Search Results: Titles starting with M from exPB

(Adelaide: Vardon, Price Limited) Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 96 (245 x 190 mm). Illustrated. A substantial catalogue with a great variety of wares for the home and workshop, with prices. Some wear to edges and spine, a little silverfishing and a few marks to wrappers; some foxing to early leaves otherwise a very good copy.

‘The story of his missionary work in Papua and Samoa, as told in his letters home’. (London: Independent Press: 1960) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 208. First Edition. Head and foot of spine and external hinges of wrappers rubbed and a little chipped; otherwise a good to very good copy.

(Published by the MBA of SA Inc., Adelaide, and printed by Letterpress Limited, Hindmarsh: n.d.) (1960? – Lists office-holders for 1960-1961 on p. 1). Pictorial wrappers plus pp. 88 (174 x 244 mm). Illustrated. Includes advertisements relating to the building industry in South Australia. Fine

(London: J. and A. Churchill: 1891) Seventh Edition, in which the first seven chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. W.H. Dallinger, LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xviii, 1100 and xvi publisher’s advertisements being Catalogue D, November 1891 (226 x 154 x about 59 mm thick). With Twenty-one Plates and Eight Hundred Wood Engravings. Index. Head and foot of spine, external hinges, corners and parts of the edges of the boards rubbed; top corner of upper board bumped; both inner hinges splitting; otherwise a very good copy and internally generally about fine.

(London: John Snow, Paternoster Row. G.R. Addison, Sydney, N.S.W.: 1863) First Edition. Rebound copy with new endpapers but retaining most of the original cloth including the titling-piece on the spine (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 489. Illustrated. Map of New Hebrides. First Edition. Corners of boards rubbed and a little worn; a scuff to the upper margin of one page; a very good rebound copy.

(London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans: 1855) First Edition. Quarter vellum boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 296. Decorated. Chiswick Press:- Printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Top edge tinted, others uncut. First Edition. An owner’s name at head of title-page. Light foxing to the boards; the corners and upper edges of the boards rubbed; otherwise a generally very good copy.

(New York: Hill Publishing Company: 1908) Copyright 1907 by The Taylor Publishing Company/Copyright 1908 by The Hill Publishing Company. Author’s Preface dated 1907. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 200. Illustrated. Index. A fine copy.

(London: Cassell: 1931) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 326 (235 x 165 mm) Illustrated. Front cover depicts Nelson with the telescope to his blind eye. Includes Chapter 17: 'Captain Cook'; Chapter 26: 'Father Damien'; Chapter 27: 'Captain Scott'; Chapter 31: 'Robinson Crusoe'; Etc. Etc. First Edition. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Very good copy.

(no place: no imprint) Card backing, spiral spine pp. 26 (270 x 220 mm). Each month with typical Attwell illustration and caption. Front wrapper foxed; otherwise very good.

(Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide: George Robertson: 1879) Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 160. Cloth missing from backstrip; faint tidemarks to cloth and endpapers; lacks front free endpaper; a very good copy.

(London: Longmans, Green: November 1942) New Impression of the Sixth Edition first issued in January, 1927. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxiv, 775. With 126 Tables, 7 Plates, over 1600 Figures, 446 Exercises and a Selection of Examination Papers. Index to Tables. General Index. Supplementary Index. A near fine copy.

(London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd). On offer is the boxed set of 75 full-colour class pictures (360 mm x 345 mm) which accompanies the five-volume reference set (not on offer). While most are unsigned and no doubt commisioned by the publisher there are three splendid examples by Disney, Studdy and Mabel Lucie Attwell and a number of others by good commercial artists of the day. ‘Index to Class Pictures’ on box. They are in very good to near fine order, only the first ‘Helping Mother’ is damaged; some have marginal perforations from class-room use; a very few have old tape repair; the box is heavily worn but still functional.

(London: Macmillan: no date) First Edition. About 1920 (?) Decorated wrappers pp. VIII, 32 (coloured maps) & 8 (General Index) (245 x 186 mm) First Edition. Spine rubbed otherwise near fine copy.

(Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs Australia: 1968) First Edition Cl. pp. xii, 380 (260 x 185 mm) Illust. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Maps on front endpapers. First Edition. BJ Causby's bookplate on the plain verso of free front endpaper. Fine in dust-jacket.

(London: Macmillan: 1876) New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Edited by Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., One of His Executors. Dec. cl. pp. xviii, 750, 2 and 32 publisher's advertisements including Catalogue of Works in Belles Lettres dated August 1876. Illust. Index. Of great interest regarding Macready's theatrical career, his friendship with Dickens etc. Very good

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Capt. Pasfield Oliver, R.A., Author of “Madagascar”. (London: T. Fisher Unwin: 1890) Adventure Series. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 400. Illustrated. Top edge uncut. Foot of spine rubbed and discoloured; rear external hinge and about a third of the rear board discoloured and dampstained respectively; a little dampstaining and a linear mark to the front board; otherwise a very good copy.

(London: Cassell: no date) Thirteenth thousand. The Girl’s Favourite Library. Decorated cloth with oval coloured pastedown on front pp. viii, 261 and 8 publisher’s advertisements dated 12/14. With Eight Full-Page Colour Illustrations. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Edges a little foxed and scattered foxing internally; otherwise a near fine copy in like dust-jacket.

(London: Collins: n.d.) Pict. cl. pp. 316 and 4 publisher's adverts. Illust. by Norman Sutcliffe (which in the case of this reprint means coloured frontispiece only). About fine

(London: Nelson: 1945) First Edition. The Book of the B.B.C. (Children’s Hour) Play. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 134. Illustrated by Newton Whittaker. First Edition. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket which is a little chipped at the head and foot of its spine, is repaired on its blind side and has a gift inscription on its front flap.

(London: Ward, Lock and Co.: no date) Cloth decorated in black, silver and gilt (that is, hard covers) pp. iv, 143, i, 32 publisher’s advertisements. The Lily Series listed on the verso of half-title page ends at number 71. An ownership inscription dated November [18]95 on front fixed endpaper, a bookseller’s stamp and another ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Corners of boards rubbed; a few light marks internally; front inner hinge beginning to crack; otherwise a near fine copy.