Mabel Brookes (80 results)

paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Paperback. Minor shelf wear.

paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Light shelf-wear. Clean copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. moderate wear and soiling to jacket otherwise a clean, square copy.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1967. 217 pages. White and gold pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.…

Condition: Good. 1967. No edition remarks. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild tanning and foxing to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Boards are moderately warped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Light toning to pages. DJ is toned with little edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. Dodd, Mead, 1961. 309 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Size: 8 x 5.4 x 1.4. History::European 6938.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: good. Illustrated. xii + 309pp., 8vo, red cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper torn and crudely repaired. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1961. A very good (+) copy in a good dust wrapper.

Condition: Good. 1960. First Edition. 309 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout with colour frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Tape to inside panels.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. 352 pages. No dustjacket. Red hardback binding with mild darkening to spine with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Moderate browning to page-edges, pencil figures to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xii,216pp, photos.index. Size: Large 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. xii + 309 pages. No dustjacket. Smells moderately musty. Dark green hardback binding with some damp blanching to bottom edge of front board and a few mildly darker area light wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Moderate browning and light foxing to page-edges, ink writing to back of half title page o/w pages clean and tidy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback in very good condition with very good dust jacket. name on front end page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback book (324 pages) illustrated with decorated endpapers and vintage black and white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket shows scuffing/rubbing with small tennis sticker on front - bottom and top edge of boards with moderate shelf wear/rubbing. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Sport2-TS-Middle) tennis - rareviewbooks.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket unclipped, chunks missing to edges. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Rubbed to ffep. No ownership inscription. 216pp. clean and tight. Dame Mabel Brookes'.s life has been one which spans the exciting development of the Australian nation. She has seen Australian society shape and reform, the change in the old .order and the emergence of the new breed of politicians. As the only child, of a prominent Melbourne lawyer, Dame Mabel's childhood was spenr.in the select social ,circle of Establishment families. Sir,Isaac Isaacs, Sir John Forrest, Sir John Madden: many notables of the age were familiar visitors- to the Emmerton house. Later, as the wife of the tennis. player, Sir Norman Brookes, Dame Mabel travelled afar and became a well known identity in international circles. Her circle of friends was ever increasing: from the first ranks of royalty to such celebrities' as Maurice Chevalier and the Vanderbilts. Through her charity work, political and war activities she has come to 'know the other side of life, the dark shadows behind the glittering social, events. These Memoirs also show her to he a woman with remarkable perception and human kindness; a person- with a wonderful gift of being.in the right place at.the right time to meet the right person. There are not many people in the world who can lay claim to such a distinguished and varied list of friends. Her friendship with the late. President Johnson did much to reinforce LISA and Australian relations in the late 1960s, and she has continued to maintain close ties with many representatives of the world's leading families. Dame Mabel's Memoirs introduce countless famous names and celebrities, her reminiscences of people and events 6t together to present an exciting and colourful mosaic of a remarkable life. Size: 8vo. Photographic Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner's inscription half-title page. DW: Edge and cnr wear and 1 cm tear bottom cnr. B&W and duotone photographs throughout. 24 cm x 17 cm. 216 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1974 near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's inscription. 216 pages with index. Illustrations. …

Macmillan, 1974. First edition, first printing. A near fine copy in a fine d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B&W and duotone photographs throughout. 24 cm x 17 cm. 216 pp.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good + book and dust jacket encased in mylar cover, signed by both the author and also the illustrator. There is a subsequent gift inscription from the previous owner. Signed by Illustrator(s).

xiv+218pp. Sm 4to. Or. cloth in d/w. Colour frontis, colour and sepia-tone illustrations. A fine copy. First edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 217 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear and tape marks in inside pages, but still a presentable copy. Dame Mabel's Memories Encompass Nearly The Whole Of 'European' Australian History. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 217 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy. Dame Mabel's Memories Encompass Nearly The Whole Of 'European' Australian History.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Type: Hardback The story of Betsy Balcombe and Napoleon Bonaparte while he was in exile on the Island of St.Helena. Foreword by Rt. Hon. R.G.Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. Hardcover in Very Good Condition, w/o jacket. Very clean and bright red cloth with black panel on backstrap, red lettered. Light edgewear, white dot on lower spine and small white mark on back side. Tight and solid. Illustrated with 43 b/w plates--maps, numerous illustrations, including Napoleon's Death Mask. Frontis: full color portrait of Betsy Balcombe. Endpapers with map of the Island and Forts of Saint Helena, in front, and The Island and Roadstead of St. Helena, showing ships in a harbor, in back. Interior is clean, no markings, no tears. A nice solid and clean volume. [In the Forword by Robert Menzies} "The very association of her family with the great Napoleon has led [Mabel Brookes], on the spot, and by reference to family records and documents, to give us new light on Napoleon, and to introduce us to human relationships. Such a book improves upon the works of the professional historian by letting us see that man in his setting and the kind of intimate world in which he lived.". 309 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 1961, Dodd, Mead and Co.…

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…