Search Results: Authors starting with H from RSM BOOKS

London: Collins, 1937. 132 pp b/w illustrations and sketches, foxing to edges and eps, previous owner's inscription to fep, d/j browned and watermarked on spine. I have sometimes thought that one day I might be doing something of this sort and here it is, although, if anything, rather sooner than expected. I mean writing my reminiscences. In a way I feel there is a mistake about it somwehre, for I think reminiscences should really be written only when there is no possible chance of anything more being added to the list of one's experiences and as it is I fancy, and hope, there are still a good many more for me.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

Australia: London Publishing Co., 1970. 187 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, loosely inserted is a newspaper clipping covering the author's latest book "Westward Gold". Foxing on edges and endpapers, d/j scuffed along edges, bumped on spine and corners, small closed tears on front and rear. Dust jacket design by Ted Snell. This is a selection from over one hundred published stories and presents the many facets of Australian life: the north-west, the goldfields, the rural and the urban. Each is not only a show of colour but has a story to tell of the people who live there, and is told by an experience story-teller with a very human warmth, understanding and humour.. Signed by Author. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: W.H. Allen, 1969. 253 pp, b/w illustrations, bookplate on fep, foxing on edges and endpapers. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Pocket Books, 1993. 359 pp, signed by the author on the introduction page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is a story of love and sorrow, hope and triumph.. Signed by Author. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Sydney: James Fraser, 1984. 111 pp, illustrated, signed by the author on the title page, laminated boards. Henry's stories take the reader around the world and behind the scenes with the cricketing fraternity. From England to Australia, from South America to India and back to the West Indies, Henry tells of such incidents as the establishment of the Henry Blofly Stand, and his much publicised run-in with Ian Botham, and frankly discusses his relationship with Dennis Lillee.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mitchell Bill. Small 4to.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. 187 pp, illustrated, maps on endpapers, d/j slightly bumped on spine, signed with a personal note to previous owner on half-title page.This is a wonderfully sensitive and touching narrative of the lives of a group of kangaroos. Wangarie is a blue flyer kangaroo, a female of the red kangaroo species. She and the members of her small traveling band, including Old Man Red, an aging giant of a buck, and Merloo, her male offspring, scour the western plains of Australia in search of food.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Doyle Roy B.. 8vo.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1980. 316 pp. b/w photographs, flatsigned by Charles Higham on the front endpaper, minor foxing on edges. Millions of people fell in love with the peerless beauty of Merle Oberon when she lit up the screen with Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights. But they knew nothing about her background, believing the studio's story that she was a Tasmanian aristocrat.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Heinemann, 1997. 191 pp, signed by the author on the dedication page, with a personal note to the previous owner. No one knows more about children in trouble - and how to keep them out of trouble. For twelve long years Barbara was a Children's Court magistrate, confronted by both the best and worst humanity has to offer. She saw the abused and the abusers, the pathetic, the humorous and the tragic.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New Zealand: The Sporting Press Limited, 1992. 124 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by three members on the half-title page, with an introduction by Mike Brewer. . Signed. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

St. Lucia: UQP, 1992. 306 pp. foxing to edges, fep, title page, signed by the author on the title page, previous owner inscription on title page, slightly creased spine end and corner. This head-over-heels sequel follows Hugh through late adolescence and the early 1960s, from oil company clerk and budding poet to tongue-tied cadet journalist. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1948. 415 pp, illustrated by the author, flatsigned on the title page, red cloth covers with gilt signature on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Australia: Ironbark Press, 1993. 193 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by one of the authors (Hughes) on title page, laminated boards. Ian, one of Australia's sharpest and cheekiest sports journalists, offers the fan's perspective, from the vantage of his late-night lounge room and his own six-week tour of England. There, he was found occasionally in the team's dressing rooms, but usually on the terraces, once in Paris, but always on the look-out for a free ticket or a chance as 12th man.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Australia: William Heinemann, 1991. 314 pp, line- illustrated and maps, signed by the author on the title page, stamped introduction page. This is a diary of ideas, events, individuals and the arts. Keeping an eye on Australia and an ear cocked for US reactions to the growing economic might of Japan, McQueen also records puzzlements about Japan and himself as he follows the upheavals in Eastern Europe and China.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.