Search Results: Authors starting with T from RSM BOOKS

Auckland: Lindon Publishing, 1982. 180 pp, b/w and colour photographs, signed by the author on the title page, d/j a little scuffed along rear edges. This is the dramatic account of what many people dismissed as one man's folly - taking on the world's best known yachtsmen and yachts in one of the toughest races on earth, the Whitbread Round The World Race. From the germ of an idea following the first Whitbread race in 1973, Digby Taylor mounted his challenge for the 1981 race.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1996. 195 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author (Shelley Taylor-Smith) on the half-title page, with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Shelley has shared her story with Ian Cockerill: from her memories of growing up in Perth to her drama-filled reclamation of the 'round the Manhattan record.. Like Shelley herself this book is spirited uncompromising and right from the heart.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Norfolk: Hampton Roads, 1994. 116 pp, illustrated, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Combining proven techniques and the latest research on the body/mind connection, this book is based in behavioral kinesiology, a proven do-it-yourself biofeedback system that enables you to identify - and overcome - unsuspected sources of stress that interfere with the body's energy, its immune system, its health and well-being.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Arbo Chris. 8vo.

Lincoln: Life Publications Ltd, 2001. 189 pp, signed by the author on fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is a book of facts borne out of experience and research. It is far from dull and dreary.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

UK: Alan Sutton, 1996. 236 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the title page, with a foreword by Victoria Glendenning. Born in Bristol in 1779, Fanny Trollope was the daughter of a country parson. She married a barrister, and produced seven children in eight years, but with her husband in financial trouble she set off for America where living was cheaper. The bazaar she set up was a disaster and she returned to England on borrowed money.. Signed by Author. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine.

Australia: World Life Books, 1984. 226 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, flap marks on endpapers, slight foxing to edges, bottom edges bumped. This book documents true adventures in exotic lands and in the exploration of the oceans, as the author and his youthful assistants research along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, in Northern Scotland, and in Morocco and Egypt.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 284 pp, light foxing to edges and endpapers, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is Keneally's strongest, most compelling work since his Booker Prizewinning Schindler's List. Like that book, the story of Woman of the Inner Sea arises from a true incident and once more the imagining of it is utterly convincing.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. 272 pp, signed by the author on a bookplate on half-title page, previous owner inscription on fep, browning and foxing on last third of edges, d/j spine slightly faded. This book charts the experiences of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their number Darcy, an Australian lawyer turned journalist.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1973. 171 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the editor John Mills on the title page, foxing on edges, d/j slightly scuffed on rear edges. The emigrant who describes his adventures in this book was William Thornley, an Englishman. During the long trade depression which followed the Napoleonic Wars he decided to seek a new life in Tasmania, then still known as Van Diemen's Land, and with all his family and belongings he ventures upon the long uncertain voyage.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Random House, 1993. 291 pp, b/w and colour illustrations. A working class kid from Glasgow, Scotland, he became lead singer with the legendary band Cold Chisel. In over ten years with the band he earned a reputation as the hardest working, hardest drinking and wildest man in Rock 'n' Roll.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Rastar Press, 1986. 253 pp, flatsigned and dated by the author on the half-title page. A novel, comprising sixteen stories - including no less than four novelettes - all dramatically set on Queensland's fabulous Gold Coast.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Rastar Press, 1985. 222 pp, flatsigned and dated by the author on the half-title page. An attractive young girl murdered in her luxury, beach-front apartment! For the unwilling Sergeant Tom Howard, a bizarre real-life thriller, in which mystery quickly develops into terrifying action!. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Rastar Press, 1985. 337 pp, signed by the author on the title page. 13 guests at a health farm - an unknown killer - remote and exotic settings in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales - here are all the ingredients for a classic mystery thriller.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Potaroo Press, 1986. 415 pp. b/w photographs, flatsigned by the author on the title page. This is the definitive account of one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in Australian history, the story of how perjury and prejudice sent three innocent men to goal for seven years.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: Cassell, 1958. 318 pp, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on the front endpaper. Foxing along edges and on endpapers, dust jacket chipped along edges and on corners. This is the story of Maude and Alfred Weyland and the son for whom they build the prosperous pearl trading firm of Weyland and Company. It is a story that transports the reader into a strange world, in which the very smells of the crude town rose pungently into the nostrils, whose people are brought to blatant life.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Australia: Cassell, 1962. 224 pp, illustrated, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on the front endpaper. Foxing throughout the book on edges and endpapers, dust jacket chipped on top end of spine and bumped on corners. This is a biography of Ronan's father, Denis, one of the most remarkable and lovable characters of the vast Australian outback at the end and the turn of the last century, a place and a time when "characters" abounded, to give Australia a glowing wealth of legend and story peculiarly her own, outrivalling even the brief heyday of the "Wild West".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1977. 63 pp, illustrated, flatsigned by illustrator Sandy Bishop on half-title page. Manly and Warringah together form possibly the most scenically beautiful residential area Sydney can offer. The history of Manly-Warringah is rich and fascinating; it has seen people with characters as diverse as Arthur Phillip, who survived a spearing on Manly's shores and explored the enchanting reaches of Pittwater and Cardinal Moran, whose towering palace on the heights above Manly is an architectural treasure.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Bishop Sandy. 8vo.