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Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, black and white illustrations, blue illustrated endpapers. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Pages clean and tight, photographs and delightful illustrations. Light wear to base of boards. Overall a very nice copy. A lovely copy of this memoir that includes much on the Australian literary scene of the Twentieth Century.

First edition Soft cover. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, index. White paper covers two lines towards the upper edge of the first page. Card covers, gilt titles. The first edition catalogue of the Hamilton Island Motor Cycle Museum. Keith Williams started out to acquire, for the sake of nostalgia, all of the makes and models that he had ridden and owned between 1945 and 1950. Models in the collection included Aermacchi Harley Davidson Racer, AJS, Ariel, BMW, Bradbury, Brough Superior Model SS80, BSA, Ducati, Enfield-India 350 Bullet, Harley-Davidson, Indian Scout, Kawasaki, Matchless, Moto Guzzi, Munch, New Hudson, New Imperial, Nimbus, Norton, NSU, Panther, Raleigh, Rudge-Whitworth, Scott Flying Squirrel and Sidecar, Sunbeam, Suzuki, Triumph, Velocette, Vincent, and Yamaha. The collection included eight motorcycles ridden by Barry Sheene during the 16-year period in which he established himself as one of the world's all time great sportsmen. Victor Lancini. Note: the collection was… Read More

1st edition. Near fine cloth boards in D/J now mylar-sleeved. Not price clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall with pages clean and tight. Black and white illustrations, numerous colour plates,

Galahad Books, New York, 1974. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
A note about the artist.--Omar Khayyam: an introduction, by E. J. FitzGerald.Green coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with coloured illustrated frontispiece, coloured plates and black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Sarkis Katchadourian. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and backstrip. Purple coloured insert to the backstrip and within that insert, gilt coloured titles. Illustrated dustwrapper in protective sleeve, again by Sarkis Katchadourian, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The classic Edward Fitzgerald translation of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam's poems. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [8], IX - XVI, 19 - 131, [1] pagesweight .7