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Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Platypus Publ.: 1967
Seller ID: 21951
#570 of 750 copies. Facsimile reprint. 158pp. Canvas cloth, title lettering on upper board. A very good clean copy. ***Sir John's account of his dispute with his former Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. The original was privately issued in a small edition and is very scarce. Each copy bears a presentation inscription 'By Order of Sir John Franklin' on the title page - this facsimile used the copy of R.J. Murchison Esq. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Platypus Publications: 1967
Seller ID: 4628
#500 of 750 copies. Facsimile reprint. 158pp. Canvas cloth, title lettering on upper board, a little light flecking. A good clean copy. ***Sir John's account of his dispute with his former Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. The original was privately issued in a small edition and is very scarce. Each copy bears a presentation inscription 'By Order of Sir John Franklin' on the title page - this facsimile used the copy of R.J. Murchison Esq. View more info
By: Friends' School:
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hobart, The Friends' School: n.d. [2012?]
Seller ID: 33606
55pp, b&w and coloured photographs. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: Frost, Lucy & Alice Meredith Hodgson : editors, for the Female Factory Research Group:
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2013
Seller ID: 31306
278pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0987144340 ***Short biographies of 30 inmates of the Launceston's Female House of Correction 1834-55. This was the first purpose-built female penal institution in VDL, but overcrowding and maladministration soon reduced its condition to match the squalor of those it was intended to replace. View more info
By: FROST, Lucy.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hobart, Female Factory Historic Site: 2004
Seller ID: 18775
Oblong 8vo. 50pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $450.00
Publisher: London, A.H. Moxon: 1879
Seller ID: 21789
Small 8vo. viii, 124pp. Rebound, not recently, in quarter blue morocco and patterned papered boards, without the original stiff wrappers, spine title in gilt. Heavy offsetting on the free endpapers, small brown mark on the top corners of the last few leaves, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Ferguson 14764; Wilson, Collecting Old Tasmanian Books, pp38-9. The author, retired civil servant Charles George Henry Furlong, emigrated to Tasmania in 1873 and settled in Myrtle... View more info
By: FYSH, Hudson.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973
Seller ID: 4635
160pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Maroon cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. A very good clean copy. ***In addition to his role as a pioneer of both VDL and the Port Phillip district, Reed was instrumental in the formation of the Salvation Army. The author - better known for his role in Australian aviation - is his grandson. View more info
By: GANDY, Michael; Rick Finlay & Rick Smith.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Cricket Tasmania: 2015
Seller ID: 35400
4to. 306pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0994376111 ***Signed all three authors. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Devon Historical Society: 1987
Seller ID: 4636
1000 signed and numbered copies (but this one out-of-series and unsigned). Small 4to. 176pp, illustrated. Leather-grained cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959321918 View more info
By: GARDAM, Julie.
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Author?: [1997]
Seller ID: 16072
Sesquicentenary edition 1847-1997 (first published 1992?). Small 4to. 66pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers (slight scuff top front corner where price sticker removed). A very good clean copy. View more info
By: GARVIE, R.M.H.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hydro-Electric Commission: 1962
Seller ID: 35823
Small 4to. 112pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, endpaper maps. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (crudely repaired with small chips along edges, now in protective sleeve). A good clean copy. ***The heroic age of hydro-industrialisation... View more info
By: GATENBY, Kathy
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2011
Seller ID: 29271
Square 8vo. 144pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ISBN 0987091522 View more info
By: GATES, William (one of the Canadian Patriots) : edited by George Mackaness.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1961
Seller ID: 15952
Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary, by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, no XL.) 135 copies for sale in Australia (15 more for presentation & 40 for North America), signed by Mackaness. This is numbered 136 (and thus presumably a presentation copy, though not so inscribed). Two parts, numbered 118 & 84 respectively. Large 8vo. 76pp, 6 illustrations & 56pp, 5 illustrations. Stiff yellow overhanging wrappers. A very good clean set. Geoffr... View more info
By: GEE, Helen & Jane Fenton (eds).
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Australian Conservation Foundation: 1979
Seller ID: 21408
Reprinted with corrections. 4to. 308pp, well illustrated. Green cloth with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0858020564 View more info
By: GEE, Helen (ed).
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Hobart, The Wilderness Society: 2001
Seller ID: 25115
First edition, special issue of 500 copies numbered (this is #130) and signed by the editor. 4to. 378pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Printed on 'totally chlorine free' recycled paper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1875768092 ***Short contributions from many (most?) of the activists involved in the campaigns to preserve Tasmania's native forests. View more info
By: GIORDANO, Margaret & Don Norman.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Shearwater Press: 1984
Seller ID: 4650
202pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Very good. ***Short biographies of Tasmanian writers, from Henry Savery to James McAuley. View more info
By: Glover, John:
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Woollahra, NSW, Rex Irwin:
Seller ID: 4652
Introduction by John McPhee. Small 4to. 32pp, 16 colour and 4 b&w plates. Soft covers (somewhat faded near spine). Very good. ***Exhibition catalogue, October 1986: Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, in conjunction with Spink & Son and Neville Keating Pictures. The subjects of these works are British/European. View more info
By: GLOVER, Margaret & Alf MacLochlainn (eds).
