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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Edition. Hardback. Excellent reprint of the 1859 second edition. This Edition (4th) has a new Introduction by W.S.Curtis 3pp. Original material 70pp., figs. Very good condition in somewhat marked still good green dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto in black cloth binding with color plate mounted on front cover. Color and B&W plates. Condition: a well-worn copy with spine ends worn & rubbed; paper spine label soiled and nicked; corners lightly bumped; first free endpaper and frontispiece illustration missing; else a good copy. 72 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 70, [2]pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration and spine title. Bookplate front fly, spine label chipped, overall modest wear, near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U. K. edition, Nd. c. 1929. Publishers gilt lettered blue cloth with onlayed colour plate on front cover. Top corners bumped. The cloth is slightly dusty, rubbed around the edges and marked in places. Still a good copy. Coloured and black and white plates throughout. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean dark blue hardcover book with color paste-on illustration on cover, gold lettering on cover; clean paper label on spine. A little fraying at both top and bottom spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers, with tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. All pages are clean. Size approx. 8-1/4" x 11-1/4". Preface by Clayton Knight. Foreword by Elliott White Springs. Introduction by Floyd Gibbons. Amazing full-page illustrations by Clayton Knight in both full color and black and white showing various dramatic moments in the lives of the men who flew during World War I. Excerpts from stories by Elliott White Springs, Captain A. Roy Brown, Floyd Gibbons, Norman S. Hall. 72 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1998 (facsimile edition)/ 1914. Octavo, [xii], 154 pages with a few vignette illustrations plus 27 plates (from photographs), a tipped-in example of the print size of the original edition, and a folding map. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, and lettered and blocked in blind on the front cover; spine sunned; an excellent copy. Peade A216; one of 501 copies thus (of a total edition of only 600). As the original edition was published in a small format, this facsimile has been reproduced 30% larger. The seven-page introduction by Dr Philip Jones is new to this edition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with paper spine label and large pictorial color pastedown on front cover. 70 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white art work by Clayton Knight. Separate introductions by the illustrator and Floyd Gibbons. Foreword by Elliot White Springs. First edition. A collection of stories about aerial combat during the Great War, brilliantly illustrated to illicit the war flying experiences of all those pilots who fought, by C. Knight, himself a pilot. Previous owner's name and address on front free end-paper, along with date of purchase, August 14, 1945 -- V-J Day. A generally clean, square, unmarked copy, corners are sharp and hinges strong. Slight musty odor. A very good copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Philadelphia:David McKay Company, (1929). 72pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Blue boards with pictorial paste-down in very good, lightly shelfworn condition. Spine ends and edge points show light wear. Internally, pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. With a small bookseller ticket to lower inside edge of 1st free end-page. Dust jacket in poor condition, in 2 pieces completely missing the spine strip, and pieces left are heavily chipped. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 8vo. [viii], 154. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions and a two-color fold-out map. Introduction by Dr. Philip G. Jones. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, titles and decorations in blind on the cover. Edition limited to 600 copies. Enlarged xerographic facsimile of the 1914 edition published by W. K. Thomas & Co., Adelaide. A serialized scientific report of a 1300 mile expedition that marked the end of the Age of Exploration in Australia. A bright, fresh copy.…

Hardback. St Marys Books is proud to present this 1929 edition of Pilots Luck featuring excerpts from storeis by multiple authors all brought to life by Clayton Knights imaginative illustrations Bound in navy cloth with gold gilt lettering and a vibrant fullcolour illustration of aeroplanes in flight on the cover this hardback book contains 72 pages of snippets of war stories by various notable authors supplemented by Knight fullpage illustrations which perfectly capture the emotional quality and the essence of each scene described This copy is in very good condition with few notable blemishes or imperfections it appears virtually asnew remarkable given the age of the book Pilots Luck is looking for a new home and would make for a perfect gift for any aviation enthusiast or lover of Clayton Knights illustrationsnbsp. Clayton Knight (illustrator). book.…

Netley S.A. 1989. 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket. xii 172pp. Num. b/w illusts. Assoc. newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Fine.

