New Additions
Pastoral
Shute, Nevil - Illustrations by Rosemary Neale
Book Number: 65884
ISBN:
William Heinemann, London, 1945. 1st Australian edition. 8vo. hardcover. 219pp. Good+, outer page edges toned. / Fair, chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00
A Primer of Spoken English
Sweet, Henry
Book Number: 65883
ISBN:
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, U.K. 1900. 3rd edition revised. 8vo. hardcover. 97pp. + 8 pages of publisher's ads. Very good.
Price: $45.00
Ghosts of the Big Country.
WILLEY, Keith
Book Number: 65881
ISBN: 085179985x
Adelaide, Rigby, 1975. first edition 8vo. hardcover. (xvi), 243pp, 32 b&w plates. Good+, some rubbing to cover edges. / Very good d/w, rubbed on top edge.
Price: $12.00
Pink Flannel
Park, Ruth
Book Number: 65880
ISBN:
Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1955 8vo. hardcover. 223pp. b/w illus. Very Good, foxing on endpapers. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00
The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus
Merton, Thomas
Book Number: 65878
ISBN:
Hollis and Carter, London, 1954. 8vo. hardcover. 123pp. Good+, some foxing. / Good+ d/w rubbed on spine ends. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a dominant figure in the history of the Catholic Church and the last of the Church Fathers, died in his monastery in Burgundy on August 20, 1153. The eight centenary of his death inspired Pope Pius XII to issue one of his most significant encyclical letters..Doctor Mellifluus.
Price: $18.00
Antrctica's Forgotten Men.
Quartermain, L.B.
Book Number: 65875
ISBN: 0908582528
Millwood Press, Wellington, 1981. 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 192pp. b/w illus. Very Good, rubbing to cover corners. / no d/w.
Price: $30.00
Outback
Sawrey, Hugh
Book Number: 65874
ISBN: 0730102289
Milson''s Point, N.S.W. Currawong Press 1982 4to hardcover 112pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00
Gethsemane
Hare, David
Book Number: 65873
ISBN: 9780571245291
Faber & Faber, London, 2008. 8vo. softcover. 123pp. Very good+.
Price: $10.00
The Glugs of Gosh
C.J. Dennis; illustrated by Hal Gye
Book Number: 65872
ISBN: 0207180679
Angus and Robertson Facsimile Reprint 1993 8vo. softcover, 130pp. b&w line drawings. Very good, foxing to endpapers
Price: $8.00
The Complete Guide to Card Conjuring
Adair, Ian
Book Number: 65871
ISBN: 04980223820
The Tantivy Press, London 1980. 8vo. hardcover. 108pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Fair, torn d/w.
Price: $15.00
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Fischer, Bobby
Book Number: 65870
ISBN: 0701516097
Cheshire, Melbourne 1972 8vo. hardcover. 178pp. b/w illus. Very good, outer page edges toned, light foxing to endpapers. / Good, foxed d/w with some small tears and a crease on rear flap. Scarce Australian edition.
Price: $1500.00
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Fraser, Antonia
Book Number: 65869
ISBN: 0297812424
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992 large 8vo. hardcover. 479pp. index. + colour & b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00
Pipe Dreams : A Surfer's Journey
Slater, Kelly
Book Number: 65868
ISBN: 0060096292
Regan Books 2003. 8vo hardcover 338pp, colour & b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w. Six-time world surfing champion, actor, and US heart-throb Kelly Slater tells of the struggles and triumphs he's experienced throughout his life and how they have helped him to become one of the world's most loved sports figures.
Price: $12.00
Antoni Gaudi Salvador Dali
Kliczkowski, H.
Book Number: 65867
ISBN: 8489439389
Loft Publications, Barcelona 2002. 8vo. hardcover. 96pp. colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00
John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963
Dallek, Robert
Book Number: 65866
ISBN: 0713997390
Allen Lane 2003 8vo hardcover 838pp index, b/w illus. very good. / good, creased & rubbed d/w. Drawing upon previously unavailable material and never-before opened archives, we learn for the first time just how sick Kennedy was, what medications he took and how severely his medical condition affected his actions as President. We learn the real story of how he became Attorney General and the path he would have taken with Vietnam.
Price: $25.00
The Real Far East : Way Beyond Siberia
Barrell, Tony
Book Number: 65865
ISBN: 1920769544
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005. 8vo. softcover. 248pp. b/w ilus. Very good, page edges toned.
Price: $12.00
Orchids
Riehl, Matthias
Book Number: 65864
ISBN:
Andre Deutsch, 1958. Small 4to. hardcover. 60pp. 16 plates reproduced in 8-colour offset lithography from the original water-colour drawings by Karl Alexander. Good, some foxing. / good, chipped, torn d/w.
Price: $12.00
John G : the authorised biography of John Gielgud
Morley, Sheridan
Book Number: 65862
ISBN: 0340368039
London Hodder & Stoughton 2001 first edition 8vo hardcover 510pp index, b/w illus. good, pages toned. / Good+ d/w. The authorised biography of the greatest classical actor of all time John Gielgud's career, spanning almost eighty years, could be described as the history of twentieth-century British theatre. Seven years before his death, John Gielgud invited Sheridan Morley to become his only authorised biographer, handing over to him letters and diaries and personal files.
Price: $10.00
The Life of Thomas Moore
Ackroyd, Peter
Book Number: 65861
ISBN: 1856197115
Random House Australia 1998. 8vo. hardcover. 435pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Good, some foxing to outer page edges, rear endpaper creased. / Good d/w rubbed & torn on top edge.
