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Guide To Sampling

Guide To Sampling

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a world increasingly driven by data, Morris James Slonim's Guide to Sampling stands as an authoritative and...
The Complete Plays Of William Wycherley

The Complete Plays Of William Wycherley

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew playwrights captured the gleeful moral corruption of Restoration England with as much wit and venom as William...
The Four Just Men

The Four Just Men

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFour wealthy, brilliant men stand outside the law — not as criminals, but as self-appointed executioners of justice...
Locke On Politics, Religion, And Education

Locke On Politics, Religion, And Education

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew thinkers have shaped the foundations of Western liberal democracy as profoundly as John Locke, and this carefully...
Sex And Society

Sex And Society

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when human sexuality was rarely discussed openly, Sex and Society by Kenneth Walker and Peter...
The New English Bible: New Testament

The New English Bible: New Testament

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1961 as a landmark in biblical scholarship, The New English Bible: New Testament represents a...
Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45

Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the blood-soaked annals of the Second World War, no campaign rivals the sheer, apocalyptic scale of Operation...
Target: Pearl Harbor

Target: Pearl Harbor

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the world changed forever as Japanese aircraft swept across the skies...
Killen: Inside Australian Politics

Killen: Inside Australian Politics

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFew figures in Australian political life carried themselves with quite the same old-world gravitas as James Killen, and Killen:...
Animal Nature And Human Nature

Animal Nature And Human Nature

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat separates humanity from the animal kingdom — and what, in truth, do we share? Animal Nature and Human Nature...
Brave Day Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939-1965

Brave Day Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939-1965

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the turbulent years spanning 1939 to 1965, few figures occupied a more singular vantage point in the British art world than...
Mr. Santamaria And The Bishops

Mr. Santamaria And The Bishops

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of Australia's most turbulent religious and political controversies stands B.A. Santamaria — a firebrand Catholic activist whose clashes with the...
Civil Liberties Under Attack

Civil Liberties Under Attack

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt a moment when the shadow of McCarthyism darkened the American political landscape, Civil Liberties Under Attack stands...
Decline Of The New

Decline Of The New

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the revolutionary becomes routine, when the avant-garde loses its power to shock, subvert, and inspire? Decline of the New is Irving Howe's...
Portrait Of A Genius, But . . .: The Life Of D. H. Lawrence, 1885 To 1930

Portrait Of A Genius, But . . .: The Life Of D. H. Lawrence, 1885 To 1930

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of D. H. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's...
Gandhiji: A Study

Gandhiji: A Study

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern history have commanded the moral authority and world-historical significance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and...
The French: Portrait Of A People

The French: Portrait Of A People

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be French? In The French: Portrait of a People, Sanche de Gramont presents a sweeping, penetrating...
A Life Of Chekhov

A Life Of Chekhov

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most celebrated novelists turns her penetrating gaze upon one of...
The Stock Exchange Of Melbourne And The Victorian Economy: 1852-1900

The Stock Exchange Of Melbourne And The Victorian Economy: 1852-1900

$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the boom-and-bust crucible of colonial Victoria, money was power — and nowhere was that more evident than on the floor of the Melbourne...
Spain

Spain

$50.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew figures in twentieth-century letters could claim the breadth of vision that Salvador...
Russia, Slavdom And The Western World

Russia, Slavdom And The Western World

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of East and West lies a civilisational question that has haunted scholars and statesmen for centuries: where does Russia truly belong? Russia,...
The Novel Of Adultery

The Novel Of Adultery

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transgressions have proven as irresistible to the literary imagination as adultery, and Judith Armstrong's The Novel of Adultery presents a rigorous and captivating...
A Piece Of My Mind: Reflections At Sixty

A Piece Of My Mind: Reflections At Sixty

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt sixty, one of America's most formidable literary minds...
Bill Wannan's Folklore Of The Australian Pub

Bill Wannan's Folklore Of The Australian Pub

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew institutions have shaped the Australian national identity quite like the pub — and no one captures its rowdy, irreverent, and deeply...
Shakespeare's Professional Skills

