boolarong press salisbury (28 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 170 pages. Illustrated. Gift inscription by author on 6/7/2013. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condición: As New. First Edition. 346 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Soft Cover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. 240 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

soft cover. No Jacket. 2nd edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 23 cm. 243 pages G. Good condition with light shelf wear to covers, soiling to lower edge of first few pages.

soft cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. 21 cm. 168 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, gift inscription signed by author on title page and separately signed by author on title page. Signed by author.

Paperback. Condición: Fine. First Edition. 268 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

soft cover. No Jacket. 23 cm. 283 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, laminate lifting lower front corner, gift inscription signed by the author on title page. Signed by author.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 282 pages. Illustrated. Inscription by authors on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 290 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. A Ringer's Hands is an account of the year Andy Hughes spent working on an outback cattle station in the middle of the Northern Territory, during the 1980s. He left Sydney as a City Boy with a ute, a swag, a red dog and a craving for adventure and came back a real Australian ringer.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good Plus With A Presentation Inscription From The Author On The Title Page Pp 336 Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Ex library book with external stickers removed. Has protective plastic covering. Minor wear to book corners. Remnants of date due slip on inside page. This book constructively examinesSydney's final resting place and that ofKormoran in a systematic and analytical approach. It makes independent adjudications on all the relevant information and seeks to justify the outcomes and conclusions. (back cover).

Very good softcover. 199p. Many b&w photos.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Two labels pasted to rear free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 249 pages. A monumental poem with powerful invocations of Aboriginal, Australian and Queensland history that link with accounts of violent cultural conflicts in Europe and elsewhere. The overarching theme of migration as the essence of human life from the beginning of time leads to a haunting description of refuge and asylum seeking in the world today.

soft cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. Illustrated in colour and black and white. 24 cm. X, 497 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, gift inscription on flyleaf, likely the author.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps and stickers on inside. Minor wear to book corners and edges.Full title: Nasho: The National Service Experience 1951-1972: History, Stories, True Accounts, Anecdotes and Photos of Compulsory Military Service and the Founding of the National Servicemen's Association of AustralialiaBetween 1951 and 1972, some 287,000 young Australian men were conscripted into two separate schemes of compulsory military service. Of them, 212 died, and 1479 were wounded on active service.This book provides an insight into the NASHOs' training as told by those who were conscripted. It also explains the reasons for National Service at the time. As well as the serious side, there is also the humour for which the Aussies are renowned. Nasho's experienced service in Australia, Borneo, Malaya, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam.Edited by Ronald Parsons and compiled by the National Servicemen's Association of Australia, Toowoomba and Districts Branch.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers removed. Minor wear to book corners. Minor marks on book foredges. Faint small ink mark on half-title page. Book is clean and binding is still excellent. A personal look at life in the back blocks of north-west Australia, largely the Kimberleys, and particularly Broome and Derby, this memoir starts with the author's arrival in the Broome area as a baby, and her story is inextricably tied to the development of the post-war Kimberleys.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are also very good. A Woman's Life on Victoria River Downs 1948-1958.In 1948 young Adelaide girl Lexie Simmons went to live on the great Victoria River Downs station in the remote outback of the Northern Territory. Before she knew it she was married to a head stockman and thrust into the role of 'bush missus'.The 'missus' often endured great isolation and had to master many skills - butchering cattle, salting beef, making bread, minor surgery, peace-keeping among the station people, cooking for fifteen to twenty people, helping out in the bronco yard, killing the odd snake and managing the cantankerous white men who drifted through the outback.Lexie Simmons mastered all these skills and more and survived to become a great 'bush missus'. (back cover).

Pictorial Soft Cover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. his is the compilation of short stories accepted for publication following the 2018 Outback Writers' Festival held in Winton, Queensland.

Pictorial Card Cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some minor creasing to front and back cover and lifting of laminate. Small creasing cnrs, four pages index only. Forward: tinted photograph of Senior Sergeant Thomas Edward Wallings 23 x 15.5 cm. 295 pp. Scarce.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 178pp. b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Noel Tunny was a civil engineer who spent much of 1954 looking for oil in Papua New Guinea. During his time there he kept a detailed diary of his experiences of living with the tribes of the Highlands.

Condición: Gut. Formateinband: Leinen mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe XIV, 602 S. (24,5 cm) 1st Edition; (With pictures); In gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1400 [Stichwörter: Autobiography, Biography, Biographie].

Very good softcover. 264p. includes index and photographs. Monica McMahon.

Large thick octavo, xvi+602pp, illustrated, original boards in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition. Overview of the work of the German-Australian writer and academic. Includes both English and German language material. Signed editor's letter & publisher's publicity sheet loosely inserted.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 172pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Professor Caroline De Costa examines the nature & side effects of the drug prescribed for medical abortion, RU-486, & traces its history & development in Europe & the US.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 198pp. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Professor Caroline de Costa's fictitious but frank tale of a gynaecologist who uses the DNA of his dying son to produce a second one, leading to consequences both foreseen & unforeseen.

Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos (includes frontispiece), glossy paper, minor edgewear. 305 pp. The story of Edward and Eliza Lord who came to Moreton Bay in 1844, then a remote convict outpost as it was opened up for free settlement. They were from Lancashire merchant families, and had invested their inheritances in NSW lands and a Sydney merchant firm, but just before the drought and crash of 1841. They moved north to rebuild their fortunes, settling at Kangaroo Point before moving to the Darling Downs to start new commercial interests. The author, Janet Spillman, is their great-great-grand-daughter, and she explores how Queensland moulded the Lord family's lives, and the way family members helped in the colony's development.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. NrF. First Australian Edition, First Printing. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR/EDITOR, PRISCILLA BRILLIANT, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Inscription reads, 'For the University Women's Club/from a Queensland University/Woman./Priscilla Brilliant'. Illustrated with photographs and a map of Europe. A collection of letters from Chester James Parker to Winifred Hanger from 1936 to August 1942. With Appendices. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first Austratian edition, first printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR/EDITOR WINIFRED BRILLIANT. First Australian Edition, Fiirst Printin. Presentation Copy From The Author/Editor.