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The Rose of China: Marie Therese Wang, 1917-1932
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. Castel
London: Alexander Ouseley, [1935].Translated from the French, Rose de Chine, by Sister Mary Cullen.
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With Gordon in China: Letters from Thomas Lyster, Lieutenant Royal Engineers
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Lyster; E. A. Lyster
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.Personal letters of a British Royal Engineers officer describing service and travel in China, Japan, and Hong Kong in the early 1860s.
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Let’s Go For A Walk
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. Percival Westell
London: The Pilgrim Press, No date.This copy inscribed by the author.
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British Myths & Legends
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRichard Barber
London: The Folio Society, 2005.Edited and introduced by Richard Barber, illustrations by John Vernon Lord. Full list of titles: 1. Marvels and Magic; 2. Heroes and Saints; 3. History and Romance. FORD-SMITH 112.5.
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The Baburnama
AU$180.00 Read MoreAdd to cartZahiruddin Muhammad Babur
London: The Folio Society, 2013.Translated, edited and annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston, preface to the illustrations by J.P. Losty, introduction by Salman Rushdie. FORD-SMITH 1858.
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Short Stories
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Hemingway
London: The Folio Society, 2010.Selected and with an introduction by David Hughes. Illustrated by Ian Beck. FORD-SMITH 565.
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High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMike Jay
London: Thames & Hudson, 2024.“A global history of intoxication, exploring the international spectrum of drug use in cultures across the world, from prehistory to the present day.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by the author.
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The Purification Of Water Supplies
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Bransby-Williams
London: Chapman and Hall, 1946. -
Cox’s Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest, and Compendium of Domestic Medcine;
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Edward Cox]; R. Davis
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1866.Particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists. With plain rules for taking the medicines, to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of Asiatic or spasmodic cholera. Pocket guide for the medical practitioner at sea. Includes a summary of drugs for the doctors medicine chest, with corresponding labels at the rear to be cut out and applied to bottles, here still intact.
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From the Loft Floor to the Sea: The Art & Craft of Traditional Wooden Boat Construction
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristian Topf
London: Lodestar Books, 2021. -
British Planemakers from 1700
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartW. L. Goodman
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1968. -
Body Jewellery: International Perspectives
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Willcox
London: Pitman Publishing, 1974.An international pictorial survey of jewelry in the early 1970s. Australia is represented by Ray Norman.
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Inland
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGerald Murnane
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. -
Montaigne’s Essays in Three Books
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel de Montaigne; Charles Cotton
London: B. and B. Barker, et al., 1743.With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of The Author’s Life. With a short Character of the Author and Translator by the late Marquiss of Hallifax. Translated by Charles Cotton. The Sixth Edition Corrected and Amended.
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The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery: How It Came Into the World, and How It Shall Be Made to Go Out
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Bronterre O’Brien
London: William Reeves, 1885. -
The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCorin F. V. Corley
London: The Modern Humanities Research Association, 1987. -
Vice Versa or a Lesson to Fathers
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartF. Anstey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882.First edition, first printing of the comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie set in Victorian London in which a stern father and mischevious son body-swap via a magic stone from India.
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Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaulina Palmer
London: Cassell, 1999.Traces the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction since the advent of the Women’s Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s.
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A Finger in the Fishes Mouth
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Jarman
London: House Sparrow Press, 2024.A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book ‘A Finger in the Fishes Mouth’, originally published in 1972. Heavily illustrated from Jarman’s collection of postcards, the book combines text and visual imagery in a way which foreshadows his subsequent style as an artist and filmmaker. With the majority of the first edition having been destroyed by Jarman, this makes available a missing, significant piece of his oeuvre.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Kontrol
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)