Search Results: Titles starting with O from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Pymble, HarperSports/HarperCollins first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Occy has recorded, in his own words, a wry, honest and vivid account of what it takes to get to the top - and to stay there. With superb action and behind-the-scenes images of Occy in and out of the water. 234 x 153mm., pp. xi, 268, b/w & col. plates. Trade paperback, stiff card illustrated covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card covers, no creases, slight rubbing on corners. VG+ ISBN: 0732268559

London, BBC/Hodder & Stoughton first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The authors combine their skills to give a vivid account of the 'special relationship' between Britain and America, both alliance between friends and rivalry between a declining empire and a rising superpower. Libya and the Falklands War, the recriminations after Suez, the conflict over the atomic bomb, wartime disputes over strategy and peacemaking play a part in this complex story. 240x 160mm., pp. vvii, 408, b/w plates, notes, index. Contents - pages edges tanned (browned) in d.j. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0340406666

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia firs edition - paperback, stiff card coverst The exhibition along with this publication were undertaken as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrarions of the National Gallery of Australia. All the paintings date from the great century of Australian landscape art, 1850 to 1950, and include Martens, Gill, Hilder, Young, Han Heyson, Boyd and Nolan. 230 x 270mm., pp. 120, col. plates t/out, map, Timeline, index. Large paperback, stiff card covers with folds. Contents and card covers are in fine condition with no inscriptions or creases. FINE ISBN: 9780642541451

Sydney, Ure Smith first edition - hard cover in dust jacket In this lively and absorbing book fascinating legal points arise: can a man be arrested for swearing in his own home? (He can.) The vagrancy act is examined in all its dubious obscurity, and we see it in action as interpretated by the police. 205 x 135mm. pp. 255, append. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, page edges are slightly ""browned"" due to paper used; dust jacket, medium rub/wear top spine & back bottom edge. VG+/VG ISBN: 0725400137

Sydney, NewSouth Books First edition - trade paperback, pict. Card covers This book is uncompromising in its overview of the first three years of offshore processing. It explains why offshore processing was re-established, what life is like for asylum seekers and refugees on Manus and Nauru, what asylum seekers, refugees and staff in the offshore detention centres have to say about what goes on there, and why the truth has been hard to find. 210 x 134mm., pp. xi, 510, map, sources, notes, index. Trade paperback, pictorial card covers. As NEW. ISBN: 9781742234717

New York, M. Evans First edition - hard cover in dust jacket Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920. 'The Ohio Gang', an historical entertainment peopled with the characters of the day, follows Harding and his cronies from their Ohio childhoods to the smoke-filled rooms of the Republican convention and on to the White House. (edit.) 235 x 160mm., pp., viii, 248, b/w plates, sources, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; dust jacket, closed tear top front edge, indented tear back of jacket. VG+/VG ISBN: 0871313405

London, George Allen & Unwin first edition - h/c in d.j. The Okagami (Great Mirror) is a Japanese 'historical tale' written in the eleventh century. The work of an un-known hand, it covers Japanese history from 850 to 1025, when the Fujiwara family dominated Japanese government and society, and provided most of the Regents, Chancellors, and Great Ministers of the nation. 223 x 150mm., p.p. 488, notes, append. (I-VII), fold. genealogical table, biblio., index, content has sm. area of staining on pages 94/95, d.j. minor marks, sm. closed tear on back, v.g./v.g.

New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston first edition - hard cover in dust jacket More than 700 easy-to-make recipes are collected in this enchantingly illustrated volume. You will find in these pages recipes from such all-American staples as hamburgers and corn pudding, vanilla ice cream and blueberry pie, and, in addition, traditiona traditional regional specialities such as Philadelphia Sticky Buns, Bayou Jambalaya, and much more. 253 x 200mm., pp. 367, col. illustrations t/out, index. H/cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0030146216

Victoria Park/North Lake, Hesperian Press/Lap Industries first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers These timeless tracks to goldfields, hundreds of kilometres inland from Geraldton, started by the sheepmen, scored with the footprints of man and animal, deepened by the wheels of waggon and coach, made reundant by the rail, linger on as monuments to the stout hearts of the folks who travelled them in the golden years of the roaring nineties. 215 x 140mm., pp. x, 93, b/w plates, maps, indes, fold-out map (at rear). Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents & illustrated card covers. AS NEW. ISBN: 0859051838

Port Melbourne, Cambridge first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers George Seddon believed that the better we understood the delicacy and beauty of our natural environment, the more ""at home""we feel as Australians. He explores garden designs, and wonders whether the present trend to Meditterranean creates more problems than it solves. This is a passionate, wise and witty book, as only Seddon could write. 245 x 173mm., pp. xvii, 270, notes, biblio., index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, very light rubbing on back. NEAR FINE ISBN: 9780521696869

