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Tracks
by Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia, and is the author of Tracks, the extraordinary account of her 1,700-mile journey across Australia with four camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and became a film in 2013. She has written extensively for National Geographic and other magazines, and is also the author of Desert Places, the novel Ancestors, and the essay collection Travelling Light. Ms. Davidson lives in London, India, and Australia.
Batavia's Graveyard
by Mike Dash
From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold...
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Australia Books & Ephemera
Fair Dinkum - Aussie Slang
by H. G. Nelson
NLA Publishing, Canberra, ACT, 2015. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. In this attractive new pictorial guide, readers will learn to distinguish their drongos from their dropkicks and discover where our unique vernacular comes from. Discover the connection between bludgers and pimps, drongos and a winless horse. Aussie slang tells us much about our history; in this book are...
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A$10.00
Matthew Brady & Ned Kelly : Kindred Spirits, Kindred Lives
by Williams, Paul
North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 194 pages. The young man stood on the scaffold. A Roman Catholic priest, bible in hand, stood to one side. Prayers were read. The signal was given, the drop fell.? So ended a bushranging career that had spanned the best part of two years. This man had left his mark, becoming a legend in his own time; a notorious bushranger who bailed up towns, with...
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A$29.95
Burma: A New Map, In Detail
Sydney, Audstralia: H. E. C. Robinson, 1950. Original Map . No Binding. Very Good. 30" X 20". Light Usage, A Few Short Splits At Edges
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A$85.22
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Waltzing Matilda: A Background to Australia [SIGNED]
by Arnold Haskell
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1940. 1st Edition . Very Good/Fair. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22.5 cm). Signed by Author. Dust jacket: Heavily rubbed and worn to edges of covers and spine. Loss to ends of spine and corners. Light marking to rear panel, price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Fair. Book: Red cloth binding. Letter pasted to front free endpaper has been removed leaving some residue. Light browning to page edges, tanning to endpapers, clean text...
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A$40.70
Strong Like Its Pillars Melbourne High School 1905-2005 Victoria's First State Secondary School
by Alan Gregory
Melbourne High, situated on the river in South Yarra, is the premier Government School in Victoria - scanning the index reveals a who's who of the great and the good. If you have a connexion to the school, you should have this book!This copy in wonderful condition - pretty much unopened. Photographs show actual book for sale.
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A$58.00
Philippine Islands A Detailed Map 30" X 40
Sydney Australia: H. E. C. Robinson Pty. Ltd., 1942. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Very Large Format Colored Map Showing Philippines Shortly After Japanese Occupation In 1942 But Without Any Indication Of Japanese Administration Or Administrative Zones . Light Usage And Aging, Short Tears At Some Folds.
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A$153.39
The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History
by Carter, Paul
Paperback. Very Good.
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A$17.87
WHIPMAKING BOOK 1. BASIC STOCKWHIPS Australian Folklore - Occasional Paper No. 13
by Edwards, Ron
Kuranda, Qld.: The Rams Skull Press. Very Good+. 1986. 4th Enlarged edition. Paperback. 0909901325 . With many illustrations, a very good copy, This book is light, and postage will be reduced for shipment within Australia. ; 245 x 160mm; 24 pages .
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A$15.00
Wonders of The Great Barrier Reef
by T. C. Roughley
Angus & Robertson, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1945. 282 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains colour plates. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy foxing to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned.
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A$6.05
Images of Bradman. Rare and Famous Photographs of a Cricket Legend
by Allen, Peter & Kemsley, James
Bowral: The Bradman Museum. 1997. Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Slipcase. Slipcase is unevenly sunned in parts. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 304 pages. More than 400 photographs with special inclusions from Sir...
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A$30.00
Native Trees of South Australia
by Boomsma, C.D
Adelaide: South Australian Government. 1972. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition . Title inked to spine and gift inscription to prelims. Black & white illustrations and maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. Bulletin 19 from the Woods and Forests Department of South Australia. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$30.00
Weevils in the Flour, An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia
by Lowenstein , Wendy
Melbourne : Scribe, 1983. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Octavo (standard book size). A valuable book which projects the feeling of the Depression in Australia as no other book on the period has been able to do. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 464 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers slightly browned, text block clean. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped...
