Self published perth (70 résultats)

card cover>. Etat : Fine. First Edition. 96p. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 178 pages. Illustrated. Owners inscription on title page. Northeast, Brian (illustrateur).

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 94 P[Ages, Illus. B. Garret (illustrateur).

Pamphlet. Etat : Very Good+. Trade Edition. This pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The pamphlet and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is generalized toning to the pamphlet covers. The text pages are clean, but do have generalized toning.…

Hardback. Etat : Fine. Reprint. Octavo Size. Fine condition. No dustjacket as issued. Brown faux leather boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Black & white illustrations. Maps to endpapers. Smal lable "Greetings from Cook SA" to front free endpaper. A lovely copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. x, 111 pages.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly right front cover. Water stain to right edge of preliminary pages. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner and author have signed the title page. This book traces the origins of two-up in Australia from the First Fleet. Most of the book, however, focuses on the Kalgoorlie Two-Up School, from its beginnings during the 1890s gold rush to its legislation in 1983. …

Hardcover (Printed Boards). Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. From the 1000+ volume private collection of well-known Australian poet and author Guy Weller all of which are listed or will soon be listed on this site. Includes many hardcover Collected Poems from sought-after 20th century poets from all countries. Search Mr Pickwick's store on this site under category Poetry, or else do a Keyword search for the special keyword '"pickwickpoems" to display these as an isolated group. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Item Type: Ephemera, small booklet or pamphlet, limited pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Australia; Australian Poetry; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 20604. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.…

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. 112 p. 17.5 x 27.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Light wear along the edges and at the corners. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. A selection of the engravings work of Franc Van Oort. Text is in English and French. Introductory essay by Tim Wynne-Jones.…

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. DJ VG+ (fault). Gilt titles on deep blue cloth. 80pp. Repaired 1" triangular tear on bottom rear edge of dust jacket. Size: Octavo.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on title page. Interior and binding are still very good. David Hart is one of the original West Coast Eagles, one of the most popular and dedicated men to pull on the boots with the club. This book is both a revelation about a champion player himself and the story of the Eagles' first ten years through the eyes of a courageous little man who was prepared to give an eyetooth for a chance but made it with all his teeth intact. (back cover). …

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 2nd Edition. Fine condition. Looks new. This book is Robert Baldwin's self-published autobiography of growing up in Melbourne during the 1950s and 60s. Baldwin's childhood difficulties are overshadowed by the Cold War, growing up in the Catholic Church and the White Australia policy. These years also saw the emergence of teenage culture and the coming of television. Baldwin takes his story from his difficult childhood through to his time now is a grandfather.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some marks on title page. Water stain to foredges and back cover only.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Marks on front and back covers. Inscribed by author. Interior and binding are very good. Autobiography of a Bell Nelli who grew up in the Western Australian Goldfields of the 1930s.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on tail right front cover corner. Large inscription by author on title page. Small mark on dedication page. Body text and binding are still very good.Mary Carter, who later became Ma Thomas and finally Mary Raine, made her fortune from Perth real estate. She is best known for acquiring the Wentworth Hotel, United Service Hotel and the Windsor Hotel. In the mid-1950s, the Raines contributed to an appeal to launch a medical school at the University of Western Australia. When her husband, Arnold 'Joe' Yeldham Raine, died, Mary contributed again by establishing the Arnold Yeldham & Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation. On her death, Mary bequeathed the bulk of her estate to the Foundation, bringing her legacy to nearly £1 million.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to the front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. Inscribed by author.Arlene Puddy Beatty's family came to Gwalia c1890. In 1916, her grandfather became the underground manager for the Sons of Gwalia Mine. Kenneth J Irwin worked underground at the mine from 1960 to 1962.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. A brief history of the Redemptorists in Western Australia, in particular the North Perth Monastery Church, built in 1903.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Signed by author. In Western Australian history, there is no story more tragic than that of C Y O'Connor, the engineer who built the Coolgardie Goldfields pipeline. This brief biography trace O'Connor's life from the Irish potato famine that ruined his parents, to the wilds of New Zealand and finally Western Australia where his achievements are still celebrated.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Price in ink has been added to interior page. Dust jacket has wear to edges. Signed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. The autobiography of Bill Rouke, who attended the Claremont Teachers College in 1917. His studies were interrupted by his service in WWI. In 1920, he re-entered Teachers' College to begin a fifty-year teaching career, including time in the North West, Goldfields and the South West.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. After a tumultuous and quite disastrous beginning, the Catholic Church in the Swan River Colony began to prosper under Father Martin Griver, who for 37 years laboured as a missionary priest and, for the last 16 years of his life, was the 2nd Catholic Bishop of Perth.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Fading to spine. Inscribed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. Yarragadee is a pastoral station in the Mid West Region, Western Australia. This is the biography of Colin Pearse and his family. Colin was a jackaroo at Koonoona Stud in Burra, South Australia. It was here that Colin was trained to take over Yarragadee for his family.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint marks on the title page and a mark on the back page. The book documents the life of Sarah Theodosia Hall (née Branson) (1793-1858), an early pioneer of the Swan River and Mandurah. She was a strong-willed pioneer who navigated the immense hardships of early colonial life. It traces the family's journey from Shackerstone Manor in England to their settlement in the Swan River Colony in 1830, and later to Mandurah in Western Australia. Halls Head is named in her honour. It also tracks her seven children, who married into other prominent early settler dynasties. This includes her son, notable North-West explorer and pastoralist William Shakespeare Hall, and connections to the family of Thomas Peel. Features illustrations, maps, and a family tree.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Marks on covers. Interior and binding are still very good. A collection of memories of some members of one class at Loreto Nedlands in Western Australia. They all attended school for some of the years between 1954 and 1964. Loreto Nedlands was a girls' school with boys admitted only in the first year or so. It was a small school taught mostly by Loreto Nuns (Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Many of the memories in this book focus on specific teachers. As the stories recall, each year followed the rhythm of terms and Catholic feast days. There was weekly Mass and daily prayers.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Mark on front cover. Personal reflections of Vera A Summers, best known for her long tenure as the Headmistress of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC) in Perth, a position she held from 1934 until her retirement. The Light of Other Days covers her upbringing, her educational journey, and her observations of life in Australia.…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to half-title page and top and right foredges. This account by Penelope Hetherington of the lives of her parents Ron and Liza Loveday, combines family hisotry with political biography. The analysis of family origins, and of marriage and family patterns provide one of the major themses. The Lovedays made several unsuccessful attempts to secure an independent livelihood for themsleves, includ eight years during the Depression on a marginal wheat farm in South Australia, before Ron joined the industrial workforce in Whyalla in 1938. The final chapters deal with his expereinces as the MP for Whyalla from 1956 to 1970 and as South Australian Minister for Education from 1965 to 1968. (back cover).…

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to edges and corners.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. A brief history of the Pilbara town of Cossack, written by Heritage Council site manager Brian Hoey. Hoey spent five years in the 1990s endeavouring to restore the town as part of Australia's National Estate.…