Search Results: Titles starting with R from Diversity Books, IOBA

Hornsby, New South Wales: Chevron Publishing Group, 1992. Unpaginated [approx. 120 pages]. Some b/w [historical], mostly colour pics throughout. No dustjacket, as issued. Pages clean, tight, unmarked. Action photo stiff card wrap has very minor bumps to foredge corners. A photographic history of the Royal Australian Air Force, illustrated with some great action photography. Weight approx. 580g.. First Edition. Stiff Card Paperback. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Company, 2000. 320pp., b/white illustrations and maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain grey boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket minimally edge-worn, corner crease to front flap, some marking to white text panels. . From the jacket flap: "Three expeditions to the pole were planned and launched simultaneously by the United States, France and Britain, each nation vying to be the first to forge a path through the ice and venture farther south than any vessel had sailed before . . . a colorful and captivating account of the travels and adventures of these navigators, who paved the way for the explorers, traders and whalers of what was to become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration." Contents include: Introduction, Prologue, 17 chapters, Epilogue, Maps, Bibliography, Index. Book weight approx. 635g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Good+.

London, England: J. A. Allen, 1974. 100pp., plus (viii). Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine, lightly bumped on head and heel. Plain black boards nominally splayed, else very good. Text-block endpapers and edges flecked and splotched, else clean. Monochrome, pictorially-illustrated dustjacket edgeworn and nipped. The author is ideally placed to write on the subject of the administration and stewardships of the horse racing industry, having close to fifty years experience, in a dozen countries, overseeing the sport. Contents include; Prelims., 10 chapters, Appendices. Book weight approx. 210g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Good+/Good +.

Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976. xvii, + 487pp., 2 x 16 page, unpaginated, b/w half-tone plate sections. Intext b/w line drawings and graphs. Book clean, square. Scuff mark along top of front cover. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Illustrated dustjacket very slightly edgeworn and sunned on spine, which has a small, light waterstain. 19 chapters, Appendices, Prelims., Biblio., Index. Book weight approx. 1,002g. [1.02 KG.] * Buyers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3rd Edition, 3rd Impression.. Hard Cover + D/J [Oblong]. Very Good/Very Good.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen and Sword Aviation, 2008. vii, + 180pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, plus intext maps. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain black boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket minimally bumped and edgeworn only. This book offers a rare insight into the tanker squadrons of the Royal Air Force via the experience of Tony Gold, one of the tanker fleet's longest serving navigator/plotters - a service career spanning four decades, involving dozens of different aircraft, many thousands of flying hours, and millions of miles . . . Contents include: Prelims., Introduction. 14 chapters. Appendices (4). Index. Book weight approx. 525g. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - (approx. 24cm x 16cm).

Fontana/Collins, 1982. 188pp., plus 2 x 4 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated sections. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, albeit mildly tanned. Illustrated card wrapper very good. "Life was harsh indeed in the tightly packed streets of industrial Salford in the years before World War One . . . But in the shadow of the factory chimneys a child could - and did - lead a life of tremendous vitality and excitement : games in the street and by the canal, daring excursions to mysterious foreign parts a mile or two down the road, flickering fantasies at the 'By Joe' cinema, the first whispered instruction in the dark pleasures of the flesh . . . " Book weight approx. 110g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fifth Impression.. Softcover. Very Good.

