HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand Books

Cambridge U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 474 pages with b/w illustrations. Comprehensive, general history of Federation. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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

Cambridge University Press, 1999 The first comprehensive, general history of the Australian Federation - publishedto mark its centenary in 2001.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ... more information

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Christchurch, New Zealand: Whitcoulls, 1976. Green textured boards, gilt text to spine. 194 pp. B/w illustrations. DJ has light stain to rear top edge. A portrait of one of New Zealand's all-time rugby greats.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Collins, Sydney, 1985. Chronicles of Death, Life and Love explores the foibles, frailties and expectations of people. The stories are beautifully crafted, extraordinarily perceptive and perfectly self-contained, and will linger in the memory long after reading.. First Edition. Pictorial Card Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Wellington, New Zealand: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1974. White cloth lettered in black on spine and front. Illustrated endpapers. Colour and B/w Paintings and Drawings by the author are accompanied by a lively historical account of the region. A tight, clean copy. DJ has one tiny closed tear to top front edge. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Melbourne: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. 136pp., preface by author, list of plates. The text is illustrated with 22 black-and-white photographs, black and white illustrations, graphs and sketches. Illustrated front cover, by Muriel Lloyd, with black writing on the front panel and spine. Bumping to the top book corners and to the head into the heel of the spine. Rubbing to the book edges and there has been very light rubbing to the book panels. Grubby marks to the book panels and there is browning and ... more information

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Angus & Robertson, 1953. Good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Bert Zimmerman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Golden Press, Sydney, 1987. Featuring over 85 attractive arrangements, from garlands, to pot-pourri, and including ideas for buying dried flowers, growing your own, drying methods, equipment, techniques, and the most popular dried flowers.. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Sydney: Child and Henry Publishing Proprietor Ltd, 1986. 158pp., introduction by editor batches of rank, manpower statistics, bibliography, abbreviations and index. Photographic front endpaper, showing 5 R.A.N. fleet units in the South China Sea, August 1984. The text is illustrated with numerous black and white and coloured photography, tables and sketches. Green coloured boards with light green and white writing on the front panel and white on the spine. Very minor where to the bottom edges of the boo... more information

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William Heinemann, 1959. Very Good condition. Clean and unmarked boards. Clean compressed page edge. No inscription. Unclipped dustjacket protected in removable mylar sleeve.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1979. 86pp. Colour frontispiece. Folding map at rear. Index. Two-tone buckram with gilt titling on spine. Limited edition. *These recollections first appeared in the Bendigo Advertiser in the 1880s.. Buckram. Fine/Fine. ... more information

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

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1966. 700 g; XIV, 298 pages, includes references, index. Original dust jacket. Foxing to the top edge of the text block, small stain affecting only the lower right-hand margin of pages 97 through to the back of the book. Chipping and rubbing of the edges of the dust jacket, and the front fold over crease. Digital image available upon request. In this book the author's survey for the lay men, in considerable detail, the law as it relates to civil liberties and indivi... more information

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Angus & Robertson, Syd, 1st edit 1953. 243pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. B/w plates. Edges spotted, soiled, scattered foxing; inscript on half-title; cloth rubbed, corners bumped, spine mottled, G++; no d/w.. ... more information

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

HB, VG, RIGBY ADELAIDE 1961, 234 PAGES, APPROX 8" BY 6", 500 GRAMS, GREEN BOARDS. AUTHOR TELLS OF HER LIFE IN INLAND AUSTRALIA AND TGELLS STORIES OF THE OUTBACK.... more information

Offered by Best Used Books (Australia) +/-

Bay Books, 1986. Hardcover With Dust Jacket. Good Condition - ex lib. Right from the beginning, Australia had a wide, cross-section of humanity in its inhabitants. Along with convicts, military men and administrators, there were a number of wealthy settlers, landowners and merchants who saw great opportunities in the new colony.<LB>These early entrepreneurs, usually of Anglo-Saxon stock, gave little thought to the original inhabitants, Aboriginals who virtually became dispossessed in their own land.... more information

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Hale & Iremonger, 1987. 1st edition. Paperback - Stiff Card. Good Condition - ex lib, minimal markings. In its short history Australia has moved from being an infant colony whose fortunes were originally settled in Westminster and Whitehall to a nation with its own colonial responsibilities in Papua New Guinea.<LB>The intervening period has witnessed many events whose administrative aspects shed a valuable light on how Australia has been governed in the course of its progress from colony to nati... more information

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Beechworth: Beechworth and District Progress Association, 1991. 68pp. Many half-tone illusts. Pictorial laminated wrapper. New. . 9th Edition. ... more information

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Alice Springs, N.T.: Iad Press, 1996. 70 pages with b/w illustrations. Text in English and Arrernte.. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Shawn Dobson . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. ... more information

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

Rigby Australia, 1968. Douglas Lockwood covers every aspect of the development of Darwin from the roistering days of the past to the vigorous progress to the time of writing. Included are many early photographs of historical interest and significance. Also mentioned are early pioneering family names and a comprehensive Index . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

Offered by Little Lane Books (Australia) +/-

Adelaide: Rigby, 1968. XIV, 288 pp., last two blank, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, appendices and index. Endpapers illustrated by maps, both different, front end paper 'Goyder's original Darwin layout, back endpaper modern Darwin layout. Text is illustrated by 1 double-page and 18 full-page black and white plates. Orange coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Illustrated/photographic dustwrapper with black writing on front panel and spine. It is a short tear at the bottom of the ... more information

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