HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand Books

London: Leicester University Press. Fine with no dust jacket 2001. Hardcover. ; 16 x 24 cm.; pg. 183; Originally published in 1893. Edited by Susan Morgan. The literature of travel, exploration, and empire series. Introduction, preface, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "In 1894 Ada Pryer, who had married William [Pryer] in 1883, published her account of his early years as an administrator, along with some sketches of their life together. The result is a lively, vivid and compellin... more information

Offered by Tamarind Books, LLC (North Carolina, United States) +/-

Melbourne: Black Inc. Agenda, 2004. 305 g.; VIII, 200 pages. Sepia toned photograph of author on the front panel with white and orange titles to the front panel and black-and-white titles to the backstrip. Minor creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. "In March 2003, Andrew Wilkie resigned from Australia's senior intelligence agency, ONA, in protest over the looming Iraq war. He was the only serving intelligence officer from the Coalition of the Willing -- th... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Hutchinson's Library of Sports and Pastimes, 1956. Very Good condition. Clean pages and tight binding. No inscription. Clean and unmarked boards. Clean compressed page edge. Unclipped dustjacket, protected in removable mylar sleeve. 37 photographs included.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Auck, NZ.: Collins, 1967 Hard Cover. First Edition. 157pp. 8vo. Edges tanned, slight marking to occas page, G++. D/w a little edgeworn, 2 repaired tears, G++.. ... more information

Offered by Lost for Words: Books & Ephemera (New Zealand) +/-

Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press, 1992. Card Covers. Trade Size. 158pp. includes Index. Light wear, contents clean and tight. "This book traces the major changes which have occurred in New Zealand, not only in crime itself, but in patterns of behaviour (such as homosexuality and gang membership), which although not illegal, are still seen by society as deviant.". First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Sikabooks (New Zealand) +/-

London: Arthur Barker, 1956. 221 pages. Spotting on edges. The dustwrapper is price clipped.; chipped, mostly at head of spine. *A sympathetic study of some of the more notorious bushrangers, such as the Kelly Gang, Captain Moonlite, Alexander Pierce and Captain Melville.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

Offered by Hieronymus Books (Victoria, Australia) +/-

Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited, 2001. Usual library marks and wear. 222 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Dinosaurs in Australia when it was still joined to Antarctica 100 to 120 million years ago. . Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. ... more information

Offered by Terra Australis Books (Queensland, Australia) +/-

Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. Olaf Ruyen presents a powerful, moving imaginative account of those last days of the diprotodons who inhabited the region of Lake Callabonna, Australia. Peter Pavey's remarkable drawings bring a sensitive and memorable interpretation to the story.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Peter Pavey. ... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Golden Press, 1987. Very Good condition. . Facsimile Edition. Laminated Pictorial Boards. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1976. 65 g.; VI, 7-56 pages, introduction by author, list of other lectures. Plain text front cover with blue and white writing on front panel and white on spine. Corners slightly scuffed and some grubby marks to the back panel. How this author came to write the 'History of Australia'. "Each year the ABC invites a prominent Australian to present the results of his work and thinking on major social, scientific or cultural issues in a series of ra... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1976. 65 g.; VI, 7- 56 pp., introduction by author, list of other lectures. Plain text front cover with blue and white writing on front panel and white on spine. Corners slightly scuffed and some grubby marks to the back panel. The plastic laminated covering the book is starting to lift from the top right-hand corner, bottom right-hand corner and halfway up the front panel. How this author came to write the 'History of Australia'. Digital image avail... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1976. 65 g.; VI, 7- 56 pp., introduction by author, list of other lectures. Plain text front cover with blue and white writing on front panel and white on spine. Corners are scuffed and some corners are slightly creased. The lamination of the covers has started to lift, worse on front than on rear and the book looks a little second-hand. How this author came to write the 'History of Australia'. "Each year the ABC invites a prominent Australian ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1976. 65 g.; VI, 7-56 pages introduction by author, list of other lectures. Plain text front cover with blue and white titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the book corners. The major detraction from the book has been the lifting of the laminate along the front fore edges, both book panels, along the top of the book and along the spine. How this author came to write the 'History of Australia'. ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Melbourne: Hill of Content Archive Series, 1967. A Collection of Contemporary Documents, Reproductions of maps, charts, portraits and extracts from journals of Tasman, Dampier and Cook and a brief history 1606-1840, in pict. card folder, sl. worn. not paginated . Probable First Edition. Stapled Card. Reasonable for Age/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. History -- Australia. ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1972. 219pp, list of illustrations. text illustrated by numerous black and white photographs. Red boards with gilt writing on spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Minor scuffing to books corners, likewise to spine gutters. Previous owners name on ffep., dustwrapper has minor buckling to top of spine. This is the story of Dr Duguids' life, from his birth in Scotland to his eventual arrival in Australia, and then to taking up of the aboriginal cause the 1930s. It was during the 1930s that ... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1947. xvi, + 280pp., unpaginated b/white halftone plates (all extant). Book clean. Spine good, but cocked. Original green cloth boards flecked and mildly abraded on corners. Signed ('Cheerio from the author', Frank Clune) on ffep., else leaves randomly finger-marked and flecked. No dustjacket. The story of Burke and Wills and their ill-fated expedition to "cross the country lately discovered by Mr Stuart, to either the north-western shores of the Au... more information

Offered by Diversity Books (Victoria, Australia) +/-

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947. 400 g; XVI, 280 pages, includes author' s note, foreword by author, bibliography. In original Green cloth, with black writing on the spine and front panel, small grubby mark on right-hand side of front panel, some rubbing of the base edge of the boards, and darkening of the edges of the pages with traces of foxing. The tragic story of Burke and Wills. Inscribed Best wishes from the author Frank clone XV/IV/48, with a 2nd inscription in a different pen wishing Macs ar... more information

Offered by Syber's Books (Australia) +/-

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. New Edition. Hardcover. Spotting and browning to the title pages. : JACKET: None; Signed and dedicated inside front. ; Signed by Author . ... more information

Offered by Retriever Books (New South Wales, Australia) +/-

Rigby Australia, 1984. The biography of architect Francis Greenway. A masterly portrait of the artistic genius who designed some of Sydney's most beautiful buildings, showing hos his fortunes were shaped both by circumstance and by his own excitable, unpredictable nature. No detail is spared in the telling of Greenway's story, and result is a powerful and realistic evocation of an exciting, turbulent era in Australia's history. As New condition Review copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Allen & Unwin, 1984. 1st edition. Paperback. Good Condition. Award-winning author Diane Bell reveals the importance of women's roles in Australian Aboriginal desert culture, as maintainers of land, ritual, and culture. Daughters of the Dreaming is not only a work of ethnographic importance. It also explores the nature of the changes in<LB>gender relations in Aboriginal society. Having been accepted as an adult woman who might be given ritual instruction, participated in their ceremonies, vis... more information

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