Battye Jas (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. With Descriptive and Biographical Information, compiled by Matt.J. Fox, F.S.S.: Green leather boards with gilt title on front cover and spine;318 pages. Front edge stained.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near Fine++ in deep green boards. No jacket as issued. This is the Facsimile Edition, done in 1985 by Hesperian, after the First Edition in 1915. Extremely clean. Fully illustrated. 318 pages.

Boards. Descriptive and Biographical Information compiled by Matt. J. Fox (illustrator). Facsimile Edition. Facsimile edition, quarto, pp.(x), 322, b/w frontis, b/w photos, original green leather, gilt titled boards. Previous owner's signature halftitle page. Near fine condition. Facsimile edition of historically important and scarce work, first published 1915.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Perth, V.K. Jones & Co., 1915. Quarto, [x], 318, [3] (index) pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Original half morocco (lettered and decorated in gilt) and dark green stippled cloth; leather a little rubbed at the extremities, with minor wear to the corner tips; cloth flecked and marked, with some loss to silverfish along the edges of the boards; edges (lightly speckled red) a little foxed and thumbed, with minimal pencilling to the top and bottom edges; rear hinge expertly stabilised; occasional signs of age and use (including slight adhesion blemishes to 15 pages, short sealed marginal tears to 10 leaves, with short clear tape repairs to two others, light marks to about 20 pages, minimal light pencilling to four pages); overall, a very good copy. A rare and important work of perennial interest and value, with extensive details of approximately 230 North West pioneers and early settlers and their families, and about 100 pastoral properties. Provenance: 'Mr John Heydon | Cue 1922' is written in pencil on the front free endpaper.