Malcolm Uren (75 results)

Condition: Good. 1944. Fifth Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Pages are heavily tanned with mild foxing. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Moderate water stains to boards. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th edition. 253pp, octavo, brown cloth, b/w ill, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with worn corners and mildly worn edges, mild lean to spine, mild bow to front board, owner's name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. Pages are clean and tight.No name or inscription.Historical society stamp on reverse of title page.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good reading copy, Covers slightly creased, light foxing to prelims. Cover art by Walter Stackpool.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Illustrated with black & white photographs. 152pp. Very good in slightly scuffed and one nicked corner d/w.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 279pp, index, bw ills. Pictorial card. Moderate edge wear and some creasing to covers, pageedges toned. Originally published in 1948 the book collects the best of the stories of the prospectors of the Western Australian goldfields from the Kimberleys to Dundas. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 256pp. 21.5cm. Frontispiece & 37 black and white photographic illustrations. Line illus in the text and on end papers. Pieces torn from the corners of two leaves with the loss of c.6 words from one page. Gift message on end paper for one Captain E.W. Powell from Sir James H. Gosse (Noted South Australian businessman and entrepreneur). Brisbane 1946. Hard covers. Light edge wear to the cloth. Fair to good copy. With a long newspaper obituary of the author loosely inserted.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 255pp. 20.5cm. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Maps. Illustrated end papers. Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pp.xii+316. 21.5cm. Frontispiece portrait. 18 illustrations. 3 maps. Folding chart at end. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. EX-Automobile Club Library 'Withdrawn'. Rubber stamps on end papers and title. Bookplate. Laid down on front cover a large gilt lettered leather presentation label, from one automobile club (Aus) to another (UK). Spine lettering faded.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Published 1980 Soft Cover very good book, corners and edges rubbed, page edges and endpapers slightly browned, a couple of top page corners creased. No inscription. 279 pages with index. Map. Illustrations. Cavalcade of Gold Seekers in Western Australia Prior to 1900.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 5th Edition. Fifth edition First printing octavo hardback 256 pp. Illustrated Pages embrowned at edges.Good + condition in Good unclipped dust jacket (rubbed and dust soiled with protective backing) Original owner's inscription on first blank page (Wartime naval instructor, who had some connection with the author).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 256pp. (last blank). c.21cm. Frontispiece portrait. 43 black and white photographic illustrations. 7 maps in the text, of which 3 double page. Illustrated end papers. Bibliography. Damage to the top margin of one page repaired with archival tape. Rubber stamp of a private library on one page margin and a few other very small marks and a label removed from the front end paper. New red cloth spine with contrasting title label, lettered in gilt. The new cloth of a brighter red than the original. Wear to the edges. A fair copy. The text block clean. [528g]. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. pp.(viii)+160. 23.5cm. Frontispiece portraits of councillors. 12 black and white photographic plates. End paper maps, including street plan. Appendices. Index. Presentation in ink with a message from the Mayor and another from the Lady Mayoress, both signed, on the verso of the frontispiece. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy in a worn dust jacket. On the South banks of the Swan and Canning Rivers, W.A. [572g].…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Good With Tanned Pages Pp 253 Index Frontis Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 1942. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 253 pages. 6722.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition, 1945. A firm clean straight book, 256 pages includes Index. Printed map endpapers. Award certificate at front dated 1947.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Original binding in brown cloth with black borders and titles. Printed endpapers. 271 pages plus Bibliography. B/w illustrations. This is a tight straight clean book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vii, 160pp, index, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps + several related items loosely inserted. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight silverfishing to extreme bottom edge of boards. Local history of the city of Melville in Western Australia. Size: 8vo.…

Proof Edition. Condition: vg. good complete 1st OUP 1947 Proof edition edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Octavo. 249, [6]pp. Illustrated. Fine in a bright, but chipped and worn, good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has small tears and creasing at top edge. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a glossy protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent. The district of Melville takes its name from Melville Water, which James Stirling named in 1827 during his first visit to the Swan River. (Chapter 1). The purpose of this book is to record the dramatic development of the district and to unfold the human story of the people who were pioneers of Melville and often, under difficult circumstances, laid the foundations of the progress that followed. (Preface). …

254pp. 8vo. Original cloth in slightly chipped pictorial dustwrapper, black and white frontispiece and plates. A very good copy.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, loss and aged toned. Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition stated. Biography of Australian explorer. Orange cloth covers bright, but bumped all around, owner's name on half-title page. Page block has some spotting on edges.Dust jacket is worn, with some heavy chips, not affecting text, price of 10/6 nett intact, in mylar slip. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6th edition. 6th edition. 22cm. VG h/c, no DJ. Slight bumping to corners, spine top, bottom. Inked gift inscription dedication page. 266 pages, 38 b/w photos,18 drawings, maps etc, dec e/papers. First published in 1940, a sixth edition in 1945, in spite of wartime restrictions, says much about this account of the Batavia wreck and massacre 300 years earlier on the West Australia coast. Still a fascinating read. Pics listed for p174 appear at p88.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair condition. Wear to edges and corners. Marks on spine and covers. Previous owner has inscribed half-title page. Foxing to foredges and some preliminary pages. Book is in a non-adhesive glossy protective cover. Binding is still in good condition. This is a history of gold prospecting and the discovery of Western Australia's goldfields. From the Kimberley in the north to Dundas in the south, the story traces the men who saw the glint of gold and, in that glint, their fortune. First edition, published 1948.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Near Very Good. Fifth Edition. 256pp, index, bw ills, maps, endpaper map/illustration. Or brown cloth in jacket. Several small chips and creases to jacket which aslo has a couple of tiny holes (NOT price clipped),pages evenly toned at edges and margins. 400 years of modern adventure, shipwrecks, mutiny, piracy and treasure trove off the coast of Western Australia at the Abrolhos Islands. Size: 8vo.…

HARDCOVER. 1966. First edition. A good copy in lightly rubbed boards in a good, rubbed and edge worn d/w.

HARDCOVER. Melville City Council, 1975. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very faint tanning of the page edges. The d/w is very good with light edge wear.