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Yarram,VIC. Oceans Enterprises., 1997.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 301pp. Name on front pastedown. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The S.S. President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner until WWII, when it was repurposed as a troopship. In October 1942 it was struck by a Japanese mine in Espiritu Santo harbour, Vanuatu.

Lond. Sidgwick & Jackson., 1988.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 194pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Wife of one of Britain's best loved comedy actors, John Le Mesurier, Joan tells of how she fell in love with John's best friend & comedian, Tony Hancock. A double marriage of sorts.

Waverton. Barbara Ward., 1994.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 128pp. Light wear to corners. Light sun fading to spine. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Eliza Davies was a unique & adventurous woman who in the mid 1800s was part of the Sturt Desert Expedition, then a pioneer educator in Australia. Barbara Ward's prize winning biography of Eliza Ward.

Lond. Castell Brothers., n.d. (1905). Oblong 8vo. Red tasselled silk cord bound. Colour illustrated stiff card wrappers. unpag. (28pp.) 14 full-page chromolithographic colour plates with facing cursive text. Pictorial endpapers printed in sepia, the pages sl.tanned around the edges, the corners sl.rubbed & insc on verso of ffe else a very good copy. Scarce. Printed in Bavaria. The plates show Dutch dolls playing a series of parlour games.

Kogarah Historical Society., 2001.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 181pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author.

Canberra. Dept. of Law. ANU., 1975.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. German colonial law applied in New Guinea between 1886 & 1921. Today it has little practical importance, although it helped shape the future of the PNG legal system.

Hobart. St David's Park., 1991.. Roy.8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 253pp. Sl.foxing to edges, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce.

Port Moresby. Air Niugini., 1991.. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 44pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Hulis people of the Tari Valley were first discovered in 1935 & their stone age settlement of 100,000 people began to be influenced by the colonial powers of the 20th century.

Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing., 1988.. Or.cl. 325pp. Sl. foxing on foredge else a Very good copy.

Syd. Macmillan., 1993.. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 144pp. many colour photographic plates & b/w ills. Lower corner of front wrapper sl.rubbed else a Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. This copy signed by Tim Winton.

Palo Alto,CA. The Glencannon Press., 1997.. (rep) Or.cl. Dustjacket. 424pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Second Edition. The S.S. Lane Victory was a Victory-class cargo ship used during WWII & carried war supplies in the Pacific before being deployed to evacuate Korean civilians during the Korean War in 1950.

Galesburg,ILL. John S. Davenport., 1972.. Or.cl. 186pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The large-size silver coins issued by the Dukes of Brunswick enjoyed great popularity among coin collectors as early as the beginning of the 18th century when coin colecting was still in its infancy.

N.Y. Harry N.Abrams., n.d.. (c.1971) Oblong 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 294pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Tipped-in Col.plates. Sl.foxing to edges, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. A tribute to the American abstract artist.

Syd. Harper Collins Publishers., 2019.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 309pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Deep in the Carnarvon Ranges in 1902 a police constable & a station manager are slain & then incinerated by the Kenniff gang, a gang that were becomeing as notorious as the Kelly gang.

Canberra. Australian War Memorial., 1988.. Or.bds. 172pp. Name sticker on front pastedown. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. The service of some 27,000 Australians with the RAF under the Empire Air Training Scheme was one of Australia's most significant contributions to the Allied cause during the 1939-45.

Barnsley. Seaforth Publishing., 2018.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 274pp. b/w ills & a map. Very good copy. 1st ed. The SMS Emden was a light cruiser built for the German Imperial Navy & at the outbreak of WWI was part of the East Asia Squadron. On the 9th of November 1914 she was grounded off the Cocos Islands.

Lond., 1922.. Second ed. Or.cl. (sl. rubbed) 287pp. b/w. ills. Very good copy. With folding map in the text.

Westminster. The Folio Society., 1952.. Or.cl. 208pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st Folio Society ed. In February of 1824, the English poet, Lord Byron fell ill whilst about to sail with a rebel Greek army to attack a Turkish held fortress at Lepanto, but died in Missolonghi after a violent fever.

Lond. Headline Book Publishing., 2000.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 346pp. (sl foxing) to top & foredge. Some wear to corners. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1982 world renowned divers Chris & Chrissy Rouse set off to explore a sunken WWII German U-Boat submerged in the depths of the Atlantic, but tragedy struck when they both experienced the bends.

N.Y. Berkley Books., 2002.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 243pp. b/w map. Very good copy. 1st ed. On the morning of September 11, 2001, New York Fire Department Battalion Commander, Richard Picciotto arrived at the World Trade Centre 18 minutes after the Boeing 767 jet had hit the South Tower.