White S a Capt (8 results)

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Good Condition. Original boards but new cloth spine and corners. New endpapers. A very solid copy - some mild stains to top edge of pages but mostly very clean. Illustrated with black and white plates and four [4] colour plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 116 pages. Samuel White is the father of Captain S.A. White.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Bound Vol. XXXIX of the Transactions & Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 8vo, 892pp & ills. White's article comprises 135pp + 40 illustrations & 2 maps. Also, Dr. B. Malinowski. Natives of Mailu. (New Guinea) 13pp + 17 plates. Orig. green buckram spine with paper wrappers, vgc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. White's article comprises 135pp + 40 illustrations & 2 maps. Also, Dr. B. Malinowski. Natives of Mailu. (New Guinea) 13pp + 17 plates. Bound Vol. XXXIX of the Transactions & Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. 8vo, 892pp & ills. Orig. green buckram spine with paper wrappers, vgc.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sextodecimo, pp. 144, with plates; original stiff wrappers. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which will vary from those quoted by ABE.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Verpilleux, E; Robinson, T.H.; Bates, Leo; Holloway, C.; Somerfield, T.; Wood, Stanley L.; Gillett, F.; Holmes, Fred; Hodgson, E.S.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 1-88, plus 16 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Vendettas; The Luck of the Game; The Secret of the Well; The Tragedies of Niagara; Running the Gauntlet - part 1; The Witch-Doctor's Vengeance; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship - part 5; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - part 3; Marooned in the Arctic; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - part 5; The Captain's Ordeal; The Swinging Log; The Lone Sea-Rover; Mind vs. Matter. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.

Reprinted from 'The Register'. Adelaide : W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, [1917]. Duodecimo, lettered wrappers (chips to spine), photographic frontispiece, presentation inscription from the author to the title page, dated 1917, pp. 68, photographic plates, a very good copy. An account of a bird-watching expedition at theentrance to the St Vincent and Spencer's Gulfs in 1916.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Facsimile of 1914. Number 92 of Limited Edition. Black leather spine and corners with gilt title. Fold-out map at rear. (in George).

Pp. 154 (lacking the final blank), 27 photographic plates; f'cap. 8vo; printed brown paper wrappers, lightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and chipped, lower wrapper damp stained, backstrip chipped at extremities; corners of several leaves slightly creased, a few small edge chips or splits, scattered light foxing and occasional soiling (including ink stains to one plate); W. K. Thomas & Co., Adelaide, 1914. Australian National Bibliography #47866. *With a presentation inscription 'from the writer & his wife' at head of title page, dated 'Xmas 1914'. Contains some ethnological material, including photographs. Born in Adelaide, Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) became the President of the South Australian Ornithological Association and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. White conducted several major collecting expeditions, made an ornithological survey of South Australia and the Northern Territory, and collaborated with Gregory Mathews on The Birds of Australia. Signed.