Search Results: Authors starting with E from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Melbourne, McPhee Gribble first edition - h/c in d.j. For over one hundred and forty years Melbourne Grammar School has been the training ground for many of the nations gentlemen. It has provided rites of passage for homesick boys who have learned the decencies of social behaviour on the football ground, in the dining room, in the showers, under the dangerous glances of 'the east' the school's secret police. 22 x 14.5cm., pp. 151, fine in d.j. ISBN: 0869140310

Roseville, Beagle Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Considered one of Australia's three most promising young artists in the 1940's this is the story of Peter Purves Smith's life, a family saga of father and son and also a love story played out in Melbourne. Throughout Smith talks for himself in drawings, paintings, verse and letters. One can see that events in his life change him. 265 x 190mm., pp. 191, black & white and colour plates t/out, notes, List of plates and illustrations, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents no inscriptions. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0947349324

London, George Allen and Unwin first edition - h/c in d.j. When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell's logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance.This book looks at Russell's work, the changes in ideas as he developed the theory, and the total evaluation and interpretation clarify many of the common mis-understandings of his philosophy. 220 x 145 mm., pp. 240, biblio., index, d.j. has sm. chip bot. spine & sl. soiled (grubby) on back, otherwise very good.

London, Psychic Press first edition - h/c with d.j. The author brings much scholarship to the task of relating psychic knowledge to physical science, and shows that the long story of evolution from the Creation is at the very base of the whole problem of continued existence. (edit.) 223 x 147mm., pp. 256, contents v.g.+, d.j. med. wear top spine & corners, VG.

Loftus, Australian Military History Publications first edition - hard cover, laminated boards This still active Royal Australian Air Force squadron is more than 55 years old. It was formed during the Great War and was based in the United Kingdom. It performance received no mention in the official history but this work corrects that shortcoming. Eather has concentrated on the squadron's activities and performance from 1939 to 1945. 255 x 175mm., pp., 190, b/w plates, append., maps, indexes: people, places, units, general. Hard cover, laminated boards. (no dust jacket as issued). NEW. ISBN: 1876439777

Armadale, Graphic Books for St Patrick's Cathedral REVISED edition - hard cover in dust jacket This work was originally commissioned for the centenary of the Catholic Church in Victoria in 1939. It icludes: Early Years; The Vision of St Patrick's; The Cathedral Rises and The Building of the Spires; with appendices. 253 x 188mm., pp. x, 126, b/w plates, Archbishops of Melbourne, Administrators and Sacristans, Important Events, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium rubbing top/bottom spine & corners. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0959636536

Loftus, Australian Military History Publications reprint edition - hard cover, laminated boards This book traces Glascow's 13th Infantry Brigade from formation in Egypt in 1916 to its costly double encounter with the enemy at Mouquet Farm. It then follows the brigade into 1917 with difficult victories at Noreuil and Messines and an easier advance at Zonnebeke. The book concludes with the brigade's halting of the largest-ever German attack on Australian troops at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918. Hard cover, laminated boards. 254 x 178mm., pp. xiii, 284, maps, b/w plates, biblio., index. As NEW. ISBN: 9781876439460

Wembley Downs, Old Haleians Assoc. first edition - paperback, stiff card covers There are over one hundred personal stories from the microcosm of Australian society. Each is different from the others, but the common thread is their old School which loomed large in their minds, whether they were on the perilous beaches of Gallipoli, in appalling mud of the Flanders trenches, or suffering on the Burma-Thai railway. Those thoughts sustained them and helped, eventually, to bring most of them home. 243 x 170mm., pp. x, 262, b/w plates, p/back, stiff card covers. AUTHOR DEDICATION. VG ISBN: 0646186833

Sydney, Picador/Pan Macmillan first Australian edition - h/cover in dust jacket 'The Company' is a novel based on the true story of the Dutch East India flagship, the 'Batavia', which floundered off the coast of Western Australia in 1629. Jeronimous Cornelisz, a man with mutiny, murder, rape and torture on his mind assumes command of the survivors, but with Cornelisz in control an extraordinary reign of terror begins. 210 x 135mm., pp. 371. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, no tears or chips. FINE/FINE ISBN: 0330362208

Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press/Australian Academy of Science first edition - hard cover without d.j. as issued The twelfth Pacific Science Congress was held in Canberra 18-29 August 1971. This is a record of Section D proceedings: Symposium D1 - Structure and tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean Basin. D2 - Islands arcs and related structures of the Western Pacific Region. D3 - Evolution of the Continental Shelves. D4 - Mineral resources of the Western Pacific. D5 - Petrology and Geochemistry of island arcs. 245 x 175 mm., pp. xviii, 675, diagrams, maps, index. Hard cover without d.j. as issued. NEAR FINE ISBN: 085564060x

