Search Results: Titles starting with V from EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS

Oxon, Aidan Ellis reprint edition - h/c in d.j. The Crimean War is remembered as a military campaign. Yet, the valiant sailors of the Royal Navy performed feats of incredible daring and bravery. The author paints an exciting and authentic picture by creating a dashing young hero - Phillip Horatio Hazard - a rugged naval officer with all the gallantry and charisma of fiction's redoubtable Hornblower. 223 x 142mm., pp. 256, maps. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. very light rubbing on edges, light indetations - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0856281875

Melbourne, Hamish Hamilton first edition - h/c WITHOUT d.j. Very sound copy of the Australian edition of this well known American author. 210 x 140mm., pp. 4, 244, orig. green cloth covered boards clean & in very good condition, red panel on front & spine with title & author printed in black - a little faded, binding very sound, content pages nicely evenly tanned (due to paper used), WITHOUT D.J., VG.

Perth, Patersons Printing Press first edition - stapled p/b with w/r cover Now is the time for returning, - To courage and spears from the mind, - Awake, and see to your dreaming, - oh, nation of the blind. A play of a blind man who dreams of recovering his sight and does. 215 x 138mm., pp. 64. Stapled paperback, wraparound lite blue limp covers. SIGNATURE of the author (RIC) on a pasted label on title page, VG/VG. (sl. wear to spine - top & bottom).

Sydney, Harper Voyager First Australian edit. - trade p/back, card covers Cast out from his homeland, Sendatsu has used his sword-fighting talents to survive in the foreign land of Vales. With the assistance of Rhiannon - the first human to use magic in hundreds of years - Sendatsu now has the key to reclaim his children. 234 x 154mm., pp. 6 (preliminaries, 554. Trade paperback, stiff illustrated card covers. Contents, AUTHOR SIGNED, no other inscriptions, small 'bumped' area bottom content pages; illust. card covers, no reading creases. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9780732294199

Wembley Downs, Old Haleians Assoc. first edition - paperback, stiff card covers There are over one hundred personal stories from the microcosm of Australian society. Each is different from the others, but the common thread is their old School which loomed large in their minds, whether they were on the perilous beaches of Gallipoli, in appalling mud of the Flanders trenches, or suffering on the Burma-Thai railway. Those thoughts sustained them and helped, eventually, to bring most of them home. 243 x 170mm., pp. x, 262, b/w plates, p/back, stiff card covers. AUTHOR DEDICATION. VG ISBN: 0646186833

Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This Venables story is unique, from 1993 to June 1996. It plots those amazing three years. Woolnough studies Venables as a person: his tactics, selections, and his reputation as England's greatest coach. It has glamour, success, failure, hatred and drama. 240 x 160mm., pp. 192, b/w & colour plates. H/cover in dust jacket. Contents, warmly inscribed 'TO SAM, BEST WISHES, TERRY VENABLES' (on title page), no other inscriptions; dust jacket, few 'surface marks' - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ISBN: 185158756x

London, Hutchinson reprint edition - h/c in d.j. In 'Venetian Blinds', one of her best remembered novels, Ethel Mannin writes of the loves and sorrows of ordinary people in the period before, during and immediately after the First World War. 193 x 132mm., pp. 459, contents near fine, d.j. medium rubbing to corners & edges - no tears or chips, bright and clean, v.g.+. NEAR FINE/VG+

Victoria Park, Hesperian Press First edition - hard cover in pictorial boards The Enrolled Pensioner Force consisted of soldiers who came as guards on the convict ships which, between 1850 and 1868, transported almost 10,000 prisoners from the gaols of the United Kingdom to the colony of Western Australia. Many remained as settlers after their military duties were finished and thousands of Western Australian's can trace their ancestory back to these soldiers. 223 x 145mm., pp. 10 (prelim.), 158, 304 (Biographical index), b/w plates. Hard cover in laminated pictorial boards. NEW. ISBN: 085905103x

London, William Collins Sons First edition - hard cover in dust jacket This is a astonishingly vivid and convincing evocation of a polar expedition before the First World War. It is a compelling study of human nature under stress, of a small group of brave men facing not only the terror of nature but the still more insidious threat from their own minds. 218 x 138mm., pp. 222. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, foxing or staining, in dust jacket, small crease bottom front edge - no tear or chips. ISBN: 0002224933

Melbourne, Government of the State of Victoria first edition- hardcover WITHOUT d.j. The Victorian Year Book for 1935 - 36 shows the progress of the State during the year under review. includes a fold-out map showing Principal Agricultual, Dairying and Pastoral features of various districts of Victoria season 1935-36 and a fold-out map showing Water Supply, Agriculture Railways and other features. 220 x 145mm., pp. 557. Orig. green binding mottled, spine re-glued; contents - some staining on edges only, endpapers browned, maps in very good condition but few repairs. GOOD++

