Society, Politics and Current Events

Victoria: Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, 1988. 89 pp. Covers rubbed and creased, with sticker residue to front cover, but internally unwrinkled, clean and tightly bound.. First Edition. Paper Back. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Angus and Robertson Pubishers. Worn edges. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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North Sydney: The Australian Writers and Art Directors Association, 1987. Corners very slightly frayed.. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Meeks, Raymond. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Australia: Hardie Grant Books, 2003. x, 406 pgs. DW, now protected, is not clipped. Top corners of book very slightly bumped. Black/white photos, Glossary, Biographies, Index.. First Australian. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Cooperative Ltd, 1997. Tidy inked owner inscription. Covers a little worn and creased. Overall bright, clean and tightly bound. "This research...is a response to recommendation 105 of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custory, which entreated Aboriginal Legal Services to widen their traditional role to encompass investigation and research into areas of law reform. The study is one of the few that deals with Koorie offending in Victoria and presents a comprehensive statistical profile of the extent and nature of Koorie contact with Police. The findings of this research remind us that Koories are anything but a privileged group. ... There is no doubt that until social justice reform is afforded the highest priority, true reconciliation with Aboriginal communities in this country will remain elusive." Many graphs and tables.111 pp.. Paperback. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Malaysia: Hikayat Press, 1998. 199pp. "Three commentators serve up the latest smorgasboard of ideas and opinions on Nineties Malysia. ...A must-read for observers of contemporary Malaysia." White sticker inconspicuously covers ink inscription to half-title. Excellent condition internally, wraps with some light general wear.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1955. 181pp. "The Rev. Dr Bailey provides in this book a detached and scholarly examination of homosexuality in its historical and religious contexts." Moderate foxing to endpapers and page edges, otherwise very good internally. Boards with very light edgewear. Dustjacket with light to moderate edgewear and general wear, particularly along top edge. Some foxing/yellowing to dustjacket flaps.. First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Continuum, 1994. Dustwrapper a little wrinkled. Book is near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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United Kingdom: Pandora Press, 1987. 261 pp. Cover a little worn and creased (spine is uncreased), some foxing to top edge. Owner's inscription to first page. Pages uniformly browned around the edges, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Afterword by Nadine Gordimer.. First. Paperback. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. 177 pp. Page edges and margins lightly yellowed. Wraps with extremely light general and edgewear.. First Paper Back Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. 225 pp. . Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Australia: Intervention Press, 1991. v, 263 pp. Contents: Historical Materialism; Political Economy; Dialectical Materialsim; Democratic Centralism; The Transitional Program; Imperialism & Permanent Revolution; Stalinism; The Rise & Fall of "People's Democracy"; the Collapse of Stalinism; Marginalisation of Revolutionary Organisations. Appendices: Bibliography; Chronology; Preface to Contribution to Critique of Political Economy, Marx 1859; Excerpt from "Left-Wing" Communism -- An Infantile Disorder, Lenin 1920. Index. The first of three volumes which together present an outline of the Marxism of the present period.. First. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. viii, 393 pp. "The essays reprinted in this collection span a period of almost thirty years and include many classic pieces in metaethical and normative ethical theory." Top page edge very lightly foxed. Top corner bumped, causing light creasing to first ~30 pages. Wraps with some light general wear and edgewear, particularly at corners.. First Paper Back Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1991. xv, 335 pp. Minimal wear to wraps and edges; page edges a little yellowed. Faint remainder mark to lower edge of text block. Spine uncreased; internally unmarked.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. more information

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London: Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1971. xii, 324 pp. General wear to wraps. Spine creased (but binding is solid), rubbed and a little faded. Internally unwrinkled and unmarked.. First Free Press Paperback. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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North Carolina, USA: Duke University Press, 1992. 105 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated wraps. Internally clean and solidly bound.. Second Printing. Paperback. Good+. Illus. by Levitt, Helen. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Century / Random House, 1993. xxii, 538 pp. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Traces of orange rem to lower page edges. Pages uniformly yellowing around the edges, unwrinkled and tightly bound. Pencilled underlining to half a dozen pages. Black and white plates.. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Penguin, 1978. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Allen & Unwin, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Melbourne: Cheshire Publishing, 1975. 294 pp. Some underlining. Covers worn and discoloured.. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: William Heinemann, 1946. Foxing in book and on cover. Small book club stamp.. Hard Cover. Good+/Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Oakleigh, Melbourne & New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xii, 350 pp. Spine uncreased, but creases to front cover and some light edgewear. Slight yellowing to page edges, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Colour and black-and-white illustrations. First Paperback. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Melbourne: Boris Frankel and Arena Publishing, 1992. 374 pp. Owner's name on 1st page, some pencilled underlining, dog ears. . First Edition. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Macmillan Press, 1983. Part of the Contemporary Social Theory series, edited by Anthony Giddings. Owner's sticker textad over on first page, otherwise clean. Some fading to edges of covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Harmondsworth, England: Pelican/Penguin, 1970. 256 pp.. Reprint. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Penguin, 1992. A little warped, but not discoloured, and tight binding.. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Picador, 1990. 375 pp. Edgewear, some small creases in cover, pages uniformly browned around edges. Interior clean and tightly bound. Introduction by Edmund White. Genet's account of the plight of the Palestinians. "To read Genet is in the end to accept the utterly undomesticated peculiarity of his sensibility, which returns constantly to an area where revolt, passion, death and regeneration are linked...surely one of the strangest and most extraordinary books of the decade" -- Edward Said.. First Paperback. Paperback. Good+. Small Octavo. more information

