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Sydney, Artarmon / Erskinville: Dr C. J. Smee / Printed by Star Printery, 1990. Hardback octavo, no jacket, very good condition, black boards, gilt title & author front cover, gilt title spine, typewritten text, minor foxing top edge, minor edgewear Unnum pp. This book has been written to commemorate and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1933. Hardback small, no jacket (missing), good condition, some foxing edges & endpapers, front hinge little loose (pages firm), pages & endpapers lightly toned, some edgewear, faint blue ink stain base spine & mall patch rear cover, two bookshop stickers, autograph (written name both editors title page). 294 pp. A collection of 32 impressive and… Ler mais sobre este item

Bundaberg, QLD: Corkwood Press, 1996. Facsimile ed.. Hardback small folio, no jacket as issued, very good plus condition, red boards (gilt lettering spine & front cover), glossy paper, full-page colour plates at rear, large colour foldout map with notes bound inside rear cover, minimal edgewear 43 pp. This is the facsimile reprint edition of Alex Forrest’s expedition into the… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne / Sydney: Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press / State Library of New South Wales, 1994. Hardback large heavy octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & colour photos, minor foxing edges, some foxing reverse side jacket (minor edgewear). Heavy (1.5 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 539… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2022. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket. 227 pp. This book offers an edited selection, with commentary from Kate Grenville, of the many letters Elizabeth Macarthur wrote 'home' from colonial Sydney over her long life. Circumstances gave her big challenges, but also gave her opportunities unknown to most women… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943. 3rd ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), colour drawing frontispiece, cluster feew dot marks front cover jacket, pages & jacket toned as usual, minor edgewear, owner's written name & date. 286 pp. The Hon. H. V. Evatt records the clash between William Bligh (17 years after the mutiny on the Bounty),… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney / East Kew: Horden House / Boroondara Press, 1987. 1st ed.. Paperback wide octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), card covers, frontispiece, minor edgewear jacket (tiny tear top edge, tiny scuff base spine). 32 pp. This fascinating booklet comprises the first published account of Australia's foundation in 1788 and was printed on the front page… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. Hardback small octavo, no jacket (missing), good condition, black & white vignettes, edges foxed, pages & endpapers lightly toned, minor edgewear, tiny dents & faint annotation front endpapers, autograph (author's name & date). 117 pp. A collection of 18 fascinating and entertaining personal essays by educator and researcher George Mackaness about his investigations of… Ler mais sobre este item

Napier, NZ: Evolve Studios (Printer), 2005. 2nd ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, flexible covers, black & white drawings, minimal foxing top edge, spine edge rear cover rubbed, minor edgewear, small sticker top corner flyleaf (covers faint sticker mark), owner's label inside front cover, loosely inserted corrigenda slip. 329 pp. Jeremy Long has edited the letters of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Wentworth Press / Walter Stone & Sons (Printer), 1969. Paperback trade, good condition, black & white photos, plans, front endpaper map, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), spine & edges near spine slightly faded, edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned, rear cover little rubbed & marked, small scuff top corner free flyleaf, tiny tear fore-edge rear cover,… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney, Ashfield: Ashfield & District Historical Society Inc., 2014. Paperback large quarto, very good condition, black & white text-photos, plans, corner tips little creased rear cover, bottom cornertip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 183 pp. This issue of the Journal of the Ashfield and District Historical Society brings to a conclusion the celebration of the first 100… Ler mais sobre este item

Brisbane: Corkwood Press, 1995. 2nd, facsimile ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), frontispiece, fold-out map attached inside rear cover, faint foxing top edge, pages lightly toned, rubber stamp owner's name front pastedown. 88 pp. The story of the Jardine Expedition is that of two extraordinary men, Frank and Alexander Jardine. This account, edited by… Ler mais sobre este item

London & Sydney: Collins, 1953. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), blue cloth cover (spine ends little worn), some edge tears jacket, edges lightly foxed, some tape marks endpapers, pages lightly toned, autograph (author's written name). 143 pp. George Mackaness presents an entertaining gallery of celebrated and notorious early settlers: governors and their wives, convicts, rogues,… Ler mais sobre este item

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, few figures, minor edgewear. 182 pp. Lorenzo Veracini looks at the settler colonial 'situation' and explains how there is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism itself is a resilient formation that rarely ends. It is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1986. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos & drawings, minor edgewear, old price marks. 176 pp. About a demented Irishman, Henry James O’Farrell, who shot and injured Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868. This episode was used by the unscrupulous politician Henry Parkes for his own political… Ler mais sobre este item

Loftus, NSW: Australian Military History Publications / Australian Army History Unit, 2009. Hardback large tall octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & black & white & single-colour illustrations (including front & rear jacket), maps, minor edgewear jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 242 pp. On 3 December 1854… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2022. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. 338 pp. Dean Ashenden relates a combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history. He returns to Tennant Creek after 50 years where he lived as a boy. He finds the town transformed, but its silence about the past is still… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing (ASP), 2018. 1st ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, black & white drawings (lithographs, watercolours, & few text-photos), bottom corners few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 345 pp. This is the story of Joseph Anderson Panton, who came to Australia from Scotland during the colonial era. He was a high-minded pillar of… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2019. Reprint ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 433 pp. In this Volume 2 to his best-selling history, David Hunt provides a masterpiece of humorous retelling of little known facts about Australia’s past frontier history. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous Indigenous… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2000. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 373 pp. To celebrate 100 years of the Australian nation, Phillip Knightley chronicles the history of Australia from its use as a settlement for English prisoners to the present. Part history, part travelogue, part memoir - this book tells the… Ler mais sobre este item