Shakespeare's Professional Skills

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature...
Life & Times Of Michael K

Life & Times Of Michael K

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...
The Russian Mind

The Russian Mind

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew subjects are as layered, contradictory, and endlessly fascinating as the inner world of Russian thought and culture — and Ronald Hingley's The Russian Mind...
The Oxford Literary Guide To The British Isles

The Oxford Literary Guide To The British Isles

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor any lover of literature who has ever stood on a rain-swept moor and felt the ghost of Heathcliff at their shoulder, or walked the...
The Unknown Sea: (Les Chemins De La Mer)

The Unknown Sea: (Les Chemins De La Mer)

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by...
The Rediscovery Of Black Nationalism

The Rediscovery Of Black Nationalism

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt a pivotal moment in American political history, Theodore Draper's The Rediscovery of Black Nationalism presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the...
Classics And Commercials: A Literary Chronicle Of The Forties

Classics And Commercials: A Literary Chronicle Of The Forties

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew critics of the twentieth century commanded the literary landscape with as much authority and wit as Edmund...
Upheaval And Continuity: A Century Of German History

Upheaval And Continuity: A Century Of German History

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent revolutions of the nineteenth century to the seismic upheavals of the twentieth, Upheaval and Continuity: A Century of German History presents a...
Oxford

Oxford

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities have inspired as much devotion, reverence, and literary attention as Oxford, and Jan Morris's portrait of this ancient English city stands as one...
The Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal

The Life And Games Of Mikhail Tal

$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased spine. Yellowed cover. Few names in the history of chess carry the electric...
Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy

Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the world of competitive chess, few works have achieved the canonical status of Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy...
The Modern Chess Sacrifice

The Modern Chess Sacrifice

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the razor-sharp world of competitive chess, the willingness to surrender material for a positional or tactical advantage...
200 Miniature Games Of Chess: Combinations In The Openings

200 Miniature Games Of Chess: Combinations In The Openings

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor the chess player who wants to sharpen their tactical instincts and master the critical early phase of...
Fighting Chess: My Games And Career

Fighting Chess: My Games And Career

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the history of competitive sport carry the same electrifying weight as Garry Kasparov, and Fighting...
A Complete Defence To 1 P-K4: A Study Of Petroff's Defence

A Complete Defence To 1 P-K4: A Study Of Petroff's Defence

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Pages can have notes/underlining.For the chess player who demands both solidity and counterattacking potential from...
The Petroff Defence

The Petroff Defence

$8.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Pages have notes/underlining. Creased spine. Few openings in chess history demand as much precision and...
Lasker's Manual Of Chess

Lasker's Manual Of Chess

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA titan of the chessboard offers his hard-won wisdom in Lasker's Manual of Chess, a magisterial...
Black And White Onyx: New And Selected Poems / 1988–2011 (SIGNED)

Black And White Onyx: New And Selected Poems / 1988–2011 (SIGNED)

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Signed letter by the author laid-in. From the quiet intensity of Melbourne's literary margins...
Fringe Dwellers

Fringe Dwellers

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. 31pp. Minor tear on front cover. Internally sound. "Fringe Dwellers" stands as an official Australian Government publication...
The Obituary Book

The Obituary Book

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to have lived a life worth remembering? The Obituary Book by Alden Whitman — the celebrated Chief Obituary...
Larger Than Life: The Story Of Eric Baume

Larger Than Life: The Story Of Eric Baume

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedHe was a man who filled every room he entered and every column inch he wrote — Eric Baume was one of...
David Garrick: Selected Verse

David Garrick: Selected Verse

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the glittering heart of eighteenth-century London's theatrical world stood David Garrick — actor, manager, playwright,...
The Oracle Of Change: How To Consult The I Ching

The Oracle Of Change: How To Consult The I Ching

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor millennia, the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — has served as one of humanity's most enduring tools...
A Very Private War

A Very Private War

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the dense, sweltering jungles of New Guinea during World War II, a lone Australian soldier finds himself entangled in a conflict that is...