Australasia
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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia, and is the author of Tracks, the extraordinary account of her 1,700-mile journey across Australia with four camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and became a film in 2013. She has written extensively for National Geographic and other magazines, and is also the author of Desert Places, the novel Ancestors, and the essay collection Travelling Light. Ms. Davidson lives in London, India, and Australia.
Australasia Books & Ephemera
Goodbye to All That? On the Failure of Neo-Liberalism and the Urgency of Change
by Manne, Robert & McKnight, David
Melbourne: Black Inc.. 2010. Very Good condition. Previous owner's address stamp to preliminary pages. 278 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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$14.72
Wandering Girl
by Glenyse Ward
Random House Publishing Group, 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$5.99
The Vandemonian War
by Nick Brodie
The story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen's Land in the 1820's and 1830's deliberately pushing out the Aboriginal people to the edge of existence - a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics. 422 pages with 8 pages of colour illustrations and 3 maps. Book in near fine condition.
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$13.38
SHARING STORIES. A Social History of The Kelvin Grove Urban Village
by KLAEBE,Helen;
Sydney: Published by Focus Publishing,, 2006. 4to. pp.160 with colour and black & white photographs and a plan. Pictoroal boards in a matching dust wrapper. Very good. History of the redevelopment of a Brisbane inner city suburb.
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$23.42
Ghost Railways of Australia
by Bromby, Robin
Sydney: Lothian Publishing Co. 2006. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good dustjacket. Stain to base of pages. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 232 pages. This book evokes memories of places that are now al but deserted. It is the story of the vanished people and places once served by rail. . 1st...
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$22.08
The Departure, Second Class Car" and "The Return, First Class Car" appearing in Godey's Lady's Book 1859
by Solomon, Abraham. [Australian gold fields]
Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1859. Wraps. Good + overall. The monthly issue for December 1859, with the classic Australian two full page steel engravings of the famous railway scenes, 'The Departure, Second Class Car' and 'The Return, First Class Car' depicting a young man leaving to make his fortune in the Australian gold fields, with advertising for ships departing to 'Port Phillip' and 'Sydney' visible on the wall behind his head. Here they appear re-engraved in a smaller format by an unknown...
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$175.00
Duck Billed Platypus
by [Platypus]
Norfolk, UK: Brightly & Co, 1811. Original hand colored copper engraving printed in sepia with hand color, from "The Natural History Of Quadrupeds and Cetaceous Animals" . With Pl 36 at the left. Approx 9 x 4", very good.
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$75.00
The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History
by Jan Bassett
Beginning with the Aboriginal flag and ending with Zeehan, entries on significant people, places, institutions, ides, movements, artefacts, documents with extensive cross referencing and illustrations ranging from early maps to cartoons. 304 pages with illustrations on most pages. Book and dust jacket in as new condition. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.
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$13.38
Coogee Bay' and "Palms Botanic Garden" verso with "Philae Island, Egypt". Albumen photographs
by Bayliss, Charles
1885. Very good overall. A Sydney Botanic Garden image by Charles Bayliss, with a large albumen panorama of Coogee Bay from the rocks, ("Coogee Bay 162"), laid down on a sheet with an image of Philae Island, Egypt. The Botanic Garden image by Bayliss depicts large tree ferns in the foreground, with diagonal paths leading towards the conservatory in the distance. "C. Bayliss, photo, Sydney", photographer's blind stamp, at the lower left corner; titled in period ink below the print. Trove 42542536 at...
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$175.00
Sons in the Saddle
by Durack, Mary
Sydney: Bantam Books. Very Good+. 1998. Paperback. 0733801579 . Index, looks unread. 500gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 452 pages .
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$8.36
FROM TEA BILLY BOY TO MODERATOR, the Biography of Reverend Ronald William Traill
by Hutchinson, Jennifer Traill
Richmond: Spectrum Publications. Very Good+. 2001. First Edition. Paper Back. 0867862998 . Signed by The Reverend Ronald William Traill, vi, 193 pages, errata slip inserted at page 132, photographic illustrations.; 245 x 170mm .
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$13.38
Rock Art Conservation in Australia. Special Australian Heritage Publication Series Number 2.
by ROSENFELD, ANDREE
Canberra; Australian Government Publishing Service; 1988.. Second Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xii, 78; numerous photographic illustrations many in colour, 1 full page map, references, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy.
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$20.07
Poenamo
by John Logan Campbell
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd 1952 reprint. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.
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$17.79
The Journey of Burke and Wills
by Colwell, Max
Paul Hamlyn, NSW, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 152 pages. This book is in very good or better condition and an excellent copy. Ex-library book with normal marks etc. The dust jacket has been protected by a removable clear plastic cover. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in tight, straight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: The...
