Search Results: Titles starting with W from Great Southern Books

Cassell & Co Ltd, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Large Octavo. 242 pages. 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 shows minor wear at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book is available and ready to ship. To mark his eightieth birthday, this volume uses the world's greatest cartoonists the illustrate the great life and political career of Winston Spencer Churchill. A truly marvellous book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; 20th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9653. .

Public Affairs, New York, New York, U.S.A, 2002. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 544 pages. This book is in very good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Ugly, shocking, frightening, war came to Europe once more in March 1999. The world watched in dismay as Yugoslavia's military machine attacked its own citizens in the province of Kosovo. Pictures of refugees fleeing and stories of murder and rape flashed to the top of the news. But this time, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization intervened. Using an innovative, high-technology air operation, NATO brought modern military power to bear against Serb forces in the field and the machinery of repression that… Read More

Rigby, Adelaide, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 91 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Australia; 1980s; ISBN: 0727020455. ISBN/EAN: 9780727020451. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9972. . 9780727020451

Piatkus Books, United Kingdom, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 278 pages. This book is in near fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Richard Heckler has investigated how people recover from the horrific pain and turmoil of attempted suicide. He also shows how many survivors have eventually gone on to lead full and meaningful lives. He has drawn from the experiences and insights of over 70 people who have recovered from attempted suicide. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Suicide, Mental Illness; ISBN: 074991419x. ISBN/EAN: 9780749914196. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0001446. . 9780749914196

Cornstalk Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition. Trade paperback. Near Fine. 255 pages. Multiple copies available this title. This book is in near fine or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is largely unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: In 1975 a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Newcastle in New South Wales packed his soccer boots and winter woollies into a kit bag and set of alone for the north of England. Eleven years later he would score the winning goal n the FA Cup Final. Craig Johnston had a dream - to play English first division soccer. Despite medical opinion that he should never play football due to a childhood bout with osteomyelitis, advice from the legendary Jack Charlton that he was wasting his time, and severe… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1989. First edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Audience: General/trade. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0732200784. ISBN/EAN: 9780732200787. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0000271. . 9780732200787

Fig Tree, United Kingdom, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 370 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10:00 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor - all of which inform her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story - a 12-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe - a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China.… Read More

New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 286 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Biography of Lachlan Jones, OAM, written by his father Greg. Lachlan was born with cerebral palsy and limited vision but despite adversity became an olympic wheelchair gold medallist. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 1864366400. ISBN/EAN: 9781864366402. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4646. . 9781864366402

William Collins Sons, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Large Octavo. 248 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket price-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. In this account of the imaginary wanderings of an Irish monk/scholar across the Europe of 13 centuries ago, Frank Delaney uses a blend of history, lore, scholarship, travel and travellers' tales to relate the journey from a monastery in the south of Ireland to the gleaming towers of Byzantium. Along the way the traveller visits the shrines of seventh century England and the courts of the Saxon Kings, the wealthy farms of Normandy and Marne and the sites of great European fairs in… Read More

University of Missouri Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 318 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. "Reading Pickering," said Smithsonian, "is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." In Walkabout Year, Samuel Pickering, the professor who inspired the movie Dead Poets Society, provides an intimate, engaging chronicle of his family's year in Western Australia. The reader is pulled into Pickering's tight family circle and off on an intriguing trip to another land. With humor, skill, and insight, Pickering describes the educational system his three children experienced; the family's journeys from one area of the… Read More

Lizard Publishing, Australia, 2019. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 241 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Facing death that night on the icy peak, Linda surrenders. The mountain has won. Linda is half-buried in a ravine on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela during a life-changing pilgrimage - made against her husband's advice and sparked by a terrible 'self-induced' accident and long-forgotten and buried traumas.This is an odyssey ignited by a childhood steeped in paranormal abilities which frightened many, including her first husband, but which also afforded her insights and wisdoms unattainable to most. Walking with Angels is not just a severe physical test but a celebration… Read More

Southwater Publishing, 2010. Trade paperback. Fine. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 1844767590. ISBN/EAN: 9781844767595. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0000119. . 9781844767595

Lothian Books, 2005. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very Good Condition. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. 228 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Football & Rugby; Australia; ISBN: 0734408374. ISBN/EAN: 9780734408372. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0000241. . 9780734408372

George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1986. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine/Very Good. 308 pages. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in fine condition.Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. The dust jacket is in excellent condition except for a closed tear on the back. All edges are clean, neat and free of foxing. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: By the end of this fascinating and superbly edited collection of the 1930s letters of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, one comes as close as possible to knowing the writers. In contrast to the popularly accepted picture of a scheming woman, Wallis in particular comes across as a likeable, vibrant woman who got caught up in something she didn't understand. Bloch's extensive commentary is very readable and greatly enhances understanding of the… Read More

Budget Books Pty Ltd, Melbourne, VIC, 1988. Board Book. Good. 10 pages. Board book. Scarce Budget Books copy. This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some very minor bumps and marks indicating previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Action & Adventure, Dogs, Children's; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780732300807. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002501. . 9780732300807

Gary Allen Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1996. First Edition. Soft cover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 173 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Peter Matera - champion footballer for the West Coast Eagles. West Coast have been blessed with champion players since they debuted in 1987. Peter Matera is in the top half dozen on anybody's list. This is a rare book and a must have for collectors. It is in beautiful condition as well. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Australian Rules Football; Australia; 1990s; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN:… Read More

Vintage, Sydney, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The cover has bumps and marks indicating prior use but is in very good condition overall. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. A novel by Man Booker Prize winning author - Richard Flanagan Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Australian Fiction; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781741666687. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4698. . 9781741666687

Fourth Estate, London, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 286 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so… Read More

Murcoch Books, Sydney, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Size: Large Octavo. 192 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The third book in the Australian Memories series commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. This collection of stills from the Cinesound and Movietone Newsreel Archive, published for the first time, captures Australians at war as they fought at home and abroad for their country . from the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea and the legendary Rats of Tobruk in North Africa to the bombing of Darwin and the shelling of Sydney Harbour. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; 1940s; ISBN: 1740456092. ISBN/EAN: 9781740456098. Pictures of this item not already displayed here… Read More

Penguin Books (Australia), Melbourne, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 476 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions. 'I have the testimony of hundreds of Australians who had served with me and who accompanied Weary to Burma and Siam that he was both their inspiration and the main instrument of their physical and… Read More