Search Results: Titles starting with C from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Crawley, University of Western Australia Press First edition - hard cover in dust jacket Charles Yelverton O'Connor is a legendary figure in early colonial civil engineering. But the fame of his great works, particularly the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme, which brought water 650 kilometres to the desert Goldfields of Western Australia, has almost been matched by that of his enigamtic death. 248 x 173mm., pp. xiii, 287, b/w plates, notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears or chips. FINE/FINE ISBN: 187626862x

Poole, Blanford reprint fourth edition - hard cover in d.j. Descriptions of species, together with practical instructions for cultivation with the spelling of the plant names following International Rules, and where temperatures are mentioned in cultural directions, both Centigrade and Fahrenheit equivalent are given. The number of genera accepted in this work now stands at one hundred and thirty-four. 215 x 140mm., pp. frontis, 512, b/w plates,biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. creasing top spine. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0713701323

Prahran, Hardie Grant first edition - hard cover in dust jacket A master of one of the most solitary of sports, mountain biking, Cadel has also risen to the pinnacle of road cycling, contesting the most sophisticated cycling team sport in the world. This is the story of ambition and perfection and explores the constant pressure endured by those who compete for the top prize. 242 x 160mm., pp. 304, col. plates, Palmares (achievments) Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED 'Cadel'; title page; dust jacket, rubbed/wear top front corner. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 9781740666671

Milsons Point, Random House first Australian edition - h/cover in dust jacket The leaders of Rome grow ever more frightened, yet ever more obdurate: the brilliant, ruthlessly autocratic Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed and sent into a permanent exile before he can overthrow government and set himself up as a dictator. The events in ""Caesar"" chronicle the struggle for dominance between Rome's Senate and its nenesis, Caesar. 240 x 160mm., pp. 8, 664, b/w illust., maps. H/cover in d.j. TRUE FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION with correct numbering: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0712638520

Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Throughout the 1930's Ernestine's popular stories about Australia's remotest regions appeared in newspapers nationally. This book provides a vivid portrait of Ernestine from her early brilliance as a child to her later life, evoking her larger than life personality, the exotic landscape she explored, and the characters met on her travels. 235 x 150mm., pp. xiv, 306. Trade p/back, illust. card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, sl. rubbed corners - no reading creases on spine. NEAR FINE ISBN: 9781760290597

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press first edition - Large paperback, stiff card covers This book celebrates achievemnets of women writers across the English-speaking world. It is comprehensive, and a readable work of reference on literary women writing in English with over 2500 entries written by academics, freelances and journalists, men and women, poets, novelists, and distiguished names. 247 x 175mm., pp. viii, 696, Contributors. Large paperback, stiff pictorial card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, slightly rubbed on corners - no reading creasess on spine. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 0521668131

London, Hodder & Stoughton first edition - hard cover without dust jacket 178 x 112mm., pp. 188, map ffep, b/w illus., fold-out map, red papered covered boards with black montage on front and title on spine, light staining to front board, medium foxing last few pages, back endpaper re-glued, binding very sound - overall a nice, clean copy. VG

Brisbane, 9th Battalion Assoc. first edition - hard cover in dust jacket One of the most important Battalion histories of WW I due to the way it was compiled. The author started the long process with oral (tape) interviews in 1977 with six other members of the Battalion. It grew into this publication over the next several years with many hundreds of interviews, extracts from diaries and other publications. 247 x 170mm., pp. xxvi, 598, b/w plates/maps, The Long Roll, indexes. H/cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., slight rubbing - no tears or chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0958985502

Leichardt, Federation Press first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers White Australians talk about the 'Aboriginal problem'. The first thing is to define the issue facing us non-Aboriginals. Is it an Aboriginal problem at all? I would suggest not. The problem is ours. So starts Brady as she seeks the road to reconciliation. ""Can these bones live?"" Is Australia, in the words of the old Testament prophet Ezekial, a valley of dry bones or can our country flourish with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal reconciled?. 210 x 136mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 150, 4 (adverts), index. FINE ISBN: 186287221X

Ardrossan, Arthur Guthrie & Sons modified edition - h/c WITHOUT d.j. Patrotic songs and poems from ""Dalry"" Wilson who spent many years on the goldfields of Australia, publishing several books, and then going back to Scotland to retire. 230 x 155mm., pp. 304, leather binding, gold blocked title & spine, marbled endpapers, pages uncut, endpapers have additionaal re-inforcing strip which is starting to separate. A very nice copy of a not often seen book. G++.

