Search Results: Authors starting with K from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Washington DC, National Geographc Society first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This outstanding reference book devides the epic story of humanity into eight major eras. Each era is explored through a unique design that combines concise introductory text essays with expansive time lines, dozens of maps and hundreds of illustrations. 283 x 244mm., pp. 416, b/w & col. plates throughout, Time Lines, maps, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium rubbing on back (background colour) - no tears or chips. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0792283643

Crawley, UWA Publishing First edition - large paperback, card covers Theo Kalogeracos chats about culture, family and friends and other influences that helped him shape the award-winning recipes found in this book. 'Theo & Co.' covers all aspects of pizza making, from the raw ingredients and the fine art of dough to the decadent and delicious finished pizzas. Step-by-step Prize winning recipes fill this boook. 250 250mm., pp. 200, b/w and colour plates throughout, index. Square paperback, pictorial card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no creases. FINE. ISBN: 9781921401404

Port Melbourne, Mandarin/Reed first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Specifically written for Australian parents, this book has three easy-to-use sections: practicalities, everyday life and how to manage your childs health. Lists an A-Z of symptoms and treatments for childhood medical conditions. It also indicates when at-home care is appropriate, and when to seek medical advice. 235 x 150mm., pp. xvii, 381, index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscription or underlining, card covers - light reading crease on spine. NEAR FINE ISBN: 1863301607

Loftus, Australian Military History Publications First edition - hard cover, laminated boards This is the story of 459 Squadron formed in Egypt in February 1942. Its operations ranged from anti-submarine and convoy escort patrols, including the sinking of U-97, to highly dangerous low-level anti-shipping strikes and formation bombing raids on strongly defended land targets along the North African coast. 252 x 180mm., pp. xvi, 527, b/w plates, Honour Roll, Honours & Awards, indexes (Names, Units, Places). Hard cover, laminated pictorial boards (without dust jacket as issued). FINE. ISBN: 9780980320466

Millers Point. Murdoch Books first edition - hard cover in dust jacket A highly persoanl and challenging investigation of our politics and industry over many decades; heroes are applauded and pretenders dismissed; urgent issues are identified and solutions tabled. In the tradition of the greatest statesmen, Bob Katter jr urges us to consider, discuss and act to guarantee a brighter future foe Australia. (edit.) 242 x 160mm., pp., 458, b/w & col. plates, notes, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears or chips. As NEW ISBN: 9781742665818

London, Ebury Press/Random House True First edition - hard cover in dust jacket After Boyzone! this is Ronan's own story from the heart. One minute you're just an everyday kid, skipping school, working Saturdays at the shoe shop. Next you're sitting in the back of a Transit van touring Ireland's toughest clubs. Blink! before you know it your'e on your first sell-out world tour. This is an honest, moving and funny story. 240 x 160mm., pp. 302, b/w & colour plates. Hard cover in d.j. Contents, SIGNED by RONAN KEATING 'Enjoy Ronan Keating; d.j., small closed tear top front edge. VG+. ISBN: 0091874114

New York, Grossman first edition - h/c in d.j. Shattered parentage is David Roschenstein's dilemma. Resolving it transports him from dubious reality to violence, to outright fantasy. Accounts are delivered by eleven of the people who surround him. (edit.) 220 x 150mm., pp. x, 306, contents near fine - no inscriptions, d.j. chips, closed tears, spine medium darkened - reasonably clean for a difficult jacket. Front drawing ""Deep in the Mirror"" by Will Valk. NEAR FINE/GOOD

Dee Why West, Summitt revised second impression - large format p/back 'Ned Kelly is the symbol epitomising 'the mad, lonely life and the lonely ending, one man against the world in the bush at Glenrowan' - but the folk of the time and of our time also know exactly what degree of sardonic brutality lies behind the ballad report of the shooting of Constable Lonigan: '� brave Kelly muttered sadly as he loaded up his gun: ""Oh what a bloody pity that the bugger had to run"".' 278 x 205mm., pp. 64, Nolan paintings of the 'Kelly Gang Series' end/ps, large format p/back, VG+. ISBN: 0727105159

Brunswick, Interflora Australian Unit Ltd. first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The miraculous working of world-wide flower trans-mission is laid open, and it is shown how Interflora has raised standards throughout the industry. Every department includes human interest stories which prove that the florist deals not only in flowers but also in human emotions. 260 x 210mm., pp. x,m 70, b/w & col. plates. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, medium rubbing top/bottom spine & corners - no tears. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0959578501

