Selection by Davis Arthur Rudd Steele (10 results)

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good- price clipped dust jacket. Rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Toning. Foxing and smudge to top page edges. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. vii, 232, ix-xix. 3rd printing of the first edition. B/w illustrations by A.J. Fischer, A.H. Fullwood, G.W. Lambert, Fred Leist, F.P. Mahony, and Alf. Vincent. Covers a little soiled, wear at top and bottom of spine, old name and date on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Condition of Hardback Book: Fine. A firm spotless copy. With drawings by A J Fisher, A H Fullwood, G W Lambert, Fred Leist, F F Mahony, Alf Vincent. This is a beautifully illustrated book. 328pp.

[viii]+224+24pp. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, rubbed and browned, worn at extremities and spine. Scattered foxing, leaves browned, ink markings on ffe, name on contents page, otherwise a very good copy.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Three volumes in a slipcase. The head and tail of the slipcase are bumped and shelf stained, the three volumes appear to have never been read, though inn each one the head of the spine is lightly wrinkled. This is a heavy set. Overseas customers please note it will attract additional postage. "Steele Rudd was the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 - 11 October 1935) an Australian author, from Queensland best known for his novel On Our Selection. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Steele Rudd was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artists" (Wikipedia).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fischer, A. J. , A.H. Fulwood, G.W. Lambert et al. (illustrator). No cover. Frontispiece B&W illustration. Slight damage to last two pages. Advertisement: back page.

[viii]+224pp. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, lightly marked, backstrip sunned, minor wear to extremities. Frontispiece, illustrations. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Illustrations by Norman, Lionel and Ruby Lindsay, Charles Nuttall, Ambrose Dyson, and Ashton Murphy.

Illustrated by A. J. Fischer, A. H. Fullwood, G. W. Lambert, Fred. Leist, F. P. Mahoney and Alf. Vincent. Pp. [iv]+154+[18](advertisements), frontispiece plus numerous text illustrations (some full page), decorative initials, endpaper advertisements; coloured pictorial paper wrappers, worn and lightly soiled, with name in pencil at top fore-corner of upper wrapper and small number stamp at foot of lower wrapper, the backstrip chipped and split, with large piece torn from head; the pages browned, a little light foxing and occasional minor wear & tear; N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Sydney, 1917. Eleventh edition, 63rd thousand. "Bookstall"' series. *First published in 1909 (the year in which the New South Wales Bookstall Company bought the copyright of On Our Selection and Our New Selection from the Bulletin and reissued them in three volumes). The third volume, Stocking Our Selection, comprised chapters 17-26 of the Bulletin edition of On Our Selection, plus seven additional chapters.

8." x 5.5" Card Covers Very Good Pictorial card covers, pp. i-viii, 1- 152 plus publisher's ads, covers lightly soiled, corners rounded, previous owner's name on half-title and title pages.

Illustrated by A. J. Fischer, A. H. Fullwood, G. W. Lambert, Fred Leist, F. P. Mahoney, and Alf Vincent. [Melbourne] : Gordon & Gotch, circa 1910. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (creased), advertisements to inner wrappers, small flaws to gutters of half-title and final leaves, pp. viii; 162, [2]; 12 (advertisements), illustrated.