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  1. ADAMS TOM    Agatha Christie The Art Of Her Crimes. Commentary by Julian Symons. Introduction by John Fowles. illus. with more than 90 of Tom Adams cover paintings from Christie's novels in colour; pub. New York Everest House, 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.144. Collage of the covers that Tom Adams painted for Agatha Christie's books. Tribute to the crime author and artist/cover painter who collaborated together for 18 years. Symons explains the 'mystery clues' behind each illustration. Fine copy.    Price: $45.00
     
  2. ALABASTER ERNEST Notes And Commentaries On Chinese Criminal Law And Cognate Topics. With Special Relation to Ruling Classes. Together with a Brief Excursus on The Law Of Property. Chiefly Founded on the Writings of the Late Sir Chaloner Alabaster, K.C. M.G., etc. illus. with Chinese characters in the text; pub. London Luzac & Co. (Publishers to the India Office) 1899 1st. ed. or. salmon red cl. 8vo. pp.LXXII pp.678. Boards sl. rubbed, little foxing to e/papers, some pages uncut. Very good.   Price: $350.00
     
  3. ANDERSON HUGH   Larrikin Crook The Rise And Fall of Squizzy Taylor. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Qld. Jacaranda Press 1971 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.220. Front fee e/paper cut across corner else fine copy. Price: $40.00
     
  4. ANDERSON HUGH Larrikin Crook The Rise And Fall of Squizzy Taylor. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Qld. Jacaranda Press 1971 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.220. Signed by author, fine copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  5. ASBURY HERBERT The Barbary Coast. An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. illus. with frontis. 16 full page plates t/out. (Woodcut illustrations and a few photos of actual characters) pub. London Robert Hale 1937 or. red cl. 8vo. pp.320.The rough and bawdy life of San Francisco from 1849 and the gold rush to 1917. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  6. ‘AVNER’   Memoirs Of An Assassin Confessions of a Stern Gang Killer'. Translated from the French by Burgo Partridge pub. London Anthony Blond Ltd., or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200 An ex-British Commando who became a Zionist terrorist. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  7. BEATTY BILL Early Australia With Shame Remembered.  Story of  Australia's  early  convict years.  e/paper  illus.  15 plates  10 line drawings. pub. Melb. Cassell  1962  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. Fine copy.  Price: $35.00
     
  8. BECKETT RAY AND RICHARD Hangman - The Life and Times of Alexander Green Public Executioner to the Colony of New South Wales illus. with b/w plates, pub. Victoria, Thomas Nelson 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.202. Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of Hangman and Finisher of the Law in the colony of New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney in 1824 on a life sentence, but was conditionally pardoned a year later and soon became official flogger and assistant hangman, graduating to hangman-in-chief, a job he held for thirty years. Name stap to f/free e/paper else very fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  9. BISHOP CECIL [late of the CID]:   Women And Crime illus. with frontis. & 5 full page plates t/out. pub. London Chatto and Windus 1931 1st.ed. or. dark blue cl. glt. ltg to spine, 8vo. pp. 296 A survey of the effects of feminine emancipation on the work of the Police, by a Scotland Yard detective with many years experience of crime in England and the continent.  Slight shelf wear else good copy.   Price: $80.00
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  10. BLACKBURN STELLAR - Broken Lives illus. with 44 full page plates t/out. pub. WA. Stella pub. Paperback 8vo. pp.410 New Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke's secret crimes, the women who survived them and the man still paying the price. The father of Eric Edgar Cooke despised his baby son from the moment he saw him. Bashings and a hate-filled childhood followed for the boy with the crooked mouth, launching a personality unique among serial killers. He stalked the city of Perth for months, shooting strangers in the dead of night and using a sickening variety of weapons to steal the lives of strangers. Unknown to the terror-stricken citizens of this trusting, emerging metropolis, the young father of seven children who pulled the trigger had for years been doing other sinister night work. In a remarkable twist of fate, the killer's life tangled with that of 19-year-old John Button, whose 17-year-old girlfriend was killed. Both men confessed to that crime. This riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of the last man to hang in Western Australia reveals new evidence to indicate that at least one innocent man, John Button, went to jail for one of Cooke's murders. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  11. BLACKWELL LESLIEDeath Cell At Darlinghurst. illus. with 8 full page plates throughout pub. Sydney., Hutchinson of Australia. 1970 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.170.  The arrest and trial of Sydney lifesaver George Dean for the attempted poisoning of his girlfriend in 1895, one of the most sensational legal cases in Australian history. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  12. BOXALL  GEORGE E. History Of The  Australian  Bushrangers. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. Angus & Robertson 1916  fourth ed.    or.cl.   re-backed   new e/papers, 12mo. pp.XVI.394.XXII. Fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  13. BOYCE DEAN Clarke Of The Kindur.  Convict,  Bushranger, Explorer.  pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.100. George Clarke's history from transportation in 1824 for robbery, through his escape from the Hunter valley and life with the Kamilaroi tribe for 5 years, to his capture in 1831, subsequent imprisonment at Norfolk Island and death on the gallows in Van Diemens's Land. Perhaps the first white man to cross to Australia's north coast and the inspiration for Major Mitchells 1831 expedition. Light edgewear, else fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  14. BRAND MAX Pleasant Jim pub. London Hodder & Stoughton nd. (States Copyright NY 1927) 1st UK ed. or. light blue cl. cr.8vo. pp.314.6 advts. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  15. BRAND MAX Golden Lightning  pub. London Hodder & Stoughton 1965 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.252. One of the Dodd & Mead "Silver Star Westerns". The copyright is first dated 1931 and renewed by Dorothy Faust in 1959 but the work never appeared in book form until the New York edition of January 1964 and as such was published posthumously. This edition is the first UK edition. Fine copy.   Price: $100.00
     
  16. BROWN MAX Australian Son. A Life of Ned Kelly. Including the Jerilderie Letter-a Recently Discovered Statement of 8300 Words Made By Ned Kelly. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. (Ned's death mask.) & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1948 or. blue leather with gilt image of Ned on front cover, gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g. 8vo. pp.284. Includes fifteen photographs and published for the first time, the lost 'Jeriderie Letter' of 8,300 words, which Kelly wrote to the bank-teller. Near fine.   Price: $145.00
     
  17. BROWN MAX Australian Son A Life of Ned Kelly. illus. with e/paper maps, frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1956 2nd ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.284. Includes fifteen photographs and publishes for the first time, the lost 'Jeriderie Letter' of 8,300 words, which Kelly wrote to the bank-teller. Near fine in the very good dustwrapper.   Price: $50.00
     
  18.  BROWNE MARSHALL   Dark Harbour pub. London, Robert Hale 1984 1st. ed. Australian crime fiction. Author was born in Melbourne and this is his 3rd novel. signed  by the author on the title page. Fine copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  19. BURGESS  RICHARD   Historical Notes by KEN  BYRON  `Guilty Wretch That I Am.' Echoes of Australian Bushrangers.  From the Death Row Memoirs of Richard Burgess 1829 - 1866.  Text illus./plates   throughout, references, bibliography and index.  pub.  Melb.  Macmillan   1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.176. It was almost 118 years since the notorious (to 1984) Australian bushranger Richard Burgess walked jauntily up to the gallows in Nelson Gaol on a chilly spring morning. The life of one of the colony's most literate evil-doers came to an abrupt, certain end as the gallows trapdoor clanged open and the noose jerked tight around the leathery, weary neck. Burgess had spent more than half his life in the colony and had mixed it with the most infamous names in the annals of Australian bushranging - Harry Power, 'Captain' Melville, a youthful Ned Kelly. He had rotted on Port Phillip prison hulks and been a 'foundation member' of the then new Pentridge Gaol. Later he had terrorised travellers on the lawless goldfields and highways. Through his memoirs - written in Nelson Gaol while awaiting trial and execution - Burgess comes across as a forceful, violent man. But it is his literary and intellectual talents which provide the most extraordinary details of life and crime during those hard, harsh, early days of European settlement. Ken Byron has used Burgess' memoirs as a basis for extensive historical notes on transportation, colonial society and law and order. His notes comprise half the book. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  20. BURNS TEX  Hopalong Cassidy And The Riders Of High Rock pub. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. cr.8vo A very good copy, in a dustwrapper, that has clear tape to the top and bottom of the wrapper, closed tear to rear of d/w. sl. tape marks to e/papers. sl. spotting to front edge of pages, overall a clean copy in d/w.   Price: $300.00
     
  21. BURROUGHS  EDGAR RICE Jungle Tales Of Tarzan. illus.  with frontis. illustrations before each chapter by J. Allen St. John pub. N.Y. Grosset & Dunlap March 1919 or.  red cl.  12mo.  pp.320,10  advts. d/w. pasted to  front  bd.  & spine, lacks rear of d/w., sl. soiled to lower spine,  part of d/w. pasted to inside f/bd. otherwise fine. This is the first Grosset & Dunlap printing, after the 1919 A. C. McClurg & Co. first edition.   Price: $100.00   Convert Currency
     
  22. BURROUGHS  EDGAR RICE Tarzan And The Ant Men. pub. Lond. Methuen 1925 1st ed. or. brown dec. (embossed black deco circle of flowers & spine) cloth cr.8vo. pp.250.8 advts. very sl. rubbed to edges of boards, otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $150.00
     
  23. CALDERWOOD G. Captain Moonlite. Bushranger. illus. with  16 full  page  plates  t/out. pub. Adel.  Rigby  1971  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.140. Captain Moonlite whose real name was Andrew George Scott was one of the most colourful rascals outside the pages of fiction. Moonlite was a mature man when he undertook the road to the gallows, the son of a clerygman, well educated, a brilliant orator, and acceptable to the highest society of the day, paradoxically he was also a inborn cheat, thief and schemer, who in another time and setting would have been classed as a confidence man and incorrigible adventurer. Near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
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  24. CAMPBELL REGINALD   Murder of My Wife pub. Cassell London 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. black cloth boards stamped in silver; 8vo. pp.224.  Two very small closed tears, crease on front to d/w. else near fine copy. Original price to flap. Price: $45.00
     
