Search Results: Titles starting with S from Antique Bookshop

Adel. AGSA., 1986.. 4to. Or.bds. 120pp. Some col & many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed.

Colorado. Sounds True, Inc., 2022.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 341pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. How does faith healing work, or does it? What's behind the phenomenon of spontaneous remission, and is this something we can influence? Dr. Lissa Rankin spent ten years investigating these questions.

Gloucester. Fiar Winds Press., 2003.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 240pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. History Professor, John Young, examines the history of the Knights Templar, a mysterious order of knights founded just after the first Crusade to protect pilgrims to the Holy City, but became much more

n.p. The Author., 1989.. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 225pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed.

N.Y. HarperCollins., 2005.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 404pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Four journalists from the tech magazine, Wired, explore the question of why it is that our society is the most technologically sophisticated, & yet cannot seem to protect itself from terrorist threats.

Lond. The Folio Society., 1995.. Or.dec.cloth. 339pp. Colour frontispiece, b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. In the slip-case. 1st Folio Society edition. Born into a peasant family in Domremy in north-east France, Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael instructing her to support Charles VII & recover France from the English.

Yale Univ.Press., 1997.. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 326pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. The extraordinary history of the Papacy, from its beginnings nearly 2000 years ago up to the reign of John Paul II.

Adelaide. Samstag Museum of Art., 2016.. Col.ill.bds. 391pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. This book pays tribute to two exceptional American philanthropists, Anne & Gordon Samtag, & their magnificent cultural bequest, the Fine Arts Trust & scholarship of Australian artists.

N.Y. Abelard-Schuman., 1967.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. b/w ills. Dj a little faded at spine & name on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Samuel Cunard founded the world's first steamship line at a time when the steamboat, railroad, & the electric telegraph were changing the world. Risking all, he built his dream of ocean transportation.

Syd. ABC Books., 1999.. (2nd imp) Col.Ill.wrapps. 352pp. b/w maps. Very good copy. In March 1997, Papua New Guinea faced its worst crisis since independence when the PNG Defence Force revolted against government plans to use mercenaries to end the war on Bougainville.

Lane Cove. Historic Aust Publishing, 1985.. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 191pp. corners. mall mMark to top of content page. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Wrapps sl.rubbed else a very good copy. 1st ed. Ben Hall the bushranger came into being after his wife left him for a flash young stockman in 1861. Ben fell into bad company with Frank Gardiner, & began robbing coaches for gold & banknotes in 1862.

Univ of Hawaii., 1984.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 163pp. b/w frontis. Sl.foxing, else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. One of the most dramatic events in the decolonisation process & the birth of the State of Vanuatu.

Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin., 2014.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 270pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. During the Vietnam war, the Sappers were sent out as forward scouts, clearing mines, building bridges, & often venturing down into the Vietcong's vast labyrinth of tunnels with a torch & a revolver.

Launceston. Regal Publications., 1995.. (3rd printing) Col.Ill.wrapps. 77pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Macquarie Harbour on Sarah Island was notorious in its time as an earthly hell, where convicts were employed from dawn to dusk, six days a week under very strick discipline.

Lond. Hutchinson & Co., 1972.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 240pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. In the colour illustrated box. This year the editor of The Saturday Book looks back on fifty years of The Saturday Book from the early 1920s & its fashion of short miniskirts & the Charleston.

Lond. Hutchinson & Company Ltd., 1971.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 241pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. In the pictorial box. With contributions from Colin Thubron, J. B. Priestley, Philip Kaplan, George Speaight & many more.

Syd. Collins., 1976.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Bookplate on front pastedown. Sl. foxing on foredge else Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed on the ffe by Robert Drewe. A novel.

Syd., 1938.. Or.cl. (sl rubbed) 231pp. b/w ills. 1st ed. Reminiscences of a New Guinea patrol officer.

Clayton. Monach University Pub., 2021.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 338pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1965, angered by the Menzies' government's decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewives issued a call to arms that became the 'Save Our Sons' campaign.

Singapore. A&A Book Publishing., 2011.. Col.Ill.wrapps. 385pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Michael Adams presents a gentle, witty & incisive introduction to Vietnam, its customs, history & people.