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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Carlton, VIC, Australia, Melbourne University Press: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: SOCCOM22
ISBN: 0522870805
Condition: Very Good
Paperback, first edition, 128gms, 155 pages. Jackie French, David Malouf, Tim Winton and many more of our best writers have come together to issue a clarion call to all Australian citizens to defend writers and writing. If politicians have their way we will be the only nation to give away our right to tell our own stories. Read this collection of impassioned arguments from our most esteemed wordsmiths. Book is in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Asimov, Isaac
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, England, Grafton Books: 1989
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: SCI51
ISBN: 0586202811
Condition: Fair
Paperback, first thus, 162gms, 267 pages. This is Asimov's 23rd book of mind-bogling essays and shows that the great science fiction writer is still the freshest and most accessible explainer of the awe-inspiring real mysteries of the cosmos. Book is in fair condition with heavy general age-related wear and tear and heavt page discolouration/spotting throughout. Book also shows moderate water damage as well as scuffing and creasing to wraps. This is essentially a reading copy only. View more info
By: Binchy, Maeve; and Ingle, Roisin (ed)
Price: $8.50
Publisher: London, England, The Orion Publishing Group: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: SOCCOM23
ISBN: 1409149897
Condition: Good
Large softcover, first edition, 466gms, 389 pages. Book is in good condition with only minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Butler, Denis; and Butler, Vera (ed)
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Toukley, NSW, Australia, Vera Butler: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: ESS13
ISBN: 0646031767
Condition: Good
Softcover, first edition, 186g, 140pgs. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, UK, Macmillan & Co. Ltd: 1958
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ESS11
Condition: Good
Hardcover with green boards, no dust jacket, reprint, 272g, 268pgs, blank endpapers. This anthology introduces eight authors of high quality, many of whom have also excelled in other branches of literature. Authors featured are: Francis Bacon; Richard Steele; Joseph Addison; Oliver Goldsmith; Charles Lamb; William Hazlitt; R. L. Stevenson; and G. K. Chesterton. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. There is a medium sized pen inscription on the inside front page from a previous owner. Boards are in good condition with on... View more info
By: Carr, Bob
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Camberwell, Australia, Penguin Books: 2002
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: BIOAUS360
ISBN: 0143001345
Condition: Fair
Softcover, first thus, 404gms, 403 pages. Bob Carr says what he thinks with clairty, passion, elegance, wit and commanding logic. Book is in fair condition with mild general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. Book shows moderate to heavy water damage, otherwise no other pre-loved marks. View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: London, England, Ballantine Books: 1971
Edition: First UK Printing
Seller ID: HISNAT35
ISBN: 0345021592
Condition: Good
Paperback, first UK printing, 104g, 110pgs. The eloquent statement of the dependence of all living things on one another. Book is in good condition with heavy general age-related wear and tear and heavy page discolouration throughou. Front cover shows some light creasing, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Davis, Robert. Murray (ed)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, USA, Prentice- Hall Inc.: 1972
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ESS3
ISBN: 0138466599
Condition: Good
Softcover, reprint edition, 225gms, 183 pages. The contributors Steinbeck analyse, among other themes, Steinbecks' use of allegory, his sense of the pastoral, and his ability to embody in his work a deeply felt personal mythos. Book is in good condition with general age-related wear and tear and mild page discolouration throughout, small stamp from previous owner on the inside front page, small tear to front cover, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Attached picture is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title you're loo... View more info
By: Donahoo, Daniel
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Sydney, Australia, University of New South Wales Press Ltd: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: SELPAR144
ISBN: 0868409324
Condition: Very Good
Softcover, first edition, 374gms, 264 pages. This book reflects on the place of children in our society by looking at everything from fertility rates, childcare, the role of the media and the day to day joys and challenges of being a parent. The author argues that idolising is a form of worship that is adversely affecting our children's development and creates citizens who no longer understand their roles and responsiblities. The book examines how we arrived here and looks at what needs to change so that communities as a whole are responsible for raising children. Book is in very good conditio... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Grolier Enterprises Corp: 1980
Edition: Harvard Classic Edition