Victoria, Australia: Author (Eleanor Smith), 1977. 116pp. Side-stapled softcover. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Poet/author's signature to title page, else leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Gwenda E. Smith) card wrapper near fine. Contents include: About the Author, numerous poems under various 'subject sections': Backward Glances, Nature's Walkabout, Stuff & Nonsense, Things Homely, On the Waves of Life, Little Ones Wonder, and Friendly Creatures. Eleanor Smith was born at Lindenow, Victoria in 1893, and grew up on the land in Gippsland . . . " Book weight approx. 155g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . Signed by Author. First Edition.. Softcover (Staplebound). Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lane Cove, N.S.W., Australia: Finch Publishing, 1999. vi, + 186pp., b/white photographic and line-drawn illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper undamaged. "Steve Biddulph looks at the most important issues in boys' development from birth to manhood - and discusses the warm, strong parenting and guidance that boys need." Book weight approx. 320g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good +. Illus. by Paul Stanish. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2009. 278pp., plus 8 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a small bump to head. "Born during the Russian invasion and spending her youth in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, Malalai Joya returned to Afghanistan in her teenage years. There she worked as a women's rights activist, running underground classes for girls in defiance of the ruling Taliban, risking torture and execution if she'd been caught. After the fall of the Taliban, Malalai was elected as one of the few women to represent her province at the constitutional Grand Assembly. Here she made world headlines in 2003 when she dared to speak out against the crimes of the warlords who now form part of the Afghan government . . . "This is her courageous story. Contents include: Prelims., Introduction, 14 chapters, Conclusion, Index. Book weight approx. 460g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Ely, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: Melrose Books, 2007. v, + 86pp. Several small, intext, b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over firm spine. Plain yellow boards undamaged. A brief inscription ('To . . . with best wishes, John Taylor, May 2009') by author on front free endpaper, else textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. Much of John Taylor's early childhood in Ely, Cambridgeshire, where he was born in 1944, is reflected in this wonderful collection of verse . . . Contents include: Prelims., Preface. The Poems (beginning with 'Little Things', and closiing with 'The Dancing Lesson'). Book weight approx. 300g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post as a small parcel.. Inscribed and Signed by Author/Poet. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - (approx. 24cm x 16cm).

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978. xii, + 270pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section, plus intext, line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain black boards undamaged. Text-block unmarked. Art-illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn only. A stand-alone volume in Immanuel Velikovsky's monumental 'Ages in Chaos' series, which began in 1950. Contents of this title (with many references to Nebuchadnezzar) include: Prelims., 8 chapters, Epilogue, Synchronical Tables, Index. Additional inclusion: A small, unrelated leaflet re Velikovsky's theories as discussed by S.I.S. Review specialists. Immanuel Velikovsky was born in Russia in 1895, and died in the U.S.A. on 17th November, 1979. Book weight approx. 570g. . First British Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936. 283pp., ex-lending library copy, complete with discreet identifiers throughout textblock and on rear endpapers. Book cocked. Green cloth abraded and split on corners. Leaves randomly soiled, [formerly] dog-eared, and finger-marked. Front panel of the original dustjacket affixed to front board. Title worn from backstrip, soiling and spots there-on. A rare title, but filler quality only. In the early '80s old John Golden, a tall man in a ten gallon Stetson hat, enters the Wells-Fargo Company in old time El Paso, insisting on seeing General Manager Tom Scudder . . . Book weight approx. 400g. . 1st U.K... Hardcover [Original Cloth]. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. 383pp., South Pacific Ocean map endpapers. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over mildly bumped and indented spine. Plain blue boards bumped on head of front board. A former owner's stamp on ffep., foxing flecks on text-block edges, else leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket price-clipped, lightly creased, and edgeworn, with an indentation on slightly faded spine. In this title, following previously successful Pacific region stories, James A. Michener and A. Grove Day tell the true life stories of nine men and one woman who "in the last four centuries sought fame and fortune, and pursued their dreams, in the most romantic of all the world's oceans . . . " Contents include: Prelims., 10 stories, Bibliography, Index. Book weight approx. 543pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Good +/Good +.