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Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003. 252 pp. Very light wear to covers; internally fine.. First. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harmondsworth: Peregrine / Penguin, 1968. 384 pp. DW has been cut down and taped to front, backstrip, and back of book. Lots of library impedimenta to endpapers, bright red cancellation stamp internally and to lower edge of text block. Otherwise internally clean and solidly bound.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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California: Wadsworth, 1987. xxvi, 241 pp. General wear to wraps, including slightly sunned spine and some rubbing around edges. Some chipping. Internally clean and tightly bound.. First Edition. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. xxvii, 305 pp. Dust jacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not price clipped, but is a little wrinkled and discoloured along the top edge. . First American. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Melbourne: Nelson, 1985. Some pale highlighting and notations in pen. Peter Hollingworth was Executive Director of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and Bishop in the Inner-City, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, when he wrote this book. He is currently Governor-General of Australia.. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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South Melboune: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1985. Small tear in jacket, minor yellowing.. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Bantam Books, 2003. 211 pp. Slight shelfwear. Shiny, spine uncreased. "A harrowing true story of love and revenge in Jordan." "As a result of the events recounted in Forbidden Love (which was written secretly in an Internet cafe), she was forced to emigrate to Athens". Unfortunately, this purported account of honour killings is untrue. This edition still has "non-fiction" on the back cover. It was removed for a later printing.. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969. B&W photographs throughout. Brief writings on contemporary (1960s) American race relations in the context of schools. Boards with light edgewear. Dustjacket worn, with small tears and areas of loss, creasing at edges and corners, edgewear along folds and spine. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped.. First. Hard Cover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. xxv, 345 pp. General light wear to wraps. Spine uncreased. Page edges a little foxed. Internally near fine. B/w illustrations.. Later Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1968. 464pp. "Nomads, Peasants and Kings; Prophets and Philosophers; Scribes, Monks and Priests; Creeds and Conformity; Religion and Civilisation; Theologians, Poets and Mystics; Religion and Industrial Society." Prev. owners' inscriptions to ffep, includes loose folded typewritten review of the book by Melbourne academic John H. Watson (1pp.). Interior of book is in very good condition except for tape stains to endpapers. Boards are in good condition with only minor edgewear, and are protected in clear mylar which has been taped down inside the book.. First?. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2002. xxxiii, 258 pp. Light edgewear. Spine uncreased. Internally as new.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Great Britain: Viking, 1995. 503 pp. Dustwrapper, now protected, is not price clipped but has light edgewear (wrinkling). Red cloth boards with gilt lettering are square and unbumped. Page edges uniformly sunned. Internally clean, bright and tightly bound.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Pathfinder, 1993. 83 pp. Very light wear to wraps, corners a little curled. Spine uncreased, internally clean and solidly bound. Publisher's compliments slip ("To my dear comrades") laid in.. Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Collins / Harvill, 1974. xii, 687 pp. Corners a little curled, crease to lower rear corner. A few light scratches to covers. Spine square and uncreased. Upper edge of text block is yellowed. Internally clean and solidly bound.. First. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Melbourne: Nelson Australia, 1984. Never read.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Flamingo, 2003. 274 pp. Cover has slight edgewear, black remainder mark to bottom edge. Interior is bright, unmarked and tightly bound.. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Panther Books, 1967. 159 pp. General wear to wraps, a few creases. Some scuffing to edges of text block. Page edges uniformly yellowing. Internally clean. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photos.. First. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1993. 475 pp. Remainder mark on bottom edge, small tears to back flyleaf, pages uniformly yellowing. Shiny, clean and tightly bound paperback with French flaps. Essays by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., Andrew Ross, Manning Marable, Michael Thelwell, Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Patricia J. Williams, Gayle Pemberton, Nell Irvin painter, Carol M. Swain, Homi K. Bhabha, Christine Stansell, Nellie Y. McKay, Margaret A. Burnham, Wahneema Lubiano, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Paula Giddings.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. more information

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London: Deutsch, 1977. 174 pgs. Some library stamps and pastings, fairly unobtrusive (pocket torn from back endpapers). Some pencilled annotation on first 30 pages. Critical analysis of Indian culture by the Nobel laureate.. First. Cloth Over Boards. Good/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New South Wales: ABC Books, 1991. 223 pp. Occasional b&w photos. "...[a] story of strong, passionate people living in a turbulent political scene where death is a constant companion." Light foxing to top page edge. Wraps with lightly bumped corners and light edgewear.. First Edition. Paperback. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Verso, 2002. 246 pp. Dustwrapper, now protected, is not price clipped but has light wrinkling along the upper edge. Book is fine but for one dog-eared page.. First. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Sydney: Sydney University Press in Conjunction with Oxford University Press Australia, 1990. 204 pp. Community study in rural New South Wales, Australia, focussing upon the social relationships of women and men as well as social class and rural ideology. Tables and illustrations. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Harmondsworth: Pelican / Penguin, 1971. 216 pp. General wear to wraps. Edges of text block are yellowed. Internally clean and solidly bound.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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