Search Results: aust-nt from Adelaide Booksellers

Country Women's Association of South Australia. 1952. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Book is lightly faded at edges. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Interior age-toned. Slight odour of mothballs. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Map to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 76 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2017. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 456 pages. Unravels the early history of central Australia's first white settlement. It contains information, never previously published, about that little outpost - a significant heritage site - and how an iconic town was born nearby, during a goldrush that made few people rich. It is a tale of the country's heart and some of its most remarkable but little-known characters, and of children torn between two cultures living at the telegraph station after the morse keys stopped clicking in 1932; children under the shadow of the most controversial piece of legislation in Australia's history. Winner of the 2017 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. Reprint. Softcover.

Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. 2017. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. A new book with minor shelf-wear - smal crease to lower rear corner otherwise excellent. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 456 pages. Unravels the early history of central Australia's first white settlement. It contains information, never previously published, about that little outpost - a significant heritage site - and how an iconic town was born nearby, during a goldrush that made few people rich. It is a tale of the country's heart and some of its most remarkable but little-known characters, and of children torn between two cultures living at the telegraph station after the morse keys stopped clicking in 1932; children under the shadow of the most controversial piece of legislation in Australia's history. Winner of the 2017 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Robust, professional packaging… Read More

Alice Springs: Alice Springs Town Council. 1988. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 399 pages. The first full account of the history development of Alice Springs. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1965. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 204 pages. Doris Blackwell's father was the officer-in-charge of the Alice Springs telegraph station from 1899-1908. This is her story of life at The Alice at the turn of the 20th century. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 1984. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. 277pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Ure Smith. 1979. 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. Illustrated with Colour photographs by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Rigby. 1976. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Alice Springs: Published by Author. 1991. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Inscribed & signed by the author (and his wife) to a previous owner on half-title page. 126 pages. Deals with the author's experiences with a company searching for the legendary Lasseter's lost gold. This book sheds new light on the subject. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Claremont, W.A.: Freshwater Bay Press. 2009. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 117 pages. A story of the people who built community and culture in the Top End of the Northern Territory out of the ruins of World War II. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Darwin: Brown's Mart Trustees. 1988. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - some minor soiling to covers. Staple bound. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 32 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Fortitude Valley: Steve Parish Publishing. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour photographs (many full page) by Steve Parish. 117 pages. A photographic tribute to the Top-End and the Red Centre. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Alice Springs, Australia: Aldette Publishers. 1988. Oblong Small Quarto Size [approx 27x21]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Full -page colour paintings by Kingston Summerhayes. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 51 pages. . 2nd Edition. Hardback.

Alice Springs, Australia: Published by Author. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Faint sticker ‘ghost’ to lower edge of front cover. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 96 pages. "Pop" Chapman, aged 58, led a large expedition to central Australia in search of mineral wealth. Floating "Chapman's Gold Mines N.L." in 1932, a rush occurred on The Granites goldfield. Pop Chapman and family successfully worked the field for the following 21 years and among other business enterprise, started the Centralian Advocate newspaper in 1947. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton. 1989. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs by Jeff Carter. Black & white maps. Includes the complimentary bookmark. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 216 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Darwin: Historical Society of the Northern Territory. 1996. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 95 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1963. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 222pages.. . 1st Edition (Australia). Hardback.

Perth, Western Australia: Hesperian Press. 1992. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 177 pages. A slightly irreverent look at the human face of Darwin from 1939-1945. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Darwin: Northern Territory Library Service. 1990. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Staple-bound. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 12 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Adelaide: Rigby. 1970. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy.Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 64 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.