Search Results: Titles starting with W from RSM BOOKS

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1959. 366 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j slightly chipped on corners and spine, slight foxing on edges. This is a Grand Tour of the principal countries of the Continent, and Britain, as they are today, seen with the clear Australian eye of a perceptive and sophisticated traveller. Simpson does indeed wake us up, to an acute awareness of Europe. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Reed Books, 1976. 271 pp, b/w illustrations and colour photographs, flatsigned by the author on the half-title page. Simpson gives us a book that is remarkably informative about glaciers and glow-worms, and the thermal dramas of Rotorua. He also sketches in a great deal of useful knowledge about Maori culture and history as well as the story of European - mainly British - contact and settlement.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Australia: Ironbark Press, 1991. 201 pp, b/w illustrations, signed and dated by Wayne Pearce on the half-title page, with a personal dedication to the previous owner. In these pages, Balmain's own local hero Wayne Pearce presents a remarkable and unique collection - more than 70 stories which truly capture the essence of rugby league football. Pearce, whose appreciation of the game he played grows daily, worked with sports historian Geoff Armstrong to come up with the 'best of the best'. Virtually every notable sporting scribe who has covered the game is represented here, including legendary figures Claude Corbett and Tom Goodman.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1968. 91 pp, illustrated, signed and dated by author on free endpaper, foxing on endpapers, d/j faded along edges and spine. In modern poetry "There's too much complication and far too little joy" sings the balladist, so he makes his poems glad and bright - and this is just what McClure, the Sydney cartoonist, has made his illustrations.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by McClure Alan. Crown 8vo.

St. Lucia: UQP, 1975. 205 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, foxing on edges, covers creased. Front cover painting "The Souls of My Feet I Swear They're Burning" by Kate Briscoe. Signed by Author. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

London: Futura, 1986. 134 pp, illustrated, flatsigned by the author on the title page. Free of the pressures of office, the author is able in this invaluable book, part autobiography, part affectionate satire, to take an objective and sardonic look at the rituals of the House, the mechanics of the Conservative Party, the Party Conference, Commons catering ... and much more.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Wheeler Colin.

St. Lucia: UQP, 1987. 202 pp, signed by the author on the introduction page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, also signed by Tom Keneally on the introduction page. In this rich and poignant story, the author recreates the recent past, when migrants were still "reffos" or "New Australians". Although the settings of these stories are predominantly migrant, the themes clutch at all of us. Here are ways of coping with death, with adolescent sexuality, with the power of knowledge, and the quiet heroism of families.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Australia: HarperCollins, 1999. 306 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal note to the previous owner. A week's holiday in Shoal Bay, courtesy of Price Galese. All Les had to do was help Eddie Salita get rid of a crooked cop. Why not? Les always wanted to visit Port Stephens. And nobody liked Fishcake Fishbyrne that much anyway.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. As New.

Sydney: James Fraser, 1984. 111 pp, illustrated, signed by the author on the title page, laminated boards. Henry's stories take the reader around the world and behind the scenes with the cricketing fraternity. From England to Australia, from South America to India and back to the West Indies, Henry tells of such incidents as the establishment of the Henry Blofly Stand, and his much publicised run-in with Ian Botham, and frankly discusses his relationship with Dennis Lillee.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mitchell Bill. Small 4to.

Auckland: Rugby Press Ltd, 1992. 198 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, loosely inserted is a letter which was initially given away with the book. In this fascinating book, Dwyer provides for the first time his own account of how and why the Dwyer rugby philosophy came to be formulated and how it was used in 1991 to capture rugby's greatest prize.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1915. 68 pp, complete with five diagrams and eighty-two photographs, tissue protected frontis, ink marks on title page and tissue paper, original brown boards with photo of Botha on the front cover, rubbed along edges and on spine, wear to top and tail end of spine, shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Crown 8vo.

Hong Kong: The Sales Machine Ltd., 1979. 239 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the last page, d/j scuffed along edges on front and rear, as well as on faded spine. This is a no nonsense, hard hitting attack on traditionalism, and a defence of much, although not all, of the actions of WSC. It gives us insight into the actions and thoughts of players like Lillee, Greig, Asif, Viv Richards, Deryck Murray and the Chappells.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 236 pp, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, scuffing on spine, bumped corners. On 26th April 1994 the polls opened for South Africa's first democratic election. While thousands of South Africans of every shade and creed queued patiently outside the polling stations, the rest of the world held its breath. Would the fragile peace prevail?. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1959. 224 pp, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner, foxing on edges and endpapers.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Granada Books, 1984. 215 pp. b/w photographs, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Doris Collins is one of the most gifted healers and clairvoyants of our time and in this extraordinary autobiography she provides overwhelming evidence of the power of psychic phenomena.. Signed by Author. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 284 pp, light foxing to edges and endpapers, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is Keneally's strongest, most compelling work since his Booker Prizewinning Schindler's List. Like that book, the story of Woman of the Inner Sea arises from a true incident and once more the imagining of it is utterly convincing.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: AWS Association of NSW, 1981. 335 pp, b/w illustrations, with a foreword by Lady Cutler, flatsigned by the author on the title page. This is the first published story of the AWAS "as we were". Many ex-members of the Service feel that only one who had been a member of the AWAS could reproduce the special atmosphere of that crucial period, so Women in Khaki is presented to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the formation of the Australian Women's Army Service.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.