random house aust (33 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Illustrated endpapers, 472pp., b/w and colour illustrations, index. Age toned text block with minor spotting. Browned edges. Dustjacket has slight rubbing and edge creasing.(BH) 4/22.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Verso of covers map illustrated. 227pp. Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the title page. Age toned text block. Tanned edges. Covers have light creasing to edges and corners. Uncreased spine.(BH) 11/2023. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. xi, 352pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography. Age toned text block. Browned edges. Rubbed covers with slight creasing and surface wear. Uncreased spine.(BH) 1/25.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 369pp., b/w illustrations, index. Biography of the Australian poet Shelton Lea [1946-2005]. Lightly age toned text block and edges. Back cover has some slight creasing to corner.(BH) 1/25.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Decorated endpapers, unpaginated [128pp.], 120 full colour photographs. First and only edition. Signed by Paul Burrows on the title page. Uncommon.(BH) 5/24. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 233pp. First Australian edition. Age toned text block. Browned edges else Fine in like Dustjacket.(BH) 12/23.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xvi, 240pp., b/w photographs, filmography, index. Inscribed and Signed on the title page by both Ray Barrett [1927-2009] and Peter Corris [1942-2018]. Slightly age toned text block. Browned edges. Lightly creased spine.(BH) 4/24. Inscribed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good +. 188pp. Photographs by Tony Mahony. Light edge-wear. There is scattered pitting & scarring to the cover panels, and some light creasing to the front cover panel. The spine is uncreased and the binding is square & firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. viii, 285pp., b/w and colour illustrations, index. Inscribed and signed by Nick Farr-Jones on the half title page. Age toned and lightly foxed text block. Browned edges. Foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket slightly rubbed with light surface scratches.(BH) 10/24. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Very Good. 4to. hardcover. 176pp. index, colour illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.

(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 467pp. (sl foxing) to foredge. Good copy. August 1943, & Dorrigo Evans is a POW on the Thai-Burma railway. He is haunted by the memory of his love affair with his uncle's young wife while trying to save the men under his command from starvation.

Col.Ill.wrapps. 338pp. b/w plates. Corners sl.rubbed else a very good copy. 1st ed. Reginald 'Snowy' Baker represented Australia in three sports at the 1908 Olympic Games as a champion swimmer, diver & boxer, as well as well as playing in two Rugby Union Tests as well.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 308pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. @Signed by Lin & Sam Riley.@ @Lin Riley, the mother of Australian Olympic swimmer, Sam Riley, shares her moving story of adopting Sam & helping her search for her birth mother, Ronnie, who she discovers through her sister.@.

First edition: octavo; 520pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned and spotted. Dustwrapper. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Signed octavo paperback; 276pp. Minor wear only; near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 391pp. Mild wear; text block and page edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper 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.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and decorated endpapers; 352pp. Minor wear; cocked; spine heel softened; text block edges toned. Dustwrapper mildly edgeworn. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Octavo; paperback; 366pp., with maps and diagrams and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; text block edges toned; signed in ink by Peter Hohnen on the title page. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. During World War One, the Germans sought to starve Britain into submission by interfering with her trade across the Atlantic. To this end, they launched the Wolf, a freighter sailing under no flag and obeying no nautical regulations, destined to stay away from all ports for an astonishing fifteen months, and covering a total of over 64,000 nautical miles. During its epic sojourn, the ship sank over 30 allied ships and laid many square miles of sea mines, surviving by capturing enemy ships and pillaging their supplies and cargoes, finally carrying over 400 prisoners-of-war - captured personnel and travellers from the sunken vessels. In this re-telling of its epic voyage, the authors bring to life the strange existence of the captors and captured, never knowing when they would return to land, battling scurvy and engaging in clandestine romantic liaisons. This is one of the untold narratives of the Great War, whose naval engagements are often sadly overlooked, and is essential reading for the enthusiast.

First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 435pp., with 16pp. of colour and monochrome plates. Minor wear. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth with decorative endpapers; 360pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 472pp., top edges dyed green. Mild wear; some bumps to the upper board; light dusting to the text block top edge. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel lightly sunned; 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.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorative black endpapers; 592pp., with 16pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; slightly shaken; softening to the spine extremities; text block edges toned; signed by the author with a dedication in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn with some mild creasing; light chipping to the flap-turns; 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.

