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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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"Classics of Exploration" 20 Volumes
Time Life Books
Time Life 1986 Facsimile Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Leather All 20 volumes are bound in leather with red borders and gilding with all edges of the textblock gilded, and the previous owner has placed the Time life bookplates on the front paste downs and then has written his details and date of purchase on the next or following page. Otherwise the book shows no damage. The books are sold as a set, and are not available for shipment outside of Australia because of the excessive price of postage. Extra postage will be requested for shipment outside of Victoria, into the rest of Australia. Barrington -- an Account of a Voyage to New South Wales Whymper -- Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860 -- 69 Layard -- Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon Wallace -- A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro Speke -- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile Peary -- the North Pole Selous -- Travel and Adventure in South East Africa Burton -- 1st footsteps in East Africa (2 volumes) Burnaby -- a ride to Khiva Livingstone -- Missionary Travels Fortune -- Wanderings in China Stanley -- How I Found Livingstone Shackleton -- South Bock -- the headhunters of Borneo Browne -- A Year among the Persians Du Chaillu -- Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa Landor -- in the Forbidden Land an account of a journey in Tibet captured by the Tibetan authorities imprisonment, torture and ultimate release Burnes -- Cabool: being a personal narrative of a journey to, and residents in that city in the years 1836, 7, and 8 Oliphant -- a Journey to Kathmandu. Exploration Very Good
Price: $850.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0230839 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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"Come A-Waltzing Matilda’ / With Shame Remembered: Australian Folk-lore and Forgotten Tales
Beatty, Bill
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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"Come A-Waltzing Matilda’ / With Shame Remembered: Australian Folk-lore and Forgotten Tales
Beatty, Bill
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. * Good - Very Good
Price: $13.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 106988 Bookseller: A Book A Day
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+GF+ Malleable Iron Pipe Fittings
No Author Credited
William Adams & Company, Limited London, Great Britain 1929
Hard Cover Decorative Cloth 310 pages. For use on gas, water, steam, oil, air, plumbing, heating, chemical and general engineering services. Includes many black and white diagrams. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Scuffing and discolouration to cover. Discolouration to page edges. Good
Price: $22.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 024397 Bookseller: Leura Books
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...AND THE RAIN MY DRINK
Suyin, Han
Panther Uk 1973 Reprint
12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Soft Cover PB, pictorial card wraps, G+/--, 238pp. The story of Bandits and the British in Malaya. Moderate rubbing and creasing to edges and creases to corners of covers, inside has age browning to extremities, slight slant to spine, pencil notes to h/title verso, bookseller stampto h/title, else square and tight. An excellent reading copy. 330g when packed. Good+
Price: $8.00 (AUD)
Book Number: GHE0007319 Bookseller: Leura Books
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1,000 Place Names in New South Wales: The Romance of Nomenclature
Martin, A. E.
N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1943.
Softcover (with flaps). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, large chips to covers and spine . Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: History; Australian History; Inventory No: 20235.
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 20235 Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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100 Disasters That Shook the World
Cawthorne, Nigel,
ISBN: 1841931691
Arcturus Publishing, London, 2005.
Softcover. Very Good Condition/. . Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN: 1841931691. Inventory No: 10050091. $4.99 flat rate shipping (for single or multiple orders) within Australia.
