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London: Phaidon Press, 2015. HEAVY. Unpaginated (approx 200pp), col ills. Brown cloth with laid on image to front. A little shaken, starting to crack at title page. A volume of stunning photographs taken while travelling in India.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by McCurry, Steve (photographer). Folio.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. vii, 261pp, index, glossary, bibliography, num col & bw ills. Pink cloth in jacket. Light foxing to top edge and minor foxing to prelims, small bookseller label to front pastedown, a little wear and tiny mark to edges of boards. Asia has some of the most beautiful and unusual orchid species, yet many are rarely… Read more about this item

Singapore: Asia Pacific Press, 1974. xi, 127pp, glossary, notes. Red cloth in jacket. 3-line gift note on front free endpaper, foxing to page edges and prelims. Jacket rubbed with several tears and small chips. Sections include rice, fish/seafood, fowl, meat, kebab (sate), vegetables, eggs, condiments, relishes and deserts.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Quadrant Books, 1984. 185pp + biographical index, appendix, map, bw & col ills. Green card. Light edge wear to cover. The original of this diary was buried in the cemetery at Chungkai for fear of discovery by the Japanese, and dug up in 1945. It tells the true story of the 16000 Allied POWs that died during the construction… Read more about this item

London: Osprey Publishing, 1988. 203pp, num bw & some col ills. Pictorial card. Creases and moderate edge wear to covers. . First UK Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Australasian Book Society, 1975. 352pp, index, notes/references, appendix. Black boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, rubbed at flap folds, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Chronicles the historic boycotts, mutinies and riots staged in Australia against the colonial Dutch in Indonesia from 1942-49. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Roy Osborne & Wynand van Eeden., 2007. viii, 116pp, glossary, bibliography, appendices, num col ills, line drawings, mpas. Green cloth in jacket. Generally light wear to jacket edges with 1cm tear at bottom front. Covers all Vietnemese cycad species including Stangerioides, Indosinensis and Cycas and includes toxicity and ethnobotany.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1968. xii, 108pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, 48 bw plates, line drawings. Pale blue cloth, no jacket. Indian swords-chapters are northen half of India, southern half of India, Nepal and Assam. Appendices: Kopis blade; techniques and local styles in the decorative arts; hilt forms and their local variants.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: The Author, 2014. xiii, 557pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, nominal rolls, appendices, bw ills. Black cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. The 2/40 Battalion-mainly Tasmanians- were sent to garrison an airfield in Dutch Timor immediately after the Japanese entered WWII. Assigned a hopeless military task with misguided strategy they were captured a week after the fall of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. xvi, 316pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices (inc nominal roll), bw ills. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket, foxing to page edges and prelims. The story of an Australian battalion which fought as part of the US Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. The story of Australian, New Zealand and American soldiers sent inot… Read more about this item

London: Royal Colonial Institute, 1908. xii, 492pp, index, list of fellow. Burgundy cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind. Page edges evenly toned. Articles on Minerals of New Zealand; Nyasaland; Cotton Growing and Nigeria; Ceylon; Education in India; East Africa; Irrigation in Australia and more.. Periodical. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 1997. xiii, 225pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, maps. Pictorial glossy boards in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacekt. The history of the development of the modern navies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990. viii, 295pp, 8pp b/w photos, glossary. Papered boards in dust-jacket. Near new. The true-life account of the Navy's fighter pilots in Vietnam -- and how the creation of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun fighter pilot school helped to forge a dramatic victory in the Vietnam air war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item

London: Ellis and White, 1878. vii, 67pp text, 332 bw ills on 26 autotype plates. Grey cloth- mainly gilt with repeating motifs of cherries and cherry blossoms, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. The spine is detached at rear and holding well at front- it is split into 5 sections with approx 1cm of loss at top and .5cm at… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sixth Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1967. Introduction by C M Townsend. 136 pages, illustrated throughout with photos, some colour, full-page maps, Honours, Decorations and Awards, Roll of Honour. Decorative red boardsin jacket. Jacket toned and lightly soiled, minor edge wear, modertae to heavy foxing, lacks rear free endpaper. A pictorial record of the Battalion's Tour of Active Service… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. xv, 336pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Boards in jacket. As new. Explains the political intricacies surrounding the Panchen Lama (second spiritual leader of Tibet) finding a compelling climax in the search for the tenth Panchen Lama's reincarnation.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979. 2 volumes. xxvii, 360; xxvii, pp361-697; index, appendices, tables. Light spotting to cloth, occasional light foxing. Originally published in 1904. All aspects of Japan in the Meiji period.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1931. 399pp, index, bw ills. Blue cloth, no jacket. Cloth faded, bookseller label inside front cover, small prev owner name stamp on front free endpaper, page edges and margins foxed. Autobiography of Lt-Col GS Hutchinson. From childhood, his military career (inc Omdurman, Khartoum, India and WWI) and post war activities in various countries including Australia and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983. 78pp, bw ills. Yellow pictorial card. Some fading to covers, inside covers and adjacent pages foxed, sticker removal scar on half-title page. The author spent three years in and around Hiroshima as a member of the BCOF, then Intelligence as a writer for the British Commonwealth Occupation News writing about and photographing the devastation around… Read more about this item

Daylesford, Vic: Heart Space Publications, 2018. 196pp, bibliography, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover, small light mark to fore-edge. 300 years of Chinese influence in Australia.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Square 8vo.