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Collins, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 224 pp., list of illustrations, acknowledgements, appendices. Text illustrated with coloured photographs. Green boards with gilt writing on the spine. Slight fading of the boards and the corners are slightly rubbed. Grubby marks on the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a Great Barrier Reef Island, with black and white titles to the front cover and backstrip. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and of the backstrip edges. Rubbing and fading on the back panel and there are 2 pen marks in the middle of the back panel. The Great Barrier Reef off Queensland coast is a natural wonder of the world. In this book Patricia Clare shows "the system in all its variety and beauty - and to demonstrate how industrial exploitation and nature in itself present an ever-increasing threat to its existence.". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to… Leer más

Collins, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 224 pp., list of illustrations, acknowledgements, appendices. Text illustrated with coloured photographs. Green boards with gilt writing on the spine. There is slight fading of the boards and the corners are slightly rubbed. The head and the heel of the spine are bumped. There are grubby marks on the paper edges of the book. An erasure mark and the remains of a sticker on the ffep. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a Great Barrier Reef Island, black and white writing on the front cover and on the spine. There is chipping of the corners and of the head and heel of the spine of the dustwrapper. There are a few creases and rubbing to the top and bottom dust wrapper edges. Grubby marks to the back panel. The Great Barrier Reef off Queensland coast is a natural wonder of the world. In this book Patricia Clare shows "the system in all its variety and beauty - and to demonstrate how industrial… Leer más

Horwitz Group Books, Sydney, 1977. First Australian Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 217 g.; X, 148 pages, introduction of by authors, list of illustrations, list of tables, glossary and index. The text is illustrated with 18 black-and-white photographs and nine tables throughout the text. Plain text cover with brown and black titles to the front panel and back strip. On the back book panel photographs of the authors. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the back strip. Reading creases to the back strip and sunning has also occurred. Panels are a little dull and yellow. A few marks to the text block edges but the internal pages are remarkably clean and bright. " This book is intended as a contribution to the world wide debate over the use of nuclear energy. Its objective is to provide, in the words of Sir Brian Flowers, ' Independent, authoritative advice ' for those who want no more of that an issue which is… Leer más

The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1983. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: William Ellis Green -- WEG. not paginated, introduction by author. The text is illustrated with black and white cartoons drawn by WEG over a 35 year period for the Melbourne newspaper The Herald. The book is sectioned into time periods, 1949 to 1953, 1954 to 1958, 1959 to 1963, 1964 to 1968, 1969 to 1973, 1974 to 1978 and 1979 to 1983. Each year section has a small description of the influences that caused WEG to draw his cartoons. Illustrated covers, by WEG, with white background and red and black titles to the front panel. Rubbing to the book corners and there is a bump to the front fore edge of the front panel. The white of the background has become a little grubby and dull. The remains of a sticker can be seen to the top left-hand corner of the rear book panel. 35 years of WEG cartoons. Size: Oblong 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" tall but… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. X, 174 pages, last page blank, preface by author. Photographic endpapers, showing a Liberal party function, against a dark olive background. Olive coloured boards with white titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the backstrip corners and to the book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Very light age toning to the text block edges. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Malcolm Fraser and two of his cabinet ministers, with white and yellow titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges. Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983. War without blood is the first book to give the inside picture of the first four years of the Fraser administration. It reveals the Prime Minister's political style and his colleagues' responses by utilising private conversations and unpublished documents. This is the first… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Good. preface by author. Photographic endpapers, showing a Liberal party function, against a dark olive background. Photographic card cover with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing to the backstrip corners and to the book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Very light age toning to the text block edges. Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983. War without blood is the first book to give the inside picture of the first four years of the Fraser administration. It reveals the Prime Minister's political style and his colleagues' responses by utilising private conversations and unpublished documents. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (8), IX, (1), 172, (2) , pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.… Leer más

Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 131pp., preface, footnotes, rouge's gallery, select bibliography and index. Text illustrated by contemporary black and white photographs. Coloured endpapers. Black boards with gilt writing on spine. The corners are slightly rubbed as are the head and the heel of the spine. Previous owners name on the ffep. The author's name has been misspelt on the title page and there is a sticker, with the correct spelling, overlaying the misspelling. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing 'Peter the Painter', black background with white and red writing on the front panel and on spine. Bottom right-hand corner of the front panel is slightly rubbed. There is also slight rubbing of the back panel. This is the story of a group of terrorists, who after 1905 abortive revolution in Russia, fled to England. While in England, under their leader, Peter the Painter, they engaged in spectacular and… Leer más