Search Results: Authors starting with F from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: J. R. Clarke (Music and Fine Art Repository), 1860. Paperback folio, one folded sheet, good condition, pages lightly toned & creased, minor edgewear, faint embossed stamp. 4 pp. (Estimated date, about 1860, Trove catalogue.) Sheet music.

Sydney: ABC Books, 2005. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, minor edgewear, top corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 310 pp. Warren Fahey provides a unique treasury of Australia's fascinating culinary traditions, brimming with examples of culinary wisdom, old wives' tales, schoolyard rhymes, songs and jokes. Ever wondered how the lamington got its name, or what an outback cook was really serving when he dished up a plate of bush oysters, or what the words to the Aeroplane Jelly jingle were? This entertaining book, arranged alphabetically within 25 chapters, will trigger long-lost memories and delight readers with every page turned. The author is an acclaimed Australian folklorist.

Sydney: ABC Books, 2005. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings, covers little creased, light foxing edges, minor edgewear. 324 pp. This book was first published in 1905 to preserve bush songs during a period of massive social change. In this centenary edition, two of Australia's premier folklorists have preserved the best of Paterson's collection. They have used their own work as collectors, and the work of other researchers to extend the collection in this book.

Sydney: Pacific Maps, 1970. Ephemera, folded map, very good condition, sepia (brown-tinted) drawings & photos, pages lightly toned, few tiny holes, bottom corner front cover creased, minor edgewear. pp. This map shows and gives the history and other details about the many places of interest in this historic part of southern Sydney. The Kurnell Peninsula is an ancient island of Hawkesbury Sandstone linked to the mainland at Cronulla by a sandspit. Kurnell is almost completely surrounded by water. Kurnell claims the title Birthplace of a Nation as it here that on April 29th 1770 that James Cook of H.M. Bark Endeavour made his first landing on Australian soil. (No date, about 1971 or later. Latest date in text, 1969. Seven-digit STD Sydney phone numbers, which started in 1971.).

Sydney / London: Methuen of Australia / Frederick Warne, 1981. Hardback very small, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour photos, minor edgewear, copy 2. 128 pp. A scarce Australian edition of the highly collectible Observer series. A listing and pictorial descriptions of prominent Australian wildflowers. Australian Observer's Series, A8.

New York: Times Books, 1992. 1st stated ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), reverse side jacket lightly foxed (minor edgewear), edges & few pages lightly foxed, base spine little creased. 254 pp. The author outlines effective prevention, treatment, and law enforcement strategies from across the country to show what really works in the war against drugs. This book offers workable plans of action that are already changing lives and improving communities.

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press (UNSWP), 2010. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour endpaper map, slightly rough cut fore-edge, top edge little foxed, map, minor edgewear. 293 pp. The Australian novelist Delia Falconer has written is an intensely atmospheric memoir of living in Sydney, a fickle ever-changing major Australian city. She recalls her childhood in 1970s Sydney, caught between a faded art deco age and brash development. The third in the 'NewSouth Cities Series' in which leading Australian authors write about their home towns.

Sydney: Falk Instantaneous Portraits, 1890. Sepia carte-de-visite portrait card (21.0 x 13.5cm, larger than normal cabinet cards, no border), good condition, sepia photo on grey board (studio name at base, reverse side blank, ragged edges, pasted slightly misaligned on card), both sides of card foxed & toned (but not photo), bottom corner tip card scuffed, some edgewear, some written annotation. N/A pp. A carte-de-visite portrait card. Falk Instananeous Portraits 496 George Street, Sydney, appears on the card below the photo. Shows a gentleman in a dark suit, vest and a bowtie at the neck of his white shirt. He has short dark hair, a moustache, large ears, and appears to be looking at someone to the lefthand side. (Written pen annotation on front states: "Copyright, for Reproduction Only". Pencil annotation on rear side erased.).

