Search Results: Authors starting with R from Antique Bookshop

Lond. William Heinemann., 1918.. Or.cl. with gilt Rackham illustration on front board. 133pp. Eight full-page colour plates and many b/w ills. in the text. The boards sl.moisture affected else a very good copy. 1st Rackham-illustrated edition. Scarce.

Lond. Hodder & Stoughton., 1992.. Or.bds. d.w. 422pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed.

Lond. Staples Press., 1957.. Or.bds. 253pp. b/w plates. Some foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed.

Waitara. Ian A. Ramage., 1991.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 376pp. Fine. 1st ed. WITH WE STILL CALL WAHROONGA OUR HOME. Waitara. The Author. 2003. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 20pp. b/w photographic ills. Fine. 1st ed. A guide to the Wahroonga area & its adjoining suburbs of Warrawee & Waitara. Ian Ramage takes you on a tour of the streets, churches, schools, & the inhabitants past & present of his home suburb. The pair

Melb. Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd., 2006.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 373pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The lives & legacy of eight iconic Aboriginal Australians. Albert Namatjira, Harold Blair, Dave Sands, Ngarla Kunoth, Robert Tudawali, Reg Saunders, Doug Nicholls, Harry Penrith & Jimmy Little.

Colorado. Sounds True, Inc., 2022.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 341pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. How does faith healing work, or does it? What's behind the phenomenon of spontaneous remission, and is this something we can influence? Dr. Lissa Rankin spent ten years investigating these questions.

Lond. Faber and Faber Limited., 2011.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 397pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1942 Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming RNVR, set up a unit of front-line troops to steal enemy intelligence. A commando group of authorised looters known as 30 Assault Unit was formed & deployed.

Lond. Hutchinson., 1959.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 512pp. (sl foxing) to foredge. Date on ffe. Dustjacket covered in plastic. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. An encyclopaedia of railway locomotives from all around the world. As the ever increasing cost of coal slowly made steam engines more costly to run, diesel traction engines began to replace steam.

New Haven. Yale University Press., 1967.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 311pp. Dustjacket covered in plastic. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Tsembaga Maring are a group of recently contacted slash-and-burn farmers occupying a small territory on the northern slopes of the Central Highlands of New Guinea.

Arncliffe. R. W. Rathbone., 1997.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 166pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. On Thursday the 3rd of May 1770, Lieutenant James Cook journeyed up the river that now bears his name & into Wolli Creek, into the area of Sydney now called Arncliffe. A comprehensive history.

Lond. Hamish Hamilton., 1954.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 452,366pp. (sl foxing) Good set. Second Edition. Sir Terence Rattigan was one of England's most popular mid 20th century dramatists. His plays were typically set in upper-middle-class background of the 1940s & 50s dealing with repression & reticence.

Lond. "Punch Office"., 1903.. Or.cl. 103 b/w plates from drawings by the author. Cover sl.marked & some foxing on the endpapers else a very good copy. Fine. 1st ed.

Lond. George Newness, Limited., 1901.. Or.dec.cloth. 171pp. A good ex-library with a few stamps to some pages. Books began with writing, & writing began at the time when man first bethought himself to make records, & the printing press became a less clumsy way to keep records of its history & evolution.

N.Y. Abbeville Press., 1979.. Large Folio. Or.dec.cl. Dustjacket. 487pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Moisture mark on foredge, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Currier & Ives produced over 7000 lithographs picturing scenes of American life during the 19th Century. This volume reproduces over 400 of these images, most in full-page colour.

N.Y. Pierpont Morgan Library., 1976.. Folio. Or.dec.cl. 336pp. col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Profusely illustrated.

N.Y. Cornell University Press., 1982.. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 245,312pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good set. 1st ed. These volumes constitute the first comprehensive history of the sophisticated tradition of the French illustrated book. Books illustrated by Daumier, Dore, Lepere, Fragonard, & Redon to name but a few.

N.Y. Wayte Raymond, Inc., 1939.. 4to. Or.cl. 52pp. + 4pp. b/w ills. Front hinge worn else a good copy. 1st ed. A catalogue of collectible silver dollars that were in circulation in North & South America from the 15th century to the 20th century. With market values as of 1939.

Canb. Dept. of National Development, 1960.. 4to. Cloth-backed wrappers. Stamp on front cover. b/w maps with 5 fold-out maps. Good copy. This report revises & elarges the material which appeared in the Summary of Oil Drilling Activities in Australia & New Guinea in Report No. 41.

Melb. Cambridge Uni Press., 2000.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 248pp. b/w ills. Name on verso of front wrapper else a very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land.

Lond. British Broadcasting Corp., 1979.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 288pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. From its origination in 1823 on the playing fields of Rugby School in Warwickshire, the game of Rugby Union was played between two teams with 15 players who would pick a football up, and run with it.