Biography

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Australian history are as singular and haunting as Daisy Bates — an Irish-born journalist who devoted decades of her life to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodInside the hushed chambers of a courtroom, where truth and deception collide, Juryman presents a gripping account of the Australian legal system as seen through...

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...

Edition: junior ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedAt a crossroads between wonder and extinction, No Room in the Ark presents a vivid...

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: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionA life of extraordinary purpose and conviction unfolds in A Golden String: The Story of Dorothy J...

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...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodNestled in the lush Strzelecki Ranges of Gippsland, Victoria, Garden in a Valley is a tender and evocative memoir by one of Australia's most...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Vol I - reprinted from the Richmond corrected edition. Vol II - 2nd ed., Worn...

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: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sun-scorched plains of Australia emerges a myth reimagined — The Legend: Leda and the Emu presents...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep behind the grand doors of colonial power and into the quarters of those who kept them running...

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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 imageFew institutions have shaped Australian sporting culture as profoundly as the Victoria Racing Club, and A Century Galloped By...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Italian TextBehind the closed doors of the world's most revolutionary restaurant, before the evening's avant-garde tasting menus were served to the global...

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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Secondhand Military Uniform Reference Bargain Book Box SP4197 Nine Europa Militaria volumes of re-enactors photographed in authentic kit: Napoleon’s infantry, cavalry and the German armies that fought him, Wellington’s redcoats,...

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Secondhand German Armour Reference Bargain Book Box SP4195 Six George Bradford World War II AFV Plans volumes — the 1:35 scale-drawing bibles — with three Concord Armor at War photo...

Secondhand Military History Bargain Book Box SP4059 Australian wars from the Diggers’ side — Nancy Wake’s own story, Korea, the RAN, Afghanistan and Iraq first-hand — alongside the Somme, Leningrad,...

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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4016 Eighteen hardback memoirs, nearly all with dust jackets: Obama’s A Promised Land, Spare, Britney, Billy Connolly, Dawn French, Parky, Turia Pitt, Johnny...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Boards: good with light foxingFew sporting triumphs have captured the world's imagination quite like Australia's legendary 1983...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew names resonate through the history of New Zealand cricket with the authority and reverence commanded by Sir Richard Hadlee — and Hadlee stands...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionWhat happens when a life lived fully to the brim is committed to the page with wit, candour, and an irrepressible...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in cricket history carry the thunder of Dennis Lillee's, and Lillee: Over and Out! stands as the definitive final word from one...