Search Results: Titles starting with T from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

London, Methuen first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This rich anthology contains not only some of the funniest take-offs published in magazines and books and performed on stage, radio and television in the past thirty years (up to 1984). It also contains classic parodies and send-ups by Eric Idle, Monty Python, Private Eye, Tom Lehrer - and many many more. 224 x 143mm., pp. xi, 259, Index of Subjects, Index of Sources. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - small p.o. name ffep, d.j. slight rubbing. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0413528405

London, Jonathan Cape 3rd impression - hard cover in dust jacket The stories in 'Taking Pictures' are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. 223 x 143mm., pp. 8 (preliminaries), 227. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED (title page), no other inscriptions; dust jacket, slight creasing top spine - no tears. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9780224084697

Sydney, Angus & Robertson first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The glamorous islands of the South Pacific - Fiji, Samoa, and Tahiti are vividly depicted. Here are the adventurous stories of the sea-explorers of the Pacific - Spanish, Dutch, French and British - and the epic tale of the Mutiny on the Bounty: with new light on the notorious scallywag, Bully Hayes. Also information on famous writers, and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson and Gauguin. 220 x 145mm., pp. 208, map end/ps., b/w plates, contents fine, d.j. foxed on back. NEAR FINE/VG+

London, Harper Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The rose tree's story reaches back hundreds, some say thousands of years: the dove returning to Noahs ark was carrying the leaf of a rhododendron. The Aztecs favoured it for their gardens, the Chinese use it in their medicines. From the blazing heat of Kashmir to the crisp Alpine peaks of New Zealand, the author tells of its global passage and majestic ancient beauty. 245 x 160mm., pp. xi, 308, col. plates, notes, index. Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0007129955

London, Cassell first edition - h/c in d.j. After three years of war in Korea, a strange peace had settled over the Sami-Chon, for the forces facing each other had reached a stalemate.The land torn by conflicts and stained by blood. Some of the Korean agents he had trained and led had not been so lucky, but always the tall man had got back to organize more missions, to send more patriots behind the enemy lines. Fear lay like a tight knot in his chest…… 210 x 140mm., pp 194, d.j. sl. rubbed/worn top/bot. spine & edges - bright & clean, VG.

London, Collins first edition - h/c in d.j. This is a novel about poets by a novelist who is himself a poet. In its simplicity, its lyricism, its rich yet economical evocation of Georgia and the Georgians, it is, in the truest sense, a deeply romantic story. 20.5 x 13.5cm., pp. 174, gd. in d.j.

Melb., Robertson and Mullens first edition - h/c in d.j. A history of the Wool Marketing Plan in Australia, covering - Freedom of Trade in Wool - Wool price fluctuations - International co-operation, Statutory powers - to Surpluses and Deficits and consumer interest. Yes, they had problems in 1952! 22 x 14.5 cm., pp xxvii, + 177 , with d.j. chipped (front), o/wise gd.

London, The Leisure Circle Leisure Circle edition - hard cover in dust jacket The Morland family have a talent for being at the centre of great events. In ""The Tangled Thread"", the tenth volume in the saga of this dynamic and widely-scattered dynasty, it is the French branch of the clan which holds the stage. 223 x 143mm., pp. 474, Family Trees. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, page edges medium ""browned"" (quality of paper used); dust jacket, light rubbing on corners. VG+/VG+

Toorak, Garry Sparke & Associates First edition - hard cover in dust jacket A man who became a champion in two entirely different fields. Born in Hobart Tasmania, it was football that took him to Melbourne, but it was cricket in which he made his international reputation. This is a fascinating book about a fascinating sportsman whose sense of perspective is reinforced by a great, native Australian humour. 210 x 140mm., pp.204, black & white plates, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., slight rubbing top/bot. spine. Fine/near fine

London, Pavilion/Michael Joseph first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Experience all the flavours of Provence and follow some of the forty regional recipes including hot goats cheese salad, chicken roasted with forty-five cloves of garlic and pear and almond tart, meet the chefs, the fruit growers, the hunters, the farmers, the olive-oil makers - all the people devoted to the traditions behind the gastronomic pleasures of Provence. 238 x 238mm., pp. 160, map, col. plates t/out. H/cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears or chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0851451226

London, Michael Joseph first edition - h/c in d.j. Here is another of Vulliamy's merrily macabre inventions. The University and the Country House provide most of the leading or mis-leading characters; the Police (though sometimes deceived) are genially astute and the Magistrates' Court, where the decisive action takes place. 192 x 130mm., pp. 224, contents v.g.+ in d.j. very slight rubbing spine & edges, closed tear back (top), price clipped, very bright & colourful front cover designed by Broom Lynne, v.g.+.

