David R Kirkby Compiler (4 results)

8vo, 155pp. black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in lightly edge worn dust jacket. Binding slightly canted.

4to (25x16.5cm), hardback, 156pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, chipped at lower right front and foot of spine with a small hole worn through at the 'F' of the title at front cover, sunned, scratch across rear, lightly creased, bumped). Lightly flecked, foxed. B&w photographs. Map at endpapers. Pictures available on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An exciting story of the people and events that went to make up the vivid history of the first fifty years of the Shire. It tells for the first time of the secret preparations to turn Sutherland into a fortress shire when during the Second World War, Australia was threatened by an invasion from Japan. You can also get a full picture of the thriving Sutherland of the 50s, the shire that made Cook's optimism valid. **The book has tanning and the name of the previous owner at the top of the flyleaf. The jacket has several tape-repaired tears and rubbing all over.**. Signed by Author(s).…

156 pp, large octavo, map on end-papers, b&w and coloured plates, line drawings, very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. 'With the Compliments of The Council of the Shire of Sutherland' slip tipped in on title page.