Search Results: Authors starting with S from Muir Books

London & Melbourne: Hutchinson & Co.. 1951. Octavo, cloth boards, pp 256. The front panel of the dustjacket has been laid on front board (i.e. no spine or rear panel to d.j.) The d.j. panel is clean and bright, protected. A good clean copy. Pirates and buccaneers on the high seas. The novel was filmed in Technicolour in 1942, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. Reprint. Boards in d.j..

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. 1873. 8vo, pp. xvi, 572, b/w ills., light foxing scattered throughout particularly initial and latter leaves, few marks endpapers, some tanning page edges, all edges tinted, original half leather marbled boards, heavily scuffed and worn, loss of paper to rear board, head spine frayed with minor loss. Covers morphology, taxonomy and physiology. Text in German. Over 400 detailed b&w text illus. Half leather.

London: Methuen. 1951. 1st english ed., 8vo., pp. 170, b/w ills, prev. owner's inscr., blue pages with sunning to edges, or. cl. bds., in sunned, sl. torn d.j. 1st English language edition. Cloth Boards.

London: Richards Press. 1927. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, author frontis portrait, pp 302. Ex-library, fraying to rear edge of spine, fair condition. Boards.

Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. 2023. Quarto, stiff pictorial wraps, colour plates, pp 140. Near fine condition. Copiously illustrated catalogue of an exhibition reconnecting Tasmanian Aboriginal people, cultural objects and Country. Ancestral objects from collections around the world were returned temporarily to Lutruwita / Tasmania, and 20 Tasmanian Aboriginal artists have shared their creative respondes to these objects. 1st Edition. Stiff Wraps.

London: Religious Tract Soc.. (c.1890). Original pictorial cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w text illus, pp159. N.d., c. 1890s. Mark to rear board, occasional light foxing, good condition. Boards.

London: Heinemann. 1962. 1st UK ed., 8vo, pp. (iv) 201, prev owner's inscr to tp., orig cl bds., dent to tail of spine, otherwise good, in unclipped d.j minor marks covers, spine rubbed, top edge creased. The rear board with publisher's blind-stamped imprint denoting a first UK edition. Two novellas which originally appeared in 'The New Yorker' 1st UK Edition. Cloth Boards.

London: Hamish Hamilton. 1957. 1st UK ed., 6th impr., octavo, original cloth boards, original dustjacket (6th impr.), pp 253. Dustjacket with loss to edges, head and foot of spine: repaired and protected. Boards faded to foot and upper edge of spine. Contents very clean. Very good condition in fair uncommon d.j. 6th impression. Boards in d.j..

London: Thames and Hudson. 1917. Quarto, original cloth boards with blindstamped publisher's colophon, dustjacket, colour plates, pp 200. Near fine condition. Lavishly illustrated study of the decades which saw an extraodinary flourishing of the illustrated, pictorial dustjacket. 371 colour illustrations, with discussions of the life and work of over 50 artists and illustrators. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Canberra: np (The Southern Miner). 1970. Roy. 8vo., pp. 162, b/w maps, subscription offer pp.1-2 has been removed leaving only 1/3 page, wraps, stapled spine, slight marks, v.g Journal produced by Southern Miner Publications, a weekly journal devoted to mining and related topics Wraps.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1971. Octavo, pp xvi, 266, Index, double-page map of Australia, b&w plates, orig boards. Previous owners' signatures front free endpaper. Very good condition in like d.j., protected. Biography of Irish-born amateur anthropologist, Daisy Bates, who spent decades among Aboriginal tribes until her death at 91. 1st Edition. Boards.

Abbey Press (Morning Star Publishing). 2015. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp307. Previous owner's address label first page, some wear to the edges, pencilled note last page, very good condition. "Offers for the first time a complete English translation of Bishop Rosendo Salvado's 1883 "Report to Propaganda Fide", the Roman Congregation responsible for Catholic missionary work overseas. Its purpose was to give a detailed account of the Benedictine mission among the Noongar people of Western Australia."

Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press. 1978. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xx, 302. Signed by the translator/editor. Receipt from New Norcia loosely enclosed. Very good condn. Wraps.

London: HarperCollins. 1995. 1st ed., 8vo, index, slight yellowing throughout, sunning to boards, in slightly creased and marked d.j. 353 The author tells the story of the dominent species of the 20th century - the business corporations and the men and women who aspired to work them. 1st edition. Boards.

London: John Murray. 1933. 8vo, original cloth boards (decorated in black with illustration of the Snoop), dustjacket, b&w full-page illus, pp 127. Includes loosely inserted publisher's compliments slip. Light spotting to edges of boards, previous owner's signature in pencil (dated 1933) to fep, o/w very good condition. Several small chips to tanned dustjacket (protected). Very good in good d.j. Uncommon. 'A luminous but not voluminous work on Un-natural science giving descriptinve accounts of ways and byways of the world's strangest creatures ... involving innumerable hair-raising adventures among such little beasts as the Gigoloafer and the Glumps ... This un-authentic book deals only with Re-volution, De-volution, or even Con-volution...' [d.j. blurb] 1st edition. Boards.

London: Octagon Press. 1974. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp75, ii. Small address label for the The Society for Sufi Studies, London, tipped in p. 74. Near-fine condition in like d.j. A classic Sufi text, by Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi, known as Sanai, Sanai was a twelfth-century poet who wrote in Persian. "The Walled Garden of Truth" (the Hadiqat al Haqiqa) was the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism. It expresses the poet's ideas on God, love, philosophy and reason, and has been studied as a classic for centuries.

London: Granada. 1981. 8vo, or. cl. bds., dustjacket, b&w plates, pp x, 272. Very good in like d.j. Boards.

Sydney: Australasian Publishing Company. 1948. 8vo, pp. (viii) 109, b/w frontis, orig cl. bds., lightly rubbed edges, good. Boys adventure novel. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall. 1914. Octavo, cloth boards, b&w frontis plate, pp 186. Number inscribed front free endpaper, no other marks. Very good condition. Scarce. Adventure romance, written by John Sandes uder the pseudonym Don Delaney. 1st edition. Boards.

WA: Department of Conservation and Land Management. 1988. Oblong, wraps, b&w illus, pp 48. Near-fine condn.