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Formula One: The Complete Story: 2012 Season
$25.00 AUD
Packed with more than 800 photographs, this book tells the story, year by year, of more than 60 glorious yeas of Formula One. It includes many original, unseen photographs from...
Louis Becke
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA. Grove Day's literary biography chronicles the remarkable life of Louis Becke, the nineteenth-century Australian author whose...
Conditions Of Faith (SIGNED)
$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA work of literary historical fiction, Conditions of Faith chronicles the journey of Emily Stanton, a young...
To Befriend An Emperor: Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St
Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that...
The History of Space Exploration: And Its Future...
The launch of the first rocket in 1926 led to the development of the first long-range missile - the A4, renamed V2 - fired in anger during the Second World...
House of Given
With a sparkling lyricism, House of Given reflects on the gentle insistence of love. Despite the strains and impositions people place upon it, especially within the close confines of family...
Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia
$150.00 AUD
This book is a comprehensive guide to Australia's rich herpetofauna - more than 1000 species of frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizard sand snakes. Included is up-to-date information about habitats, full-color...
Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman's Collection Of Beastliness
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsRumored to have been kept under lock and key in the finest libraries of Victorian England, Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman’s Collection of...
Wimmera
Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, Wimmera reinvents the epic poem. All the classical elements are there but they...
Fear of Tennis
An anxious sighting marks the re-appearance of high-school friend Jason Bunt in Mike Planner's orderd life as a court-room sound recordist. Fear of Tennis is a novel about the impossibility...
Great Expectations
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of Victorian literature, Great Expectations chronicles the life of Pip, an orphaned boy of humble origins whose chance encounter with...
In a Cool Blue Light
From snappy and urbane to passionate and divine, the writing of tomorrow's novelists dances in burnished reds and icy blues. The latgest collection from our most gifted young writers is...
Water Under The Bridge
$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor stains on boards. Binding remains tight. DJ slightly warped in mylar. A poignant work...
Shark
The book titled Shark by the author Bruce Pascoe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Captain James Cook, the Greatest Discoverer: The Robert and Mary Parks
$50.00 AUD
The Captain James Cook collection of Bob and Mary Ann Parks is a landmark of its kind, and represents the finest such collection offered. The catalogue includes highlights such as:...
Collected Stories (SIGNED)
$70.00 AUD
Edition: new ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA landmark collection of short fiction, Collected Stories gathers the full breadth of Peter Carey's early imaginative work, showcasing the...
The American Boys
An unforgettable WWII love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington. Wellington, 1942. Lorna's brothers are overseas fighting for their lives, and as war rages in...
Mandela: In celebration of a great life
$20.00 AUD
Mandela traces the life and work of South Africa's first democratically elected president. Beginning with his early years in a tiny village in the Transkei, the title follows him to...
African Elephants
An illustrated guide to the elephants of Africa. Colour photographs display a variety of elephant moods and activity in natural habitats in Africa, highlighting in particular their intelligence and social...
Landtakers: The Story Of An Epoch
$30.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian historical fiction, Land-Takers chronicles the brutal and unrelenting struggle of Derek Cabell, a...
Attempts to Draw Jesus
Set against a red desert landscape, Attempts to Draw Jesus follows the lives of two teenagers in unfamiliar surroundings. In his gran's day, jobs weren't a problem. But when Jack...
By Reef And Palm
$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark collection of South Seas fiction, By Reef and Palm chronicles the raw, sun-scorched...
Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010
As the 2010 federal election approaches, who better than Mungo MacCallum to guide us through the sweat and semantics of the campaign trail? This typically fast-paced, witty and perceptive account...
Lovesong (SIGNED)
$35.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA deeply moving work of literary fiction, Lovesong chronicles the intertwined lives of two couples whose stories of passion,...
Ash Rain
A bushfire in Dell's childhood still haunts her. She dreams up new starts, but her spilling stories cannot over-write the past. Evvie dances into Dell's life. She has run as...
The Legacy of Ancient Egypt
$20.00 AUD
This text explores the impact of the Egyptians on Western civilization. Starting with the history of ancient Egypt, the book goes on to look at the Egyptian achievement; Egypt and...
All The Green Year
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA warmly nostalgic work of Australian coming-of-age fiction, All the Green Year chronicles the misadventures and youthful escapades...
King Hussein
Roland Dallas''s biography of King Hussein of Jordan is the story of an extraordinary man, the survivor o f several assassination attempts and a man equally at home a t...
Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
'Lion of Hollywood' is the definitive biography of Louis B Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - MGM - the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood's Golden Age. An...
White Topee
$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsWhite Topee chronicles the extraordinary journey of two sisters, Steve and Blue, as they traverse the Australian bush...
Karl Marx: An Illustrated History
Focusing as much on Marx's private life as on his public persona and work, this classic biography looks into detail at his relationship with his mother and father, wife and...
Dirt Music (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA haunting work of Australian literary fiction, Dirt Music chronicles the lives of three damaged souls drawn together by grief,...
England's Lost Houses
Of all the photographs in the "Country Life" archive, none are more poignant or intriguing than these images of houses that have been lost. In a great number of cases,...
Art: the Critics' Choice: 150 Masterpieces of Western Art
Each of the chapters in this text explores one of ten stages in the development of Western art through a detailed discussion of 15 key works, which range from well...
What A Life! Ned Kelly: The Life & Adventures Of Australia's Notorious Bushranger
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of Australian historical biography, this account chronicles the turbulent life of Ned Kelly, the legendary...
The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
One of the great untold stories of pre-colonial Africa at last receives a chronicle worthy of its significance. Revisit exotic Zululand, once the most powerful and sophisticated black state in...
DINOSAURS GLOBAL VIEW
Dinosaurs have long presented a fascinating enigma to man: What did they look like? How did they live? Why were they so huge? Why did they disappear so completely? This...
A Prisoner Of Birth (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA gripping courtroom drama and revenge thriller, A Prisoner of Birth chronicles the story of Danny Cartwright,...
A Top Gear Christmas
Top Gear Does Christmas will show you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to creating a Christmas to remember. With gift...
The Fat Man In History (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: later reprintCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA sharp and darkly comic collection of short fiction, The Fat Man in History presents a series of unsettling,...
The Big Book of Top Gear 2011
There'll be something to satisfy every Top Gear fan in The Big Book of Top Gear 2011, which will be overflowing with comedy gags, geeky car facts, photographs of the...
Born Liars: Why We Can't Live without Deceit
Our attitudes to lying are confused and contradictory - you might even say, self-deceiving. On the one hand we hate lies, and liars. On the other, we all indulge in...
Madman's Bend
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis classic Australian crime novel sends the half-Aboriginal detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte — known as Bony...
An Afternoon Of Time
$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text. A reflective and quietly moving work of autobiographical...