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Early Australian Painters
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's colonial era produced some of the most visually arresting and historically significant art in the Southern Hemisphere,...
The Legend Of The Nineties
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew decades in Australian cultural history have been mythologised with such enduring intensity as the 1890s, and Vance Palmer's The Legend of the Nineties...
Australia's Year Of Sail
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a nation forged by the sea, Australia's Year of Sail stands as a magnificent tribute to one of the most celebrated maritime events...
A Cartoon History Of Australia: A Social History Of Australia In Cartoons
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew mediums capture the raw pulse of a nation quite like its cartoons — and A Cartoon History of Australia by Jonathan King...
1788: The People Of The First Fleet
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...
True History Of The Kelly Gang (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: quarter leather cream papered boards - in mylar. Binding remains tight. Clean and tidy copy. From the sun-scorched plains...
The Australian Scapegoat: Towards An Antipodean Aesthetic (SIGNED)
$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to forge a truly Australian aesthetic in the shadow of European tradition —...
Australian Aboriginal Art: A Souvenir Book Of Aboriginal Art In The Australian National Gallery (SIGNED)
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slight creasing to corners. Few artistic traditions carry the weight of sixty thousand years...
James Fenton Of Forth: A Tasmanian Pioneer 1820-1901
$75.00 AUD
Edition: LE - No. 291 of 800 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the rugged and untamed landscape of colonial Tasmania, one man carved out a life that would...
Thoughtlines: The Art Of Ruark Lewis, 1982-2014
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA compelling survey of three decades of creative vision, Thoughtlines: The Art of Ruark Lewis, 1982–2014 chronicles the...
Roger Kemp: The Complete Etchings
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew Australian artists command the same reverence as Roger Kemp, whose visionary printmaking career is meticulously catalogued in...
Recent Past: Writing Australian Art
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWhat does it mean to bear witness to an art movement as it unfolds around you? Recent Past:...
Victoria Illustrated: 1857 & 1862
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedA magnificent window into colonial Australia, Victoria Illustrated: 1857 & 1862 presents a rare and visually stunning collection of engravings drawn from...
Reader's Digest Complete Book Of New Zealand Birds
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew landscapes on Earth are as ornithologically remarkable as New Zealand's — an island nation whose geographic isolation produced a birdlife found nowhere else on...
The Discovery Of Australia: A Critical, Documentary And Historic Investigation Concerning The Priority Of Discovery In Australasia By Europeans Before The Arrival Of Lieut. James Cook, In The "Endeavour," In The Year 1770
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLong before Captain Cook set foot on Australian soil, a fierce and fascinating historical debate was already brewing...
Tell 'Em I Died Game: The Stark Story Of Australian Bushranging
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged wilderness of colonial Australia, where the law was thin and the bush stretched endlessly, a breed of outlaws rose...
The Flinders Ranges
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodRising dramatically from the South Australian outback, the Flinders Ranges represent one of Australia's most ancient and awe-inspiring landscapes — and The Flinders Ranges...
My War: More Than 150 Epic Events Of World War 2
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased cover. The Second World War was the most devastating conflict in human history, and My...
Just Relations
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the remote, dust-choked isolation of the fictional Australian town of Whitey's Fall, a community of elderly survivors...
Just Tacking: Pieces From The Lake (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the still waters of an Australian lake emerges a quietly powerful collection of verse that captures...
In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses As Pows
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves...
Thomas Peel Of Swan River
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...
The Naval And Military Club, Melbourne: A History Of Its First Hundred Years, 1881-1981
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the heart of Melbourne, one institution has stood as a proud sentinel of military tradition and civic distinction for over a century — The Naval...
The Idea Of Perfection
$120.00 AUD
Edition: true first aus edCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a sun-bleached outback town where nothing ever seems to change, two awkward,...
The Hand That Signed The Paper
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew debut novels have ignited as much literary controversy as The Hand That Signed...
A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat In The Cold War And The Culture Wars (SIGNED)
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedFew intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this...
The Bush Soldiers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the brutal and unforgiving landscape of wartime Australia, The Bush Soldiers by John Hooker is a gripping historical novel that...
Oscar & Lucinda (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. In the sun-drenched and socially rigid world of Victorian-era England and Australia, two misfits...
Patria: Poems
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an era defined by global conflict and profound national uncertainty, L. H. Allen's Patria stands as a deeply felt meditation on homeland, identity,...
Reef Poems
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the shimmering depths of Australia's Great Barrier Reef emerges a collection of verse that transforms one of the world's most breathtaking natural wonders...
The Verse Of Christopher Brennan
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the turn of the twentieth century, one singular voice rose above the colonial landscape of Australian letters...
To Benghazi
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodThe desert sands of North Africa became one of the defining battlegrounds of the Second World War, and...
Greece, Crete And Syria
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the crucible of World War II's Mediterranean theatre, Greece, Crete and Syria chronicles the harrowing campaigns fought...
South-West Pacific Area—First Year: Kokoda To Wau
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the steaming jungles of New Guinea, where disease and exhaustion proved as deadly as enemy fire, a...
The Japanese Thrust
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen Imperial Japan launched its devastating military campaign across South-East Asia and the Pacific in late 1941, Australia...
Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary lives illuminate an era quite like that of Charles Brasch, and Indirections: A Memoir 1909–1947 stands as a testament to...
Wild Red Horses: Short Stories
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sun-scorched plains and sweeping bush landscapes of Australia comes Wild Red Horses, a vivid collection of...
Such Is Life
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet amid the sun-scorched plains and vast pastoral runs of colonial New South Wales in the 1880s, Such...
The Commanders: Australian Military Leadership In The Twentieth Century
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched battlefields of Gallipoli to the jungles of New Guinea and beyond, The Commanders presents a sweeping, authoritative portrait of the men...
Planning Policies For The Melbourne Metropolitan Region
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn November 1971, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works published a landmark document that would shape the...
Tom Roberts
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew painters have captured the soul of a nation with such vivid authenticity as Tom Roberts, the founding father of the Heidelberg School and the defining...
A 'Duty Clear Before Us': North Beach And The Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April-20 December 1915
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew campaigns in modern warfare have burned themselves into a nation's consciousness as completely as the...
A Pictorial History Of Moe And District
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA rare and intimate window into the past, A Pictorial History of Moe and District presents a vivid photographic chronicle of one of Victoria's most distinctive...
Wellington: Through A Victorian Lens
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodStep back into the nineteenth century and rediscover Wellington as it once was — a raw, ambitious colonial city captured in extraordinary detail through...
Melbourne Comparative Local Statistics
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA meticulous portrait of one of Australia's most dynamic cities, Melbourne Comparative Local Statistics (Fourth Edition, June 1985)...
Melbourne: An Urban Profile
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of colonial ambition and modern urban sprawl, Melbourne stands as one of Australia's most dynamic...
Our Fantastic Planet: Circling The Globe Via The Poles With Dick Smith
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn one of the most audacious aviation feats ever undertaken by an Australian, Our Fantastic Planet chronicles...
A Unique Flight: The Historic Aircraft Collection Of The Australian War Memorial
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew institutions in the world can claim a collection as historically charged and aeronautically significant as the Australian War Memorial's...