Search Results: Authors starting with P from Gordon Hughes

London: Williams and Norgate, 1932 . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 159 pages, errata leaf. Neat inscription on front blank endpaper. 19 x 13 cm. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, which is slightly darkened on the spine and edges. Neat inscription on front endpaper. Grace Pailthorpe belonged to a generation of women who achieved much but have been forgotten, or little recognised, for their achievements. With the coming of the twenty first century her remarkable life is being re-discovered and re-evaluated. In her long career she, as a woman, was a pioneer in the worlds of medicine and surgery, especially in a military setting in the first World War. Following on from these experiences Pailthorpe made notable contributions and pioneered major breakthroughs in the worlds of psychology, criminology and art. Pailthorpe was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of a seamstress and a stockbroker Grace was the only daughter of ten children and her parents were committed members of the… Read More

Sydney: Oswald Ziegler, 1954.. Soft cover. Very Good. Photos, drawings, 76 pages, stiff card covers, 24 x 16 cm. Covers very slightly marked, otherwise a fresh clean copy

Published quarterly by Burns Philp & Co. Ltd, Sydney.. n . Soft cover. Fair/n. Spring Number, 1st September 1940. Vol 12 No 4. Many illustrations and adverts, some in colour. 84 pages, 31 x 24 cm' Soft covers worn and frayed on spine and edges, bottom cover with ragged piece torn away from bottom outside corner. The National Library of Australia holds an incomplete run of this magazine which appears to stop at the issue before this number.

South Pacific Commission Literature Bureau, about 1960.. Soft cover. Good. Drawings by Esme G Ellis. 23 pages, very clean ex-institutional library. 17 x 12 cm.

London: George Routledge, 1930.. Soft cover. Very Good. Charts, 22 pages, 22 x 14 cm. Very good clean copy. The reformation of the Gregorian Calendar to regulate the irregular occurrence of Easter, the regulation of the day of the week in relation to the day of the month and the inequality of the two half years.

ACT: Reading Time, publication no. 4. 1980. . Soft cover. Very Good. Photos, 108 pages. Publishing editor Eleanor Stodart. Nine essays by various authors.

Bangkok: Nai Playura Phisnaka, 1961.. Hardcover. Very Good. Map and photos, 110 pages, 22 x 16cm. Original dark green hardback binding, lettered in gilt. An episode in Lao history described by a resident of the capital who witnessed the street fighting from his apartment windows.

City of Cessnock Historical Society, about 1984.. Soft cover. Very Good. 2,38 pages. 34 x 21cm. Very slight soiling to binding. Previous owner's neat annotations in pencil, with his book plate. Listed by plot number, with an index of names.

London: Addey & Co. 1852.. Hardcover. Poor. A rare Australian gold fields guide. Lacks title page. Three of four plates by J S Prout: (lacks frontispiece of Ophir). Blue Mountains - Road to the Diggings, Summerhill Creek and Mount Alexander. Four folding maps as called for, with gold fields hand coloured in yellow: New South Wales North, worn and torn but complete. New South Wales Central, good clean copy with slight edge toning and a few areas of light spotting. New South Wales and Part of Victoria With inset of Port Jackson and Botany Bay, with slight edge toning and a few areas of light spotting. Victoria or Port Philip District, good clean copy with slight edge toning and a few areas of light spotting. Small repaired edge tear. ii (contents page and list of illustrations and maps) of iv, 91, 2 (advertisements) pages. Quarter leather with marbled boards, well worn and detached from contents, which is becoming loose in sections. The contents with some edgeware and soiling, especially to… Read More

Melbourne: George Robertson, and Dunedin: R T Wheeler. Third edition 1873.. Hardcover. Good. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, a little soiled and a little frayed on edges and spine. The paper used has browned somewhat and pages 90-98 look a bit grotty with a few worm holes, paper graying and what look like ink marks. Marginal gutter tear to the top of two leaves. Overall not a bad copy of what is a scarce title, across all three editions. vii,260, pages, 12 page George Robertson Catalogue, dated January 1874, bound in at rear. Small marginal tear without loss to text on one of these leaves. Ownership inscription of Miles N Carter, Nov 16th 1876 on front end paper.