Port Melbourne, Cambridge first edition - hard cover in dust jacket George Seddon believed that the better we understand the delicacy and beauty of our natural environment, the more 'at home' we feel as Australians. He explores garden designs, and wonders whether the present trend to Meditterranean creates more problems than it solves. This is a passionate, wise and witty book, as only Seddon could write. 255 x 177mm., pp. xvii, 270, notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in d.j. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED, bookshop label back ffep; d.j., light rubbing - no tears. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 9780521843102

London, Raphael Tuch & Sons first edition - paperback, stiff card covers The stills from the film directed by David Lean, with an all-star cast including Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh and Diana Dors. 190 x 135mm., pp. 64, b/w film stills, Actor stills with names & character played on endpapers. Booklet with stiff illustrated card covers. Contents - near fine, full colour covers, with medium wear/rubbing bottom back edge, stitched booklet. VG+

Glen Waverley, Sid Harta Publishers new edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers King O'Malley's stirring life is the subject of three biographies and a hit musical. King strove amid central themes in Australian history - the vote for women, Federation, pensions, and the fight over conscription. As Minister for Home Affairs, he launched the bold bid to push a railway across to West. Australia and led the building of Canberra. 215 x 140mm., pp. xii, 439, b/w plates, index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no creases. FINE ISBN: 9781921362224

Pymble, Harper Collins first Australian edit. - hard cover in dust jacket At a prestigious research centre for the neurosciences familiarly called the 'Hug', parts of a body are discovered. Very soon Lieut. Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying disappearances, each fitting the same modus operandi as the Hug's body, has been occurring throughout the state. Then another body is found, again linked to the 'Hug'. 242 x 160mm., pp. 6,435. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 073228161x

Sydney, NewSouth Publishing First edition - trade paperback, pict. card covers This insightful collection of essays looks at the lessons and challenges that have arisen for the Australian Army since 1999 when the peacekeeping taskforce was deployed to East Timor. In a constructive critique of the modern army this book adresses the issues from politics and policy strategy and tactics, intelligence, logistics, to health care. 234 x 153mm., pp. xix (prelim), 324, b/w plates, notes. Trade paperback, pict. card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no reading creases. FINE. ISBN: 9781742235097

Melbourne, William Heinemann Ltd first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This is without doubt, Shute's most enthralling and controversial novel. With the prophetic touch for which he is famous, Shute describes the feelings, the emotions, the quiet heroism of ordinary people who have come face to face with extraordinary and tremendous events. 20.5 x 13.5cm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 312, gd. in d.j. ( faded & chipped at top & bottom spine), contents (light foxing & staining t/out)

London , William Heinemann reprint - hard cover in dust jacket The story tells of the final months in the lives of five people living in a world doomed to die by radiation. In this story, the feelings and the quiet heroism of ordinary people who have come face to face with extraordinary and tremendous events, are unforgettably portrayed. 190 x 130mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 312. H/cover in d.j. Contents - no inscriptions or foxing, d.j. rubbed top spine/corners, small closed tear top front near spine, price clipped, front & back of d.j. very bright & clean. VG+VG+

Rockhampton, Central Queensland University Press First edition - Trade p/back, illust. card covers This is social history of the outback at its best. There are entertaining and authoritative chapters on the surveyor-explorers, teamsters, selectors, bush hawkers, 'wild colonial boys', and pioneer inventors of the shearing machine, wool press and windmill. Another focuses on the bitter Vermont Merino controversy which ruined so many old Merino Studs. 235 x 175mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 152, b/w & col. plates, glossary, chapter notes, index. Trade paperback, pictorial card covers. NEAR FINE ISBN: 1876780622

n.p., Assassin Publishing First Australian edit. - trade p/back, card covers Trinity Blue is an assassin. Hunted by her own kind. She wants to live a normal life. But somebody has to die first. Following a string of failed missions Trinity - beautiful, deadly - has spent three years running from hit-men. The Russian wants her dead dead. 230 x 153mm., pp. xxii, 367, b/w plates. Trade paperback, card covers. Contents, Warmly Inscribed & SIGNED by the AUTHOR (Carol, Thanks for the support. Hope you enjoy the read. Michael John Barnes) No reading creases, sl. rubbed corners. NEAR FINE ISBN: 9780994323804

Sydney, Pan Macmillan first edition - large format p/back, illus. covers After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Denys Peek and his brother were taken prisoner by the Japanese, alongside tens of thousands of Australians, British and Commonwealth soldiers. Six months, Denis, his brother and their comrades were packed into steel goods wagons and transported to Siam as part of the labour force destined for the project later to be known as the Burma-Thailand Railway.228 x 152mm., pp. xviii, 520, large format paperback, stiff illus. covers, VG+. ISBN: 0732911680