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Against the Wind; A Pegasus production in Association with the Seven Network Australia
Channel 7 1978 Australia First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
80 pages, b/w & colour photos thr/out. Newspaper article of the show 'Woman's Day, July 17, 1978' about Mary Larkin - actress in Against the Wind. Illustrated, card cover, very minor edge-wear. Light creasing to top corner on first few pages, otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". a story of our past. It is a story of the people who rarely found their way into our history books ... except as statistics. It is a moving drama about a people who underwent incredible hardships." 001424
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28.00 AUD
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Ashes; Battles and Bellylaughs
Swan Publishing Pty Ltd 1990 NSW Australia First Edition 0958784167 / 9780958784160 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hook, Jeff Signed By Contributers
208 pages, b/w cartoons. Illustrated board cover, light pushing to corners. Small price tag mark to front fly-leaf, some small aging spots thr/out, one dog-eared page, otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Signed by Rod Marsh & Ian Chappell. Tight binding. "Thirty-seven contributing authors - including many of the biggest names of postwar Ashes confrontations - takes you beyond the dour, uncompromising on-field struggles and into the laughter zone which has always been a part of the background when these two countries meet on the cricket arena." 001326
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130.00 AUD
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Australia Comes of Age; Rebellion, Independence War and the Worker
Bay Books Pty Ltd NSW Australia First Edition 0858359146 / 9780858359147 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
280 pages, b/w & colour illustrated. Green-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Australian character traits of fierce indepenence and little heed for authority were evident from the early days of settlement when members of the New South Wales Corps staged the Rum Rebellion and landowner John Macarthur fought a duel and was sent to England under arrest . After 1945, Australia embarked on an ambitious migration program; hundreds of thousands of new settlers arrived to make their home in a new land. These 'new' Australians have created a new society, a pluralistic, cosmopolitan nation that has finally come of age." 000618
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Australian Bush Verse
Ure Smith 1976 Sydney, Australia 0725403446 / 9780725403447 Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Waters, Maynard
64 page, colour illustrated. Illustrated cover, minor edge-wear, spine slightly skewed at bottom. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, some edge-wear, small closed tears and slight chipping and stretching to edges, some discolouring and foxing to inside edges. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Although today relatively few Australians live the traditional 'Australian way of life' most of us continue to idealize it and identify with it . bush verse which celebrates the Australian ethos remains a living and vital tradition . paintings capture the spirit of the poems and highlight their charm." 000289
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Australian Sport Through Time; 2005 Edition
Random House 2005 NSW Australia 7th Edition 1741660483 / 9781741660487 Hard Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
547 pages, b/w & colour photos thr/out. Illustrated boards, very minor edge-wear, small open scratch to back board. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". a marvellous work that presents the story of Australian sport from its origins during colonial settlement through to the present day . more than a comprehensive array of facts, the book presents Australia's colourful sporting history, drama and achievement in an attractive and very readable format." 002160
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Building History; Mildenhall's Early Images of Old Parliament House
The Commonwealth of Australia 2001 Canberra, ACT, Australia First Edition 0642737991 / 9780642737991 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
48 pages, b/w photos thr/out. Illustrated cover, minor edge-wear, light creasing to spine. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "In the early years of Canberra's development, Old Parliament House was the geographic, social and political heart of the new Australian capital. Mildenhall's photographs brilliantly capture the construction and early life of this building, its significance in the creation of Canberra and the building of our nation." 001290
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Canberra, and the New Parliament House
Lansdowne Press 1983 Sydney, Australia First Edition 0701814810 / 9780701814816 Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
111 page. b/w, colour and sepia photographs. Decorative board cover, slight rubbing and denting to edges. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, denting, chipping and rubbing, several small tears. Pages clean, straight and unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". provides invaluable comentary and documentation of the growth of a city and the birth of a new and permanent Parliament House - a structure which, if not yet a symbol of the nation, is certainly testimony to a young country's vision of its future." 000070
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Canberra; from Limestone Plains to Garden City - The Story of the National Capital's Landscape
National Capital Development Commission 1986 Canberra, ACT, Australia 0642097151 / 9780642097156 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
92 pages, b/w & colour photos. Green-cloth cover, very minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Board slightly swayed, binding is strong & intact. "When the Commonwealth took control of the Australian Capital Territory in 1911, the site for the National Capital consisted of undulating grazing country, almost devoid of trees, the consequence of a harsh climate and the pastoral activies of the white settlers. Seven decades later the Limestone Plains had been transformed into the garden city of Canberra: one of the most oustanding urban landscape achievements seen in Australia." 000855
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Explore Australia; The Complete Touring Companion
