w e bill harney (54 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. First UK Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, blue cloth boards show very light handling wear, mainly a few scuffs and soiling spots, there's a small scratch the top of the front board and spine is very mildly faded. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. No signatures or personal bookplates, no library markings, no remainder marks. The only evidence of handwriting found is in the upper right corner of the front end page, where you could just barely see where a price was once penciled and then later erased. Text pages are clean but the end pages show a few slight fingerprint marks and toning.

Condición: Fair. 1963. First Published in GB. 174 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Paper residue to front board. Tape marks to both boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Water staining to edges. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Small octavo. B&W photos. Condition: DJ price-clipped with minor nicking to edges and a 3" edge-tear to top of front panel; upper corners of covers heavily bumped; else very good in good DJ. 189 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. book good in original purple cloth. DJ complete but rather worn at edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good, hardcover, no dustjacket. The book may have considerable folding, marks or wear to covers or other defects but is in good readable condition. 205 pages.

hardcove. Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 ' 189 pages. ".giants stride once more and the 'little men' come out of the forests to lay their pranks on the stranger." ex library, dj spine label inked out, stamped on top edge of pages and title page. pocket on last page. old tape spots on inside front and rear coves and first and last pages. dj now in mylar protector.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Includes dust jacket. Book shows minor handling & shelf wear, dust jacket has a mylar cover. First page is lightly marked, other pages are intact and unmarred. Binding is intact but worn and loose.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. A very good copy with damage to front pastedown in very good edgecreased and slightly torn dust jacket. Pp. 205. Harney's autobiography, completed by Douglas Lockwood.

hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in an unclipped lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, map, xi + 191pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, First Edition 1959 Robert Hale Limited 189 pages. Good+, in a VG DJ. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles - corners and spine ends are lightly bumped. Inscriptionn to the previous owner on the half-title page. Some small spotting (not foxing) to the last few pages and a few pages inside have some small smudges. All pages are intact and the text is not affected. Tales told to the Author by aborigines during his many patrols through the Northern Territories. From 1940-1947, he served as a patrol officer and protector of Aborigines under the Native Affairs Branch of the Northern Territory, coming to the job with more than 20 years experience with the tribes. A respectable copy. LOC SSS-23.

Condición: Good. 1963. First Published in GB. 192 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial laminated paper covered boards. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white maps and photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Marking to both boards.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 190pp, 22 photos. Size: 8vo.

First UK edition. Hardcover imperial octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condición: Good. 1st edition. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light even toning and writing on the ffep. Good DJ has chips/tears, toning and is price clipped.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 191pp. 18cm. 24 black and white photographic illustrations. Map. Soft covers. Good copy.

hardcover. Condición: Good.

Condición: Good. paperback, 192pp, illustrated, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, slight uneven fading on covers, Good condition.

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Third Printing. xvii, 189pp, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Small bookstore stamp on front free endpaper, light toning to page edges. Wide strip torn from top of rear jacket panel. From the Dreamtime to contact with the white man, here are stories from around the campfires of aborigines of remote Australia. Size: 8vo.

8vo; pp. 191; 10 pages b/w plates, 1 map, original blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, dustjacket, a very good copy.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ has some light edgewear, a faded spine & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 206 pages.

8vo; 90pp. ; b/willustrations, original pictorial boards, a very good copy. . First edition. Bush tucker, aboriginal lore etc.

189pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, monochrome plates. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Reprint. 192pp, 8pp b/w plates, 6 maps. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed. Red cloth boards in edge-worn dust-jacket which has some insect damage to flap folds. This is the story of the Ayers Rock area in the heart of Australia, 'the mythology, customs and hunting pattern of the aborigines; the opening up of the Reserve; the gathering of the mythology from the tribal elders; the development of the area of 400 square miles into watering places containing lodges and camping sites with roads leading to the scenic attractions. To read this book is not only to understand the story of Ayers Rock/Uluru but also to travel with the author and see both aborigines and Europeans in a new light'. Size: 8vo.

No Binding. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. Illstd with b&w photos and maps. Inscription signed by the author tipped in to half-title page. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded, tiny edge tears, slight loss at crown of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22cm. VG h/c, no DJ, minor bumping to corners, small inked name top title page, also very slight adhesion scars below authors' names. 206 pages, 38 b/w photos, pictorial e/papers Harney was Lockwood';s "best mate." The latter finished The Shady Tree from notes after Harney died leaving it half completed. Harney wrote 10 "dinkum Aussie" books and his last covered wanderings in many outback areas.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First British Edition. DW: PC. Small tears, creasing & chips to edges. B&W photographs throughout.

174pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, b&w illustrations. A very good copy. First UK edition.

1959, South Pacific, Australia, Robert Hale Ltd., 189 p., good cloth with torn and severly chipped dust jacket, Light foxing, inscribed by author "Best Wishes Bill Harney Ranger Ayers Rock".

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Stapled paperback, small quarto, 21pp plus two maps tipped in to inside of rear cover, b&w photos. A little wear to covers else very good. Bill Harney was the Northern Territory Reserves Board's first Curator at Ayers Rock. This publication is a reproduction of Harney's notes that he made on the physical and mythological significance of the Rock for Aborigines.