Carlisle, Hesperian first edition - large booklet, stiff card covers The book explaines the value of Teams, camels, horses, bullocks, mules, and donkeys. Each had its merits, and each has its problems. An informative book on Teams and Teamsters, different country, different animals, cartage weights, cartage prices, different environmental lands and the problems encountered by Teams and Teamsters of our past. 298 x 210mm., pp. x, 137, b/w plates, index of Western Australian people and Companies. Large booklet, pictorial card covers. As new. FINE ISBN: 9780859054331

Sydney, NewSouth Publishing first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Born into privilege and wealth, Amanda, descended from white settlers and the third generation to grow up in Kalgoorlie. At school she became friends with Aboriginal children from the Kurrawang Mission. Forty years later, Webster returns to her hometown, confronts her racist blunders, her cultural ignorance and her family's secret past, and begins her journey of reconciliation and friendship. 210 x 136mm., pp. 6 (preliminaries), 330, Reading List. Trade paperback, stiff pictorial card covers. NEW. ISBN: 9781742235134

London, Geoffrey Bles first edition - h/c in d.j. At the age of sixteen Miss Stilby, who is accustomed to the shelered life of a Cathedral Close, first encounters the lushly romantic novels of Beryl Lepage; and from then on she tries to practice what she reads. At last, in early middle age, freed from family obligations, shegoes to Rome to realise her dreams of passion in high life. 203 x 137mm., pp. 8, 214, contents - no inscriptions, d.j. small closed tears, med. rubbing top edge, slight creasing - very clean & bright. NEAR FINE/VG

London, Abbey Library/Murray's Abbey Library edit. - hard cover ""Ten Droll Tales"" Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of his Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, Together with Certain Other Quaint and Piquant Histories Making up the first Decade of the Droll Tales of Master Honore De Balzac Rendered Faithfully Into English by J. Lewis May, With an Introduction by Andre Maurois, etc etc. Hard cover (no dust jacket), top edge tinted (blue). Contents, no inscriptions; boards, medium ""bump"" top spine. VG+

London, Viking reprint edition - h/c in d.j. The assisted passage scheme, also known as the 'Ten Pound Fare', was introduced in 1947 and continued until the early 1970s, providing almost free passages to Australia for would-be migrants who fulfilled the immigration requirements. From 1945 to 1966 2.55 million immigrants arrived. Of these 1.36 million were British - all have tales to tell: of success, homesickness, despair and happiness. 240 x 160mm., pp. xxvi, 175, b/w plates, index, contents slight spotting top & side edges, in d.j. VG/VG+ ISBN: 0670819638

London, Eyre Methuen first edition - h/c in d.j. A brown-painted New York tenement, empty and decaying except for one lone tenant on the top floor - Harry Lesser, writer - or re-writer. He has been struggling for nearly ten years with his novel. He must stay on undisturbed so that he can finish the book where it was born. Then one day Lesser discovers in the next door flat a black man at a wooden kitchen table. He is typing. Willie Spearmint too has found a private place where he can write. 210 x 140mm., pp. 230, p.o.i. ffep., d.j. no tears or chips, VG+

London, Zeb Books first edition - paperback For more than half a century, much of Southeast Asia has been wracked by war. In the last 20 years alone, some three million fled their homes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This book is their story. It is also the story of the international community's response. 217 x 135mm., pp. xi + 322, maps, biblio., index, near fine. ISBN: 1856496104

London, Secker & Warburg first edition - h/c in d.j. A story of fable and legend and allegory and prophecy, magnificently painted in by the author. The novel is a work of magnitude, of depth and grandeur, The life and times of Philip II of Spain - Felipe El Senor - are the core. Fuentes' Felipe witnesses both the discovery of the New World and the decline of the Spanish greatness as a world power in the Old World. 230 x 152mm., pp. 16, 778. Contents - no inscriptions, boards sl. bumped on corners, d.j. medium rub. top/bot. spine & corners. NEAR FINE/VG+

Woolahra, The Terrace Times Pty Ltd reprint editions, hard covers Nine titles: Vol. One - Paddington; Vol. Two - The Rocks; Vol. Three - Belmain; Vol. Four - Looking at Cooking; Vol. Five - Melbourne; Vol. Six - City of Sydney; Vol. Seven - Brisbane; Vol. Eight (?) - London; Vol. Nine - Perth/Fremantle. Each book: 242 x 118mm., pp. 64, b/w illustrations. Hard covers (without dust jackets as issued). Contents, no inscriptions. NEAR FINE ISBN: 0959848606