Search Results: Authors starting with M from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Sydney, Angus & Robertson first edition - h/c in d.j. Frank Leslie Thompson Wilmot, who wrote as ""Furnley Maurice"", was a significant poet of the ealy part of the twentieth century. This book gives glimpses of many writers of those times and of places, such as the famous and unconvential bookshop, Cole's Book Arcade, with which Wilmot was associated with for many years. 225 x 145mm., pp. frontis, 12, 106, b/w plates. Content pages evenly browned edges - no inscriptions, d.j. rub/wear top/bot. spine & corners. VG+/VG

London, Longmans, Green first edition, The Silver Library - hard cover Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 - December 1859) was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote entensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. 192 x 135mm., pp. xi, 2, 475, 4 (adverts). Orig. red cloth covered boards, gold blocked spine (title, author). Hard cover (without dust jacket). Contents, no inscriptions, boards medium rubbed & small stained areas. VG

Sydney, Cape Breton University Press first edition - Trade paperback, stiff card covers Roddie's guardian and grandfather Calum is a quiet and stoic man. He and his aging friends illuminate the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families and communities, and a disappearing language. 227 x 153mm., pp. 383. Trade paperback, stiff illustrated card covers. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED ( title page), one 'reading crease' on spine, medium rubbed corners and background colour. VG+ ISBN: 9781897009055

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press first edition - hard cover WITHOUT d.j. as issued Outbursts of cultural anxiety like the one inspired by the urban crisis of the 80's and 90's are a common feature of the cultures of advanced industrialized nations. Macek argues and assesses the future of urban paranoia for the cities and suburbs alike. 235 x 156mm., pp. xx, 372, b/w plates, append., notes, biblio., index. Hard cover (without dust jacket as issued). Orig. gray resin, blocked on front & spine. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR UNDERLINING; boards/binding in excellent condition. FINE ISBN: 0816643601

Glascow, William Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Sauces are an intrinsic part of good cooking and great dishes. From classics to traditional English and American sauces, tomato based sauces from the Mediterranean and Mexico, some hot and cold sauces for puddings - in all 600 recipes from all over the world with a practical guide to which sauce to eat with what. 260 x 195mm., pp. 192, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents and d.j. as new. FINE/FINEbook dust jacket as new. ISBN: 0004351266

Sydney, McCarron, Stewart & Co. first edition - hard cover in acetate dust jacket From the earliest days of Sydney's history, the area at the head of Darling Harbour has been the chief centre of industry - we begin there. 250 x 188mm., pp. 24 (unpaginated) plus 6 fold-outs (illustrations), one single page illustration, plus A. C. Cooke's Panorama of Sydney (1874) folded in pocket at rear. H/cover in red cloth covered boards, gold blocked front only, clear acetate dust jacket. Contents, personal inscription from 'Malcolm & Anne Stewart', back endpaper insect ""nibbled"" top edge. VG.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode first edition - h/c in d.j. 'Nothing before Television has altered so drastically the techniques of mass persuasion. No other medium has brought the ideal of an informed electorate so close to reality, yet poses so serious a threat of reducing politics to triviality'. 222 x 148mm., pp. xx + 364, contents pages v.g., old sticky tape marks to ffeps & flaps of d.j., p.o. name ffep (neat), sl. wear top/bottom spine - bright & clean - no tears or chips, v.g.

Port Melbourne, Text first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers Understand once and for all: periods - the good and the irregular � PMS, UTI, STD, PID�breast cancer and self-examination � pregnancy - when you want to be, when you don't! ... all the lumps and bumps and things that itch in the night. 235 x 153mm., pp. ix, 251, b/w illus., glossary, further reading, index. Large paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, card cover - very slight rubbing on corners. NEAR FINE ISBN: 186372043x

Auckland, William Collins first edition - hard cover in dust jacket In 328 pages of skilfully chosen excerpts from the writings of a variety of visitors to New Zealand, interspersed with her own lively commentary, Maddock brings the past to life, with quotes from, missionaries, whalers, pakeha Maoris and others. 260 x 198mm., pp. x, 317, b/w & colour plates throughout, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, medium creasing top/bot. edges on back, slightly rubbed front/back. FINE/VG ISBN: 0002169584

Auckland, Collins first edition - h/c in d.j. The comparison between the land as the discoverers saw it and as it is two hundred years later is the basis of this unique book. As one would expect, there is wit and shrewd observation in Shirley Maddock's writing and an almost poetical appreciation of the beauty which Don Whyte has so brilliantly captured with his camers (edit.) 160mm. x 220mm., pp. frontis, xvi, 284, map end/p., b/w & col. plates. Contents - old tape marks (light) on endpapers, content page edges slightly tanned, d.j. no tears. VG/VG

