morwell hodges (11 risultati)

182pp. 8vo. Original cloth , b/w plates,.light foxing to ffe. A very good copy. Family history, mostly Tasmanian.

19 cm. 189 pages G/G. Good book in good dust jacket with shelf wear, short tears, a little soiling.

Condizione: Very Good. 1945. Unknown Binding. Good copy with some shelf wear, edge wear to spine, remains good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Imperial octavo, beige heavy boards, brown buckram spine- blank, brown lettering & platypus illus to front board, frontispiece, 78pp, illus/photos, VG+ (1cm scuff with loss to base of spine, light rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (light creasing & moderate chipping/tearing to edges- some loss & yellowing tape repairs, moderate soiling).

Condizione: Very Good. 1945. Unknown Binding. Good copy with some shelf wear, edge wear to spine, remains good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. No date, but c 1947. Grey binding, black title. Australian children's novel. 176 pages. 8 page publisher's list at back. Internally spotless. A nice tight, straight, clean book. Scan available.

12mo (18.5x12.5cm), hardback, 176pp + publisher's adverts. Good condition in poor dustwrapper (generally worn, yapped edges are chipped and torn, bumped, creased, open and closed tears, soiled, sunned, some loss to rear and to spine extremities). Bumped, page edges age-toned and foxed. some offsets to endpapers. Binding sound, contents clear and legible. Pictures available on request.

Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. Morwell Hodges, Illustrated with Photographs (illustratore). First Edition. Cover: beige cloth on boards, brown titles, brown illustration of a Platypus; brown spine wrap. Just a couple of faint small smudges, one small paperpeel to cover. Edges: foxing; dj shadowing to ffep & refp. Frontis: brown and white tones photo of a platypus in the water. Title page: just a couple of tiny spots. Clean contents. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 78p Dj: moderate soiling, foxing, rubbing and scratches. Top and bottom edges with a few large tears, thin wear and chips. Front bottom edge missing 11 x 1 cms. Head of rear edge with a 2x 4 cm hslf-cirlcle open piece missing.

176 pp, pages browned, pieces missing from d/j spine, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j.

First Edition. Pp. 184(including lower free endpaper), frontispiece plus 12 plates, bibliography; edges of boards a trifle rubbed, with tiny faded patches at head and foot of spine; dust wrapper, worn and lightly soiled, edges quite torn; a little light foxing and offsetting; Southern Moon, Melbourne, 1945. First edition.

Album 1. Oblong quarto (205 x 285 mm), embossed red leather over boards; front endpaper with ownership inscription of Morwell Hodges; approx. [50] mounted b/w gelatin silver print photographs, most 150 x 200 mm format, and several newspaper cuttings relating to the Healesville wildlife sanctuary and Coranderrk Aboriginal reserve; subjects include "Splash", the famous Healesville platypus, koalas; in excellent condition throughout. Album 2.Oblong quarto (190 x 270 mm), black cloth over boards; approx. [40] corner-mountedb/w gelatin silver print photographs, most 150 x 200 mm format; subjects include "Splash" and his handler Robert Eadie, as well as other animals at the sanctuary (owls, kookaburras, kangaroos, emus, possums), sanctuary visitors interacting with the animals, views of "Wildwood" guesthouse, and unidentified portraits (probably Hodges' family); in excellent condition throughout. Photographer and newspaper proprietor Morwell Hodges was born in Morwell, Gippsland in 1896. Among numerous other publications and periodicals (see below), his photographs were published in Robert Eadie's The life and habits of the Australian platypus (Melbourne, 1935). 'Morwell Hodges lived in Tasmania and Melbourne as a child. He was educated at the state school in Frankston and later at the Sacred Heart school in Kew, Victoria, where his father took over theKew Mercurynewspaper.After leaving school, Hodges worked for a time in the office of the newspaper and as a clerk in stores in Melbourne. In 1915 he joined the Royal Australian Navy as a wireless operator. Later, he was the proprietor of theHealesville Guardian.Hodges provided photographic illustrations for several works, includingEchoes of the Bushby Alice Johnson.InVeil of Time, Hodges is listed as the author ofBeyond the Reefand Country Editor, neither of which publications have been traced.Archival material on Hodges is held at the Kew Historical Society (Kew, Victoria).' (AustLit).