  25. CARNEGIE MARGARET Morgan The Bold Bushranger. with e/paper maps & 8 full page plates t/out. appendix, select bibliography, index; pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.136. Biography of Daniel Morgan; (1830-9 April 1865) was an Australian bushranger who terrorised the Goldfields in the 1850's and 1860's. Fuller was born in Appin, New South Wales, Australia around 1830 to George Fuller and Mary Owen.. By 1854 he assumed the alias "John Smith" and became a suspected horse thief. He was also known for his heavy drinking and violent temper. He was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, yet released after 6 years having received a ticket of leave. Following his release, he began a life of bushranging, using aliases such as "John Smith", "Sydney Native", "Dan the Breaker", "Down the River Jack", "Jack Morgan", and most famously, "Dan Morgan". However, he was never known as "Mad Dog" Morgan in his lifetime. This nickname was invented by the writers of the 1975 film Mad Dog Morgan. Dan Morgan operated in the Henty, Culcairn, Morven and Tumbarumba area. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  26. CARROLL  BRIAN Ned Kelly Bushranger.  e/paper  illus. text illus.  throughout.  pub. Sydney,  Lansdowne  1980   or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.264. Brian Carroll has gone to the original sources, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal reminiscences, police reports; to retell the Kelly story as faithfully and as factually as possible. Full text of Jerilderie & Cameron letters. Dustwrapper slightly faded to spine otherwise near fine.  Price: $35.00
     
  27. CASTIEAU J.B. -  The Reminiscences Of Detective-Inspector Christie illus. with frontis. portrait and plates pub. Melbourne, George Robertson & Company nd. c.1910 or. maroon cl. cr.8vo. pp.240. From the "Told-by-the-Pioneers" Series. Early life in Melbourne. Lacks rear e/paper else an excellent bright copy.   Price: $155.00  Convert Currency
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  28. CHANDLER, RAYMOND The Simple Art of Murder pub. Lond. Hamish Hamilton 1950 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.334 top edge of pages sl. spotted, bottom spine faded where d/w lacks piece, lacks f/free e/paper. else very good.   Price: $350.00
     
  29. CHARTERIS  LESLIE    Saint Errant.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder   & Stoughton  1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254. price clipped, neat inscription to f/free e/paper, boards sl. spotty, lacks small piece to rear of d/w. ab. 4cms., sl. chipping else very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  30. CHARTERIS  LESLIE  The  Saint Around The World.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder   & Stoughton  1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254.  Six stories featuring "The Saint." Very fine, price clipped.   Price: $110.00
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  31. CHARTERIS  LESLIE  Thanks To The  Saint.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder   & Stoughton  1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.190. Dustwrapper two very short closed tears, ab. 1 cm. otherwise fine.   Price: $100.00
     
  32. CHARTERIS  LESLIE  Senor  Saint.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder   & Stoughton  1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.190. 4 short episodes with the gentleman adventurer, including 'The Pearls of Peace' and 'The Revolution Racket'. Some  slight marks to  Contents page & page 188 otherwise  almost  fine copy. Dustwrapper fine.   Price: $85.00
     
  33. CHASE JAMES HADLEY   You're Lonely When You're Dead. illus. with e/paper maps, pub. Lond. Robert Hale, 1949 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.252 sl. spotting to edges, d/w. has very sl. chipping to corners otherwise very good to nearly fine copy.    Price: $75.00   Convert Currency
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  34. CHASE JAMES HADLEY   I'll Bury My Dead. pub. London: Robert Hale, 1953 1st ed. First UK Edition, or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256.  Nick English, big time promoter, tries to solve his brother's murder, but the killer, even though identified, is able to strike again and again, as he and Nick match all their cunning and power in a thrilling chase and fight to the finish. 3 short closed tears, to d/w. sl. chip. at spine, wrapper is of clean appearance. A very good copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  35. CHESSMAN CARYL  Cell 2455, Death Row pub. London Longmans Green & Co 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.312. A condemned mans own story, the first six years on death row. Eight times Caryl Chessman has at the last moment escaped death. Here is his own true story. Slightly chipped d/w. otherwise fine.    Price: $55.00
     
  36. CHEVALLIER GABRIEL Mascarade. (stories). Translator from the French by Jocelyn Godefrou; pub. Lond. Secker & Warburg 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. Comprises four short stories; One-Way Street - The Parrot - The Treasure, and Aunt Zoe. "The Parrot" has marginal elements of the supernatural, as a murderer seems to be haunted by the parrot of his victim Very sl. shelf wear, near fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  37. CHRISTIE AGATHA After The Funeral. pub. Collins Lond. & Syd. (Crime Club) 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.207. Torn d/w. lacks large piece to lower spine, chip top of sipne, closed tear, otherwise good copy.  Price: $50.00
     
  38. CHRISTIE AGATHA Dead Man's Folly. pub. Lond. Collins 1956 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.256. Poirot travels to Devonshire to investigate murder at a fete. Dustwrapper alight chipping top & bottom of spine, nick in spine over 'S' in Man's, bit of light soiling to the rear panel, page edges little darkened else very good copy.   Price: $60.00
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  39. CHRISTIE AGATHA Dead Man's Folly.  pub. Lond. Collins 1956 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.256. Poirot travels to Devonshire to investigate murder at a fete. Short closed tear lower spine at dustwrapper else near fine.   Price: $100.00

  40. CHRISTIE AGATHA Cat Among The Pigeons. pub. Lond. &  Aust. 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Hercule Poirot must find the 'cat among the pigeons', the pupil or member of staff at Meadowbank, an exclusive girls' school, who has committed a murder and been involved in a jewel robbery. Spine ends with light chipping, & light edge wear to fore-edge else very good.   Price: $40.00
     
  41. CHRISTIE AGATHA Cat Among The Pigeons. pub. Lond. &  Aust. 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Hercule Poirot must find the 'cat among the pigeons', the pupil or member of staff at Meadowbank, an exclusive girls' school, who has committed a murder and been involved in a jewel robbery. Very fine copy.   Price: $100.00
     
  42. CHRISTIE  AGATHA Ordeal By Innocence. pub. Collins Lond. & Syd. (Crime Club) 1958 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. Silverfish insect hole to the rear fold in flap fore-edge fold, else fine copy.   Price: $60.00
     
  43. CHRISTIE  AGATHA The Adventure Of The  Christmas  Pudding. And a Selection of Entrees. pub. Collins Lond. & Syd. (Crime Club) 1960 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Short closed tear to d/w. at spine, & upper front panel, rear white panel sl. rubbed, otherwise fine.   Price: $55.00
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  44. CHRISTIE AGATHA The Pale Horse. pub. Lond. Collins  (Crime Club)  1962  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.256.  d/w.  slightly foxed on the back panel, insect spot below "O" in Horse, page edges slightly foxed as is front free e/paper otherwise very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  45. CHRISTIE AGATHA The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side  pub. Lond. Collins  (Crime Club)  1962  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.256.  d/w.  Price clipped & sl. chipped top & bottom of spine else very good.  Price: $50.00
     
  46. CHRISTIE  AGATHA A Caribbean Mystery. pub.  Lond.  Collins (Crime   Club)  1964  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.pp.   256. Rear of d/w. sl. stain mark, 'O' in Collins at lower spine insect mark, Slight foxing top edge of pages else very good.   Price: $40.00
     
  47. CHRISTIE  AGATHA    At Bertram's Hotel. pub.  Lond.  Collins (Crime Club) 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. white dustwrapper, titles in black and red, 8vo. pp.256. d/w. sl. frayed lower edges, silverfish insect mark to fold over at front flap, slight spotting to side edges of pages, & fore-edge, otherwise very good.   Price: $40.00
     
  48. CHRISTIE  AGATHA  Third Girl. pub.  Lond.  Collins  (Crime club) 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. A Hercule Poirot story, in which he plays a dazzling role in the 'swinging London' of the young folk. closed tears to d/w. at rear panel, price clipped, Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  49. CHRISTIE  AGATHA  Third Girl.  pub.  Lond.  Collins  (Crime club) 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. A Hercule Poirot story, in which he plays a dazzling role in the 'swinging London' of the young folk. Fine copy. Price: $70.00
     
  50. CHRISTIE  AGATHA   Endless Night. pub. Lond.  Collins  1967 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Slight spotting top edge of pages else fine copy.   Price: $35.00
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  51. CHRISTIE  AGATHA -  By The Pricking Of My Thumbs. pub.  Lond. Collins 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. fine in price clipped d/w.   Price: $45.00
     
  52. CHRISTIE AGATHA Passenger To Frankfurt. pub. Lond. Collins 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. Red author's name on spine of d/w has light fading, else near fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  53. CHRISTIE AGATHA Passenger To Frankfurt. pub. Lond. Collins 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. Very fine copy.   Price: $75.00
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  54. CHRISTIE  AGATHA Nemesis. pub. Lond. Collins  Lond  (Crime Club) 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. d/w. top and bottom of spine showing slight rubbing tipped in review copy notice otherwise very good.   Price: $30.00
     
  55. CHRISTIE AGATHA Elephants Can Remember. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.256. Price clipped  d/w. & small crease inside (fold-down) of d/w.  else near fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  56. CHRISTIE  AGATHA -  Curtain. Poirot's Last Case.  pub.  Lond. Collins  1975  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.222.  f/free e/paper cut.   Price: $30.00
     
  57. CHRISTIE AGATHA Sleeping Murder. Miss Marple's last  case. pub.  Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1976 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. 8vo.  pp.224.  d/w. slightly faded to backstrip and  to  rear  panel otherwise v/good.   Price: $30.00
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  58. CLARKE ALFRED E.   The Man Nobody Understood.  (A Biography). illus. with 2 photo plates t/out. (’Mica Fred" (The Diamond King) & Tommy the’Growler’) pub. Melbourne 1941 or. light blue cl. 8vo. pp.96. The story of Thomas George alias "Mica Fred", a man rated by authority as Bad Man No.1 in the penal history of Australasia. With author's gift inscription and  signature   on front free e/paper. Spine faded, paper browned from war-time printing, good otherwise.    Price: $35.00
     
  59. CLEGG ERIC Return Your Verdict. Some Studies in Australian Murder. With an introduction by Sir John Barry. illus. with 20 b/w. full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson, 1965 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204. The author was a Judge of the New South Wales District Court. Includes Arthur Upfield in 'The Case of the Debonair Stockman'. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  60. CLUNE F. Martin Cash. The last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers. With frontis, num. illus., and end-paper maps by V. Reilly. pub. Sydney 1955 1st ed. roy.8vo. or.cl. d/w. pp.XVI.336. chipped & torn d/w. sl. silverfishing to bds.   Price: $55.00
     
