Search Results: Titles starting with C from RSM BOOKS

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1894. Volumes 1 through 12, all with b/w tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, top edges gilt, foxing on edges, preliminaries and randomly throughout, maroon coloured buckram boards with floral decorations and gilt lettering on front and spine, Volume 1 has pencil underlining, and every volume carries a previous owner's stamp on fep (Dymocks Book Arcade), generally minor shelfwear. Sold as complete set only. Please ask for shipping quote prior to ordering.. Early Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1956. 216 pp, illustrated, previous owner stamp on first five pages, foxing on edges and endpapers, d/j price-clipped and chipped all around. This is a true and thrilling story of violence in Victoria's gold-rush days one hundred years ago. The Colony of Victoria was not founded under the Convict System, but the gold rushes brought an influx of dangerous criminals from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, who created a reign of terror by robbing travellers on the roads to and from the diggings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Reilly Virgil. 8vo.

Australia: Eagle Crest Publishing, 1981. 271 pp, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, faded stamp on same page. This is a great romantic novel and guide to riches via credit cards – don't leave home without it . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Sydney: NSW University Press, 1988. 254 pp, flatsigned and dated by the author on the title page. This book traces the chequered story of one hundred women transported together in 1829 on the ship Princess Royal. Caught in an England convulsed by change, they became the unwitting and unwilling pioneers of a new land.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 208 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author and the photographer and three other individuals (not identified) on the title page, corners slightly bumped, minor foxing on edges. With a foreword by Vivian Richards. This book goes beyond the boundary of cricket to examine the cultural differences between the countries and how these have affected competition between Australia and the West Indies.. Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rayner Michael. Small 4to.

Sydney: Australian Antique Trader Publication, 1985. 126 pp, b/w illustrations, signed and dated by Alan Carter on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. D/j faded on spine. This is not a book about deals and dealing within the antique trade, although they do come into it. This is a book of fun and anecdotes about the people (characters one and all), to be found within, and on the fringes of the second hand and antique business during the period of 1950 to 1966.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Baron Tony. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1952. 240 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by author with a personal note to the previous owner on half-title page, dust jacket worn. This is the cheerful record of Clune's impressions, which range over a wide variety of scenes, history, and great personages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Huntingdon: Huntingdon Steeplechase, 1985. 169 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is a vivid picture of the men who made Huntingdon... a detailed and highly informative footnote to the sporting history of England.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Resolution Press, 1982. 334 pp, flatsigned by Ian Chappell on free endpaper, foxing on edges and some pages, d/w spine slightly faded. This book does not purport to be a history of The Ashes, nor of the cricket tradition between England and Australia. The compilation has been restricted by the inability to obtain copyright clearance on some material, and by the demand of onerous terms in other cases.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Resolution Press, 1982. 334 pp, signed by Tony Greig with a personal dedication to "Denis" on free endpaper, foxing on edges and some pages, shelfwear. This book does not purport to be a history of The Ashes, nor of the cricket tradition between England and Australia. The compilation has been restricted by the inability to obtain copyright clearance on some material, and by the demand of onerous terms in other cases.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Flamingo, 1993. 207 pp, signed and dated by the author with a personal note to the previous owner on the title page. Creased front cover and scuffed edges and corners. Money as a weapon, money as revenge, money as a substitute for sex and love, money as status... This intriguing and extraordinarily well-written book is a cheering for those of us who aren't rich, and will go happily to our graves without ever pulling down 300,000 per annum. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Good.

Sydney: Heard, Phillip Publications, 1987. 161 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. In the 1960s, Jean Dixon and her husband spent three weeks in the Alice Springs-Ayers Rock are in Central Australia. Their experiences provided the basis for Jean's second novel, The Poison Tree. The Climber, her sixth, is again set against this background and in the same period.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Australia: Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd, 1983. 192 pp, b/w photographs and drawings, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. In 1973 Bud Brown realised a lifelong dream when she started a coffee shop - Miss Brown's - in Sydney's brand new Centrepoint building, and it was an instant success. Two years later she started the equally successful Miss Brown's Flowers & Confections in the lobby of the Sydney Hilton. In this book she tells of her childhood in New England NSW, the move to Sydney at seventeen, her various jobs as secretary, teacher, television sales rep, Qantas PR girl and a politician's speechwriter. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Klima Diana, Fisher Harrison. 8vo.

Sydney: A.A. Bayldon 210 pp, undated, author's tissue covered photo on separate frontispiece, frontis illustrated, 600 copies of these poems have been printed, numbered and initialled by the author for subscribers on the title page in a blue coloured pencil, of which this is No. 116. Author's signature, dedication to the previous owner and an additional, unlisted poem is handwritten onto the front endpapers. Foxing to edges and endpapers, blue cover boards are sunned along edges and spine, with gilt inscription on front and spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Crown 8vo.

Australia: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1995. 237 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by Ian Kiernan with a personal dedication to the previous owner on fep. This is a classic Australian story, told by a man who, to use his own vernacular 'does give a stuff' about his fellow man, about his environment, and about the world in general. Written in a way that captures all of Ian's verve, this biography is a grand tribute to a truly great Australian.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1995. 237 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by both authors on the title page. This is a classic Australian story, told by a man who, to use his own vernacular 'does give a stuff' about his fellow man, about his environment, and about the world in general. Written in a way that captures all of Ian's verve, this biography is a grand tribute to a truly great Australian.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Pieter Koster, 1999. 190 pp. b/w photographs, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. In June 1952 my parents emigrated to Australia from Holland, laden with three small children, a few belongings and enough optimism to last a life time. Having survived the war in Europe, they saw Australia as the land of the new future, where dreams could become reality.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1909. 355 pp, b/w illustrations, fold-out map at the rear end, following inscription on verso of half-title page: "To Henry Gowman with the Author's cordial good - wishes, June 18 '09", red cloth covers stained, and gilt lettering on front and spine, wear to top and tail end of spine, rubbed corners. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Hindhead: Heidelberg Publishers Limited, 1984. 176 pp, limited edition of 250 copies of which this is copy No. 105, flatsigned by the editor on the title page, slight scuffing on d/j corners, edges and along spine. Among the convivial spirits that Ray has gathered together to form this third anthology of new writings about the needs and desires of the well-kept inner man - or woman - are such sages as J.B. Priestley, who reflects on a full life, Raymond Postage, who prescribes the contents of a wine library, Edward Crankshaw, who explores Soviet drinking-habits and Dacre Balsdon, who spies on an Oxford High Table, etc.. Signed by Author. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Keogh Brian. 8vo.

New York: Vantage Press Inc., 1986. 48 pp, one illustration, flatsigned by the author on the title page, d/j slightly faded on spine and scuffed along edges. Provides a living philosophy, addressing a range of formidable questions whose answers are the real work of poets. The author Kopzan, offers genuine comfort and positive analysis, the hallmark of the real thinkers through the ages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Kikerist Elaine. 8vo.