Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark tribute to one of Australia's most pioneering academic figures, Essays to Honour Nina Christesen: Founder of Russian Studies in Australia...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the brooding genius of Russian literature meets the compassionate social critic of Victorian England? Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every towering historical figure lies a human being obscured by legend — Marx Without Myth strips away decades of ideological distortion to present...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the age of twenty-two, Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion in history, defeating the legendary Anatoly Karpov in a match that...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the world of competitive chess, few careers are as strategically brilliant and psychologically fascinating as that of Tigran Petrosian...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedA century of genius, rivalry, and relentless innovation unfolds in Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik: A Century...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the summer of 1972, the world held its breath as American prodigy Bobby Fischer faced Soviet champion...

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Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Remainder markIn the annals of competitive chess, no name resonates with greater intensity than Bobby Fischer, and My 60 Memorable Games...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor fifty years, one institution shaped the voice of a nation — and This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting...

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Edition: trade ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every great literary legend lies a private voice, and in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917–1961, that voice...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the shadow of the Second World War, a young RAF Pilot-Bombardier named Patrick poured his heart onto paper in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhen the most celebrated spymaster of the Second World War steps back into the shadows for one final mission, the stakes could...

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Edition: bomcCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, a shadowy network of intelligence operatives — British spycatchers and their CIA allies — set their...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor over a century, ordinary men and women across Australasia have performed extraordinary acts of courage — and 7000 Brave Australians chronicles the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the aftermath of the First World War, a daring contest captured the imagination of the entire British Empire — a gruelling 11,000-mile air...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: fep clipped.Few figures in 20th-century history captured the world's imagination quite like Charles Lindbergh, and I Remember Lindbergh...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA life devoted to the pages of Shakespeare yields a memoir unlike any other — Milestones on the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to dance? Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing presents an intimate and...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous. bookshop owner stamp on FEP.A shocking memoir that pulls back the curtain on the hidden underbelly of...

Edition: Fifth ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the muddy trenches and shell-scarred landscapes of the Western Front, one soldier's extraordinary courage became the stuff of legend...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew voices in twentieth-century Australian literature possessed the raw, luminous honesty of Charmian Clift, and The World of Charmian Clift stands as a testament to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA searing indictment of colonial violence and a profound meditation on memory, The Cry for the Dead by Judith Wright...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the sweeping plains of early twentieth-century Australia emerges one of the great novels of the English language — Patrick...

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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodNestled in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, the city of Goulburn holds a history as rich and vivid as the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,SignedWhat would you say to a man whose world was annihilated within a generation? In Letters to Camondo, Edmund de Waal — celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the British labour movement, one man rose from the coal mines of Scotland to...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, brooding landscape of Tsarist Russia, the relationship between landlord and peasant was not merely economic...