  61. CLUNE F. Martin Cash. The last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers. With frontis, num. illus., and end-paper maps by V. Reilly. pub. Sydney 1955 1st ed. roy.8vo. original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. pp.XVI.336. Martin Cash, audacious Tasmanian bushranger in the last days of the Convict Era, was lucky not to be hanged. His life was spared on a legal technicality, and he lived to write his memoirs in old age. Faded gilt titling to spine, else very good copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  62. CLUNE FRANK The Kelly Hunters. The Authentic, Impartial History of the Life and Times of Edward Kelly, the Ironclad Outlaw. illus. with title page vign. And several drawings t/out. by R. Malcolm Warner, pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1958 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXII.362. A chronological account of Ned Kelly. Fine in the scarce wrap-around illustrated chipped (lacks small piece, front top edge) dustwrapper.   Price: $50.00
     
  63. CLUNE FRANK Wild Colonial Boys. Stories of Bushranging  in the  mid  19th  century. illus. with e/paper  maps  &  text illus.  by  Ralph Warner, title page vign. bibliography, pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson  1963 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.654. Historical study of bushrangers in Western New South Wales. Very good in the slightly worn d/w.   Price: $45.00
     
  64. CLUNE FRANK Rascals, Ruffians & Rebels of Early Australia illus. with plates in colour and black & white pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1987 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.220 During the first eighty years of the settlement of the penal colony of New South Wales, the prisoners were forced by sheer necessity to connive, prostitute, thieve and general scrounge a living - all whilst under the watchful eye of corrupt guards and whilst trying to establish a new Colony. A modern enhanced reprint originally published in 1968 as Scallywags of Sydney Cove 1968. Near fine copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  65. CODY COLONEL W.F. Buffalo Bill's Life Story. An Autobiography Of Buffalo Bill. illus. with frontis. & 7 full page plates t/out. pub. N.Y. Rinehart & Co. 1920 1st ed. or. beige cl. 8vo. pp.328. Black felt pen mark to first page of text and last page, does not effect text, short closed tears in cloth at top of spine lacks front free e/paper, otherwise good clean copy.   Price: $150.00
     
  66. CODY LOUISA FREDERICI -  Memories Of Buffalo Bill By His Wife. pub. N.Y. D. Appleton, 1919 1st ed. or. maroon cl. black lettering on spine, 8vo. pp.326 Nostalgic memories of their life together, which was rather fiery. Lacks frontis. else fine copy.   Price: $125.00   Convert Currency
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  67. CONVICT  DISCIPLINE 1833 A Facsimile of the rare  Colonial Circular No.-33-48 and other related documents. Limited  to 750 copies of which this is No.723. illus.  with  frontis. pub.  Melb. Gryphon Press 1977 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  folio pp.68. fine.   Price: $95.00
     
  68. CORRIGAN MARK Bullets And Brown Eyes.  pub. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1948 1st ed. orig. blue cloth d/.w.12mo. pp.288. Lt. Mark Corrigan finds himself on trial for murder at the Old Bailey. fine copy.  Price: $50.00
     
  69. CORRIGAN, MARK -  The Golden Angel pub. London: Werner Laurie, 1950 1st ed. orig. blue cloth d/.w.12mo. pp.222 fine dust wrapper with some creasing to extremities and a small chip at top of spine, two short closed tears. Lacks f/free e/paper A suspense novel by a real life private eye, ex- Chicago gangster, and, during World War II, a member of U.S. Army Intelligence. "Chasing an ex-Nazi prison doctor who had committed bestial crimes, -- dust wrapper. With a period illustration.   Price: $45.00    Convert Currency
     
  70. COTTON LEICESTER    The Sydney Assassins: A Mid-Victorian Mystery. Illus. with contemporary photographs; pub. Melbourne, 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.172. Study of the Parramatta River double-murders in 1872. Almost fine copy    Price: $35.00
     
  71. CREASEY JOHN   A Doll For The Toff  pub. London: The Thriller Book Club, 1963 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.192. When the Honorable Richard Rollison (ie. Toff) receives a voodoo doll in the mail with a knife stuck through her chest, the detective becomes involved in a bizarre case in which crime and black magic seemed to be inextricably mixed. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $35.00
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  72. CREASEY JOHN -  The Toff Proceeds. pub. N.Y. Walker 1968 1st.ed. or. cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp. 192. Very sl. chipped d/w. to lower spine.   Price: $35.00
     
  73. CREASEY JOHN The Toff And The Terrified Taxman. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1973 1st.ed. or. cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp. 192. The 55th book to feature the Honourable Richard Rollison, this one finding our hero trying to straighten out a 10,000-pound mistake in his tax assessment, only to find that the tax inspector and other officials are apparently terrified of him. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00   Convert Currency
     
  74. CROWLEY DAN  Undercover Prop. The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell. illus. with 8 full page plates pub. Sydney Macmillan & Co 2005 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.248. The story of an Australian International Rugby player, and his day job, an undercover policeman in Queensland. Signed by author. Very fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  75. DENNING RAY  The Ray Denning Diary  illus. with 3 plates, pics author on cover, pub. Sydney Ray Denning 1st p/b. (card covers) 8vo. pp.200, Written By Ray Denning While Doing 6 Months In Solitary Confinement In Grafton Goal Between September 1978 - March 1979. Good condition.   Price: $30.00
     
  76. DE WAAL RONALD BURT   The World Bibliography Of Sherlock Holmes And Dr. Watson with 38 illustrations; pub. New York: Bramhall House 1974 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.526 This bibliography is a comprehensive record of the various appearances in periodicals, newspapers and books of the Canonical tales (fifty-six short stories and four novels) and Apocrypha written by Doyle between 1887 and 1927 together with translations of these tales into fifty languages, the higher criticism or writings about the Writings, the films, musicals, plays, radio and television programs, phonograph records, parodies and pastiches, and a multitude of other items (from figurines to Christmas Cards). A valuable reference.     Price: $100.00
     
  77. DE WAAL RONALD BURT  The International Sherlock Holmes illus. with black and white frontispiece pub. Connecticut & London Archon Books, 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.622. Bibliography which classifies and annotates all Sherlockiana appearing between 1971 and 1978 and includes all pre 1972 entries that the author has descoveredsins the publications of The World Bibliography Of Sherlock Holmes And Dr. Watson (1887-1972). Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  78. DICKSON CARTER  Behind The Crimson Blind. Another adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale. pub. Melb./Lond. 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.282. chip to d/w. at lower front and spine, light crease, inscription to f/free e/paper, minor shelf wear, price clipped. Bright copy otherwise.   Price: $65.00    Convert Currency
     
  79. DOYLE A. CONAN The Tradegy Of The Korosko. illus. with frontis. & 40 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Smith Elder & Co. 1898 1st.ed. or. red cl. glt. dec. & ltg. to spine & front bd. cr.8vo. pp.334,6 pages of advts. sl. faded to spine, spine re-backed & repaired, new e/papers good clean copy otherwise.   Price: $250.00
     
  80. DOYLE A. CONAN biography, written by John Dickson Carr who had full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle illus. with frontis. (portrait) & 19 full page plates t/out. biographical sources, index, pub. London John Murray 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.362. Price clipped, near fine.   Price: $50.00
     
  81. DOYLE WILLIAM with Scott O'Dell.  Lifer pub. London Longmans Green & Co 1954 2nd imp. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238 Pictorial d/w with titles in red, white and blue. A true account of the experiences of a man sentenced for life in one of America's toughest jails. Shelf wear to d/w. name on f/free e/paper else very good copy.     Price: $35.00
     
  82. DUNSTAN   KEITH   Wowsers. Being an Account of the Prudery Exhibited By Certain Outstanding Men and Women on Such Matters as Smoking, Drinking, Prostitution and Gambling. illus.   with  numerous   illus.  with cartoons, documents, &   plates throughout,  pub.  Melb.  Cassell 1968  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.315. Relates astonishing examples of wowserism in all its forms-drink, barmaids, smoking, dancing, the theatre, prostitution, gambling (from two-up to lotteries) and, of course, there is special mention of Australia's unique attitude to literary censorship. Very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  83. DUNSTAN   KEITH Saint  Ned.  The  story  of   the   near sanctification  of  an  Australian  outlaw.  illus.   with plates, drawings etc. throughout. pub. Sydney, Methuen 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.128. Near fine copy.  Price: $30.00
     
  84. EDEN ROB    Golden Goddess. England, R. & L. Locker 1947 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.160. two small tape marks to wrapper, otherwise fine, fresh clean copy. Picture of blond on front of wrapper.   Price: $50.00
     
  85. ERICKSON RICA and Gillian O'Mara. Convicts In Western Australia 1850-1887 Dictionary of Western Australians Volume IX pub. Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1994 or. laminated boards 8vo. square pp.618. Fine copy.   Price: $85.00
     
  86. FARWELL  GEORGE  Ned Kelly. What a Life! The life  and  adventures  of Australia's  notorious bushranger. poster reward e/paper illus.  8  full page  plates  some col. pub. Melb.  Cheshire  1970  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
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  87. FLEMING IAN - For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. pub. London, Jonathan Cape, 1960 1st ed. cr.8vo Original black boards with white eye motif to front panel. d/w. pp.252 A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with no fading to the lettering, no loss or tears to dustwrapper and not price-clipped. Just minor browning and finger marked with age . An excellent copy.     Price:  $1500.00 (See picture-press   ).
     
