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	PIEHLER H.A. England for Everyman London, J.M. Dent & Sons. 1935, Reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with black lettering to spine, illustration to front cover. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Cloth marked. Spine slightly cantered. White endpapers, previous owners name to front endpapers. 275pp. including index, plus an atlas of 32 coloured maps. Edited by John Bartholomew. Contents include: List of Maps; Atlas; How to Travel; Where to Stay; An English Calendar; Architectural Styles; Bibliography; Tours - 12 tours covering several counties; Seaside Resorts; Index. Very Good/No Jacket. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000704 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CHEGARAY, JACQUES Bliss in Bali - The Island of Taboos London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1955, Reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original green cloth with yellow lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, piece missing to bas of spine, wear to extremities, minor chipping and rubbing, now protected in Brodart. Map endpapers. Frontis: b/w photograph of author. 200pp. plus 48 illustrations. The author, having 'thumbed' his way round the world, driven through Darkest Africa, spent many months in Polynesia, he now gives us his version of beautiful and enigmatic Bali. His varies and fanciful pictures give a very precise idea of all that he learns by use of his eyes or by word of mouth about ways of life, morals, religious ceremonies, varying types and inspiring landscapes of this remote and entrancing island. Very Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001008 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CLUNE, FRANK Castles in Spain - A Flying Trip from Australia to Europe with Some Quixotical Peregrinations in the Iberian Peninsula in Quest of Facts Sydney, Angus and Roberson. 1952, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dustwrapper: unclipped, pieces missing top of spine, and top edge. Minor chipping to edges, scuff patch on rear panel where label has been previously removed and closed tear to op edge, general minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, general browning with age, now protected in Brodart. Illustrated map endpapers of Castles in Spain. Previous owners name on rear of frontis. Frontis: black and white illustration show A Spanish Grandee Grieving. 240pp plus 14pp black and white photographic illustration. This book is the cheerful record of the author's impressions, which range over a wide variety of scenes, history and great personages. The famous Good Friday procession at Seville, the great Prado museum, the caves of Altamira, the gipsies, the appearance of land still recovering from the ravages of civil war - all these are subjects for Frank Clune's vivid description. He writes too of Spain's great past, but whether he is describing the cool glories of gothic architecture in medieval times or the hot excitement of a bullfight at the present day, he preserves his happy knack of making the reader share his own sense of curiosity and wonder. A very good collectors copy. Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000656 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CLUNE, FRANK Hands Across the Pacific - A Voyage of Discovery from Australia to the Hawaiian Islands and Canada April to June 1950 Sydney, Angus and Roberson. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with white lettering to spine and white illustration to front board. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dustwrapper: unclipped, pieces missing from lower front and top of spine and top corner of front panel, closed tear to back panel, minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, general browning with age, now protected in Brodart. Illustrated map endpapers, no inscriptions. 302pp plus 2pp Bibliography plus 14pp black and white photographic illustrations plus black and white maps illustrations within text. Frank Clune is an arch-entertainer who, it seems can pull almost anything out of an imaginary hat for the delight of his readers. Hula-hula dancers, totem poles, volcanoes, moose, nuggets, Niagara Falls - these are some of the diverse subjects in this book. Apart from the entertainment value of his writing, Frank Clune kept his readers informed of events in all parts of the world. His books are remarkable not only for the vivid recapitulation of his experiences, but also for the keen discernment with which he summarizes events in places as far apart as Honolulu and the Klondike. A magnificent collectors copy. Very Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000654 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HARNEY, W.E. (BILL) To Ayers rock and Beyond London, Robert Hale Limited. 1964, Reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to top of spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, pieces missing from top panel and lower spine, mark where label was to front panel, closed tear to rear panel and general foxed, however complete and now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions, some offset. 192pp including 6 maps plus 8pp b/w illustrations, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001129 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	ROWSE, DR. A.L. AND HEDGECOE, JOHN In Shakespeare's Land: A Journey Through the Landscape of Elizabethan England London, Book Club Associates By Arrangement with Weidenfield and Nicolson. 1986. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 200pp including index, profusely illustrated with magnificent full colour and b/w photographs, plates and line illustrations throughout text. Pages clean and bright in a firm binding. A love of England, its people, history and institutions is strongly evident in Shakespeare's writing. The most autobiographical of all the Elizabethan dramatists, his background permeates his plays for descriptions of the world he knew, its people, buildings and countryside, occur frequently. Potent reminders of his world have survived to this day, the pastures and woodland of his native Warwickshire, the half-timbered houses and inns of old towns, the bustling streets and elegant palaces of the cities, castle, mansions and parkland, have not all been lost. The authors portray this sometimes idyllic, sometimes dramatic world to perfection. They visit Shakespeare's birthplace, they record the landscape and villages that provided him with constant inspiration; they trace him in the south-east of England at Windsor and Eton, Datchet and Mead, Rochester and Dover; and finally follow him from Stratford to London, showing all that is left of the city he knew. Complemented by contemporary prints and maps. A gazetteer provides routes and information for visitors, ensuring that this is the definitive survey of Shakespeare's England. