phillip captain arthur (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Not dated(1972):8 pages. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1996 1st editions. Small format paperbacks. 12 volumes of Children's Short Stories or extracts from longer works. Allan Ahlberg - The Night Train: Stories in Prose and Verse 55pp; Joan Aiken - Dead Man's Lane: 3 short stories 57pp; Roald Dahl - The Great Mouse Plot and other tales of Childhood 56pp; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band 57pp; Anne Fine - Keep it in the Family: 3 short stories 57pp; Terry Jones - The Dragon on the Roof: 4 short stories 58pp; Margaret Mahy - The Midnight Story: 3 short stories 56pp; L.M. Montgomery - Anne at Green Gables: 3 extracts -56pp [corner crease to front cover]; Philippa Pearce - At the River-Gates and other Supernatural Stories 55pp; Philip Ridley - The Hooligan's Shampoo 60pp; Jon Scieszka - The Great Time Warp Adventure 58pp; Charles Dickens / Captain Marryat - Classic Ghost Stories: The Signal-Man, The Phantom Ship, The Ghost-Brahman 56pp [cover crease]. Condition: Very Good. Light scattered foxing or age toning. A couple with cover crease. Size: 5.5x4in / 14x10cm. Combined Weight 370g.

Facsimile ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, good condition, marbled boards, half-bound light brown cloth (spine & both corners), maps, rear pages little foxed, limited edition label at rear little creased & foxed (faint glue mark reverse side of page), string bookmark, small bookshop sticker. In cloth slipcase (minimal flecking). 134 pp. A facsimile of the very first book published in Australia, 1802, by the Government Printer, Sydney (only 3 copies are known to exist). This facsimile edition starts with selected standing orders issued by Governors Arthur Phillip and John Hunter (12 pages), followed by general orders and proclamations by Governor Philip Gidley King (122 pages, separately numbered). Some examples [edited]: John Simmonds has been sentenced to hard labour for 12 months. There being only 12 weeks salt meat remaining in the stores, [none for] all women, children and those men not actively employed until further notice. The days for grain being received into the stores from individuals at Sydney, Parramatta and Hawkesbury are Fridays. (No. 65 of a limited edition of 150 copies, by History Books Australia, 1983. ISBN not printed in book. 12 + 122 pages.).