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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...
Skorzeny's Special Missions

Skorzeny's Special Missions

$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: fair with no dj. yellowed pages with some foxing. unmkd. This memoir chronicles Otto Skorzeny's military career, most notably his leadership of the 1943 Gran...
Rembrandt's Portrait: A Biography

Rembrandt's Portrait: A Biography

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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few artists have left as indelible a mark on Western civilization as...
Jean François Millet: His Life and Letters

Jean François Millet: His Life and Letters

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Edition: cheap ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. no DJ. Slight lean to book. Name penned on fep. Yellowed pages with signs of ageing. A biography of the French Barbizon painter Jean-François...
The Silent Victory: September 1940

The Silent Victory: September 1940

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears, some loss. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of ageing; fep clipped. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Fold-out map present....
The Devil's Decade

The Devil's Decade

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good. The 1930s were a...
With Rifle And Pick

With Rifle And Pick

$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight binding, no loose pages. The history of the Australian frontier is...
Love, Guilt And Reparation And Other Works 1921-1945

Love, Guilt And Reparation And Other Works 1921-1945

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, some moisture damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few figures in the history of psychoanalysis have reshaped our...
Chateaubriand: A Biography, Volume One: The Longed-For Tempests

Chateaubriand: A Biography, Volume One: The Longed-For Tempests

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm. Few lives have burned with such romantic intensity as that of François-René de...
Surviving And Other Essays

Surviving And Other Essays

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears tears, small chip at bottom right corner. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Good. What does it...
Ramses II And His Time

Ramses II And His Time

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding. Few...
Rommel

Rommel

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Edition: 12th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, some chipping along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact....
The Muses Are Heard: An Account Of The Porgy And Bess Visit To Leningrad

The Muses Are Heard: An Account Of The Porgy And Bess Visit To Leningrad

$55.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Fair/poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: intact. Significant white scuffing and paint loss across the red cloth boards,...
The Tiger And The Rose

The Tiger And The Rose

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: n/a. Page Condition: yellowed; fep missing. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Set against the vivid backdrop of early twentieth-century Australia, The Tiger and the Rose...
Die Like The Carp!

Die Like The Carp!

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. In one of the most audacious mass escapes of the Second World War, over a thousand Australian prisoners of...
This Is War!

This Is War!

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with wear and tear. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Intact. Few photographic documents have seared...
Stalin

Stalin

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in modern history cast a shadow as long and as...
An Autobiography: Volume 1, 1880-1911

An Autobiography: Volume 1, 1880-1911

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life occupy as singular a position...
Melbourne On My Mind

Melbourne On My Mind

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$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback - chipped at bottom of spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few cities in the Southern Hemisphere...
Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription, taped blurb in FEP. One of the twentieth century's most celebrated and...
The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets of the twentieth century possessed the restless intellect and lyrical...
The Book Of Lech Wałęsa

The Book Of Lech Wałęsa

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the heart of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Chris Wallace-Crabbe...
Fighter Pilot: A Personal Record Of The Campaign In France 1939-1940

Fighter Pilot: A Personal Record Of The Campaign In France 1939-1940

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the desperate skies over France in...
W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction

W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets in the English language have commanded the intellectual grandeur and...
Galway Of The Races: Selected Essays

Galway Of The Races: Selected Essays

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few Irish essayists of the early twentieth century possessed the lyrical wit...
The Coal-Scuttle Brigade

The Coal-Scuttle Brigade

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the skies over wartime Britain, a handful of courageous...
Spitfire Summer

Spitfire Summer

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription The summer of 1940 was among the most consequential in...
Mach One

Mach One

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the white-knuckle world of experimental jet aviation, few...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor And Its Aftermath

Infamy: Pearl Harbor And Its Aftermath

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chips along edges and spine. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. On the morning of December 7,...
Grand Old Lady: Story Of The Dc-3

Grand Old Lady: Story Of The Dc-3

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Intact. Few aircraft have earned a place in the hearts of aviators...
Somme

Somme

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the blood-soaked fields of northern France during the summer...
My Lady Of The Chimney-Corner & The Souls Of Poor Folk

My Lady Of The Chimney-Corner & The Souls Of Poor Folk

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: none. Blurb from flap taped onto inside of binding. Binding...
Berkeley

Berkeley

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the intersection of perception, reality, and the divine stands George Berkeley...
A History Of India 2

A History Of India 2

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From the twilight of the Mughal Empire to the birth of an...
W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in the history of English-language poetry command the mystique and...
Ways Of Escape

Ways Of Escape

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary...
From Bantry Bay To Leitrim

From Bantry Bay To Leitrim

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. There are journeys that map a landscape, and then there are journeys...
The Ante-Room: Early Stages In A Literary Life

The Ante-Room: Early Stages In A Literary Life

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Long before the publishing world became the corporate behemoth it is today,...
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary figures of the twentieth century lived as dramatically as Evelyn...
The Millstone

The Millstone

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of 1960s British fiction, The Millstone chronicles the story of...
The Roar Of The Lion

The Roar Of The Lion

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the darkest hour of the twentieth century, one voice rose above...
Jerusalem The Golden

Jerusalem The Golden

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A young woman's hunger for beauty, sophistication, and escape drives one of...
Synge And Anglo-Irish Literature

Synge And Anglo-Irish Literature

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the heart of the Irish Literary Revival stands a figure as...
Island In Revolt

Island In Revolt

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact. Few conflicts of the twentieth...
Lost Battalions: Going For Broke In The Vosges Autumn 1944

Lost Battalions: Going For Broke In The Vosges Autumn 1944

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. In the autumn of 1944, amid the dense forests and bitter...
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1945-59

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1945-59

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good - repaired with tape. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Few documents of the twentieth century bear witness to history with the...
Raphael: The Life And The Legacy

Raphael: The Life And The Legacy

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. A richly detailed biography and cultural study, Raphael: The Life and the Legacy chronicles the extraordinary...