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Bowie Album by Album
by Paolo Hewitt
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- ?First
- Published
- ?2016
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$28.00
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No publishing date or place, A celebration of David Bowie's entire otput from 1967 - 2013. An essential companion to legendary acheivements. 287 pages with around 200 illustrations and endpaper illustration. Book in very good condition and would have been near fine but for the publishing, price, barcode table removed from back cover without affecting inside the cover. This is… Read more about this item Item Price
A$28.00
Led Zeppelin Expanded Edition
by Martin Popoff
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Expanded Edition
- Published
- 2022
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$25.00
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The story behind every album track expanded to include 16 non album gems. Originaly published on the occassion of the band's 50th anniversary. 288 pages with numerous illustrations throughout and endpaper illustrations. Book in near fine condition. Item Price
A$25.00
Old Australia- The People, the Pastimes, the Pioneering Spirit
by Barrie Sheppard
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Published
- 2011
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$25.00
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The recording of history was made much easier with the invention and development of the camera. This book draws on the skills of those early photograhers and brings together a collection of scenes from early Sydney and Melbourne, of the goldfields, and of aspects of life generally including working, recreational and family life. 204 pahes with numerous illustrations throughout. Book… Read more about this item Item Price
A$25.00
Tales of Norse Mythology
by Helen A Guerber
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First This Edition
- Published
- 2017
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$40.00
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Every culture throughout history has tried to find answers to the mysteries of life: how the world began, how humans were created and where they go when they die, how the world will end and what happens after that. The Viking Age Scandinavians answered these questions in their myths and legends. 448 pages with 64 illustrations and endpaper illustration. Book… Read more about this item Item Price
A$40.00
Robin Hood and his Merry Men
by E Charles Vivian
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- ?First
- Published
- ?1930
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$120.00
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No publishing date. Inscription to previous owner dated 1935. The rousing fictional tale of Robin Hood who battled injustice in England in the time of King Richard and his brother John. 338 pages with 48 colour plates and endpaper colour pictures. Book in very good+ condition. Item Price
A$120.00
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The Talisman
by Sir Walter Scott
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First This Edition
- Published
- 1926
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$20.00
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A classic tale from the Crusades, 92 pages with 19 illustrations. Book in very good condition. Item Price
A$20.00
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The Second Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1931
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$15.00
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The continuation of the classic Jungle Book. 299 pages with illustrations throughout. Book in very good condition with booksellers sticker inside back cover and previous owners name on front endpaper. Item Price
A$15.00
Beeton's All About Cookery
by Mrs Beeton
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- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$15.00
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No publishing date. A collection of practical recipes arranged in alphabetical order and fully illustrated. 371 pages. Book in good- condion readable copy. Cover just holding to spine. First four pages loose. Front paper has previous owners details, some tanning. Item Price
A$15.00
LEGAMVS
by James P Giles
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1959
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$70.00
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A Latin Reader for students. 176 pages. Book in very good condion with previous owners name and address on front end paper and name on Note page and light tanning. Item Price
A$70.00
Robinson Crusoe
by Mary Godolphin
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- Used - Good-
- Published
- ?1904
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$30.00
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No publishing date, presented in 1911, The book is a good reading copy. 96 pages with black and white illustrations. The cover is just held by the binding. The spine of the cover is loose in two pieces inside the book. Two pages 47/50 and the last page are loose. Item Price
A$30.00
Victorian Flower Gardens
by Andrew Clayton-Payne
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1988
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$35.00
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The book documents the great changes that took place in garden design during the nineteenth century and traces the emergence and subsequent popularity of flower gardens. 160 pages with contemporary watercolours of over 120 different gardens. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with small tear bottom spine. Item Price
A$35.00
Morris & Company Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts & Crafts Movement in South Australia
by Christopher Menz
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1996
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$50.00
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia 1994. The largest collection of Morris & Company textiles and other furnishings outside Britain along with acquired South Australian decorative Arts and some loans formed the exhibition. 143 pages with over 70 colour and many black and white illustrations. Book in near fine condition. A larger… Read more about this item Item Price
A$50.00
May Gibbs and her fantasy world
by Robert Holden
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Booklet
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$18.00
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Booklet to accompany an Exhibition of May Gibbs work. No page numbers but 24 pages with 6 colour and four black and white illustrations from her books. Booklet in near fine condition. Item Price
A$18.00
Australiana
by Mona Brand
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1979
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$25.00
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Over 150 years of decorative crafts, furniture, jewellery, pottery, coins and bottles. Shows have been the decorative trends and designs of a developing nation with a passion for all things Australian. A reference book for collectors but also an unusual and vivid pictorial guide to the furniture and objects that in their way are all part of Australia's cultural heritage.… Read more about this item Item Price
A$25.00
Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Published
- ?1958
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$35.00
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Part of the Sunshine series (? first edition), no publishing date. Nine of Shakespeare's plays rewritten for younger readers, without altering the stories but retelling the plays as easily read tales. 128 pages with 15 colour plates. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning. Dust jacket in good+ condition price clipped, with some tears, knocks and wear (see photo). Item Price
A$35.00
Socrates and the Human Conscience
by Micheline Sauvage
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First English
- Published
- 1960
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$20.00
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Part of Men of Wisdom series translated by Patrick Hepburne-Scott. The place of Socrates in the history of Western European thought is unique as he left no writings, founded no school - he merely taught men to know themselves and to think as independent individuals. The author traces his story as seen by contemporaries and by the European philosophers who… Read more about this item Item Price
A$20.00
A Fowl Alphabet
by Alan James Robinson
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1988
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$25.00
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Twenty six exquisite watercolour portraits of birds both rare and familiar, accompanied by a brief descriptive text, a beautiful calligraphy letter and a detailed wood engraving. Pages not numbered but 56 pages. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor wear. Item Price
A$25.00
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The Best of Raconteurs
by Sheridan Morley and Tim Heald (Selected by)
- Condition
- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 2000
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$20.00
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In a slipcase not dust jacket. What the great raconteurs wrote or what was written about them - humorous anecdotes. 288 pages with drawings throughout. Book and slip case in as new condition. Item Price
A$20.00
Fine Australian and European Paintings 1996 Catalogue
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1996
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$18.00
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Catalogue of auction August 1996 Lots 1-459 of fine Australian paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and books, European and American works of art. No page numbers but every piece described and illustrated in colour. Book in very good+ condition with small knock bottom left (see photo). Item Price
A$18.00
Every Man & His Dog
by David Darcy
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 2019
- Quantity Available
- 1
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, AUS
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A$20.00
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The author travels Australia seeking interesting characters and their dogs. 150 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition. Item Price
A$20.00