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319 p. : dark blue/green cover, embossed with floral design. Title and author's name embossed in gold on cover and spine.
fiction
Book plate pasted to front cover, indicating book was previously in another collection: 'Mullen's Library, 262 & 264 Collins Street, Melbourne'.
191 p. : plain blue cover. Original dust jacket has been removed, title and author's name hand printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, , anne hepple dickinson
270 p.
fiction
fiction
382 p. : plain dark blue cover, title embossed in gold on spine.
fiction
Fictional account of the life of Haitian resistance leader, and later Governor General, Pierre Dominique Toussaint L'Oeuverture (c.1746-1803).
harriet martineau, toussaint l'oeuverture, biographical fiction
282 p. : dark green/black cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front. Title and author's name hand printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, jean barre, eda kathleen bridgman
190 p. : plain black cover, title and author's name embossed in gold on spine. Cartoon-like images of a doctor in white on spine.
fiction
riichard gordon, fiction, humour
188 p. ; plain black cover.
fiction
richard gordon, fiction, humour
318 p. : red cover. Title and author's name embossed in black on front cover.
fiction
fiction, winifred graham
312 p. : plain red cover, title and author's name embossed in gold on spine.
fiction
fiction, william gerhardi
312 p.: green cover, embossed with image of man in top hat being pursued by a gorilla.
fiction
fiction, bertram gayton
444 p. : plain red cover, title embossed in black.
fiction
fiction, ellen glasgow
255 p. : plain black cover
fiction
peter greave, fiction
288 p.
fiction
james grant, fiction
![Book - Novella, Grant, James, The Royal regiment : and other novelettes, [n.d.] [1879?]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/668cddfe68577e8bf7508b94/item-media/668dca1c4d1cc58ad9ca29e2/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
305 p.
Includes 'The Royal regiment', 'The secret marriage', 'The student's story', 'Clare Thorne's temptation', 'The great sea serpent' and 'Military folk lore'.
james grant, fiction
256 p. : plain red cover
fiction
izak goller, fiction
172 p. : plain green cover
fiction
richard gibson, fiction
306 p. : red cover
fiction
george griffith, fiction
![Book - Short stories, Grant, James, The Queen's cadet : and other tales, 1875 [This reprint 1890s]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/668b696d79518f8e24a9872d/item-media/668dc59e4d1cc58ad9c9ac41/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
320 p. : Bound in calico which is printed with product advertisements
james grant, fiction, t. craig [bookbinder], short stories
217 p. : red cover, with image of man and woman in evening dress, man smoking a cigar.
fiction
nathaniel gubbins, fiction
288 p. : Bound in cloth which is printed with product advertisements.
fiction
Explores "the complexities of the marriage market, and social constraints place on women in the [Victorian] era".
fiction, charlotte eliza riddell, t. craig [bookbinder]
![Book - Novel, Gillette, William et al, Secret Service : being the happenings of a night in Richmond in the Spring of 1865 done into book form [by Cyrus Townsend Brady] from the play by William Gillette, 1912](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/668a1555513c141f2f95bc5f/item-media/668dc9e34d1cc58ad9ca20fd/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
331 p. : col. ill. Black cover, title and original creator's name embossed in grey/silver.
fiction
william gillette, cyrus townsend brady, fiction, american civil war
327 p. : blue cover, with image from original dust jacket pasted to front. Image depicts faces of three young people.
fiction
Romance fiction
george gibbs, romance, fiction
134 p. : small volume, decorative dark green cover embossed with black and gold.
non-fiction
A history of various Methodist congregations throughout England.
methodist church, john bond
296 p. : ill. Pale green decorative cover, image of young woman sitting in a field, reading.
fiction
Fiction for girls and young women. "A volume which mothers may place in the hands of their daughters to show that worldly marriages, however glittering and grand . . . are not to be purchased at the expense of religious conviction and truth."
g. c gedge, children's fiction
384 p. : col. ill. Title page missing. Brown cover, with image of a man being driven in an open carriage past a group of onlookers.
fiction
h. m. ward, children's fiction
176 p. : small volume, embossed brown cover. Title page, Table of Contents, and first two pages of text missing.
non-fiction
Examines ways in which young working women can conduct their lives in ways that are true to Christian values. Numerous biblical quotes.
christian life, esther copley nee beuzeville
160 p. : ill.
fiction
children's fiction, hesba stretton (pseudonym of sarah smith)
192 p. : frontiscpiece illustration
fiction
catherine shaw, children's fiction
346 p. : ill.
fiction
silas k. hocking, children's fiction
177 p. : embossed blue cover, text in gold
fiction
children's fiction, , 'brenda' (georgina castle smith)
240 p. : ill. Textured green cover, embossed in gold
fiction
Fiction for young people, with religious themes.
charles r. parsons, children's fiction
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