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Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mornings With My Cat Mii

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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

100 Great Black Britons

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'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

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

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

Ben Hall

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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

Matters For Judgment: An Autobiography

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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

The Life Of Kathleen Ferrier

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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.

A Voyage From Plymouth To Melbourne In 1839: The Shipboard And Early Melbourne Diary Of Jonathan Binns Were, C.M.G.

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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

No Roads Go By

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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

The Magic Touch

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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

Jesus In The Tide Of Time: An Historical Study

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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

Too Good To Be True: Inside The Corrupt World Of Christopher Skase

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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

The Dam Busters

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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

Lucinda Brayford

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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

The Nor'-Westers

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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

White Man, Black Man: The True Story Of A White Man Who Was Initiated Into An Aboriginal Tribe

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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

Pocahontas: Or The Nonparell Of Virginia

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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

The Secret Gospel: The Discovery And Interpretation Of The Secret Gospel According To Mark

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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

True History Of The Kelly Gang

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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

Flight From Torregreca: Strangers And Pilgrims

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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

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography In Diaries And Letters

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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

Backing Into The Limelight: A Biography Of T.E. Lawrence

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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

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

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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)

The Half-Mad Lord: Thomas Pitt 2Nd Baron Camelford (1775-1804)

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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

World Chess Championship 1948: The Hague - Moscow

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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

The Naval And Military Club, Melbourne: A History Of Its First Hundred Years, 1881-1981

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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

Louisa Lawson: Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother

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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

The Americans: Fifty Letters From America On Our Life And Times

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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

Footnote People In Australian History

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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

To Live Again

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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

James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist

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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

The Way It Spozed To Be

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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

Green Beach

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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

From Charity To Teaching Hospital

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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

James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist

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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

Pharos And Pharillon

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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

Ways Of Escape

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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

Rum Rebellion: A Study Of The Overthrow Of Governor Bligh By John Macarthur And The New South Wales Corps

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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

Longman History Of The United States Of America

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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

Web Of Corruption: The Story Of John Poulson And T. Dan Smith

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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

Montreal: The Days That Are No More

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodUnknown
At War With The Smugglers: Career Of Dr. Arnold's Father

At War With The Smugglers: Career Of Dr. Arnold's Father

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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

Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee And The Civil War

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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

Francis Of Assisi: The Wandering Years

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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

Alan Marshall's Battlers

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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

The Silent Traveller In Japan

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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

The Audrey Hepburn Treasures: Pictures And Mementos From A Life Of Style And Purpose

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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

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...