Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Previous owner's naet initials to upper corner of the front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated [40 pages approx].
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spine a little sunned [but clear] & now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. 304pages. What special things have contributed to the making of Australians as a unique people, and to the creation of the unique Australian lifestyle? These are the two questions that Michael Page sets out to answer in this wonderful book. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Evocative colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated [40 pages approx].
Published by Adelaide, Rigby Publishers 1980., 1980
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Very good in like dustjacket with a mild stain along part of the bottom edge. Illustrated with b/w and colour drawings by Ingpen. Turning points in many areas of Australian history: conservation and environment, Aboriginal history, war, politics, industry, immigration, travel.
First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto. Gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper which also has a bit of foxing, otherwise fine in pictorial boards as issued. A study of nine breeds of dogs: Australian Terriers, Irish Wolfhounds, German Shepherds, Doberman Pinschers, Labrador Retrievers, Spaniels, Greyhounds, Collies, Australian Kelpies, and Mongrels. Wonderfully illustrated in colour by Ingpen.
First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto. Stamped signature name (a former West Australian senator) on the front fixed endpaper, otherwise fine in pictorial boards as issued. A story of the great bullocky race run (in the late 19th Century) between Swan Hill on the Rivery Murray and the seaport of Robe in South Australia, wonderfully illustrated in colour by Ingpen.
Published by Adelaide, Rigby Publishers 1980., 1980
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Fine in like dustjacket. Illustrated with b/w and colour drawings by Ingpen. Turning points in many areas of Australian history: conservation and environment, Aboriginal history, war, politics, industry, immigration, travel.
Published by Melbourne, Hill of Content 1993., 1993
Reprint. Hardcover. Square small quarto. Fine in pictorial boards as issued. "A beautiful way to explain life and death to children". Illustrated in colour by Ingpen. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.
Reprint. Quarto-size, stitch-bound paperback. Very fine. Stories of the heroic tradition in the ancient world. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen.
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Very fine in pictorial boards as issued. A study of nine breeds of dogs: Australian Terriers, Irish Wolfhounds, German Shepherds, Doberman Pinschers, Labrador Retrievers, Spaniels, Greyhounds, Collies, Australian Kelpies, and Mongrels. Wonderfully illustrated in colour by Ingpen. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $8, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.
Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. Neat small ownership signature on the corner of the half-title page, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket. Illustrated in colour by Robert Ingpen.
First edition. Hardcover. Square quarto. Fine in pictorial boards as issued. Illustrated in colour by Ingpen. A fine story set on Cape Barren, one of the isolated islands in Bass Strait, in which a boy's new found conservation awareness is set against community hunting tradition.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Signed by author on half-title page. Previous owner's embossed sticker to lower edge of half-title page. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128pages. A beautifully illustrated & informative book by the Australian artist. Ingpen won the 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Medal and was a founding member of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Rarely have our classic buildings been so aptly pictured.
First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket. Paterson's classic Australian poem contrasting city and country life, droving on the plains and clerking in the towns, lyrically illustrated in colour and sepia tones by Ingpen, who contributes a 7 page essay, "Looking for Clancy", examining the background and possible origins of the poem.
Published by Newtown, NSW, Millennium Books 1989., 1989
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Fine in like dustjacket. Stories of the heroic tradition in the ancient world. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen.The Australian edition precedes all others, by a couple years. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.
Published by David Bateman LTD 0-949-135-06-2, Buderim
ISBN 10: 0949135062 ISBN 13: 9780949135063
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[0-949-135-06-2] 1987. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 288pp. Color illustrations, bibliography. Lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom of the spine and at the corners. "Writer, BARBARA HAYES, has taken over a year to carefully collect the base material. Some stories had suffered badly in translation, so Barbara went back to source material. We believe this collection is as near the original as research can make it". Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Retold by Barbara Hayes. (Juvenile, Fables, Folk Tales, Juvenile, Mythology).
Published by Sydney, Lansdowne Press 1986., 1986
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto size. A touch of foxing on the edges, a preliminary page or two, and the verso of the jacket, otherwise fine (the book-plate page not filled in) in fine dustjacket. A superb book, republished a few times in slightly different formats, sizes, in multi-volumes, but without the quality of the first edition. A compendium of fantasy creatures and places, accompanied by colour illustrations (full page, double-spread, half-page, vignette) by Ingpen. The book is divided into sections/chapters, with A-Z entries within each section, so in "Of the Cosmos" we have "Aeolus"; in "Things of the Ground and Underground" we have "Arachne"; in "Things of Wonderland" we have "Atlantis"; in "Of Magic, Science and Invention" we have "Alchemy"; in "Of Water, Sky and Air" we have "Acheron, River"; in "Of The Night" we have "Abiku" (demon of the Yoruba people of West Africa). This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted.