Search Results: Titles starting with U from Muir Books

New York: Modern Age Books. 1938. pp. xxvii 344, Index, (iii), b/w plates, folding map tipped in to r.e.p.d., offsetting to e.ps., or. bds. with ills., very good in chipped d.j., protected. Boards.

East Victoria Park: Universal Business Directories. n.d. (1982). Quarto, pictorial wraps, b&w maps and photographs, pp 219 plus additional 17 maps. Wraps worn and creased, mark to the front cover which goes through to reverse side, marking to the edges of rear cover which do not go through. All internal maps clean, binding firm. Scarce. "1st Edition" printed to front cover. Includes road maps, town plans, photographs, advertisements for country towns and businesses. Tourist information, brief town histories. Social history document. Aside from the Western Australian country towns, included are maps of Perth, Fremantle and Rottnest Island. 1st edition. Wraps.

Perth: Universal Business Directories. 2008. 50th ed., 4to, wraps, col. maps, advertisements, pp 584, (vii), stiff wraps worn, internally clean, very good condn. Reprint. Softcover.

London: Robert Hale. 1981. 1st ed., octavo, pp.(v), (6)-271, incl Index, orig bds. in d.j. Near fine condn. "This book provides a teach-yourself course in the UFO phenomenon and its study" [Author] 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Formby: Freshfield Books. 1987. pp iv, 227, b/w photos, maps, stiff wraps, near fine. The author describes his experiences as a 25-pounder gunner in North Africa and Italy in WWII. Stiff Wraps.

Perth: Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA). 1982. 8vo, pp. 67, b/w frontis port., b/w photos, orig bds., v.g. Contributions by local artists and writers. Boards.

New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1967. Roy 8vo, pp. xx, 464, Index, b/w photos and ills., prev owner's inscr., slight foxing edges, orig cl bds., top cnrs bent, bottom cnrs bumped Geological processes and formations, geochemistry, and petrography 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1967. Roy 8vo, pp. xx, 464, Index, b/w photos and ills., prev owner's inscr and stamp, orig cl bds., v.g., in d.j some wear, small piece missing head spine, very good condn. Geological processes and formations, geochemistry, and petrography 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

London: Bodley Head. 1976. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, publisher's green tint top edge slightly faded, pp 939 (including appendix with corresponding page numbers in old and new Bodley Head editions). Very clean, near-fine condition in like d.j. This new edition entirely re-set 1960, revised in 1969, eleventh impression 1976. Reprint. cloth boards in d.j..

London: Folio Society. 1998. Large octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt illustration, colour plates by Mimmo Paladino, pp xix, 735. Previous owner's bookplate front free endpaper, without slip-case otherwise near fine condition. Ulysses, based on the 1926 second edition, with preface by Joyce's grandson and full-page colour plates (from gold-leaf etchings) by Mimmo Paladino. Boards.

New York: William Morrow. 1990. Cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, endpaper maps, pp 416. Very good condition. Boards.

New York: Basic Books. 1960. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp xi, 219. Annotation in margin one page and underlining one page, marked to top edge pp 22, 23. Good condition in worn chipped d.j. Studies the ways in which pre-Freudian thinkers explored the hidden springs of human motivation and thought, using the writings of mystics, poets, novelists, philosophers and scientists, from 1600 onwards. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Sydney: HarperCollins. 2016. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w plates, maps, pp 374. Gift inscription front free endpaper. Near-fine condition. The story of the clipper ships and the many migrants they brought to Australia in the nineteenth century. 1st edition.

New York: Free Press. 2002. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, index, pp. viii, 239. Publisher's mark on bottom edge, previous owner's name stamp on ffep, o/w near-fine. The dramatic true story of US Submarine S-Five, which sank to the ocean floor on its first cruise in 1920, and how the crew were able to rescue themselves. 1st edition. Boards.

New York: Gemor Press. 1944. Second edition, in year of first publication, limited to 800 copies. Narrow octavo, original pictorial boards,, b&w illus (line engravings on copper), pp 86. Edges and joints rubbed with some loss. Previous owner's inscription front free endpaper. Very good condition. Short stories. 'Under a Glass Bell' was the first book by Anaïs Nin to gain attention from the literary establishment. It was published by Nin's own printing press, which she set up after fleeing France before the German invasion. Unable to find a publisher for her works she turned to self-publishing; she bought a treadle-operated press and learned how to operate it and set type. The book is illustated by her husband, the artist Ian Hugo: the cover and engravings are printed in relief directly from the original plates. "These stories represent the moment when many like myself had found only one answer to the suffering of the world: to dream, to tell fairytales, to… Read More

Melbourne: William Heinemann. 1969. 8vo, pp. (viii) 169, col and b/w plates, ep maps, orig bds. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in worn dustjacket. 1st Edition. Boards.

London: Frederick Warne. n.d. (c.1900). Quarto original pictorial cloth boards, colour illus throughout, pp 64. Early edition, n.d., c. 1900. Hole in paper near top edge of last contents page. Edges rubbed, some loss to lower cnr front bd. Very good condition. Poetry for children, profusedly illustrated with classic Kate Greenaway illustrations. The author's first book pul

Inglewood (WA): The Author. 1996. Large 8vo, wraps, pp 449. Very good condition. Includes loosely inserted handwritten letter from the author of the introduction (Roberts). Wraps.

Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons. 1890. 8vo, original embossed pictorial boards w/ gilt title, gilt decoration to spine, hand coloured frontis, dec. endpapers, pp. 356 plus publisher's adverts, piece missing lower cnr first page of adverts, not affecting text, prev. owner's inscr dated 1891, cnrs and spine bumped and rubbed, o/w clean, good condn. Set in Spain and South America. Includes discussions of Inca civilization. 1st edition. Boards.

London & New York: Constable & Dodd, Mead. 1958. pp. (vi), 97, ink shelf mark on r.f.e.p. o/w nr fine in or. cl. backed marbled bds, marbled endpapers, torn titled glassine wrap, some loss to wrap. One of nine hundred and fifty copies printed for sale.