Sydney, Hale & Iremonger first edition - h/c in d.j. As Australia's first woman novelist, as a teacher, a journalist, a philanthropic worker, a preacher, and a public campaigner for electoral reform and for the rights of women, she sought to overcome patriarchal conventions. As a 'Pioneer Woman� opening new paths for her sisters to tread' she was one of the earlists 'new women' of Australia. 225 x 145mm., pp. 240, b/w plates, endnotes, biblio., index. Contents near fine - no inscriptions, d.j. - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0868061492

Perth, Minister of Mines first edition - soft w/r covers A. Gibb Maitland was the Government Geologist during the early part of the 1900's. His work is still held in great respect by the modern day geologist and mineral searchers. This is an extremely rare publication and is not very often offered for sale. sale. 21 x 14cm., pp. 150, 6 fold out maps (1899 State map coloured, tear at fold), cover has chips to outside edges, water staining ? to outside content edges, few previous owners notations, but contents generally very good.

London, Eyre Methuen first edition - h/c in d.j. A brown-painted New York tenement, empty and decaying except for one lone tenant on the top floor - Harry Lesser, writer - or re-writer. He has been struggling for nearly ten years with his novel. He must stay on undisturbed so that he can finish the book where it was born. Then one day Lesser discovers in the next door flat a black man at a wooden kitchen table. He is typing. Willie Spearmint too has found a private place where he can write. 210 x 140mm., pp. 230, p.o.i. ffep., d.j. no tears or chips, VG+

Sydney, University of New South Wales Press first edition - paperback, stiff card covers In 1995 James Wolfensohn struck the World Bank like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Franklin Roosevelt and his World War Two allies. He embraced debt relief for the poorest countries, faced off against critics of the anti- globalisation movement. Never had the World Bank been more important than under his presidency. 228 x 154mm., pp. 10 (prelim.), 462, notes, index. Large (trade) paperback, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, card covers - no creases. NEAR FINE ISBN: 0868408255

Milsons Point, Chatto & Windus/Random House Australia first AUSTRALIAN edition - h/cover in dust jacket In the mid-1840s, a thirteen-year-old boy, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aboriginals. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and women who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place, hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to them. 243 x 160mm., pp. 6, 200. Hard cover in dust jacket. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY - SIGNED with personal inscription. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0091827825

London, Chatto and Windus first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The year is 1827. In a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney an illiterate Iirishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair is to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories and uncover an unlikely connnection. 240 x 158mm., pp. 6, (prelim.), 214. Hard cover in d.j. Pages nicely age-toned, correct numbering. PRESENTATION COPY - AUTHOR SIGNED with personal inscription. VG+/NEAR FIINE ISBN: 0701165715

London, Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book tells how one man sets out to recover the land his ancestors first discovered and then lost, and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a different reality. The story spans his whole life - from before the First World War, throughthe years as a swaggie in the Great Depression, to Brisbane in the Forties and his retirement to a patch of Australia where he at last takes possession of his dream. 230 x 155mm., pp. 4, 230, b/shop label ffep - no inscriptions; d.j. sl. creasing on edges. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0701127376

St Lucia, University of Queensland Press first TRUE AUSTRALIAN edition - hard cover in d.j. 212 x 143mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 170. Hard cover in dust jacket. Orig. maroon papered boards, orange title & white reversed name of author on spine, boards a little rubbed. Contents, ""previous owners"" name (one line) top of of orange ffep, bookshop label on front fixed endpaper, med. dusty/flecked top page edges, medium stain in margin showing on pages 20-24 (more so on page 22), small light stain front edge; dust jacket med. faded spine strip, small chip top front edge, very bright & clean. At least VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0702209691

London, Chatto & Windus First Aust. edition - har The year is 1827. In a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair is to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories and uncover an unlikely connection. 240 x158mm., pp.6, (prelim), 214, H/cover in d.j. Content pages age-toned mainly on edges, AUTHOR SIGNED on title page; d.j. has med. rubbing on back panel. VG+/VG ISBN: 0701165715

North Sydney, Knopf/Random first AUSTRALIAN edit., hard cover in dust jacket David Malouf's imagination inhabits violence, humour, warmth and cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of taciturn folk, and men and women looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on. This is a compilation of David's shorter work some of novella length. 240 x 160mm., pp. viii, 508, 12 (adverts). Hard cover in dust jacket. True AUSTRALIAN first edition (correct numbering). Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket - slightly rubbed on corners. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 9781741666113