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London: John Murray (Publishers), 1985. (v), + 209pp., intext, line-drawn theatre maps. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain red boards undamaged. Two creased leaves at rear of book, else textblock unmarked. Art-illustrated (Val Biro) dustjacket lightly edgeworn, with a short closed tear, plus a dampstain on verso of spine. Promoted Post-Captain, Nathaniel Drinkwater, now in command of the former French frigate 'Antigone', is part of the Channel blockade of France in the summer of 1804. Somehow the combined fleets of France and Spain escape the blockade and now Drinkwater must face his old enemy Edouard Santhonax and the French Admiral Villeneuve off Cape Trafalgar . . . Contents include: Prelims., Part 1/ Blockade. 2/ Breakout. 3/ Battle. Book weight approx. 455g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good +.

Fremantle, Western Australia: Vivid Publishing, 2009. vi, + 409pp. Book clean. Spine firm, white title there-on. Plain black boards have a short pressure mark to rear panel. Author's penned signature and date (2009) to title page, else leaves clean and unmarked, with just a hint of tanning to textblock edges. Illustrated dustjacket minimally edgeworn, minor soft edge creasing at head. "A well-researched, entertaining and suspenseful novel about the link between four people over a period of one hundred and fifty years . . . " Contents include: Acks. Prologue, 21 chapters. Historical Fiction. Book weight approx. 685g. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 23.5cm x 15.5cm).

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround, 1994. 367pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a very soft corner crease. " . . . much more than a detective story and much more than a sly critique of capitalist society - although it is those things as well. A triumph of post-modern literature." Book weight approx. 430g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good +.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Author / FFFL Productions, 2009. 92pp., several b/white halftone plate illustrations. Book clean and square. Colour-plate illustrated card wrapper slightly wavy, else very good. Textblock unmarked. From the author of "The Gathering of The Fairy Horses" comes the story of 'One', a character who sees no bad in anyone. Set in the year 2010, within a multicultural "Aussie Land" the story follows the fortunes of 'One', who goes from a baby in an orphanage to a youth on a farm, to the army, prison service, catering school, and disability services to an employee in the railways services. Along the way he experiences many adventures. Contents include: Prelims., Foreword, 13 chapters. Book weight approx. 155g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited No publication date. 176pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, nominally bumped on head and heel. Acidic (browned) endpapers, otherwise leaves clean. Ongoing adventures of Joseph Bindle, Cockney furniture remover. This story includes almost all of previous story favourites: Ginger, Wilkes, Huggles, Lady Knob-Kerrick, Dick Little, Guggers and the rest. It also introduces a number of new characters . . . Book weight approx. 240g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12th Impression.. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Quercus, 2008. 346pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated soft card wrapper very good, small mark to rear cover. From the rear panel: "The border collie leapt over the picket fence and raced past the barn, a blur of black and white, barking a belated warning . . . He smiled at us from the other side of the fence as the border collie licked his hand. Mom smiled back, smoothed her damp apron and started down the porch steps. I hesitated for only a moment before I put down the laundry basket and followed. We met him at the gate. She was expecting him. She wasn't expecting the heartache that would follow like a cold wind . . . " Book weight approx. 555g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Uncorrected Proof Copy.. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

London: Collins, 1969. 288pp. Book clean. Spine firm, slightly canted, bright gilt title there-on. Bright gilt author name to front panel of grey cloth boards, which have a couple of very small in-production (under cloth) 'bumps' to same. Leaves clean and unmarked. Grey, text printed dustjacket mildly edge rubbed, corner clip and small sticker ghost to front flap, minor marks to white rear panel. A stand-alone title in 'The Hammond Innes Collected Edition' series. "This is the story of three men and an enterprise begun in a hangar on a deserted aerodrome in Wiltshire. Air Bridge is the West Berliner's term for the Airlift. The time is 1948 . . . " 10 chapters. Book weight approx. 400g. (This book will post as a small parcel within Australia only, and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). Reprint. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo - (approx. 20.25cm x 13.75cm).

Mornington, Victoria, Australia: Author (L.M. Stacey) Printed By Morningside Printers, 1998. v, + 139pp. Book clean and square. A soft reading crease on lightly bumped spine. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, with a short, oblique crease on rear upper foredge corner. A short personal inscription, signed and dated by the author on title page, else textblock unmarked. This book is a collection of short stories from the pen of Mornington Peninsula (Victoria)-based author L. (Lili) M. Stacey. The first story is "Alien Rescue", and the last story is "Do-Gooder". Book weight approx. 205g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking/Penguin, 2011. 370pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. "One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. Opening its delicate pages she meets with a flood of memories . . . It's 1933 and Ruth is back in her light-filled flat in Berlin . . . " Book weight approx. 640g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First U.K. Edition, First Impression.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Berkley Sensation, 2006. 259pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves unmarked. Provocatively-illustrated card wrapper has two small corner creases, minimal edgewear only. Set in a fictional Pacific Coast town, and centering around the murder investigation of an wealthy local woman; a novel of erotica-romance from American author Emma Holly. Book weight approx. 300g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . First Edition.. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 2007. 221pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has negligible edgewear only. "In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school-calling themselves 'American Youth' . . . " Book weight approx. 350g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Thus.. Softcover. Very Good +.