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 2005
Seller ID: 20515
144pp. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 0909479232 ***Dowling was convicted of sedition in London in 1848, and was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Although not a leading member of the Young Ireland movement, his intense patriotism motivated him throughout his life. Dowling remained in the colony, establishing himself as an artist and photographer. His letters give a private account of his expectations and disappointments, and his reflections on local and worl... View more info
By: GOC, Nicola.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Hobart, Gentrx: 1999
Seller ID: 7589
Tall 4to. 208pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy - signed by the author. ***An illustrated oral history : Family Life, School Days, Getting There, Leisure Time, Going to Town, Black Tuesday. View more info
By: GORDON, Max.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Author: 1965
Seller ID: 27758
141pp, 16 b&w plates. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine dulled, extremities a little rubbed). Top edges lightly spotted, owner's details on front free endpaper. A good to very good clean copy. View more info
By: GOWLLAND, Ralph and Kathleen.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Printed by C.L. Richmond (for the Author?): 1975
Seller ID: 17811
First edition. Small 4to. 160pp, b&w illustrations & maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. The wrapper has been covered in contact plastic and taped down to the endpapers. Untidy owner's inscription on front endpaper, another gift inscription on half-title; one map (p111) has a few names marked with highlighter pen. Otherwise a good clean copy. ISBN 0959842012 View more info
By: GOWLLAND, Ralph and Kathleen.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Printed by C.L. Richmond (for the Author?): 1975
Seller ID: 4657
First edition. Small 4to. 160pp, black & white illustrations and maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. The cloth is faded along the spine and a previous covering has left small tape stains on the endpapers and blurb flaps, now in a new protective sleeve); otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 0959842012 View more info
By: GRAEME-EVANS, A.L. & A.G. Kemp.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasbook Publishers / Kemp & Denning: 2002
Seller ID: 28852
#368 of 600 copies, with presentation plate. 4to. 414pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities a trifle rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0958733430 ***The well-known Hobart timber and hardware merchants. Most of the edition of 600 copies was distributed amongst the firm's employees. View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Prescott, Ontario, Friends of Windmill Point: 2001
Seller ID: 28028
Oblong 8vo. 264pp, illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 1896941214 ***The 1838 ill-fated American attack on Prescott, Upper Canada, which resulted in the transportation of many of the rebels to Van Diemen's Land. View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1953
Seller ID: 6837
First edition. 144pp, frontis, 15 illustrations. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***Author's account of life at her home, the 'Woodlands' estate in Tasmania's Meander valley. View more info
By: GREEN, Anne.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston City Council: 2007
Seller ID: 24820
[Stories in Stone: 3.] 4to. 248pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Owner's large bookplate inside front cover. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0959609083 ***Examines the city's institutions and their buildings in the fields of administration, health & welfare, education and learning, religion and mentoring View more info
By: GREEN, F.C.
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Perth, WA, [John Burridge Military Antiques: , 1980s?]
Seller ID: 5274
With a Foreword by John Monash. Facsimile reprint (with no publication details). 248pp, frontis portrait, 12 full-page maps at rear. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. A fine clean copy. ***First published in 1922 by the 40th Battalion Association in Hobart, 1922. The original edition is scarce - as indeed is this reprint. View more info
By: GREEN, Frank C.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Hobart, The Club: 1961
Seller ID: 5105
500 copies only. 8vo. viii, 94pp, 13 plates. Navy blue cloth, club crest gold-blocked on the upper board. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: GREEN, K.A.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 1994
Seller ID: 35515
64pp; duplicated typescript. Spiral bound in stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy. ***Includes a short introduction. The details for each immigrant are as recorded by the agent in Launceston and include: name, age, trade or calling, religion, education and place of birth. View more info
By: GREEN, R.H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Launceston, Queen Victoria Museum: 1967-72.
Seller ID: 27942
Seven parts, in three issues of the Records of the Queen Victoria Museum: Parts 1 & 2 (#28, 1967); Parts 3 & 4 (#32, 1968), Parts 5 to 7 (#46, 1972). All issues stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Very good. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: London, Wesleyan Conference Office: 1879
Seller ID: 27668
Sixth edition. Small 8vo. viii, 382pp, tissue-protected frontispiece with facsimile signature. Original green cloth with black decoration and blind, lettering on cover and spine in gilt ( head, tail and edges of spine, and corners a little rubbed). Edges yellowed and a few spots on some pages, mostly on first and last few leaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***English-born Powell (1822-68) grew up in Tasmania and later worked for a Launceston merchant and auctione... View more info
By: GRISTON, Basil.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hobart, Coprint: 1988
Seller ID: 13880
Small 4to; 159pp, line illustrations. Soft covers. Very good. View more info
By: GUNN, Thomas.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Launceston, Footprints in the Past: 2016
Seller ID: 35181
Special issue: only ten copies thus were produced, with only five made available for sale. These were numbered 6 to 10 and signed by the author. 8vo. 168pp, illustrated in b&w. Synthetic cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean (new) copy. ISBN 0995411603 View more info
By: HALL, Robert.