Price: $17.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 10050091 Bookseller: Manyhills Book Store
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100 Great Australians
Macklin, Robert
Currey O'Neil Melbourne 1983
Hardcover 100 biographies of prominent Australians. Very neat tidy HC and DJ. 930g; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 002023 Bookseller: Blue Basket Books
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100 GREAT BOOKS: Masterpieces of All Time
Canning, John Edited By with an Introduction by Lawrence Durrell
Odhams Books London, Great Britain 1966 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover in the '100 ' series, HB, green cloth in pictorial DJ, G+/Fair, 640pp, b/w ills, index. The Editor has selected one hundred of the greatest books of all time, and a team of skilful writers have described and discussed them in a penetrating yet highly readable way. From Homer to Lawrence Durrell and de Lampedusa, spanning three thousand years. A useful work of reference and as a stepping-stone to the wisdom and delight which is to be found in the world's great books. Unclipped DJ has major tears, creases and rubbing to all edges and corners, repaired to reverse with low tack pape tape and covered in archival film. Book has moderate rubbing to spine ends and edges of covers, inside has age browning and foxing to edges of text block, o/w square and tight without markings. 1150g when packed Good+
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: GHE0005485 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 GREAT KINGS, QUEENS AND RULERS OF THE WORLD
Canning, John
ISBN: 0285620657
Souvenir Press Uk 1982 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover HB, black boards in purple/gold pictorial DJ, VG/VG, 671pp, b/w ills, index. Sunning to spine of unclipped DJ, tape scars tp flaps from prev covering, light shelf wear to edges. Book has mild rubbing to edges, light age toning to edges of text block, occasional pencil underlining to one or two entries, PO name to top title page, else square, clean and tight, a very good copy in a like DJ. A great resource for the family or schoolchildren, potted histories of 100 influential history makers. Be mindful of the weight of 1200g when packed. Very Good
Price: $31.00 (AUD)
Book Number: GHE0013079 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 Great Kings, Queens and Rulers of the World
John Canning ( Edited )
Odhams Books Middlesex, England 1969 Second Impression
Dust jacket protected with new plastic covering. Hard Cover 671 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Top corner of blank endpaper cut out. Foxing and staining to page edges. Tape marks on endpapers. Good
Price: $10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: S001754 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 Great Lives
No Author Credited
Odhams Books London, Great Britain 1969 Third Edition
Dust jacket protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 769 pages, stories on 100 historical figures including William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci and many more. Light to moderate marks and foxing to pages, some tanning present. Green hard cover under jacket is clean. Jacket shows some moderate shelf wear and creases/rubbing and will be covered in new protective plastic prior to shipping. Previous owner inscription to front end page. Possibly ex library as multiple tape ghosting marks on front and rear inside covers. Ex-Library Good
Price: $10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 047401 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 Great Wonders Of The World
Baxter, Burton, Cavendish, Clarkson, Cruwys, Riffenburgh, Williams
ISBN: 9780749542283
AA Publishing England 2005 Reprint
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 240 pages. Small piece has lifted on front blank endpaper. Very Good
Price: $27.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 008628 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 Years - the Australian Story
Paul Kelly
ISBN: 1865085316
Allen & Unwin Sydney 2001
Soft Cover 279 pages. Contains black and white photographs. Paul Kelly is Australia's pre-eminent political commentator. He has been chief political writer for The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the National Times. Based upon the TV series for the ABC of the same name, 100 years is a fascinating exploration of who we are as a nation, where we have come from and where we are going. TV Tie-In Good
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 032135 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 YEARS AGO...: A special collection of papers on the background and significance of THE FENIAN ESCAPE FROM FREMANTLE WESTERN AUSTRALIA EASTER 1876
Watson, John (edited by)
ISBN: 0959904115
John Watson Sydney, NSW, Australia 1976 First Edition
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover PB, brown saddle-stitched pictorial card covers, VG/--, 70pp, b/w photos. Minor rubbing to edges and small creases to corners of covers, a residue from a round price sticker at top front, inside has PO name to title page, else square, clean and tight with no markings. The daring escape, based largely on John Breslin's account published in the 'Gaelic American' during 1904..Included is a historical account of the Fenian Movement.. There is finely seived reasearch here of a quite fascinatinating and little-known incident in the history of Western Australia. 160g when packed. Very Good+
Price: $38.00 (AUD)
Book Number: GHE0006956 Bookseller: Leura Books
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100 Years in Pictures. A Panorama of History in the Making
Somervell D.C.
Odhams Press London 1951 Early Edition
Sm4to Hard Cover 318 pp. b/w photographs, with a foreword by D.C. Somervell, foxing to edges and endpapers, d/j scuffed along edges, corners and spine. Here for the first time within the covers of a single volume is a remarkable pictorial survey of the most dramatic and eventful century in the history of mankind. Covering the period of 1851 to 1950 it reveals at a glance the amazing variety of changes brought about in the last hundred years: from the Crimean campaign to the atom-bomb explosion at Hiroshima; from the gas-balloon to the modern jet-aircraft; from the early 'horseless carriage' to the record-breaking car of recent years. Good
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 42946 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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100 Years of the NSW AAA
White, R. P. B. And Harrison, Malcom
ISBN: 0949054437
Fairfax Sydney 1987 First
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Cloth the official centenary history of the NSW amateur athletic association 1887-1987, b/w photos, chapionship results159 pages, jacket has a 1" tear ans creases Sport Very Good
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 003434 Bookseller: Medlow Bath Books
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