United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 2001. 354pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Illustrated dustjacket has slightly U.V. affected spine, minimal edgewear only. A novel of growing up, by the award-winning Irish-born, Scottish resident, author, Bernard MacLaverty. "Martin Brennan: a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions but none of the answers. This is Belfast in the late sixties . . . " Book weight approx. 700g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Hartwell, Victoria: Sid Harta Publishers, 2002. iii, + 455pp. Book clean. Spine cocked, with many light reading creases. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated card wrapper slightly edgeworn only. A relationship-based tale of murder, morality and passion. Set in a small Australian township of Port Gordon, close to the sea and the magnificent Flinders Ranges. Key character Thomas Coburn, with a failed marriage and ruined career as a surgeon as baggage, seeks refuge in the town. Buying a vacant medical practice, he finds himself up to his armpits in it.his predecessor has died mysteriously; rare minerals in the ranges; developers; Aboriginal elders. And, of course: an attractive female geologist. Suddenly . . . Book weight approx. 600g.. First Edition.. Softcover. Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 243pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, fine reading crease there-on. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very good. " . . . a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about people and poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to families, neighbours and the strangers in our lives . . . " Book weight approx. 342g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Impression.. Softcover. Very Good +.

London: Constable and Company, 1984. 248pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edgeworn, with a couple of tiny nicks, small area of surface laminate loss to lower edge of front panel. "Poland is on the brink of revolution, and a forty-year-old secret - buried deep in Arctic waters - could plunge Europe into war . . . " 445g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good.

Auckland, New Zealand: Moa Beckett, 1994. 192pp., b/white, sketch-illustrations throughout by Pat Trembeth. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Leaves mildly acidic. Illustrated card wrapper mildly bumped and creased. More humour from the 'Kiwi Bushman', Barry Crump, tells the tale of scammer Arty and his mate Joe, and of the 'fox', and over-zealous traffic cop who is determined to find out the truth behind their little scam, and, if possible put them behind bars.Barry Crump, MBE, was born in 1935, and died in 1996. Book weight approx. 200g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint.. Softcover. Very Good.

St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2008. 205pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper nominally scuffed only. "Forced to board in her final years at school, Catherine struggles to fit in and feels awkward and different. But then a collection of words and pictures left by her grandmother helps her to piece together a tragic family secret. The more she learns about the past, the more she learns about herself . . . " Book weight approx. 220g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . First Edition.. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2011. 452pp. Printed endpapers. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain red boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket ostensibly undamaged. Few Australian literary awards have eluded author Alex Miller, if fact he has twice been the recipient of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. This title is his latest offering . . . Autumn Laing is a young woman married to Arthur when she seduces Pat Donlon, who is married to the expectant, young and beautiful Edith. Events surface when, as an 85 year-old, Autumn, seeking redemption, begins to tell her story; "They are all dead, and I am skeleton-gaunt . . . " Book weight approx. 660g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Impression.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Beaconsfield, Victoria, Australia : Author (Esme James) No publication date (c. 2012). 220pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper near fine. Signed "Hope you enjoy, Esme James xxxx" on plain verso of front wrap. Textblock unmarked. Written and self-published when she was a Year Nine student at an outer-Melbourne college, 'Awakening', by young debut author Esme James, is a story of bravery, courage and persistance, exploring the deeper emotions of human kind, and featuring Katherine Aniam as a high school student in a small town named 'Guerriero' . . . Book weight approx. 305g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post as a small parcel. . Inscribed and Signed by Author. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - (approx. 21cm x 14.5cm).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. 190pp. Book clean. Spine firm, mildly canted, gilt title there-on. Plain green boards lightly corner-bumped. Random foxing spots to textblock edges, else leaves clean. Previous bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Art-illustrated (Philip Gough) dustjacket is price-clipped on lower front flap, tanned on spine, and has some foxing and marking to front and rear panels, two short creases, minor edge-creasing and a couple of edge nicks. From the jacket flap: "A holiday in Portugal is planned by Christine Channing's family, to take her mind off a troubled love affair. They are charmed by the country, where they soon make friends, among them the Baronessa Narvao, who invites them to stay in her luxurious mansion. But the Baronesa is not all she appears to be, and the Channings are rescued from an awkward predicament by the timely arrival of Christine's fiance, James, and his grandfather the fiery earl." Book weight approx. 280g. *Postage charge… Read More