Halstead press canberra (23 resultados)

soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with colour photographs and maps. 24 cm. XII, 162 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, slight creasing, signed by the author on flyleaf, name on flyleaf.

paperback in very good condition; 223 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 11th Edition. 116pp; illustrated. Folding plan at rear. Corners and spine slightly bumped and rubbed.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Raymond Dart made one of the most spectacular discoveries in human history, Australopithecus, ancestral cousin to mankind vindicating Charles Darwin's idea of the African origins of mankind. A giant in the world of science, Dart was neglected at home. Edward Docker's fine book brings to life his remarkable life story. Illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. A fine copy. Signed by the author. Pp. 190. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. A fine copy. Pp. 256.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Over a century before Mabo and generations before 'Terra Nullius', Aboriginal land rights were briefly acknowledged by the early colonists of South Australia and Victoria. The way to Hell is paved with good intentions. Lust for land snuffed out hopes for a fair go, as the original owners of the land were pushed to the margins. This book looks at the way colonists exploited humanitarian rhetoric developed by England's anti-slavery movement to oust Aboriginal claims; how they reinvented the Common Law of property to secure their own title, twisting legal analysis and economic theory to suit their aims. It also explores the interactions between colonists and governments in Hobart, Sydney and London.…

8vo. 164pp. B/w illustrations. Original wrappers, a fine copy. . First edition. From the collection of Australian scholar and academic, John Barnes with letter from Publisher.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. In the grim Depression days, 12-year-old Clarrie Pankhurst left home on the River Murray. He found an adventurous life on the great stock routes, taking huge mobs of cattle to Queensland from stations in WA and the Territory. The drovers are gone now, replaced by road trains. Their hair-raising escapades, sense of humour, and full, generous lives live on in the yarns and memories, paintings, and photos in this book. From the author of Wild Cattle, Wild Country and Pioneers of the Kimberley.…

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo 174pp., 'Rupert Murdoch, Julian Assange & Mohamed Haneef have felt the heat that can develop in head-on encounters of the media and the law'.

Condición: Near Fine. 8vo. laminated boards with cloth spine, hardcover. 318pp. b/w illus. Near Fine.

4to, 196pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy. Inscribed by the author.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo. viii + 472pp., appendix, index, Facsimile of the 1903 Bulletin edition.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Booklet is white and tight with an earlier price inscribed inside.

4to. Original pictorial laminated boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a fine as new copy. . First edition. The standard biography of the first administrator of the Port Phillip District and first Governor of Victoria.

1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral C. A. Ritchie. 272 PP with 1 table and 1 map. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 23.7 x 15.8. 24 papers: Strategies - Operations - Technology - Challenges (Royal Australian Navy, Asia-Pacific Navies) and Responses (USN, RAN, RNZN, French Navy).

OLn., 4°,128(1) S., mit Abbildungen. Zustand gut.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 285pp., col. & b/w pls., ep maps, glossary, Interesting ownership inscription o/w nice copy.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, bw ills, map, front endpaper map, pictorial rear endpaper. Glossy pictorial boards in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, light foxing to page edges. The first printing of the standard edition- a deluxe edition was also produced. Size: 4to.…

8vo (22x14.5cm), hardback, prelims + 114pp with double-sided fold-out plan at rear. Several b&w plates. Goodish condition. No dustwrapper. Blue-grey boards with gilt lettering and badge to front cover, faded spine and edges, bumped, marked, lightly chipped along left front edge and spine extremities. Age-toned. Interior good, clear and bright. Pictures available on request.…

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. 256pp, index, bibliography, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Very light rubbing to covers. SIGNED by both authros on dedication page. The Greek cafe and milk bar were a significant part of Australian social culture from the 1950s on, and remain so in some places. Size: 4to. Signed by Authors.…

1st Ed. Foreword by John Stobart. 172 PP with 23 b/w illustrations, documents, sketches and photos) and 61 colour illustrations (paintings and photos) throughout of his renowned marine art works. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. A fine copy. Scarce. 26 x 24.5.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good Plus. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slipcase. Deluxe Edition. 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, bw ills, map, front endpaper map, pictorial rear endpaper. Or full burgundy leather in cloth slipcase. Some minor foxing to edges, plastic cover over stamps creased. Deluxe edition limited to 110 SIGNED copies of which tis #47. Mounted on the front cover are 4 of the airmail stamps used to mail gold from the Bulolo fields in the 1930s/40s. 1 x 1/, 2 x 2/ & 1 x 1 pound stamps-all in fine used condition. Size: 4to.…