Search Results: Titles starting with W from Muir Books

London: T. Werner Laurie. 1930. 3rd impression, pp 249, (6 adverts), cloth boards, varnished 3rd impression. Cloth Boards.

Melb.: Mullaya Pub.. 1974. pp. xvi, 112, b/w plates, inscribed by Author, or. wraps, v.g.

Perth: Paradigm Books Curtin University. 1996. 8vo, pp. xxii, 337, Index, b/w photos, original boards, dustjacket. Bookplate front free endpaper. Slight edgewear to dustjacket. Near-fine condition in like d.j. Traces the Westen Australian Institute of Technology's beginnings from earlier institutions, its establishment in 1966, its growth phase till 1975, reviews later policy controversies , and recounts the events that led to the emergence of Curtin University of Technology in 1987. 1st edition. Boards.

Mt Lawley: Edith Cowan University. 2009. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp x, 185. Fine condition in like d.j. Uncommon. Boards.

Perth: Allan & Co.. 1959. 8vo, pp. (vi) 132, wraps, stapled spine, rear edges waterstained, scattered marks. Collection songs of the University of Western Australia, Guild of Undergraduates. Wraps.

Melbourne: Heinemann. 1993. Octavo, wraps, 32 b&w plates, pp 422. Occasional pencil annotations (to pp. 139-145, table of contents, bibliography). Very good condition. A gathering of over 70 Aboriginal voices recounting their memories. Australia's first national black oral history. Illustrated with photographs.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1944. 1st edition, pp. 186, prev. owner's inscription, cloth boards, v.g. in good d.j. with small closed tears at top edge. WWII R.A.F. novel. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1973. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, map, pp xxii, 234. Foxing to top edge and minor edgewear top edge of dustjacket. Near-fine in like d.j. Examines how graphic forms are used by the Walbiri people to create a poteniially unlimited set of specific totemic designs, each with its own unique meaning. The author links Walbiri iconography to wider aspects of their society - social structure, fertility ceremonies, economic life and and their beliefs concerning their origins. 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..

Perth: Gannet Press. 1980. 8vo, pp. (vi) ii, 112, b/w photos, wraps, very good condition. Includes the folded family tree (printed as circle), listing the many descendants of the Waldecks. History of the Waldeck family, from their arrival in Swan River Colony 1836. 1st Edition. Wraps.

Sydney: Horowitz Publications. 1956. 8vo, pp. 98, pages browned, eps foxed, paper wraps, sl rubbed and creased. Adaptation of the film into novel form. A story set in New Guinea. Paper Wraps.

Canterbury: Wm. Blackley. 1825. New ed., pp. xxiv, 366, (16), Index, b/w plates and maps, some folding, a.l.s. (letter) conjugate blank laid to prelim. blank, sl. shaken, half calf, marbled bds., eps, and edges, bds. sl. worn Letter reads "Mr Le Grand's kind regards to Mr W Elsted... Canterbury, Dec. 3rd, 1825" to whom he sends this copy. John Le Grand is listed among the subscribers. New Edition.

London: Frederick Warne. 8vo, original cloth boards stamped in black and with gilt title to spine, b&w plates, pp iv, 284. Hinges cracked, edges rubbed, heavily shaken. "Pearl Edition". Definitions and pronunciations. B&w plates with small illustrations of words: e.g. Quagmire, Quail, Quassia, Quintain, Quadrangle, Quoit, Quarry, Quay, Quincunx, Quadruped. 360 illustrations in total. Boards.

Berkeley (Calif.): Image Comics. 2015. Large octavo, pictorial wraps, b&w illus throughout, 1088 pages. Light creasing to corners, very good condition. Omnibus edition of Walking Dead comics. First printing thus. Issues 97 to 144. 1st edition.

London: Religious Tract Society. (c.1840). 1st ed., 12mo, original slim quarter leather papered-boards, title in gilt on spine, illustrated title page, b&w illus, pp 128. N.d., (1840). Gift inscription title page, dated 1840. Worn to edges, boards rubbed. Very good condition. Uncommon. Narrative describing walking around London: the British Museum, the Zoo, St Paul's Cathedral, Greenwich, Westminster Abbey, etc. 1st Edition. Quarter leather.

Gillingham. 1980. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 30. Very good condn. Facsimile edition, originally published in 1914. Wraps.

London: Octagon Press. 1974. Original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp75, ii. Small address label for the The Society for Sufi Studies, London, tipped in p. 74. Near-fine condition in like d.j. A classic Sufi text, by Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi, known as Sanai, Sanai was a twelfth-century poet who wrote in Persian. "The Walled Garden of Truth" (the Hadiqat al Haqiqa) was the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism. It expresses the poet's ideas on God, love, philosophy and reason, and has been studied as a classic for centuries.

Perth: Women Justices' Association of W.A.. 2001. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp ii, 124. Near-fine condition. The history of Women Justices in Western Australia since the first female Justices of the Peace (including Edith Cowan) were appointed in 1920. The Association was founded in 1925. 1st Edition. Wraps.

London: Heinemann Educational. 1976. Repr., 8vo., pp 254, (iv), or.pict bds., some wear to spine, pres. inscr. signed by Author, v.g. condn. Novel set in 1954, it is the story of two orphaned children who run away from their home in the West Australia outback to go to Perth so they can sail to England to live with their grandparents. hard cover.

London: Heinemann. 1930. Limited edition, number 203 of 425, bound in buckram and signed by the author. Quarto, original cloth boards with gilt pictorial sailing ship, b&w plates, four plans including three large folding plans. Previous owner's bookplate front free endpaper. Very good condition. The history of the four-masted barque The Wanderer, with Masefield's text and poems. Includes photographs and plans. Limited Ed.. Cloth Boards.

Claremont (WA): The Author. 1988. 8vo., wraps, pp (viii) 95, b/w maps and text illus. Pencilled annotations first chapter. Very good condition. Author recounts locust plagues, the outbreak of Argentinian ants and various anecdotes of Western Australia. Stiff Wraps.