Search Results: Titles starting with L from RSM BOOKS

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1999. 322 pp. b/w photographs, signed by Mike McColl Jones with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Here are the tales of glory and folly on and off the stage, of things that can - and did! - go wrong, even for the most professional and well prepared of speakers.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Australia: North Shore Historical Society, 1994. 128 pp, b/w illustrations, flatsigned and dated by the author on free endpaper. This is the story of an indomitable and independent woman who, in the mid 1800s, was a pioneer educator in Australia. Eliza Davies, member of the Sturt desert expedition, was a unique, adventurous woman whose life and career are recorded in this prize-winning biography by Barbara Ward.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1992. 169 pp, signed by author on half-title page. Mark Bannister, writing the bestseller of the century, is found dead at his computer - the victim of a murder so perfect that Claudia Valentine smells a rat ... and wants it caught.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Peter Snelgar, 1994. 202 pp, signed by the author on the introduction page. Ex stockman Dan Cooper was well on his way to becoming established as a leading artist, when a savage attack, while crossing the vast Nullarbor Plain, left him scarred for life. The terrible wound to his head caused multiple personalities to become evident through his paints. Dan becomes an unwitting accomplice in the biggest art fraud in Australian history.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. 161 pp, b/w photographs. Blair, actor dancer, choreographer and television personality, is a household name in light entertainment today.From a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz at the age of eleven, Shakespearean child actor at Stratford, dancing partner with his sister Joyce, star of the musical Lady Be Good, choreographer of Sunday Night at the London Palladium and countless television shows to, more recently, pantomime star and perpetrator of Give Us a Clue, versatility is Lionel's trademark.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

St. Lucia: UQP, 1993. 206 pp, signed by the author on dedication page. Set in the decadent heat of a Brisbane summer, Lives on Fire is about different kinds of sexual desire - the desire that sustains and illuminates and the desire that flares up suddenly and destroys old landscapes forever.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Warrandyte: Cotswold Press, 1977. 37 pp, illustrated, limited edition number 78 of 150 copies, signed by the author on the copyright page, cover loose, old glue marks on prelims. Signed by Author/Illustrator. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wallace-Crabbe K.. 8vo.

Australia: Ironbark Press, 1990. 178 pp. b/w photographs, flatsigned by Wayne Pearce on the half-title page. Pearce is a true Aussie hero. From a battling family in Sydney's Balmain, Wayne lost his father when he was 14. Crippling injuries, illnesses and the serious disappointments handed to him by officialdom jolted the illustrious career in football that he began to carve as a teenager.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1969. 1061 pp, b/w illustrations, rough-trimmed, flatsigned by the author on the half-title page, previous owner name on fep, d/j price-clipped and worn along edges, foxing on edges and slightly on endpapers. This is a landmark in the field of journalistic memoirs. In his distinguished career, Sulzberger has witnessed more history in the making, known intimately more great - and notorious - figures on the international scene than any other newspaperman of our time.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Great Britain: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1974. 95 pp., signed by the author on the fep with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This fascinating and, at times, hilarious account of a young woman's entry into the Dental profession panders to the interest shared by us all in matters medical - especially when someone else is on the receiving end.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Crown 8vo.

Australia: Bruce Sims Books, 2000. 269 pp, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This is a distillation of the introspection, the reading, and the meditation on that experience. With the time to follow her feelings, she found that one way into the infinite is through close observation and precise notation of the world around us. And an ear to the ground.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.

Sydney: Renaissance, 1987. 232 pp, b/w photos, colour illustrations photos on endpapers, signed by the author on the title page,. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Vintage Books, 1996. 554 pp, signed by the author on the title page, corners slightly bumped. An ordinary man whose life, quite suddenly, spirals downwards into darkness and disaster. The elusive memories of childhood; innocence painfully remembered.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.