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Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1981. Hard Cover. Good. Time-Life Books, 1981 - Third Printing, revised. Large format 240 x 290 mm, 208 pp., bib., index, profusely illustrated - mostly mono images, a few in color. Hard cover, corners rubbed, a few marks but overall Good ++.

Buckingham [UK]: Salafi Publications, 2003. 2nd edition. Soft Cover. VG. 150 x 210 mm, 36 pp. Soft Cover, small corner bump, VG overall.

Scarborough [Ontario]: Prentice-Hall, 1967. Soft Cover. VG. 150 x 225 mm, 277 pp. Soft Cover, VG, amazingly well preserved, with a bump to a top corner, a few foxing marks on the top edge of the text block, otherwise clean and sound with no names, stamps, labels or annotations.

Melbourne: Constitution Commission of Victoria, 2001. Soft Cover. Fine. 175 x 245 mm (B5), 24 pp. Soft Cover, Fine - a pristine, unmarked copy.

New York: Free Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 145 x 220 mm, 187 pp, Hard Cover - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. 'Reflecting the experience and wisdom Gary Hart has accumulated during a lifetime of public service, The Patriot addresses the fundamental challenges to democratic leadership posed by a new century and a new millennium. Written as a handbook of advice to an aspiring younger politician in the tradition of Machiavelli's The Prince, Hart's compact and incisive book identifies the primary challenge facing American leaders today as the restoration of trust between the people and their government.'

Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2001. Soft Cover. Fine. Budget Speech 2001-02 delivered on 22 May 2001 on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill by the Honourable Peter Costello, MP, Treasurer of the. 175 x 250 mm, 11 pp. A mint copy.

Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1973 [1st edition]; 160 x 240 mm, xv, 247 pp. Hard Cover in dustwrapper - both Fine (small bookseller label on front pastedown endpaper).

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan [Bhavan's Book University series No. 149], 1967. 120 x 180 mm, xiv, 265 pp., bib. notes, appendix by V.B. Karnik. introduction by Guy Wint. An abridged version of the [302-page] 1954 edition. Soft cover - some cover wear but overall clean and sound. Former owner's name on the half-title page.

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 160 x 235 mm, 325 pages, soft cover, VG++. Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied. It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down-"rusticated"-from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder. Atmospheric, lurid, and brilliantly executed, Rustication confirms… Leer más

London, September 1999,150 pages plus adverts and addenda, [A quarterly journal of socialist theory (and the journal of the Socialist Workers Party (Britain).] 150 x 210 mm. Stiff card wrappers. Editor: JOHN REES. A Fine copy - with very light natural age toning to the pages - appears unread.

London, Souvenir Press, 1969 (first UK edition); 150 x 220 mm, xii, 154 pages; Hard Cover - Blue cloth, gilt titling. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated by Joan Bulman. 71 b/w photographs. In a remote region of northern Sweden a government hydroelectric project threatened a colony of beavers with extinction. When Dr Lars Wilsson realised their plight he rescued four frisky nippers and took them home. A delight for animal lovers . with dozens of photographs (a veritable family album of beavers at work and play) this book catches a glimpse of the wildlife world that is still a magic realm.

Grand Rapids [Michigan], the Acton Institute [Occasional Paper No. 10], 1998; ix, 45 pp., printed wrappers, Foreword by Michael Novak. Fine condition.

Brooklyn: Independence Publishers,, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 140 x 200 mm, 111 pages. Cover has wear , internally sound - no names, stamps, labels or annotations - a Good+ copy.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. 1st UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 145 x 220 mm, xi, 275 pp, 8 pages of plates. Hard Cover - Fine - in a Fine dustwrapper. A wonderfully preserved copy - no names, stamps, stickers, labels or annotations.

Melbourne: Sun Books, 1989. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 140 x 220 mm, xlviii, 264 pp, tables, sources, index. Soft Cover, appears unread - remainder mark top edge, otherwise Fine. [No names, stamps, stickers, labels or annotations.]

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957. Soft Cover. Good. 140 x 210 mm, 197 p. Soft Cover, a good reading copy - contents clean and sound, text block age-toned, the binding is strong, there are no names, stamps, stickers or annotations, but the corners are bumped and creased and there is a mark on the foredge. These imperfections do not detract from the fascinating history and memoirs this volume contains.

London: Reprint Society, 1952. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG. 135 x 190 mm, vi, 7-285 pp, illust. Hard Cover - Near Fine - in a VG dustwrapper that is still bright but has some edge wear and a little foxing.

Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. G/G. 160 x 235 mm, xiv, 243 pp, notes, index. Hard Cover in dustwrapper. An ex-library copy with evidence of library labels removed from a couple of preliminary pages (rubbed through in two spots), the front free endpaper has been removed and a stamp partially covered with white-out on the half-title page. There is a small and faint library stamp on the top edge. The binding is strong, there are minor corner bumps and external wear is otherwise minimal and the contents are clean and sound. The dustwrapper is Good ++. Overall a good reference or reading copy of the hard cover edition of a book that is becoming harder to find. Contributors:, STEPHEN ALOMES, ALLAN ASHBOLT, MEREDITH BURGMANN, FRANK CAIN, ANN CURTHOYS, MARK DOBER, JOHN DOCKER, FRANK FARRELL, DONNA HELLIER, BRUCE McFARLANE , SUSAN McKERNAN, JOHN MERRITT

Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 155 x 235 mm, x, 262 pp.Soft Cover with light age-toned pages and a bump to one corner and the base of the spine, clean and sound with no spine creasing, no names, stickers, stamps labels or annotations - a very nice copy. How and why John Howard won the extraordinary 2001 federal election is the subject of this in-depth examination by six of Australia's leading journalists.
• David Solomon, Contributing Editor, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane• Peter Charlton, National Affairs Editor, The Courier-Mail, Sydney• Dennis Atkins, National Political Editor, The Courier-Mail, Canberra• Malcolm Farr, Chief Political Reporter, the Sydney Daily Telegraph• Phillip Coorey, Chief Political Reporter, the Adelaide Advertiser• Christine Jackman, Political Reporter, News Ltd, Canberra

New York, Random House, 1966 [stated 3rd printing]; 150 x 220 mm, xiii, 237 pp, VG hard cover, bump to corner, clean, no inscriptions; dustwrapper has a few small closed edge tears - a nice copy. From the author's Introduction: 'Cissy' was more than a nickname for Eleanor Patterson; it was a trademark and the only name she kept consistently throughout her life, from 1881 until 1948. Christened Elinor Josephine, she opted in favor of Eleanor Medill for reasons of taste and future influence when she was still a child. Her names were successively Countess Eleanora Gizycka, as the wife of a Polish aristocrat; Mrs. Schlesinger, as the wife of a Wall Street financier; and finally, Mrs. Patterson, Washington editor and publisher. Her personality was as varied as her names. Arthur Brisbane, Cissy's journalistic father- confessor, described one facet by calling her 'The Bird of Paradise.' Adela Rogers St. John, the writer, thought of Cissy as the reincarnation of Elizabeth the Great, the red-haired English… Leer más