Viking O'Neill 1992 Victoria, Australia Eleventh Edition 0670905372 / 9780670905379 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
514 pages, colour photographs thr/out. Illustrated cover, minor edge-wear, small split and pushing to bottom of spine, light pushing to top of spine. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Page ribbon still in place and intact. Strong, intact binding. 'Australia's Best-Selling Travel Guide, 142 pages of maps, 750 cities and towns described, holiday destinations featured.' 001343
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Great Australian Paintings
Lansdowne Press 1971 Melbourne, Australia First Edition 701804343 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
72 pages, colour illustrated. Blue-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor shelf rubbing. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "The 55 colour plates in this book are representative of the best known paintings of artists who are international in their stature, but distinctly 'Australian' in their painting." 000796
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Images of the House; The First Hundred Years - House of Representatives 1901-2001
Department of the house of Representatives 2002 Canberra, ACT, Australia First Edition 064278124 Hard Cover Fine Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
124 pages, b/w & colour photos thr/out. Green-cloth cover, beautiful condition. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, light stretching to edges. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. ". takes you on a journey over the first hundred years, highlighting a diversity of characters and issues with a mix of traditions and innovations that tell the story of the people and place of parliament." 001266
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70.00 AUD
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International Cricket; Centenary Occasion
Shell 1962 Melbourne, Australia First Edition Soft Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
"This booklet commemorates the first international cricket match played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 1st 1862." Booklet is clean, straight & unmarked, no tears or creases. 000644
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Jimmy Pike; Graphics from the Christensen Fund Collection
Vanguard Press 1988 Western Australia First Edition 0958782938 / 9780958782937 Soft Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Photography By Patricia Lowe & Brian Stevenson
55 page. Illustrated card-cover, minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Jimmy Pike was born in the Great Sandy Desert and his early life was spent as a member of a nomadic group. His family lived traditionally by hunting and gathering, moving from waterhole to waterhole according to the seasons. He started painting in 1980." 000308
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Little Book of Birds
National Library of Australia 1999 Canberra, ACT, Australia First Edition 06421070706 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
30 pages, b/w & colour photos. Illustrated card cover, some light rubbing marks, some wear to edges. Pages have light rubbing, colour transferance from photos, small spots thr/out, otherwise pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. ". superbly illustrated . poems by well-known Australian poets including Wright, McAuley, Shaw . are complemented by beautiful images of birds from the Library's extensive Pictorial Collection." 001311
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Our Story; Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn
Editions Du Signe 2003 France First Edition 2746812479 / 9782746812475 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
104 pages, fully colour illustrated. Illustrated cover, very minor pushing to edges. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "One book, however economical with words and selective in pictorial presentation, can but give a taste of the rich diversity that is our story. May it however provide an insight into, and grateful remembrance of the past, an understanding and a joyful celebration of the present and a hope-filled confidence for the future in the expectation of the abiding presence of Jesus and the guidance of his Spirit in his Church of Canberra and Goulburn." 001153
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The Southern Cross Catalogue for 1939-40
Southern Cross Windmill Co. Pty Ltd 1939 Sydney, Australia First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Red card covers, very minor rubbing to front and very light curling to front corners. Pages are clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "The Southern Cross Organisation had its origin in a small Foundry in Toowoomba, Queensland, in 1871, and has grown into a Commonwealth-wide organisation with a selling network serving the whole of Australia and supplying Southern Cross Products as far away and Deccan, in India." 001261
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150.00 AUD
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Cooking & Looking in Sydney's Rocks Area
(with) Rosemary Sinclair Ayers & James Heritage Books 1986 Sydney, Australia 094925603X / 9780949256034 Hard Cover Very Good Issued Without Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Rosemary Sinclair
96 page, red line drawings thr/out. Illustrated cover with slight edge-wear, rubbing to corners. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Tight binding. ". Local . Flavour . Series ." 000335
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15.00 AUD
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Sanctuary! Nazi Fugitives in Australia
Aarons, Mark William Heinemann Australia Pty Ltd 1989 Victoria, Australia First Edition 0855613327 / 9780855613327 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
385 pages, b/w photos. Black-cloth cover, minor edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, minor edge-wear. Pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. "Australia has not witnessed a scandal of the enormity exposed for the first time in this book. The appalling truth is that, after the Second World War, Australia gave safe haven to hundreds of Nazi war criminals from all over Europe, who hid among the legitimate refugees and victims of Nazism and arrived in Australia under post-war immigration schemes. Some of them were men who personally participated in the slaughter of thousands of innocent people. How was it possible for them to find sanctuary in Australia." 000891
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