Price: $15.00
Blood Stains the Wattle
De Lacy, Keith
Book Number: 65860
ISBN: 1876780223
Central Queensland University Press Rockhampton 2002. 8vo. softcover. 289pp. Very good, inscribed & signed by author.
Price: $15.00
Ballarat Labor: From Miner Hesitancy to Golden Age
Cleary, Colin
Book Number: 65856
ISBN: 9780646475264
Colin Cleary, Epsom, Victoria, 2007. 8vo. softcover. 321pp. index, b/w illus. Good, front cover corners creased, foxing to fep. Signed by author.
Price: $12.00
Making Priscilla
Clark, Al
Book Number: 65853
ISBN: 0140246525
Penguin Australia, 1994. 8vo. softcover. 178pp. b/w illus. Very good, page edges lightly toned.
Price: $12.00
No Bugles for Spies, Tales of the O.S.S
Alcorn, Robert Hayden
Book Number: 65852
ISBN:
Jarrolds, London 1963. 8vo. hardcover. 209pp. Good+, foxing, mainly to endpapers, prelims and outer page edges. / Good+ d/w chipped at top of spine.
Price: $12.00
Aristotle's Politics and Athenian Constitution
Aristotle; Edited and Translated by John Warrington
Book Number: 65851
ISBN: 0460006053
Dent / Everyman 1976. 8vo. hardcover. 319pp. index. Very good+, light foxing to endpapers. / Very Good foxed d/w.
Price: $15.00
Handbook for Spies
Foote, Alexander
Book Number: 65850
ISBN:
Museum Press London 1964. 2nd edition. 8vo. hardcover. 192pp. Very good. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $35.00
The Man in the Brown Suit
Christie, Agatha
Book Number: 65848
ISBN: 0002321386
Collins, London 1987. 8vo. Hardcover. 190pp. Very good, small light crease on rear corner. / Very good d/w.
Price: $10.00
The Devil's Playground
Tsiolkas, Christos
Book Number: 65847
ISBN: 0868196711
Currency Press, Strawberry Hills NSW, 2002. 8vo. softcover. 81pp. b/w illus. Very good. An intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of thier faith. A 1976 semi-autobiographical film by Australian director Fred Schepisi. Christos Tsiolkas invites you into his twenty year journey of viewing, re-viewing and re-imagining the film.
Price: $10.00
Milo's Wife
Forde, Margery & Michael
Book Number: 65846
ISBN: 0868196754
Currency Press, Strawberry Hills NSW, 2002. 8vo. softcover. pp63. +xii of production details + ads. Very good.
Price: $15.00
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I
Grene, David & Lattimore, Richmond (editors) [Sophocles]
Book Number: 65845
ISBN:
University Of Chicago Press, 1954. 8vo. softcover. 206pp. Good, a little underlining, small crease on rear corner, owner's name on fep. Includes Oedipus The King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone.
Price: $10.00
Ovid's Selected Works
Thornton, J. C. & M. J. (editors) [Ovid]
Book Number: 65843
ISBN:
J M Dent And Sons Limited, London 1955. Small 8vo. hardcover. 432pp. index. Very good, owner's details on fep. / good, chipped d/w. Everyman's Library No. 955.
Price: $15.00
Green Mountains and Cullenbong
O'Rielly, Bernard
Book Number: 65842
ISBN:
Brisbane. Smith & Patterson 1949 8vo. hardcover. 325pp. index, b/w plates, folding map on verso of frontis. Very Good, very light tape marks on endpapers, previous owner has tipped in a folding map and several news clipping between the rear endpaper and index. Owner's signature verso of fep. / Very Good d/w with some light tape marks on inside flaps.
Price: $45.00
First Athenian Memories
Mackenzie, Compton
Book Number: 65841
ISBN:
Cassell London, 1931. 8vo. hardcover. 402pp. index. Very good. / no d/w. Second volume of Makenzie's war memories.
Price: $45.00
Rum and Coca-Cola
de Boissiere, Ralph
Book Number: 65840
ISBN:
Australasian Book Society, Melbourne, 1956. 8vo. softcover. 314pp. Good, cover faded. For ambitious Mopsy, Fred, a union activist, and Indra, an educated Indian woman, the arrival of American soldiers means Trinidad will never be the same
Price: $25.00
The Letters of T S Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
Eliot, T. S. edited by Valerie Eliot & Hugh Haughton
Book Number: 65839
ISBN: 9780571140817
Faber & Faber, London, 2009. 8vo. hardcover. 878pp. index. Very good. Good d/w rubbed on rear panel.
Price: $15.00
Bluebeard
Vonnegut, Kurt
Book Number: 65838
ISBN:
London Jonathan Cape, 1988 8vo hardcover 300pp. Good, top edge foxed, page edges toned. / Good d/w creased on rear flap.
Price: $18.00
The Gospel According to the Son
Mailer, Norman
Book Number: 65837
ISBN: 0679457836
Random House, New York, 1997. 8vo. hardcover. Very good. / Very good d/w. Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history. Here is Jesus Christ’s story in his own words: the discovery of his divinity and the painful, powerful journey to accepting and expressing it, “as if I were a man enclosing another man within.” In its brevity and piercing simplicity, it may be Mailer’s most accessible, direct, and heartfelt work.
Price: $15.00
