Search Results: Titles starting with L from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

New York, Henry Holt first edition - h/c in d.j. Kinsey's skills are about to be sorely tested. She is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who quite literally take her for the ride of her life. 237 x 164mm., pp. 14 (prelim.) + 290, slight crease on back flap end- paper, not price clipped, contents fine in d.j. with very slight rub. top front corner, no teares or chips, near fine. ISBN: 0805019375

Hawthorn, Century Hutchinson TRUE FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION - h/c in d.j. The time is just before the outbreak of the Great War, the place a small town in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia, and the story is Colleen McCullough at her warmest and most light hearted. On one level this book is a classic fairytale, on another it is a wickedly accurate picture of life in a place where men may dominate, but women rule. 240 x 165mm., pp. 6, (preliminaries), 132, b/w illustrations. Hard cover in dust jacket. NO INSCRIPTIONS. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0091573904

Glascow, William Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Sauces are an intrinsic part of good cooking and great dishes. From classics to traditional English and American sauces, tomato based sauces from the Mediterranean and Mexico, some hot and cold sauces for puddings - in all 600 recipes from all over the world with a practical guide to which sauce to eat with what. 260 x 195mm., pp. 192, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents and d.j. as new. FINE/FINEbook dust jacket as new. ISBN: 0004351266

O'Connor, Austed reprint - mass market paperback, card covers Three book fiction series (based on fact), on the early history of Western Australia from the viewpoint of the ordinary settler. Much of the State's early history appears written from the personal interpretations of the old priviledged families. Book 1: ""The Challenge"": pp. 6, 540. AUTHOR SIGNED, VG; Book 2: ""Make or Break"": pp. 6, 364. ""p.o. name"", VG+; Book 3: ""The Gully Road"": pp. 6, 445, ""p.o. name"", AUTHOR SIGNED, VG. Light reading creases on spines. 180 x 110mm. Paperbacks, stiff card covers. VG. ISBN: 186307001x

London, Oxford first edition - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket This book tells how Captain James Stirling of the Royal Navy in 1829 planted on a sandy beach a colony that is now the State of Western Australia; it shows how vision, tenacity, endurance, work and pride can find a way through every barrier set by nature. and the Official Mind. 222 x 148mm., pp. xii, 316, frontispiece, b/w plates, folded map, append., biblio., index. Hard cover, NO DUST JACKET. Contents, small ""p.o."" name top and UREN'S BOOKPLATE ffep, frontispiece ""rippled"" front edge, bords clean. VG

Sydney, Angus & Robertson illustrated edition - hard cover in dust jacket Here are some of Australia's leading nature writers, aided by contributions from novelists and overseas visitors, describing all aspects of nature from the great land mass of the continent itself, its trees, flowers and animals, down to the microscopic 'ogre of the ponds' whose ferocious habits are so vividly recorded by Noel Monkman. 295 x 225mm., pp. 284, colour plates. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. light rubbing - no tears, boards are medium bumped at bottom. vg+/vg+ ISBN: 0207140251

London, Macdonald first edition - h/c in d.j. Dahori means 'not yet; presently; in a little while;' and so the 'Land of Danori' is the Land of By and By, the Land of the Day Before Yesterday and the Land of the Day after Tomorrow all in one. It is a place of witchcraft and taboos, of evil spirits and pagan idols, where you find people of a direct and simple logic, who return a smile for a smile and an arrow for a bullet. contents has light foxing on outside page edges, d.j. light wear/rub. top/bot. spine & corners, small lifted area front cover, VG.

London, Secker & Warburg first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The author brilliantly captures the mood of the 'lucky country', as it has been called, and at the same time buries forever the traditional concepts of Australia as the land 'down under', a British satellite populated by sheep-shearers and kangaroos. 223 x 143mm., pp. viii, 267, map endpapers. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - p.o name ffep. (neat one line), contents near fine, d.j. very slight rubbing - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE

Sydney, Invincible Press first edition - hard cover in d.j. In this collection of epic Australian adventures, the author reveals a love of his homeland and a knowledge of its history that shines through the pages. Stories included are; The Wild White Boy; Guns Against Spears; Pearl-Diver Down a Gold Mine; Sky Damonds; River of Death; Fenian O'Reilly -and more. 220 x 144mm., pp. 230. Contents - ffep (blank page) has been REMOVED, d.j. chips spine (top) creases & rubbed corners, front bright & clean. near VG/VG

Melbourne, CSIRO first edition - p/back, stiff covers with maps 242 x 180mm., pp. 200, diagrams. Large booklet, stiff card covers. Contents and card covers. NEAR FINE. PLUS two folded maps: (1) Land Systems; (2) Soils, Vegetation Pasture Lands, housed in printed envelope in poor condition. NEAR FINE

