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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America....
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
A landmark work of contemporary literary fiction, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time chronicles the story of Christopher John Francis Boone, a fifteen-year-old boy with an exceptional...
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
A landmark work of rock memoir and music history, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division chronicles the meteoric rise and tragic end of one of post-punk's most influential bands through the...
The Rules Of Attraction
A darkly comic and unflinching work of literary fiction, The Rules of Attraction chronicles the tangled, self-destructive romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy, disaffected college students at the fictional...
The Book of Sweets
Marina Schinz, photographer and coauthor of the acclaimed Visions of Paradise and The Gardens of Russell Page, has been photographing sweets collected during her travels over the past fifteen years...
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed...
The Quest For Utopia: An Anthology Of Imaginary Societies
$75.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good; faded spine; minor marks. Binding - tight. DJ...
The Glass Bead Game: Magister Ludi
Hermann Hesse's final and most ambitious novel, The Glass Bead Game: Magister Ludi, is a sweeping work of philosophical fiction set in the distant future within the fictional province of...
The Awakening
$12.00 AUD
A landmark work of feminist literature, The Awakening chronicles the emotional and sexual liberation of Edna Pontellier, a married woman in late nineteenth-century New Orleans who gradually rejects the suffocating...
100 Years Unheard: Wwi And The Afrikan Diasporan Woman
$12.00 AUD
A powerful work of historical and literary recovery, 100 Years Unheard: WWI and the Afrikan Diasporan Woman amplifies the long-silenced voices of Black women whose experiences during the First World...
Anger
$12.00 AUD
A cornerstone of contemporary mindfulness literature, Anger presents the Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh's compassionate and deeply practical guide to transforming one of humanity's most destructive emotions....
Four Sunday Suits And Other Stories
$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA celebrated collection of Australian short fiction, Four Sunday Suits & Other Stories presents a vivid tapestry...
The Development Of Industrial Relations In Britain 1911-1939: Studies In The Evolution Of Collective Bargaining At National And Industry Level
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This scholarly work chronicles the...
For Love Alone
$25.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling novel, For Love Alone, chronicles the passionate and often tumultuous journey of a young woman navigating the...
The Slow Natives
$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This compelling literary novel, The...
The Great Divide: Second Thoughts On The American Dream
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA landmark work of oral history and social commentary, The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream...
Out In The Open: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionA candid and richly detailed memoir, Out in the Open: An Autobiography chronicles the life of Geoffrey...
The Road To Yesterday: Collected Stories
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA work of Australian fiction by a celebrated author known for his lyrical prose and deep connection to...
Missus
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian fiction, Missus serves as the first installment in Ruth Park's beloved Harp in the...
The Watcher On The Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark of Australian autobiography, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony chronicles the childhood...
They'Re A Weird Mob
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerA beloved classic of Australian comic fiction, They're a Weird Mob chronicles the misadventures...
The Big Smoke
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsSet against the gritty, vibrant backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Sydney, this Australian novel chronicles the struggles and ambitions of...
Mr Butterfry: And Other Tales Of New Japan
$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful work of short fiction set against the vivid backdrop of post-World War II Japan, this collection chronicles...
Elijah's Ravens
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA collection of poetry by the Australian writer Hal Porter, Elijah's Ravens presents verse that reflects...
A Handful Of Pennies
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian autobiographical fiction, A Handful of Pennies chronicles Hal Porter's years spent teaching in...
The Paper Chase
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian autobiography, The Paper Chase chronicles Hal Porter's vivid and...
The Child In Time
$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA haunting and deeply psychological literary novel, The Child in Time chronicles the devastating aftermath...
In An Australian Country Graveyard: And Other Poems
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and evocative collection of verse, In an Australian Country Graveyard: And Other Poems presents the work...
Alan Marshall's Australia
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA beloved celebration of the Australian landscape and its people, Alan Marshall's Australia presents the land through the eyes of...
Alan Marshall's Battlers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA celebrated work of Australian social realism, Alan Marshall's Battlers chronicles the lives of itinerant workers, drovers, and struggling families...
The English House (SIGNED)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA richly detailed work of architectural and social history, The English House: The Story Of A Nation...
The Wort Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers chronicles the chaotic misadventures of Jack Wort, a wildly eccentric and...
God In All Worlds: An Anthology Of Contemporary Spiritual Writing
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark anthology of spiritual literature, God in All Worlds presents a sweeping and richly curated collection of contemporary writing that...
Frank Buchman: A Life
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small tear on title page, otherwise fine. This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and often...
The Fifties
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of narrative history, The Fifties chronicles the defining decade that transformed American society, culture, politics, and...
The Labour Party In Perspective
$25.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Some moisture damage Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Moisture damage in bottom corner of top binding and first few pages. Pages otherwise in good...
Scriptures, Sects And Visions: A Profile Of Judaism From Ezra To The Jewish Revolts
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding in good condition and pages clean. A landmark work in the field of Second Temple Judaism and early...
Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of oral history and social documentary, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village chronicles the lives of the inhabitants of...
Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists And The Early Labour Movement
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Shelf wear on binding, otherwise fine. pages in great conditon.A richly researched work of political and social...
Goodbye, Melbourne Town
$20.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Pages crisp and clean. Binding in good conditionA warmly nostalgic memoir, Goodbye Melbourne Town chronicles the early...
The Condition Of England
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerPublished in 1909, this landmark work of social and political commentary presents a penetrating diagnosis of Edwardian Britain at a moment of...
A Narrow Street
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light foxing on block, pages otherwise fine and clean. Binding intact - faded on spine. A warm and...
The Making Of The English Working Class
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Fair , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Shelf wear on binding. Tanning on block but pages otherwise in good condition and clean. A landmark...
Poems
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: No slipcase. Binding strong and in good condition. Pages clean and vibrant. Coloured and black an white...
More Memories Of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life In The Years Since 1919
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Shows signs of fading but otherwise jacket in good condition. Pages clean and bright. A rich work of...
Leonard Woolf: A Political Biography
$20.00 AUD
Edition: Second ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded on spine - otherwise fine and now protected in mylar sleeve. Pages bright. Binding tight.A...