Search Results: Authors starting with J from RSM BOOKS

Australia: Lansdowne, 1974. 193 pp, signed by the author on the front endpaper with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This book depicts those young offenders who have been 'sprung', sentenced not only by courts but by a society which either does not understand or does not want to hear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Australia: HarperCollins, 1998. 229 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the title page. What do women from different generations think about feminism in Australia? What has the feminist revolution meant to them and where do they see it heading? Is there a generational war going on? Are the younger women continuing the fight?. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. 312 pp, flatsigned and dated by the author on the title page. On page one, line one, of this novel, a dazzling young woman dies, leaving astonishment and chaos. She also leaves a new-born daughter, with grandparents who belong to totally different English cultures, north and south, who speak, almost literally, different languages. Which tribe shall have her?. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Heard, Phillip Publications, 1987. 161 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. In the 1960s, Jean Dixon and her husband spent three weeks in the Alice Springs-Ayers Rock are in Central Australia. Their experiences provided the basis for Jean's second novel, The Poison Tree. The Climber, her sixth, is again set against this background and in the same period.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1980. 92 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to Brenda Little (writer), d/j slightly sunned along edges. Dixon explores an extraordinary story, vividly re-creating events following the arrival in Sydney in the 1880s of Carl Von Bieren (or Van Buren), allegedly a member of one of America's top families.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Victoria: Indra Publishing, 1999. 262 pp, signed by the author on the title page. This is at once a travel story and an historical novel set in modern Ireland, where Jill's first visit to her ancestral homeland is hijacked by the very real presence of her long-dead great aunt, Brigid.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Minerva Press, 1996. 145 pp, flatsigned and dated by the author on the title page.. It traces the uncompromising life of Isolde Harris through a cycle of events. Sometimes funny, pathetic and unwholesome, it explores parochialism and ignorance, crossing at times the borders of sanity.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.

Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987. 143 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This book traces, through letters, poetry and art, a portrait of this remarkable woman and the times through which she struggled. The book catalogues her pastel, pencil, ink and crayon sketches, her beautiful botanical studies and the portraiture and religious painting which were her greatest achievements. A full index, time chart, glossary and bibliography accompany the text.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Australia: The Marist Fathers' Province, 1996. 184 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on fep, previous owner's inscription on fep as well. The war was over but the hate between Australia and Japan was not. A remarkable Australian the Japanese came to call Shimpu-san (Mister Priest) vowed to devote his life to healing this festering wound of war that would remain a threat to peace. Tony Glynn was 26 and one year into the priesthood when he went to Japan in 1952 to join the Marist mission there. 42 years later he was still there. Although dying from cancer, he refused to return home and continued his work until he dropped.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Jim Cairns, 1997. 220 pp, signed by the author on fep. This book is presented to show what the spontaneous dynamic of progress really is and what it is which represses and distorts it. It shows how we can liberate the first and prevent or resolve the second.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.

Australia: Wilkinson Books, 1996. 292 pp, b/w photogaphs, signed by two players (40 and 42) on the half-title page, and one player (9) on the title page, black marks on fore edges. This is one of those special books. Warm but revealing. Taking you into the boardroom, the change rooms, the private boxes.... the centre of the Sydney Cricket Ground at midnight and a strange, strange ritual.. Signed. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

London: Minerva, 1999. 270 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner . This is a book within a book within a life: an original, skilfully constructed and stimulating work that is at once an examination of the relation between an author's life and writings, an analysis of the ambiguous and volatile nature of gender roles at the end of the 20th century and, of course, an absorbing science fiction adventure with an unexpected conclusion...... Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.

Melbourne: Quartet Books, 1979. 136 pp, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on the half-title page. Minor foxing on endpapers; dust jacket faded on spine. Jim Ward (now an academic) has been a hobo and for this book he draws on personal experience of the hobos' life in Australia, America, Canada and the UK as well as information gathered in research.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Australasian Book Society, 1977. 211 pp, signed by the author on the fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. A year in the life of white teachers at a desert school for Aboriginal children gives wide scope for Barclay's gifts as a novelist. This is a romantic story of two people who become lovers in the atmosphere of bitterness and tension in which the man-made ugliness contrasts always with the serene red, blue, brown, purple beauty of the Centre's eternal mountains.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Auckland: Collins, 1978. 348 pp, flatsigned by the author on the title page, d/j shows blistering on front and spine, scuffing on corners. A mid-air collision over Wellington between a large passenger jet and a private plane is the basic plot of this all too plausible novel b a new writer of great promise.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

UK: Phoenix Books, 1996. 472 pp, b/w illustrations. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Ilfracombe: Arthur Stockwell, 1976. 220 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the dedication page, with a personal note to the previous owner, split gutter on page 161, minor foxing on edges and endpapers, d/j scuffed along edges. After a few years in a houseboat at Chelsea, John and Joan his wife, made a second, and this time 'lucky' attempt to settle in Australia where they seem, temporarily at least, to have come to an anchorage.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Harbord: John Kabay, 1990. 181 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on free endpaper with a personal dedication to the previous owner, laminated boards. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Sydney: Pan Books, 1996. 635 pp, signed by the author on the verso of the introduction page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. From the bloody waters off Cape Trafalgar to the treacherous coastline of New South Wales, this story swings like a pendulum between personal lives and history. A novel of fabulous scope and almost unimaginable hardship.. Signed by Author. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: ABC Books, 1981. 112 pp, colour illustrations, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.