  88. FLEMING IAN Thunderball. pub. Lond. Cape 1961 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254. d/w. very sl. crease mark to top of spine effecting the "F" on Flemming, tape has been placed on inside of d/w. to strengthen top of spine and to returns, otherwise a fine looking, clean copy.    Price: $600.00   Convert Currency
     
  89. FLEMING IAN Thunderball. pub. Lond. Cape 1961 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254. ever so slight foxing to top of page edges, d/w. short closed tear at spine, silverfish marks to lower panel of d/w. otherwise a fine looking, clean copy, price clipped.    Price: $350.00
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  90. FLEMING IAN  The Spy Who Loved Me. pub. Lond. Cape 1962 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo.pp.222  d/w. is in near fine, two tape marks to returns on d/w. faint tape marks (3) to past down e/papers. price clipped v/fine otherwise.   Price: $550.00
     
  91. FLEMING IAN Thrilling Cities. illus. with many b/w  plates t/out. pub. Lond. J.Cape 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. Dustwrapper front and rear panels illustrated by Paul Davis. Collection of travelogues by Fleming covering the cities of Hong Kong, Macao, Tokyo, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Naples and Monte Carlo. Near fine.   Price: $150.00
     
  92. FLEMING IAN Thrilling Cities. illus. with many b/w  plates t/out. pub. Lond. J.Cape 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. Dustwrapper front and rear panels illustrated by Paul Davis. Collection of travelogues by Fleming covering the cities of Hong Kong, Macao, Tokyo, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Naples and Monte Carlo. Neat name inscribed by prior owner to free e/paper else v/good in the price clipped d/w.   Price: $95.00
     
  93. FLEMING IAN On Her Majesty's Secret Service pub. Lond. Cape 1963 1st ed. or.cl. Silver lettering O.H.M.S.S. and author's name on spine d/w. 12mo. pp.288. Dust wrapper design by Richard Chopping. Previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, d/w. not price clipped but has the four tips clipped as per usual. Two small pinprick holes to d/w. at spine where silverfish has been eating slightly into the 'M' in "Majesty' (white paper showing for ab.7cm in diamater). Still d/w. very respectable in appearance, colours bright, no chips or tears. Interior clean.   Price: $250.00

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  94. FLEMING IAN On Her Majesty's Secret Service  pub. Lond. Cape 1963 1st ed. or.cl. Silver lettering O.H.M.S.S. and author's name on spine d/w. 12mo. pp.288. Dust wrapper design by Richard Chopping. d/w. not price clipped but has the four tips clipped as per usual. Small pinprick holes to d/w. at lower spine where silverfish has been eating slightly into the Jonathan Cape emblem (a hint white paper showing). Four small silverfish holes at rear fore-edge of d/w. where the flap returns, cannot be seen looking directly at the back of d/w. Very respectable in appearance, colours bright, no chips or tears. Interior clean.   Price: $300.00
     
  95. FLEMING IAN -   Berlin Escape (The Living Daylights) in "Intrigue Magazine" pub. N.Y.Concord, NH Pamar Enterprises 1965 1st ed. or. wrappers 12mo. pp.144. The second, rare appearance of "The Living Daylights" in INTRIGUE MAGAZINE, Vol.1, No. 2, November 1965. Fine in wrappers, very scarce, particularly in this condition.    Price: $150.00  (See picture-press   )  
     
  96. FLEMING IAN The Man With The Golden Gun.  pub. Lond. J.Cape 1965 1st.ed. or. black cl. with gilt lettering on spine, d/w. 8vo. pp.221. James Bond's last adventure. Price-clipped, two very short closed tears to bottom of spine and fore-edge to d/w. near fine. Price: $85.00

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  97. FLEMING IAN The Man With The Golden Gun.  pub. Lond. J.Cape 1965 1st.ed. or. black cl. with gilt lettering on spine, d/w. 8vo. pp.221. James Bond's last adventure. Price-clipped A sprinkling of very faint spotting on top-edge, fine.  Price: $175.00

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  98. FLEMING IAN The Man With The Golden Gun.  pub. Lond. J.Cape 1965 1st.ed. or. black cl. with gilt lettering on spine, d/w. 8vo. pp.221. James Bond's last adventure. Shelf edge return on d/w. inside, sl. silverfishing, but otherwise near perfect d/w. very fine.  Price: $200.00
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  99. FLEMING IAN Octopussy And The Living Daylights. pub. Lond. J. Cape  1966  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.95. Two stories originally written in 1961 and 1962. Dustwapper design by Richard Chopping.  d/w.  price clipped, very fine.   Price: $175.00
     
  100. FLEMING  IAN  The  Life Of Ian Fleming. by  John  Pearson Creator  of  James  Bond. illus. with 8  full  page  plates t/out.  & 8 reproduced documents. pub. Lond. Jonathan  Cape 1966  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. pp.352. very sl.  rubbed to extremities of d/w. at top of spine else near fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  101. FRANCIS DICK Enquiry. pub. Lond. 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.224. Francis' eighth novel. d/w. sl. rubbed to fore edge, short closed tear to front, small mark page 143. Else very good. Price:   $125.00   Convert Currency
     
  102. FRANCIS DICK Decider pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1993 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.278. Signed by Francis on the half title page v/fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  103. GARDNER ERLE STANLEY The Case Of The Moth-Eaten Mink A Perry Mason Mystery. pub. London Heinemann 1958 1st. ed. or.cl. in black pictorial dustwrapper that has a lady being held at gun point. 12mo. pp.274. Slight chip at top of spine, two short closed tears, otherwise fine.   Price: $50.00
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  104. Gleeson Michael   The Jaidyn Leskie Murder illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Harper Collins 1999 or. pictorial card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.236. Story of the Jaidyn Leskie murder, an infant child killed by persons still unknown whose battered body was later found in a dam near a country town. Examination of the controversial murder investigation and trial. Fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  105. GRAY BERKELEY -  Alias Norman Conquest pub. London: Collins, 1945 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160 d/w. light shelf wear with two short closed tears, sl. rubbing to front board. Else fine. Features series character Norman Conquest.   Price: $95.00
     
  106. GRAY BERKELEY - Duel Murder. pub. London. Collins. 1949 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.192 d/w. 2 short closed tears to rear of d/w. tape mark to top of d/w. at rear, otherwise fine, very fresh, clean copy.   Price: $75.00   Convert Currency
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  107. GRAY BERKELEY  - Dare-Devil Conquest. pub. London: Collins, 1950 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.192 d/w. two short closed tears, very fresh d/w. fine.   Price: $75.00
     
  108. GREENWOOD KERRY  Blood And Circuses. Phryne Fisher's freakish murder mystery. Set in Fitzroy, Melbourne pub. Melbourne, McPhee Gribble1994 p/b. 12mo. pp.290. Signed  by author.   Price: $40.00
     
  109. GREENWOOD F. MURRAY Translated and edited by. Land Of A Thousand Sorrows. The Australian Prison Journal 1840-1842, of the Exiled Canadian Patriote, Francois-Maurice Lepailleur (1806-1891). illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. maps, notes, abbrev., index, pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1980 1st ed. printed in Canada for MUP. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXXVI.174. Caught up in the ethnic strife between the French and English of Lower Canada, Lepailleur was captured, tried, and transported to a penal colony in Australia, a place called Longbottom. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  110. GREY ZANE   Wanderer Of The Wasteland illus. with frontis. (cowboy and girl) & and 2 other plates; pub. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923 1st. ed. (with code A-X.) or. red & black pictorial cl. 12mo. pp.420. Story of a man who believes himself guilty of a terrible crime and who goes into the solitude of the great American desert. Name in ink front past-down e/paper. Spine is slightly faded and mark over the 'e' in 'Wasteland' otherwise very good condition.    Price: $40.00
     
  111. GULIK ROBERT VAN The Chinese Bell Murders. Their Cased Solved by Judge Dee. illus. with 15 plates drawn by author in Chinese style. pub. Lond. Michael Joseph 1958 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.288. Chinese detective story suggested by three original ancient Chinese plots. Little darkening on e/papers, slight stain to rear of d/w. nick in d/w. to front otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $150.00
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  112. HAGGARD H. RIDER.   Allan's Wife. And Other Tales. With 34 illus. by Maurice Greiffenhagen & Charles Kerr. pub. London: Spencer and Blackett, 1889. First edition. orig. pebbled brown cloth, with spine, corners and centre panel on upper cover in smooth brown cloth edged with black lines, 8vo. pp.332. (1) ad, (32)pp. ads dated "September 1889." Square piece clipped off the corner of the half title page e/paper, otherwise a fine copy.    Price: $255.00   Convert Currency
     
  113. HAGGARD HENRY RIDER  - The People Of The Mist illus. with frontis. has tissue guard, fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by Arthur Layard, (lacks 3 plates) pub. London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1897 new ed. or. maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt cr.8vo. pp.344. Lost race novel with African setting. Sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine, else v/good.   Price: $55.00
     
  114. HAGGARD HENRY RIDER  Benita. An African Romance.  illus. with frontis. tissue guard, fifteen inserted plates, with illustrations by Gordon Browne, title page and preliminaries printed in orange and black, pub. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1906 1st ed. or. cl. pp.VI.344 + 10 publisher's catalogues, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, Weird adventure novel. a very good copy. A touch of dust soiling to cloth, a very good, bright copy    Price: $225.00
     
  115. HAGGARD H. RIDER The Ivory Child. illus. with col. frontis. & 3 full page plates t/out. illus. by A.C. Michael pub. Lond. Cassell & Co. 1916 1st.ed. or. brn. dec. cl. cr.8vo. pp.344. Name to past down e/paper, sl. spotting to edges, slight splits in cloth at head of spine sl. flecked, otherwise v/good copy.   Price: $125.00
     
  116. HAGGARD H. RIDER The Ivory Child.. illus. with col. frontis. & 3 full page plates t/out. illus. by A.C. Michael pub. Lond. Cassell & Co. 1916 1st.ed. or. brn. dec. cl. cr.8vo. pp.344. some spotting, closed tear to top of spine, sl. rubbed, otherwise good only copy.  Price: $75.00
     
  117. HAGGARD Sir H. RIDER Moon of Israel A Tale of the Exodus. pub. London: John Murray, 1918 1st ed. (Murray's Imperial Library) Original light blue cloth, front board & spine decorated and lettered in dark blue 12mo pp.328 pages, plus 8 page publisher's catalogue. Name to paste down e/paper, hinges sl. loose, else good copy.   Price: $55.00
     
