Your budgerigar: a simple guide to the selection and care of your budgerigar.
London: Colourmaster International, [no date]. Small octavo, colour photographs,softcover. More
London: Colourmaster International, [no date]. Small octavo, colour photographs,softcover. More
Sydney: Saiga, 1981. Octavo, photographs, softcover. More
london: C. Arthur Pearson, 1961. Octavo, colour illustrations, lacks dustwrapper. More
Sydney: Keston foreign bird Farm, 1934-1938. Octavo, coloured and uncoloured plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cockatoo, a very good set, scarce. The Keston Bird Farm, established by Edward Boosey in the 1920's was a very successful operation until World War Two and beyond. Although the business imported birds its..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, bookplate, scarce. Neville Cayley illustrated the first standard for Australian show budgiergars and was very involved in the promotion of the hobby of Budgerigar breeding. This book is..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece (the second edition has a coloured frontispiece), colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, owner's florid signature on endpaper, also his signature on title page, tipped in the upper dustwrapper and a newspaper cutting describing a substantial collection in Geelong, scarce. Neville..... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1933. first edition). Octavo, uncoloured frontispiece, signature, very good copy in chipped dustwrapper (NOT AS PICTURED). The genuine first edition dustwrapper does not have the edition printed on the spine, as with this copy. More
c[1940]. Watercolour on paper 35cm by 52 cm, signed N. W. Cayley. Contemporary frame in a modern mount. Neville William Cayley (1887-1950), son of the bird artist Neville Henry Pennington Cayley, is the best known of all Australian bird artists. If there is one bird book the average Australian can..... More
New York: Denlinger's, 1952. Octavo, photographs, publisher's cloth. More
Sydney: Frank Ditchfield, [c1960]. Duodecimo, text illustrations, wrappers. Ditchfield's Little Wonder Books, number two. More
Adelaide: Rigby, 1982. Duodecimo, softcover. More
New York: All-Pets Books, 1954. Octavo, text illustrations, publisher's cloth. More
New York: American Budgerigar Society, 1943. Octavo, photographs, lacks free front blank endpaper, publisher's cloth. More
New York: American Budgerigar Society, (1951. sixth edition). Octavo, photographs, grubby publisher's cloth. More
Adelaide: Rigby, (1975. reprint). Duodecimo, photographs, softcover. More
Sydney: Frank Ditchfield, 1947. Duodecimo, text illustrations, wrappers. Ditchfield's Little Wonder Book, number 19. More
Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2020. Large octavo, paperback, colour photographs. Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed budgerigars are Australia's gift to the bird world. They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp simple grammar, can..... More
Neptune: TFH, 1961. Octavo, photographs, text illustrations, signature, publisher's cloth. More
London: William Collins, (1985. second edition), Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Sydney: JBAT Publishing, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. WAS $55. This book offers information on how to breed some of the rare varieties of Budgerigars. It covers many aspects of breeding and keeping Budgerigars as pets and breeding for the show bench. Includes colour photographs of most varieties. The..... More
Sydney: Kaye & Ward, 1958. Small octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications, 1991. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Neptune: TFH, 1996. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More
Melbourne: Inkata Press, (1987. first edition), Octavo, colour illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. One of the better books on bird medicine and nutrition, written for Australian aviculturists. More
London: Cassell & Company, (1963. third edition), Octavo, photographs, laminated boards. More