Serle Geoffrey Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Comes with Corrigenda for Vol 3. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Clean, crisp DJ. Clean, straight, sharp (red cloth) boards with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and crisp with similarly clean long and short edges. No inscriptions. Tight binding. Other volumes available - discount available for multiple purchases - please email.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light wear with minor scuffing and some small tears along the edges. The edges of the book have light tanning. The front endpaper has a name inscription from a pervious owner. 680 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light wear with minor scuffing and some small tears along the edges. The edges of the book have light tanning. There are faint ink markings on the front inside cover. 680 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).…

1st ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, light brown paper covered boards (beige cloth spine), illustrated endpapers, paper title on spine, sepia (brown-tinted) frontispiece portrait, tiny scuff fore-edge front cover, edges & front flyleaf lightly foxed. 59 pp. Apart from his own recollections, this memoir by Percival Serle is based on the short unpublished autobiography that he wrote late in life, and on diaries which he occasionally kept, here edited by his son Geoffrey Serle. His broad career included biographer, bibliographer, anthologist and art curator. He is best known for his Dictionary of Australian Biography, 1949. More than 100 people - writers, artists, professors and others - are mentioned in this memoir, testimony to widespread network. (No 115 of a limited edition of 350 autographed copies, designed and printed by A.T. Bolton at the Officina Brindabella, 1988. Hand binding and paper decoration by Helen Wadlington. This book is a hardback: Amazon incorrectly states paperback.).…

Condition: Very Good. Uniform matching first editions hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt backs. 8vo. 10'' x 6½''. Ex-library set with bookplate to each front paste down, bar code label to foot of each front free end paper, indigo reference stamp to each copyright page, Corrigenda pages loosely inserted. Very Good condition books in Very Good condition dust wrappers, not price clipped. Dust wrappers supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume set weighing 15 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRALIA (Terra Australis).…

First Edition. totalling over 5,500 pages, printed double column, with loosely inserted Corrigenda sheets in all but Volumes I & 4; med. 8vo; uniform red cloth, spines lettered in gilt; dust wrappers, occasionally slightly soiled or edges a trifle rubbed; minor production (printing) fault pp. 217/8 Volume 2; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967-1986. Volume I reprinted, all others first editions. *General Editor for Volumes I-5, Douglas Pike; for Volume 6, Bede Nairn; for Volumes 7-10, Bede Nairn & Geoffrey Serle.…

First Edition. totalling over 7000 pages, all but volumes 4 & 6 with loosely inserted Corrigenda pages (which are lightly tape-marked in Volume 11); each roy. 8vo; uniform red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, the first volume slightly faded and rubbed, other volumes occasionally a trifle rubbed or flecked at edges; dust wrappers, slightly soiled and worn, a few backstrips faded, edges generally lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips, a little silverfish damage to edges and backstrips of a few volumes, long cut from bottom edge of back panel Volume 5 tape repaired on reverse, the back panel of Volume 10 faded in strips; edges of leaves occasionally a trifle soiled, the lower free endpaper lightly tape marked Volume 11; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967-1990.Volume I reprinted, others first editions. *General Editor, Volumes I-5 Douglas Pike; Volume 6, Bede Nairn; Volumes 7-10, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle; Volume 11, Geoffrey Serle; Volume 12, John Ritchie.…