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Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 600 g; 110 pp., last two blank, author's note, recent Yarra ferries and index. Double page photographic title page. Throughout the text there are black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated endpapers with map of the Yarra River showing various landings and tea gardens at which the various ferries stopped. Brown coloured boards with white writing on spine. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Hawthorn Tea Gardens circa 1926, brown & white writing on front panel and yellow on spine. The first ferry sailed up the Yarra River in 1854 and since that time there have been ferries plying their trade till this day. This book recounts some of those ferries and tales attached. The book shows no signs of damage apart from a touch of rubbing to the bottom of the spine . Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.…
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Ferries on the Yarra
by Jones, Colin
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The Ladybird Book of British Railway Locomotives
by Joiner, D.L. ( Text )
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Wills & Hepworth Ltd, Loughborough, England, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Illustrated endpapers, being a blue and white bee design, reproduced multiple times. The text is illustrated with 46 coloured photographs of various British Railway locomotives, photographs supplied by British Railways. The first two locomotives described are B. R. Standard Class 7 4-6-2 No. 70000 'Britannia' and B. R. Standard Class 8 4-6-2 No 71000 'Duke of Gloucester'. Buff coloured boards with green coloured vignette of a train, ( front cover shows train coming from the right side). Green coloured titles to the front panel and spine. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A small book on British Railway locomotives, put out by The Ladybird -- book series. Series 584. Softening to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Rubbing of the book edges with faint foxing to the textblock edges. A…
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The Lights of Cobb and Co.; The Story of the Frontier Coaches 1854-1924
by Austin, K. A
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Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes  they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent."  from the front fold over panel blurb.…
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The Lights of Cobb and Co.; The Story of the Frontier Coaches 1854-1924
by Austin, K. A
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Rigby Limited, Adelaide, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps and diagrams, bibliography and index. Dark gold coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. For 70 years Cobb & Co. stage-coaches plied their trade in the frontier world of Australia. Started in the rip roaring days of the gold rush of the 1850s, " ... which kept pace with the lusty settlers as they thrust deep into new country. Bushfires, bushrangers, drought, dust storms, mud, boulder-strewn mountain roads, and the wide loneliness of the planes  they were all in a day's work to Cobb & Co.'s drivers as they forge the communications of a continent."  from the front fold over panel blurb.…
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The Observer's Book of Aircraft
by Green, William
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Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London . New York, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Dennis Punnett. IV, 5-288 pages, last page blank, introduction to the 1973 edition, acknowledgement and index of aircraft types. The text is illustrated with either black-and-white photographs or black-and-white silhouettes by Dennis Punnett, 158 aircraft described. Blue coloured boards with blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Minor bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and a little rubbing is also present. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower left-hand corner of the free front end paper. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Saab AJ 37 Viggen single-seat multipurpose fighter, with white background and black and red titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the dustwrapper corners and to the dustwrapper edges. Slight yellowing of the white of the background and darkening of the backstrip region. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front…
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Planes, Ships and Trains
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Not Stated, Not stated, No date. Not Stated. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. A book which has neither publication or publisher's details, and comprises 12 pages of full colour illustrations of various forms of transport. Included are an old-fashioned steam train, Constellation Passenger Plane and the "Douglas" passenger airliner. Creasing to the book corners and chipping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. The top backstrip edge has split for 1.75". Browning and rubbing to both the book panels and to the internal pages. Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). Not paginated  12 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Transport. Inventory No: 0113496. .
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Ships and Seafarers in Australian Waters
by Colwell, Max
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Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Poor Condition. Illustrator: Various. 1.1 kg; 128 pages, includes a table of Australian shipping disasters from 1812 through to HMAS Voyager in 1964, and a further reading list. Illustrated throughout with part page and double page reproductions of artworks, and photographs and facsimiles of pages from books all reproduced in either black-and-white, or in colour. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. The dust jacket is missing a triangular piece at the bottom right-hand corner of the rear panel. Now protected. "A fascinating and exciting recounting of the seafaring phases which played their part in Australia's development, of owners, builders, ships, seamen and their deeds and disasters in hostile waters". Size: Landscape Quarto. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Australiana; Transport; Sailing; Australia;…
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Ships and Seafarers in Australian Waters
by Colwell, Max
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Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Various. 128 pages, includes a table of Australian shipping disasters from 1812 through to HMAS Voyager in 1964, and a further reading list. Illustrated throughout with part page and double page reproductions of artworks, and photographs and facsimiles of pages from books all reproduced in either black-and-white, or in colour. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. The dust jacket as 80 very long closed tear at the left-hand side of the front panel. Traces of foxing to the inside the top edge of the dustjacket. There is no other damage to describe. "A fascinating and exciting recounting of the seafaring phases which played their part in Australia's development, of owners, builders, ships, seamen and their deeds and disasters in hostile waters". Size: Landscape Quarto. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos.…
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