Australiana from Lawrence Jones

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press for the Cardwell Shire Council, 1970. 417pp + 13pp index; bibliography, appendices, bw ills, large folding map. Maroon cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds with spots of silverfishing to panels and silverfish holing to flap folds, small chipsat top front-cloth bright and undamaged, internally very tight and clean. Complete with the often missing folding map +… Read more about this item

Durong, Qld: Jack Coe , 1977. 542pp, num bw ills,index, maps. Pictorial glossy boards. Prev owner stamp on front free endpaper, light foxing to fore-edge. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper Scarce title published on the occasion of the Back to Durong and District Homecoming containing numerous stories from many of the founding families. Describes the period of closer… Read more about this item

Queanbeyan: A.M. Fallick & Sons, 1927. xix, 162pp, index, map, bw ills. Mottled gray cloth, no jacket. Very light even toning to page edges, offset toning to endpapers, occasional minor foxing. Minor marking to front cover. Includes appendix on Lake George by the same author. Canberra local history. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 1992. 60pp, index, sources, bw ills. Pictorial card covers. Crease to top front corner . Construction of the Rockhampton-Longreach railway in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Includes completion dates of sections and branch lines.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Yeppoon: Gordon Mackenzie., 1984. 120pp, map, brown/white ills. Pictorial textured stapled card covers. Darkened area to left of front cover, otherwise excellent. Account of life on brigalow blocks in the Mackenzie River bend. Deals with many aspects of the development of grazing in the brigalow areas of central Queensland.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: The Author, 1991. xiii, 162pp, bibliography, bw ills. Pictorial blue card. Very light edge wear to cover. SIGNED by author on half-title page. The story of Andrew Hume and his searches for a wild white man, an alleged survivor of the long-lost Leichhardt expedition, living with Aborigines in the outback. . Signed by Author. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Amphion Press, 1988. iv, 97pp, index, map, sources, bw ills. Pictorial glossy boards. Foxing to endpapers/prelims/edges/ SIGNED with personalised iscription by editior on front free endpaper. Edition limited to 300 copies. Experiences of a Queensland whaler in Moreton Bay and Hervey Bay.. Signed & Inscribed by Editor.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Rockhampton: University of Central Queensland Press., 1993. HEAVY. xi,306pp,bw ills. Pictorial boards in jacket. Brief gift note on front free endpaper, very light foxing to top edge and endpapers, slight fading to jacket spine. SIGNED by 2 of the editors (Liz Huf & David Myers), with personalised inscription by the former, on title page. Stretching from Great Keppel Island, Rockhampton,… Read more about this item

Dubbo, NSW: Macquarie Publications., 1981. 192pp, index, bibliography, hundreds bw & col ills, map, pictorial endpapers. Brown leather-look boards in pictorial jacket. Slight fading to jacket spine, approx 4cm tear at top of front jacket panel, some foxing to prelims. High quality presentation of the early history of the City of Dubbo on the western plains on New South Wales..… Read more about this item

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992. xiv, 292pp, notes. Maroon card. Page edges and margins evenly toned, tiny corner crease to front cover. Essays looking at the unique and surprisingly close relationship that developed between Russia (USSR) and Australia over two centuries.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Camooweal: The Author, 1984. 126pp, bw ills, map. Pictorial light brown card covers. Slightest of edge wear to cover. Centenary history of the far western Queensland town of Camooweal with material on Aborigines, pioneer graziers, droving, the war years and much more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Folio.

Bedourie: Diamantina Shire Council, 2003. xii, 275pp, map, index, bibliography, appendix, num bw & col ills. Pictorial laminated boards. Minor rub mark on front free endpaperprev owner name on front pastedown. Well produced local history of outback Queensland's Diamantina shire.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: The Author, 1981. vii, 471pp, bw ills, maps, large folding map loosely inserted. Red pictorial card. Rear cover and last few pages creased at top corner, foxed on edges and pages, generally minor edge wear. Several pages loose due to binding glue failing but complete. Scarce and comprehensive history of the postal service in Queensland beginning prior to Queensland… Read more about this item

St. Lucia, Qld: J. D. & R. S. Kerr., 1982. 248pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Pictorial card covers. Very light edge wear and very light foxing. History of mining at Mt Morgan in Queensland.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986. xvi, 288pp, index, notes, glossary, bw ills, map. Brown cloth in jacket. Minor fading to jacket spine. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author opposite title page. The social and technical sides of cane harvesting, and the important sugar industry.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. 264pp. Pictorial card. Foxing to page edges/prelims, minor scuff to top and bottom of spine. Edward Palmer settled at Canobie on the Cloncurry River between Normanton and Cloncurry. He represented the district of Burke, later known as Carpentaria, retiring in 1893. First published in 1903.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 1991. iv, 175pp, references, bw ills, map. Or card covers. Very light foxing to page edges. The early development of the town of Charleville in western Queensland.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Moranbah: Moranbah Jubilee Committee, 1996. xiii, 129pp, bibliography, bw ills, maps. Pictorial glossy boards. Stamp of director of a government department to front free endpaper, otherwsie excellent. Nice local history of Moranbah in Queensland now noted as a coal mining area.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Sydney: Book Club Associates, 1975. 240pp, index, bibliography, col ills. Pictorial boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacketwith very small chip and a couple of very short tears. Details hundreds of edible wild plants in Australia, with distribution, habitat, identification and preparation. Becoming scarce in hardcover.. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by McCubbin, Charles.. 8vo.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984. xvi, 653pp, col frontis: Labor Premier William Forgan Smith, illustrated throughout with b/w photos, chapter notes and sources, appendix: Queensland Premiers 1859-1983, index. Black cloth boards in jacket. 5-line gift note on front free endpaper, some foxing/toning to page edges. The book is in two sections: 1915 to 1957, Labor Dominance; and 1957… Read more about this item