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Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the...
The English Eccentrics
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...
Sparks Fly Upward
$15.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the golden age of Hollywood burned quite as fiercely as that of Stewart Granger — and...
Carpenter To Cabinet: Thirty-Seven Years Of Parliament
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the carpenter's bench to the corridors of power in Canberra, Carpenter to Cabinet:...
Memoirs: 1950-1963
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, few minds were as sharp, as conflicted, or as consequential as that...
My God! It's A Woman: The Inspiring Story Of One Woman's Courage And Determination To Fly (SIGNED)
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era when women were expected to stay grounded in every sense of the...
Daniel Mannix: The Quality Of Leadership
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Australian public life commanded as much reverence — and controversy — as Archbishop Daniel Mannix, and B. A....
The Life Of Henry Brulard
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most candid and searching works of self-examination in all of Western literature,...
Hargrave And Son: A Biography Of John Fletcher Hargrave And His Son Lawrence Hargrave
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodTwo generations of visionary men — one a pioneering legal mind, the other a relentless aviation inventor — shaped the course of Australian history...
Vance Palmer
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew figures loom as large in the landscape of Australian literary history as Vance Palmer — novelist, poet,...
Missing Presumed Dead (SIGNED)
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMissing Presumed Dead is a gripping wartime memoir that chronicles the harrowing experiences of Stanley...
Daniel Mannix: His Legacy
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Australian Catholic history command as much fascination, controversy, and enduring reverence as Archbishop Daniel...
Here's To The Next Man That Dies (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA toast raised in the shadow of death becomes the defining spirit of one man's extraordinary life...
The Thirties: From Notebooks And Diaries Of The Period
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching...
The People Time Forgot
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHidden in the forgotten corners of history are lives that deserve to be remembered — and The People...
A Sort Of Life
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew writers have possessed the courage to turn the same unflinching gaze upon themselves that Graham Greene directed...
Boniface Of Devon: Apostle Of Germany
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the history of Christendom command as much reverence as Saint Boniface — the Devon-born monk who became the Apostle...
Still Life: Sketches From A Tunbridge Wells Childhood
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet, leafy streets of interwar Tunbridge Wells, a world of rigid social codes, suburban rituals, and...
As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDublin in the 1920s was a city of contradictions — scarred by revolution, yet alive with wit, poetry,...
Lions And Shadows
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a...
Father And Son
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most candid and psychologically acute memoirs in the English language, Father and Son chronicles the...
Khrushchev: Political Leaders Of The Twentieth Century
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in modern history embody the turbulent contradictions of the twentieth century quite like Nikita...
Anti-Memoirs: The Extraordinary Biography Of An Extraordinary Man
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does a man's life truly mean when stripped of the conventional scaffolding of dates, anecdotes,...
The Flying Sailor
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew memoirs capture the intersection of sky and sea with such electrifying clarity as The Flying Sailor, the remarkable autobiography...
Pioneer Pilot: The Great Smith Barry Who Taught The World How To Fly
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt a time when aviation was still a reckless gamble...
A Hero Perished: The Diary And Selected Letters Of Nile Kinnick
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of athletic greatness and wartime tragedy stands Nile Kinnick — Heisman Trophy winner, University of Iowa football...
Turbulent Era: A Diplomatic Record Of Forty Years 1904-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in twentieth-century American diplomacy encompass such sweeping historical drama as that of Joseph C. Grew, a career diplomat who witnessed...
Daniel Mannix: The Quality Of Leadership
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Australian life commanded as much reverence — and controversy — as Archbishop Daniel Mannix, and B. A. Santamaria's authoritative portrait...
The House Of Getty
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew dynasties in American history have inspired as much fascination, envy, and scandal as the Gettys — a family whose vast oil fortune created...
Kenneth Clark: A Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the twentieth century did more to bring art to the masses than Kenneth Clark — the aristocratic scholar, broadcaster,...
Diaries 1915-1918
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of privilege and catastrophe, Lady Cynthia Asquith's Diaries 1915-1918 presents an intimate, unfiltered chronicle of life in Britain during the most...
So Long Until Tomorrow: From Quaker Hill To Kathmandu
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at full throttle across every corner of the globe — that is the extraordinary promise...
Citizen Hughes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the myth of Howard Hughes — the reclusive billionaire, the aviation maverick, the shadowy puppet-master of American politics — lay a far stranger and...
Adversity In Success
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner underlining throughoutA remarkable life demands a remarkable telling — Adversity in Success chronicles the career and...
The Albert Coates Story: The Will That Found The Way
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew lives embody the full extremity of human endurance quite like that of Sir Albert Coates — surgeon, soldier, and survivor — whose extraordinary...
The Albert Coates Story: The Will That Found The Way
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew lives encapsulate the full spectrum of human endurance quite like that of Albert Coates — a man whose extraordinary story moves...
Score Of Years
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA life shaped by duty, distinction, and the turbulent currents of twentieth-century Britain — Score of Years is the memoir...
Tales Untold: Memoirs Of An Abc Publicity Officer
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the microphones and broadcast towers of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation lay a world of personalities, politics, and press releases — and Bonnie McCallum...
John Flynn: Apostle To The Inland
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the vast, sun-scorched reaches of the Australian outback, one...
Audubon The Naturalist: A History Of His Life And Time
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American natural history loom as large as John James Audubon, and Francis Hobart...
Eleanor Marx: Volume One & Volume Two
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew lives in the history of the radical left are as compelling, as tragic, or as rich with...
The Collected Letters Of D.H. Lawrence: Volume One & Volume Two
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures of the twentieth century left behind a correspondence as electrically alive as that of D.H. Lawrence — a writer...
Shakespeare
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAnthony Burgess's Shakespeare stands as one of the most audacious and brilliantly conceived biographical studies of the English language's greatest...
The First Churchill: Marlborough Soldier And Statesman
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Small stain on top of block - does not extend internally.In an age of powdered wigs and cannon fire, one man rose...
Boris Pasternak: His Life And Art
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century embody the collision between artistic genius and political tyranny as profoundly as Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist,...
James Joyce In Paris: His Final Years
$80.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Some damage to mylar sleeve. Creased jacket.One of the twentieth century's most revolutionary...
Friendship And Fratricide: An Analysis Of Whittaker Chambers And Alger Hiss
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most explosive political trials of the twentieth century — the Hiss-Chambers affair — tore through American public life like a thunderbolt, leaving behind...
Arthur William Coles: With Zeal And Integrity
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew figures in Australian commercial and civic life commanded as much respect as Arthur William Coles — businessman, retailer, and public servant — whose remarkable career...