Blue Mountains Books
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
Blue Mountain Books is located at Shop A, 11 Ross St Glenbrook NSW. We have a range of collectible and rare books, plus a wide assortment of Art, Transport, and Natural, Military and Australian History books. Our books we are bringing to the Sydney Rare Book Fair will showcase who we are. Hope to see you there!
Contact Information
Email: bluemountainsbooks@gmail.com
Phone: +0490504796
Website: http://bluedragonbooks.com.au
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11 Ross St Shop C Glenbrook, 2773 Australia Get Directions
Highlights
George Eliot, Novels of George Eliot in Eleven Volumes
$2000
Eleven volumes bound in ten, octavo; hardcover, half-bound in brown morocco with marbled boards, gilt rules, spine titles and decorations in compartments between five raised bands and marbled endpapers, edges marbled, with decorated titles and 25 monochrome engraved plates. Minor wear; mild bumps and scuffs to the board edges and leather; some boards mildly rubbed; contemporary retailer’s bookplates to the first and last volumes. Very good.
The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa – signed, limited edition
$550
Two slipcased volumes, quarto; hardcover and paperback; with illustrated boards and wrappers and decorative endpapers, with many colour illustrations. Number 96 of 1,200 copies: minor wear; signed and numbered by the artist in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper, with folding poster on the verso. Near fine in a specially printed slipcase, with the additional catalogue material.
Anne McCaffrey, Restoree 1st Edition 1967
$400
First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 256pp. Mild wear; a little rolled; text block edges lightly toned; some light offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; retailer’s bookplate to the lower panel; a small tear with associated creasing to the top of the upper panel (now repaired); protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
A Tiveychoc There and Back – The Story of an Australian Soldier, 1915-1935
$500
First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with upper board titles; 285pp., with black-and-white chapter decorations. Minor wear; text block edges spotted and top edge dusted; offset and old tape stains to the endpapers; retailer’s ink stamp to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is a bit buckled from having been wrapped too tightly; lightly sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.