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Mornings With My Cat Mii
A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives. The...
100 Great Black Britons
'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author...
Getting To Know The General: The Story Of An Involvement
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds comes a gripping personal account of an unlikely friendship forged...
Moon In My Pocket
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: edges chipped and worn with some loss on rear panel....
Ben Hall
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the lawless goldfields and dusty plains of colonial New South Wales, one name struck fear into the hearts of settlers and...
Matters For Judgment: An Autobiography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history have ignited as much controversy as Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General whose 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough...
The Life Of Kathleen Ferrier
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every legendary voice lies an extraordinary life — and few voices of the twentieth century were as luminous, or...
A Voyage From Plymouth To Melbourne In 1839: The Shipboard And Early Melbourne Diary Of Jonathan Binns Were, C.M.G.
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the spring of 1839, a young man of remarkable ambition set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the remote colonial settlement of Melbourne — and...
No Roads Go By
$60.00 AUD
Edition: First Illustrated ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Light tanning on block, tape residue on inside of cover. Pages clean, binding firm. Small...
The Magic Touch
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew writers of the twentieth century chronicled the human condition with the raw intensity and moral urgency of Joseph Kessel,...
Jesus In The Tide Of Time: An Historical Study
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat can the ancient world tell us about the man who reshaped it? Jesus in the Tide of Time: An Historical Study presents a...
Too Good To Be True: Inside The Corrupt World Of Christopher Skase
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the glittering, greed-soaked era of 1980s Australia, no figure burned brighter — or fell harder — than Christopher Skase,...
The Dam Busters
$20.00 AUD
Edition: Second 1955 reprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew missions in the annals of aerial warfare have captured the imagination quite like Operation Chastise —...
Lucinda Brayford
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLucinda Brayford is a sweeping, multi-generational saga that traces the life of its luminous protagonist from the sun-drenched colonial society of late nineteenth-century Australia...
The Nor'-Westers
$35.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the sun-scorched, cyclone-battered coastline of Australia's rugged north-west comes a...
White Man, Black Man: The True Story Of A White Man Who Was Initiated Into An Aboriginal Tribe
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA remarkable true account, White Man, Black Man chronicles the extraordinary journey of a white man who crossed one of the most profound cultural...
Pocahontas: Or The Nonparell Of Virginia
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most iconic figures in American colonial history, Pocahontas — the Powhatan princess who bridged two civilisations — receives a...
The Secret Gospel: The Discovery And Interpretation Of The Secret Gospel According To Mark
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the twentieth century's most electrifying scholarly controversies, Morton Smith recounts his 1958 discovery at the ancient Mar...
True History Of The Kelly Gang
$50.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodNed Kelly — bushranger, outlaw, and Australia's most enduring folk hero — narrates his own turbulent life in...
Flight From Torregreca: Strangers And Pilgrims
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the poverty-stricken villages of southern Italy's Basilicata region, something quietly devastating was happening — a mass exodus of an entire way...
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography In Diaries And Letters
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the quietly comic novels that charmed a generation of readers lay a life of startling emotional depth — and A Very Private Eye...
Backing Into The Limelight: A Biography Of T.E. Lawrence
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodHe was a scholar, a soldier, a strategist, and an enigma — T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, remains one...
The Liberation Of The Riviera: The Resistance To The Nazis In The South Of France And The Story Of Its Heroic Leader, Ange-Marie Miniconi
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched yet shadow-filled landscape of Nazi-occupied southern France, one man dared to stand against the full might of the Third Reich —...
The Half-Mad Lord: Thomas Pitt 2Nd Baron Camelford (1775-1804)
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every age of empire lurks a figure too wild, too reckless, and too combustible to be contained by its...
World Chess Championship 1948: The Hague - Moscow
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the aftermath of World War II, the chess world stood at a crossroads — and in 1948, the greatest players on the planet gathered in...
The Naval And Military Club, Melbourne: A History Of Its First Hundred Years, 1881-1981
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor a century, the Naval and Military Club of Melbourne has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished institutions, a bastion of tradition, camaraderie,...
Louisa Lawson: Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBefore Henry Lawson became Australia's most celebrated poet and writer, there was Louisa — a woman of fierce independence, radical conviction, and indomitable spirit...
The Americans: Fifty Letters From America On Our Life And Times
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, Alistair Cooke stood as the most eloquent British interpreter of American life, and The Americans presents fifty of his finest dispatches —...
Footnote People In Australian History
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodHistory is written by the victorious, the celebrated, and the powerful — but Footnote People in Australian History boldly reclaims the stories of those...
To Live Again
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the aftermath of devastating personal loss, one woman's journey toward spiritual and emotional renewal stands as a testament to...
James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew literary figures have loomed as large over the twentieth century as James Joyce, and Stan Gébler Davies's James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist offers...
The Way It Spozed To Be
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when an idealistic young teacher walks into a chaotic inner-city classroom and refuses to give up?...
Green Beach
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1942, one man was handed a mission so secret and so improbable that its success would alter the entire trajectory...
From Charity To Teaching Hospital
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the humblest origins of charitable care to the cutting edge of modern medical education, From Charity to Teaching Hospital chronicles the remarkable transformation...
James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures have cast as long a shadow over the twentieth century as James Joyce — and Stan Gebler Davies's James Joyce: A...
Pharos And Pharillon
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAlexandria, that most mythologized of Mediterranean cities — a place where antiquity and modernity collide in perpetual, restless conversation —...
Ways Of Escape
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Ways of Escape, one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds turns the lens inward, offering an intimate and candid second...
Rum Rebellion: A Study Of The Overthrow Of Governor Bligh By John Macarthur And The New South Wales Corps
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sweltering heat of early colonial Sydney, a dramatic coup shook the foundations of British authority in the fledgling settlement of New South...
Longman History Of The United States Of America
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the thunderous arrival of European settlers on uncharted shores to the complex political machinery of the modern superpower, Hugh...
Web Of Corruption: The Story Of John Poulson And T. Dan Smith
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the murky corridors of post-war British public life, two men — architect John Poulson and Newcastle city boss T. Dan Smith...
Montreal: The Days That Are No More
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodUnknown
At War With The Smugglers: Career Of Dr. Arnold's Father
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew careers in the annals of British maritime history are as dramatic and morally charged as that of the man at the...
Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee And The Civil War
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of America's most devastating conflict stands one of its most enigmatic commanders — Robert E. Lee, the gentleman general...
Francis Of Assisi: The Wandering Years
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt once a portrait of holy rebellion and a chronicle of one of history's most captivating spiritual journeys, Anthony Mockler's Francis of...
Alan Marshall's Battlers
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the red dirt roads of the Australian bush to the cramped lanes of working-class Melbourne, Alan Marshall's Battlers is...
The Silent Traveller In Japan
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew travel writers have ever captured a foreign land with the lyrical sensitivity of Chiang Yee, and The Silent Traveller in Japan...
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures: Pictures And Mementos From A Life Of Style And Purpose
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew icons of the twentieth century have captured the world's imagination quite like Audrey Hepburn — actress, humanitarian, and eternal symbol of grace — and The...
A Standard For The People: The 150Th Anniversary Of The Wellington Hebrew Congregation 1843-1993
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA century and a half of faith, community, and identity unfolds in A Standard for the People, a...