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A Higher Call
by Adam/ Alexander, Larry Makos
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible...
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by Shah, Sonia
Picador, 2017. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Very good condition overall. Minimal wear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking..
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€6.52
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
by Most, Doug
St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 404 pages. Very good condition overall. Some edgewear and slight bump to upper spine. Pages are clean and tight. No writing or marking..
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€5.12
A Handbook for Underwater Prospectors
by Black, Jack
Tarzana, CA: Ames Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1967. 2nd Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light ground-in dirt to the booklet covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Gold prospecting and mining activities allowed on public lands vary with the agency and the location. Gold pans and shovels are commonly allowed, but sluice boxes and...
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€18.64
To the Diggings! A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of Gold in Australia. 1851-2001.
by Hocking, Geoff
Port Melbourne: Lothian Books. 2000. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs/plates. 256 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€21.77
A Bibliography of Life on the Gold Fields of the South Island of New Zealand As Described in Books, Pamphlets, and Official Papers.
by Turnbull, M. M
Wellington: Library School National Library Service. Very Good. 1961. Bibliographical Series No. 4. Softcover. 22pp., includes 106 entries, index; 8vo; stapled, printed wrappers. Age toning to spine, more so near foredges; paperclip indent top of covers. This list was compiled by Mrs. Turnbull as part of her work as a student of the Library School in 1960. (on copyright page) .
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€41.94
The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China
by Makley, Charlene E
University of California Press, 2007. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 374 pages. Very good condition overall. Minimal edgewear. Previous owner inscription on front endpaper, possible by the author. Very clean and tight. No writing or marking. No stains or odors..
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€4.93
WATERLOO The True Story. a Social History of Waterloo and Chute, Victorian Gold Era Settlements.
by Carroll, Hugh Patrick
Delacombe: Hugh Carroll. Near Fine. 2014. First Edition. Paperback. 0646915622 . With many maps, charts, photographs and images, appendices, bibliography, index, signed on the title page by the author, a very good copy. ; 300 x 210mm; x, 291 pages; Signed by Author .
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€27.99
HISTORICAL STUDIES Australia & New Zealand, Eureka Supplement
Melbourne University Press. Fine. 1965. Second Edition, Enlarged & Amended. Paper Back. [viii], 158 pp, A collection of articles about miners' agitations on the Victorian goldfields & the Eureka Stockade.; 215 x 140mm .
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€9.33
Ashanti Gold: The African Legacy of the World's Most Precious Metal
by Ayensu, Professor Edward S
Accra, Ghana: Ashanti Goldfields. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some light fingermarks to the foil endpapers and title page. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to reverse of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 200 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€31.10
Gold in the Blood
by Doughty, James
Adelaide: Rigby. 1977. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 264 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€21.77
LASSETER In Quest of Gold
by Marshall - Stoneking, Billy
Rydalmere: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good+. 1989. Second Edition. Paperback. 0340516682 . With illustrations, last 24 pages being a copy of Lasseter's Diary, previous owners name on first page, a very good copy. ; 215 x 135mm; 264 pages .
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€12.44
AN ARTIST ON THE GOLDFIELDS The Diary of Eugene Von Guerard
by Tipping, Marjorie (introduction & annotations): Eugene von Guerard (diary & paintings)
South Yarra: Currey O'Neil. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0859023761 . With illustrations in colour and black & white, Von Guerard arrived in Australia in 1852 and recorded his time in Geelong and Ballarat. A very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 315 x 255mm; iv, 84 pages .
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€15.55
Roar of the Monitors. Quest for Gold in the Northern Sierra
by Garvis, Jann E
Santa Ana, CA: Graphic Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Gold cloth, spine lettered in red; map pastedown's and endpapers; copiously illustrated with historical photograhs and other reproductions on every page including; mining scenes, structures, single & group portraits, paintings, drawings, paper ephemera, etc. Forward by Gary Kurutz. Includes Genealogies, Select Bibliography, Glossary, and Index. In protective mylar wrap; 4to 11" - 13" tall;...
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€741.02
Daughters of the Dreaming
by Bell, Diane
McPhee Gribble/George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 297 pgs. Very good condition overall. Minimal shelfwear. Pages are clean and tight. No writing or marking..
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€5.58
Gold! Where to go & how to find it
by Shears, Richard
Melbourne: Macmillan. 1980. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Covered in clear adhesive film by previous owner. Bookseller stamp to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 128pages. Where to find it, how to pan, metal detectors and how and where to use them and how to sell it. Includes Where to Go - State by State. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€12.44
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
by Parkin, Simon
Back Bay Books, 2021. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Very good condition. Minimal wear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library..
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€6.05
METAL DETECTING IN AUSTRALIA
by Webster, Col
Mulgrave: Gemcraft Publications. Very Good+. 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Isbn 0909233025, With photographic illustrations, maps, a very good copy. ; 215 x 140mm; 96 pages .
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€9.33
POPULAR PROSPECTING A Guide to Australian Minerals
by Buchester, K. J
Adelaide: Rigby. Very Good+. 1972. First thus.. Paperback. 0727003631 . With many illustrations, a very good copy. ; 250 x 185mm; 211 pages .
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€15.55
ROBERT ALEXANDER LOVE Goldfields Architect 1814-1876
by Butcher, Mike
Strathdale: Holland House Publishing. Fine. 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 0958607338 . With black / white photographs throughout, a fine copy. ; 260 x 180mm; x, 115 pages .
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€21.77
Gold Museum. Ballarat's Museum of Man's Heritage of Gold
by Reid, John
Terrey Hills, NSW: A.H & A.W. Reed. 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 32 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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€8.71
REMINISCENCES OF THE BALLARAT GOLDFIELD
by Smith, J. Graham
Victoria: Pick Point. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. 095802670X . With illustrations, previous owners name on front endpaper has been blacked out, otherwise a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 220 x 160mm; x, 230 pages .
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€27.99
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
by Kilmeade, Brian
Sentinel, 2019. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Book is in like condition but has a previous owner embossed seal stamped on half-title page. Otherwise hardly any wear. Clean and tight. No other writing or marking. Not Ex-Library..
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€6.05
Donovan's Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines - Europe, World War II
by Lulushi, Albert
Arcade Publishing, 2018. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 379 pages. Very good condition overall. Minimal wear. Inside pages are clean and all intact. No writing or marking..
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€6.76
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
by Her Royal Highness, Princess Michael of Kent
Touchstone Books, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Very good condition. Some minor shelf wear to outside page edges. A couple page corners bent from reading. All intact. No writing or marking..
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€6.52
GOLD ESCORT
by Blake L. J
Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0725600438 . With 13 illustrations, maps on endpapers, A fine copy without a dustjacket. ; 250 x 160mm; iv, 228 pages .
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€9.33
