Search Results: Titles starting with Q from exPB

Novel. (Melbourne: George Robertson and Co.: 1907) First Edition. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 427. Gift inscription on front fixed endpaper. Lettering on spine rubbed away; shelf wear to lower edges of boards; a very good copy.

(Melbourne: Georgian House: 1947) First Edition. Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 28 (188 x 250 mm). Splendid illustrations by Elizabeth Paterson. Neat pencilled inscription on front free endpaper. Edges of boards rubbed and boards somewhat foxed and a little silverfished; internally near fine.

A New Musical Play in Three Acts by James T. Tanner. Vocal Score. (London, New York, Melbourne: Chappell & Co.: Copyright 1910 and 1911) 24514. pp. iv, 228. Bound in cloth, but retaining the original pictorial front wrapper, with title in gilt on spine and owner's name in gilt on front. Vocal Score in wrappers price net cash 6s.0d. A couple of clean tears to the preserved front wrapper; some crumpling and wear at inner margin of title-leaf, otherwise near fine copy.

(London: Stainer House: 1891-5) Half leather ruled and lettered in gilt on spine (that is, hard covers) pp. iv, 385-387 Index to Vol II, 257-384, 1-380, 1-128. A ‘semidiagramatic view of a deep dissection of the cranial nerves on the left side of the head’ with accompanying text is additional to pagination. Twenty issues of this massively detailed publication, with the colonial bookseller’s sticker (W.C. Rigby, Bookseller Stationer and Newsagent, 74 King William Street Adelaide) on fixed rear endpaper. Rigby, presumably the binder of this compilation, developed into the foremost South Australian publisher of books in the twentieth century. Leather worn at extremities; cloth silverfished on rear and flecked on front; front external hinge starting to split; binding firm; internally (apart from a vertical crease to every issue indicating postal delivery) about fine.

Novel. (London: Arlan at The White Owl Press: December 1934) First Edition. Boards pp. 64. First Edition. An owner's name and a date on front free endpaper. Some foxing mainly to the top and fore edges otherwise a very good copy in dust-jacket whose spine is a little faded and which has a small hole near its front flap hinge, is a little worn at head and foot of its spine, but which is otherwise good.

(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: 1893) Second Edition, Revised. Trubner’s Oriental Series. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 124, 58 publisher’s advertisements dated September 1895 (217 x 145 mm). Edges uncut. An ownership inscription blacked out at the head of the title page and a couple of ownership stamps within. An inscription dated 1899 on verso of front free endpaper. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed; otherwise very good.

(London: George Routledge: no date) Routledge's coloured Reward Books. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 654, 20 publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with Frontispiece and five other coloured plates. Prize label of Christ Church Sunday School, Mount Barker dated January 1876 on front fixed endpaper. Head and foot of spine, external hinges and edges and corners of boards worn; inner hinges detached; otherwise internally very good.

(Adelaide: Woodley Wines: March 1986) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. x, 49 (239 x 180 mm). Illustrated. Map. Bibliography. A near fine copy.

(London: Newnes: 1948) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 216. The first two books about Honor Lang were 'The Ring of Nenuphar' and 'The Quest of Honor'. First Edition. Remnant of a prize label on front free endpaper. Very good copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket.

(London: The Sheldon Press: no date) Pictorial cloth pp. 224 and 15 publisher’s advertisements (dated 20.9.34) Illustrated by G.W. Goss. Lost race novel set in the South Seas. A London doctor in search of his Naturalist brother meets a beautiful white queen ruling islanders, a thousand miles north of the Society Islands, elsewhere identified as an island on the edge of the Marquesas (p. 97); she is presumably of French descent as she says ‘zis’ and ‘zat’. This edition seems to be unrecorded. A strip of discoloration from damp along the lower external hinge. Foxing to early leaves, heaviest to title-page, otherwise a very good copy.

(London: Hutchinson: no date) Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 287 and 24 publisher's advertisements. Gift inscription dated 1930 on front free endpaper; spine sunned and a few light marks to cloth and to the edges; a very good copy.

(Leicester: Brockhampton Press: 1961) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 143. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. First Edition. Spine a little slanted and lightly sunned through the jacket; otherwise a near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket which is a little silverfished.

Novel. (London: Cassell: 1964) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xiv, 432. Map. First Edition. Top half of one leaf (pp. 341-342) crumpled otherwise a good copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket.

(London: Cassell: 1895) First Edition.Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 279 and 16 publisher's advertisements dated 1.95. First Edition. An owner's name on the half-title page. Stains to the cloth and sunning to the spine; a very good copy.

(Brisbane: A.J. Cumming, Govt. Printer) New Edition 1913. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 172. Illustrated. Folding map at rear. An ownership signature twice. A good copy, and internally very good.

Cover Title: Terse Information about Queensland Queries and Replies. (Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer) New Edition. Date at end of text ‘26th August 1919’. Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) pp. 64. Patch of silverfishing to the head of the front wrapper; a very good copy.

(London: Oxford University Press: 1927) First Edition. Pictorial cloth pp. 288. Illustrated by Alfred Leete. Lacks free front endpaper otherwise a very good, tightly-stitched clean copy

(London: Lutterworth Press: 1950) New Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 255. Frontispiece. Spine sunned; a very good copy.

(London: Collins’ Clear-Type Press: no date) Collins’ ‘Adventure’ Library. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 208. With coloured frontispiece. A near fine copy in very good price-clipped dust-jacket which is chipped at its edges.

(no place: no publisher or printer: no date) Apparently an Australian production, referring to 'the 1956 tour of England' (p. 2). On the rear wrapper Keith Miller is used to advertise Wrigley's Chewing Gum featuring a picutre taken 'during coaching lessons at Manly Oval, Sydney'. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 24 (244 x 185 mm) Illustrated. Map of England. Spine lightly rubbed; a near fine copy.