  118. HAGGARD H. RIDER    Allan Quatermain A narrative about the African adventures and discoveries of Allan Quatermain in the company of Sir Henry Curtis, Commander John Good and one Umslopogaas. pub. London George G. Harrap 1946 reprint or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.312. Slight chip to upper d/w. else fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  119. HALDANE  ROBERT The  People's Force. A  History  of  the Victoria  Police. profusely illus. with plates t/out.  many full  page pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.XVI.372. ex.lib. copy, very clean with no marks to d/w., two  small rubber ink stamps to title page & rear  e/paper, fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  120. HASLUCK ALEXANDRA Unwilling Emigrants, illus. with , 8 b/w plates, frontis. maps, index, biblio., pub. Melbourne Oxford University Press 1959 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.166. A Study of the Convict Period in Western Australia. Includes an account of the bushranger, Moondyne Joe. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  121. HEYER GEORGETTE Royal Escape. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1938 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.544. d/w. lacks small piece to front at top, ab. 2x4cms., short closed tear, sl, chipped, name to f/free e/paper, browned to edges else fine. Dustwrapper is clean and bright.   Price: $300.00    Convert Currency
     
  122. HEYER GEORGETTE The Spanish Bride  pub. London Heinemann, 1940 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.390. Dustwrapper chipped & little worn extremities at spine. Small piece missing at top and bottom of d/w. tape marks on reverse of d/w. where once repaired near spine, otherwise a good bright cover. Red boards in very good condition. Uncommon title in the original dustwrapper.   Price: $250.00
     
  123. HODGE BRENDA   Walk On: The remarkable true story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Rowville, Victoria; Five Mile Press, 2005 softcovers 8vo. pp.208. Fine copy.     Price: $30.00
     
  124. INNES MICHAEL Appleby Plays Chicken pub. London Gollancz: 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. yellow d/w. printed in cerise and black, 12mo. pp.222. Spine of d/w. is moderately browned, closed tear to d/w. else a near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  125. JACOBS P.A.   Famous Australian Trials and Memories of the Law illus. with 6 plates; pub. Melbourne. Robertson & Mullens. n.d. 1943 2nd ed. or. stiff maroon card wrappers, 12mo. pp.232 Includes chapter on the trial of Ned Kelly. Author was a barrister in Melbourne. Fine copy.     Price: $25.00
     
  126. JAMES  P.D. Innocent Blood. pub. Lond. Faber 1980  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276. Slight discolouration/browning to page edges, else near fine. Price: $45.00
     
  127. JAMES P. D.    A Certain Justice pub. London. Faber. 1997 uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. or. wrappers 8vo. pp.390 Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  128. JENKINGS BILL  As Crime Goes By The life and times of "Bondi" Bill Jenkings. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Ironbark Press. 1992 p/b. or. card covers, 8vo. pp.296 Very Good copy     Price: $35.00
     
  129. JONES IAN Ned Kelly. A Short Life. illus. with  26  full page  plates t/out. e/paper illus. maps pub. Melb.  Lothian 1995 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.404. Near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  130. JONES IAN The Friendship That Destroyed Ned Kelly, Joe Bryne and Aaron Sherritt. With b/w. plates & illus. pub. Melbourne Lothian Publishing 1992 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.240. Historical research that explains the complexity of events surrounding the police informant Aaron Skerritt. Very fine.   Price: $60.00
     
  131. JOY  WILLIAM and TOM PRIOR The Bushrangers.  with  e/paper illus.  & many plates throughout. pub. Sydney,  Shakespeare Head Press 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160. Stories of many infamous bushrangers. Ned Kelly, 'Mad' Dan Morgan, Frederick Ward, and others. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  132. KELLY VINCE    The Greedy Ones Publisher: Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1958 1st ed. or. cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.210. d/w at spine little faded else very good copy.    Price: $30.00
     
  133. KELLY VINCE  The Shadow. The Amazing Exploits  of  Frank Fahy. Foreword by the Attorney-General of NSW. illus. with frontis. & 9 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Angus & Robinson 1955 or. red cl. 8vo. pp.204. extraordinary career of an undercover man with the Military Police Intelligence in World War II and later with the NSW police. The biography of Australia's most successful undercover policeman who adopted the role of a vagrant and associate of criminals for nearly twenty years during the '20s and '30s Neat name to title page, sl. rubbed cloth, else very good copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  134. KELLY VINCE    The Charge Is Murder. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1965 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.  A collection of seventeen cases of murder that made criminal history in Australia. Small stain to lower edge of some pages else fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  135. KELSON BRENDON and John Mcquilton   Kelly Country. Ned Kelly Landscape and History. A Photographic Journey. profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page pub. Qld. University of Queensland Press 2001 1st. ed. or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. oblong pp.VIII.168. The Kellys and their history through images of the places associated with the outbreak of bushranging - from bush to country towns, from squatters' mansions to ruined homesteads, from the gaols to the cemeteries. In doing so, it brings a new perspective to the Kelly story. Fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  136. KENNEDY STETSON I Rode With The Ku Klux Klan. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Arco  Pub. 1954 1st.ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.272. Stetson Kenney was "undercover agent " for the Georgia Department of Law in its investigation into K Klux Klan activities and so had a major part in the prosecutions which took place against KKK members. Shelf wear, little faded to spine, otherwise very good condition.    Price: $50.00
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  137. KINGSTON WILLIAM H. G. with Henry Frith.   Notable Voyagers from Columbus to Nordenskiold illus. with col. frontis. eng. t/out some full page & col. pub. George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London 1885 1st ed. or. blue & black cloth with elaborate views of ship life, gilt, to spine (3 figures- one lookout boy); gilt to upper panel, gilt title blocks, 8vo. pp.IX.621.6, front tissue guard foxed, otherwise a fine copy, clean and bright condition.   Price: $125.00
     
  138. LAHEY JOHN  Damn You, John Christie! The public life of Australia's Sherlock Holmes with portrait frontis, 43 b/w illus., appendix, bibliography, index. pub. Melbourne State Library of Victoria 1993, paperback 8vo. pp.XVI.292. Fine.     Price: $25.00
     
  139. LEYDON KEITH And Michael Ray. The Wonnangatta Mystery. An inquiry into the unsolved murders. illus. with many b/w. text plates t/out. pub. privatly by authors or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.134. Unsolved murders of 1918 in the Victorian mountains. Fine copy. Price: $40.00
     
  140. LINTON JOHN SUTER   Bound By Blood. The True Story of the Wollongong Murders. illus. with 8 full page col. plates t/out. pub. Sydney Allen & Unwin Pty. Limited 2004 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.286. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  141. LYNN PETER & ARMSTRONG, GEORGE From Pentonville To Pentridge. profusely illus. with plates t/out. appends., bibliog., index, pub. Melbourne, Victoria State Library of Victoria Melbourne 1996 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.228. Fine.   Price: $60.00
     
  142. LYON DANA  –  It’s My Own Funeral. pub. London. Hammond, Hammond & Co. 1948 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.182,2 advts. d/w. short closed tear to d/w. at spine, tape marks to d/w.; otherwise very good, fresh, clean copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  143. McCALL ANDREW    The Medieval Underworld. Considers such sections of the society as outlaws and brigands; homosexuals, heretics, witches, prostitutes, thieves, fraudulent beggars and vagabonds. illus. with plates t/out, some full page, pub. Lond. Hamilton 1979 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320.  Fine copy. Price: $40.00
     
  144. McCARTHY  P.H. Starlight. The Man and the Myth. pub.  Melb. Hawthorn Press 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.144. The story of Captain Starlight (Henry Readford), the bold bushranger, and the famous cattle theft he carried out by droving stolen cattle from central Queensland to South Australia in 1870. Starlight was immortalised in Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  145. McCOY HORACE  Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye. pub. Lond. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1949 reprint or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. d/w. sl. chipped lower spine, short closed tear, sl crease else very good clean copy.   Price: $40.00 Convert Currency
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  146. MACFARLANE CHARLES -  Extraordinary Tales And Lives Of Robbers And Bandits. In all Parts of the World. pub. Lond. Simpkin, Marshall c.1890? 5th ed. or. dark blue cl. 8vo. pp.272,15 Bandits throughout the world including Italy, American buccaneers and Chinese pirates. Cloth very sl. rubbed else a nice copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  147. MARNE PATRICIA    Crime And Sex In Handwriting. illus. with over 200 examples of handwriting pub. Lond. Constable. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.150 Fine. The author analyses the writing of a whole gallery of con-men, anonymous letter writers rapists, psychopaths, war criminals and some 30 notorious murderers.   Price: $35.00
     
  148. MARSH NGAIO and R.M. BURDEN  New Zealand. British Commonwealth series. with 12 full page plates in col. 27 b/w. illus. pub. Lond. Collins 1942 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.47.  d/w. two short closed tears, slightly foxed else very good. Price: $40.00
     
  149. MARSH NGAIO  Died In The Wool. pub. Sydney & Lond. Collins (Crime Club) First Australian edition 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. Chip and short closed tear to top of d/w. neat inscription to f/free e/paper otherwise very good copy.   Price: $55.00
     
  150. MARSH NGAIO  Opening Night. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.255. short closed tear to rear of d/w., sl. crease marks to top of spine otherwise very good copy.   Price: $125.00   Convert Currency
     
  151. MARSH NGAIO  Spinsters In Jeopardy. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.255. some silverfishing rear panel of d/w. (about 3cms. & hole) - v/good otherwise. Price: $35.00
     
  152. MARSH NGAIO  Spinsters In Jeopardy. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.255. Near fine copy.   Price: $65.00
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  153. MARSH NGAIO  Off With His Head. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1957 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.288. price clipped, short tear to front of d/w. hardly noticeable, almost v/fine copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  154. MARSH NGAIO   Singing In The Shrouds. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.255. v/good sl. chip to d/w.   Price: $50.00
     
  155. MARSH NGAIO Hand In Glove. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256 price clipped, slight foxing to page edges else near fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  156. MARSH NGAIO Clutch Of Constables. A Roderick Alleyn Story. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.254. Rear of d/w. slightly stained to top, short closed tear otherwise very good.   Price: $30.00
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  157. MARSH NGAIO When In Rome. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. cr.8vo. pp.256. Superintendent Alleyn investigates 2 murders on a conducted tour in Rome. Price clipped otherwise near fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  158. MARSH NGAIO Last Ditch. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. cr.8vo. pp.256. bookseller's stamp to f/free e/paper, price clipped else very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  159. MARSH NGAIO    Light Thickens. pub. Lond. Collins (Crime Club) 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.251.   Fine copy.  Price: $25.00
     
