Search Results: Titles starting with I from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Gorleston, Rethink Press First edition - paperback, pictorial card covers Michael has been banished to hell by the God Asmodeus, charged with reforming the lost souls of damnation, the new 'satan' instead chooses to make his own fate. His aim is to save his wife Charlotte from purgatory and in the process take control of the savage demons, and build an army. 204 x 122mm., pp. 6 (preliminaries), 302. Good quality paperback, pictorial card covers. Contents, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by TIM HAWKEN (""Thanks for continuing the adventure. Tim Hawken""). FINE. ISBN: 9781781330029

Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press First edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book examines Blair Barber's artistic development from one of Perth's early modernists to an exponent of the theories of 'significant form'; her obsession with the South West forests, her spiritual home; the compassion and concern for 'a fair go' for all, led her to establish the successful Cremorne Art Gallery. 300 x 260mm., pp. 273, b/w & col. paltes t/out, Details of Works in Part II, biblio., index. H/c in d.j., Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., sl. rub., few 'light' surface marks. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 1876268417

London, Arthur Baker first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Commodore Thelwell went to sea in 1909 and spent the next 50 years afloat. His career, ranging over two world wars and including comand of both the 'Queens' and his appointment as R.N.R. aide-de-camp to George VI, is packed with incident, drama and humour. He also discusses the passengers, both famous and infamous. 203 x 140mm., pp. frontis, 256, b/w plates, minor marks & foxing to content pages (mainly first few pages & edges), d.j. slight rub/wear top spine & edges, no chips or tears. VG/VG+

Newport, Big Sky Publishing First edition - trade paperback, pict. card covers Murray's account is not a story of raging battles and hard fought actions, but of the essence of command, of the relationship forged with his men through the long days of the siege, against a relentless enemy as supplies dwindle and exhaustion threatens. 210 x 150mm., pp. 247, black & white plates, appendix (maps, Original Documents, etc.), index. Trade paperback, pictorial card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, no reading creases, slightly rubbed corners. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9780987057488

London, Andre Deutsch first edition - h/c in d.j. 'I know what I'm doing' is the defiant unspoken statement of the narrator-heroine of this novel. Young, attractive, independent, she leaves London for New York. Her secret is not caring. If you don't care you can take what you want; people can't hurt you; if you don't care you can remain untouched however many men you sleep with�.. 205 x 135mm., pp. 188, d.j. medium rubbed all edges - still VG.

London, Jonathan Cape first edition - h/c in d.j. This is Kingsley Amis's funniest book since 'Lucky Jim'. At its centre is a relationship which, in its struggle overcome the self-consciousness and the cliches of the so-called 'permissive' society, illuminates with devasting accuracy and wit the precarious role of honesty in a success-addicted age. 195 x 134mm., pp. 255, contents near fine, d.j. medium rubbing top/bot. spine & corners, back has several light to medium scratches, lamination starting to lift front spine - no tears or chips. VG+/VG

Cammeray, Simon & Schuster Australia First edition - hard cover in dust jacket Successful Olympian and one of the greatest swimmers of all time. But who is the man-boy behind the astonishing performances? This is a honest self-examination by a man fighting to find sense in his life. The hopes, fears, disappointments of his journey. 240 x 158mm., pp. xii, 323, colour plates, Medals and Records, index. H/cover in d.j. Contents, LOVELY SIGNATURE on Title Page - IAN THORPE - no other inscriptions; dust jacket, no tears, corners sl. rubbed, few 'indentations' near back spine. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9781471101229

Canberra, National Library of Australia First edition - paperback, pictorial card covers This book presents more than 70 beautifully photographed objects from the Museum of Applied Arts and Science collection and considers the notion of 'icon' in all its complexity - from its origin as a sacred image to a more contemporary definition that equates icons with mass culture and popular appeal. 223 x 210mm., pp. 166, black & white & colour plates throughout, About the Authors, Object credits and index. Square paperback, stiff pictorial card covers with French flaps. NEW. ISBN: 9781863171731

New Haven, Yale University Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Kriz studies the way in which the application of paint was thought to represent the character of the artist and of particular forms of Englishness. Examining a wide range of contemporary paintings, prints and written texts she determines how a 'visual rhetoric' was understood to participate on art, politics, commerce and morality. 265 x 200mm., pp. 188, col. plates, notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket - no tears. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0300068336

San Diego/Windsor, Excellerated Learning second reprint, hard cover in dust jacket The author clearly spells out how our current system of education actually restricts a student's potential for a secure financial future - even for smart ones. This book goes beyond describing theproblems of the system. It shows how to protect your childr children from the ills of the current education systems, to improve their chances of success, and how to improve your personal financial security - no matter what your education did (or did not) teach you. (edit. 232 x 156mm., pp. 356, contents & d.j. VG. ISBN: 0958854343