Artarmon, Giramondo Publishing first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers This is a book full of startling insights. Might colour be the foundation of Arrernte philosophy? Batterbee and Namatjira cast their own particular hues, each a catalyst and primer for the other, each shimmering alongside the other. Here is a graceful and mesmerizing blend of history, autobiography, travel and romance. (edit.) 235 x 155mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 341, b/w plates, notes on sources. Trade paperback, stiff illustrated card covers with French folds (flaps). FINE. ISBN: 978192214668

London, Batsford first edition - h/c in d.j. In 1757, in a battle in which fewer than 20 Englishmen lost their lives, Clive won a victory whose effects were to be as far-reaching as were those of an equally small-scale affair - the capture of Quebec - two years later. For while Wolfe's defeat of Montcalm meant that the future of Canada lay with the Britis, Plassey was equally decisive as the future of India was concerned. 228 x 155., pp. 167, b/w plates, p.o. inscription (neat - 2 lines ffep), d.j. wear top spine, faded spine, VG/VG.

Kalamunda, Tangee first edition - large booklet, stiff card covers In 2001 an expedition of seven Australians set out from Western Australia to find the final resting places of two famous exploration vessels. The French frigate 'Uranie' lost in the Falkland Islands in 1820 & William Dampier's ship 'Roebuck' wrecked at Ascension Island. What they discovered in their search was far beyond their expectations, perhaps even their imaginations. 265 x 195mm., pp. 239, illus. end/p., b/w & col. plates, index. Large booklet; stiff illustrated card covers, no inscriptions. FINE. ISBN: 0975793616

New York, Paddington Press 2nd printing - hard cover in dust jacket This book takes the reader on a guided tour of every cheese-producing area of the world. Virtually all cheeses - from the most familiar to the most obscure - are vividly described in their national context,: how they originated; how they are made and what is special about them. 300 x 235mm., pp. 240, b/w & col. plates t/out, append., biblio., index of Cheese Names. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. light rubbing bot. spine - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0846710332

London, Hodder & Stoughton first edition - hard cover in dust jacket 'It should have been simple but within the space of seven minutes the whole situation had changed. The two men lay dead, the child became a priority target, McAlister was forced to question his own loyalities and Harper learned that no plan survived contact with the enemy.' 223 x 145mm., pp. 223, great jacket design by Tony Page, slight blemish near gutter (middle) of back fixed endpaper, contents and dust jacket are NEAR FINE - no tears or chips, bright & clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0340196939

Wollombi, Exisle Publishing First edition - large p/back, pict. card covers When troops from Great Britian, France, Australia, New Zealand and India landed on the strategic peninsula in the Agean Sea in April 1915, they believed they would quickly defeat Turkey and shorten the war with Germanny. Few foresaw the tragedy that lay ahead and no one predicted the impact it would have on the participating nations. 243 x 184mm., pp. 336, b/w & col. plates, notes, index. Large paperback, pict. card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no creases, slight. rubbed corners. FINE. ISBN: 9781921966934

Penrith, The Discovery Press Great Australia Lives series - hard cover Phillip was a man of outstanding ability, an unusual man in his own or any day. He had that steadinrss of mind that can embrace the most trivial detail without losing sight of the main issues; he had imaginative grasp allied with the most uncompromising common sense; he was completely honest. 205 x 135mm., pp. frontis., 367, biblio., sources of Quoted Passages, index. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; blue simile leather covered boards, gold blocked front pattern & author/title etc on spine. FINE

Melbourne, Lothian first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Volume two, covers genera beginning with the letters A to Ca with over 2100 species from 300 genera in 44 families. It covers all classes of plants including trees, shrubs, ground covers, herbs, annuals, climbers, palms, ferns, orchids, lilies and grasses 256 x 197mm., pp. xiv, 517, b/w & col. plates & illustrations t/out, map, glossary, further reading, Common Name index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; dust jacket, no tears or chips. FINE/FINE ISBN: 0850911435

Port Melbourne, Lothian Reprint with corrrections - h/c in d.j. This fourth volume of the Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants suitable for cultivation genera beginning with the letters Eu to Go. Included are 1020 species from 100 genera. Each genus and species has an accurate, but simiplified, botanical description. This volume in particular covers the EUCALYPTUS (with the most comprehensive cultivation details available). 255 x 195mm., map end/p., pp. frontis, xvi, 447, b/w illust. & col. plates t/out, maps, Glossary of Technical Terms, Common Name index. FINE/FINE ISBN: 085091213x

Pennant Hills, 2/18th Battalion (AIF) Assoc./AMHP REVISED edition, hard cover pict. Boards Based on the book 'Against All Odds', countless hours of research, additional investigation and corrections have been included. The 2/18th Battalion was raised from north-western New South Wales and Sydney, in June1940. In nine days of action in Singapore the 2/18th lost 247 men with 250 wounded. 253 x 167mm., pp., 306, b/w plates, maps, Decorations, Nominal Roll, endnotes, biblio., indexes of Names, Units/Ships, general. NEW ISBN: 1876439831