmosphere of the Victorian Gold Rushes in a verse narrative through the story of an Aboriginal woman who views the whirling of the times.

Canb. Insitutie of PNG Studies, ANU, 1982.. Decc.wrapps. 143pp. b/w ills. Sl. foxing else a good copy. Karo Araua was a wild man and was hanged in Port Moresby in 1938 for a murder he committed. Nevertheless his name live on among his own people.

Castle Hill. Brian F. Inman., 2015.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 227pp. Light wear to corners. colour plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at the role that NSW Police Officers have played in times of significant conflict between 1914 to 1918, & participation of Officers in other conflicts between 1885 to 1976.

Syd. Government Printer., 1913.. Folio. Or.bds. Bound in quarter cloth. 207pp. + 68pp. Light wear to corners of boards. Tears to bound edges of title page. lacks the maps. Good copy. The published findings of the interstate conference on artesian water in Australia for 1912 chaired by E. F. Pittman, J. B. Henderson, A. Gibb Maitland, A. S. Kenyon, L. Keith Ward, H. Ware & R. Jenkins

Edison,NJ. Chartwell Books, Inc., 1994.. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 350pp. Presentation bookplate on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Mythology is common to all races & when names were given to the forces that governed life a path was formed that would lead to the formalising of belief & then to religion.

Melb. Georgian House., 1950.. Or.qt.morocco. Dustjacket. 239pp. 33 Col.plates illustrating 138 birds. A very good ex-lib. copy with a couple of stamps on the verso of the title and a stamp on the last page. 1st ed. Scarce. .

Syd. NewSouth Publishing., 2017.. Col.Ill.wrapps. (sl foxing) to foredge. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Indigenous people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydne & were later ignored in colonial narratives & records. Paul Irish brings to light a conveniently ignored part of Sydney's history.

Syd. Alpha Books., 1974.. Oblong 4to. Or.cloth. 157pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of designs & plans for Sydney & environs that never made it past the drawing board. Including a futuristic plan from 1895 for Sydney as it was thought to be in 2001.

N.Y. Congdon & Lattes., 1981.. Or.qt.cl. Dustjacket. 446pp. b/w plates. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st US ed. Signed by David Irving on the hf.title. Inside the allied high command.

Cambridge. Cambridge Uni Press., 1997.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 253pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. The men who drafted the Australian Constitution in the 1890s left a cultural artefact inscribed with the dominant values of their time. A British colony conceived within an American framework.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1964.. Or.dec.cloth. 177pp. Colour frontispiece. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. In the slip-case. Born in Mecca in 570 CE, Muhammad secluded himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer in 610 CE & was visited by archangel Gabriel who reavealed a set of teachings to him.

Norfolk sland Hospital Auxiliary., 1976.. Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. (8pp.) Many colour illustrations. Loosely inserted are two folding mapps of Norfolk Island. With PITCAIRN HYMNS. and Norfolk Favourites. Ill.wrapps. 21pp. Both Fine.