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 003483 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	SIMPSON, COLIN Plumes and Arrows Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original green cloth with gilt motif of bird to front cover and gilt motif of man with bow and arrow and lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, closed tears to top and bottom of front cover, large chip to top of front cover, closed tear to bottom of spine and lower and top edge of back cover, however now protected in Brodart. Illustrated endpapers, previous owners small name stamp to rear of front endpaper. 407pp. plus 68pp of 117 photographs 35 in colour, profusely illustrated with line drawings and maps throughout text, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Very Good/Fair. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 003548 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	SNOW, LOIS WHEELER Edgar Snow's China: a Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow London, Orbis Publishing. 1981, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, minor wear to extremities, now protected in Brodart. Red endpapers, no inscriptions. 284pp including index, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs throughout text - taken by Snow or his friends that were with him in China, however many more came from various Chinese archives which the Peking Government open especially for Lois Snow. It is an extraordinary collection, filled with images that are as unforgettable as they are unfamiliar: tiny children in baskets offered for sale; severed heads on display under a speed limit sign; Red generals playing volleyball with their troops; Mao's wife Chian Ching as a movie actress; and Mao himself, the flesh still lean on his bones, from the ordeal of the Long Marsh. Not only is this book is a splendid introduction to the writings of Snow, one of the truly influential journalists of the century, but is also a pictorial record of the Chinese Revolution that may never be equaled. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. A magnificent copy. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001542 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	THWAITES, F.J. Press on Regardless Sydney, Harcourt Brace. 1960, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, closed tear to edge of flap, minor chipping to head and tail of spine, now protected in Brodart. Map endpapers, no inscriptions. 239pp. plus 41 b/w photographs, pages clean and bright in firm binding. A very good collectors copy. Press on regardless records the experiences, humorous, dramatic and otherwise which its author, his wife Jessica, and their youngest son, Roger encountered while completing the second leg of a trip around the world by car. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000982 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.

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	PIEHLER H.A. England for Everyman London, J.M. Dent & Sons. 1935, Reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with black lettering to spine, illustration to front cover. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Cloth marked. Spine slightly cantered. White endpapers, previous owners name to front endpapers. 275pp. including index, plus an atlas of 32 coloured maps. Edited by John Bartholomew. Contents include: List of Maps; Atlas; How to Travel; Where to Stay; An English Calendar; Architectural Styles; Bibliography; Tours - 12 tours covering several counties; Seaside Resorts; Index. Very Good/No Jacket. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000704 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CHEGARAY, JACQUES Bliss in Bali - The Island of Taboos London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1955, Reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original green cloth with yellow lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, piece missing to bas of spine, wear to extremities, minor chipping and rubbing, now protected in Brodart. Map endpapers. Frontis: b/w photograph of author. 200pp. plus 48 illustrations. The author, having 'thumbed' his way round the world, driven through Darkest Africa, spent many months in Polynesia, he now gives us his version of beautiful and enigmatic Bali. His varies and fanciful pictures give a very precise idea of all that he learns by use of his eyes or by word of mouth about ways of life, morals, religious ceremonies, varying types and inspiring landscapes of this remote and entrancing island. Very Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001008 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CLUNE, FRANK Castles in Spain - A Flying Trip from Australia to Europe with Some Quixotical Peregrinations in the Iberian Peninsula in Quest of Facts Sydney, Angus and Roberson. 1952, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dustwrapper: unclipped, pieces missing top of spine, and top edge. Minor chipping to edges, scuff patch on rear panel where label has been previously removed and closed tear to op edge, general minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, general browning with age, now protected in Brodart. Illustrated map endpapers of Castles in Spain. Previous owners name on rear of frontis. Frontis: black and white illustration show A Spanish Grandee Grieving. 240pp plus 14pp black and white photographic illustration. This book is the cheerful record of the author's impressions, which range over a wide variety of scenes, history and great personages. The famous Good Friday procession at Seville, the great Prado museum, the caves of Altamira, the gipsies, the appearance of land still recovering from the ravages of civil war - all these are subjects for Frank Clune's vivid description. He writes too of Spain's great past, but whether he is describing the cool glories of gothic architecture in medieval times or the hot excitement of a bullfight at the present day, he preserves his happy knack of making the reader share his own sense of curiosity and wonder. A very good collectors copy. Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000656 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	CLUNE, FRANK Hands Across the Pacific - A Voyage of Discovery from Australia to the Hawaiian Islands and Canada April to June 1950 Sydney, Angus and Roberson. