Dakin William J (77 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo illus. 1st Ed. -[Cat. 66-205.] - Assisted by Isobel Bennett & Elizabeth Pope. Ex-Library; sl worn along spine; o/w Very Good no DJ.

Condition: Good. 1956. Reprint. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. 1968. Australiana pocketbook edition. 176 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white and colour photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, second edition, octavo, a good tightly bound copy but with mild foxing to the close edges, The dust jacket complete but markedly foxed. xvi + 504pp.

1970, second impression, Natural History, Fish, Walkabout Pocketbooks, 176 p, good paper.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Chicago / New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company 1952. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 10"], 162 pages, illustrated. Includes "The Golden Gods" by John Bloodstone AKA Stuart J. Byrne, "THe Man Who Bought Tomorrow" by William P. McGivern, "Battle of the Howling Hatchet" by Don Wilcox, "Murder on Mars" by Frances M. Deegan, "The Dog with the Weird Tale" by Paul W. Fairman, etc. Good only copy with spine torn with chipping near the center and shallow chipping to the ends, usual creasing and edgewear to the cover, text paper tanning. See photos 150E.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in paper covered boards. Published Melbourne: Australian National Publicity Association, 1950. 8vo., 135pp., illustrated with b/w photographs, map. Sun fade to the spine and top edge of cover, dust foxing along top edge of page block. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Free postage on this revised edition reflecting over 30 years of original study by Prof. WJ Dakin, by Isobel Bennett and Elizabeth Pope. Clean pages, fine hardcover, jacket showing reader wear. Ecoystems, illuminating descriptions and lively facts, it remains an authority. Sparkling illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth hardcover, no dust jacket. Light shelfwear to covers. Previous owner?s name and blind bookstamp inside. Some margin lines in pencil. 285 pages, index, notes, bibliography, b&w photos.

PF. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Tall octavo. 133pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Gutter cracked, dampstain and wear on bottom of spine, boards and spine sunned, good only in a fair or better heavily chipped and scuffed dust jacket with internal tape repair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xvi +511pp, illustrated, bound in blue cloth; Octavo.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 133 pages; 133 pages illustrations, maps, plates; 25 cm. Subjects: Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book condition: very good, very scarce 1953 edition, a guide for beach lover, the naturalist, the shore fisherman and the student, the divided in two parts: the seashore and the haunts of seashore life and the living things of the seashore, filled with 99 b/w illustrations along with two color frontis photos, yellow cloth boards feature a starfish imprint on front and a gilt seahorse on spine, corners gently bumped, light scuffing to head and spine overall very nice, very light spotting to endpapers otherwise interior very clean, binding firm, 361 pages followed by index, 6.5 X 9.5 inches. Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ernest Benn Limited 1928 paperback 80 pages, book detached from covers and light soiling to extremeties but still in acceptable reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. xviii, 376pp., b/w illustrations, colour plates, figures, checklist, index. Australian Natural Science Library. First published 1952. Seventh Edition. Revised and metricated. Lightly age toned text block else clean and bright. Dustjacket has some minor indentations to front and rear panels.(BH) 7/2025.

Reprint of the 1950 original. 133, (2 Index) PP with b/w photos & maps. Hard cover, title on front board and spine. Head of spine repaired. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 24.7 x 15.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 176 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.xii+372. 23.5cm. Colour frontispiece. 99 black and white plates (many composite). Figures in the text. Index. Hard cover. Very small spots on the spine. Light foxing to early pages. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Assisted by Isobel Bennett and Elizabeth Pope A guide for the beach lover , the naturalist , the shore fisherman and the student, Gift inscription on the 1st blank page , no other writing or tears . A firm clean book Cover very good . Heavy book postage will be more than quoted . Please enquire.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GD original blue papered boards, faded & worn, remains of bookplate & gift inscription on ffep, illustrated with numerous b&w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. pp.xii+372. 23.5cm. 99 black and white photographic plates, the majority composite so many more individual images. Line illustrations in the text. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. A very good clean copy. (Australian Natural Science Library series. Originally published in 1952. This the reprint of the 1969 revised edition).

Condition: Very Good. 1930. Hardback. Benn's Sixpenny Library No.167 First Published 1927 80pp.Original Printed Wrappers. . . . .

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 133 pages; 133 pages illustrations, maps, plates; 25 cm. Subjects: Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 0 Kg.

xii+376pp. large 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, Colour and b/w plates. Inscription in ink on ffe, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A guide for the beach-lover, the naturalist, the shore fisherman and the student. Colour and B&W photos and illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name ffep. DW: Some minor chips and edge wear. 24 x 16 cm. 372 pp.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 136pp. b/w plates. Map. Missing ffe., & tape-marking to endpapers, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Photos, Maps, Diagrams (illustrator). Reprint. Willam Dakin's "Great Barrier Reff" also carries as its sub-title ".and some mention of other Australian coral reefs." In the main these "others" are the reefs found off Western Australia and in particular the Abrolhos Islands. Although Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Sydney, his book was written "for the ordinary person." Nevetherless,it contains a host of information, in text and illustration, about the reefs, their origins and inhabitants, fish, shellfish and corals. An important contribution to literature about Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef and other reefs. First published 1950 with this first reprint 1953. 135 pages including index, many b/w photographs, some maps, diagrams and small chapter end decorations. Plain hard covers with black front and spine titles VG with slight wear spine extremities, lower corners lightly bumped, dealer label (Angus and Robertson, Sydney) lower right front pastedown, no inscriptions.The text block is excellent, with slight undulations, but no sign of damp damage.

OWNERSHIP OF MARINE BIOLOGIST MICHAEL MILLER - CO-AUTHOR OF BENCHMARK BOOK NZ SEASHORE, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.