Search Results: Authors starting with H from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Carlton, Melbourne University Press fully updated & revised edition - paperback Being green is easier than you think. 'Greeniology' is a practical, comprehensive and fun guide to local environmental action in your home, at work and on holiday. The author's green-living advice, tips and ideas for the beginner and committed tree-hugger alike will compel you to change your life, and to be part of the solution to our planet's problems. 235152mm., pp. xii, 324, notes, Further information, index. Large paperback, stiff card covers. Contents & card covers FINE ISBN: 9780522854114

St Lucia, University of Queensland Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket In his analysis of Stephens' career, through difficulties encountered in tracing parts of the poet's life, the author has turned tantalizing gaps caused by lack of material, into puzzles, is wity and often wry, but never dull. He also builds us a graphic picture of the social background of the age. 222 x 143mm., pp. 10, 126, b/w plates, biblio. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, slight 'spotting' top edge, d.j. medium rubbed background colour, closed tear top back edge. NEAR FINE/VG

Carlton North, Scribe reprinted with corrections, paperback 'Asbestos House', the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie built in 1929, tells a remarkable tale. It relates the frantic financial engineering in 2001 during which Hardie cut adrift its liabilities to sufferers of asbestos-relates disease, the public and political odium that followed, and the extraordinary deal that resulted. 210 x 136mm., pp. 6, 442, biblio., index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, card covers - no creases. FINE ISBN: 9781921215704

London, Oxford University Press first edition - h/c in d.j. Haklyut was not only an outstanding collector of travel narratives but a vigorous propagandist for English settlement in eastern North America. Though the colonies failed, the record Haluyt published was used as a manual by the settlers of the enduring colony of Virginia established in 1607. These narratives provided English readers with their first vivid impression of North America. 245 x 165 mm., pp xxv, 195, Explanatory Notes, b/w plates, fold out map, Indexes of Subjects, Persons & Places, FINE. ISBN: 0192554069

London, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Hakluyt was not only an outstanding collector of travel narratives but a vigorous propagandist for English settlement in eastern North America. The value of the narratives he preserved lies in the fact that they provide readers with their first vivid impression of North America. 242 x 165mm., pp. xxv, 195, b/w plates, explanatory Notes, folded map, indexes of Subjects, Persons & Places. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. slight rubbing top/bot. spine - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0192554069

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. reprint edition - hard covers in dust jackets In these eight volumes, Hakluyt erected a literary monument to the skill and daring of Elizbethan seamanship - for men put to sea under hard living conditions, facing pirates, many enemies and uncharted coasts. Vol. 1: pp. xxvi, 468; Vol. 2: pp. xiii, 461; Vol. 3: pp. xii, 387; Vol. 4: pp. x, 386; Vol. 5: pp. x, 355; Vol. 6: pp. x, 360; Vol. 7: pp. x, 400; Vol. 8: pp. ix, 355 (and Index). H/covers in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., backgroud colours medium rubbed, small closed tears. NEAR FINE/VG

London, Hermes/Annes first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers This book offers a practical guide to the ancient and powerful art of Feng Shui * Ancient formulas and symbols and explained for today's world * Accessible advice on everything from buying a house to adding subtle details to your existing home * Includes designs, charts, photographs, and illustrations. 283 x 217mm., pp. 96, col. plates & diagrams t/out, index. Large stapled booklet. Contents and stiff card covers as new. FINE ISBN: 1843097761

London, Wright & Brown first edition - hard cover in PARTIAL d.j. Australian author born in South Australia. 190 x 130mm., pp. 288, blue cloth cov. bds, title & author printed dark blue on spine, printed block binding very sound and square, medium to heavy foxing to all edges - more so on front edge, p.o. name (neat - 2 lines) ffep., in PARTIAL dust jacket - front and front flap ONLY, front chipped (spine missing) and lower l.h. corner, but the title/author and illustration is more or less complete. Front flap has listed ""3/6 Series"". A scarce title. GOOD++/FAIR

Millers Point, Pier 9/Murdoch first AUSTRALIAN edit. - hard cover in dust jacket A rare and touching memoir. The voice of the young Rodney, the innocence with which he surveys the world and his impressions of what is going on around him; the wonderful character of his mother, her bravery and stoicism. He tells his story of England during the Second World War - a time that changed the world. 205 x 135mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 277. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, slight rubbing on front - no tears or chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 9781741967593

North Ryde, Methuen first edition - h/c in d.j. In 1941, whilst Europe was being torn by bloody war, those Europeans living in Singapore were still enjoying a lifestyle long forgotten back home. As yet untouched by the war, the inhabitants believed the island was an invincible fortress and an attack would come only from the sea, but the eventual fall of the island came in February 1942. Was the loss of Singapore a gigantic blunder or the result of a miscalculated gamble? 225 x 145mm., pp. 223, b/w plates, map end/p., index. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0454004338

