Privately Published Perth (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Book condition: Near Fine. 60 pages; illustrated. A bright copy.

Paper covers. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Paperback edition. Owner's bookplate. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Small folio, unpaginated, a stapled booklet with pink card covers, uncommon.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Enclosed in slipcase. ; 63 pages; Physical desc. : 63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Poetry -Scottish. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Enclosed in slipcase. ; 63 pages; Physical desc. : 63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Poetry -Scottish. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Octavo. 64pp. Slight wear otherwise very good indeed. No date, c.2003.

Signed, Privately Published Edition: Paperback, red covers, white titles, 145 x 210 mm., 300 g., 181 pp., illustrated with photographs and Schmoll Family Tree, faint removed tape marks on verso of rear cover, inscribed and signed by the author on verso of front cover, VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Special Edition. A very scarce, privately published novel, signed and inscribed by the author. We can trace only 8 copies in institutional holdings.  Captain Anstruther, by Hunter Macdonald Ballingal. Privately Published and printed by Cowan and Co. Limited, Perth (Scotland) in 1897 (although the book is also dated to 1895, presumably when it was written. There is a frontispiece image of the author and she has also written a presentation inscription dated to 1898 on the first free endpaper. A preliminary page notes that Hunter Macdonald Ballingal was born at Perth, Scotland, July 6, 1877 and she married Captain C.C. Reid of the 4th Sikhs, April 15, 1896, who later died at Dera-Ismail-Khan, Punjab, India on January 9, 1897. She presumably then remarried, as the presentation inscription is from Mr and Mrs Ballingal in 1898. A cream cloth hardback with gilt title and decorative line frame to covers. Covers with some soiling and stains, and lightly bumped. Starting to crack at inner front hinge, but all still soundly bound. Offsetting to free endpapers.  Overall text is very good - generally bright and clean with occasional scattered spotting. Printed on a good quality stock, with rough cut vertical and lower edges, and gilt to top edge. A Scottish literary rarity. Text in English. (4) + Signed, guarded, portrait frontispiece + 137pp. Weight approximately 866g (unpacked). Dimensions: Approximately 246mm high x 212mm wide x 22mm deep. Inscribed by Author(s). …

stiff wraps. 1st Edition. 1st ed., quarto, pictorial wraps, b&w illus, colour frontis plate and colour frontis portrait plate, pp x, 227. Includes loosely inserted small booklet "Old Blythewood", both in near-fine condition. The book is signed by the author. The lives and times of the McLarty family, from therir first arrival in the Swan River Colony in 1839. Includes many early photographs.…

1st edition hardback in decorated cloth As New large octavo 85pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., Deluxe edition bound in blue boards with bright gilt decoration and titles to front board. Neat ownership signature. Scarce.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A privately printed, personal story, an autobiography, of Western Australian businessman and public servant Adrian Hazel Convoy (18941978). The memoir recounts life in Australia before the First World War, wartime service, civic activities, and decades of public life. Privately printed and produced in relatively small numbers, the book appeals primarily to Australian military, local, and family historians. It provides a vivid personal perspective on twentieth-century Western Australia. Nice, tight, clean book. No writing or marks. …

Boards. 1st Edition. 1st edition, text in English (with some in Chinese), octavo, pp. (xiv) 681, 4 maps, presentation copy signed by author (Chung Yoon-Ngan), original boards, tiny chip rear bottom edge otherwise very good condition History of 550 of the most common Chinese surnames with brief histories of the various dynasties. Text in English.…