Search Results: Titles starting with R from Muir Books

np: Air Ministry. 1940. 8vo, cardboard wraps, b&w illus plus col illus on last page, n.p. but 32 pp. General signs of wear but good condn overall. Instructions for signallers during WWII. Reprint. Boards.

Auckland: Collins. 1964. 1st ed., 8vo., pp 175, prev. owner's inscr., or.cl. bds., v.g in worn d.j. New Zealand science fiction.

London: Cassell. 1975. 2nd edition, Crown 8vo, pp. (vi) 120, Index, b/w frontis, b/w ills., boards, very good. Guide to keeping rabbits. Pet and Fancy Series, 13. 2nd Edition. Boards.

London: Tavistock. 1967. 8vo, rebound in red leatherette boards with gilt decorations, pp xiv, 434. Boards.

New York: American Museum of Natural History in association with Scott Polar Research Institute/Sterling Publishing. 2010. Square quarto, pictorial cloth boards, original plastic slipcase, colour illus, b&w illus, folding plates, maps, pp x, 245. Near-fine condition. Accompanied the exhibition about the race to the Pole. Profusely illustrated. 1st Edition.

Perth: Lynward Enterprises. 1986. 1st ed., octavo, pp. 71, Index, b/w ills., wraps, near fine. Background to the Fenian escape, along with the radio feature written by Russo. 1st edition. Wraps.

Sydney: JC Management Pty Ltd. 1985. 4to, pp 296, colour plates, orig boards, v.g., in ld.j., rubbed at rear, small tear to d.j. at rear top corner. Very good in good d.j. A pictorial essay on Australian horse racing. Boards.

Sydney: Australia and New Zealand Book Company. 1972. Octavo, original cloth boards dustjacket, pp 284. Very good condition. Boards.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1971. Octavo, cloth boards, foxing along top-edge, dustjacket, pp 153. Very good condition in like d.j., protected. Two of Tom Wolfe's most famous satirical 'New Journalism' long essays, about the conflict between black rage and white guilt. 2nd impression. Boards in d.j..

Sir Isaac Pitman. 1923. Duodecimo, original decorated cloth boards, b&w illus, pp xii, 11 plus publisher cataogue, prev. owner's name ffep, creasing to top cnrs. Very good condition Revised Edition.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 4to, pictorial wraps, 40 full-page b&w cartooons. Wraps marked, first and last pages lightly marked. N.d., c. 1918. Wraps.

London: Jarrolds. 1936. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 319 plus 12 pp publisher's catalogue. Third impression (of cheap edition). Previous owner's name ffep, slight fading to top of spine, o/w very good. Attractive black and white dustjacket: d.j. is chipped to head and foot of spine (approximately half-inch) and scraped; chip to rear bottom edge, now protected and presents well. Reprint. Boards.

Broome: Magabala Books. 2000. 1st ed., octavo, pp.300, b&w and col. plates, remains of small sticker to ffep, some light creasing to latter pages, o/w very good condn. 1st edition. Stiff Wraps.

London: William Kimber. 1978. pp 240, Index, b/w plates, orig boards, near fine in like d.j. Recounts the exploits of many airmen from the British Empire and Europe who flew the Handley Page Halifax in WWII, the most versatile and durable of the Brisith wartime four-engined bombers. Boards.

Perth: WAGR. 1944. Original map, 400 x 380 mm. Map of south-western Western Australia showing stations routes and mileages from Perth. Also marked in red are the locations of the Co-Op companies and their agencies (Co-Operative Movement in Western Australia) The map published in 1944 1st edition.

1968. Folio, original blue paper wraps, pp 33. Slight discolouration to spine, o/w very good condn. Western Australian Government Railways Commission, legal document. Maunsell and Partners, Consulting and chartered civil engineers, with associates. 1st Edition. Wraps.

Perth: WAGR. July1897. Original map, 320 x 250 mm. Map of south-western Western Australia showing routes and stations of Western Australian Government Railways with mileages and chains from Perth to Albany, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Northampton, Mt Magnet, Day Dawn and Cue. Includes inset "Enlarged Plan of Part of Eastern Railway" showing routes from Perth to Northam, Beverley and Wongong. Proposed construction of railway to the new goldfields towns of Kanowna and Menzies The map published July 1897 during the goldrush in Western Australia 1st edition.

Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2007. 4to, wraps, colour and b&w illus, pp 95. Light scratches to front wrap, o/w very good. Artists on the theme of family, part of an exhibition at the Perth International Arts Festival. Wraps.

Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama. 1978. Octavo, original flexible cloth boards with gilt title and facsimile signature, b&w frontis portrait plate, pp xii, 289, iii. Theosophy bookshop label front free endpaper. Very good condition. The author was a Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was one of the key figures in introducing yoga to the western world. 17th impression.

Shanti Sadan. 1985. Three volumes, wraps, pp xviii, 534; xii, 543; xiii, 708. Wraps gently worn with light creasing to first two vols, light foxing to edges of textblock and preliminary pages, bookseller's sticker rear cover of volume I. Complete in three volumes. Good condition. The story of the life of prince Rama, one of the longest epics of ancient world world literature. 4th impression. Wraps.