Seller ID: REF128
Condition: Good
Hardcover gilt stamped dark brown leatherette with decorative motif, Harvard Classic Edition, 848gms, 470 pages, gilt entitled, all page edges in gilt, marker ribbon and decorative endpapers. Featuring the essays of William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Augustus Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David, Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout. Boards are in good condition w... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Grolier Enterprises Corp: 1980
Edition: Harvard Classic Edition
Seller ID: REF137
Condition: Good
Hardcover gilt stamped dark brown leatherette with decorative motif, Harvard Classic Edition, 754gms, 401 pages, gilt entitled, all page edges in gilt, marker ribbon and decorative endpapers. Features essays from Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Thomas Babington Macaulay and many more. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout. Boards are in good condition with only light shelf wear. Gilt stamping shows mild rubbing to the front board and moderate to heavy rubbing on t... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Grolier Enterprises Corp: 1980
Edition: Harvard Classic Edition
Seller ID: REF143
Condition: Good
Hardcover gilt stamped dark brown leatherette with decorative motif, Harvard Classic Edition, 660gms, 332 pages, gilt entitled, all page edges in gilt, marker ribbon and decorative endpapers. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout. Boards are in good condition with only light shelf wear. Gilt stamping shows moderate to heavy rubbing on the front and back boards, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo; and Eliot, Charles W. (ed)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Danbury, Connecticut, USA, Grolier Enterprises Corp: 1980
Edition: Harvard Classic Edition
Seller ID: REF129
Condition: Good
Hardcover gilt stamped dark brown leatherette with decorative motif, Harvard Classic Edition, 848gms, 470 pages, gilt entitled, all page edges in gilt, marker ribbon and decorative endpapers. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout. Boards are in good condition with only light shelf wear. Gilt stamping shows moderate rubbing on the front and back, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Esposito, John L.; and Mogahed, Dalia
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, USA, Gallup Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: HISMID6
ISBN: 1595620176
Condition: Fine
Hardcover with red boards and pictorial dust jacket, first edition, 454g, 204pgs. Grounded in Gallup World Poll data, not in rhetoric, this book brings data-driven evidence - the voices of a billion Muslims, not those of individual experts or extremists - to one of the most heated and consequential debates of our time. Book is in fine, near new condition. View more info
By: Hawking, Stephen
Price: $6.50
Publisher: London, England, Bantam Books: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: SCI82
ISBN: 0553406639
Condition: Good
Softcover, reprint, 160gms, 172 pages. This is Stephen Hawking's first collection of essays and pieces on subjects that range from the warmly personal to the wholly scientific. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sydney, Australia, ABC Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: ESS4
ISBN: 0733310311
Condition: Very Good
Softcover, first edition, 330gms, 256 pages. A thought provoking analysis of issues confronting Australia as it moves into the 21st century, the Barton Lectures make a significant contribution to the national conversation. Book is in very good condition with minor general wear and tear and very light page discolouration throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: James, Clive
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, England, Jonathan Cape: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: SOCCOM20
ISBN: 0224018906
Condition: Good
Hardcover with black boards and dust jacket, first edition, 424gms, 238 pages. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout. There is a small pen mark on the inside front page from a previous owner. Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with only mild shelf wear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
By: Ker, W. P.
Price: $6.50
Publisher: New York, USA, Dover Publications:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: LITHIS10
ISBN: 0486203557
Condition: Good
Softcover, reprint, 484g, 398pgs. The essays gathered together in this volume constitute one of the major classic in the study of literature of the Middle Ages. Book is in good condition with general age-related wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Book has been covered in clear plastic and stuck to inside card for protection, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Prahran, Australia, Hardie Grant Books: 2008
Edition: First Australian Edition
Seller ID: SOCCOM36
ISBN: 1740667026
Condition: Good
Softcover, first Australian edition, 338gms, 211 pages. Here's a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Prahran, Australia, Hardie Grant Books: 2010
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: SOCCOM41
ISBN: 1742701108
Condition: Good
Softcover, first thus, 350gms, 232 pages. Christian Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice on dealing with the Caucasian population. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. View more info