Sydney, Methuen Australia first edition - h/c in d.j. When the Japanese landed at Rabaul on Friday 23rd January 1942 it was the start of one of the fiercest campaigns of the war. Timothy Hall has written a graphic account of this war which was fought, to all intents and purposes, on Australian soil against Australian people - a war which came to the very door of Australia itself. 22 x 14.5cm., pp. 224, b/w plates, biblio., index, sl. wear bottom boards, contents fine, in d.j. with sl. wear top/bottom spine - no tears or chips - v.g.+ ISBN: 0454003218

London, Geoffrey Bles first edition - hard cover WITHOUT d.j. Richard Halliburton (Jan. 9 1900 - March 1945), American traveller, adventurer and author. His final and fatal adventure was to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. 228 x 150mm., pp. frontis, xi, 433, b/w plates. Orig. red cloth covered boards in very good condition. Hard cover without dust jacket. Contents, front & back free endpapers ""browned"", no inscriptions, binding excellent. VG+

New York, Torquil Books distributed by Dodd, Mead first edition - h/c in d.j. Terror stalked the streets of Miami. The punks of the underworld were arming themselves with a strange and lethal hand-gun of foreign make, more powerful than a .44 Magnum. When they start throwing .50 calibre slugs at him, the redhead grimly sets himself the task of finding the source of their uusual weapons and finds himself involved with the most beautiful and exciting woman he has ever encountered. 210 x 140mm., pp. 184, contents near fine in d.j. med. chips, rubbing, creasing on corners and edges, g++

Crows Nest, Sue Hines/Allen & Unwin first edition - h/c in d.j. The Fog Garden is a rollercoaster of a story about the nature of fiction and how life creates art, how adulery can be liberating and how sex doesn't stop with age, and how grief is as much a gift of love. 222 x 146mm., pp. 8, 294, contents - no inscriptions, d.j. very slight rubbing top spine & back left hand top corner - no tears or chips, NEAR FINE/VG+. ISBN: 1865084719

Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin first edition - hard cover in dust jacket 'The Fog Garden' is a rollercoaster of a story about the nature of fiction and how life creates art, how adultery can be liberating and how sex doesn't stop with age, and how grief is as much a gift of love. 223 x 145mm., pp. 8, 294. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 1865084719

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - h/c in d.j. Consisting of a series of case studies on thirteen famous and mysterious shipwrecks off the coast of Australia between 1712 and 1912. The author sets out to trace theevents leading up to and immediately after the shipwrecks, and then unravels the facts behind each story. 220 x , 142mm., pp. 157, b/w plates & maps, refer., small stain on ffep, contents near fine, d.j. very slight rubbing top edge - no tears or chips, VG+. ISBN: 0727009494

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Hall manages to convey his commitment to conservation practices without moralising, and imparts his knowledge of the country and bushcraft without being patronising. The country has changed dramatically in some areas since this book was written. It should prove invaluable, as a souce of new and interesting walks for the beginner and to portray what the areas visited some 25 years ago were like. 220 x 145mm., map endpapers, pp. 191, maps. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. - slight rubbing on edges. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0727007181

Carlisle, Hesperian Press first edition - paperback, stiff card covers This book details the difficuties and determination that resulted in the Fairbridge Farm School scheme. From 1912 to 1982 thousands of British children were given a new life and education. The wide open spaces with so much added freedom, plus the feeling of a family in the cottage, changed many lives. 215 x 140mm., pp. xiii, 146, map, b/w plates. Paperback (booklet), stiff illus. card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card covers, no creases. NEAR FINE ISBN: 0859052648

Pymble, HarperCollins/ABC first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers In this acclaimed account, Ham describes both sides of the appalling struggle along the Kokoda Track in 1942 when a few badly trained Australian troops confronted the Imperial Japanese Army in the worst terrain imaginable. An historic account. 234 x 154mm., pp. xvii, 602, b/w plates, maps, biblio., notes, index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card covers, lightly creased on corners, no tears. VG+ ISBN: 9780733328275

Sydney, HarperCollins first edition - hard cover Using diaries, contemporary accounts and official papers, Paul Ham gives a gripping account of the events that led to the bombings, and the harrowing testimony to their destructive power. He reminds us that the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were full of ordinary people - who, without warning, became the world's first atomic casualities. 242 x 160mm., pp. ix, 629, b/w plates, append., endnotes, biblio., index. Hard cover, laminated pictorial boards (without dust jacket as issued). No inscriptions. FINE ISBN: 9780732288457