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A$18.00
LAND RESOURCES OF THE BURNETT REGION. Part One. South Burnett
by VANDERSEE, B.E. & KENT,D.J.;
Brisbane: Published by Department of Primary Industries, 1983. Tall 4to.pp.128 with black & whute illustrations,tables,colour map,microfiche in rear pocket. Three large folding colour maps all contained in original clear plastic sleeve a small split at the top of wrappers else Very Good.
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A$58.00
The Art of Mauna Kea: Asian & Oceanic Art at Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
by Aanavi, Don
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gray Silk Hardcover, First Printing, 1990, Fine In Fine Dust Jacket And Slipcase. No International Orders Please.
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A$46.48
THE SECRET PLAIT
by Edwards, Ron
Kuranda, Qld.: The Rams Skull Press. Very Good+. 1993. Fourth Edition. Paperback. 0909901295 . With many illustrations, previous owners name on first page, a very good copy, This book is light, and postage will be reduced for shipment within Australia. ; 245 x 160mm; 20 pages .
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A$15.00
A Kind of Cattle
by Barney Roberts
Collins, 2000. hardcover. Very Good/Good Jacket. 10x7x1. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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A$33.90
Penelope Goes West On the road from Sydney to Margaret River and back
by Bowden, Tim
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Previous owner's discreet initials to half-title page. xiv, 242 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.
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A$14.00
SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE
Sydney: Published by Willoughby, H. Phillips, n.d.. Oblong 4to. unpaginated [40p]' Photographs prepared by Dr. J.J.C.Bradfield. Chief Engineer. Photographs and plans of the construction of the Bridge. Original wrappers with vignette photograph to upper wrapper. The wrappers have a few signs of age but generally Very good copy.
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A$92.00
Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N., at the Bernice ... Museum (Special Publication Ser. No. 65)
by Kaeppler, Adrienne L
Bishop Museum Press, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Xvi, 293 Pp. Very Large Format Soft Cover. First Printing. Lightly Used, No Marks, Slight Spine Creasing .
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A$46.48
The Children's Picture Book
by [Kangaroo]
Boston: American Tract Society, 1870. Hardcover. With an illustration of a kangaroo at p61 and text below, "The kangaroo was found in New Holland by the people who first sailed around the world". At p76 is 'The Australian Boy' with an illustration of a reclining boy dressed in a toga style garment, with a wreath of leaves on his head, and the following description, "There are people in the world who not only eat cats, rats, snakes, toads, and other animals without being cooked, but human flesh!". Also...
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A$271.15
AUSTRALIAN SEA MYSTERIES
by Loney, Jack
Geelong: Marine History Publications. Very Good+. N.D.. First Edition. Hardcover. 090919128x . The First Edition of This Book Comprises 500 Signed Hard Bound copies, this volume is unnumbered and not signed, hard cover with no title lettering. With illustrations, index, age spots on first 4 pages, otherwise a very good copy. This book is light, and postage will be reduced for shipment within Australia. ; 230 x 180mm; 112 pages .
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A$20.00
Gold for the Finding: A Pictorial History of Gippsland's Jordan Goldfield
by Owen F. Tomlin, Marysusan Bosa, Peter G. Chamberlain
The Jordan Goldfield, in some of the most rugged country in Gippsland, contains such famous places as Walhalla, Woods Point, and Jamieson. This book is a treasure-trove of photographs of such places, and others that no longer exist...Red Jacket anyone? Never heard of it, but it was bustling in it's day.This copy is in wonderful condition, not sure it had been opened before I had a look. Very slight bumping and rubbing on dustjacket, otherwise pretty much pristine. Photographs show actual book for sale.
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A$30.00
The Southwest Pacific since 1900: A Modern History
by C. Hartley Grattan
The University of Michigan Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 759 pages + 28-page index, 11 maps. From the History of the Modern World series, which contained an earlier volume by the same author on the SW Pacific to 1900; this is the "since" volume only. 8vo, blue buckram with white lettering and gilt decoration, boards rubbed but corners sharp. Ex-library with stamps and other marks on edges, end papers, front-matter pages. Edges age-toned with page-turning soil to bottom...
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A$7.75
Australia's Greatest River.
by Larkins, John & Parish, Steve
Adelaide: Rigby. 1982. Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light rubbing to edges of book and dustjacket. Illustrated with Colour photographs by Steve Parish. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 231 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
