Search Results: Authors starting with R from Muir Books

London. (1921). Privately printed, 2 vols, octavo, pp.xvi, 474; xvi, 462, b&w fronts to each vol and b&w illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, previous owner's inscr and stamp with bookseller's ticket to each vol, uncut, top edge gilt, some darkening to outer top edge, orig white buckram with gilt letterring, contents clean, very good condn. From the 1653 English translation. Complete in two volumes Navarre Society Limited. Decorated Cloth.

Sydney: Bloxham & Chambers. 1935. 8vo, wraps, 265. Yapp edges, thumb index. Wear to edges with some loss to lower front yapp binding, good condition. List of racehorse names, in alphabetical order. Wraps.

London: Oxford University Press. 1970. Octavo, wraps, folding plates,text, pp ix, 389. Wraps worn. Previous owner's signature. Light pencil underlining first few pages of Introduction. Good condition. Papers on various aspects of African kinship. 10th impression.

West Perth: Urban Bushland Council. 2013. Quarto, wraps, colour illus, b&w illus, 2 folding colour maps, pp vi, 98. Fine condition. Wraps.

Grand Rapids: Brazos Press. 2008. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 320. Fine in fine d.j. Boards.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1945. Roy 8vo, pp 122, b/w ills, foxing to endpapers, cloth boards, v.g., in torn and chipped d.j. Wartime production on the history of the British Home Guard. Cloth Boards.

NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons. 1990. 1st ed., quarto, pictorial boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, maps, endpaper maps, bookseller's ticket front paste-down, pp.296. Near fine condition. Study of navigators' explorations around the coast, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 1st Edition. Boards.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 4to, pictorial wraps, 40 full-page b&w cartooons. Wraps marked, first and last pages lightly marked. N.d., c. 1918. Wraps.

Perth: Colortype Press. 1929. 8vo, pp 415, b&w plates. some minor staining to front few pages, repairs to portrait page, rebound in cloth boards with original title label to spine, very good condition. 1st edition. Boards.

Perth: Colortype Press. 1929. 2nd ed., octavo, original cloth boards with gilt title stamped upper board, pp 415, b&w plates, plates with gold details, index. Boards heavily flecked. Head and foot of spine starting to fray. Front free endpaper and rear endpaper have previous owner's signature or Fred(erick) Thompson, dated Hannans [Kalgoorlie] 1894 [as a memento of the 1890s gold rush?]. Otherwise clean, binding firm. Good condition. Describes life on the Western Australian goldfields during the gold rush, with many early photographs. 2nd Edition. Boards.

Perth: WAGR. 1917. 1st ed., 12mo., pp.viii, 230, profusely illus with adverts, 10cm closed tear to folding map at end, orig paper wraps, damage at spine and remains of tape along edges, otherwise clean, very good condn of this seldom seen rare item. Extremely rare railway timetable. Includes large folding map "Railways of Western Australia 1917" with map on verso "Map of Australia showing main lines of Railway". Published same year as the opening of the Trans Australian Railway (1917). Following the completion of the Trans-Australian Railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta in October 1917, it was possible to travel by train across the continent from Perth to Sydney but, east of Port Augusta, it was a very circuitous route. Four changes of railway gauge were required to cross the continent -- at Kalgoorlie, Port Augusta, Terowie (South Australia) and Albury (Victoria). Not in NLA 1st edition. Wraps.

Trivandrum: Government of Kerala. 1974. Royal octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, plans (some folding), folding colour map, pp 148 plus plates and plans. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in good d.j. Scarce.

London: BBC. 1979. Reprint with corrections, 8vo., pp 183, Index, b/w & col. Plates, prev. owner's inscr., or. cl. bds., v.g in d.j. Reprint. Cloth Boards.

London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1911. 1st ed., octavo, library cloth binding, folding colour map, pp 252. Ex-library markings, contents page loose, fair reference copy. 1st edition. Boards.

The Author. 2001. Octavo, wraps, b&w ilus, pp 94. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Includes loosely inserted typed letter from the author, signed. Very good condition. Wraps.

Canberra: Australian National University Press. 1977. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, maps, pp xii, 268. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Very good condition in like d.j. Boards.

Sydney: Minister of Justice and Public Instruction. 1876. Original paper-covered boards, cloth spine, pp 64, 3. Rubbed to front board, foxing to prelims, good condition. The author notes in his preface that at the time of publication (1876) there were 27 known species of the 'Diurnal Birds of Prey' 1st edition.

London: Cassell. October1958. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt to spine, dustjacket, pp 244. Second cheap editon. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Some staining to dustjacket with some chipping to edges and two small closed tears top edge. Contents clean. Very good condition in good d.j. Ayn Rand's first successful novel published in 1947, "a hymn in praise of the individual" (New York Times, contemporary review). 2nd Cheap Edition. Boards in d.j..

New Delhi: Publications Division. 1982. Quarto. cloth boards, dustjacket, tipped-in colour plates, pp 68. Previous owners' signature. Spine of d.j. faded. Near-fine condition. 3rd Printing. Boards in d.j..

South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. 2004. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 150, Index, b/w plates, maps, bookplate, original cloth bds., nr fine, in like d.j. Authors WWII experiences in Burma. Randle served with the Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army throughout the Burma campaign. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.