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1965. xii, + 516pp. Book clean and square. Spine firm, bright gilt title there-on. Boards nominally shelfworn only. Minor, random fingermarks, otherwise textblock clean. Art-illustrated Randell) dustjacket nipped, abraded on folds, and price-clipped. A loosely-based, historic fiction set in the 1730s in what would become United States Georgia. The story begins among the foothills of the great Smoky Mountains when an Iroquois war party attacks a Catawba village and massacres most of the inhabitants . . . Contents include: Prelims., five 'books' (totalling 96 chapters), Chronology. Book weight approx. 750g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First British.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1970. 205pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Teal blue coloured boards minimally shelfworn only. An original 'Foyles' sticker affixed to front pastedown, minor flecks on free endpapers and edges, plus a strip approx. 35mm x 5 mm (1 1/2 in. x 1/4 in.) torn from lower foredge margin of 201/202 (no text loss). Illustrated dustjacket slightly edgeworn, with a degree of tanning on spine. Printed in October 1970 : Second impression before publication (9 digit ISBN). This mystery thriller finds Matt Shore flying for a small air-taxi charter firm, taking five passengers on a routine flight to the races - two jockeys, a trainer, an owner and a friend. At afternoon's end, he flew them off homewards, discussing the successes and disasters of their day. But this was no routine flight . . . Book weight approx. 345g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight.. First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very… Read More

London: Faber & Faber No publication date (2006). 498pp. Book clean and square. Several soft reading creases on slightly concaved spine. Art-illustrated (Nigel Owen) card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock lightly age-toned, else unmarked. Conceived as a collection of the editors, Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) and Ted Hughes (1930-1998), favourite poems, "The Rattle Bag" has established it itself as the classic anthology of our time . . . Contents include: Prelims., The Poems, beginning with "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss", Thomas Nashe, and closing many poems later with "You're", Sylvia Plath. Glossary. Index of Poets and Works. Acks. Book weight approx. 535g. . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - (approx. 21.5cm x 13.5cm).

London, et al: Ward, Lock & Co., 1958. 159pp. Book clean and square. Yellow ink title over lightly soiled (splash-stain) and bumped spine. Plain blue boards mildly soiled (as spine), else good. A non-descript inscription and name on ffep., random flecks and splotches, else textblock slightly tanned. Uncredited, colour-art illustrated, price-clipped dustjacket nipped on lower front foredge fold, else minor edgewear and crease. A stand-alone title in the Ward Lock 'Blue Panel' Western series, 'The Rattlesnake Range' (first published in the U.S.,1938) by John R. Winslowe (the pseudonym of Gladwell Richardson, b.1903-d.1980) is a suspense western featuring Ben Yardell of Yardell's Boxed O Ranch and his friend Bland Tonay, an ex-ranger, against a mysterious assassin who uses a rattlesnake as his warning. After the murder of a local rancher, Ben's father receives the assassin's sign . . . Contents include: Prelims., 23 chapters. Book weight approx. 250g. *Postage charge… Read More

New South Wales, Australia: Puffin Books, 2007. 173pp., b/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly scuffed only. "In 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first men to climb Mount Everest. Ed's dream had come true . . . Sir Ed's exciting, action-packed story, encompassing both the top and the bottom of the world." Book weight approx. 200g.. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc, Schwartz Publishing, 2007. 124pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed (small front cover image; author photo to rear) card wrapper as new. In this 2007 issue, 'Quarterly Essay', author and commentator Ian Lowe discusses his "one time belief in the benefits of nuclear power and explains why that belief has faltered . . . Above all, he explains why taking up the nuclear option would be a decisive step in the wrong direction-economically, environmentally, politically and socially." Plus: Correspondence- 'His Master's Voice', Phillip Ruddock, Julian Burnside, Peter Shergold, Joan Staples, John Hartigan, Tom Switzer, Waleed Aly, Gerard Henderson, Andrew Bolt, David Marr. Book weight approx. 240g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Very Good +.

Tampa, FL: Inti Publishing, 1999. viii, + 132pp., book clean, square. Spine firm. leaves clean. Printed card wrapper nominally bumped on foredge corners. Inspirational, ".how the hidden power of reading can make you richer in all areas of your life." Contents include: Intro., 12 inspiring chapters, Conclusion. Book weight approx. 200g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. [Aust.].. Softcover. Near Fine.