Search Results: Australiana; Literature, Fiction from E. Manning Books

Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2008. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), 304 pages. ISBN: 9781921344831. Pictorial boards in like dust jacket. Very Good condition. "The Big Country - Volume 2 Rough Living" includes Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice" and Evan Green's "Alice to Nowhere". Weight: 655g.

The Ninderry Press, Brisbane, 2002. Softcover (15 x 21 cm), 282 pages. ISBN: 0958079978. Inscribed/signed by author on inside front cover and title page. Good condition. Bumped, rubbed/scuffed. Some creases. Cover rolled upward along front edge and corners. Soiled, mainly along page edges. "A truly 'revealing' view of Australian modern political history. With a satirical scalpel, Harper incisively operates on the cancer affecting the Australian macrocosm. The scenario is Labor's return to government in the early eighties whereupon union power was dismantled. The paradox of left-wing politicians selling out the unions is hypothetically clarified in this expose of the personal forces motivating our power brokers." Weight (before packaging): 395g.

Viking, Penguin Group (Australia), 2011. First Edition. Softcover (16 x 23 cm), xii, 347 pages. ISBN: 9780670076413. Near Fine condition. Lightly bumped. "In 'The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing', prolific writer and editor John Ross has collected tales about the bush from all over our wide land. Richard Flanagan pays homage to the 'golden wood' industry of Huon pine in Tasmania, Henry Lawson journeys by train from Sydney to Bourke, A.B. Facey works the land on the Western Australian frontier, and Miles Franklin describes the menace of the fauna in the countryside of her childhood." Weight (before packaging): 455g.

Angus & Robertson, 1955. 'Book Society Choice'. Hardcover (13 x 20 cm), 224 pages. The book is in Good condition. Burgundy boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumped, rolled/creased at head & foot of spine. Soiled. Black mark (line) on rear board. Pastedowns/pages tanning, foxing. Tape residue ('ghosts') on front and rear endpapers. Inscription and bookstore stamp on front pastedown. The dust jacket (dj) is in Poor to Fair condition. Chipped, torn, creased and soiled. Faded spine. What appears to be tape residue along flaps, rear flap fold and along spine. The dj is covered in an archival book cover (removable).