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Guy Gibson Vc
$40.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...
The South West Pacific 1941-45
$40.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingIn the steaming jungles and island chains stretching from New Guinea to the Philippines, one of the most gruelling and strategically...
Admiralty Manual Of Seamanship: Volume I
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe sea demands absolute knowledge — and for generations of Royal Navy sailors, the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship,...
The Age Of Ideologies: A History Of Political Thought In The Twentieth Century
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previousowner inscription to FEP and annotation throughout.In an era defined by clashing visions of human society, Karl Dietrich Bracher's The...
Hobart Town
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerNestled at the foot of the brooding kunanyi/Mount Wellington and cradled by the sweeping waters of...
Samuel Terry: The Botany Bay Rothschild
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the convict ships of early colonial Australia to the heights of financial and social power, the extraordinary life of Samuel Terry...
A History Of Greek Philosophy: Volume Two: The Presocratic Tradition From Parmenides To Democritus
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of reason and mythology, the Presocratic philosophers of ancient Greece dared to...
No Exit From Vietnam
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the height of one of the most controversial and devastating conflicts of the...
The Greek Stones Speak: The Story Of Archaeology In Greek Lands
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew civilizations have left behind a legacy as enduring or as breathtaking as that of ancient Greece, and The Greek...
Blood On My Mind
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSome crimes are too strange, too chilling, or too perfectly executed to be forgotten — and Blood on...
Alexander Maconochie Of Norfolk Island
$50.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Some minor silverfish damage to FEP, rubbed edges and some chipping to DJ.In...
Australia & The Great War
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the guns of August 1914 shattered the...
North Queensland Wwii 1942-1945
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the threat of Japanese invasion loomed over Australia's northern shores, North Queensland became one of the most...
Broome's One Day War: The Story Of The Japanese Raid On Broome 3Rd March 1942
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3rd March 1942, the remote pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, was shattered by...
White Coolies
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most harrowing and ultimately triumphant accounts of survival to emerge from the Second World War, White Coolies is the...
Feminine Singular: A History Of The Association Of Heads Of Independent Girls' Schools Of Australia
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of gender, education, and Australian social history stands a compelling institutional chronicle — Feminine Singular: a history...
Miles Franklin In America: Her Unknown Brilliant Career
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the legendary Australian author of My Brilliant Career lies a decade of American life largely hidden from public view — Verna Coleman's Miles...
Madonnas And Magdalens: The Origins And Development Of Victorian Sexual Attitudes
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an era defined by corsets, calling cards, and carefully cultivated moral rectitude, the Victorian age harboured a turbulent and contradictory inner life —...
Frank Hardy And The Making Of Power Without Glory
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind one of Australia's most explosive and controversial novels lies a story just as gripping as the fiction itself. Frank Hardy and the Making...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History Of Asio 1949–1963, Volume I
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor tear on dj. Behind the closed doors of Australia's most secretive intelligence agency, a hidden war was being...
The World's War
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the guns of August 1914 began to fire, the conflict that erupted was not merely a European war — it was a truly...
Hadrian's Wall: A Study Of The North-West Frontier Of Rome
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStretching seventy-three miles across the rugged northern reaches of Roman Britain, Hadrian's Wall stands as one of antiquity's most audacious...
The Forms Of Action At Common Law: A Course Of Lectures
$15.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: tape residue on endpapers. Contains pencil moderate ink underlining. Few works in legal history carry the intellectual...
Prostitution
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the most unflinching social documents of the Victorian era, William Acton's Prostitution presents a groundbreaking and methodical examination...
John Monash: A Biography
$100.00 AUD
Edition: Leatherbound special EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in Australian history command as much admiration and complexity as Sir John Monash...
Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the pearls, the designer gowns, and the adoring gaze fixed upon her husband stood one of the most powerful and polarizing women ever...
Cinna The Poet: And Other Roman Essays
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: light bumping on corners; faded spine. From the hallowed lecture halls of the University of Leicester, T. P. Wiseman presents a rigorous and captivating...
Wild Weeds And Windflowers: The Life And Letters Of Katharine Susannah Prichard
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread.Few figures in Australian literary history burned as fiercely and as controversially as Katharine Susannah...
The Great Boer War
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Empire found itself locked...
The Battles Of The Somme
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the blood-soaked fields of northern France, one of the most catastrophic...
Carthage Of The Phoenicians: In The Light Of Modern Excavation
$90.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedAt the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean world stood Carthage — a city of legendary power, wealth, and mystery — and Carthage of the...
Sea Warfare
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingPublished in the midst of the First World War, Sea Warfare is Rudyard Kipling's gripping firsthand account of the Royal Navy's desperate...
Five Years Hard: Being An Account Of The Fall Of The Fulani Empire And A Picture Of The Daily Life Of A Regimental Officer Among The Peoples Of The Western Sudan
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the dust of the Western Sudan to the collapse of one of...
Story Of "Southern Cross" Trans-Pacific Flight: 1928
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Missing - half-title, frontispiece, and the last few pages. Spine damage, hinges cracked....
Bush Life In Tasmania: Fifty Years Ago
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep back into the rugged wilderness of colonial Tasmania with James Fenton's vivid and authoritative memoir, Bush Life in Tasmania: Fifty Years Ago —...
King, Parliament, And Public Finance In Medieval England To 1369
$30.00 AUD
Edition: special edition for sandpiper booksCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the intersection of royal power and parliamentary authority lies one of the most consequential struggles of the medieval...
Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men And Institutions In Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of colonial ambition and intellectual awakening, Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men and Institutions...
Russell Grimwade
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian cultural and scientific life shone as brightly as Sir Frederick Russell Grimwade — industrialist, philanthropist, and passionate guardian of the...
Aborigines In Colonial Victoria 1835-86 (SIGNED)
$140.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn the shadow of colonial expansion, Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835–86 presents a rigorous and unflinching account...
The Making Of The Second Reform Bill
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian Britain's most turbulent democratic crisis stands the Second Reform Act of 1867 — a seismic piece of legislation that...
The Mind Of The South
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew books have so profoundly shaped the way Americans understand a region as W. J. Cash's...
Letting Fly: Deborah Wardley, Australia's Trail-Blazing Pilot (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscription,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, inscribed by the subject and McKenna; minor stains on the book block. In...
Educate, Agitate, Organize: 100 Years Of Fabian Socialism
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of intellectual ambition and radical politics stands the Fabian Society — a movement that, for over a...
The Miracles Of Saint James: Translations From The Liber Sancti Jacobi
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. Few texts illuminate the medieval world of pilgrimage and sacred wonder as vividly as...
Peasants, Landlords And Merchant Capitalists: Europe And The World Economy, 1500–1800
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of agrarian life and early capitalist enterprise, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists presents a sweeping...
Britain, Ireland And The Crusades, C.1000-1300
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and warfare, Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, c.1000–1300 presents a rigorous...
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the volatile borderlands where Pakistan meets Afghanistan, a war for the soul of the region...
Byzantium The Imperial Centuries: Ad 610-1071
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew empires in history have captured the imagination quite like Byzantium — a civilisation of breathtaking complexity,...