Sydney, Lester-Townsend Publ. first edition - h/c in d.j. Standing majestically among the famous sandbelt courses of Melbourne, Victoria Golf Club is a monument to Australia's proud golfing heritage. The club has brought fame to Australia through its players, among them Peter Thomson, Dough Bachli and Harry Williams. The human interest, the dramas, the controversies, the triumphs are all captured in this book. 27 x 21.5cm., pp. 280, b/w & col. plates t/out, Victoria Club records, VG+/VG (d.j. has slight wear & small tears at foot of spine). ISBN: 0949853127

St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Katie Fowler, one of many who made the long voyage in a sailing ship from England to Australia in the 1866, was at last on her way to meet her beloved Walter Hume whom she had not seen for four years. Their story, ""A Victorian Engagement"", must have been repeated many times in the decisions, plans and hopes of a new life in a new land experienced by so many during the 1860s. 210 x 140mm., pp. xiii, 180, b/w plates. Hard cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. no tears or chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 0702209988

Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin first edition - hard cover in dust jacket 'Vietnam' takes the reader to the front line, describing the experiences of soldier, poitician, villager, enemy; and into the war room to unpick the military and political strategies. We see challenges the Australians faced against a dogged enemy, and those that faced their allies. (edit.) 240 x 160mm., pp. xiv, 690, b/w plates throughout, glossary, notes, index. Hard cover in dust jacketContents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; dust jacket, slight creasing top spine - no tears of chips. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 9781741750287

London, Wright & Brown first edition - hard cover in PARTIAL d.j. Australian author born in South Australia. 190 x 130mm., pp. 288, blue cloth cov. bds, title & author printed dark blue on spine, printed block binding very sound and square, medium to heavy foxing to all edges - more so on front edge, p.o. name (neat - 2 lines) ffep., in PARTIAL dust jacket - front and front flap ONLY, front chipped (spine missing) and lower l.h. corner, but the title/author and illustration is more or less complete. Front flap has listed ""3/6 Series"". A scarce title. GOOD++/FAIR

Sydney, Methuen first edition - h/c in d.j. Surviving a mutiny off the New South Wales coast, Pollitt was cast upon his own wits and fortune in the raw Australian colony. This novel is the sensitive story of Pollitt's development from na�ve impulsiveness to hard-earned maturity culminating in the bloody convict rebellion of Vinegar Hill. 205 x 135mm., pp. 293, d.j. slightly worn/creased top spine, no tears or chips, almost fine. ISBN: 045400088X

Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology first edition - large format p/back Violence permeates all life. This book is made up of three parts: (1) The state of violence in Australia (2) Explaining violence and ( 3) The prevention and control of violence - conclusions and recommendations. Also includes 14 of Sidney Nolan's series of 31 drawings 'For The Term Of His Natural Life' and is a personal response to Marcus Clarke's novel of convict life in early Australia. 245 x 173mm., pp. lv + 285, large format p/back with stiff wraps, 3 scuff marks on bottom of front cover, v.g. ISBN: 0642149755

London, Oxford first edition - h/c in d.j. Hakluyt was not only an outstanding collector of travel narratives but a vigorous propagandist for English settlement in eastern North America. The value of the narratives he preserved lies in the fact that they provide readers with their first vivid impression of North America. 242 x 165mm., pp. xxv, 195, b/w plates, explanatory Notes, folded map, indexes of Subjects, Persons & Places. Contents - no inscriptions, d.j. slight rubbing top/bot. spine - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0192554069

London, Oxford University Press first edition - h/c in d.j. Haklyut was not only an outstanding collector of travel narratives but a vigorous propagandist for English settlement in eastern North America. Though the colonies failed, the record Haluyt published was used as a manual by the settlers of the enduring colony of Virginia established in 1607. These narratives provided English readers with their first vivid impression of North America. 245 x 165 mm., pp xxv, 195, Explanatory Notes, b/w plates, fold out map, Indexes of Subjects, Persons & Places, FINE. ISBN: 0192554069

London, Heinemann first edition - h/c in d.j Less than one hundred years ago Rhodesia and Nyasaland were in a state of anarchy, ravaged by ferocious tribal wars and brutal slave trading. This book tells of the 'vision splendid' of Cecil Rhodes and David Livingstone to 1923, probes deeply into the report of the Devlin Commission, and finally shows that the concept of a multi-racial democratic partnership need not remain a dream. 215 x 150mm., pp. 384, map end/p., b/w plates, index, d.j. scufffed/tears top spine/flaps, overall bright & clean, VG/VG

London, Jonathan Cape Proof edition - paperback, card covers with d.j. A very interesting ""PROOF ONLY - PROVISIONAL PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 8, 1970"". This is a PAPERBACK (soft cover) with pasted on label on the front (card) cover noting title, author and publisher. It also has a dust jacket of the published book wrapped around the card covers. 203 x 133mm., pp. 642. Contents, VG+, d.j. has closed tears and wear (rubbing) top spine due to the oversize of the dust jacket compared to the actual paperback book, but still VG+ - very bright and clean. VG+/VG+