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$10.00
The Aborigines of Australia.
by FLANAGAN, RODERICK J
Sydney; Edward F. Flanagan and George Robertson and Company; 1888.. First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. viii, 168 (last blank); frontispiece, bound in original grey cloth boards with illustration in gilt on front board, title lettered in gilt on spine, some foxing to first and last few pages and flecking to page edges, cloth a little worn, a good copy. The series of papers contained in this volume will not, it is hoped, prove the least appropriate of the publications which have marked the Centenary of...
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$133.80
Carte de visite of young Australian man in uniform, with initials E. T. on his cap, possibly Electric Tramway
Ballarat, Victoria: Richards & Co., Sturt Street, 1885. Very good overall. A strong image of a handsome young man, in dark uniform with brass buttons, his cap bearing the initials "E. T.". We would have thought he was possibly a conductor on the Ballarat Electric Tram, but it was not electrified until 1905, and the photograph is earlier. 2 3/8 x 3 1/2" albumen photograph on 2 1/2 x 4" card stock. Photographers gilt imprint below photograph "Richards & Co Sturt Street, Ballarat". Card rubbed at corners,...
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$75.00
Equestrienne Australis The Story of Australia's Horsewomen
by Couch-Keen, Glenda [Compiler]
Springton: Side-Saddle Assoc. of S.A.. 1990. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Plates,Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 333 pages.. A definitive narrative, arranged chronologically, about the development of Australia's horsewomen. Robust, professional packaging and tracking...
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$16.72
50 Years of Powering Western Australia: From Western Colleries to Wesfarmers Coal
by Graham-Taylor, Sue
Collie, WA: Wesfarmers. 2003. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White/Sepia Photographs. 111 pages. With a Foreword by Sir Charles Court. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Softcover.
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$20.07
THE COMMERCIAL TIMBERS OF AUSTRALIA Their Properties and Uses
by BOAS, I.H,
Commonwealth of Australia Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. J.J. Gourlay,Government printer,Melbourne, 1947. 8vo. pp. viii + 344, 20 p. plates.some line drawing in text. Pale grey cloth hardcover.Some toning to the endpapers else Very good clean fresh copy.
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$42.15
Drawn from Life
by Olsen, John
Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 1997. (x), 354 pages. Many text illustrations and 16 colour plates. Index. Beechworth artist Brian Seidel's ex-libris stamp on half-title page. Dustwrapper very slightly sunned. Inscribed "Especially for the (sic) my friend Brian, the questing heart, John Olsen, '97".. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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$167.25
THE YEAR-ROUND GARDENER: A MONTH-BY-MONTH GUIDE From the Best of Better Homes and Gardens Gardening Advice
by MacOboy, Stirling
Sydney: Murdoch Books. Very Good. 1993. Paperback. 0864118147 . Reprinted 1998. Index, clear plastic cover, glossy colour illustrations. 1kg weight; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 194 pages .
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$11.04
Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences 1849-1894
by Bartley, Nehemiah
Sydney: John Ferguson. 1978[1896]. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 424 pages. Bartley was a colonial rover and speculator. Born in England he joined relatives in Tasmania in 1849 at the age of nineteen. Wanderlust led him to California then back to Victoria and Sydney - and finally to the goldfields. In 1854, his uncle...
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$13.38
![New Town from the Domain [Tasmania], mounted on a stiff Christmas card "A Happy Christmas to you"](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/233/277/707277233.0.b.1.jpg)
New Town from the Domain [Tasmania], mounted on a stiff Christmas card "A Happy Christmas to you"
by Photographic Christmas Card
Tasmania, 1905. Very good condition. A real b&w silver tone photograph of New Town from the Domain, with Mt. Stuart in the distance. Mounted on gray card stock, with gilt printed caption below and gilt rule around photograph. Blank on verso. Photo 3 3/4 x 3" mounted on card 5 1/4 x 4 1/2 "
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$95.00
A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes, through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, in 1861-162
by Heywood, B. A. [Benjamin Arthur]
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. Good with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the folding map from pocket at front. Otherwise good. Boards rubbed. 4mm missing to cloth at head of spine. Splits to gutters at endpapers and at title leaf. A 20mm tear and small 3mm chips to margins of the folding map of Terra Australia. Moderate dampstains and tidemarks to plates. ; This copy inscribed by the author's brother, James Heyward F.R.S. (1810-1897) to J. Cosmo...
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$100.00
The Epic Of Man.
by TIME LIFE EDITORS
New York; Time Incorporated; 1961.. First Edition; Super Royal 4to; pp. 308; text illustrated with numerous coloured photographs, paintings and maps, several fold out paintings, bibliography, index, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front board, dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, good copy.
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$26.76
