Search Results: Titles starting with D from RSM BOOKS

Australia: North Rocks Press, 1989. 164 pp, b/w illustrations. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. At last, a spellbinding and vastly entertaining book about fathers. And a galaxy of famous people reveal fascinating, heart-warming and often very funny stories about their dad.. Signed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

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.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1972. 61 pp, illustrated, signed by the illustrator Kevin Jopson on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, stains on edges and various pages, slight shelfwear. The Darling Downs described by Alan Cunningham in 1827 as “a beautiful and well-watered valley, affording abundance of the richest pasturage and bounded on each side by a bold, elevated range,” cover more than 5000 square miles of Australia's richest country.. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jopson Kevin. 8vo.

London: Macdonald, 1962. 224 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on free endpaper, foxing on edges, d/j slightly bumped on spine and corners. This is the first-hand story of a foreign correspondent's life at the heart of Asian Communism. The author describes his extensive journeys through the industrial cities of Manchuria and the communes with their myriad ant-like workers. He tells of his contacts - and conflicts - with Chinese officialdom, and vividly conveys the almost pathological mistrust which the Chinese feel towards foreigners; even those foreigners who are themselves Communists.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: YWCA, 1991. 264 pp, b/w photographs, flatsigned by the author on the title page. This is a lively and readable account of the YWCA from its beginnings in providing shelter for young working women during colonial times to its present-day confrontation with the complexities of urban living.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Wollongong: Five Islands Press Associates, 1988. 96 pp, stamped on half-title page, signed by the author with a personal dedication on the title page. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1995. 228 pp, b/w photos, signed by the author on fep, loosely inserted is a newspaper article of the book review. Interviews with the great and the notorious, royal assignments and wars - in this book McNicoll shares funny, wonderful and moving moments drawn from sixty years in his much-loved profession of journalism.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1982. 174 pp, b/w illustrations, flatsigned by author on title page, minor foxing to top edges, a little shelfwear and dustjacked bumped on top end of spine. A selection of letters culled from nearly forty years' correspondence between George Robertson - described variously as that "black Calvinist" by Norman Lindsay in one of his more intemperate moments, and as a "wise and generous" autocrat by C.E.W. Bean - and the novelists, poets, essayists, artists and other people connected with the publishing activities of Angus & Robertson.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

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.

London: Century Hutchinson, 1988. 113 pp, signed by the author on the dedication page with a personal note to the previous owner. This is a modern classic of one woman's story.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Sydney: NSW Temperance Alliance, 1985. A brief history of the clash with alcohol in New South Wales, 1788-1983. 246 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on the title page. Anyone with a responsible social conscience will discover here the alluring story of the stern conflict with alcohol in the mother State of the Commonwealth of Australia. The book traces the effects of liquor through most of the land when NSW was more than half the country.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1987. 367 pp, b/w illustrations, d/j slightly scuffed along edges and on spine. The first graduate of the School of Engineering at the University of Canterbury was the son of a bishop and he invented "that indispensible appurtenance of New Zealand and Australian life, the mechanical totalisator". Since the days of George Julius, more than 6000 young men - the first woman did not graduate till 1965 - have gone out into the world from the School.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Sceptre Books, 1997. 306 pp, b/w illustrations, rough-trimmed, signed on a bookplate on front endpaper by both authors, previous owner's name on introduction page and reflecting white-out marks opposite. This is an extraordinary shared autobiography that begins with two brothers growing up above their parents' chemist shop in the western suburbs of Sydney in the 1950s.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: P & S Press 60 pp, signed by the author with a personal dedication on fep, d/j slightly chipped along edges, spine, slightly soiled on front. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Crown 8vo.

Australia: Kangaroo Press, 1987. 107 pp, plus index, b/w illustrations, signed and numbered, #5, by the author on the title page. This unique reference book tells you what happened on each of the 365 (or 366) days of the year. Each day begins with the birthdays of famous people or organisations, then follows a brief account of the main events which occurred on this day in Australian history, politics, sport and entertainment, starting with the earliest event and finishing with the most recent.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1978. 254 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by author on fep, with a personal dedication to the previous owner. foxing on edges, minor shelfwear. This is Don Chipp's first complete statement of what his new political party is all about. But it is more than that - it is a history of the man himself, a record of what led him to change his allegiance and a view of things to come.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1981. 156 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by Doug Walters on fep, slight foxing to edges, d/j on spine. Here is the exciting story of a country boy who went from the ant-bed pitch on a dairy farm to discover the famous 'ridge' at Lord's. A quiet, modest man with a biting wit, Doug tells his story along with many anecdotes about the household names in the game.. Signed. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Dent & Sons, 1968. 221 pp, previous owner inscriptions on endpapers and title page, signed by the author on the verso of half-title page, foxing on edges, d/j chipped and scuffed on edges, corners and spine, neatly repaired. A leading Welsh literary figure in his own right, Glyn Jones has made a most entertaining survey in autobiographical form of six representative Welsh writers using the English language, many of whom he has known.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Christchurch: Kennaway Henderson, 1959. 36 pp, illustrated by the author, one water colour illustration tipped-in, book is soiled on front and rar cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Australia: Omnibus Books, 1995. 167 pp, signed by the author on a bookplate on the inside of the front cover. Baillie looks at the real - and the unreal - in thirteen thought-provoking stories that amuse, engage, chill and shock.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.