Search Results: Titles starting with P from Muir Books

np: np. 1952. 8vo., pp 102, b/w plates, (some folding), foxing to edges, or. bds., top layer peeling corner of front board.

London: Hakluyt. 2002. pp. lxxvii, 322, incl. Index, col. & b/w illustrations, 6 maps, e.p. maps, orig cl bds with gilt dec to front bd., near fine condition in like d.j. Although Bougainville published an account of his voyage in 1771, his original journal remain unpublished until 1977. This volume makes the latter text available for the first time in English translation. 1st edition thus. Boards.

Naval Intelligence Division (Admiralty). 1944. Large octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, maps, pp xvii, 731. Spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper. Good condition.

NY: W.W. Norton & Co. 1981. pp. xii, 324, Index, maps, or.cl. backed bds. in d.j., v.g.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1990. 8vo, cloth boards, b&w illus, maps, endpaper maps, index, pp. (xiv) 433. Minor edgewear to d.j., o/w near-fine condn. Examines the experiences of Pacific Islanders during WWII and their memories of it. 1st Australian. Boards.

Melbourne: F.W Cheshire. 1941. Cl bds, b&w plates, pp. 230, spine and corners bumped, pages slightly yellowed, o/w good. 230 Historical introduction to New Caledonia 1st edition. Boards.

Sydney: Cassell. 1964. Octavo, cloth boards, endpaper maps, dustjacket, pp 259. Pages lightly tonned. Very good condition in very good d.j., protected. Memoir of the author's early life in Broome and the bush. 1st edition. Boards.

Poole: Blandford Press. 1979. Quarto, pp. 224, cloth boards, dustjacket, b/w illus. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in like d.j.

New York: Random House. 1969. 1st ed., octavo, original printed boards, unpag. First printing. Near-fine condition. Minimalist poetry. 1st Edition. Boards.

Newton Abbot: Victorian & Modern History Book Club. 1974. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, map, b&w illlus, pp 223. Very good condition in good dustjacket. Conflict in Upper Burma, and the involvement of leading Irish men. Reprint.

Kallaroo: The Author. 1999. 1st ed., octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 189. Signed by the author. Fine condn. 1st Edition. Wraps.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1985. A4, pp 160, colour & b/w plates & ills by author, orig boards, fine in like d.j. Signed by the author. Nicely presented book written and illustrated by a river warden. Boards.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1975. First printing. Octavo, original cloth-backed boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 121. Presentation copy, signed with an effusive inscription by Tom Wolfe. Edges of boards faded, two tears upper edge of d.j. with some chipping to spine. Very good condition in like unclipped d.j., protected. Tom Wolfe's satirical crique of modern art and particularly modern art criticism. Signed by the author, first edition, in the original dustjacket with the author photograph of Wolfe wearing the iconic white suit. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1890. 8vo, pp. xii, 126, Index, (vi adverts), b/w frontis portrait, b/w plates, decorative endpapers, occasional foxing scattered throughout, endpapers tanned, front endpaper waterstained at edges, rear adverts tanned, front free endpaper detached and top cnr chipped, original decorated cloth boards, spine rubbed, edges rubbed. Volume of the series ' Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists.' Cloth Boards.

London: Arrowsmith. 1924. 4to, original cloth boards, gilt decoration upper board, 12 colour plates, 8 half-tone plates (all tipped in), b&w text illus, pp 162. Corners bumped, faintly marked to cloth at edge of spine, plates and pages fine, v.g. Classic poetry (inc. Blake, Browning, Donne, Keats, Marvell, Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, etc) with accompanying illustrations. Boards.

Sydney: The Legend Press. nd c(1947). 1st ed., folio, pp. (xvi) 18 colour tipped-in plates, original cloth backed decorated boards, dustjacket. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Dustjacket worn and chipped with loss of lower half spine, some marks to front, now protected. Very good condition in fair d.j. Oil paintings of the New Zealand born artist who came to Australia in 1921. First volume in the series of 'The Australian Artist Editions,' which aimed to reproduce the works of Australian artists utilising high quality printing and engraving techniques. Cloth Backed Boards.

Adelaide: Rigby. 1962. 4to, original cloth boards with gilt-blocked title label, 12 tipped-in colour plates,accompanying text. Number 24 of a limited edition of 600, signed by Geoffrey Dutton. Half of front free endpaper diagonally cut away, o/w very good in like slipcase. Limited Ed.. Boards.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1999. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, notes, bibliography, index, pp xiv, 279. Fine in like d.j. Archibald Watson (1849 - 1940) was an Australian surgeon. The author discusses how in 1871-72 he became involved in 'blackbirding' - kidnapping Pacific islanders to work as slaves or poorly paid labourers. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

London: The Folio Society. 1969. 4to, pp. (64) unpag., b/w frontis port., colour and b/w plates, foxing to fore-edge, orig cl bds., few small white marks bottom front edge, v.g. Selection of Durer's work, includes prints from metal and wood. Cloth Boards.

London: Jupiter Books. 1981. Reprint, quarto, pp.vi, (7)-31, 130 full page colour and b&w plates, original gilt titled leatherette boards, closed tear, creasing and chipping to d.j. now in protected mylar. Very good condition. English artist who depicted people and urban landscapes of Greater Manchester mainly around Pendlebury, Lancashire and City of Salford. The football paintings of L S Lowry are among his most popular including "Going to the Match" (or, "Football Ground") 5th impression.