Canberra, Dept of National Development/Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics second edition - overlapping cover wrappers Part 1 Stratigraphy and Structure; Part 2 Micropaleontology, 248 x 193mm., pp. 82 + 18 (plates) + 5 large fold- out maps & tables, overlapping cover wrappers - few short closed tears & minor wear, contents v.g.+

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Farwell takes us on a journey across the remote and lonely northern section of the Australian continent, from the Barrier Reef and Cape Peninsula to the Kimberleys and down to Alice Springs. He meets and talks to station-owners, stockmen, drovers, miners, missionaries, aircraft pilots, and pearlers - painting a colourful and sympathetic picture. 225 x 150mm., map end/ps., pp. 230, b/w plates. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j., medium. rub/wear top/bot. spine & corners, small chip/tear on back. VG+/VG

New York, D. Appleton-Cetury FIRST EDITION - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket 210 x 145mm., pp. xiv, 649, Hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket. Original blue cloth covered boards (faded), gold blocked title and author's name on front and spine (faded), map endpapers. Contents pages are overall clean, ""previous owners"" name and address (3 lines - neat) top of Foreword page, medium staining & discolouring on content page edges, few foxing ""spots"" mainly in margins. This is a very acceptable reading copy of the true FIRST EDITION. Near VG.

Burnley, Tangle Press First edition, A4 p/b, pictorial covers Max Walker (born September 1948, West Hobart - died 28 September 2016), was selected as the 263rd player to wear the 'Baggy Green'. Max Walker played from 1973 to 1981. He is best known for his bowling action which earned him the name 'Tangles'. 234 x 165mm., pp. ix, 229, b/w plates. A4 p/back, pictorial card covers. Contents, SIGNED by MAX WALKER with NUMBER 263 (his selection number to play for Australia) - no other inscriptions, card covers, small crease front corner, few surface marks. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 0975791109

Sydney, University of New South Wales Press first Australian edition - hard cover in d.j. Cook, through his own skills and application, rose up through the ranks of the Navy to become a remarkable seaman whom men of influence took notice. Highly readable and displaying much new, unpublished reasearch, this is an important new book for Cook scholars and all those interested in the great age of exploration. 225 x 165mm., pp. 216, b/w plates, maps, append., notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j., no tears or chips. As new. FINE/FINE ISBN: 9781742231099

London, Hambledon Continuum first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Like insects preserved in amber, the records of Cook's voyage capture that rare moment when two different cultures saw each other across a frontier that was open and uncluttered by previous encounters. It is this interaction between the world from which Cook came and the world he met which is the theme of this fascinating book. 240 x 165mm., pp. xvi, 288, b/w plates, maps, notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. very sl. rubbed - no tears. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 9781847250025

Canberra, Australian National University first edition - h/c in d.j. Cook was a formidable man. The considerable legacy of scientific accomplishments his voyages produced were the subjects of the 1969 Symposium sponsored by the Australian Academy of Science. Six distinguished scientists and historians delivered addresses on Cook and his scientific companions, observations on Tahiti, botany of the South Pacific region and the Great Barrier Reef. 245 x 155mm., pp. ix, 143, b/w plates & col., map end/ps., ref. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. slightly rubbed. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0708100783

London, S. W. Partridge first edition - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket On the news that the Liner 'St Andrew' had been held up by a submarine raider with the captain wounded and a passenger killed McBlaid decided to seek out the raiders in his flying boat the 'Albatross'. 193 x 130mm., pp. col. frontis., viii, 246. H/cover WITHOUT dust jacket. Grey cloth covered bds, printed black (title & illust.) front & spine, stain spot front board. Contents, p.o. name & rubber stamp (neat) ffep, early pages have medium 'spotting' (foxing), edges scattered foxing & staining. near VG

London, National Maritime Museum/ Campbell Group first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers This catalogue (booklet) was produced for an exhibition held during the Bi-Centennary celebrations in 1988. 275 x 198mm., pp. 111, b/w & col. plates t/out, further reading, list of plates. Large paperback (booklet), stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card cover slightly rubbed - no creases. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0958799407

Sydney, University of New South Wales Press first edition - paperback, stiff card covers Here is the unfamilair story of Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791. One of those selected for the voyage was Lieutenant George Tobin, an unusual naval officer of wide interests and an enquiring mind, who kept a journal of the voyage and offers tantalising glimpses into the character of Bligh. 235 x 168mm., pp. vii, 184, col. plates, maps, notes, index. Paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, stiff card covers - no creases. NEAR FINE ISBN: 0868408468