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Letters Of A Javanese Princess

Letters Of A Javanese Princess

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century,...
La Grande Mademoiselle

La Grande Mademoiselle

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the glittering and treacherous heart of the...
Elizabeth The Great

Elizabeth The Great

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew monarchs in history have commanded such enduring fascination as Elizabeth I of England, and Elizabeth Jenkins's Elizabeth...
Kelly Country Sketchbook

Kelly Country Sketchbook

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in Australian history carry the mythic weight of Ned Kelly, and Kelly Country Sketchbook brings the rugged landscape and legendary story of the...
Port Arthur Sketchbook

Port Arthur Sketchbook

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew places in the Southern Hemisphere carry the weight of human suffering and colonial ambition quite like Port Arthur, Tasmania — and Port Arthur Sketchbook...
Tibet Is My Country

Tibet Is My Country

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBorn into one of Tibet's most revered families —...
The Siege At Peking

The Siege At Peking

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the sweltering summer of 1900, a desperate band...
The Reality Of Monarchy

The Reality Of Monarchy

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of one of the world's most enduring institutions lies a paradox: a hereditary monarchy navigating the turbulent currents of a modern...
Señor Kon-Tiki

Señor Kon-Tiki

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat drives a man to abandon the familiar and dedicate his life to one of history's most celebrated explorers? Señor Kon-Tiki chronicles the remarkable...
Baba Nonnie Goes To War: The Memoirs Of A Singapore Volunteer On The Thai-Burma Railway

Baba Nonnie Goes To War: The Memoirs Of A Singapore Volunteer On The Thai-Burma Railway

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBaba Nonnie Goes to War stands as a powerful first-hand account of one man's ordeal during...
In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography Of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954

In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography Of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated minds of the twentieth century turns his razor-sharp intellect upon his own life...
The Golden Haze: With Captain Cook In The South Pacific

The Golden Haze: With Captain Cook In The South Pacific

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of exploration command as much awe and reverence as Captain James Cook, and The Golden Haze: with Captain Cook...
Breakthrough: The Discovery Of Modern Medicines At Janssen

Breakthrough: The Discovery Of Modern Medicines At Janssen

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it truly take to revolutionize the science of healing? Breakthrough: The Discovery of Modern Medicines at Janssen chronicles the remarkable story...
Nostradamus: The Prophecies

Nostradamus: The Prophecies

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in history have captured the imagination of the Western world quite like Michel de Nostredame —...
The Windsor Tapestry: Being A Study Of The Life, Heritage And Abdication Of H.R.H. The Duke Of Windsor, K.G.

The Windsor Tapestry: Being A Study Of The Life, Heritage And Abdication Of H.R.H. The Duke Of Windsor, K.G.

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew moments in modern British history carry the seismic weight of the 1936 abdication crisis, and The Windsor Tapestry presents a sweeping, authoritative examination...
Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey In The Footnotes Of Ibn Battutah

Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey In The Footnotes Of Ibn Battutah

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a modern wanderer sets out to retrace the footsteps of history's greatest traveller? Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes...
Young Hitler: The Making Of The Führer

Young Hitler: The Making Of The Führer

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the swastika, before the bunker, before the world burned — there was a bitter, directionless young man...
John Xxiii: Pope Of The Council

John Xxiii: Pope Of The Council

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedHe was the pope who threw open the windows of the Church and let the world breathe — and Peter Hebblethwaite's definitive biography, John...
The Whitlam Venture

The Whitlam Venture

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew chapters in Australian political history have proven as dramatic, controversial, and ultimately tragic as the rise and fall of...
The Movement

The Movement

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew episodes in Australian political history carry the same explosive charge as the story of The Movement —...
God's Bandit: The Story Of Don Orione "Father Of The Poor"

God's Bandit: The Story Of Don Orione "Father Of The Poor"

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent heart of early twentieth-century Italy, one man waged a relentless, compassionate war against poverty, suffering, and spiritual despair — and God's...
When The Murray Ran Clear (SIGNED)

When The Murray Ran Clear (SIGNED)

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the Murray River became a symbol of ecological crisis and political debate, it...
A History Of Australia: Iii: The Beginning Of An Australian Civilization 1824-1851

A History Of Australia: Iii: The Beginning Of An Australian Civilization 1824-1851

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of colonial ambition and human resilience, C.M.H. Clark's A History of Australia, Volume III: The Beginning of an Australian...
A History Of Australia Iv: The Earth Abideth For Ever 1851-1888

