Robinson Malcolm Fraser (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-dec cloth, 260pp, a nice, clean copy in like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. First edition in an alternate, possibly later red cloth binding (first editions are also found in dark cloth with a pictorial pasted to front board). 16 illustrations by Adolf Thiede, 14 of which are present, and two of which are missing, but are supplied modern facsimile, at pages 118 and 146. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth with inset illustration to upper cover. Seven thrilling tales by Fletcher & Fraser, the former who had inspired in large part Conan Doyle with the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles: "This story owes its inception to my friend, Mr. Fletcher Robinson, who has helped me both in the general plot and in the local details." (ACD, in The Strand) Plates; some foxing, heavy in places; cloth with minor rubbing to extremities, but otherwise very good. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth with inset illustration to upper cover. Seven thrilling tales by Fletcher & Fraser, the former who had inspired in large part Conan Doyle with the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles: "This story owes its inception to my friend, Mr. Fletcher Robinson, who has helped me both in the general plot and in the local details." (ACD, in The Strand) Plates; some foxing, heavy in places; cloth with minor rubbing to extremities, but otherwise very good. Book. …

Boards. 1st Edition. Includes "The Regulations and Laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands" and a "Report on the Forest Resources of the Colony" (published 1879) by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Quarto, original cloth boards with original printed title label upper board, blindstamped border rules boards. Frontis map with colour detail, large folding colour map, two plates with colour detail tinting (illustrating jarrah and karri) pp 27, i, i, i, i, 30, and 20 b&w illustrated plates, some staining to upper cnrs not affecting images. Professionally restored with original cloth laid over new cloth spine. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Closed tear to large map, repaired. Very good condition. Scarce. Report on the West Australian timber trade, including an 1879 report by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller praising the size and significance of the south-west's jarrah "which for the durability of its timber is unsurpassed by any kind of tree in any portion of the globe". Complete with large folding colour map of WA and the 20 large detailed lithographic plates of Eucalypts. …