Search Results: Titles starting with A from Lansdowne Books

Orig. Green papered boards with blue spine-strip. D.j slightly chipped but now in protective mylar cover. Charming book filled with the photographs of Monro, who was an official war photographer during WWII.. 116 pages of Black/white photography with blue and white illustrated end pages. A clean, straight book. Size: 10 X 7 1/2"

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Unclipped Very Good Condition now in protective mylar: . Illustrated Brown boards with gilt spine letters. 1st Edition, 'First Published 1982' on copyright page. Firmly bound, tight and square. Small inscription on ffep. This is a nice copy of the 1st Edition all in Very Good condition.

A delightful 1940s Australian children's book with charming illustrations & colour plates. Written & illustrated by D.H. Gilmore. Includes colour frontispiece, plus all 5 additional colour plates, as issued. Also with several smaller b&w illustrations throughout (some full page). HARDCOVER with DUSTJACKET. Dustjacket with wrap around artwork, also by D.H. Gilmore. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small tears so now in protective Mylar. Tightly bound in original creme paper boards with bright red lettering & design to both boards & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Pages are clean, unmarked and tight. Scarce title.Rare First Edition. First edition, with "1946" to both title page & copyright page with no later reprint dates. Printed in Australia by Halstead Press

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Original black boards, gilt lettering to spine, endpaper maps. Pages slightly yellow at margins else a fine and tight first printing.

Stated First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with uncut pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria. Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman's journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale green board, illust. unclipped jacket; Numerous illustrations and photographs.Written by the author (1880-1945) Stirling writes about her childhood at Omeo, where James Stirling, her father, was a renowned miner and geologist and Elizabeth Stirling, her mother, was a botanist and botannical illustrator. This book outlines the progressive values a middle-class Australian family in the Victorian era.

Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: G. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards and pages clean and tight. Overall aIl a very well-preserved copy. Includes index.Subjects : Annuals (Plants) | Biennials (Plants) | Flower gardening.

George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of his journey to Ibn Saud at the time when Saudia Arabia was newly formed. Fine book in a dust jacket. Price unclipped.

Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.

Quarter cloth pictorial boards. Illustrated by the Author. Head and foot of spine and edges of boards slightly rubbed; corners of boards worn. A good copy. Original colour illustrated paper covered boards, rubbed to extreme edges but colours still bright. Internally the illustrations are brightly coloured, bold and fascinating. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. In very good condition for age with some yellowing of pages. Some bumping to spine but otherwise a tight copy. A very rare copy and delightful read for poetry recitation.