Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodImperial Russia at its most magnificent and contradictory comes alive in Miriam Kochan's Life in Russia Under Catherine the Great, a richly...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom one of royal journalism's most respected voices comes the definitive account of Catherine, Princess of Wales — a woman who...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back into one of history's most pivotal years with A Year to Remember 1944, a richly...

Edition: 2nd Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew betrayals in modern history cut as deep as that of Harold Kim Philby — a senior British...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the brutal heart of nineteenth-century Australia, two men dared to cross an untamed continent and paid for their ambition with their lives —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded and creased cover; In the vast, scrubby heartland of Australia's Mallee region, where red...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne Man's Journey is a candid and compelling memoir that chronicles the life of Ewing C Stevens, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history have commanded both the moral imagination and the political stage quite...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the polished doors of the White House lies a world of secrets, power, and startling human drama...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet treacherous world of the Elizabethan court, power was never inherited — it was seized,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark contribution to Australian social history, Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years presents a richly...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew figures in the history of exploration command the seas of history quite like Captain James Cook, and Master Mariner: Capt. James...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and Her Circle, Louis Auchincloss presents an incisive and elegantly crafted portrait of Victorian England through the lives of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: prelims clippedBorn from the sacrifice of those who fell in war, Legacy stands as one of Australia's most enduring charitable...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the ashes of empire to the shadow of the Iron Curtain, The Mighty Continent presents a sweeping panoramic chronicle of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rugged and unforgiving Australian bush of the late nineteenth century, one Welsh immigrant scratched...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn and frayed boards with some marks and specks; hinges slightly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper includedThe world held its breath in September 1939 as the Nazi war machine...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; souvenir newspaper includedIn the theatre of the Second World War, no figures cast longer shadows than the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodCondition remarks: some stains on the slipcase; Few conflicts have scarred the modern world as deeply as the First World War, and Martin Gilbert's monumental...

Edition: limited to a thousand copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFounded in 1894 as a haven for Melbourne's creative and intellectual elite, the Melbourne...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gold rush era to the age of modern finance, Gold and Paper 1858–1982 chronicles over a century of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFor cricket enthusiasts and sports historians alike, The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers stands as a monumental reference work that chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the spring of 1901, a freshly crowned monarchy set sail on one of the most ambitious diplomatic voyages in British imperial history —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the fog of ancient battlefields to the shadowy conflicts of the modern era, The Soldier of Fortune chronicles the lives of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFor a century and a half, The Herald stood as one of Australia's most enduring and influential newspapers, bearing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew rulers in history have commanded the world's stage with such formidable brilliance as Catherine II of Russia, and Zoé Oldenbourg's Catherine the Great presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the twentieth century's most extraordinary lives unfolds in Madame Curie, the definitive biography of Marie Curie written by her own daughter, Eve Curie —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBorn into the glittering Habsburg court of Vienna and thrust onto the treacherous stage of Versailles, Marie Antoinette remains one of history's most captivating and tragic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew women in British history have burned as brightly — or as scandalously — as Emma Hamilton, the blacksmith's daughter who rose from poverty to become...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew names in Renaissance history carry as much infamy and intrigue as Lucrezia Borgia — and Joan Haslip's meticulous Lucrezia Borgia: A Study strips away centuries...

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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147 Twenty-one biographies and memoirs, nearly all hardback with jackets: Flea’s Acid for the Children, Will Sergeant’s Echoes, Mike Love’s Good Vibrations, Tom...

Secondhand History Bargain Book Box SP4111 Nineteen histories, mostly big-format paperbacks, with four hardbacks: Beevor’s Russia, Ackroyd’s London, Inwood’s London, Lawrence James’s Raj, Orlando Figes’s Natasha’s Dance, Paxman’s The English,...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4159 Nineteen military histories, mostly big-format paperbacks: Beevor’s D-Day, Schama’s British Wars, Niall Ferguson’s Empire, Charles Esdaile’s Napoleon’s Wars, R.V. Jones’s Most Secret War,...

Secondhand History Bargain Book Box SP4125 Nineteen vintage Pelican and Penguin histories: E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, A.J.P. Taylor’s English History 1914–1945, Edmund Wilson’s To the...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4298 Nine large-format military histories, most hardback with jackets: The Allied Bomber War, Air War Pacific, Gordon Smith’s The War at Sea, Fighter Missions,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: some moisture damage to book block; In the raw, restless years of the Victorian Gold Rush, one Englishman ventured to...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew combat memoirs carry the raw authenticity and hard-won authority of American Warrior, the gripping firsthand account of Brigadier General John C....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the vast and brutal theatre of the Second World War, few accounts match the analytical precision and narrative sweep...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the twelfth century, a Jewish merchant from the town of Tudela in northern Spain embarked on one of the most extraordinary journeys of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in the annals of colonial administration loom as large — or remain as fascinating — as Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent theatre of Australian politics, few figures burned as brightly — or as controversially — as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the crucible of post-revolutionary France, a remarkable generation of visionary thinkers dared to imagine a...

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