Search Results: Authors starting with S from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Hutchinson & Co.. no Date. Circa 1930s. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Spine is lightly age-toned with tiny split to top of spine and mild stain to spine tail. Presentation Plate (dated 1938) to front pastedown. 1024 pages. Includes a brief biography for each author included in this anthology of nautical fiction. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

Melbourne: Hyland House. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 130 pages. Tells of the struggle to get TAA "off the ground", of the men [all ex-servicemen] who joined it, of the hostility of many Australians to these men and the very idea of a nationalised airline. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page. 256 pages. A book of traveller's tales. Join the author and his family on a voyage of interest and discovery form Outback Australia to wilds of Alaska, from Europe, Asia and North American to China. The author was a n academic and scientist, and in his later years described himself as a 'scholar-at-large'. He also appeared in a number of shows in the Adelaide Fringe. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Phaidon Press Limited. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. Flexible card covers - French flaps. A lovely copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 254 pages. Provides a guide through the labyrinth of The Ring clarifying its literary and musical idiom and significance. It offers essays, surveys and summaries - designed to inform, enlighten and, occasionally, provoke. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2006. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy (pictorial boards) in a Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 257 pages. A wonderful, funny and satisfying novel. Upon returning to Austin, "Armpit "set himself five goals but he finds all his small steps becoming much bigger than he has anticipated. A sequel to the 'Holes' Series. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hodder. 2016. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 305 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

London: Bloomsbury. 2003. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm] Near Fine condition. Excellent condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 246 pages. Written by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks . Reprint. Softcover.

London: Michael Joseph. 1953. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Laminated card covers. Some light fading to covers and mild wear to corners and spine ends. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 191 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.

London: The Hermit Press. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with lovely wood-engravings by Anthony Christmas. Limited edition of 250 of which this is no. 238. A charming book printed by hand at the Hermit Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using an 1834 Imperial Press. The book is bound by Woolnough Fine Binding, the boards are covered in a genuine Curwen pattern paper. Unpaginated. A short excerpt from the narrative length poem originally published in 1926. . Limited Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Investigator Press. 1969. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Nancy Gemmell. Includes a Distribution Map and Distribution List by location. 64 pages. The authors have looked at the 60 species of eucalypt found naturally in South Australia. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: The Folio Society. 1983. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Slipcase mildly age-toned at upper edge. Illustrated with colour plates. 307 pages. The biography of 19th century Margaret, Countess of Blessington and her relationship with Comte d'Orsay. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House. 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. A souvenir publication depicting the history of the Keyneton district. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Boston: Wisdom Publications. 2003. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvii, 443pp. . 1st Edition, Later Printing. Trade Paperback.

Cathay Books. 1988. Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. Marine and tropical fish in the home aquarium with a chapter on Aquarium photography. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1994. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Scarce. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 194 pages. Explores the mining of red ochre from several angles - colour red in human perception; archaelogical record that attests its use; geology and vewgetation of the Gog Range; and detailed account of the excavation of Toolumbunner. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Granta Books. 1997. Very Good+ condition. Introduction by Michael Wood. 416 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Canberra: Service. 1985. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Black & White drawings. Previous owner's neat stamp to front free endpaper. 375 pages. This book contains detailed descriptions and coloured plates of over 500 species of fishes and lists 755 species so far identified [at time of publication]. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Norwich, UK: The University of East Anglia. 1978. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition - white card Covers in a very good silver foil card dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Foreword by Frank Thistlewaite, Vice Chancellor. Essay and Editorial Preface by Sir Robert Sainsbury. The Building by Norman Foster. 282 pages. Considered to be one of the great collections of the twentieth century which was gifted to the University of East Anglia in 1973. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

New York: Atheneum. 1987. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 396 pages. H.F Saint's one and only novel which became a huge success and was later filmed with Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Bodley Head. 1961. Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (flyleaf). 157pages. Translated and adapted from the French by June Howe. Jacket by Charles Mozley. Luzita's journey through Spain to find her aunt who may be able to help fund her brother's bull-fighting career. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.