Chippendale, Alternative Publishing first edition - hard cover I dust jacket ""To Aborigines, Europeans are here to stay… they want simply the freedom and resources to adapt to their new situation in their own way, their own time… Sentimentality, like charity, is no substitute for 'Action on behalf of justice!... Hope lies in the future and is experienced in the present through action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world'"" 218 x 140mm., pp. 4, 159, b/w plates, footnotes. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0909188408

Sydney, Angus & Robertson reprint - h/c in d.j. This is a story full of dust and sunlight and violence, crowded with incidents and characters, flooded with Penton's own ruthless determination to expose the greed and squalor of the convict and landtaking days which has been the subject of so much romantic legend.205 x 135mm., pp. xii + 360, contents near fine in d.j. minor closed tears, slight wear on spine, in dust jacket very bright & clean (usually seen in a grubby condition), v.g.++.

Mt Laweley, Mt Lawley College of Advanced Education paperback - stiff cardboard covers Content covers - Linguistic Genocide; Aboriginal languages: Truths and Fallacies; Language and World View in Aboriginal Australia; The Kimberleys: a Linguistics View; The Notion of Balance in Mantjiltjara Grammar; Looking at English Through Nyangumarda-coloured spectacles; Alice Springs Aboriginal English; A Brief Description of Roper Creole; People, English in Tribal Aboriginal Schools -and much more. 210 x 150mm, pp. 208, p.o.i. (neat one line), paperback, stiff w/r. covers, v.g. ISBN: 0908008031

Roseville, Simon & Schuster first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers Sydney 2010. HouseNet controls the fridge, cars run on fuel-cells, death lotteries have replaced greenpeace, medibet is the latest infotainment and for Hercus Barges, middle aged, a disillusioned failure - widespread environmental degradation has led toan obsession with the ultimate crime: the destruction of humanity. 235 x 152mm., pp. 10, (prelim.), 355. Trade size (large) paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, card covers - very slight rubbing, crease alongside spine (back cover). VG+ ISBN: 0731810449

North Ryde, Angus & Robertson/Collins first edition - h/c in d.j. There were four passengers on that last bus. Had chance alone drawn them together and brought them to this derelict house? Or was there something more…? 220 x 143mm., pp. 6, 119. Very nice personal inscription by the AUTHOR to another Max - who is one of main characters. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0207167753

New York, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the sterotypes, the author reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated. 242 x 160mm., pp.xv, 352, b/w plates, notes, index. Contents - no inscriptions, in d.j. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0192804839

New York, Donald I. Fine first edition - first print - h/c in d.j. Known to millions as 'The Angel of Death', here is the probing, investigative, insightful account of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, the SS pysician who sent thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers and who tortured hundreds more as part of his 'scientific' experiments. 235 x 160mm., pp xii, 305, b/w plates, biblio., index, contents v.g.+, d.j. sl. rubbed top/bottom spine, small closed tear top back spine, VG. ISBN: 0917657462

Niorth Ryde, Angus & Robertson in assoc. with Channel Four first edition - h/c in d.j. During a two-year voyage on board a ten-meter-long sailboat, the authors encountered a vanishing breed of sailors and craft. These men who harness the wind and the seas to gain their livlihood are on the verge of extinction. Captured in these pages is the spirit of that bygone era when men set out under sail to fish, trade, and transport cargo and passengers across the seas. 240 x 195 mm., pp. xiv, 142, b/w & col. plates, maps. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j slight rub. on edges - no tears. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0207150001

Sydney, Allen & Unwin first edition - h/c in d.j. This is the remarkable story of the Australian prisoners of war who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. When 'Fat Boy' was dropped, on 9 August 1945, there were 24 Australian POWs in a camp less than two kilometres from the epicentre of the blast. Two other Australians were imprisoned in a camp eight kilometres away. How they came to be there and how they survived is the inspiring story told in this book. 135 x 160mm., pp. xvii + 135, b/w plates, sl. stain. on outside page edges, in d.j., v.g. ISBN: 0868614122

London, The Quality Book Club first Book Club edition - h/c in dust jacket On May 7, 1915, the huge Atlantic liner, the 'Lusitania' sank within sight of the Irish coast just eighteen minutes after being torpedoed by a German submarine, with the loss of 1,198 lives. This book chronicles the last days of this tragic voyage. 222 x 147mm., pp. viii, 184, b/w plates, biblio., index. H/cover in d. j. Contents - p.o. name (2 lines) ffep, three small old glue? marks back ffep, d.j. chip top/bot. spine, top r.h. corner & back bottom edge - front illustration very bright clean. VG+/VG