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My Three Revolutions: Russia, Germany, Britain 1917-1969

My Three Revolutions: Russia, Germany, Britain 1917-1969

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few witnesses of the twentieth century's most turbulent upheavals left...
The Story Of San Michele

The Story Of San Michele

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Edition: silver jubilee ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: gift inscription. Usual shelf-wear. Few memoirs have captivated the world with...
Splendour Of God

Splendour Of God

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Edition: First Popular and AbridgedCondition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning throughout. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: binding is intact but aged. Stickers/labels: Bookseller's sticker...
Doors To The Sacred: A Historical Introduction To Sacraments In The Catholic Church

Doors To The Sacred: A Historical Introduction To Sacraments In The Catholic Church

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library A scholarly yet accessible work of Catholic theology, Doors to the...
Russian Literary Attitudes From Pushkin To Solzhenitsyn

Russian Literary Attitudes From Pushkin To Solzhenitsyn

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. Few literary traditions are as turbulent, vast,...
New Statesman Profiles

New Statesman Profiles

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Condition remarks: Binding: Hardcover dust jacket - Worn/faded - no tears, now protected in mylar sleeve. Condition: Good/Very Good; binding remains firm, pages show light tanning and minor foxing typical...
Xavier: A Centenary Portrait

Xavier: A Centenary Portrait

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. From the corridors of one of Australia's most...
Journey To The Frontier: Julian Bell & John Cornford: Their Lives And The 1930S

Journey To The Frontier: Julian Bell & John Cornford: Their Lives And The 1930S

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Journey to the Frontier chronicles the parallel lives of Julian Bell...
Margaret Mead And Samoa: The Making And Unmaking Of An Anthropological Myth

Margaret Mead And Samoa: The Making And Unmaking Of An Anthropological Myth

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few academic controversies have shaken the foundations of a discipline quite so dramatically as...
A Pilgrimage Of Passion: The Life Of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

A Pilgrimage Of Passion: The Life Of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some yellowing/tanning to pages. Markings: remainder mark. Binding condition: Good. Few lives in the Victorian and Edwardian eras burned...
Dostoyevsky: His Life And Work

Dostoyevsky: His Life And Work

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm binding, no loose pages. Few figures in world literature cast as long...
Dubin's Lives

Dubin's Lives

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tear on spine. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. William Dubin is a celebrated biographer who has spent his life...
Hawksmoor

Hawksmoor

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661–1736) stands as one of the most singular and enigmatic...
Thurber: A Biography

Thurber: A Biography

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Behind the gentle whimsy and celebrated cartoons of James Thurber lay a...
Béla Bartók's Last Years: The Naked Face Of Genius

Béla Bartók's Last Years: The Naked Face Of Genius

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Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning, some foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few accounts of artistic...
Elizabeth I: A Study In Power And Intellect

Elizabeth I: A Study In Power And Intellect

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few monarchs in history have commanded both a throne and the imagination...
Portrait Of A Marriage

Portrait Of A Marriage

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding. One of the most candid...
The Rush To Be Rich: A History Of The Colony Of Victoria, 1883-1889

The Rush To Be Rich: A History Of The Colony Of Victoria, 1883-1889

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Edition: First Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some tanning. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few eras in Australian history crackle with as much...
The Little Magazines: A Study Of Six Editors

The Little Magazines: A Study Of Six Editors

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. At the heart of twentieth-century literary culture stood a quiet revolution —...
Night Thoughts

Night Thoughts

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Large chip at back of jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. Few American critics of the...
Voyeur Voyant: A Portrait Of Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Voyeur Voyant: A Portrait Of Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding. Few literary figures of the...
The Importance Of Living

The Importance Of Living

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Edition: First Australian Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. What does it mean...
The Church Reform Of Peter The Great

The Church Reform Of Peter The Great

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few rulers in history reshaped the spiritual and institutional life of...
Manuel De Falla: And The Spanish Musical Renaissance

Manuel De Falla: And The Spanish Musical Renaissance

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. At the heart of twentieth-century Spanish music stands Manuel de Falla,...
The New Scriabin: Enigma And Answers

The New Scriabin: Enigma And Answers

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. Few composers have provoked as much fascination, controversy,...
The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979

The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. At the crossroads of poetry, ecology, and Eastern philosophy stands Gary Snyder —...
Ballet Panorama: An Illustrated Chronicle Of Three Centuries

