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Far Arabia: Explorers Of The Myth
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedLong before the age of satellites and GPS, a succession of daring, obsessive, and often eccentric Westerners risked everything to...
Japan: The Story Of A Nation
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the mist-shrouded slopes of Mount Fuji to the neon-lit corridors of modern Tokyo, Japan: The Story of a Nation...
The Rise & Fall Of The Man Of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the grand tradition of English letters, few stories are as richly layered as the rise and decline of the...
King George Iii And The Politicians
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century British politics stood a monarch determined to reclaim royal prerogative in the...
Astaire: The Man, The Dancer
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore Gene Kelly, before Michael Jackson, before any modern conception of the dancer as superstar, there was Fred Astaire — a man whose effortless elegance...
George Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been so persistently misunderstood as George II, a king who reigned for thirty-three turbulent years yet has long languished...
Eisenhower As Military Commander
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern military history command the awe and scrutiny that Dwight D. Eisenhower does, and E.K.G....
Lawrence And The Arabs
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedOne of the most extraordinary partnerships in modern military history comes to life in Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves's authoritative account of T.E. Lawrence —...
The Complete Memoirs Of George Sherston
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedOne of the most searingly honest portraits of a generation scarred by war, The Complete Memoirs of...
The Life Of Giovanni Morelli In Risorgimento Italy (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the nineteenth-century art world command as much fascination as Giovanni Morelli, the...
The Face Of Victory
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew men embodied the spirit of wartime Britain with the quiet, steely resolve of Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire — and The Face...
The Letters Of John Wilmot Earl Of Rochester
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history are as electrifying — or as scandalous — as John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester, the Restoration court...
The Making Of The President 1964: A Narrative History Of American Politics In Action
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of one of the most traumatic moments in American history — the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Sir Francis Forbes: The First Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court Of New South Wales
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turbulent dawn of Australian colonial governance, one man stood as the cornerstone of legal order — Sir Francis...
The Devil's Advocate; The Second Victory; Daughter Of Silence; The Salamander; The Shoes Of The Fisherman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew authors captured the moral complexity of the modern Catholic world with the same unflinching authority as Morris West, and this complete and unabridged...
Thomas More
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in English history have provoked such fierce and enduring debate as Sir Thomas More — scholar, statesman, martyr, and saint — and...
The First Time
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedWhat do Maya Angelou, Erica Jong, Jack Lemmon, and Dr. Benjamin Spock have in common? In The First Time, Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor...
Modern And Modernism: The Sovereignty Of The Artist 1885-1925
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of art, literature, and revolution, Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 chronicles one...
Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British culture burned as brightly — or as eccentrically — as Sir Cecil Beaton, the legendary...
On Dearborn Street
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedSet against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth-century Chicago, On Dearborn Street presents the vivid experiences of an ambitious young Australian woman...
Joseph Furphy: The Legend Of A Man And His Book
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Sticker remnant on fep. Otherwise internally sound. In the tradition of great literary biography,...
Ocean Of Story: The Uncollected Stories Of Christina Stead Edited With An Afterword By R. G. Geering
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFew writers of the twentieth century possessed Christina Stead's fearless capacity to render the full, turbulent sweep of human experience — and...
Travels In Arabia Deserta
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Edition: Thin Paper Edition in One Volume Complete and Unabridged. ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn one of the most...
Out Of Place: A Memoir
$140.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Printed email laid-in (from Said to previous owner)To be perpetually caught between worlds — never fully belonging to...
The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Volume I: 1915–1919
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private...
My Career Goes Bung: Purporting To Be The Autobiography Of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: unclipped dj. Long before Sybylla Penelope Melvyn became an iconic figure in Australian literature, Miles Franklin conceived her as a...
Collected Essays
$70.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a...
Of Gold, Spanish Conquistadors, And Ibaloi Generational Memory
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the highland reaches of the Philippine Cordillera, where gold once drew the armored ambitions of Spanish conquistadors,...
For All Who Serve: A History Of The Victorian Branch Of The Australian Legion Of Ex-Servicemen And Women
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA tribute to the men and women who answered the call to serve their country, For...
The Way We Were
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back in time with The Way We Were, a lovingly compiled collection that captures the essence of...
Wings Of War: Airmen Of All Nations Tell Their Stories 1939-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe sky was never a neutral place — and Wings of War: Airmen of All Nations Tell Their Stories 1939–1945 proves it with devastating clarity....
Robert Lowell: A Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary lives of the twentieth century were as turbulent, brilliant, and consequential as that of Robert Lowell, and Ian Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A...
Off The Record: The Private Papers Of Harry S. Truman
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the polished pronouncements and carefully staged press conferences of America's 33rd president lies a far more candid and compelling voice — one that...
A Navy For Australia
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-drenched harbours of a newly federated nation to the smoke-filled battlegrounds of two world wars, A Navy for Australia chronicles...
George The Third
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been so misunderstood, so caricatured, and so consequential as the man who presided over...
Shaw: The Annual Of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume Twenty-Seven
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFor scholars, students, and devoted admirers of one of literature's most formidable intellects, SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume Twenty-Seven presents a rigorous and...
Forged In Fury
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: small tear in interior of binding.In the smouldering aftermath of the Second World War, a group of Jewish survivors — hardened by...
Rush To Judgment: A Critique Of The Warren Commission's Inquiry Into The Murders Of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit And Lee Harvey Oswald
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhen one of the most scrutinised political assassinations in modern history is put on trial by a lawyer armed with testimony, evidence, and relentless logic, the...
The Age Of Consent: Victorian Prostitution And Its Enemies
$70.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: good binding, clean pages. In the gaslit shadows of Victorian England, a brutal social crisis festered beneath the veneer of imperial respectability...
Ben Jonson's Conversations With William Drummond Of Hawthornden
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Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...
The Partial View
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA master of irony and human observation turns the lens inward in The Partial View, W. Somerset Maugham's...
Books And Portraits: Some Further Selections From The Literary And Biographical Writings Of Virginia Woolf
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the literary world resonate with as much intellectual vitality and lyrical precision as that of Virginia Woolf, and Books and Portraits...
Sir George Arthur, Bart: 1784–1854
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Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small chip at bottom corner - otherwise fine.Few figures of the British colonial era...
I Was Monty's Double
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most audacious deception operations of the Second World War comes to life in I Was Monty's Double, the remarkable true account...
The Final Days
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sweltering summer of 1974, the most powerful office in the world was imploding — and two journalists were watching from the inside....
Sophie Dorothea
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the gilded facades of the late seventeenth-century European courts lay a world of political intrigue, forced marriages, and devastating personal tragedy — and...
Shakespeare
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in the history of human expression have cast as long a shadow as William Shakespeare, and Ivor Brown's...
Grey And Scarlet: Letters From The War Areas By Army Sisters On Active Service
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Chipped along spine - still...