Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bong Bong Books

Granada, London, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. The Obsession by G F Newman. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 247 Pages. "A story of personal torment, of corruption, & of a man obsessed. Herbie Kalma is 42 years old, a junior minister in the government, a man with considerable power & reputation. When he falls passionately & irrevocably in love with 12 year-old Afra he risks the collapse of his world. Caught in an obsession which combines lust & innocence, he struggles to hold on to the threads of his life..." All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale. There is a chip on the front of the dust jacket above the 'B'. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 247 pages. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Covers have some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Britain/UK; ISBN: 0246110627. ISBN/EAN: 9780246110626. Inventory No: 20392. . 9780246110626

Penguin, Melbourne, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Collette Dinnigan is a true creative spirit who embraces life & art with daring & passion. Lavishly illustrated with images from top photographers & her own family albums. Obsessive Creative is pure Collette - original, inspiring & uncompromisingly honest..." Size: 250mm - 350mm. 261 pages. Remnants of old price label on the rear cover.. Plastic dust jacket has some abrasion as well as some chips and tears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Art & Design. ISBN/EAN: 9781921383298. Inventory No: 19165. . 9781921383298

Red Rooster, Melbourne, 1992. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. The following poems were written after the formation of the Young Street Poets Group in 1979.... Size: 180mm - 250mm. 53 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0908247354. ISBN/EAN: 9780908247356. Inventory No: 50769. . 9780908247356

Currency, Sydney, 2007. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. `Don't mention it to anyone. Not that we are going to do anything. But don't mention it anyway.' Tim and Angela are on the edge of something irrevocable. A stranger's accusation of infidelity has turned their perfect urban dream into a nightmare. Now, every corner of their inner city apartment hides a menacing secret, every step outside is a step into the unknown. The threat to their existence is killing them. Enter Dick, private eye-smarmy and menacing by turns, a Man Who Makes Things Happen. Though he charges by the hour and his approach is definitely unconventional, Dick may be exactly what the situation requires. But just how far are Tim and Angela willing to go to ensure their personal safety" - Rear Cover Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 45 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category:… Read More

Jonathan Cape, London, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva Maria appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it's not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town's woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcising the evil spirit recognizes the girl's sanity, but can he convince the town that it's not her that needs healing? Size: 180mm - 250mm. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket has some… Read More

Macmillan, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Stories full of infectious, hospital-grade humour and loads of heart, from Australia's favourite nurse. Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In Off the Charts, Australia's favourite straight-talking nurse and comedian Georgie Carroll lets you peek behind the curtains to see the inner workings of a hospital. Taking us ward to ward, limb to limb, stitch to stitch, Georgie does not hold back as she shows us the human fragility and fierceness she sees every day at work. This is a laugh-out-loud funny celebration of the big-hearted, no-bullsh*t nurses who, sooner or later, play a huge role in all of our lives Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2020. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Charged, with Witness K, for allegedly breaching the Intelligence Services Act, Bernard Collaery provides the whole sordid backstory to Australian politics' biggest scandal'.In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged by the Australian Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but underparliamentary privilege independent MP Andrew Wilkie revealed what has since been described as 'Australian politics' biggest scandal'.Five years earlier, after ASIO officers raided Collaery's home and office, Collaery told journalists that ASIS had been bugging the East Timorese government during negotiations over Timor Sea oil. He… Read More

Williamson Music, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition. Music by Richard Rodgers, books & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Based on the play "Green Grow The Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs. Previous owners inscriptions on two pages. All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale. Size: 250mm - 320mm. 208 pages. Old bookshop price stamped on title page. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Covers have some shelf-wear, marking, as well as some bumping to corners & extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Music Sheets & Scores; Inventory No: 20908. .

Gaol Restoration Committee, Dubbo, 1978. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Being some notes on the history of Dubbo Gaols, the closure of Old Dubbo Gaol (in 1966) & its restoration & opening as a tourist attraction (in 1974), with some additional information...on some famous (and infamous) inhabitants of the gaol..." Stapled Card Covers. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 40 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, a few marks, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Australia; Inventory No: 50029. .

Howard Timms, South Africa, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Based on the life of an old Prospector who spent nearly fifty years in the Low Veld prospecting for gold, this book has an appeal all its own, for here is a day that has gone & in telling of "Old Dusty's" story, the author has, to quote Eldred Green, "himself panned some nuggets of pure gold". Size: 180mm - 250mm. 168 pages. Dust jacket has numerous chips and tears as well as some marking. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; South Africa; Inventory No: 19566. .

Wentworth Books, Sydney, 1977. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. Books about dogs, many of them dealing only with one particular breed , are numerous; & of the breeds, the Old English Sheepdog, is well represented in several books imported from the U.K. & from the U.S.A. This book, however, is very different from ones already on the market; Firstly, it is written & published in this country, & is about the breed in this country, & Old English Sheepdogs from all the states of Australia are represented..." Size: 180mm - 250mm. 166 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, a few marks, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; Australia; History. Inscribed by Author. Inventory No: 50144. .

Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. ...The exhibition comprises some 100 drawings which have been carefully selected to reveal the unfolding story of European drawing across three centuries,. Included are many of the Albertina's most distinguished drawings with works by masters such as Durer, Altdorfer, Goltzius, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Raphael, the Carracci, Tiepolo, Claude, Boucher & Fragonard..." Card Covers With Flaps. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 170 pages. Remnants of old price label on rear cover. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0734763352. ISBN/EAN: 9780734763358. Inventory No: 19718. . 9780734763358

Rosenberg Publishing, Australia, 2011. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. History brought alive through people & their lives, from the early bullockies to latter day truckies, settlers, convicts, travellers & politicians. A book of interest & detail, both a local history & a microcosm of events in Australia that were seminal to the development of this country. The Great South Road was built to allow the distribution of wool, tallow, hides & other products to Sydney docks from Campbelltown & Picton & beyond." Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 280 pages. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Covers have some shelf wear and bumping to corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Australia; Travel & Places. ISBN: 1921719060. ISBN/EAN: 9781921719066. Inventory No: 52074. . 9781921719066

Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 2002. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Why is it that Joachim is so fascinated by old Ridley, the inventor who lives next door? Are the mysterious rumours about the old man really true? can he fly? Has he invented light? Is he mad...? Size: 250mm - 350mm. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; ISBN: 0733613101. ISBN/EAN: 9780733613104. Inventory No: 51541. . 9780733613104

New Holland, Sydney, 2017. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Old Sydney to Now is a celebration of the city's spectacular growth throughout the decades. From the bustling colonial town of the 1880s, & through each decade of the 20th Century to the modern metropolis of today, this book features many photos that have never been published before, Size: 180mm - 250mm. 375 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear, a few marks as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; Australia; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN/EAN: 9781742575094. Inventory No: 51231. . 9781742575094

Five Mile Press, Melbourne, 2013. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. When Robert Farquharson's car veered off the road in 2005 and into an icy dam following a Father's Day access visit, the terrible impact of the tragedy on his former wife, Cindy Gambino, made headline news around the country. But while Cindy struggled to come to terms with the loss of her three little boys, in what her ex-husband maintained was a dreadful freak accident, a more sinister picture soon emerged which would spark one of the most controversial, high profile and protracted legal cases in Australian criminal history. Investigative journalist and author Megan Norris has meticulously chronicled this case, which spans seven years, two trials and three appeal hearings. Combined with her observations of Cindy's painful journey as she attempts to rebuild her life after the murders, the book is being hailed by police and family violence experts as a valuable insight into the motivation and the legacy of… Read More

Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1996. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. In November 1910 Governor Lachlan Macquarie rode through the boundless forests of the George's River to lay out a new town on the high banks of the river. That town, Liverpool, is now the fourth oldest proclaimed town in Australia & the first of the 'Macquarie Towns', founded as regional centres for farming & convict administration..." Size: 250mm - 350mm. 226 pages. Remnants of old price label on the spine. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Australia; ISBN: 0868065862. ISBN/EAN: 9780868065861. Inventory No: 51186. . 9780868065861

Universal Publishing, New York, 1969. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Fair Condition. Proof of Reincarnation...spirit communication with the dead...disembodied voices whose predictions come true...the curse of an evil ghost Mass Market Paperback. Size: 140mm - 180mm. 153 pages. Remnants of old price label on front cover. Covers have some shelf wear, some marking and a few creases. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: New Age & Alternative; Inventory No: 14041. .

University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. This book is an innovative introductory mathematics text for science & engineering students. The book presents the mathematical content of a traditional first year calculus course ; however, the subject matter is developed by modelling real life problems to demonstrate the way that mathematics pervades many aspects of our lives. The approach taken: 1/ Understands that mathematics should be introduced in a context tailored to its audience. 2/ Begins with a series of real life problems - an amusement park ride, an air disaster & problems caused by vibrating cables on a bridge. 3/ Uses the solutions to these problems as a means of providing a way of introducing mathematical concepts as they are needed & in a context suitable to the needs of that audience." Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 284 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, a few creases, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities.… Read More

Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2011. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Does Singapore have one rule for locals caught with drugs and another for wealthy foreigners? Why was Australian Nguyen Van Tuong hanged in 2005 while others escaped the noose? And why will the Lion City never hang another Filipina maid? Singapore has one of the highest execution rates per capita in the world. Its government claims that only the death penalty can deter drug dealers from using their country as a transport hub.but this hard-hitting investigation reveals disturbing truths about how and when the death penalty is applied. Including in-depth interviews with Darshan Singh.Singapore's chief executioner for nearly fifty years.and chilling accounts of high-profile cases, this is an horrific expos. of the gross abuse of human rights. When this book was first published in Asia in July 2010, UK journalist Alan Shadrake was arrested and tried, then sentenced to jail.for daring to put the Singapore justice system in… Read More