Ballet Panorama: An Illustrated Chronicle Of Three Centuries

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact but worn. From the ornate courts of Louis XIV to...
C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life

C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding firm. Cecil Day-Lewis — poet, novelist, and Poet...
First Of The Many: The Story Of Independent Force, Raf

First Of The Many: The Story Of Independent Force, Raf

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm binding. In the final year of the First World War,...
Casanova's Memoirs

Casanova's Memoirs

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Usual shelf-wear. Few lives have scandalized and captivated Europe quite...
A Romantic Friendship: The Letters Of Cyril Connolly To Noel Blakiston

A Romantic Friendship: The Letters Of Cyril Connolly To Noel Blakiston

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings (Hawthorn City Library stamp and library number 60049 on title page). Binding condition:...
Atlantic Meeting: An Account Of Mr. Churchill's Voyage In H.M.S. Prince Of Wales, In August, 1941, And The Conference With President Roosevelt Which Resulted In The Atlantic Charter

Atlantic Meeting: An Account Of Mr. Churchill's Voyage In H.M.S. Prince Of Wales, In August, 1941, And The Conference With President Roosevelt Which Resulted In The Atlantic Charter

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Damage to back of jacket but now protected in protective mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition:...
Reflections Of A Russian Statesman

Reflections Of A Russian Statesman

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Slight yellowing. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding secure. Sticker...
Dostoevsky Reminiscences

Dostoevsky Reminiscences

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Anna Dostoevsky's Dostoevsky Reminiscences offers an intimate and irreplaceable window into the...
The Other Half: A Self-Portrait

The Other Half: A Self-Portrait

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some tanning / foxing on spine. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Usual shelf-wear. One of the...
Country And Calling

Country And Calling

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Minimal wear around edges of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings (library stamp from A.S. Butler's Library, The...
To Feed The Hungry

To Feed The Hungry

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed, foxing on block. Markings: Previous owner. Usual shelf-wear. Rubbed edges. In the sun-scorched villages...
Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One: Selected Essays

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. As new What emerges when one of the twentieth century's greatest poets turns critic is nothing...
Child Of The Revolution

Child Of The Revolution

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: paperback. Page Condition: Yellowed but otherwise in good condition. Markings: previous owner on FEP. Binding condition: Good - some fading on spine; lettering now yellow....
In One's Bones: The Clinical Genius Of Winnicott

In One's Bones: The Clinical Genius Of Winnicott

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few figures in the history of psychoanalysis have left as indelible a mark...
The Golden Age: A History Of The Colony Of Victoria 1851-1861

The Golden Age: A History Of The Colony Of Victoria 1851-1861

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some wear and minor soiling to cover. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. The discovery of...
Brazilian Lectures: 1973 São Paulo / 1974 Rio De Janeiro/São Paulo

Brazilian Lectures: 1973 São Paulo / 1974 Rio De Janeiro/São Paulo

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few figures in the history of psychoanalysis have challenged the boundaries of human...
Dublin In The Age Of William Butler Yeats And James Joyce

Dublin In The Age Of William Butler Yeats And James Joyce

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the turn of the twentieth century, Dublin stood at the crossroads of...
A Reader's Guide To James Joyce

A Reader's Guide To James Joyce

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. For any reader who has stood at the threshold of James Joyce's labyrinthine prose and wondered how to...
Daddy's Practising Again: An Australian Jazzman Looks Black And Around

Daddy's Practising Again: An Australian Jazzman Looks Black And Around

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Australian jazz has long occupied a fascinating and underappreciated corner of the global...
Darwin Bombed: The Unit History Of 14 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery

Darwin Bombed: The Unit History Of 14 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery

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Condition remarks: Condition: Ex-Library with usual markings. In the sweltering heat of Australia's Northern Territory, the city of Darwin became the front line of the Pacific War when Japanese forces...
Flying High: The Story Of Hudson Fysh, Qantas And The Trail-Blazing Days Of Early Aviation

Flying High: The Story Of Hudson Fysh, Qantas And The Trail-Blazing Days Of Early Aviation

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. In the vast, sunbaked outback of post-WWI Australia, a young adventurer named Hudson Fysh dared to look skyward and...
Venturer Courageous: Group Captain Leonard Trent Vc, Dfc

Venturer Courageous: Group Captain Leonard Trent Vc, Dfc

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. Few stories of aerial courage match that of Group Captain Leonard Trent VC, DFC — a New Zealand-born RAF...