  160. MEREDITH JOHN & BILL SCOTT Ned Kelly. After a Century of Acrimony.  frontis.  profusely  illus.  throughout.  pub. Sydney, Lansdowne  Press  1980 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.183. Presents the two sides of the Kelly story as seen by the protagonists, a detailed history of the Kelly family, Ned's own evidence and the findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry. Also includes a collection of songs inspired by the Kelly Gang and a comprehensive list of Kellyana. Fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  161. MEREDITH  JOHN The Wild Colonial  Boy.  Bushranger  Jack Donahoe, 1806-1830. illus. with 8 plates t/out. music, and facsimiles. pub.  Melb. Red Rooster Press 1982 Studies in Australian Folklore. No. 3 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.102. The story if the Irish convict bushranger. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  162. MILLAR KENNETH [Ross Macdonald] Blue City pub. London. Cassell. British 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.232. Returning from WWII, ex-GI takes on corruption in his home town. Early crime novel from Kenneth Millar who later wrote as Ross Macdonald. Fine in original boards, d/w. chipped at top and spine, short closed tears, lacks small piece at fore-edge, creases else very good clean copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  163. MILLER WAYNE -  The Murder Of Sheree. illus. with 44 plates throughout pub. Melbourne, Wilkinson Books, 1996, or. stiff illus. card 8vo. pp.494 Story of the 6-year-old girl who went for a bicycle ride and never came back. The child, the crime, and the aftermath. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  164. MITCHEL JOHN -  Prisoner in the Hands of the English. John Mitchel's Jail Journal. Commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer, in Dublin Bay, continued at Spike Island-on board the "Scourge" War Steamer-on board the "Droamdary" hulk, Bermuda-on board the "Neptune" convict ship-at Pernambuco-at The Cape of good Hope (During the anti-convict rebellion)-at Van Diemen's Land-at Sydney-at Tahiti-at San Francisco-at Greytown-and concluding at No. 3 Pier, North River, New York. With an Introductory Narrative of Transactions in Ireland. illus. with several full page plates t/out. pub. Dublin M.H. Gill nd. 195-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.464. First pub. in 1854.   Price: $75.00  Convert Currency
     
  165. MOLONY JOHN I Am Ned Kelly Published by Allen Lane Penguin Books, Melbourne 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.314 Kelly-Quinn family tree, notes, bibliography, index. Historian John Molony reveals the circumstances and details of the life and death of Ned Kelly. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  166. MOOR KEITH and Geoff Wilkinson  Mugshots 2 A Compelling Line-up of murderers, Madmen and the Mafia in Australia. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. text plates; pub. Melbourne News Custom Publishing 2000 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.252. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  167. MOOREHEAD  ALAN The Traitors. The double life  of  Fuchs, Pontecorvo,  and Nunn May. Espionage after the war.  illus. with  4  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.  Hamilton  1952 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.222.  Story of the atomic energy spy ring and, more especially, of the men behind it. Moorehead examines why, and how, these men turned traitor when the vast majority of their colleagues did not. Near fine copy. Price: $30.00
     
  168. MORLAND NIGEL   Two Dead Charwoman. pub. London Sampson Low 1949 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.224. Detective Inspector Andrew McMurdo, Price clipped, very good d/w. one very short closed tear, fresh and clean copy, fine.   Price: $65.00
     
  169. MORTLOCK  J.F. Experiences Of A Convict.  Transported  for twenty-one  years.  Ed. by G.A. Wilkes and  A.G.  Mitchell. illus.  e/papers pub. Syd. Syd. Uni Press 1966 or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.248. J. F. Mortlock was sentenced in 1843 to transportation for 21yrs was a violent attack upon a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He had already served three months, no gaol. for writing threatening letters, had broken the windows of a Cambridge bank, and had been acquitted on a charge of feloniously setting fire to a dwelling house and haystack. But Mortlock was no ordinary malefactor. The Fellow of Christ's College was his uncle; his grandfather had founded the bank; the house and haystack were also Mortlock property - property out of which Mortlock felt he had been defrauded. A violent sense of injustice made him a victim of the law. Mortlock's experiences in Australia cover the years 1844 - 1864. He was twice sentenced to transportation, and gained extensive experience of the colonial penal system during the years 1844-64. First published 1864-65. Covers the period in NSW, Van Diemen's Land, Norfolk Island and WA. Fine in the slightly chipped d/w.   Price: $40.00
     
  170. MULFORD CLARENCE E. Hopalong Cassidy Returns pub. London Hodder & Stoughton (Stated Copyright 1924 USA) 1st U.K. ed. nd. or. red cl. cr.8vo. pp.320. Crack to rear page at spine else very good condition.   Price: $50.00
     
  171. MURRAY  JAMES Sprung. A Study In Victims.  Depicts  young offenders who have been sentenced by courts/society. Father Murray  was  a prison Chaplin. pub.  Melb.  Lansdowne  1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.194. Father James Murray describes these young men and women as 'victims' - as much victims as those who are the target of their attacks. Their life, he claims, has been defined for them ',your home, your school, your first job, all add weight to what you are.', and for some the advantages have been few. Fine copy.   Price: $25.00
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  172. NOBLE  TOM   Neddy. The life ad times of Arthur Stanley Smith. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney, Kerr Pub. 1993 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318.  Written by "Neddy" Smith whilst in jail and smuggled out he puts his world in context. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
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  173. O'BRIEN ERIS The Foundation Of Australia. 1786-1800 A Study in English Criminal Practice and Penal Colonization in the Eighteenth Century. illus. with frontispiece caricature, bibliography, index. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1950 2nd ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.328. Faded spine & chipped d/w. else v/good.    Price: $45.00
     
  174. O'SULLIVAN  JOHN Mounted Police Of Victoria And Tasmania. A History of Heroism and Duty Since 1837. illus. with many plates  throughout.  pub.  Adelaide,  Rigby  1980  1st.ed. or. brown cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  175. ORCZY BARONESS  A Child of the Revolution  Novel, set during the French Revolution. pub. London Cassell 1932 1st. ed.  or. red cloth lettered in black 12mo.  pp.310. Cameo appearance of the Scarlet Pimpernel towards the end.  Red cloth has faint faded spots to boards, spine slightly faded, inside very crisp, clean, A very good copy of scarce first edition. Price: $200.00
     
  176. ORCZY BARONESS  Sir Percy Leads The Band The new Scarlet Pimpernel novel. pub. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1936 1st ed. Publisher's light blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper, in beautiful pictorial dustwrapper, with one short closed tear, very minor wear to d/w. a bright, near fine copy.    Price: $750.00      (See picture-press   )   Convert Currency
  177. 2                     ORCZY BARONESS The Divine Folly  pub.  London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937  1st. ed.  or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.346.VIII advts. Story of two English brothers and their strange connection with a secret society plotting the assassination of Napoleon III. Dustwrapper has small chip to front of wrapper, near spine, ab. 5x4 mm, fine crease down the rear of d/w. Boards and inside very fine. Otherwise book is near fine. Price: $250.00

  178. ORCZY BARONESS  No Greater Love  illus. with color frontis,  pub. London  Hodder and Stoughton,  1938 1st ed. original light blue boards and blue endpapers d/w. 8vo. pp.346, short closed tear to top & bottom of d/w.  1cm (top) x 2cm bottom of spine, light chips to d/w. top & bottom of spine; pink smear to one third of d/w. at  rear. An historical novel, based on a true story. Nice copy of a scarce title. From the author of the pimpernel series.   Price: $200.00
     
  179. OSBORNE  CHARLES Ned Kelly. with e/paper maps of "Kelly Country" in Victoria, &  23  full page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Anthony Blond  1970  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. Dustwrapper design by Ronald Stacy with art by Sidney Nolan. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  180. O'SULLIVAN J.S.  -  A Most Unique Ruffian. The Trial of F. B. Deeming, Melbourne, 1892. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204. A reconstruction of the criminal career and trial of, and the public reaction to, Frederick Bayley Deeming, who murdered his first wife and four children in England, his second wife in Australia - bigamist, fraud, thief and liar in the Manchausen tradition. Defended by Alfred Deakin 3 times Prime Minster of Australia. Fine in d/w.    Price: $35.00
     
  181. PETRAITIS VIKKI  The Frankston Murders. the true story of serial killer Paul Denyer. illus. with 16 pages of black and white photographic plates, pub. Melbourne Port Campbell Press 2001 or. card wrappers, (paperback), cr.8vo. pp.240. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  182. PHILLIPS  CONRAD    Cry  Of  The  Dingo.  A  study  of   the Australian  Bushranger.  pub.  Lond.  Arthur  Barker   1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. A study of the Australian Bushranger includes the terrible cannibal Pierce, the incredible Captain Moonlite and the tragic Kelly Gang Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.  Price: $35.00
     
  183. POWER F.R.   Stranger At The Door illus. with frontis. 2 full page plates map, appendix folding chart comparing the powers of J. P.'s in the various states of Australia. pub. Melbourne self published 1967 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.150 A record of the astonishing experiences that are everyday realities for a Justice of the Peace at St.Kilda (frequently described as Melbourne's Kings Cross or the Soho of the South) and a study of the work and ministerial powers of Honorary Magistrates. Fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  184. PRIOR  TOM  Bill  Wannan  & H.  Nunn   Plundering  Sons.  A Pictorial  History  of  Australian  Bushranging.  profusely illus.  with  plates  t/out.  some  full  page  pub.  Melb. Lansdowne Press 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.184.  fine in the slightly torn d/w.   Price: $35.00
     
  185. PROUT DENTON  &  FRED FEELY 50 Years  Hard. The  story of Pentridge  Gaol from 1850 to 1900. illus. with 20  plates. pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.266. Over the first 50 years, the authors have created a fascinating account of escapes, mortal combats, vicious tyrants, last minute reprieves, and the myriad dramatic and pathetic details of life behind the grim stone walls. Near fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  186. PURDUE BRIAN  Legal Executions In Western Australia pub. Perth Foundation Press 1993 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.VI.80. History of state executions. Near fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  187. QUEEN ELLERY Cat Of Many Tails. pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.284. Lacks f/free e/paper, 3 tears to d/w. lacks rear flap, a very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  188. QUEEN ELLERY   Queen's Bureau Of Investigation pub. London. Gollancz 1955 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.224. Ellery Queen investigates. Short stories. Very good in price-clipped dustwrapper. Name on flyleaf.   Price: $40.00
     
