Search Results: Titles starting with V from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Review Publications Pty. Limited, Dubbo, New South Wales, No date. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. Foreword by editor. The text is illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Australian stamps and occasional black-and-white line drawing. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel. A small book put out for the stamp collector on the, then, price and variety of Australian stamps. There is no easily ascertained date for this book, but the last date on a stamp is 1958. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with age toning of the text block edges and pages. A previous owner has made some underlining to the text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 44 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Stamp Collecting; Australia; Inventory No: 0124411. .

Government printer, Melbourne, 1929. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. We was a rubber stamp numbered 882, and then the book has been issued to J Barry Skd Labr 20999 on page 1. The book is illustrated with a number of drawings and diagrams, and on page 61 has been pasted in a corrigenda which has been initialled by the person to whom the book was issued. Clean otherwise, no other damage to report Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [2], 256, [2] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: railways; Australia; Inventory No: 0281798. .

Victor Gollancz, London, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. nice clean copy, no damage to describe apart from a slight blue colour to the bottom edge of the pages, possibly transferred from a shelf or another book. Reading creases on the spine. In this the 2nd book, the enemy is Robert Douglas, the new Duke of Haddon banished from the on conclave by the Key for he will neither bow to the will of the ruling council, nor will he use his source was powerless to overthrow the usurper king Selar Size: Trade Paperback. 478 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Prophecies - Fiction.; ISBN: 0575067810. ISBN/EAN: 9780575067813. Inventory No: 0259208. . 9780575067813

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1984. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. in this delightful book Nancy Mitford gives an account of the famous love affair between Voltaire and the beautiful bluestocking Marquise de Chatelet, known as the divine Emilie. one page has been dogeared, central eight-page section of black and white plates, indexed Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). 299 pages. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; France; history. ISBN: 0241112885. ISBN/EAN: 9780241112885. Inventory No: 0244577. . 9780241112885

Paul Hamlyn, London, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Decorated endpapers. 157 pp. Profusely illustrated in black/white and colour, maps. Prelude, First Voyage 1768-1771, Second Voyage 1772-1775, Third Voyage 1776-1780. No damage to describe of either the book or its jacket. Size: Folio ( 12"- 15" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 0213248. .

Paul Hamlyn, Middlesex, England, 1970. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. map of Cook's three voyages, index and acknowledgements. Illustrated endpapers, showing natives of a South Sea Island, a contemporary illustration from Cook's time. Profusely illustrated with 38 colour illustrations and over 140 in black-and-white -- both contemporary illustrations and photography. Navy blue coloured boards with a gilt coloured illustration, of a compass, to the lower right-hand corner of the front board. Gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and wear to the book edges and Browning of the text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, with advertising wraparound, with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels. Some rubbing on the advertising banner edges. The story of Captain James Cook's three voyages to the South… Read More

Isaac golden publications, Daylesford, 2005. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Charts & graphs. The spine has small tears at the top and bottom, and the corners of the book are rubbed, there is a ink comment on the inside of the rear panel, and contact details written in ink on the 2nd page. The pharmaceutical medicine and the need for vaccination are questioned by this author Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Charts & graphs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: New Age & Alternative; Homoeopathy; Magic, Paranormal & Occult. ISBN: 095787264X. ISBN/EAN: 9780957872646. Inventory No: 0267121. . 9780957872646

Arbor House, New York, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Rich O'Donnell – Cover Art. 1/4 black coloured back strip with yellow coloured titles. 3/4 navy blue coloured boards. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Richard O'Donnell, yellow coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. An early example of cyberpunk, where a personality of a woman, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, escapes the corporation who owns the recording by taking over a another person who rents herself out temporarily for testing of wetware. This is the story of her adventures throughout the solar system. Rubbing of the lower book edges and of the top corners; slight softening of the back strip. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Previous book seller's rubber stamp to the lower edge of the free front end page and a previous owner has covered their details with "whiteout". A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, New York, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. Foreword by L. A. DuBridge, preface by editors, 3 appendices and index. The text is illustrated with schematics, black-and-white photographs and figures. Dark purple coloured cloth covered boards with gilt and black coloured embossed decoration to the front panel with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting the foreword page VII " ... The tremendous research and development effort that went into the development of radar and related techniques during World War II resulted not only in hundreds of radar sets for military (and some for possible peacetime) use but also in a great body of information and new techniques in the electronics and high-frequency fields. Because this basic material may be of great value to science and engineering, it seemed most important to publish it as soon as security permitted." Rubbing of the back strip… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. XII, 276 pp., editors note, introduction by editor, list of illustrations, a "Vagabond" bibliography and index. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, 'The Vagabond' as seen by 'Leo' [J. H. Leonard). Throughout the text black and white line illustrations from contemporary sources are used to illustrate. Coloured endpapers. Navy blue boards with gilt writing on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, based on the drawing in the Illustrated Sydney News, 9 August1879, with white writing on the front panel and spine. This abridged version from 1969 is from the original 1877-8 publication in five volumes of John Stanley James "The Vagabond", "Australian urban life has never had a chronicler quite like the Vagabond. Renowned journalist and 'eminently unconventional character', he knew poverty and road from first-hand experience about the… Read More

