Search Results: Australia from lobstabooks

Adelaide: Peacock, 1981 VG/VG First Edition. Minor creasing to the DJ, otherwise no significant faults with book or DJ. Quarto pp 397. History of the district of Marion in South Australia. From its roots as a villiage in 1838 through its official declaration in1886 and on to modern times.

Macmillan, Australia, 1979 VG/VG some creasing to ends of dj over spine, which is a touch sunned. Foreword by Gerald Durrell. In this book the author recalls her adventures with creatures wild and not so wild, from the years when her suburban backyard housed a menagerie of zoo proportions, to the joyous days when her dream of established a wildlife sanctuary was fulfilled

Angus and Robertson, London, 1968 Vg/good dj edges are a touch creased, and some cuts and notches missing. clean copy tightly bound. internally no fault. price-clipped. ex-library with large plate to ffep, First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp483. In orange cloth. Australian writing from Meanjin Quarterly

Robert Hale, 1961. VG/VG. dj is fully covered in plastic sleeve which has been taped to boards previously - but now free and leaving brown marks from tape. not price-clipped. no inscriptions, but there is a "lancashire education committee" stamp to ffep - but no other sign of ex-libris history. foxing to edges of textblock. internally a lovely clean copy. First Edition. Accounts of the explorers of Australia: Blaxland, Giles, Kennedy, Eyre, Sturt, Stuart, Grey from original sources. faint musty smell from poor prior storage - now resolving.

Harcourt, New York, 1999 VG/VG not price-clipped. no inscripions. First US Edition