Quarto; paperback; 208pp. with many full-colour illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn; old security tag to the inside rear cover. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

First edition. Hardcover, octavo; gray boards with red gilt spine titling and dark red endpapers; 656pp., monochrome plates. Minor toning to text block edges and very slight wear to dustwrapper edges. Otherwise very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. After the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, 2,500 Australian and British prisoners were transported by the Japanese to the east coast of Northen Kalimantan (Borneo), to a jungle camp eight miles inland from Sandakan, and there worked, beaten and tortured almost to death. After the Japanese settlement at Sandakan was targeted by an Allied offensive, the Japanese loaded their prisoners with all of the equipment and force-marched them away from the conflict, a retreat which has become known as the Sandakan Death Marches. Of the 1,000 plus prisoners who commenced this trek, only six Australians survived to tell the tale. After the War, decades of silence and cover-ups by the Australian and British military powers - determined that revelations of the activities at Sandakan would only cause unnecessary grief and undermine post-War efforts at reconciliation - left a gaping hole in the battle map and the lives of those families whose loved ones had vanished without word. In this important book, Paul Ham lifts the lid on the hellhole that was Sandakan and brings the truth staggering into the light of day.

First Australian edition: octavo; hardcover; blue boards with white spine titling and orange endpapers; 727pp., with 32pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; board corners well-rubbed toned and spotted text block edges; inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated dustwrapper with wear to edges especially on head of spine, 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. Marr's pellucid study.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 335pp., with 16pp. of monochrome plates. Minor wear; slightly cocked; mild softening to the spine extremities. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn; 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. At the age of twenty-five, Arthur Rimbaud - the infamous author of A Season in Hell, the pioneer of modernism, the lover and destroyer of Verlaine, the "hoodlum poet" celebrated a century later by Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison - turned his back on poetry, France, and fame, for a life of wandering in East Africa. In this compelling biography, Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud's life as a trader, explorer, and gunrunner in Africa. Following his fascinating journey, Nicholl shows how Rimbaud lived out that mysterious pronouncement of his teenage years: "Je est un autre" - I is somebody else.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 494pp., with maps and 16pp. of colour plates. Minor wear; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title page. Dustwrapper. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "The sixth child of Philip IV of France, she was married to the fey, gay Edward II at the age of 12 in 1308. She suffered the insulting presence of his lover Piers Gaveston until that arrogant young man was murdered by the great barons he had encouraged Edward to fleece of lands and wealth. She then made a successful comeback in her husband's affections, bearing him two sons and two daughters. When another favourite, Hugh Despenser, came to dominate Edward's butterfly mind, she contrived an excuse for returning to France in 1325 and refused to return. In 1326 she invaded a restive England with the support of the exiled baron Roger Mortimer and a Flemish army. Country and city alike rose to support her. Despenser was condemned to death and Edward forced to abdicate in favour of his 13-year-old son. He was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle, where he disappeared in 1327. Officially, he died, but speculation was rife that he had been poinarded up his fundament (significant insult). Mortimer and Isabella, widely rumoured to be lovers, then dominated England as avaricious regents for nearly four years. Fond as he was of his mother, Edward III had no intention of being a puppet king. Rising 18 and unable to ignore what was probably Isabella's second pregnancy, he acted swiftly, seizing Mortimer, and committing him (gagged to prevent his bad-mouthing the Queen Mother) to trial for the murder of Edward II. He was convicted and hanged. The vast wealth that Isabella had hoarded was at last disbursed. She was kindly treated, albeit corralled in seclusion for propriety's sake until she gave birth to, or miscarried, Mortimer's child, and then generously dowered. Can a case be made out for the rehabilitation of Isabella? Weir comes down firmly on the "yes" side, excusing her undeniable rapacity as due to her being "blinded by love, infatuation or lust" for Mortimer. In an enthralling passage, she forensically examines and is convinced by the fascinating thesis that Isabella had nothing to do with Edward's death because Edward escaped from Berkeley to live as an itinerant hermit for the next ten years or so. But what lingers from Weir's portrait of this dynamic, famously beautiful woman is not her doubtful innocence but her genius for survival and re-invention, for persuasion and manipulation. She grew into an elder stateswoman, the dignified grandmother of Edward's 13 children. She took to books, astrology and geometry, and became a lay member of the Franciscan order. Always a snappy dresser, in 1358 she was buried in the scarlet-and-yellow satin wedding cloak she had kept all her life, worn over her dun Franciscan habit. In her hands she held a casket holding her wronged husband's heart. If that's not style, I don't know what is." - Christina Hardyment.

Hardcover; octavo; with metallic purple upper board titling, black endpapers and a red ribbon marker; 472pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Limited commemorative edition following the author's Man Booker Prize win in 2014.

Octavo; hardcover; 435pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; text block edges toned and spotted; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; signed in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper lightly edgeworn; a promotional sticker to the upper panel. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 256pp. with a monochrome poratrait rontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; spine extremities lightly softened; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf; top corner of the half-title page clipped. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; 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.