Search Results: Titles starting with M from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Sydney, Ure Smith reprint - h/c in d.j. Spirited and resilient, Ma reared nine kids while managing Pa through all his ups and downs - his drinking bouts, gold fever, his inability to butcher a pig, his queer gardening habits, and his desertion of the family and eventual return. Well known as the wife of Norman Lindsay and the model of many of his paintings, Rose here pictures one family's life in Sydney in the days when sovereigns were currency. 205 x 130 mm., pp. 229, d.j. slight wear top/bot. spine & edges, bright & clean, v.g.+

Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The Hawkesbury river district was vital historically in the successful colonisation of Australia, and throughout this book are the images of people who made the past - Governor Macquarie, with his foresight and wisdom, farmers, boatmen, innkeepers, and local bushrangers. 245 x 155mm., map end/p., pp. frontis., 12 (prelim.), 242, b/w plates, append. (A-H), biblio., footnotes, index, p.o. message front end/p. (neat 3 lines), SIGNED BY AUTHOR, VG+/VG (content pages has slight toning to edges).

Princeton, Princeton University Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This is a meditation on the ways in which language makes politics possible, and on the reasons why language makes politics so difficult. Pettit, offers a coherent and well-argued picture of most of the main components of Hobbes's wide-ranging philosophy, which will encourage scholars to reconsider him. 240 x 160mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 183, refer., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions or underlining, d.j. slight rubbing on edges - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 9780691129297

London, Constable first edition - h/c in d.j. Richard Neely spins a strange and gripping story of powerfully conflicting emotions, in which fantasy and reality are confused, past and present are irreconcilable, and the tension mounts to a denouement that is shatteringly unexpected. (edit.) 204 x 134mm., pp. 6 (prelim.) + 278, contents near fine, dust jacket has a slightly sunned spine, no tears or chips, not priced clipped, v.g.

New Zealand, The Author First edition - illust. card covers 'The Madness of Hallen' is the first of four epic fantasy novels following the lives of two brothers in their quest against the rightful heir to the mind of Husam Al-Din. On Al-Din's death his priests tore his mind apart, preventing his treacherous wife from taking control of the armies. 210 x 148mm., pp. 6 (prelim), 443. Trade paperback, illustrated card covers. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED (Title page) - no other inscriptions; card covers, medium rubbed corners - no reading creases on spine. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9780473182595

London, Souvenir first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book is the second volume of Frances Paige's highly acclaimed Scottish family saga which began with ""The Sholite Burn', carries the story of the McGraths to the beginning of the twentieth century and the dark clouds of the Boer War in South Africa. 240 x 155mm., pp. 368. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0285628070

New York, The Dial Press first edition - h/c in d.h. She had wit, refinement, blond Nordic beauty, and all the social graces. The perfect hostess, she was the adornment of any dinner party. Her husband was a small, talkative, extremely ugly man with a limp. She had fallen under his spell one evening in 1930 at a mass meeting in Berlin's Sportspalast and had married him six months later. The name of the bridegroom was Joseph Goebbels. The witness was Adlof Hitler. 235 x 160mm., pp. 288, b/w plates, biblio., index. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0803762127

New York, Strawberry Hill Publishing/Quadrangle first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Since the days of Ancient Egypt conjurers and wizards have guarded their secrets. Those secrets are now revealed in this modern version of a 19th century classic, that explains in detail all the great stage illusions - disappearances, levitation, escapes, mind-reading, rabbits pulled from hats, women sawed in half - what the audience sees and what is really happening. 240 x 160mm., pp. 247, b/w illust. H/cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j., price clipped, med. rub/wear edges. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0812905121

Loftus, Australian Military History Publications first edition - hard cover, laminated Grover transferred to the AIF when war broke out in 1939. By October 1941 by then a lieutenant, he was in the Middle East with 2/1 Field Company, then Syria to fight the Vichy French. Then on to Papua where his unit was sent to the Kokoda Trail to hack an alternative route, but had to abandon it when the Japanese arrived. Next came Wau and Bulolo. 252 x 177mm., pp. x, 228, b/w plates & illust. msaps, glossary, indexes - Names and general. Hard cover, laminated pictorial boards (as issued). As NEW. ISBN: 9780980320435

Sydney, Fontana large format paperback, stiff illus. covers The Great War of 1914-18 was the backdrop of ANZACS, one of the most dramatic and successful mini-series ever made for Australian television. This booklet is the tie-in to that series; and brings to life many of the characters and actors who took part including Paul Hogan, Megan Williams, Jon Blake and Andrew Clarke to name a few. 275 x 218mm., pp. 6, 135, b/w & col. plates t/out, large format paperback, stiff illus. covers, Crew List, Cast List, contents & covers VG. ISBN: 000636983x

