melbourne university publishing carlton vic (29 résultats)

Softcover / Paperback. Etat : Fine. First edition. Softcover. SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON. The authors detail the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia. They trace the developments in, and the shifting dynamics of Australia's criminal underworld from the early 1800s until the Melbourne gangland killings of recent years. The book follows the rise and fall of Australia's talented conmen, standover men, brothel keepers, club owners, robbers, ethnic minority crime figures, bikers, drug dealers and contract killers to illustrate how small time operations have become financially solvent criminal corporations with international links. It also examines the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of criminal empires. A fascinating survey of Australian criminal activity over nearly two centuries. Illus., Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 388pp. trade size softcover. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY JAMES MORTON. F. with no creasing to covers. signed by author.

Paper Back. Etat : Very Good. The back inside cover has a pen mark. The book is a little worn. 358 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).

Paper Back. Etat : Very Good. 226 pages. The book is a little worn, with a faded spine. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The cover has minor wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 314 pages with plates, some coloured. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Soft cover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. xviii+301pp., Colour illustrated cover with neat black publishers mark to top edge of pages near spine, foreword by Pamela Bone, preface by author, afterword, notes, bibliog., index. A Good Death is Rodney Syme's compassionate and candid account of the many terminally ill people who he has assisted to end their lives. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. B&W Photographs. DW: Scuffing to flap edges (top).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Ex-library book with typical markings.

Paper Back. Etat : Very Good. There is some light tanning along the edges of the book. 199 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 D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minimal edgewear. Ex library book with stickers, stamps and protective plastic covering. Before his death in 1991, Manning Clark assembled these forty speeches and lectures for publication. He grouped them as history, politics, literature and friends. Clark's seer-like presence is still palpable and his words still give us pause (back cover).

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 338 pages. The book is a little worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 268 pp., b/w & col. illustrations. Moving panorama and diorama pictures came to Australia and New Zealand during the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1860s. Entrepreneurs brought great lengths of canvas from Britain and America depicting nineteenth-century battles and sea and land journeys from England to India and Australia. Others showed nostalgic scenes of 'home', such as trips down the River Thames. Local artists, often working as theatrical scenic painters, showed pictures of the gold fields, the Burke and Wills expedition and the Murray River. Canvas Documentaries is the first detailed documentation of the Australian panorama industry. Mimi Colligan gives new insight into largely ignored visual and cultural influences that helped form the colonial experience.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. The dust jacket has minimal wear. Several copies are available. 275 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 F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 767 Pages. This is Volume 3 only. The dust jacket has very little shelf wear. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. xiii+530pp., Pictorial colour illustrated dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, grey papered boards with gilt text to spine, col. illust. endpapers, foreword by Geoff Love, preface, abbrev., dates in Aust. Meteorology, col. & b/w plts. & text ills., diags., tables, maps, appends., image source, notes, bibliog., index. The Weather Watchers is a gripping story of the Bureau of Meteorology, and the significant and often colourful figures who have been part of the Bureau since its inception 100 years ago. Size: Large Octavo. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : ACCEPTABLE. Paperback 1974. SPINE & COVERS ARE CREASED. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref O1996.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. xiv+303pp., Pictorial full colour photographic covers with light bump and wear to rear corner of upper spine-end, inscribed & signed to title page "To John and Joan warm regards Paul Sinclair", ack., conv., abbrev., b/w plts. & illust. & text, diags., maps, plans, notes, bibliog., index. Memory and emotional attachment are as much a part of the Murray as fish, irrigation and flood. Size: Octavo. Book.

Paperback. Etat : As New.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Miegunyah Press (General Series). Colour and B&W Illustrations throughout. Oblong (7.25" x 10").

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex-library with no external stickers. Internal stickers on inside front and back covers have been covered with blank white stickers. Date due slip on front endpage has been covered with blank ex libris sticker. Stamp on imprint page. Minimal wear to book corners and edges. Dust Jacket has only light creasing to edges. This is the first comprehensive account of the lives of domestic servants in Australia. Domestic service was more common in Australia than in England until 1860 and more common than in the United States until 1940.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. The dust jacket has light wear with minor scuffing and some small tears along the edges. The edges of the book have light tanning. The front endpaper has a name inscription from a pervious owner. 680 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 G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 324 pages. The cover has a little wear, with fading on the spine and a few minor scuffs on the edges. The page edges are lightly foxed. The top-margin of the last few page edges have a patch of water damage. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 163 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).

621 pp including index, decorated end-papers, b&w photographic plates, fine copy in like, pictorial d/j.

Octavo; hardcover, with metallic blue spine-titling, a scarlet ribbon and decorated endpapers; 472pp., with a frontispiece and 20pp. of black & white photographic plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him - Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, 'It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there', and walked out to meet the spotlight. Acclaimed biographer Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History is the first contemporary and definitive biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister. From his childhood in the fledgling city of Canberra to his first appearance as Prime Minister (playing Neville Chamberlain), to his extensive war service in the Pacific and marriage to Margaret, the champion swimmer and daughter of Justice Wilfred Dovey, the biography draws on previously unseen archival material, extensive interviews with family and colleagues, and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself. Hocking's narrative skill and scrupulous research reveals an extraordinary and complex man whose life is, in every way, formed by the remarkable events of previous generations of his family, and who would, in turn, change Australian political and cultural developments in the twentieth century.

Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titling; 244pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; slightly shaken and rolled; some light scraping to the board bottom edges. Dustwrapper a litt;le rubbed and edgeworn; a small surface tear to the front pane; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "The stars of the book are all artists in the European tradition. But what stars they are. They loved structure, the veins of the leaf, the relation of the leaf to the stem, the arrangement of the seed in the pod, and everything to do with the composition of the flower. They loved the surfaces of fruit, with their characteristic blemishes. They loved laying out their information on the page, in a standard scientific manner but with great energy of composition. (That is why their books have so often been disbound and the illustrations framed.) And some of them liked devising sublime landscapes for a background, to give some sense of native habitat, while Johann Volckhammer, in a great book on fruit produced in Nuremberg in the early 18th century, had the idea of placing the fruit in the sky above aerial views of the great houses in Europe where they were being cultivated. So it is that we find a grapefruit (or grapefruit-ancestor), labelled Pompelmus, hovering over a baroque moated Schloss, looking like something devised by Magritte. Elsewhere, an airborne aubergine.The idiom of these illustrations changes as the techniques for reproduction change. Woodcuts come first, followed by steel engravings, both of them coloured by hand, so that what you are looking at is the work not just of artist and engraver but also of countless, nameless, highly skilled drudges, who brought the work to its exquisite finish. .Precise technical description of a plant, coupled with a drawing, takes us a long way towards identification. The early botanical artists' work is by no means useless to us today. Often the scientific names have changed, but the flower itself jumps out at us from the page. We say: I've seen that, or I grow that. Perhaps it is familiar. But to many of these artists it was not familiar at all. It spoke of the great unknown, of uncharted creation. It seemed the latest word in the bizarre." - James Fenton.

527 S. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. 4°. Sauberes Exemplar ohne Stempel und Anstreichungen. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Tafeln. Kanten des Schutzumschlags minimal berieben. Sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: eng.

269 pp including index, large octavo, tinted end-papers, coloured and b&w photographic and illustrated plates, mint copy in like, illustrated d/j. Limited to 1500 copies.