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The Vivisector

The Vivisector

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingTo create is to wound — and no novel captures this brutal truth more ferociously than Patrick White's...
Australian Women: New Feminist Perspectives

Australian Women: New Feminist Perspectives

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of politics, identity, and social change, Australian Women: New Feminist Perspectives presents a bold and searching examination of women's lives in Australia...
Guide To Australian War Memorial

Guide To Australian War Memorial

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodNestled in the heart of Canberra, the Australian War Memorial stands as one of the most significant national monuments in the world, and this official guide...
A Galaxy Of Poems Old And New

A Galaxy Of Poems Old And New

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA Galaxy of Poems Old and New, chosen by E.W. Parker, M.C., is a carefully...
Hay, Hell And Booligal: Australian Bush Humour

Hay, Hell And Booligal: Australian Bush Humour

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-scorched plains of the outback to the dusty tracks of the bush, Hay, Hell and Booligal is a riotous celebration of...
Australian War Memorial: Canberra

Australian War Memorial: Canberra

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStanding as one of the most visited and revered institutions in the nation, the Australian War...
The Immigrants

The Immigrants

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween 1890 and 1970, seventeen men and women made the long journey to Australia from the far corners of the world — Austria, China, England,...
Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity In The Twentieth Century

Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity In The Twentieth Century

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be Australian? Going It Alone: Australia's National Identity in the Twentieth Century confronts this...
Bolte By Bolte

Bolte By Bolte

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history loom as large or as defiantly as Sir Henry Bolte, and Bolte by Bolte presents the man himself in...
The Babe Is Wise: Contemporary Stories By Australian Women

The Babe Is Wise: Contemporary Stories By Australian Women

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA bold and vital gathering of voices from the Australian literary landscape, The Babe is Wise presents a...
Woman Of The Inner Sea

Woman Of The Inner Sea

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the scorched heart of the Australian outback, a woman flees the ruins of her life — and...
Power Without Glory

Power Without Glory

$85.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Tanned pages, price clipped FEP, some minor markings to board.Few novels in Australian literary history have struck as nerve-shatteringly...
An Introduction To The Study Of South Australian Orchids

An Introduction To The Study Of South Australian Orchids

$40.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew natural...
Pastiche I: Reflections On 19Th Century Australia

Pastiche I: Reflections On 19Th Century Australia

$50.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat did it mean to live, labour, and dream in nineteenth-century...
The South West Pacific 1941-45

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...
Samuel Terry: The Botany Bay Rothschild

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...
Riders In The Chariot

Riders In The Chariot

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-scorched suburbs of post-war Sydney, four extraordinary souls — a mad spinster, an Aboriginal painter, a...
Nature Problems: A Book Of Nature Study For Young Australians

Nature Problems: A Book Of Nature Study For Young Australians

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown...
Australia & The Great War

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...
Broome's One Day War: The Story Of The Japanese Raid On Broome 3Rd March 1942

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...
Feminine Singular: A History Of The Association Of Heads Of Independent Girls' Schools Of Australia

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...
The Songlines

The Songlines

$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. What if the entire Australian continent were criss-crossed by an invisible web of music, ancient paths sung into...
Miles Franklin In America: Her Unknown Brilliant Career

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...
The Shepherd's Hut (SIGNED)

The Shepherd's Hut (SIGNED)

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn the scorched and unforgiving Australian outback, a desperate teenage boy runs for his life — and The Shepherd's Hut is...
The Spy Catchers: The Official History Of Asio 1949–1963, Volume I

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 Naked Country

The Naked Country

$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the Australian outback, The Naked Country by Michael East — the pen...
A River Town (SIGNED)

A River Town (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet against the raw, unforgiving landscape of turn-of-the-century rural Australia, A River Town chronicles the life of Tim Shea, an...
Jacko (SIGNED)

Jacko (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Remainder markFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Jacko, a bold and irreverent novel that thrusts readers into the...
Woman Of The Inner Sea (SIGNED)

Woman Of The Inner Sea (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the vast, sunburned heart of Australia, a woman flees the wreckage of her privileged Sydney life and disappears into the...
Bettany's Book (SIGNED)

Bettany's Book (SIGNED)

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedTwo centuries apart, two women share a name, a bloodline, and an unbreakable hunger for justice — and Tom...
The Playmaker (SIGNED)

The Playmaker (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj in mylar.In the harsh, unforgiving wilderness of 1788 New South Wales, a young British officer...
The Chosen

The Chosen

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed, 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedWhat does it mean to be truly chosen — by fate, by society, or by one's own desperate will? David...
Bloodfather

Bloodfather

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and uncompromising literary voices comes Bloodfather, a darkly compelling novel that plunges into the heart of identity, power,...
Archimedes And The Seagle

Archimedes And The Seagle

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a seagull named Archimedes becomes the unlikely lens through which an entire human world is refracted? David Ireland's Archimedes and the...
City Of Women

City Of Women

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCity of Women is a bold and disquieting novel set in a near-future Australia where men have vanished from existence, leaving a society composed...
John Monash: A Biography

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...
Call Me When The Cross Turns Over

Call Me When The Cross Turns Over

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the vast, sun-scorched Australian outback, Call Me When the Cross Turns Over is a...
Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men And Institutions In Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia

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

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)

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...
Letting Fly: Deborah Wardley, Australia's Trail-Blazing Pilot (SIGNED)

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...
The Ancestor Game (SIGNED)

The Ancestor Game (SIGNED)

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Moderate crease on the front panel. A sweeping, luminous novel that bridges...
The Bystander

The Bystander

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the sun-scorched landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australia, Randolph Stow's The Bystander presents a haunting portrait of alienation, moral ambiguity, and...
Jessie Street: Documents And Essays

Jessie Street: Documents And Essays

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Australian public life blazed a trail as boldly as Jessie Street — suffragist, peace activist,...
Getting The Numbers: Women In Local Government (SIGNED)

Getting The Numbers: Women In Local Government (SIGNED)

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the male-dominated corridors of local government, women have long fought for a seat at...
Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts Of A Labor Outsider

Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts Of A Labor Outsider

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the brutal arena of Australian politics, where idealism collides with cynicism and loyalty is always contingent,...
Charting A Continent: A Brief Memoir On The History Of Marine Exploration And Hydrographical Surveying In Australian Waters From The Discoveries Of Captain James Cook To The War Activities [...]

Charting A Continent: A Brief Memoir On The History Of Marine Exploration And Hydrographical Surveying In Australian Waters From The Discoveries Of Captain James Cook To The War Activities [...]

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: worn with some stains; light bumping on...
Sir Henry Parkes: His Life And Work (SIGNED)

Sir Henry Parkes: His Life And Work (SIGNED)

$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Boards: faded spine, light bumping on corners. Binding: remains tight....