Peake Andrew G (11 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 20pp, bibliography, bw ills. Or yellow stapled card. Scarce booklet on Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetary since 1837. Size: 8vo.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. clear asdhesive cover, some library marks, slight wear to covers, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex Library.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. x, 78pp, bibliography, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Sticker shadow to front cover otherwise excellent. Ships arriving in Australia carrying immigrants. Size: 8vo.

paperback in good condition, some highlighting, a few small marks on covers; 77 pages.

Condition: good. Rousseurs sur tranche de tête. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Condition: Very Good. Passenger records are one of the most important categories of material used by the family historian.

Softcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Card covers. Some limited black and white illustrations. Signed by the author. 106 pages. The poems of John Neilson father of the celebrated Australian poet, John Shaw Neilson. John Neilson [1844-1922]was himself a published bush poet and contributed to local newspapers and Adelaide Punch. He won another prize for verse in 1897, but achieved his widest popularity in outback shearing sheds with a song, 'Waiting for the Rain'. His verse was issued in book form, The Men of the Fifties, in 1938. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 258pp. 25cm. Black and white illustrations in the text, including a map. Includes family history details. Soft covers with slight bending of one corner. A good clean copy. With a lengthy review of the work loosely inserted Poet and storyteller James Grassie (1816-1898) arrived in Victoria 1853. Already an author in his native Scotland he contributed to many local newspapers . poetry and literature and on the effects of colonisation on the Aboriginal people. [546g].…

Softcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Card covers, staple-bound. Some limited black and white illustration. Signed by the editor. 65 pages. The uncle of famous Australian poet, John Shaw Neilson. William Neilson was born in Scotland in 1842 but lived most of his life in Penola, South Australia. Although he had little formal education, he was accomplished bush poet with many of his poems published in the local press from the 1870s to his death in 1916.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no dates, circa 1829. 145x95mm. Contemporary half leather. *13 Georgian dramatic comedies bound together all with their original frontispieces, and " Printed from the Acting Copy, with Remarks, Biographical and Critical, ----- to which is added, a description of the costume, cast of the characters, entrances and exits, relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business. As now performed at the Theatres Royal, London: Embellished with a Fine Engraving, By Mr. Bonner, from a Drawing taken in the Theatre, By Mr. R. Cruikshank."* ** Caroline Boaden : William Thompson or, Which is He - A Farce in Two Acts; J. B. Buckstone : Happiest Day of My Life - A Farce in Two Acts; Butler, Richard (Earl of Glengall) : The Irish Tutor, or, New Lights - A Comic Piece in One Act; Andrew Cherry : The Soldier's Daughter - A Comedy in Five Acts; Mrs Inchbald : Animal Magnetism - A Farce in Three Acts; James Kenney : The Illustrious Stranger or, Married and Buried - An Operatic Farce in Two Acts; W. T. Moncrieff : Giovanni in London or, The Libertine Reclaimed - An Operatic Extravaganza in Two Acts; Thomas Morton : Town and Country - A Comedy in Five Acts; W. C. Oulton : The Sleep Walker or Which is the Lady? - A Farce in Two Acts; John Howard Payne : Charles the Second or, the Merry Monarch - A Comedy in Two Acts; John Howard Payne : The Lancers - An Interlude in One Act; R. B. Peake : The Duel or, My Two Nephews - A Farce in Two Acts; J. Thomas G. Rodwell : A Race for a Dinner- A Farce in One Act.** Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good collection, without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Images available on request. Robert Cruikshank (illustrator).…

HARDOVER. 2018. First edition. A fine, as new, copy in a like d/w. Scans available if required.