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London, D. C. Thomson reprint, paperback Illustrated comic stories on the heroic deeds of fighter pilots during WWII.' Stars of Soccer - Craig Johnston' inside back cover. 175 x 140mm., pp. 65, illus. colour cover, several light creases on cover including corners, biro prices on front (2), few small corner creases on content pages - bright and clean. VG

n.p., The Australian Hospital Assoc. first edition - paperback, stiff card covers This book looks at the history of the Australian health system from its birth - with all its confusion. It looks at the growth of government involvement in the health system, and attempts to shape and reshape it. In the early days rum paid for the construction of hospitals and only the destitute would seek care. 210 x 148mm., pp. vii, 231, b/w illustrations, charts, refer., index. P/back, stiff card covers. Contents - no inscriptions, card covers, light indentations & reading creases on spine. VG ISBN: 0959651586

London, Methuen first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This rich anthology contains not only some of the funniest take-offs published in magazines and books and performed on stage, radio and television in the past thirty years (up to 1984). It also contains classic parodies and send-ups by Eric Idle, Monty Python, Private Eye, Tom Lehrer - and many many more. 224 x 143mm., pp. xi, 259, Index of Subjects, Index of Sources. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - small p.o. name ffep, d.j. slight rubbing. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0413528405

Adelaide, Rigby first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Australia's first whaling industry was pursued with such zest that it reduced the whales from the coastline to almost zero. Other nations were then able to follow them into their Antarctic breeding grounds leaving a fraction of their population intact. 220 x 144mm., pp. 12 (prelim.), 178, b/w plates, biblio., index. Hard cover in dust jacket. EX LIBRARY. Contents, ""Cancelled"" stamp ffep, tape marks on endpapers - no pockets or other rubbish, d.j., tape stains top/bottom, closed tears on edges. VG/nearVG

Malvern, Omnibus/Scholastic reprint edition - large p/back, stiff card covers This is a story of two possums. Their names are Grandma Poss and Hush. Grandma who makes magic, turns Hush invisible, and has trouble making her visible again. They travel around Australia on a troublesome but successful journey to make her visible again. 255 x 240mm., pp. 30, wonderfull full page colour illustrations throughout. Large paperback (booklet), stiff card covers. FINE ISBN: 1862915652

Sydney, New South Wales University Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket By world standards the Murray is a puny river. Yet it is Australia's greatest river, and in the world's driest continent has sustained human life for tens of thousands of years. This, our greatest river is now under threat of an ecological disaster. Is it to late to turn this disaster around? , 267 x 192mm., pp. 128, col. & b/w plates t/out, biblio. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket, minor rubbing/wear top edge. NEAR FINE/VG ISBN: 0909465762

London, Secker & Warburg first edition - hard cover in dust jacket The author brilliantly captures the mood of the 'lucky country', as it has been called, and at the same time buries forever the traditional concepts of Australia as the land 'down under', a British satellite populated by sheep-shearers and kangaroos. 223 x 143mm., pp. viii, 267, map endpapers. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents - p.o name ffep. (neat one line), contents near fine, d.j. very slight rubbing - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE

Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press first edition - large paperback, stiff card covers Ian Palmer's book examines administrative struggle and resistance surrounding the purchase of land for Aboriginal communities, from the late 1960s through to the mid 1980s. It deals in particular with the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission (ALFC) which was established as one Commonwealth response to the demand by Aborigines for land rights. 240 x 170mm., pp. xv, 173, charts, biblio, index. Large paperback, stiff card covers. Contents, no inscriptions, card covers very slightly rubbed. NEAR FINE ISBN: 0855751789

Sydney, Angus & Robertson first edition - hard cover in dust jacket For the first time, the best known and most popular of the new generation of short story writers are reprenented in one volume by a substantial selection from their work. The result reveals the range and variety of contemporary Australian fiction at its best (edit.) 198 x 133mm., pp. xv, 247. Hard coverin d.j. Contents - no inscriptions, small loss bot. corner page 233 (Michael Wilding story) not effecting type, d.j. sl. rubbing on edges & medium rub. black background colour - no tears or chips. VG+/VG ISBN: 0207134758

Melbourne, Hutchinson first Australian edition - h/c in d.j. The author at his spikiest and best takes a shrewd look at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy, at its hard-ware and jargon, its practitioners and victims and - beyond all that - at where sex, Seventies-style, has landed us. This hilarious and touching study of a satyr in retreat is one of his funniest novels. 222 x 147mm., pp. 285, contents v.g., date line top ffep (neat), d.j. slight creasing top/bottom spine, no tears or chips, no fading, VG+/VG+ ISBN: 0091343909

