Search Results: Titles starting with R from Antique Bookshop

Hawthorndene. Investigator Press., 1980.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 172pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Dr. Richard Austin Freeman invented the inverted detective story through his protagonist, Dr. Thorndyke, who is given the crime details & its perpetrator, then the forensic investigator solves the crime

North Sydney. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1988.. Or.bds. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 222pp. b/w ills. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia continuously from December 1949 to February 1966. In that period he contested, & won seven federal elections.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press., 1995.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 215pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A large number of Australians spent the Second World War in Italy as POWs & as escapees hiding & fighting with the partisans. Meanwhile, numerous Australian Italians were placed in Internment Camps.

Syd. Thoroughbred Press., 1986.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 296pp. (sl foxing) Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. The first horse race in Sydney took place in October of 1810 in Hyde Park between officers of the 73rd Regiment. A history of horse racing in Australia as told through some of its thoroughbred horses.

Lond. Laurence King Publishing., 2007.. Oblong 4to. Or.ill.bds. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Some splendid, artistic graffiti is shown. With interesting interviews with graffiti artists talking about their art and their brushes with the law.

Collingwood. Black Inc., 2011.. Ill.wrapps. 229pp. Sl. foxing else Fine. 1st ed.

South Melb. Macmillan Company., 1982.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 86pp. b/w ills & a map. Very good copy. 1st ed. Railway Stations of Australia is a nostalgic record of a group of historic buildings that once symbolized the development of a continent & now face extinction with the decline of the railway systems.

Wallacia. FH Publishing Co., 1991.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Railways & railway stories continue to be a favourite genre for many & the stories gathered here are a sort of oral history that were shared on ABC Radio show 'Macca on a Sunday Morning'.

N.Y. Peebles Press International., 1974.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. (sl foxing) Name on ffe. Tape marks to endpapers. Some pen marks to text. Black & white ills. Very good copy. 1st US ed. When Richard Trevithick built the 1st steam locomotive in 1804, this experiment would herald the arrival of rails & signals that begun to appear all over the world & would be the fastest way to travel.

Lond. Portman Books., 1989.. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 168pp. (sl foxing) to top & foredge. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. There are three main phases in British railway history, each characterised by the best means of locomotion at that time; horse, steam, diesel & electric.

Lond. Harper Sport., 2008.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 309pp. Colour plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. In 2005 Australian diver Dave Shaw embarked on a mission to recover the remains of a diver who had disappeared a decade earlier amidst one of the most dangerous underwater caves in Africa.

Lond. Andre Deutsch Limited., 1977.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 142pp. (some foxing) Profusely illustrated in black & white. Good copy. 1st ed. Charles Allen takes a nostalgic & affectionate look at the British Raj. The men & women who went out to India & discovered the spicy lunch, babu, the memsahib, the chota peg & the dak bungalow.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1977.. (rep) Or.dec.cl in slipcase. 341pp. b/w ills. Large sticker on inside front cover, else Fine copy. Incidents and facets of early convict life, as recorded in manuscripts from the 1820's.

Syd. Pacific Publications., 1968.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 79pp. b/w ills & a fold-out map. Good copy. Norfolk Island is 900 miles north-east from Sydney, & some 600 miles north of Auckland. Discovered by James Cook in 1774 during his second voyage, it is an island that is perfect for rambling.

Syd. Pacific Publ., 1977.. Revised edition. Col.Ill.wrapps. 63pp. b/w ills. Fold-out map. Very Good copy.

Pennsylvania. Franklin Library., 1979.. 223pp. Col.ills.

West Melb. Thomas Nelson Limited., 1977.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 272pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Rape of the Fly is a story of determination, rivalry, bitterness & achievement in New Guinea exploration. An uncensored account of the lives of Luigi Maria D'Albertis & Lawrence Hargrave.

Lond. Folio Society., 1974.. Or.dec.cl. 290pp. b/w ills. & maps. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. One of the great travel books first published in the 17th century.

Main Beach,QLD. Athol Rusden., 2005.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 408pp. b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. After the war Athol Rusden & a crew of five sailors set off to sail the South Pacific to create some golden memories that were free of remorse or regret.

Syd. A & R., 1987.. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 219pp. Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. thus. The text was originally published as "Scallywags of Sydney Cove", though this edition has a great deal of new pictorial material.