Sextodecimo,154 pp.,photographic plates, original printed wrappers. "To Miss D. Lowell with every good wish from the writer S. A. White "Welunja" xmas 1914".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 72 pages. "Posed in the presence of death and paid for in pain, are these living drawings and paintings that Clayton Knight brings back from that No-Man's sky to which young fighting blood lifted the banner of chivalry from the gore and mud of mass warfare." - from Introduction. Handsome colour illustration and bright gilt lettering upon navy blue front board. Bright white label on backstrip is present and in superb condition. Uncirculated former military library copy. Fortunately the only markings are a bit of writing and a small ink stamp atop the front free endpaper. Exterior still amazingly bright and fresh with very light wear. An exceptionally well-preserved copy. Knight, Clayton (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. 12mo [approx 12x15cm]. Very Good condition - an excellent copy. Original paper covers. 2 folding maps. 31 black & white plates [all present]. McLaren 16762. Very scarce. 200 pages. Captain Samuel Albert White was a wealthy Australian racehorse owner, soldier, explorer, conservationist and amateur ornithologist. He fought in the South African War 1900-1903, reaching the rank of Captain, which title he continued to use throughout his life. He made several private ornithological collecting expeditions across remote areas of Australia, to Alice Springs (1913), Musgrave and Everard Ranges (1914), Cooper Creek (1916), Nullarbor Plain (1917-1918), Finke River (1921), and Adelaide to Darwin and return (1922), on behalf of Gregory Mathews. He was a foundation member of the South Australian Ornithological Association (SAOA) in 1899, and served as its President for several periods between 1904 and 1944. He was also a foundation member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, and served as its President 1914-1916. …

).Sextodecimo,144 pp.,photographic plate, printed stiff wrappers. "To my sincere dear friend A. M. Lea esq. F. E. S. with my good wishes from S. A. White 23/11/17". Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), son of Samuel White (1835-1880) of Reedbeds and an early South Australian settler, was a significant contributor to South Australian ornithology with many substantial expeditions to his credit. He was well connected, a strong promotor of indigenous rights and took a keen interest in conservation. PROVENANCE: Arthur Mills Lea (1868-1932) was the entomologist at the South Australian Museum until his death and published extensively.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, [1917]. Duodecimo, 144 pages plus 13 plates. Contemporary blind-stamped binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth sunned on the spine and a little flecked; an excellent copy bound without the wrappers. Inscribed, dated (10 November 1917) and signed by the author at the head of the title page to T.G. Souter (an amateur ornithologist from Maitland in country South Australia), with the latter's ownership signature on the flyleaf. In September and October 1916, White accompanied Edgar Waite on a small South Australian Museum expedition north-east from Farina into Burke and Wills country. McLaren 16763. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers, 1913. Sextodecimo, 58 pages plus 6 plates. Original printed textured wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; wrappers slightly marked and a little dusty, with light wear to the ends of the spine; inner margin of one leaf creased (a minor production flaw); a very good copy. A presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the title page 'To Walter Howchin Esq F.G.S. etc | with the writer's best wishes | Wetunga | 3/10/14'. Walter Howchin (1845-1937), English-born geologist and clergyman, emigrated to Adelaide in 1881. He was 'elected to the Royal Society of South Australia in 1883, beginning an association of fifty-three years; he was editor for most of the time until 1933, president in 1894-96 and published seventy-seven, mostly geological, papers in the Transactions'. McLaren 16759 ('Expedition commenced from Port Augusta on 21 August 1912'). Not noted (and presumably not noticed) by the bibliographer, pages 42-58 contain 'Bird Life on the Lakes. Ornithological Observations', an account of an earlier short journey White and his wife took to the Murray Lakes and environs in late February 1912.…

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Near Fine. No date stated, reprinted from The Register by W. K. Thomas & Co., Adelaide. Contains four separate articles as the Title suggests, 136 pp, (last 2 blank), title page reproduced on front wrapper, original grey wrappers, staples starting to rust else a fine copy of this scarce little booklet.; 150 x 120mm.…