  189. RENDELL RUTH -  Some Lie And Some Die. pub. Lond.  Hutchinson 1973  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.192.  sl.  spotting  to edges, fine.    Price: $225.00
     
  190. RENDELL  RUTH -  Talking To Strange Men. pub.  N.Y.  Pantheon Books 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.280. fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  191. RICHARDS MIKE   The Hanged Man The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan. illus. with 28 full page plates t/out. pub. Melbourne Scribe Publications, 2002 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XX.490. Gift inscription to title page else fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  192. RICHARDS ROSS Howard W. Baker. The Fifth Sexton Blake Omnibus pub. London Howard Baker, 1969 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. Contains Ross Richards' "Murder on the Monte" and W. Howard Baker's "Every Man An Enemy; " Fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  193. ROBERTS KENNETH Captain Of The Push. When a Larrikin Chief Ruled the  Rocks. illus. with 18 full page  plates  t/out. pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1963 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.138. The story of Larry Foley, the greatest bare-knuckle fighter of his time, and the founder of scientific boxing in Australia, charting his rise to fame from his beginnings in Sydney's Rocks. Slightly faded to spine else very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  194. ROBSON L.L. The Convict Settlers Of Australia. An  Enquiry into  the Origin and Character of the Convicts  Transported to  New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land  1787-1852.  pub. Melb. 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.258. previous owner's name to past/down e/paper, otherwise fine.   Price: $55.00
     
  195. ROHMER SAX Egyptian Nights Some Account Of The Investigations Of Bimbashi Baruk. pub. London Robert Hale Limited 1944 1st. ed. or. red cl. 12mo. pp.222. Gilt to spine little faded, wartime production, cloth very bright and clean, fine otherwise. Price: $95.00
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  196. RUNYON  DAMON  Take It Easy. pub.  Lond.  Constable  1938 1st.ed.  or. blue cloth lettered in red on the spine cr.8vo. pp.344. Collection of 14 short stories, including "All Horse Players Die Broke." Lacks  f/free  e/paper, cl. sl. rubbed to top of spine, fore-edge pages marked else v/good.   Price: $35.00   Convert Currency
     
  197. RUNYON  DAMON -  In Our Town. with illus. by Garth  Williams.pub. N.Y. Creative Age Press 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.120.  occasional spotting t/out. some wear to cl.  spine to top edge sl. frayed.   Price: $55.00
     
  198. RUNYON DAMON   "The Turps" drawings t/out. by Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson pub. Lond. Constable 1951 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.280. inscription f/free e/paper, d/w. torn (lacks piece at bottom spine), tape marks on d/w.  else very good.   Price: $55.00
     
  199. RUNYON DAMON  From First To Last. pub. Lond. Constable 1954 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.478. d/w. chipped and  torn to top of spine, (closed tears).  else very good copy.  Price: $45.00
     
  200. RYAN  R.JThe  Third Fleet  Convicts.  An  alphabetical listing  of  names, giving place and  date  of  conviction, length of sentence and ship of transportation. illus.  with frontis.  pub.  Syd. Castle Books 1983  or.  illus. laminated boards, 8vo. pp.126. Third Fleet was the biggest assembled for the convict settlement of Australia. Includes details of the ships involved. Fine.   Price: $40.00
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  201. SCOBIE ALASTAIR So She Sent Flowers pub. London & Sydney, The Shakespeare Head, 1946 1st ed. or. blue boards d/w. 12mo. pp.128 Scobie's first crime fiction, set in London's underworld with 'Potato Face Madigan' as the central nasty. Lacks small piece at bottom of spine, ab. 2 sq. cms, else fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  202. SEATON GEORGE JOHN   Isle of the Damned. Twenty Years in the Penal Colony of French Guinea [I. E. Guiana] illus. with e/paper map and drawings, 15 full page plates throughout pub. Farrar, Straus and Young 1951 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302 Slightly sunned to upper and lower spine, else very good copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  203. SEATON GEORGE JOHN   Scars Are My Passport  illus. with frontis. & 14 photo plates, maps, glossary; pub. London Hutchinson 1951 1st. ed. or. black cl. 8vo. pp.256. Author's horrifying account of penal servitude in French Guiana in the 1930's & 1940's. French Guiana Devil's Island. Very good copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  204. SHAND ADAM  Big Shots. The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams & the Gangland Wars. Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. illus. with photographs in colour and black and white. pub. Victoria Australia Viking 2007 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.406. Fine copy.  Price: $30.00
     
  205. SIMENON  GEORGES Chit Of A Girl. Part I - Justice Part  II (2  Stories).  Translated  from  the  French  by   Geoffrey Sainsbury.  pub.  Lond. Rutledge Keagan Paul  1949  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.265. "The story of Petit Louis, whose life of petty crime embraces a small part in a gang's robbery of a post-office, and affairs with lonely, middle-aged women which are his specialty." d/w. chipped, small round stain to f/bds. price clipped, otherwise v/good.   Price: $60.00
     
  206. SIMENON  GEORGES The Fate Of The Malous Translated from the French by Denis George; pub. London Hamish Hamilton 1962 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.160. Price-clipped; couples of nicks, to return of d/w. at rear panel otherwise near fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  207. SIMENON  GEORGES   Maigret's Memoirs Translated form the French by Jean Stewart originally entitled Les Memoires de Maigret. pub. London Hamish Hamilton 1963 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.160. Inspector Maigret tells his own story. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  208. SIMENON  GEORGES  Betty. Translated by Alistair Hamilton pub. Lond. Hamilton  1975  or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.124. Two women in a bar then a hotel room and on the brink of tragedy. Near fine copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  209. SIMPSON LINDSAY and Sandra Harvey  My Husband My Killer The murder of Megan Kalajzich. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney Allen & Unwin 1992 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 12mo. pp.268. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  210. SMITH  BABETTE  A Cargo Of Women. Susannah Watson  &  the Convicts of The Princess Royal. pub. N.S.W. Uni. Press 1988 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. Biographies of the convicts. A detailed account of life for 100 convict women in early NSW. Very fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  211. SPILLANE  MICKEY  The Death Dealers.  pub.  Lond.  Arthur Barker 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.190. d/w. featuring a photograph of Spillane and an unknown blond on the rear panel. Dustwrappe torn, lacks small piece near spine, cellotape marks inside d/w. else very good.   Price: $40.00
     
  212. SPILLANE  MICKEY  The By-Pass Control.  pub.  Lond.  Arthur Barker 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.220 A Tiger Mann Mystery. Minor shelf wear almost fine copy, price clipped.   Price: $50.00   Convert Currency
     
  213. STEAD PHILIP JOHN Vidocq A Biography. illus. with frontis. pub. London Staples Press 1955 1st.ed. or. gilt titles on spine cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.263. The Vidocq of legend is a monstrous character. The real Vidocq is far more interesting, versed in the underworld, master of disguise, brilliant, humorous and resolute, a police genius. The first and most feared of all the great detectives. Controversial French detective 1775- 1857. Dustwrapper sl. chipped at top of spine, price clipped, pages little foxed with rust mark to top-edge, v/good otherwise.   Price: $35.00
     
  214. STEINBRUNNER CHRIS   Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection illus. with 300 b/w. plates. pub. N.Y. McGraw-Hill 1976 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XII.436. Reference source to all things crime in fiction, film, radio and television; features author checklists, detective biographies, etc. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  215. STEWART GORDON NEIL  Australian Stories Of Horror & Suspense  from the Early Days pub. Sydney Australasian Book Society, 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. IX.272. Short stories by Marcus Clarke, Price Warung, Nat Gould, Henry Lawson, Edward Dyson, Tom Collins, Louis Becke, Barbara Baynton, Ernest Favenc, and others.  Slightly faded to spine else very good copy.    Price: $30.00
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  216. STOUT REX   The Black Mountain  pub. London, Collins Crime Club. 1955, First UK edition. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.192  Slight rusting at top of some pages, d/w. is almost very fine A Nero Wolf mystery.   Price: $125.00
     
  217. SWEENEY  CHRISTOPHER   Transported.  In  Place  Of   Death. Convicts  in Australia. pub. Melb. Macmillan  1981  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.4to.obl. pp.XIV.186. A vivid account of convict life. Fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  218. TRAVERS ROBERT - Murder In The Blue Mountains. Being the true story of  Frank Butler one of Australia's most Notorious Criminals. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hutchinson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.176.   Price: $30.00
     
  219. TRIAD Magazine (pub.)  Narrow Escapes. pub. Sydney Triad Magazine of Australia Ltd. nd c. 1920. or. grey printed wrappers 8vo. pp.158. Anthology of short stories written by Australians and New Zealanders who responded to a competition in which 600 pounds was offered for the best account of a hair-raising brush with death. Due to the large number of entries and the impossibility of printing them all in the 'Triad' magazine, management printed this compilation of entries and gave it as a free gift to entrants. The stories are not expected to be believed by every word, but in every instance where a serious adventure has been seriously told, there is no reason to doubt the writer's good faith. Many of the manuscripts were accompanied by letters in which ample corroborative evidence was offered. Chipped top of spine, little foxing else v/good.    Price: $75.00
     
  220. UPFIELD ARTHUR Wings Above the Diamantina. illus. with e/paper map, pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1936 1st Australian ed. or. red cl. cr.8vo. pp.302.  small mark to front past down e/paper (ab. 2cm) slight foxing to e/papers otherwise fine bright copy.   Price: $450.00
     
  221. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Widows Of Broome. pub. Melb. Heinemann 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.246.  lacks f/free e/paper, sl. chipped d/w. otherwise very good.   Price: $115.00
     
  222. UPFIELD ARTHUR   Cake In The Hat Box. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208.  d/.w chipped, short tear, lacks small pieces at spine ab. 6cm. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise very good copy, in clean bright boards.   Price: $65.00
     
  223. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Battling Prophet pub. Lond. Heinemann 1956 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.226. d/w has closed tears at top & bottom of spine, long closed tear to rear folding flap at board, price-clipped, Gift inscription to f/paste down e/paper, very good copy otherwise; boards fine.   Price: $60.00
     