Price: $18.00
Seller ID: 4668
Reprinted, with orig. pagination [275-87], from The Emu, Vol. XIX, Part 4, April 1920. Orig. wrapps (Emu cover). Very good. ***Bird groups. View more info
By: HALLIGAN, G.H.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 1926
Seller ID: 6724
RSTPP for 1925, pp 195-202, with map. Original wrappers, as issued. Very good. ***Also in this issue: 'Some Notes on a Tasmanian Aboriginal Skull' by H.H. Scott & R. McClinton; 'Notes on the currency of early Tasmania' by John Reynolds; and R.W Giblin on Charles O'Hara Booth - and much natural history. View more info
By: Hamilton Literary Society:
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hamilton Literary Society: 2009
Seller ID: 35075
Small 8vo 68pp, illustrated. Soft covers. ***The Society - originally known as Nil Desperandum - was founded by Lady Teresa Hamilton, wife of the Governor of Tasmania 1889-92. View more info
By: HARMAN, Kristyn.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Dunedin, NZ, Otago University Press: 2017
Seller ID: 35373
8vo. 248pp, colour and b&w plates, maps. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1988531063 View more info
By: HARPER, Noel G.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hobart, Jasneath Publ.: 1985
Seller ID: 4673
78pp. Soft covers. A little light spotting on the half-title. Very good. ISBN 0959011404 View more info
By: HARRIS, George Prideaux [edited by Barbara Hamilton-Arnold.]
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Sorrento (Vic.), Arden Press: 1994
Seller ID: 35889
Small 4to. 174pp, 21 b&w and 4 colour illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0646141597 ***The first publication of Harris' letters to his family in England and other papers, with many of his sketches - including that of the Thylacine and Tasmanian Devil, the latter of which he was the first to describe and which bears his name (Sarcophilus harisii). Important primary source material from the earliest days of Hobart Town. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Authors: 2013
Seller ID: 33234
238pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0646594788 *** T.T. Flynn was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Tasmania at the age of 28, and later held the same post at Queen's University, Belfast. View more info
By: HARTWELL, R.M.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1954
Seller ID: 4678
274pp, 2 maps, 18 tables. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine a little stained, a few marks and extremities a little rubbed, now in protective sleeve). The front endpapers have a small ink stamp of owner's name, twice, crossed out and a later owner's details added, and a mark left by a small piece of tape at head of front paste-down. Number written at head of title-page (but not ex-library). A good+ clean copy. View more info
By: HARVEY, Marcus & Graeme Clennett.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hobart, Classic Image Photographs: 2006
Seller ID: 22153
4to. 88pp, 55 full-page plates in sepia. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0975738410 ***Historical images from many of the great Tasmanian photographers of the early 20th century, including J.W. Beattie, Stephen Spurling III, Fred Smithies, Frank Hurley and Michael Sharland. View more info
By: HARVEY, Marcus & Graeme Clennett.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Classic Image Photographs: 2006
Seller ID: 22154
4to. 88pp, 55 full-page plates in sepia. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0975738402 ***Historical images from many of the great Tasmanian photographers of the early 20th century, including J.W. Beattie, Stephen Spurling III, Fred Smithies, Frank Hurlrey and Michael Sharland. View more info
By: HARWOOD, Gwen : edited by Alison Hoddinott.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sydney, Imprint: 1995
Seller ID: 18034
First edition. 135pp. Soft covers, page edges a little yellow, otherwise very good. ISBN 1875892281 ***A new collection of poetry and prose. View more info
By: HARWOOD, Gwen.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Peace Trust: 1993
Seller ID: 25608
8pp. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Very good. ***The Tasmanian Peace Trust 1993 Lecture - delivered in verse*** View more info
By: HARWOOD, Gwen.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1975
Seller ID: 31356
(A&R Poetry Classics.) First edition. 112pp. Soft covers. Very good. Owner's name. ISBN 0207132097 View more info
By: HARWOOD, Gwen.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1963
Seller ID: 32998
First edition. 8vo. 100pp. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine slightly dulled, a couple of small silverfish nibbles on the front). The boards a trifle bowed. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Harwood's first book. View more info
By: HARWOOD, Gwen.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1990
Seller ID: 23267
(A&R Modern Poets Series.) Further revised (third) edition, incorporating poems from Bone Scan (1990). The second edition had added poems from The Lion's Bride (1985). 216pp. Soft covers. Top corner snipped from half-title, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 020716682X View more info
By: HAY, Pete.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Hobart, Walleah Press: 2005
Seller ID: 28564
86pp, coloured illustrations. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 1877010073 ***Poetry, from (and often of) Tasmania. View more info
By: HAY, William.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1929
Seller ID: 6400
First edition. 414pp. Original cloth with the dustwrapper featuring a Beattie photograph of Lake St Clair. The front lower corner slightly bumped, the wrapper a trifle chipped at the extremities, otherwise a very good clean copy. With the publisher's small 4pp booklet 'Opinions of the Press on Strabane of the Mulberry Hills' [all positive you will be surprised to hear]. *** The story concerns the disappearance of the wife of Heylin Tamlash, the owner of the Tasmanian est... View more info
