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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the heart of early twentieth-century Australia emerges the voice of Frank Wilmot — better known by his pen name...
The Rebello Transcripts: Governor Phillip's Portuguese Prelude

The Rebello Transcripts: Governor Phillip's Portuguese Prelude

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore Arthur Phillip ever set sail for Botany Bay, his formative years were shaped by a lesser-known chapter of maritime history —...
The Diaries Of Sarah Midgley And Richard Skilbeck: A Story Of Australian Settlers 1851-1864

The Diaries Of Sarah Midgley And Richard Skilbeck: A Story Of Australian Settlers 1851-1864

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched, untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth-century Australia, two voices rise from the dust to tell a story of courage,...
The Third Australian Team In England: A Complete Record Of All The Matches With Portrait And Biography Of Each Member

The Third Australian Team In England: A Complete Record Of All The Matches With Portrait And Biography Of Each Member

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Edition: facsimile ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew sporting rivalries have captured the imagination quite like cricket's great Anglo-Australian contests, and The Third Australian Team in England stands as...
The House Of Were: 1839-1954: The History Of J. B. Were & Son And Its Founder, Jonathan Binns Were

The House Of Were: 1839-1954: The History Of J. B. Were & Son And Its Founder, Jonathan Binns Were

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFrom the goldfields of colonial Victoria to the gleaming towers of modern finance, The House of Were: 1839–1954 chronicles...
The Meaning Of Hitler

The Meaning Of Hitler

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have provoked as much analysis, horror, and bewilderment as Adolf Hitler, yet Sebastian Haffner's The Meaning of Hitler cuts through...
The Lancaster Cricket Club: 1841-1909

The Lancaster Cricket Club: 1841-1909

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Edition: No. 153 of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor marks and specks on the boards; binding...
The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up In Scotland & Australia

The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up In Scotland & Australia

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew memoirs capture the raw beauty of displacement and reinvention quite like The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up in Scotland & Australia. Mary Rose Liverani chronicles...
Listen, My Country

Listen, My Country

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn into a traditional Papua New Guinean village at the dawn of the twentieth century, Alice Wedega's life...
Trooper Ainslie: The Settling Of The Limestone Plains (Canberra) And Its Hero

Trooper Ainslie: The Settling Of The Limestone Plains (Canberra) And Its Hero

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before Canberra became Australia's capital, the rugged Limestone Plains were home to pioneers, troopers, and the untamed...
A Shotgun Life: The Road To Serenity

A Shotgun Life: The Road To Serenity

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSome lives are not merely lived — they are survived, reconstructed, and ultimately transformed into something approaching grace....
The Education Of An American

The Education Of An American

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to grow up American — shaped by institutions, ideals, and the quiet contradictions...
The Little Chronicle Of Magdalena Bach

The Little Chronicle Of Magdalena Bach

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...
Old Boy Networks: Who We Know And How We Use Them

Old Boy Networks: Who We Know And How We Use Them

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the handshakes, the club memberships, and the shared school ties lies a invisible architecture of power that...
The Trading Voyages Of Andrew Cheyne: 1841-1844

The Trading Voyages Of Andrew Cheyne: 1841-1844

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the golden age of Pacific trade, few figures cut as bold a path through the islands of the South Seas as...
The Deadly Element: The Men And Women Behind The Story Of Uranium

The Deadly Element: The Men And Women Behind The Story Of Uranium

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew discoveries have so irrevocably altered the course of human civilisation as the unlocking of uranium's atomic power — and The Deadly Element chronicles...
People In Glass Houses: Growing Up At Government House

People In Glass Houses: Growing Up At Government House

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses:...
Reflections

Reflections

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Reflections, Sir John Marks CBE — a distinguished figure in British public life — presents an intimate and candid memoir charting...
Janet Clarke Hall: 1886-1986

Janet Clarke Hall: 1886-1986

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor a century, Janet Clarke Hall has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished residential colleges, shaping the lives of generations of women at...
More Memories Of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life In The Years Since 1919

More Memories Of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life In The Years Since 1919

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA rich tapestry of voices, recollections, and lived experience, More Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years Since 1919 presents...
The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War carry the raw, anguished power of...
Port Phillip Gentlemen: And Good Society In Melbourne Before The Gold Rushes