  224. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Battling Prophet  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1956 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.226. d/w has tiny closed tears at top spine, slight foxing to rear of d/w. price-clipped, near fine copy otherwise; boards fine.   Price: $100.00
     
  225. UPFIELD ARTHUR Man Of Two Tribes pub. Lond. Heinemann 1956 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.226. d/w has two closed tears at top of spine, bottom of spine lacks piece about 5cm square., boards clean, price clipped, very good copy otherwise.   Price: $85.00
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  226. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony  Buys A Woman. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.238. price clipped slight shelf wear else fine.   Price: $125.00
     
  227. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony Buys A Woman. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.238. price clipped, light edge wear to d/w. short closed tears to d/w. old cup ring effecting part of d/w. obliterating the letter 'a" else very good.   Price: $65.00
     
  228. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Bachelors Of Broken Hill. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254. Price clipped, d/w. 3 short closed tears to top of spine, very slight shelf wear, e/papers sl. foxed otherwise v/good.   Price: $95.00
     
  229. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Bachelors Of Broken Hill. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.254. with sl. chipped & worn d/w. cloth exposed at chip showing sl. fading shelf edge (lacks small piece of d/w. exposing sun to cloth) price clipped, overall a very good copy in complete d/w.   Price: $65.00
     
  230. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Mouse. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.250. d/w. slightly chipped at top of spine & short closed tear, price clipped, slighlty browned at page edges, otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  231. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Mouse.  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.250. d/w. chipped at top of spine, lightly chipped at extremities, old tape marks to inside d/w. price clipped, previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, slighlty browned at page edges, otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  232. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Black Virgin. illus. with map pub. Lond. Heinemann 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.246. tiny chip to rear folding flap of d/w. else near fine.   Price: $125.00
     
  233. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Black Virgin. illus. with map pub. Lond. Heinemann 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.246. Lacks large piece lower spine, 3 short closed tears, previous owner's name & address to paste down e/paper, else very good.   Price: $55.00
     
  234. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Kelly Gang. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208. Murder-mystery set in N.S.W. Rear panel with a photographic profile portrait of the author. Short closed tear to d/w. lower spine, slight wear to extremities otherwise very good.   Price: $95.00
     
  235. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony And The Kelly Gang. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.208. Murder-mystery set in N.S.W. Rear panel with a photographic profile portrait of the author. Minor edge wear, mainly top of spine, Small hole in rear panel, otherwise near fine.   Price: $115.00
     
  236. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Mystery Of Swordfish Reef. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.248. some silverfishing to edges of d/w. at shelf edge, little shelf worn otherwise good, cloth fine, a good copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  237. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Mystery Of Swordfish Reef. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.248. Short closed tear at lower d/w. at spine and small chip, price clipped. Slight shelf wear otherwise very good, cloth v/fine.   Price: $55.00
     
  238. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony & The White Savage. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.230. minor chip to top of d/w. & shelf wear to rear, price clipped else near fine.   Price: $100.00
     
  239. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony & The White Savage. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.230. minor shelf wear to top of d/w. two short closed tears to front, short old cellotape mark to front of d/w. minor foxing, price clipped otherwise very good copy. Price: $70.00
     
  240. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bony & The White Savage. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.230. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, d/w. short closed tear top of spine, short closed tear to front with minor loss bottom of d/w. near spine, minor wear to extremities, price clipped, otherwise very good. Price: $50.00 
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  241. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Will Of The Tribe. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.246. price clipped & chipped d/w. short closed tear fron ot d/w. lacks piece bottom of front panel, chip top of spine else v/good. Boards and interior fine.   Price: $55.00
     
  242. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Will Of The Tribe. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.246. price clipped, d/w. short closed tear bottom of spine, minor wear to top of spine slight foxing to edges, Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else v/good   Price: $75.00
     
  243. UPFIELD ARTHUR Death Of A Swagman.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1962 1st Australian edition or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. Price clipped, very fine copy.   Price: $60.00
     
  244. UPFIELD ARTHUR Madman's Bend. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.232. Very slight insect damage to rear of d/w. faint foxing to edges, price clipped else very good.   Price: $75.00
     
  245. UPFIELD ARTHUR Madman's Bend. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.232. d/w. silverfished to rear, short closed tear, slight foxing to page edges, slight shelf wear, else v/good.   Price: $60.00
     
  246. UPFIELD ARTHUR Madman's Bend. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.232. d/w. sl. darkened to spine, price clipped otherwise near fine.   Price: $100.00
     
  247. UPFIELD ARTHUR Bushranger Of The Skies. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 ed. or.cl. d/w. d/w. torn/worn cr.8vo. pp.236.     Price:  $35.00
     
  248. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Lake Frome Monster. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.184. The manuscript of this novel was left unfinished by the author when he died in 1964. It has been completed and revised by J. L. Price and Mrs. Dorothy Strange, using the authors detailed notes. sl. spotting to edges, d/w. slight crease to rear, price clipped, otherwise near fine.   Price: $85.00
     
  249. UPFIELD  ARTHUR    Mr Jelly's Business.  pub.  Syd.  Angus  & Robertson  1937 1st. ed.  or. orange cl. 12mo. pp.286.  Very slight fading to spine. Ownership inscription to front board inner,  else very good copy of first edition. Price: $200.00
     
  250. UPFIELD ARTHUR Mr Jelly's Business. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1964 2nd Edition First published 1937; or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. Small chips missing from the extremities lower spine, light edgeworn, else near fine.   Price: $95.00
     
  251. UPFIELD ARTHUR The Bone Is Pointed. with e/paper maps pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1966 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.288. sl. spotted to fore-edges else near fine.   Price: $45.00
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  252. VILLIERS ELIZABETH  - Stand And Deliver. The Romantic Adventures of Certain Gentlemen of the High Toby, Their times, Their Associates, Friends and Victims. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Stanley Paul 1928 or. maroon cl. 8vo. pp.256. very good copy.   Price: $55.00
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  253. WALLACE EDGAR -  Bosambo Of The River illus. with coloured frontis. pub. London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1914 1st ed. or. black cl. col. pic. adhered to f/board glt. titles to front bd. and spine, 12mo. pp. 304,16 advts. Slightly rubbed otherwise very good copy.   Price: $65.00   Convert Currency
     
  254. WANNAN  BILL   Tell  `Em I Died Game. The  stark  story  of Australian  bushranging.  illus. with  frontis.  many  text illus.  t/out.  pub.  Melb. Lansdowne  Press  1963  1st.ed. or.cl. lge.8vo. pp.268. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $35.00
     
  255. WATSON Dr. Jr. Dr. Watson's Case Book. Studies In Australian Mystery and Crime. illus. with several drawings & diagrams, pub. Syd. Consolidated Press 1944 or. light blue & yellow wrappers, 12mo. pp.148. Mobil ad to rear wrapper, little browned near fine copy.    Price: $55.00
     
  256. WHITE CHARLES Australian Bushranging Howe, Brady, Britton, Cash, Kavanagh, Jones, Donohoe, Underwood, Webber, Sullivan, The Insurrection at Bathurst, Armstrong, Chamberlain, Dignum, Comeford, McKewin, Davis, "Scotchey", Witton, Williams, Flanagan, Day, etc. illus. with 16 sketches, facsimiles, maps; pub. Sydney. NSW Bookstall 1921 original illustrated wrapper 12mo. pp.198 pages 4 pages advertisements. pages browned, (old newsprint) otherwise near fine.   Price: $75.00
     
  257. WILDE  OSCAR-Trials Of. Ed. by H. Montgomery  Hyde.  illus. with  frontis. black and white plate of Oscar Wilde by Henri DeToulouse-Lautrec, &  10 full page plates  t/out.  pub.  Lond. William Hodge & Co. 1949 Notable British Trials Series. or. red cl. pp.384. Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  258. WILKINSON GEOFF &  Keith  Moor.  Mugshots. a Classic Collection of Thugs, Drugs and Mugs. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. text illus. pub. Melbourne New Custom Publishing, 2003 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.224 Fine. Price: $25.00
     
  259. Williams Neville Contraband Cargoes. Seven Centuries of Smuggling. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. London Longmans 1959 1st. ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.300. A history of smuggling from the medieval illegal trade in wool, through the cloth frauds of Tudor times to the wholesale running of tea and brandy in the 18th century, tobacco in the 19th century, and various contraband goods in the first half of the 20th century. The author examines corruption within the Customs Service when smugglers bribed officials to turn a blind eye, and the cases when the whole local population was involved – including the local rector – in concealing luxury items. There are also descriptions of the smuggling gangs that terrorized the coast in some parts of England; the pitched battles between the smugglers and the revenue cutters; and outside Britain the traffic in opium in China, slave traffic, gun-running, and the trade in liquor, drugs and diamonds. Slightly faded gilt titles on a slightly faded spine else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  260. WILSON COLIN  Order Of Assassins The Psychology of Murder. pub. London Hart-Davis 1972 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.242. One very short closed tear to d/w. two small spotting marks to edges of pages else very fine. Price: $45.00
     
  261. WILSON COLIN & Robin Odell, Jack The Ripper, Summing Up and Verdict illus. with 8 full page plates t/out., map, line drawings; bibliography, pub. London: Bantam Press, 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320 Letter in circle stamped to shelf edge of pages else fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  262. WILSON PAUL Robyn Lincoln, Don Treble Jean Lee: the Last Woman Hanged in Australia illus. with 45 plates; pub. Sydney Random House 1997 Paperback, 8vo. pp.XVIII.232,3 advts. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
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  263. WRIGHT JUNE   Murder In The Telephone Exchange. pub. London. Hutchinson. [1948] 1st ed. No. 122 in "First novel library" or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.352. at lower spine and edges. Sergeant Matheson investigates a death in the Melbourne Central telephone exchange. The Australian crime writer's first novel. cloth at spine faint spotting, d/w. short closed tear at top of spine, lacks tiny piece at lower spine ab. 2cm. Clean and bright d/w. Art on d/w. by Pol. A very good copy.   Price: $100.00
     
  264. WRITER LARRY  with Steve Barrett. and, Simon Bouda  Garden Of Evil: The Granny Killer's Reign of Terror illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney, Ironbark Press, 1992 or.pict. wrappers 8vo. pp.230 Story of noted Sydney serial killer, John Wayne Glover. Very good copy. Price: $25.00
   
   
 
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