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The Mish: Childhood Memories of Framlingham Aboriginal Station
Robert Lowe's affection and regard for "The Mish", a property in Victoria's southwest, originally an Aboriginal mission, is warmly conveyed in this candid memoir. In the 1950s and 60s when...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2809
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2809 A lively mixed non-fiction box spanning popular science, history, travel, politics, and memoir. Susan Greenfield's guided tour of the human brain and...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2798
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2798 A well-stocked all-Pelican box with particular strength in the history of ideas, science, and the arts. J. Bronowski's Common Sense of Science,...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2796
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2796 Another all-Pelican box in the classic blue and white livery, spanning sociology, psychology, history, science, and the arts. C. Wright Mills's Sociological...
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2800
$120.00 AUD
Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2600 An all-Pelican Books box — sixteen vintage Pelican paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s in their distinctive blue covers, spanning architecture, art...
The Old School: A Study In The Oddities Of The English Public School System
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sharp and irreverent work of social criticism, The Old School: A Study In The Oddities Of The English Public...
The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh And His Writing
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA rigorous work of literary criticism, The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing presents a comprehensive...
Oliver Cromwell
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Scarce DJ - chipped with some...
Homebush Boy (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1at aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA vivid work of autobiographical fiction, Homebush Boy chronicles a pivotal year in the life of a seventeen-year-old...
Somerset And All The Maugham's
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA candid and affectionate memoir, Somerset and All the Maughams chronicles the life of one of...
Terminus
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - light foxing on book block....
Crossing The Gap: A Novelist's Essays (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA rich collection of literary and personal essays, Crossing the Gap presents the reflections of one of Australia's most...
After Many A Summer
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Facsimile DJ L.L.C. Boards - fair; faded spine; some marks; Binding - tight. Text -...
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart chronicles the life of...
Havelock Ellis: A Biography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed biographical work, Phyllis Grosskurth's study chronicles the life of Havelock Ellis,...
The Typewriter Guerrillas: Closeups Of 20 Top Investigative Reporters
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light foxing on block - does not extend internally. A compelling work of...
Rodin
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in art history and biography, this authoritative volume chronicles the life...
Ike The Soldier: As They Knew Him
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sweeping biographical portrait, Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him chronicles the early...
How To Have A Life-Style
$65.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA witty and irreverent guide to self-invention, How To Have A Life-Style presents Quentin Crisp's singular philosophy on the art...
The Yo-Yo Man: The Autobiography Of Bill Maynard
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA candid and warmly humorous autobiography, The Yo-Yo Man chronicles the remarkable life of Bill Maynard,...
Out of the Mist and Steam: A Memoir
Here for the first time is this controversial writer's real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child - talented but tormented; the eventual separation from...
The Home Of The Blizzard: Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of polar exploration literature, The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition,...
American Scoundrel: The Life Of The Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
$25.00 AUD
Edition: uncorrected proof copy Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small marking on rear panel, otherwise internallu sound. A...
Luck's A Fortune: An Autobiography
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA candid and entertaining memoir, Luck's A Fortune chronicles the remarkable life of David...
The Years Of The Week
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. small tear on title page - otherwise pages bright and clean. A vivid...
Max: A Biography
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary biography, Max: A Biography chronicles the life of Sir...
Tall Poppies: Nine Successful Australian Women Talk To Susan Mitchell
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of Australian oral history and feminist non-fiction, Tall Poppies presents nine...
Reflections On A Marine Venus: A Companion To The Landscape Of Rhodes
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA luminous work of travel literature and memoir, Reflections on a Marine Venus: A...
Stet: An Editor's Life
For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. In a prose style of inimitable wit...
Francis Bacon: His Life And Philosophy
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis scholarly biography and philosophical study chronicles the remarkable life and enduring intellectual legacy of Sir Francis Bacon, the Renaissance statesman, scientist,...
A Place To Remember: The History Of London House, William Goodenough House And The Burn
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mylar sleeve on bindingA richly detailed work of institutional and architectural history, this volume chronicles the origins, development, and enduring...
The Watcher On The Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography (SIGNED)
$40.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn cover, A landmark work of Australian autobiographical literature, The Watcher...
Lust For Life: The Story Of Vincent Van Gogh
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of biographical fiction, Lust for Life chronicles the turbulent and passionate...
Henry Moore
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of art criticism and biography, John Russell's authoritative study presents a...
Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale Of Otto Titzling And The Development Of The Bra
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA delightfully irreverent work of comic fiction masquerading as biography, Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development...
Picasso: His Life And Work
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. shelf wear on binding. A landmark work of art biography, Picasso: His Life...
Children Of The Great Country Houses
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Usual...
Barwick
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerDavid Marr's Barwick presents a compelling biography of Sir Garfield Barwick, a towering figure in Australian legal and...
Henry Parkes: A Biography
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA. W. Martin's authoritative political biography chronicles the remarkable life of Henry Parkes, one of Australia's most consequential statesmen and...
Landmark Films: The Cinema And Our Century
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA richly detailed work of film criticism and cultural history, Landmark Films: The Cinema and Our Century presents a sweeping...
Afternoon Light: Some Memories Of Men And Events
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA distinguished work of political memoir and autobiography, Afternoon Light: Some Memories of Men and Events...
Arthur & George
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful work of literary historical fiction, Arthur & George chronicles two parallel lives...
George Reid
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA meticulously researched political biography, this work chronicles the life and career of George Reid, one of Australia's...
Who Wants To Be A Billionaire?: The James Packer Story (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA gripping work of investigative biography, Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?: The James Packer Story...
The Rise And Rise Of Kerry Packer (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Remainder mark. A gripping work of investigative biography, Paul Barry's account chronicles the extraordinary life of Kerry Packer,...
Madame Curie
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of biographical literature, Madame Curie chronicles the extraordinary life of Marie Curie — the pioneering physicist and chemist who...
Always Liza to Me: A memoir for my silent sister
Liza is different. She can't talk. She can't walk properly. She's funny-looking and when she upsets people, which she almost always does, trying to bite or scratch them, we have...