Biography

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spineAt the dawn of the nation's greatest crisis, Washington D.C. transformed from a sleepy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn in the crucible of the First World War, the Royal Flying Corps was Britain's first...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of colonial Melbourne, one man transformed raw antipodean earth into breathtaking landscapes that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA towering figure in Australian intellectual and economic life, Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin was a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA century of commerce, ambition, and resilience unfolds in Gadsden: The First 100 Years, Jules Feldmann's authoritative...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Victorian era, no city in the Southern Hemisphere burned brighter than Melbourne —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeyond the Ramparts: A Bicentennial History of Circular Head stands as a definitive chronicle of one of Tasmania's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the volatile crucible of early colonial Australia, a dramatic power struggle unfolded that would shake the foundations of British authority at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sunburned moral landscape of colonial and early Federation Australia, a peculiar breed of crusader rose to prominence —...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscription,Previous ownerWhen the Great Depression swept through Australia in the 1930s, it left behind...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: sandglass laid-inOne of the most celebrated biographies ever written, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. stands as a towering monument of English literature,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCricket has never had a more compelling storyteller than Richie Benaud, and Spin Me a Spinner stands as...

Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew literary figures have lived as dangerously and written as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew chapters of Australian history crackle with as much danger, defiance, and raw colonial tension as the era of the bushrangers — and Plundering...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn one of the most dramatic and ill-fated expeditions in the annals of exploration, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led a party...

Edition: uncorrected proofCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the harrowing depths of Auschwitz, a sixteen-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl made choices that would not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the untamed wilderness of colonial Australia, Captain Collet Barker stood alone — a soldier, scientist, and reluctant pioneer whose remarkable journals...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew figures loom as large in the founding of modern Australia as Alfred Deakin — statesman, orator, journalist, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew names are as synonymous with British automotive ingenuity as Joseph Lucas Ltd., and this landmark two-volume set chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Canberra became Australia's capital city, it was little more than a scattering of rural stations...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne hundred years of intellectual ambition, academic tradition, and collegiate life are captured in Perspective of a Century, a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwo centuries of triumphs, struggles, and transformation come alive in Australia Spirit of a Nation: A Bicentenary Album, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the colonial era of Victoria, Australia, a remarkable collection of first-hand accounts was preserved — Letters...

Secondhand Biography Bargain Book Box SP2998 Eighteen hardback biographies, nearly all with jackets: David Marr’s Patrick White, Holroyd’s Shaw, Dimbleby’s authorised Prince of Wales, Christine Wallace on Germaine Greer, Weary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the gilded courts of Europe to the jewelled palaces of the East, Princesses presents a captivating portrait of royal women throughout...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the fog-draped abbeys of medieval England to the turbulent courts of Tudor monarchs,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerTriumph in the West 1943–1946 stands as one of the most intimate and authoritative chronicles of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent crucible of the mid-1930s, America stood at a crossroads...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: sound copy for age; frontispiece loose; map at rear...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew journeys in human history have stirred the souls of millions quite like the road to Santiago de Compostela, and Edwin Mullins' The Pilgrimage...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the glittering, treacherous heart of pre-revolutionary France lies one of history's most sensational scandals —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA century of dreams, discipline, and distinction unfolds in this landmark institutional history, chronicling the remarkable journey of Methodist Ladies' College in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew institutions embody the spirit of English intellectual life quite like Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Patrick Bury's meticulous chronicle brings its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent decades following the First World War, few figures navigated the shifting tectonic plates of global politics with...

Edition: one of a thousand certified copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched goldfields of Victoria's Mount Alexander district, a generation of extraordinary men and women carved...