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London, George Allen & Unwin first edition - h/c in d.j. The Okagami (Great Mirror) is a Japanese 'historical tale' written in the eleventh century. The work of an un-known hand, it covers Japanese history from 850 to 1025, when the Fujiwara family dominated Japanese government and society, and provided most of the Regents, Chancellors, and Great Ministers of the nation. 223 x 150mm., p.p. 488, notes, append. (I-VII), fold. genealogical table, biblio., index, content has sm. area of staining on pages 94/95, d.j. minor marks, sm. closed tear on back, v.g./v.g.

London, Cassell first edition- h/c WITHOUT d.j. 'A 'Geisha' is not a prostitute. In Japanese the word means a person connected with art. I will translate it as 'artiste'. The geisha has the right to such a title by virtue of her skill as a musician and a dancer.' Three wonderful stories told by a master storyteller. 222 x 147mm., pp. frontis. (col. plate) + 187, cream cloth covered bds., red title on spine, cloth covered boards & content pages are very clean & bright, WITHOUT, d.j., v.g.+

Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia first edition -hard cover in dust jacket 'You couldn't just be Patrick White's friend. Many had this desire and were cruelly snubbed. He had to choose you�'. In 1977, director Jim Sharman introduced Patrick White to the noted photographer, William Yang. White admired Yangs work; he had already bought two of his photographs. Thus began a fruitful friendship which lasted - with a few hiccups, until White's death, thirteen years later. 275 x 275mm., pp. 102, b/w plates t/out. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. slight ""curl"" top edge. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0732908248

Booragoon, Regency first edition - paperback, stiff card covers The story of the eventual discovery of the World's largest island unfolds with accounts of the many Spanish, Portugese and Dutch attempts to discover and chart the coast, the ships which their doom on its reef-riddled shores, climaxing with the settlement by the British. Also included is a list of some 1,500 coastal features showing how each received its name. 210 x 145mm., pp. 180, biblio., index (Coastal Features), general index, paperback, stiff illus. card covers. VG+ ISBN: 0959496912

London, Ward Lock reprint - h/c in d.j. The principal characters of this book are: Jeremy Solon, Katharine Scrope, George Laking, the Shephers, Judas Mangey and Jonathan Mansel. 190 x 130mm., pp. 317, contents - p.o. name & personal inscription ffep (neat), d.j. med. wear/rubbed top/bot. spine, small closed tear top back corner, minor rubbing on edges - d.j. is very bright and clean. VG+/VG+

Surrey Hill, James Fraser first edition - h/c in d.j. The plot is an adroit jigsaw of amusing situations and characters and takes us from crowded cocktail parties to intellectual dinners to highly unusual Art Gallery exhibitions and finally to the social event of the year - a charity barbecue. 218 x 143mm., pp. 176, contents - no inscriptions, near fine, d.j. slight rubbing top spine - no tears or chips. VG+/VG ISBN: 0949493139

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode Colonial edition - hard cover in dust jacket Yeats-Brown's travels began in Russia in 1934: then Italy, Germany, the Balkans, Turkey, and Spain. He writes of what he has seen first hand, of men he knows, of historical events studied on the spot, or recounted by eye-witnesses. His judgements reveal him as an observer with a highly individual point of view. (edit.) 220 x 150mm., pp., vii, 409, append., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, lengthy ""p.o. inscription in script writing"" ffep; d.j., rub/wear top/bot. spine & edges. VG+/VG

London, Methuen first edition - h/c WITHOUT d.j. The author takes us on a trip through New York city with all its beauty and interests of the early 1950s. It gives us a window of history through the eyes of a Chinese traveller and artist. Accompanied by superb watercolour plates of many of the cities landmarks, done in the Chinese style. 223 x 145mm., map end/ps, pp. frontis. + xv + 282, seventeen col. plates, orig. cream cloth covered boards., green title on front & spine, contents & cl. cov. bds are very clean & bright, WITHOUT d.j., v.g.+

Singapore, The Strait Times Press first edition - large paperback, card covers This is a compilation of photographs of Lee Kuan Yew from the year of his birth in 1923, through to 2014. An outstanding pictorial parade of Singapore's greatest political leader. 210 x 210, pp. 192, b/w & colour plates throughout. Large square paperback, stiff pictorial card covers with French folds (flaps). Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, very slightly rubbed on corners. NEAR FINE ISBN: 9789814642088

London, Heinemann first edition - h/c in d.j. Jean Paul Marin, is as turbulent and unpredictable, as strange a mixture of idealism and hatred, as the French Revolution itself, in the thick of which he lives and loves and pursues his feuds. Three women, so utterly different, are caught up in Jean's passionate career. 205 x 135mm., pp. 6 + 379, p.o. name ffep (neat) contents has very slight foxing top edges of pages, d.j. slight wear & tear top/bottom spine & corners, very bright & clean, VG.

Strathpine, the Author first edition - hard cover, laminated pict. Boards In early April 1915, while the troopship ""Derfflingler"" rode at anchor in Mudros Harbour - waiting to leave for Gallipoli - Lieut. Rob Cowley, commander of 9 Platoon, C Company, 3 Battalion, ordered his clerk, Corporal Frank Barlow, to record the details of the 55 men in the platoon, (and the two reinforcements.) This is the story of each man's contribution to WWI. 255 x 175mm., pp., viii, 317, b/w plates, Chronology, Formation and Deployment of 3rd Battalion, biblio., Name index. Hard cover. NEW. ISBN: 9780980379617

Pymble, Harper Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Keith Murdoch was universally known within his profession - as a journalist of a rare distinction. Writer of the famed ""Gallipoli Letters"" that alerted governments to the disasters unfolding on the Turkish battlefields, he helped change the course of that ill-fated military campaign. 243 x 158mm., pp. 10, 421, b/w plates, Dramatis personae, append., endnotes, index. H/cover in d.j. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS, three small marks top edge; d.j, slightly rubbed corners - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ISBN: 0732270286