Search Results: Authors starting with B from exPB

(Adelaide: Printed at The Griffin Press: 1972) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 164 (252 x 163 mm) Illustrated. Rear endpaper map. Illustrated from photographs and with sketches by J.D. Francis. Signed by the compiler. An ownership inscription on title-page, inconspicuous tape-marks on front free endpapers, otherwise near fine in near fine dust-jacket which has some old tape marks to its blind side.

(London: Robert Hale: 1963) First Edition. Decorated boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 189. First Edition. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dampstain to head of boards and endpapers; otherwise a good copy in like but dampstained dust-jacket.

(London: Robert Hale: 1962) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 191. Circus setting in Western Australia from the far north to Perth. First Edition. A very good copy with replacement endpapers, in like dust-jacket which has been reinforced on its blind side.

(Perth: C. H. Pitman: 1946) First Edition. Muir 391. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 88 (238 x 170 mm) Illustrated by Irene Carter. First Edition. A little rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners of boards; lacks front free endpaper; a very good copy.

Edited by B. Montagu Esq. (London: William Pickering: [1840]) The date is printed on the spine. Full leather bound by Chapman and Hall, five raised bands (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 350. Index. Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. All edges gilt. Front inner hinge cracked; the leather rubbed at its extremities including external hinges and raised bands; a very good copy.

(London: Macmillan: 1938) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xiv, 170 (210 x 160 mm). Illustrated by the Author including coloured plates. First Edition. Cloth dampstained; internally very good.

(London: C. Arthur Pearson: 1916) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 207. Illustrated. Spine heavily chipped and silverfished; a little silverfishing to front and rear wrappers; internally near fine, except for the recto of the rear wrapper which has remnants of brown paper from a long gone protective cover, mainly marginal but obscuring a few words of the 'Conclusion'.

(London: C. Arthur Pearson: 1910) Second Impression. The Scout Library No. 2. Half-leather bound decorated and lettered in gilt on spine (that is, hard covers) pp. 212. Illustrated. Index. A gift inscription to a scout from 'his comrades of the 1st Manoora Troop B.P. Boy Scouts in memory of the happy times spent together. June 20th 1911.' Leather worn at head of spine and corners of boards; small scuff to rear external hinge; spine rubbed; a very good copy.

(London: Arthur Pearson Ltd.: 1929) Tenth Edition. Pictorial limp cloth (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 204. Illustrated. Index. Loosely included are two snapshots, sent to Mary, one a Kodak Print of Betty H. Wells Joint Captain 1st Mid Northern Lones 1931 with three of her friends; the other, in full uniform, tents in the distant background, of 'Miss Daphne Bowman, Head of Lone Guiding in S[outh] A[ustralia], Taken 1st Group Camp of Lones to be held in SA at Polltallack Station Tailem Bend her home, September 1930'. At the head of the half-title is Betty's name neatly crossed out and in the same hand a new ownership inscription 'Mary Kramer, Alice Springs'. Presumably Betty sent the book, with photographs, to a fellow Loner whom she had never met. An ownership stamp on half-title page. Light foxing to edges; a very good copy.

with a Preface by Lord Somers, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. (London: C. Arthur Pearson: 1955) Second Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 190. Illustrated. Index. An about fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket.

(London: Macmillan: 1940) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 152 (204 x 160 mm). Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. Foxed and splitting at external hinges; head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; internally very good.

(Melbourne: Abacada Press: 1971) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 335. Index. Illustrated. First Edition. An about fine copy in like dust-jacket.

(Leipzig: 1912) Sixteenth Revised Edition. With 30 Maps and 34 Plans. Fine

(Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer: 1894) Queensland. Department of Agriculture, Brisbane. A pamphlet of pp. 24 (217 x 138 mm). A small marginal clean tear to the fore edge. A very good copy.

(Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer: 1897) Queensland. Department of Agriculture, Brisbane. Wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 133 (220 x 140 mm). Preliminary Note by the Author states: The present publication is a revised edition of two pamphlets – viz., “A Companion for the Queensland Student of Plant Life” and “Botany Abridged.” Extensive Glossary of Botanic Terms pp. 59-117. Backstrip sunned and stained, and neatly repaired; the author’s name and title of book are printed on backstrip by hand; a vertical crease to the front wrapper and to the early leaves; otherwise a very good copy.

Novel. (London: Methuen: no date) Methuen's Colonial Library. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 282. An ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Spine sunned otherwise a very good copy.

(London: Constable: [1913]) Constables 6d Series No. 59. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 128 (220 x 147 mm). An ownership signature pencilled across title-page. A near fine copy.

(Westminster: Archibald Constable: 1900) Constable’s Indian and Colonial Library. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 300. Illustrated. ‘The Mafeking Mail: Special Siege Slip’ tipped-in at rear. Dampstain to rear board; marginal tear to folding Slip at rear; a very good copy.

Novel. (Sydney: Macquarie Head Press: 1933) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 291 and 12 publisher's advertisements. A novel of the Flying Doctor Service. First Edition. A near fine copy.

(New York: David McKay: Copyright 1954) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 244. Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. Cloth flecked; a near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket which is chipped at its edges.