Bern, Peter Lang, 1998. Inscribed and signed in ink by editor Rod Home to eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) (and with his bookplate mounted on the front pastedown). Roderick Weir Home is 'an historian of science, has played a major role in the documentation of the history..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1898. (Marian) Ellis Rowan (1848-1922), 'artist, naturalist and explorer', travelled extensively after the death of her husband in 1892. She 'returned to Australia in 1905-06 where she pursued her search to find and record every species of wildflower on the continent. The South Australian government purchased..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1998. Introduction by Michael Rosen. More
London, The Folio Society, 1984 (first thus). More
London, The Folio Society, 1977 (first thus). Includes introductions by Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Brook, Sir Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Lawrence Olivier and Osbert Lancaster. More
London, The Folio Society, 1995 (first thus). Introduction by John Heath-Stubbs. More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (first thus). Introduction by A.R. Birley. More
London, The Folio Society, 2006 (first thus). Introduction by John Sutherland. More
London, The Folio Society, 2006 (first thus). Introduction by Michael Wood. More
Perth, Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1921 [first edition]. Western Australia Department of Agriculture Bulletin Number 96. 'Up to the present no publication dealing with the whole of the known poison plants of Western Australia has been written. This Bulletin contains the collected accounts of various authors and correspondents which..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2006. Selection, Introduction and Notes by Ruth Padel. More
London, The Folio Society, 2013 (first thus). With a new Introduction, and the Preface to the 2008 edition, by the Author. More
London, The Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). The set comprises H. St L.B. MOSS: The Birth of the Middle Ages; Geoffrey BARRACLOUGH: The Crucible of the Middle Ages; R.W. SOUTHERN: The Making of the Middle Ages; John H. MUNDY: The High Middle Ages; and J. HUIZINGA: The Waning of the..... More
London, Nonesuch Press, 1929 (first volume) and 1930 (all first thus). 'This edition of North's translation of Amyot's French version of Plutarch's Lives is printed from the first edition (1579) with the addition of 15 lives from the third edition (1603)'. Number 1116 of a total of 1550 sets. More
London, The Folio Society, 1999 (first thus). Frank Delaney also wrote the introduction and the authors' potted biographies. More
London, The Folio Society, 1982 (first thus). Revised, and with an introduction, by Sue Bradbury; the foreword is by Kevin Crossley-Holland. [3 items]. More
![Item #132091 Sherlock Holmes. Complete Stories [nine volumes in two boxed sets]. Arthur Conan DOYLE](/pictures/thumb/132091_01.jpg?v=1670394320)
London, The Folio Society, 1993 (five volumes) and 1994 (four volumes) (all first thus). The first slipcase contains The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; His Last Bow; and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. The second one contains A Study in Scarlet;..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus). The introduction is by Philip Hensher. The work was originally published as four separate volumes: Some Do Not; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post. [2 items]. More
![Item #132089 A History of the Crusades [the three-volume boxed set]. Steven RUNCIMAN](/pictures/thumb/132089_01.jpg?v=1670394317)
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). Volume 1: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume 2: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187. Volume 3: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. [3 items]. More
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). The 13-page introduction is by John Kenneth Galbraith. [3 items]. More
New Lambton, The Digger's View Pty Ltd, 2014. ''The Digger's View: WW1 in Colour' offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life in full colour, the images provide a unique perspective of war' (from the..... More
Kent Town, The Council of Governors of St Peter's College/ Wakefield Press, 2010. More
London, Heinemann, 1961. More
London, The Folio Society, 1986 (first thus). More
[Adelaide, No Publisher], 1995. A collection of personal accounts of Australian Army Nursing Service nurses during the Second World War. The draft manuscript was prepared by the Griffin Press, but never proceeded to publication; this is a facsimile of the proof, from a copy in the collection of the editor..... More