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Press Gang (SIGNED)
$20.00 AUD
Author: Roy HattersleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Robson Books., 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedRoy Hattersley's Press Gang chronicles the tumultuous history of British journalism, offering an incisive look into the power,...
The Edwardians
$20.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars
Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed...
Priceless: The Memoirs and Mysteries of Britain's No.1 Art Dealer
Roy Miles is one of the most prolific, talented and knowledgeable art dealers in the world. He once owned one of the largest galleries in London: from Canaletto to Gainsborough,...
Sons And Lovers: Lady Chatterley's Lover
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded. Page Condition: some minor tanning consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Appears intact. Two of D. H. Lawrence's most celebrated and...
Harry Potter: Ron Weasley's Wand Pen
Cast a spell through your writing with this collectible pen fashioned to look like the iconic willow wood and unicorn hair wand of Ron Weasley (TM). Add a bit of...
The Scarlatti Inheritance; The Osterman Weekend; The Matlock Paper; The Gemini Contenders
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFour masterworks of pulse-pounding suspense are gathered in this complete and unabridged omnibus edition from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects of...
Watership Down
$90.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the rolling English countryside, a small band of rabbits flee their doomed warren on a desperate...
The Future Of China: After Mao
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the trembling aftermath of Mao Zedong's death, a nation of nearly one billion people stood at a crossroads — and...
Treasury Of World Masterpieces: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles; The Mayor Of Casterbridge; Far From The Madding Crowd
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...
The Collected Works Of J. B. Priestley
$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingA titan of twentieth-century British letters, J. B. Priestley produced a body of work so vast and...
Desmond Bagley: The Golden Keel; High Citadel; The Vivero Letter; Running Blind; The Tightrope Men
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew thriller writers of the twentieth century commanded the page with the assured grip of Desmond Bagley, and this...
The Collected Works Of Aldous Huxley
$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingThis Heron Books set collects the major fiction and travel writing of Aldous Huxley, anchored...
The Letter To The Romans
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew texts in the history of Western civilization...
Letters To The Seven Churches
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of Christianity, seven letters addressed to seven fledgling congregations in Asia Minor carried...
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There
What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and...
Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club: 100 Years In Australian Tennis
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor over a century, the Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis Club has stood as one of Australia's most prestigious sporting institutions, and Richard Yallop's...
Hubert Murray: The Australian Pro-Consul
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew figures in the annals of colonial administration loom as large — or remain as fascinating — as Sir...
Sherston's Progress
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Western Front, George Sherston — shell-shocked, morally fractured, and haunted by...
The Rulers: Fifteen Years Of The Liberals
$15.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: inscription on fep; In the corridors of Australian political power, few accounts cut as sharply or...
Matters For Judgment: An Autobiography
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew moments in Australian political history have proven as explosive and enduring as the constitutional crisis of November 1975, and...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life...
Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live
*Introduced by Rory Stewart* What makes a person good? What does it mean to be evil? And what does it tell us about being human? Philosophers have been grappling with...
John Wesley's Journal
$255.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew documents in the history of Christianity offer as intimate and electrifying a window into a spiritual revolution...
The Public Service Manager: An Introduction To Personnel Management In The Australian Public Service
$15.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNavigating the labyrinthine world of government bureaucracy demands a guide who understands its unique terrain,...
A Human for Kingsley
Kingsley had decided to own a human. This was not a decision to be taken lightly. After all, owning a human is a responsibility. But finding the right kind of...
Sons And Lovers
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons...
Joh: The Life And Political Adventures Of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: worn and faded with some tears along the edge; Few figures in Australian political history provoke...
Interpersonal Relations And Education: Revised Student Edition
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the hidden social world of the classroom, where the unspoken dynamics between teachers and students...
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
$125.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: gift edition in slipcase; illustrated endpapers; appears unreadIn a world where magic is hidden in plain sight, an orphaned boy sleeping under...
Patterns Of Steam: Steam Locomotives In Australia And New Zealand 1964-1985
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the twilight years of steam-powered rail, photographer and railway enthusiast Shane McCarthy undertook a remarkable visual journey across Australia and New Zealand, capturing the...
François Mauriac: A Study Of The Writer And The Man
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith, politics, and literary genius stands François Mauriac — Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Catholic moralist, and one of the most towering...
The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitler's Greatest Armoured
A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. Today...
The Bond Of Poetry: A Book Of Verse For Australasian Schools
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA cornerstone of Australasian literary...
The Papers Of Tony Veitch
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingGlasgow is a city of shadows and secrets, and in William McIlvanney's The Papers of Tony Veitch, Detective Inspector Jack...
This Is My Philosophy: Twenty Of The World's Outstanding Thinkers Reveal The Deepest Meanings They Have Found In Life
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to live a life of genuine meaning? This is My Philosophy presents a remarkable...
Discoverers Of The Snowy Mountains
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingLong before the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme transformed the Australian Alps, a succession of intrepid explorers ventured into the high country, driven...
Sons And Lovers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have so unflinchingly anatomised the suffocating grip of maternal love as D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers....
The Presocratic Philosophers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spineBefore Socrates turned philosophy inward toward ethics and the human soul, a remarkable generation...
The Comet Seekers
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Herald Roisin and Fran ois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew...
The Langton Quartet
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Langton Quartet by Martin Boyd is a four-volume family saga of Australian literary fiction that...
The Night Letters
For five years, Australian doctor Sofia Raso has lived in Kabul's vibrant Shaahir Square, working with Dr Jabril Aziz to support the local women. She knows that living peacefully in...