Port Phillip Gentlemen: And Good Society In Melbourne Before The Gold Rushes

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: minor nick/tear on the fepBefore the gold rushes transformed Melbourne into a boomtown of frantic ambition and immigrant masses, a small, self-conscious...
Wallace And Bruce

Wallace And Bruce

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the annals of Scottish history burn as brightly as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce...
Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of the British Empire cast as long and as controversial a shadow as...
Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the age of cameras and computers, one man saw the world with impossible clarity — painting...
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American history loom as large as Abraham Lincoln — rail-splitter, self-taught lawyer, and the sixteenth...
General Gordon

General Gordon

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and controversial figures of the British Empire, General Charles George Gordon — Gordon...
But The Dead Are Many: A Novel In Fugue Form

But The Dead Are Many: A Novel In Fugue Form

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA haunting meditation on ideology, despair, and the fragile architecture of belief, But the Dead Are Many: A Novel in Fugue Form chronicles the psychological...
Solo: The Bert Hinkler Story

Solo: The Bert Hinkler Story

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of aviation, one man dared to fly where no one had flown before —...
Kurrah!: An Australian Pow In Changi, Thailand & Japan, 1942-1945

Kurrah!: An Australian Pow In Changi, Thailand & Japan, 1942-1945

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the harrowing theatre of the Pacific War, one Australian soldier's story stands as a testament...
King Charles Ii

King Charles Ii

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have captivated the popular imagination as completely as Charles II — the exiled prince who reclaimed his throne, ruled...
Soldiers And Gentlemen

Soldiers And Gentlemen

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the tradition of Victorian imperial adventure, Soldiers and Gentlemen by Gilbert Parker presents a vivid portrait of...
The Hite Report On The Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy

The Hite Report On The Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does the family truly teach us — about love, authority, and our place in the...
The Discoverers: A History Of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself

The Discoverers: A History Of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the first human who looked up at the stars and dared to ask why, to the brilliant minds who mapped continents,...
Stories Of The Great Operas & Their Composers

Stories Of The Great Operas & Their Composers

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stained book blockFrom the thunderous drama of Verdi to the mythic grandeur of Wagner, Stories of the Great Operas &...
The Early And The Later Churchills

The Early And The Later Churchills

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew families have shaped the destiny of Britain as profoundly as the Churchills, and A. L. Rowse presents...
Emlyn: A Sequel To 'George'

Emlyn: A Sequel To 'George'

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew lives in twentieth-century British theatre burned as brightly — or as improbably — as that of Emlyn Williams, the Welsh miner's...
Not To Be Shot At Or Exported: An Airman's Letters Home 1942-1945

Not To Be Shot At Or Exported: An Airman's Letters Home 1942-1945

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the darkest years of the Second World War, one Australian airman found a way to bridge the...
Reveille In Washington: 1860-1865

Reveille In Washington: 1860-1865

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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...
Famous Puccini Operas

Famous Puccini Operas

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...
Essays In Honour Of Louis Goldberg

Essays In Honour Of Louis Goldberg

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in Australian academic life, Essays in Honour of Louis Goldberg is a scholarly tribute...
The Auerbach Will

The Auerbach Will

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSecrets buried beneath generations of wealth and ambition have a way of refusing to stay hidden — and in...
The Fifth Sparrow: An Autobiography

The Fifth Sparrow: An Autobiography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA life lived on the edges of convention and lit by an indomitable spirit, The Fifth Sparrow is the...
A Reader's Guide To James Joyce

A Reader's Guide To James Joyce

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader venturing into the labyrinthine worlds of James Joyce, William York Tindall's authoritative companion stands as an...
W. R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912: The Master Of Landscaping

W. R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912: The Master Of Landscaping

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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...
Goodbye, Melbourne Town

Goodbye, Melbourne Town

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image Removable protective covering over dust jacketA vivid farewell rendered in prose, Goodbye, Melbourne Town is Graham McInnes's warm...
Renoir: My Father

Renoir: My Father

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of art have been rendered as intimately and as lovingly as Pierre-Auguste Renoir is...
Giblin: The Scholar And The Man

Giblin: The Scholar And The Man

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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...