Fort Lee, Barricade Books First edition - hard cover in dust jacket Terri Delessio was born in Staten Island to its ruling underworld family. She was expelled from school , by thirteen wrecked her mothers car, and ran away from home. By sixteen had an affair and became pregnant. Her life was a roller coaster ride through marriages, a foray into crime and prison. 223 x 150mm., pp. 256, b/w plates, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED (half title page), no other inscriptions;, dust jacket, light 'markings', no tears. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 1569802440

Melbourne, Georgian House first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Malloonkai tells of the growing confusion of identity, property and life-style among the aboriginal people as white man begins to use them and their land in his alien way. We see the young men tempted by the easy road to distinction presented by the knowledge of the white skills - riding, roping, and see the elders threatened by the fact they are too old to be useful to the white man. 220 x 144mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 201. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, top page edges sl. ""spotted"". VG+/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0855855010

Clayton South, CSIRO first edition - paperbasck, stiff card covers For the first time ever, this book advises interested amateurs, professionals and tourists of the best places to see mammals in each state and territory in Australia. It also includes a complete, annotated taxonomic list with hints on finding each species (or why it won't be easy to see) and an appendix on planning travel to include opportunities for seeing mammals in Australia. 215 x 148mm., pp. xxiii, 421, maps, colour plates, Mammal-Finding Guide, append., Common & Scientific name indexes. NEW. ISBN: 9780643098145

Adelaide, British Science Guild (South Australia Branch) trade paperback, stiff card covers Many people are surprised to learn there are well over a hundred species of mammals which are truly Australian and are not marsupials. The interest attached to the Didelphian inhabitants is so strong the Monodelphian are therefore a rather neglected set of creatures. Part III: 245 x 155mm., pp. 271 - 458, b/w illustrations & tables, index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contnets, ""p.o. name"" top title page; card covers, small section (front top) insect damaged effecting two words, corners rubbed. VG

Sydney, New South Wales University Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket By world standards the Murray is a puny river. Yet it is Australia's greatest river, and in the world's driest continent has sustained human life for tens of thousands of years. This, our greatest river is now under threat of an ecological disaster. Is it to late to turn this disaster around? , 267 x 192mm., pp. 128, col. & b/w plates t/out, biblio. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket, minor rubbing/wear top edge. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0909465762

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson first edition - h/c in d.j. Maurice Utrillo was one of the great painters of all time, yet a hopeless alcoholic by the age of twelve and a frequent inmate of lunatic asylums all his life; a debauchee yet a good friend and a devoted son…205 x 140mm., pp. 288, contents near fine, d.j. is price clipped, sl. rubbing/wear top spine & corners, mainly white background is slightly marked, very bright & complete, v.g.

London, Virago Press first edition - h/c in d.j. Twelve-year-old Colin, brought up entirely by women, knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother says nothing about him and Colin turns to films for images of what his father might have been - his confusion grows and his imagination takes over, but when reality appears, only by finding and confronting the 'thing' he has created can Colin grow up. (edit.) Award winning author's early book. 225 x 140mm., p.p. 158, contents, no inscriptions, d.j. - no tears. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0860688917

Mandurah, the author first edition - trade booklet, stiff card covers Over 200 images and impressions of rural life in the Peel region of Western Australia - Quindanning, Serpentine, Waroona, Mandurah, Pinjarra, Boddington, Jarrahdale and Dwellingup. Contemporary as well as historical photographs 300 x 197mm., pp. 108, b/w & col. plates t/out. Large paperback (booklet), stiff illustrated card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, medium rubbed corners - no creases. VG+

London, Dobson first edition - h/c in d.j. Here are a distinguished biologist's views on the evolution of the human mind and personality through succeeding generations of mankind. Tracing the long perspective of man's emergence by evolution from the first protoplasmic stirrings he produces exciting speculations on man's origin and his capacities for further development. (edit.) 223 x 145mm., pp. xii, 308, contents near fine, d.j. has no tears or chips but has slight rubbing on front, VG+/VG.

London, His Majesty's Stationery Office Australian reprint - h/c without d.j. 183 x 120mm., pp. xi, 253, b/w line illustrations, fold-out Appendix II, red cloth covered boards, slight damp ripple to cloth on back cover (top), tide marks (water?) front & back endpapers (top) slightly affecting 4 pages at back - no marks on front pages, content pages very clean. VG.