Piccadilly Press, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Boards). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Paul Cox. The text is illustrated with black and white illustrations with a pink coloured overlay by Paul Cox. Illustrated laminated boards, again by Paul Cox, with pink and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. A series of short stories and poetry dealing with that fabulous toy – the Teddy Bear. Contributors include A. A. Milne, Dorothy Edwards and Marjorie Darke. Rubbing of the book corners and of the backstrip corners. The backstrip is sunned and there is rubbing of the panels. A little age toning of the text block edges, and, the top right-hand corner of the pages have become a little dogeared to page 17. Size: Square Octavo. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Paul Cox. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Illustration; ISBN: 0946826803. ISBN/EAN: 9780946826803.… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket around the spine are rubbed and chipped, otherwise there is no damage, no annotations to describe. End page maps of the land surrounding the Black Sea, black-and-white plates either photographic or reproducing artworks, appendices, source notes, bibliography & index. tthe author's detailed and vigourous account of the Crimean campaigns, during which both the French and the English leaders died of illness and exhaustion, points up the virtues and defects of the strategy, diplomacy and military administration on both sides; and finally nominates the British private soldier as the hero of the campaign. – Dustjacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 348 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare;… Read More

Panther, London, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Plain paperback binding with gold, red and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Joe Sandwich will do anything for a laugh, naming his son Hamilton – inevitably to be shortened to Ham, four example. This monstrous sense of humour is potent in his armoury of seduction, until it turns his attention to the glorious Gloria, "... glamorous wife of sober psychologist Wally Hines, the outcome is spectacularly unexpected ..." -- from the rear panel blurb. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Browning and some staining of the text block edges and there is a little scattered foxing to the top text block edge. Some scattered foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book with light browning to the pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 208… Read More

F. H. Johnston, Sydney, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Annand, Douglas, 1903-1976. illustrated with drawings by Douglas Annand and official photographs. Dust jacket has a chip at the bottom of the spine, and at the top of the spine and top left of the front panel, a couple of short tears with associated creasing along the bottom edge of both the front and rear panels, internally, clean without any annotations stop illustrated black-and-white photographs, numerous black-and-white line drawings, and a -tipped in colour frontispiece of the Late Flight-Lieutenant H. J. Bullimore from the painting by William Dobell. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 108 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Annand, Douglas, 1903-1976. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Aviation; Australia; WW II; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 0282197. .

IPC Magazines Ltd, London, 1982. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Laminated Boards). Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, cartoons and illustrations, with the occasional coloured insert and cartoons. Colour illustrated laminated boards with yellow and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The annual of the Valiant comics – this of 1982. The annual is a mixture of fact and fiction; and, across time. Rubbing of the back strip corners and to the book corners cocking of the spine and there are some marks to the book panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 127 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Comics & Graphic Novels. Inventory No: 0127107. .

NewSouth Publishing / University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photography. second-hand copy, no damage to describe, free of annotations. Illustrated with a central section of black-and-white photographs also illustrated with 15 maps, includes notes, bibliography & index. This book charts the life of Chester Wilmot as he reported key events of the 20th century, and contains the most complete account to date of the command crisis in New Guinea in 1942 and also his extraordinary feud with Australian commander-in-chief general Sir Thomas Blamey. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 496 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Journalism; Australia; history. ISBN: 1742235174. ISBN/EAN: 9781742235172. Inventory No: 0275867. . 9781742235172

Shapiro, Vallentine, London, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. Preface by authors, list of abbreviations, list of contributors, addenda. Illustrated with photographs, many of buildings and places that no longer exists, some maps within the text, a colour fold out map of modern Palestine, and some facsimiles of documents. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with publisher's initials, in black, to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Alphabetically listed with a two column format. Title says it all. The book is definitely showing age and where: – softening, rubbing and a couple of small splits to the back strip corners. Bumping, rubbing and fraying, with the underlying board visible to the book corners; with rubbing of the other book edges and a little to the panels. Some marks and scrapes to the book panels. Browning of the text block edges with offset tanning and handling marks… Read More

Wild West Club (Collins), London, 1949. Second Impression. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Not Credited. 225 g; 160 pages, illustrated dust jacket. The top edge of the text block and of the boards is foxed, slight bumping of the lower corners of the boards. Ownership details on front end page, otherwise a very good copy. The dust jacket is badly torn, and even more badly repaired. . Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Not Credited. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0215670. .

Pan, London, 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Gillian Boyd – dust wrapper. . Against a background of a valley inhabited by winegrowers of Dutch and French Huguenots dissent, is told the love story of Roxanne, the mysterious, half French war orphan. this is the 1st edition by this publisher. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). 288 pages. a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Gillian Boyd – dust wrapper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; South Africa; Inventory No: 0262904. .

Tandem, London, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with red, white and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. The author was working as a secret agent in Prague prior to World War II. Two years later he was incarcerated in Plotzensee prison, and, till the end of the war was incarcerated under daily threat of execution. This is his story. Creasing of the top book corners with noticeable rubbing of the book panels and less noticeable rubbing of the edges. Removal of a sticker can be seen to the top right hand corner of the front panel, and, to the top right hand corner of the rear panel. White coloured sticker has been placed to the lower edge of the back strip. Tanning and staining of the text block edges with tanning of the pages. Previous owners' rubber stamp to the top edge of the verso of the front panel and lower edge of the title page (well-known Holocaust scholars). First Paperback… Read More