London, W.H. Allen first edition - h/c in d.j. Remember the summer of 1962? That was the summer when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Hollywood bedroom. Or was she? Could it have been that she was destined to die in another time. in another place, in order that the most tumultuous secret of the twentieth century should remain a secret? 240 x 160mm., pp. 376. Contents near fine, small rubbed area top ffep, slight stain top edge - no inscriptions, d.j. very sl. rub. top/bot. spine & corners, very small cl. tear back fold, no fading. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0491031610

London, Collins second impression - hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket Author's Note: ""I'll Say She Does"" is the result of a promise I made to two brave officers in the Australian Forces, Lieut-Commander Al Palmer, D.S.C., and Major Brooke Moore. I told them I would do a Lemmy Caution novel especially for them and prisoners of war...."" 190 x 127mm., pp. 172. Hard cover WITHOUT dust jacket. Orig. beige cloth covered boards, cloth rubbed in several places on top edge (still sound). Contents - ""bookshop"" rubber stamp bottom of title page, no foxing. Clean copy. VG

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The characters in this book are people of Aboriginal blood living on the fringe of white settlement in northern New South Wales. Despite scenes of degradation, and the fumes of liquor, the humanity of these oppressed people shines through a story that reaches a powerful symbolic climax and an ending that will leave few readers unmoved. 205 x 135mm., pp. 216. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - small rubber stamp bottom ffep, d.j. rubbed edges, med. wear bot. spine. VG+/nearVG

Melbourne, Nelson first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The anthology, arranged in chronological order, presents an overall picture of the literature which young Australians have enjoyed since the first book was published in the Colony of New South Wales in 1841. Many of the stories were loved by the parents, grand-parents and great-grandparents of today's children. 257 x 193mm., pp. 320, b/w & col. plates throughout, index of Authors. H/cover in d.j. Contents, medium ""spotting"" top & front edges - no inscriptions; d.j., no tears or chips. VG+/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0170070123

Adelaide, Rigby/Bison first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The demonic personality of Adolf Hitler, the brutality and terror of his regime. Here the author describes the political events leading up to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 as well as the creation of Hitler's police state and Germany's central role. 312 x 245mm., pp. 256, b/w plates t/out, glossary, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions - small production ""dent"" on title page; dust jacket, slight creasing top/bot. spine - no tears or chips. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0727003763

Roseville, McGraw-Hill reprint edit. - large paperback, stiff card covers The book is arranged under the following headings: The Natural Enviroment; Town & City; Figures & Portraits; Interiors & Still-Life; The Innocent Imagination; Symbols, Dreams & Spirituality; Abstraction; Mixed Media; The New Wave; Contemporary Aboriginal Painting. 363 x 260mm., pp. 262, colour plates t/out, biblio., List of Colour Plates, index of Featured Artists. Large papeeback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, back cover has few marks & small section at bottom lamination has lifted. VG+ ISBN: 0074705024

Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press First edition - hard cover in dust jacket The book, the first to be written about the Western Australian prison system, examines how the system evolved, how it relates to a changing and expanding society, and analyses the historical forces that created the system as it stands today. 225 x 145mm, pp. xvi, 219, b/w plates, append. (1-3), notes, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; dust jacket, few light marks. FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0855641320

Swanbourne, John Burridge Facsimile Edition - h/c without d.j. as issued The 6th Machine Gun Company, AIF, was formed at Moascar, in the Canal Zone, Egypt, on the 1st March, 1916, by the amalgamation of the existing Machine Gun Sections of the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Battalions, which constituted the 6th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Australian Division. This Brigade was raised in Victoria. 217 x 147mm., pp. 434, b/w plates, maps, Roll of Honour, Nominal Roll. Facsimile edition of 300 copies - a few content pages have some creasing near gutter (production fault). FINE

Hammersmith, HarperCollins first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers The portrait that emerges of Churchill is almost tangibly intimate, here is the character of the man, untrammelled by formalities and revealed by Gilbert along with the help of those secretaries, diarists, correspondents, soldiers, etc who were with him at his unguarded moments. (edit.) 197 x 130mm., pp. xiii, 338, b/w plates, maps, index. Trade paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, small crease first two pages (margin), card covers, medium rubbing on corners - no reading creases. VG+ ISBN: 0006374328

Armidale, self published second printing - trade p/back, stiff card covers This not a work of 'historical imagination' for the author has researched the Morant story with impartiality and with a thoroughness unequalled by others who have sought to tell the story of 'The Breaker'. 205 x 132mm., pp. xi, 227, maps, b/w plates throughout. Content pages, medium toning to page edges, stiff illust. card covers have medium rubbing top front edge & corners, creases on front & back covers - a very clean copy. Near VG ISBN: 095963652