Sirius sydney (34 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. First Australian edition. Spine canted. Boards and spine sunned, interior tanned, clean and unmarked. 312 pp. No dj.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. Green boards. Some browning to pages, a few spots (moslty on endpapers and dustjacket flaps. Moderate rubbing to dustjacket, with creasing and tears on top edge. Inscription in ink on front free endpaper.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 214pp. 22 Short Stories. Age toned text block. Foxed top edge. Previous owners name stamp to verso of free front endpaper else clean and bright. Slightly sunned spine.(BH) 4/2026.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Adhesive label residue, back cover.

Paper Back. Condición: Very Good. The cover is lightly faded and worn. 154 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. xiv, 154pp, b/w ills, notes, index. Paperback with unevenly faded covers. The book provides a biography of the poet with a selection of more than 40 of her poems. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. pp.(x)+379. 19cm. Soft covers. *unsightly stain to the fore and lower edges of the pages; probably coffee. not affecting the text which is clean. A fair copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. pp.(x)+196. 19cm. Soft covers with slight wear and fading. Small printed book club label on lower cover. No other labels rubber stamps or numbers. A good copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. pp.(vi)+446. 19cm. Soft covers. Light foxing to top edge of pages. Slight creasing to spine. Good copy.

Softcover/Paperback. Condición: Good. A little edge worn, and a little foxing. A sticker from a previous seller on the title page.

8vo. viii+320pp. B/w illustrations. Original wrappers, a very good copy. . First edition.

c.296pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. Firmly bound with some marks and general handling wear, first Sirius Books paperback edition.

hardbound. Condición: Good. Collection of Kenneth Slessor's poems, including the contents of One Hundred Poems, and also several later pieces; former owner's name to front endpaper; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, tanning to pages throughout, o.w. Good; dustwrapper rubbed and creased, o.w. Good. Dustwrapper. 116pp. 8vo. Good. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. The stories reveal a sensitive and deeply wounded idealism. (Thelma Forshaw SHM).

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to foredges.The Boys in the Island is Christopher Koch's first novel, a beautiful, lilting coming-of-age story set in the 1940s and 50s in Hobart and Melbourne.Francis Cullen, growing up in the island of Tasmania, is outwardly a very ordinary boy. But his inner life is dominated by dreams of a place he calls the Otherland: a transfigured world beyond the real one.In childhood, he glimpses it in the landscapes of his native land, and when he falls in love with a country girl, the dream is central to his feeling for her. After Heather is lost to him, Francis becomes more and more under the influence of Lewie Matthews - a youth whose ambition is to become a criminal.Now the Otherland's location is seen as the mainland of Australia, where a mythical life of wildness and crime beckons. Francis, Lewie and their friends pursue this life in Melbourne - until a climax of destruction shatters the dream. (publisher blurb).…

Paperback. Colleen Burke, Sirius, Sydney. Author: Colleen BurkeBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sirius, Sydney, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling biography, Doherty's Corner: The Life And Work Of Poet Marie E. J. Pitt, chronicles the remarkable journey of a significant Australian literary figure. It uncovers the personal struggles and triumphs that shaped Pitt's powerful verse, presenting her as both a product of her time and a visionary ahead of it. The narrative details her contributions to social justice movements and her unwavering commitment to artistic expression, illustrating the profound impact of her writing on the cultural landscape. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of Pitt's enduring legacy and the historical context that informed her poetic voice. Paperback.…

Condición: Very Good. 8vo. softcover. 154pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, cover fadec.

8vo (23.5x16cm), hardback, x + 219pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (light wear, bumped, rubbed, a few little scratches and marks). Bumped, light offsets to endpapers. B&w illustrations. Pictures available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hard cover in very good condition, with a clipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of Warwick Gould, the Australian-born British literary scholar and leading authority on W.B. Yeats, who served as editor of The Yeats Annual for more than four decades. General shelf and handling wear, including light age-related discolouration and minor colour loss to dust jacket, light creasing to DJ edges. Pageblock tanned, this leading into page edges. Green cloth boards are decorated with the publisher's colophon, front and rear, and other than light wear to edges, are in fine condition. Within, pages are firmly bound, and other than aforementioned, content is unmarked. CN.…

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. Just a touch of edgewear, former owner's name in ink to half-title, otherwise a Fine copy. Cover art by Greg Taylor.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Selection of poetry by Judith Wright. Sirius Books. Very Good hardcover, in a Very Good dustjacket. Slight handling wear, marginal penciling, former owner's neat ink name to ffep, price clipped dustjacket with mild rubbing, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. xiv + 170pp.…

Reprint of the 1938 revised edition (original of 1934). XXXII, 285 PP, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illust. Decorated hard cover, dust jacket with a few chips and/or closed tears and in a protective sleeve, o/wise near fine. 20.5 X 13.5. The story of whaling in Australian waters and other southern seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Issued. Reprint. Light wear to covers. Spine not creased. Light foxing to edges of page-block. Tippexed out name to ffep, otherwise internally clean. 347pp Size: 130mm x 190mm. Book.

Reprint of the 1938 revised edition (original of 1934). XXXII, 285 PP plus 16 pages with 18 bw illust. Pictorial soft cover. A near fine copy. 19.6 x 13.8. The story of whaling in Australian waters and other Southern Seas related thereto, from the days of sails to modern times.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dust jacket. Grey binding, black title. An ageing, but firm, clean, straight book. Scan available.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo 283pp., b/w pls., appendix, bibliog., index.

"B" Format Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 251pp. First published 1926. Pages lightly age-tanned. Slight lean to spine. Spine is uncreased and the binding is firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condición: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Spine with ripples and dampstains. Internally very good. Ex-libris bookplate on inside of front cover, Frank G. Glen.; 1963 reprint of 1938 revised edition of a title first published in 1934. This 1963 edition has a new 6 page Foreword by R. G. Chittleborough dated 1962. xxx, [2], 285, [3 (blank)] pages + 18 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Red card covers. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. Series: Sirius Books. "Whalemen Adventurers is a history of whaling in Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas. Ranging from the days of sail to modern international efforts for the control of whaling, Professor Dakin draws on whalers' log-book and other sources to give vivid picutres of the excitement of the chase or - to select one dramatic incident - how it feels to be on a sailing-ship when the pots of boiling whale-oil catch fire. The book lights yp, with colourful often turbulent history, scores of long-settled places all round the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.". …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 20.0 x 13.0cms, 170pp, tanned pages, previous owner's inscription. This book is Wright's own selection of the best poems from her four books published up to 1955, concluding with a group of her later verses from Birds (1962), in the final section, "The Forest", a number of poems not previously published in book form.…