Barbara York Main (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 296 pp., Color Photos, Blue & Mauve Hardback, Gilt title, Fine in Near Fine DJ, 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 242 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp.xii+242. 23cm. Decorated title page. List of contributors with brief biographical detail. Hard cover in dust jacket. A very good clean copy Contributors include: Hal Colebatch, Peter Cowan, Elizabeth Durack, Mary Durack, Rica Erickson, G.M.Glaskin, Alexandra Hasluck, Elizabeth Jolley, Fay Zwicky.…

Hardback. 1979. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In Very Good Used Condition. Name Inside Front Cover. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ From The Library Of Professor Robin Leech, Msc '65, Phd '71 Zoological Catalogue Of Australia, Vol. 3: Arachnida - Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae In Part, Pseudoscorpionida Amblypygi And Palpigradi.…

8vo. xiv+242pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First edition. Contributors include Elizabeth Jolley, Fay Zwicky. Peter Cowan, Elizabeth and Mary Durack, and Alexandra Hasluck.

reprint).Octavo,296 pp.,colour photographs, fine copy in stiff card cover.

Hardback. Barbara York Main, The Jacaranda Press. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA reflective work of Australian natural history and memoir, Twice Trodden Ground chronicles Barbara York Main's return to the landscapes of Western Australia that shaped her early career as a zoologist and naturalist. With a lyrical yet scientifically grounded voice, Main revisits the arid scrublands and their remarkable inhabitants - from trapdoor spiders to ancient flora - illuminating how these ecosystems have changed over decades of human encroachment and environmental shift. The narrative weaves personal recollection with ecological observation, presenting a deeply intimate portrait of a scientist's lifelong relationship with the land. Meditative in tone, the work argues powerfully for the importance of sustained, patient attention to the natural world, reminding readers that true understanding of a landscape can only be earned through time and repeated witness. Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket is in fair condition with scratches. Dust jacket now enclosed in protective plastic covering. A collection of essays describing the Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia. The author attempts to show how the landscape has been touched by two cultures - first by the Aboriginal inhabitants and subsequently by the European settlers. (Trove).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 296 pages. review slip pasted in.

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Near Fine. WEST AUSTRALIANA English literature. Western Australian writers, 1945-. Anthologies. | Australian literature -- Western Australia. | Western Australia -- Literary collections. xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm. #0821/110323 First Edition.Mary Durack, Fay Zwicky, Alexandra Hasluck, T.A.G. Hungerford, Ray Oldham, Elizabeth Jolley, Nicholas Hasluck, Hal Colebatch,et al Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Editon. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Foredges have sunned. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. Summerland is an anthology of poetry and prose covering the years 1973-1978. All its writers, fifty-five of them, are from Western Australia by birth or adoption.…

Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages, pus index of common names; black and white sketches. First published 1964. Apart from a neat ownership signature, a clean, unmarked and very solid copy. "This book introduces the Australian spider fauna and includes many species that are well known to Australian biologists, naturalists, gardeners and pest controllers.". Main, Barbara York (illustrator).…

HARDCOVER. 1979. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by a gift inscription to the front free endpaper. The d/w is fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear at the edges and corners, spine is solid with minor bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: some strip-tanning on endpapers & small spotting top edges, no markings, clean throughout. Dust Jacket: scuffing & signs of handling on surface and some tattiness / chipping along edges (esp. top back), has been price-clipped. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.…

HB BLUE CLOTH FINE PP241 DW FINE 8V0 A Western Australian Sesquicentenary Anthology of Poetry and Prose.

hard cover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. Illustrated with black and white drawings. 25 cm. 160 pages VG/G. Very good book in good dust jacket with edge wear, short tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine In A Very Good Jacket With Rubbed Ends Pp 160 Index Line Drawings.

Condition: Very good. 296, 44 col + 12 b/w photos, 51 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded). Owner's name to endpaper. . [9780002114431].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 296 pages. Thick 8vo. Near fine copy of this Australian Naturalist Library book on Australian spiders. The dust jacket has been clipped on the bottom inside corner and has a small tear on the bottom front edge.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo ix + 161pp.,text ills., map, glossary, references, index, Natural history & ecology of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Lacks title-page o/w a nice copy.

Condition: Very good. 296, 44 col + 12 b/w photos, 51 text figs. . HB. Vg in d/w. From the library of David R. Nellist, British arachnologist, with his name to endpaper. . [9780002114431].

8vo, 160pp. Black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket with faded spine. Offsetting to endpages.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. There is no other book on Australian spiders which combines such a wealth of information and interpretation of observations ina way which will appeal to the general reader, convert the araneophobe and stimulate the serious naturalist. **There are two very small brown spots inside the front cover at the top and one very small brown spot at the top of the flyleaf.**.…

cloth boards in d.j. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, pp. (x) 161, Index, b&w line illustrations by Barbara York Main, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's signature and inscription. Very good condition in edgeworn d.j. Botanical survey of the flora of the wheatbelt region, with many illustrations. The author spent her childhood on a farm in the region, and became a well known arachnologist and environmental researcher. An important book for WA conservation.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition: duodecimo; paperback; 124pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn; front cover mildly creased; text block edges lightly toned; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; now covered with protective non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback, with dust wrapper. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped and rubbed. Binding is neat and tidy. Page edges are rubbed and lightly discoloured. There is some light discolouration of free endpapers, pastedowns and page edges, albeit light. Otherwise this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper has some rubbing at the edges. Head and tail of spine thumbed. Edges and corners are showing moderate wear and tear. Some marks albeit light, otherwise this dust wrapper is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo ix + 161pp.,text ills., map, glossary, references, index, Natural history & ecology of the Western Australian Wheatbelt.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Very Fine. Becoming Scarce.