Avondale Estates, IllumiNetPress first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Since 1975, a privately circulated document has been the subject of much discussion and debate among researchers into the dark realmes of political conspiracy. Purporting to revea lthe identity of the conspirators in the John F. Kennedy assassination. "" The Gemstone File"" interprets pivotal historical events in a new light. 214 x 136mm., pp. viii, pp; 214, append., notes. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card covers, no creases. FINE ISBN: 0962653454

St Lucia, Univerity of Queensland Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Sydney in 1988 offers Jack Rudd little cause for celebration. Caught between his fixation on Bridget, an Aboriginal activist, and his guilty, grieving attachment to Benny, who lies in a coma in a Sydney hospital, he is struggling to make sense of his experience, both past and present, in a patchwork of memory. 225 x 145mm., pp. 8, 188. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, no tears or fadeing on spine - light rubbing. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0702222976

London, Hodder & Stoughton second edition - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket No one can read this book without being touched by the patience and devotion which brought the blind, deaf-mute child into touch with human life. 193 x 132mm., pp. frontis., xv, 241, 4 b/w plates (incl. frontis.) Original green cloth covered boards, gold printed spine. Boards rubbed on all edges and ""speckeled"", binding sound (one section slightly stretched). Contents - previous owners names (two) ffep, one page has margin stains, few corner creases, page edges darkened. Overall a nice copy. GOOD++

London, MacDonald & Co First edition - hard cover in dust jacket A family eaten alive by its own nightmares � As they search for Melissa's mother, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any dream. Black nightmare is becoming reality even as he watches. 240 x 150mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 584, Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, SIGNED by JONATHAN KELLERMAN (Title page), last 20 pages have small tears/creases (top front edge); dust jacket, closed tear top spine & rubbing. VG+/VG+. ISBN: 0356197794

Viking/Penguin Random House Australia First edit. - trade p/back, pict. card covers Gail Kelly's presence reaches far beyond her own profession. The first female CEO of one of Australia's big four banks; listed by Forbes in 2010 as the eighth most powerful woman in the world and mother of four. She argues passionately for the importance of putting people and customers at the heart of the business and leading with courage. 230 x 150mm., pp. xiii, 243, col. plates, ref. Trade p/back, pictorial covers. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by GAIL KELLY ('With my warmest wishes. Take care. Gail') FINE. ISBN: 9780670079391

London, Kelly's Directories Ltd. 79th edition - hard cover A huge tome on the Titled, Landed and Official Classes of the United Kingdon for 1953. Original red cloth covered boards, gold blocked & embossed, decorated front & spine, red tinted 'speckled' page edges. 210 x 155mm., pp. lviii, 2265. A very good plus copy, with binding very sound, and only minor staining or foxing. VG+

Sydney, ABC Enterprises/ABC first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book describes why rainforests have become such an important issue in Australia and how people have struggled to save those areas at risk. About three quarters of the rainforests in Australia have already been cleared, so every effort must be made to protect areas of rainforests which are under constant threat from development. 227 x 217mm., pp. 167, b/w & col. plates t/out, resources. H/cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, slight rubbing on back - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0642527326

London, William Collins Sons First edition - hard cover in dust jacket Once again Thomas Keneally evokes an age and situation with the uncanny vividness which characterises all his writing; never before has he written so movingly or so perceptively of the curious vagaries of love. Hard cover in dust jacket. 217 x 137mm., pp. 223. Contents, no inscriptions, foxing or staining, in dust jacket, slight rubbing - no tears or chips, not price clipped. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0002224712

Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys First Canadian edition - hard cover in dust jacket Here is a powerful and disturbing love story about two families and the madness that invades not only their dreams, but their lives. The novel stretches from the fatal and desparate politics of Eastern Europe to the comparative innocence of Australian suburban life. 243 x 160mm., pp. 336. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, light rubbing - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0886191025

Port Melbourne, William Heinemann/Reed first AUSTRALIAN edition - h/cover in dust jacket Tim Shea the young Irish immigrant keeps a general store and so supports his wife and their two children. Fortune however eludes him. All the while he is bedevilled by the face of a young, dead woman whose head, preserved in a jar by the police, no one will identify. This is the tale of an endearing, flawed man whose integrity is nearly his undoing. 240 x 160mm., pp. 6 (prelim.), 330. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket medium rubbing - no tears or chips.NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0855615923

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich First American edition 2nd print - h/cover in d.j. Compiegne, French, November 1918. A place and a date that will forever be associated in Europe with the 1914-1918 World War armistice. In a dank forest three first-class carriages await the arrival of the victors and the defeated. To read 'Gossip from the Forest' is to have been there at the meeting at Compiegne, illuminated by the imagination of a remarkable novelist. 240 x 160mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 220. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. med. edge wear. VG+/VG ISBN: 0151367051