Hamish hamilton sydney (14 resultados)

Softcover (Stiff Card). Condición: As New. No Dust Jacket. Publishers Proof Copy. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780241142981. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 18371. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. …

Second printing. Hardcover. Edges slightly toned, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket.

Hard Cover. Condición: F-. First Thus. F-/F. 4to. original blue boards (some flecking, rubbing to tail edge) in dustwrapper; pp. 252, with illustrations & maps. A near fine copy. Illustrated edtion, with the inclusion of approximately 150 paintings, drawings and etchings not in the original (1966) publication. …

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Edges slightly toned, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket.

New edition created and produced from the 1966 original. Preface by Manning Clark. 252 PP enhanced by 150 b/w and colour illustrations (paintings, drawings & etchings). Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on endpapers and on outside page edges, otherwise fine. 27 x 19. Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, when good intentions led to disaster, corruption & annihilation.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page.Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive.With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher whose job it is to call out the turns, the grids, the creek crossings on a map that will finally remove them, without warning, from the lily-white Australia they know so well.This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner, even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves.Set in the 1950s amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us of how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. (back cover).…

Octavo, 278 pages, original wrappers, a very good copy. Uncorrected proof copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Previous owner has signed inside page. Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we're back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world's great nations? (back cover).…

Octavo, viii+240 pages, original wrappers, a near fine copy. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

8vo; pp. x, 340; 16 pages of photographs, notes, index, bound in original grey cloth, title lettered in white on spine and upper board, dustjacket, fine copy . First edition.

First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. A young man on the run from family and violence, in the bush. Tautly and powerfully told.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Australian Edition, 255 pages, includes fold-out maps & Index. Map endpapers. A firm straight unmarked book. Owner's bookplate at front.

Hardback. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An insightful pair of works, a biography, and posthumous publication of American writer Truman Capote. A pair of first editions - a biography and a posthumous publication, in excellent condition, in original dust wrappers.Volume 2, Answered Prayers, is a non-fiction novel. Select chapters of which were originally released gradually and individually, before appearing in this posthumously published, complete-incomplete novel.The novel reflects on the high-society glamour, and intimate pitfalls of Capote's impressive circle of creative contacts, including a 'thinly veiled satire' of Capote's one-time friend, and renowned American playwright, Tennessee Williams.Volume 1 features 4 unlisted and double-sided monochrome plates. Collated from a copy held by the British Library, complete. Bound in original black cloth. In original dust wrappers. Externally, in excellent condition. Very slight bumping to heads. Dust wrappers very smart. vol2 dust wrapper clipped. Very slight sunning to vol1 dust wrapper. Very slight shelf wear to vol2 dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated; None (ilustrador). book.…

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A collection of first edition works by James Lees-Milne, in original dust wrappers. A collection of first edition titles by English writer and architectural historian James Lees-Milne.Lees-Milne was a long-time employee of the National Trust, and an expert on country houses.Each volume is in its original binding and dust wrapper, volume 2 dust wrapper being unclipped.Volume 1 features its original, charmingly illustrated dust wrapper, clipped.Volume 3 features a monochrome frontispiece, and illustrated endpapers.Volume 4 features a colour frontispiece and 32 double-sided unlisted monochrome plates, and 2 single-sided colour plates. No other collation record available.Volume 4 also features a letter dated May 25th, 1951, from the publisher to the Literary Editor of the Higher Education Journal, requesting a review of the included title, including handwritten instructions regarding the suggested word length of the review. Bound in original cloth. In original clipped dust wrappers. Externally, in lovely condition. Mild bumping to extremities. Small closed tear to cloth at vol4 rear joint. Dust wrappers externally very smart. Mild chipping to dust wrapper extremities. The odd marks to covers. Light spotting to vol4 dust wrapper reverse. Vol4 dust wrapper fly leaves removed and replaced with blank paper. Price sticker to vol1 front fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Occasional spotting to top edges. Near Fine. None (ilustrador). book.…