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Mr. Rowl
Broster, D.K.
William Heinemann Ltd. Melbourne 1947 First Australian Edition
Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall Green Cloth 384 pages, last blank. Bottle green coloured boards with black writing on the spine and black printers' cartouche on the lower right-hand corner of the rear panel. Minor bumping and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the spine and very minor rubbing to the book corners. The bottom edge of book has become a little scuffed and faded and there are a few faded marks to the back panel. Browning to the paper edges. Offset tanning, browning and faint foxing to the endpapers along with a couple of marks. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower lefthand corner of the free front endpaper and internal pages are very slightly tanned. Illustrated dustwapper, showing a young lady in green and white sobbing into her hands while a gentleman in military uniform ( in handcuffs ) stands over her, with white and, blue writing on the front panel and white on the spine. The dustwapper is quite rubbed and faded and the back panel is considerably grubby. Rubbing and slight chipping to the dustwapper corners. The head and the heel of the spine is quite chipped and there is creasing to the top and bottom dustwapper edges. There is a crease running the full length of the back panel. Clipping of the dustwapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. The story of a romance between a captured French soldier and a demure English Miss. Set in the Napoleonic Wars. Historical Romance Reasonable for Age
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0103652 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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"Come A-Waltzing Matilda’ / With Shame Remembered: Australian Folk-lore and Forgotten Tales
Beatty, Bill
ISBN: NOISBN
Seal Books Australia 1995
Small Duodecimo (12mo), approx. 7" (180mm) tall. Paperback Two books in one volume. Tight and clean copy, in good-very good condition, with a flat uncreased spine, light creasing to covers, light edgewear, a small damage to front cover after price sticker was removed, light age tan and remainder mark on bottom edge. Illustrated with drawings and black & white photographs. We promptly attend to requests for more detailed description, scanned images, further information on this book's condition. * Good - Very Good
Price: $7.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 106988 Bookseller: BookSplendour
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’37-’39 Last Look Around
Caffrey, Kate
Gordon & Cremonesi London 1978 1st UK Edition
Hardback Small Quarto. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD Dustjacket. DJ protectedin Mylar cover. 175 pages
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: ID203653 Bookseller: Beulah Park Books
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’Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?’ The Full Story Of Bernard Cornfeld And IOS
Raw Charles; Page Bruce; Hodgson Godfrey
ISBN: 670280631
The Viking Press Inc New York 1971 Reprint
Hard Cover 400 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout, the only exception are a couple tape marks on blank pages. A number of themes emerges from their news-breaking analysis. The principal one is, of course, how Cornfeld used the fantastic bull market, the growth of the mutual-fund industry, the irrationalities and distortions created by tax laws, the legendary methods of American salesmen, and the prerequisites of star-studded jet-set life to build an unprecedented empire of riches for himself and his associates. Very Good
Price: $13.46 (AUD)
Book Number: 024409 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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’Man Overboard!’ The HMAS Nizam Tragedy
Rose Andrew and Sandra
ISBN: 0977523802
Red Rose Books Australia 2006 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover 213pp. Brand new book. Pristine condition. 'A moonless night, 2215 hours on 11th February 1945, lights out, compasses suspect, loss of engines for a time, confusion and panic as the destroyer heeled more than 65 degrees, hesitated, and then slowly returned to vertical. Nizam was in safe waters, 11 nautical miles from the Cape Leeuwin Light. 'Man Overboard!' lays bare the tragic story of the World War II loss of men on that summer's night. This true story is told using previously unpublished secret and confidential records from Australian Archives. This little known tragedy is examined in detail against a captivating backgroujnd of Australian nautical history and geography.' Brand New
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 004551 Bookseller: Isabella Booksellers
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100 Great Events that changed the world
CANNING, John (ed)
ISBN: NoISBN
H/C For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email. Reading only
Price: $5.50 (AUD)
Book Number: B1893 Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange
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100 Years of the Suez Canal
Duff, R.E.B.
Clifton Books London 1969 1st Edition
Hardback Octavo. Fine in Very Good+ Dustjacket [now protected]. DJ hassmall closed tear upper front. Black & white illustrations,endpaper maps. 152 pages
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: ID203365 Bookseller: Beulah Park Books
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1066
Andrew Bridgeford
Harper Perennial 2004 1st edition
Very Good paperback ex-library cover plastic covered cover has small round pictures from the Bayeux tapestry some small library marks on inside pages library stamp on bottom outside edge of pages two sections of glossy photographs pages clean and bright 354 pages
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 3094 Bookseller: Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
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1066 - Year of Destiny
Wise, Terence
Osprey Publishing Ltd London 1979 1st Edition
Hardback Small Quarto Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket[now protected]. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs andDrawings/Diagrams. 232 pages
Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: ID208982 Bookseller: Beulah Park Books
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1215 the Year of the Magna Carta
Danziger, Danny and Gillingham, John
ISBN: 0340824743
Hodder & Stoughton London 2003
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover [324pps] NEW Fine
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 002750 Bookseller: Bumblebee Books
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1215 the Year of the Magna Carta
Danziger, Danny and Gillingham, John
ISBN: 0340824743
Hodder & Stoughton London 2003
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover [324pps] NEW Fine
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 002750 Bookseller: Bumblebee Books
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125 Years of Age
Hutton, Geoffrey and Les Tanner
ISBN: 0170057690
Nelson Melbourne 1979 First Edition
4to Original Cloth Highlights from the pages of The Age. 214 pp. Dj slightly torn at edge in three places, repaired and protected - else VG. Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 19199 Bookseller: Global Village Books
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1688: A Global History
Wills, John E.
ISBN: 1862074135
Granta Books London, United Kingdom 2001
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover New book, some bumps and dents to book, shelfwear to cover. 330 pages. This book covers the extraodinary year of 1688, with world shaping events occuring in Japan, Russia, France, Latin America, North America, England, Africa and many others, the author details each event in an epic and fascinating book. Good
Price: $15.95 (AUD)
Book Number: 000287 Bookseller: Viceroy Books
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1688: A Global History
Wills, John E.
ISBN: 1862074135
Granta Books London, United Kingdom 2001
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover New book, some bumps and dents to book, shelfwear to cover. 330 pages. This book covers the extraodinary year of 1688, with world shaping events occuring in Japan, Russia, France, Latin America, North America, England, Africa and many others, the author details each event in an epic and fascinating book. Good
Price: $15.95 (AUD)
Book Number: 000288 Bookseller: Viceroy Books
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1775 : Another Part of the Field
Ivor Noel Hume
Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1966
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Jacket has general wear, tears and creases as well as a 2cm chip at the top front.Contents very good.465 pages with b/w illustrations plus index.Describes, month by month, what happened in the colony of Virginia, and especially in Williamsburg, its administrative capital, during that crucial year which led up to and foreshadowed the revolt of the thirteen colonies and the American War of Independance. Very Good
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 006112 Bookseller: Terra Australis Books
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