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For Sinners Only
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Hodder & Stoughton, 1932. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 9281. . more information
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One in a Crowd
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Access Press, Perth, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st & only edition (limited run). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795909 Inventory No: 1282. . more information
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Charlie (Quantity available: 2)
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Access Press, Perth, 1998. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. 1st edition (limited run 500). Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864451229 Inventory No: 1407. . more information
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Charlie
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Access Press, Perth, 1998. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run 500). Signed and inscribed by author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana Signed by Author. ISBN: 0864451229 Inventory No: 6733. . more information
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George Friedrich Schmidt: His Life and His Descendants
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Self published, 1958. First Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stitched). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australian History Inventory No: 9363. . more information
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It Is Not So Easy To Live (Quantity available: 11)
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Collins, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is the first edition in the English language. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. This book tells the story of the author's flight after she had escaped from Hungary with her parents. In Vienna, they survived a series of adventures and finally managed to cross the frontier of the Russian Zone of Austria, only to find themselves in an Allied Refugee camp at Kufstein. Quantity Available: 11. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 8340. . more information
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Piddletrenthide to East Intercourse Island
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Access Press, Perth, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). From boutique Western Australian publisher. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795453 Inventory No: 1316. . more information
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Casey's Wife
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Artlook Books, Perth, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). Gavin Casey, revered figure of Australian literature, top journalist, bike-riding, beer-drinking man's man. This autobiography of his wife Dorothy inevitably sheds new light on the life of Gavin Casey, author of "The Mile That Midas Touched" and other Australian classics. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australian Literature ISBN: 0864450206 Inventory No: 6664. . more information
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Casey's Wife
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Artlook Books, Perth, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). Gavin Casey, revered figure of Australian literature, top journalist, bike-riding, beer-drinking man's man. This autobiography of his wife Dorothy inevitably sheds new light on the life of Gavin Casey, author of "The Mile That Midas Touched" and other Australian classics. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australian Literature ISBN: 0864450206 Inventory No: 1231. . more information
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Dinkum Mishpochah
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Artlook Books, Perth, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. Signed by Author. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana Signed by Author. ISBN: 0864450141 Inventory No: 1234. . more information
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Dinkum Mishpochah
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Artlook Books, Perth, 1981. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864450141 Inventory No: 2535. . more information
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Thanks for the Memory, Dad
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Access Press, Perth, 1992. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run 300). biography of the "Rev" Doc Britten, well known in Western Australia for his work with youth groups of the Baptist and Uniting Church. Biography by his son. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 094979564X Inventory No: 1429. . more information
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The Aristocrats
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John Lane, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 8198. . more information
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Notes of a Son and Brother
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MacMillan, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Deckled edges (rough cut). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 8117. . more information
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And Behold We Live
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Constable, 1918. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Small Octavo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 9324. . more information
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Swimming with the Tide (Quantity available: 2)
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Access Press, Perth, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. Limited edition 500. From boutique Western Australian publisher. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864451105 Inventory No: 1465. . more information
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Memory in a House
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Bodley Head, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography ISBN: 0370103564 Inventory No: 9395. . more information
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Brodie (Quantity available: 2)
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Access Press, Perth, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. 1st & only edition (limited run 250). Photograph of author tipped into front cover, gilt title, spine.Deluxe edition, faux leather, numbered and signed by author. Memoirs of West Australian mining chief. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana Signed by Author. ISBN: 0949795895 Inventory No: 2536. . more information
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Brodie
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Access Press, Perth, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st & only edition (limited run). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795895 Inventory No: 1237. . more information
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Half-Breed the Story of Grey Owl
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Peter Davies, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 7871. . more information
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Talking to Strangers (Quantity available: 2)
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Access Press, Perth, 1991. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Anne Sutherland. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. 1st edition (limited run 500). Illustrations by Anne Sutherland. Anecdotes and stories from rural Western Australia. Illustrator: Anne Sutherland. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795518 Inventory No: 1393. . more information
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The Real Me
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Access Press, Perth, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This first impression limited to 500 copies. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864451415 Inventory No: 2667. . more information
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Voices Over My Shoulder
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Access Press, Perth, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). Tear to rear page (blank) and endpaper, bottom corner missing, otherwise book is As New. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795402 Inventory No: 1325. . more information
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John Doyles Overcoat : Hong Kong & The Partisan's Last Kiss: Italy (Quantity available: 2)
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Access Press, Perth, 2006. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). New Book/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. Journalist Peter Finn worked on "The Star" newspaper in Hong Kong before its demise, and this book is a nostalgic recall of those days. the second half of the book is about an ex-army man who worked with the Italian partisans during World War Two. Author's seventh book. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australian Literature ISBN: 0864451814 Inventory No: 7192. . more information
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General Lord Freyberg VC: An Unofficial Biography
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Michael Joseph, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 9342. . more information
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Matthew's Book
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Access Press, Perth, 1992. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run 300). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana Signed by Author. ISBN: 0949795585 Inventory No: 1361. . more information
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Sarah
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Access Press, Perth, 1992. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run 300). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography ISBN: 0949795658 Inventory No: 6728. . more information
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A Letter From Sydney
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The Jester Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australian Literature ISBN: 095963858X Inventory No: 1679. . more information
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During the Passage of Time
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Access Press, Perth, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run). The Green family from its arrival in the 19th century to mine in Tasmania, farming in Victoria, and the move to Western Australia during the gold rush as pioneers of the group settlement scheme. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0949795208 Inventory No: 1230. . more information
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From the Frying Pan into the Fire (Quantity available: 3)
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Access Press, Perth, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Multiple copies available this title. 1st edition (limited run 500). A young German couple's first ten years in Australia in the 1960's. Quantity Available: 3. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864450982 Inventory No: 1281. . more information
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Gilbert Harding by His Friends
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Andre Deutsch, 1962. Fifth Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Signed by Editor. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Signed by Editor. Inventory No: 9419. . more information
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The Short Straw
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Access Press, Perth, 1998. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). As New/No Dust Jacket. This is the first Australian edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. 1st edition (limited run 500). Autobiographical experience of a battered wife and victim of a nervous breakdown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography Australiana ISBN: 0864451237 Inventory No: 1400. . more information
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The Right Honourable Sir Francis H.D.Bell, His Life and Times
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Butterworth, Auckland, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Size: Quarto. Text contains minor marks in pencil. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Edges foxed and browned. Signed and inscribed by author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography Signed by Author. Inventory No: 9373. . more information
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