Search Results: Culture from RSM BOOKS

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1954. 268 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on the half-title page, minor foxing on edges. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1953. 239 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on ffep, bookplate on verso of fep, foxing on edges. This book deals with parts of uncontrolled New Guinea; it is the kind of book that can be written authentically and published adequately only if, first , it has been facilitated – and what a thin stick of a word that is for all the help I have had. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972. 114 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Bali is Bali as it is. Lovely, but not over-glamorized. Realistic, yet sensitively appreciated. So Australia's top travel writer is, again in this book, the best of guides for the actual traveller or the armchair one.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1956. 605 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j chipped on corners and spine, also scuffed along edges,large closed tear on d/j front. Presenting Japan as it is today, this is both a fascinating and important book; fascinating in the picture it gives of the country "upstairs" from Australia; important in its clarification of Japanese character and Japanese attitudes to the democratic ideal so alien to Old Japan.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Simpson Claire. 8vo.

London: Macdonald, 1962. 224 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on free endpaper, foxing on edges, d/j slightly bumped on spine and corners. This is the first-hand story of a foreign correspondent's life at the heart of Asian Communism. The author describes his extensive journeys through the industrial cities of Manchuria and the communes with their myriad ant-like workers. He tells of his contacts - and conflicts - with Chinese officialdom, and vividly conveys the almost pathological mistrust which the Chinese feel towards foreigners; even those foreigners who are themselves Communists.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: NSW Temperance Alliance, 1985. A brief history of the clash with alcohol in New South Wales, 1788-1983. 246 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the title page. Anyone with a responsible social conscience will discover here the alluring story of the stern conflict with alcohol in the mother State of the Commonwealth of Australia. The book traces the effects of liquor through most of the land when NSW was more than half the country.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Harcourt Press, 1966. 239 pp, b/w photographs, signed by Jessica Thwaites to previous owner on half-title page, previous owner's name on verso of front cover. By car through Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, etc.. Signed. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1954. 248 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author with a dedication to the previous owner on the half-title page, foxing on edges and endpapers. Zestful, indefatigable, irrepressible - these are some of the many adjectives that have, at one time or another, been applied to Clune in endeavours to pin down the characteristics of his writing. This book demonstrates, there is a solid basis of fact and a careful gleaning of information, behind his most buoyant observations. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Invincible Press, 1946. 350 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the half-title page with a dedication to the previous owner, old tape marks on endpapers, foxing on edges, endpapers and some pages, d/j chipped on corners and spine, partially repaired with cello tape which left consequent marks on d/j, shelfwear. The book describes a six months' tour of 30,000 miles through India, Ceylon an Burma, including visits to all the chief cities, provinces, Native States and war zones.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1964. 513 pp, 112 photographs, 15 as colour plates, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is not just a travel book, nor is it just Russia or Russia Now. It is a revelation of the Communist Way, the Other Way in this divided world. It is a journey in understanding, via not only Leningrad and Moscow, Kiev and such cities of Soviet Asia as Bukhara, Alma-Ata and - Samarkand, but via the extraordinary essential history, via the Men from Hell - the Tartars, via the Czars of all the Russias (terrible Ivan, giant Peter, Catherine, the idiots), via Karl Marx, Rasputin, the Revolutions, Lenin (the real Lenin), Stalin (his evil documented). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1958. 208 pp, b/w illustrations, ink stains on index page, foxing on edges and endpapers and d/j rear.The glamorous islands of the South Pacific - Fiji,Samoa and Tahiti - are vividly depicted in Clune's latest travel story.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Ure Smith, 1960. 320 p, with pen drawings by Cedric Emanuel, signed by the author with a personal dedication on the title page, foxing on edges and preliminaries, scuffing on edges of d/j, small closed tear on rear d/j. Here for the first time is a comprehensive collection of Australian folk tales and traditions - stories of fact and legend handed down from generation to generation. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Emanuel Cedric. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1966. 366 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j chipped on spine with a 2 cm tear on d/j rear, tiny tear on d/j front. A handsome book with a Midnight Sun glow to it, The Viking Circle takes in not only the four Scandinavian countries but Iceland and Greenland as well. Simpson is perceptive and entertaining as well as expertly informative in a book that is invaluable for the intending tourist, a delight for the armchair traveller, and makes a splendid gift.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1959. 366 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j slightly chipped on corners and spine, slight foxing on edges. This is a Grand Tour of the principal countries of the Continent, and Britain, as they are today, seen with the clear Australian eye of a perceptive and sophisticated traveller. Simpson does indeed wake us up, to an acute awareness of Europe. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Reed Books, 1976. 271 pp, b/w illustrations and colour photographs, flatsigned by the author on the half-title page. Simpson gives us a book that is remarkably informative about glaciers and glow-worms, and the thermal dramas of Rotorua. He also sketches in a great deal of useful knowledge about Maori culture and history as well as the story of European - mainly British - contact and settlement.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 236 pp, signed by the author on the half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, scuffing on spine, bumped corners. On 26th April 1994 the polls opened for South Africa's first democratic election. While thousands of South Africans of every shade and creed queued patiently outside the polling stations, the rest of the world held its breath. Would the fragile peace prevail?. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.