A History Of Australia Iv: The Earth Abideth For Ever 1851-1888

$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the grand tradition of landmark historical writing, Manning Clark's A History of Australia IV: The Earth Abideth For Ever 1851–1888 chronicles...
King O'Malley: 'The American Bounder'

King O'Malley: 'The American Bounder'

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor stain on book block. Few figures in Australian political history are as colourful, contradictory, and captivating as King O'Malley...
Mikhail Tal's Best Games Of Chess

Mikhail Tal's Best Games Of Chess

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the world of competitive chess, few names inspire as much awe and mystique as Mikhail...
Clippers For The Record: The Story Of Ship Thermopylae, S.S. Aberdeen And Captain Charles Matheson

Clippers For The Record: The Story Of Ship Thermopylae, S.S. Aberdeen And Captain Charles Matheson

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of sail, when iron-hulled clippers raced one another across the world's oceans for glory...
Journal Of A Soul

Journal Of A Soul

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew documents in modern religious history carry the intimacy and spiritual gravity of Journal of a Soul, the lifelong private diary of Angelo Giuseppe...
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in the ancient world cast as long a shadow as Gaius Julius Caesar — general, statesman, and conqueror...
Constantine The Great

Constantine The Great

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of the ancient and medieval worlds stands one of history's most transformative figures — Constantine...
My 60 Memorable Games

My 60 Memorable Games

$90.00 AUD
Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner,Remainder markCondition remarks: Minor stains on book block. In the pantheon of chess literature, My 60...
Fighting Chess: Kasparov's Games And Career

Fighting Chess: Kasparov's Games And Career

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd enlarged ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of raw intellectual power and competitive artistry stands Garry Kasparov — arguably...
Schindler's Ark (SIGNED)

Schindler's Ark (SIGNED)

$800.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj, in mylar. Few tiny spots on the top edge. Otherwise remains a clean, tight and bright...
Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037 Rock legends, sporting heroes, and literary provocateurs — memoirs and biographies spanning Paul Hogan to Hunter S. Thompson, Rod Stewart to...
Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010

Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010

$110.00 AUD
Secondhand WWII Military History Bargain Book Box SP3010 Fifteen illustrated and reference books of military history — Jane's Fighting Ships, the Battle of Britain, the RAF's U-boat war, women in...
The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call Of 47 Of Australia's Greatest Heroes And Heroines

The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call Of 47 Of Australia's Greatest Heroes And Heroines

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sunburned frontiers of a young nation to the halls of global acclaim, The Australian Heroes presents...
1788: The People Of The First Fleet

1788: The People Of The First Fleet

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the fateful year of 1788, eleven ships carrying over a thousand souls — convicts, marines, and officials alike — crossed the vast, unforgiving...
James Fenton Of Forth: A Tasmanian Pioneer 1820-1901

James Fenton Of Forth: A Tasmanian Pioneer 1820-1901

$75.00 AUD
Edition: LE - No. 291 of 800 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the rugged and untamed landscape of colonial Tasmania, one man carved out a life that would...
Tell 'Em I Died Game: The Stark Story Of Australian Bushranging

Tell 'Em I Died Game: The Stark Story Of Australian Bushranging

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the rugged wilderness of colonial Australia, where the law was thin and the bush stretched endlessly, a breed of outlaws rose...
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry Viii Gave England Sea Power

Great Harry's Navy: How Henry Viii Gave England Sea Power

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the sixteenth century, England was a second-rate maritime power — yet within decades, Henry...
Khrushchev

Khrushchev

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the twentieth century loom as large and as contradictory as Nikita Khrushchev —...
Two Queens Of Baghdad

Two Queens Of Baghdad

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the glittering heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, two extraordinary women wielded power that defied the constraints of...
Ride On The Wind

Ride On The Wind

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of aviation, one man's audacity redefined what it meant to conquer the skies. Ride on the Wind chronicles the extraordinary...
Voltaire

Voltaire

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...
In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses As Pows

In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses As Pows

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves...
Thomas Peel Of Swan River

Thomas Peel Of Swan River

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the annals of Australia's colonial past, few stories are as dramatic and ultimately tragic as that of Thomas Peel,...
Inside The Green Berets: The First Thirty Years: A History Of The U.S. Army Special Forces

Inside The Green Berets: The First Thirty Years: A History Of The U.S. Army Special Forces

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the jungles of Southeast Asia to the frozen mountain passes of Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Special Forces — better...
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...