Sydney: Frew Publications, 1989. paperback quarto, very good condition, stapled (rusted), black & white cartoons, pages toned as usual, some edgewear corners, sticker mark. 84 pp. The Phantom comic was first published as comic strips in the USA in 1947. The first Australian edition (Frew) was 1948 (The Phantom versus the Jewel Pirates), and has been reprinted since (various titles). This edition is the first collectors edition, containing the original complete uncut story. The earlier Frew printings had deleted the extensive love tangles between The Phantom and Diana (an unusual theme by Lee Falk).

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 191 pp. An American academic lawyer argues that the failure to achieve humane global governance is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience to the study and practice of global politics. SALE PRICE.

Oslo: Universitetetsforlaget, Oslo, 1981. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, tables, edgewear jacket (spine jacket faintly faded), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 206 pp. A Norwegian anthropological study of marriage and kinship among the Aboriginal people of Port Keats (now Wadeye), Northern Territory. This book follows up on a previous study "Kin and Totem" (1962).

Wellington, NZ: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1970. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & black & white drawings, faint foxing edges & boards, faint foxing reverse side jacket (minor edgewear, bottom flap corners little trimmed, small edge tears). 32 pp. A delightful nonfiction children's picture book by Molly Falla.. She shares, in 25 full-colour paintings and drawings, the pleasure and wonder of the temporary bird members of her family. Molly's own early love of nature was nurtured after her marriage to distinguished ornithologist, Dr R. A. Falla, formerly the director of New Zealand's Dominion Museum. With their children, the Fallas rescued and cared for many kinds of birds - the most unusual being penguins.

Sydney, Penrith: Nepean Family History Society, 1982. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, pink card covers, text-photos, minor edgewear, . 39 pp. This local history journal for Western Sydney is edited by Jan Thomas. This small booklet is packed with interesting facts and photos about the local people and places. These journals are a wonderful way to learn a little bit about local history.

Sydney, South Penrith: Nepean Family History Society, 1983. Each issue: Paperback quarto, very good condition, card cover, stencilled, stapled, text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. Each: 40 to 48 pp. Two issues of this local history journal for western Sydney: no 11 (June 1983) and no 18 (March 1985).

New York: Atheneum, 2002. Reprint ed.. Hardback small quarto, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings, illustrated endpapers, tiny little scuff base spine, light scratches covers. 32 pp. This children's picture story is an adaption for younger children by Fancher, of Margery Williams's beautiful children's picture story about a toy rabbit who wanted to become real. He had to wait a long time before the magic happened that granted him his wish. The bright illustrations by Johnson & Fancher will delight all ages.

London: Routledge, 2001. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white plates at front, top corner front cover little creased, bottom corner flyleaf creased, minor edgewear. 279 pp. This book is a comprehensive guide to what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition were. The author examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over 2000 years. The book is a valuable survey for students and the general reader.

Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters, 1985. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear corners, owner's written name. 265 pp.

Bologna, Italy: Editecs Pub. House / CNIFAA (Comitato Nazionale Indipendente per Studio dei Fenomeni Aerei Anomali), 1976. Paperback small octavo, good plus condition, drawings, typewritten text, spine little creased, covers little marked, minor edgewear. 119 pp. The first issue of this annual international UFO research magazine, based in Italy, containing several research papers. Includes Richard F. Haines on UFO appearance recognition and identification. J Allen Hynek is one member of a lengthy editorial board.

Milano: UPIAR S.R.L., 1982. Paperback large trade, good condition, drawings, typewritten text, pages notably toned, front cover little foxed, minor edgewear. 173 pp. Conference proceedings for this international UFO research group, based in Italy. Held in Salzburg, Austria in July 1982. ISSN 0391-111X.

Milano / Torino: Cooperativa Studi e Iniziative UPIAR S.R.L. / Printed by Lito Master, 1981. Paperback small thick octavo, good plus condition, few drawings, typewritten text, pages notably toned, spine little creased, covers little marked, minor edgewear. 269 pp. A double issue of this annual international UFO research magazine, based in Italy, containing several research papers. Includes two papers on the 1978 New Zealand case, by B. S. Maccabee and R. F. Haines. ISSN 0391111X.