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with white lettering to spine and white illustration to front board. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Dustwrapper: unclipped, pieces missing from lower front and top of spine and top corner of front panel, closed tear to back panel, minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, general browning with age, now protected in Brodart. Illustrated map endpapers, no inscriptions. 302pp plus 2pp Bibliography plus 14pp black and white photographic illustrations plus black and white maps illustrations within text. Frank Clune is an arch-entertainer who, it seems can pull almost anything out of an imaginary hat for the delight of his readers. Hula-hula dancers, totem poles, volcanoes, moose, nuggets, Niagara Falls - these are some of the diverse subjects in this book. Apart from the entertainment value of his writing, Frank Clune kept his readers informed of events in all parts of the world. His books are remarkable not only for the vivid recapitulation of his experiences, but also for the keen discernment with which he summarizes events in places as far apart as Honolulu and the Klondike. A magnificent collectors copy. Very Good/Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000654 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	HARNEY, W.E. (BILL) To Ayers rock and Beyond London, Robert Hale Limited. 1964, Reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to top of spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, pieces missing from top panel and lower spine, mark where label was to front panel, closed tear to rear panel and general foxed, however complete and now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions, some offset. 192pp including 6 maps plus 8pp b/w illustrations, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001129 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	ROWSE, DR. A.L. AND HEDGECOE, JOHN In Shakespeare's Land: A Journey Through the Landscape of Elizabethan England London, Book Club Associates By Arrangement with Weidenfield and Nicolson. 1986. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 200pp including index, profusely illustrated with magnificent full colour and b/w photographs, plates and line illustrations throughout text. Pages clean and bright in a firm binding. A love of England, its people, history and institutions is strongly evident in Shakespeare's writing. The most autobiographical of all the Elizabethan dramatists, his background permeates his plays for descriptions of the world he knew, its people, buildings and countryside, occur frequently. Potent reminders of his world have survived to this day, the pastures and woodland of his native Warwickshire, the half-timbered houses and inns of old towns, the bustling streets and elegant palaces of the cities, castle, mansions and parkland, have not all been lost. The authors portray this sometimes idyllic, sometimes dramatic world to perfection. They visit Shakespeare's birthplace, they record the landscape and villages that provided him with constant inspiration; they trace him in the south-east of England at Windsor and Eton, Datchet and Mead, Rochester and Dover; and finally follow him from Stratford to London, showing all that is left of the city he knew. Complemented by contemporary prints and maps. A gazetteer provides routes and information for visitors, ensuring that this is the definitive survey of Shakespeare's England. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 003483 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	SIMPSON, COLIN Plumes and Arrows Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original green cloth with gilt motif of bird to front cover and gilt motif of man with bow and arrow and lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, closed tears to top and bottom of front cover, large chip to top of front cover, closed tear to bottom of spine and lower and top edge of back cover, however now protected in Brodart. Illustrated endpapers, previous owners small name stamp to rear of front endpaper. 407pp. plus 68pp of 117 photographs 35 in colour, profusely illustrated with line drawings and maps throughout text, pages clean and bright in firm binding. Very Good/Fair. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 003548 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	SNOW, LOIS WHEELER Edgar Snow's China: a Personal Account of the Chinese Revolution compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow London, Orbis Publishing. 1981, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Publishers original red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, minor wear to extremities, now protected in Brodart. Red endpapers, no inscriptions. 284pp including index, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs throughout text - taken by Snow or his friends that were with him in China, however many more came from various Chinese archives which the Peking Government open especially for Lois Snow. It is an extraordinary collection, filled with images that are as unforgettable as they are unfamiliar: tiny children in baskets offered for sale; severed heads on display under a speed limit sign; Red generals playing volleyball with their troops; Mao's wife Chian Ching as a movie actress; and Mao himself, the flesh still lean on his bones, from the ordeal of the Long Marsh. Not only is this book is a splendid introduction to the writings of Snow, one of the truly influential journalists of the century, but is also a pictorial record of the Chinese Revolution that may never be equaled. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. A magnificent copy. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 001542 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.
	THWAITES, F.J. Press on Regardless Sydney, Harcourt Brace. 1960, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publishers original brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, closed tear to edge of flap, minor chipping to head and tail of spine, now protected in Brodart. Map endpapers, no inscriptions. 239pp. plus 41 b/w photographs, pages clean and bright in firm binding. A very good collectors copy. Press on regardless records the experiences, humorous, dramatic and otherwise which its author, his wife Jessica, and their youngest son, Roger encountered while completing the second leg of a trip around the world by car. Very Good/Very Good. AUD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 27.72 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2449] Book number: 000982 Click here to order or inquire at Eccleston Books & Curios.