Blue Mountains Books

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Blue Mountain Books has been trading as Blue Dragon Books for 16 years at our retail premises in Glenbrook, NSW. We stock a large variety of books across all genres and categories. We have built up a range of rare and collectible books, of which we will be bringing along a selection to the Sydney Rare Book Fair. Our focus will be on Natural, Australian & Military History, Art, Children’s books and collectible fiction.

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Alexander Wilson & Charles Lucien Bonaparte, American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, with The Illustrative Notes and Life of Wilson by William Jardine, in Three Volumes, Cassell Petter & Galpin, London (c.1877)
$1750
Three volumes, Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in black morocco and red cloth boards with gilt spine titles and decorations and black endpapers; top edges gilt, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, 104 chromolithographic plates and some other monochrome engraved illustrations. Mild wear, somewhat rolled; boards a bit rubbed with some minor insect damage to the cloth; spines mildly sunned, extremities a little worn and the head of Volume III pulled slightly; text block edges lightly toned; lower hinge of Volume I cracked (but still strong); light scattered foxing throughout. Very good
William Yarrell, A History of British Birds in three volumes, together with the two Supplements bound as one additional volume
$400
Four volumes, published by Jan van Voorst, London, 1843 and 1845. octavo; hardcover, full green calf, boards ruled in gold, gilt spine titles on brown labels between five raised bands, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles and an olive ribbon, all edges marbled, with decorated title pages and many engraved illustrations. Mild wear; boards rubbed and edgeworn with scuffing to the hinges and spine extremities; spine labels to the first three volumes missing; text block top edges dusted; previous owner’s contemporary bookplates to the front pastedown of each volume. No dustwrappers. Very good.
Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies; With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields; in Three Volumes, Second Edition, Revised
$600
Revised reprint: three volumes, published by Richard Bentley, London, 1852. Octavo; full cloth decorated in blind, with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations; 1,246pp. with three engraved monochrome frontispieces, and 12 plates likewise. Rebound, using the original cloth; all volumes rolled and crushed with bumped corners and softened spine extremities; shelf wear and light rubbing to the boards and edges; spines sunned; text block and page edges mildly toned; endpapers replaced; some light offset to the preliminaries; some small repaired tears to a few early page edges. Very good.
E.J.L. Hallstrom (ed.), Inauguration of the Legislative Council for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea – Port Moresby, 26th November, 1951
$150
Published by W.E. Crossman Pty. Ltd., Mosman NSW, 1951. Quarto; hardcover, full burgundy cloth, upper board titled in gilt and ruled in blind; unpaginated (52pp.), on heavy stock with 24 monochrome, tipped-in plates. Minor wear; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn with light softening to the spine extremities; boards lightly bowed; text block and page edges lightly toned; some light offset to the preliminaries; one or two mild internal marks. No dustwrapper. Very good.
Alice A. Bailey, The Consciousness of the Atom, The Lucifer Publishing Company, New York NY, 1922.
$500
Rare 1st Edition. Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and boards ruled and decorated in blind; 104pp. Minor wear; somewhat rolled; boards rubbed and edgeworn with some bumping; spine lightly sunned, extremities softened and gilt tarnished; text block edges lightly toned; light offset to the preliminaries; light scattered foxing throughout; some dog-eared pages; a piece of white paper – with a previous owner’s name in pencil - tipped-in to the front pastedown to obscure a previous owner’s inscription as well as a small surface tear. No dustwrapper. Very good.
8) Shirley JACKSON, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1963.
$250
First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 190pp. Price-clipped dustwrapper. Mild wear; spine heel a little softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner’s ink inscription to the flyleaf; scattered foxing, mainly to the preliminaries. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a bit rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel lightly sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
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William J.D. MIRA, From Cowrie to Kina: The Coinages, Currencies, Badges, Medals, Awards and Decorations of PAPUA NEW GUINEA (signed by the author), Spink & Son (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1986.
$300
Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 332pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper. Moderate wear; a little cocked; author’s inked inscription to the half-title page. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.