Melbourne, Lansdowne first edition - hard cover in dust jacket With more than eighty colour plates by sixty well know artists (and most now world famous), these paintings represent a wide range of styles, from post-impressionism, abstraction and op-art to the hard-edge minimal and colour-field painting. 250 x 190mm., pp. 128, col. plates t/out. The Paintings, The Artists. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, small dateline bottom of back fixed endpaper - no other inscriptions, d.j. rubbed/wear top spine (repaired), slight rubbing on corners. VG+/VG

London, Readers Union/J.M. Dent first edition - h/c in d.j. The Suez Canal is no great thing in itself. There are older, wider and deeper waterways, The creation of this hundred-mile-long ditch was, however one of the most significant political and engineering achievements of the last century. It survives as a practical asset and an element of discord as it simmers in intrigue. distrust and strife. 210 x 130mm., pp. xiii, 242, b/w engravings, index. Contents near fine - no inscriptions, d.j. slight rubbing on top/bot. spine & edges. NEAR FINE/VG+

Sydney, ABC Enterprises/ABC first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book describes why rainforests have become such an important issue in Australia and how people have struggled to save those areas at risk. About three quarters of the rainforests in Australia have already been cleared, so every effort must be made to protect areas of rainforests which are under constant threat from development. 227 x 217mm., pp. 167, b/w & col. plates t/out, resources. H/cover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions, dust jacket, slight rubbing on back - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0642527326

London, Jonathan Cape first edition - hard cover in dust jacket John Fisher's book records the progression of magic through the years its practitioners variously called wizard, alchemist, charlatan, jongleur and magician, and relates Paul Daniels to the most relevant of his illustrious predecessors and contemporaries. 253 x 184mm., pp. 287, b/w & col. plates, index. Hard cover indust jacket. Contents, NO INSCRIPTIONS; dust jacket, very slight rubbing on corners - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0224024922

South Yarra, Langate first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This is an autobiography of J. E. Hewitt, whose father steeped him in classical stories of the heroes of the ages which directed his course in life, joining the RAN as a cadet midshipman, then naval aviator and subsequent service and training in RN, RAF., and RAN. This book covers the years 1901-39, with appendix 1, an authenticated account in facsimile of the sinking and salving of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow. INCLUDES ""Supplement of Intelligence Mission"". FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 095946221x

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich First American edition 2nd print - h/cover in d.j. Compiegne, French, November 1918. A place and a date that will forever be associated in Europe with the 1914-1918 World War armistice. In a dank forest three first-class carriages await the arrival of the victors and the defeated. To read 'Gossip from the Forest' is to have been there at the meeting at Compiegne, illuminated by the imagination of a remarkable novelist. 240 x 160mm., pp. 8 (prelim.), 220. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. med. edge wear. VG+/VG ISBN: 0151367051

Ringwood, Viking/Penguin first edition - hard cover in dust jacket In 'Goodbye Girlie', the long awaited sequel to 'Hear the Train Blow', Patsy recounts a rich but often troubled life. She writes with wit and insight of her illegitimacy, her family, her short-lived war-time marriage, her years at sea and her loves. 235 x 158, pp. 265, b/w plates. Hardcover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions - page edges are slightly toned; d.j., no tear or chips. VG+/VG+ ISBN: 067085395x

London, Raphael Tuch & Sons first edition - paperback, stiff card covers The stills from the film directed by David Lean, with an all-star cast including Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh and Diana Dors. 190 x 135mm., pp. 64, b/w film stills, Actor stills with names & character played on endpapers. Booklet with stiff illustrated card covers. Contents - near fine, full colour covers, with medium wear/rubbing bottom back edge, stitched booklet. VG+

London, Readers Union first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book includes: The Child and His Parents 1600-16; The Prince and the Courtiers 1617-22; Sweet Boys and Ventrous Knights 1623; The Husband and His Wife 1624-6; Devils and Martyrs 1627-9; The Patron and His Artists 1625-41; Politics and Puritans 1629 -40; Parliament and Traitors to The Prisoner and his Captors 1647-9. 255 x 180mm., pp. 295, b/w plates, sources, index. H/cover in d.j. Contents - no inscriptions, dust jacket, med. rub. top/bot. spine, corners & edges - no tears or chips. NEAR FINE/VG

Sydney, Angus & Robertson first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book is not a critical estimate ""to decide his place in a list of names"", nor is it a formal biography, though it includes the poet's own intensely interesting account of his life, and a mass of valuable new material, giving a vivid picture of Neilson's relations with the late A.G. Stephens, his methods of work, and his literary opinions. (edit.) 188 x 130mm.., pp. frontis, xii, 216, index. H/cover in d.j. Contents - p.o. name ffep, d.j. darkened spine, chips/wear spine & corners. VG/GOOD+