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Hardback. 1st Edition. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dust jacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White plates.Attempts to capture the changing historical mood of the Australian colonial experience illustrated by art and engravings of the time.

These iconic pocket-sized, ultra-savvy concertina guides are housed in this gorgeous World Grand Tour Box featuring a deep purple velvet covering with gilt lettering. Included are Bangkok, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. There are 12 matt-laminated fold out guides that have never been used. LUXE City Guides in this elegant handmade box make a fantastic travel gift. Some first editions are included e.g. New York

First UK Edition. Hutchinson. London. 1987. 1st Printing. . b/w illustrations. Original quarter cloth in dust jacket. Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Black and white illustrations by Peter Chapman. Sometimes fairy tales can come true even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger who just might be Prince Charming in disguise. Set in the Blue Mountains.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Binding: Hardback ---Publisher: Hutchinson ---Date: 1987 ---Edition: 1st ---Pages: 132Description: All of the pages are unmarked, uncreased and tightly bound in red cloth boards with dust jacket in protective mylar. Delightfully illustrated by Peter ChapmanSometimes fairy tales can come true--even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger... who just might be Prince Charming in disguise.

A presentation copy from Lady Brassey's widower, inscribed on a leaf of thin paper pasted on the left margin to the half title page 'Madame de Falbe from Brassey'. 2 folding maps, frontispiece, pictorial title page, 19 plates, illustrations to the text. Includes illustrations from photographs Wood engravings executed by Whymper E. et al. Original dark blue buckram gilt, pages untrimmed, gold trimauthor's monogram in gilt to the spine and upper cover. Hardcover 1st Edition. Lady Brassey died on this voyage, and was buried at sea, at the age of 47 in 1887. Brassey, who finished the manuscript, was a man with the sea in his blood, and is still remembered as the founder and first editor of 'Brassey's Naval Annual', and in 1876 to 1877 is said to have made the first circumnavigation of the world by a private yacht, the steam-assisted three-masted topsail-yard schooner 'Sunbeam', the same vessel used in this journey. Madame de Falbe was Australian by birth and published late in her life a memoir of her… Read More

First Edition, orig. cloth-backed boards, rare unopened & uncut pages in the original title-blocked cloth-backed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Bibliographical Society. Subjects: Bookbinders, London ; Directories.
The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.
Contents: Gone with the wind, The portrait of a lady, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Blandings Castle, The castleBuddenbrooks, The leopard, Wide Sargasso Sea, Le grand Meaulnes

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in mylar. 1st. Ed. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout.

Condition: V Good. 1954. First Edition. llustrated endpages boards with grey cloth spine and lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Overall a clean, tightly bound , copy in very good condition.

Original blind-stamped boards, black and white Norman Lindsay line drawings. Foreword by Jack Lindsay. A very good copy with small signature of previous owner in front. Bethlehem Pa d. 1941 5 full page illustrations by Norman Lindsay (including frontispiece) and several in text line drawings; red cloth covered boards with lettering embossed to top board and spine. With a foreword by Jack Lindsay. Uneven cut pages. Three Sirens Press was a small press based in New York in the 1930s. They produced high quality editions of classic titles illustrated by well known artists