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1955 third revised edition (to reflect syllabus changes) of 1946 Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd first edition. Cover consists of printed boards, and has been clipped, covered in plastic. Binding is worn. Pages show foxing at margins. Pages are coming loose from binding which is generally warn.

Corsair, 2013. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Slightly bumped corners, edges showing evidence of shelf wear; spine uncreased.

2000 Simon & Schuster Australia, 1st Trade Paperback Edition. Good condition cover bumped with considerable creasing to front, back and spine. Pages unmarked, discolouration beginning at top margin of pages.

Warne / Penguin 2005 1st Hardcover edition. Condition: Very good; some edge and corner wear to cover. All folds, flaps, inserts intact.

Simon & Schuster UK/Australia 1st edition 2014. Technically, bound hardcover with printed dust jacket, but board is so thin it would be more accurate to call it 'paperback'. Printed end papers. Condition: Very Good. Slightly bumped corners (the faux 'hard cover' boards are wider and longer than the pages, so even minimal usage results in slight bumping). Pages clean, intact, 'as new'.

Hardcover, 1st edition. No dust jacket; illustrated cloth bound cover in very good condition – some corner, edge and spine wear; book very good – pages mostly clean; slight foxing/tanning/spotting of endpapers.

Relates the 10-mile journey to safety of the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Part of the Raintree Survival series.

2nd (1957) imprint of Collins 1956 edition . Fifth book in the Barney series of mysteries. No dust jacket; red cloth board hardcover binding. Bumping on corners, slight shelfwear. Book very good; no foxing, slight discoloration on endpapers, flyleaves. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf, in pen. Original illustrations by Gilbert Dunlop. (Colour variation shown on cover is shadow from my iPhone while photographing under indoor lights).

1978 impression of Collins 1968 edition. Cover: Printed, illustrated boards, corners bumped. Pages mostly clean - some slight spotting on page edges.

2012 Bloomsbury 1st British Trade Paperback Edition. Very good condition. Cover virtually as new save for creased spine. Owner's name on flyleaf, some spotting on page edges, otherwise pages clean.

Reprint of 1st 1976 paperback edition. Cover corners bent from plastic covering that has shrunk over time. Sun faded. Some page corners bumped. Otherwise, clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover, Ward, Lock & Co edition. Book, dust jacket in good condition; price clipped; dedication on end paper.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.

Hardcover, Ward, Lock & Co edition. Book in good condition, dust jacket poor; price clipped; dedication on endpaper.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.

Ward Lock, UK. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket flap price clipped. Edgewear to jacket including small chips and tears. Minor bumping to board corners. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding loose, slightly shaken, spine fine. Frontispiece loose but present.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.

Hardcover, Ward, Lock & Co edition. Book in good condition, dust jacket poor; price clipped; dedication on endpaper.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.

Hardcover, Ward, Lock & Co edition. Book in good condition, dust jacket poor; price clipped.

Children’s author and journalist Mary Grant Bruce is most famous for her ‘Billabong’ series, featuring the Linton family and their Billabong Station in Victoria.

It was through her writing that the Australian national identity and values of fierce patriotism, the beauty of the bush and the dangers of its landscape were developed and propagated, including the quintessentially Aussie values of the outback including hard physical labour, mateship and the ANZAC spirit.

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Simon & Schuster, 2011, 2nd Edition, Trade Paperback. Cover worn, creased, corners bumped, spine creased. Dedication page torn out - all other pages intact. Very edge of pages show slight warping from dampness no sticking or tearing as a result.

Simon & Schuster 2002 Hardcover Australian 1st Edition. Book: Good Condition. Bumped corners, slight edgewear. Pages beginning to discolour in margins, otherwise clean. Dust jacket: good. More pronounced bumping at corners and edge wear.

Headline Australian 1st Edition Trade Paperback. Used. Good condition. Corners bumped, creasing to spine and corners; aftermath of water damage evident at top margin of fly leaf and subsequent pages but no sticking or tearing. Some bent corners at front and back of book. Perfect reading-on-holiday-and-leaving-in-hotel-room-if-luggage-overweight-before-returning-home copy.

Paul Hamlyn 1970 Hardcover first edition. Book: very good. Mostly clean pages (in some instances, the discolouring of age has begun); end paper maps and colour/bw illustrations. Jacket: poor torn, bumped, particularly at spine and corners but not chipped; all of it is present.

2006 Little, Brown & Company 1st edition hardcover edition. Dust jacket is in good condition with slight edgewear. Spotting on page edges and on pages themselves throughout. Initials in pen on first page.

2011 1st paperback Simon & Schuster edition. Cover shows minimal wear and bumping except for small crease at bottom back corner and on spine. Pages intact and unmarked.

12th reprinting of 1st (1991) Warner paperback edition. Good condition - cover shows signs of wear: bumped corners with creases, sticker residue on back. previous owner's name on fly leaf otherwise clean pages with slight discolouration beginning on top margin.

1st Australian Little & Brown 2000 Hardcover Edition. Very Good condition. Cover corners bumped, clean pages with initial traces of foxing in margins. Dust jacket Very Good covers bumped at corners and top of spine; front inside flap price clipped; slight scuffing to back cover.

1998 1st Edition Little, Brown and Company trade paperback. Very good condition. Predominantly clean pages slight foxing in margins and former owner's name in pen on flyleaf. Back cover lightly creased.

Collins 1950 5th impression of first edition. Jacket condition: Fair. Tears at edges, spine, corners. Book condition: embossed board covers show significant edge and corner wear. Inside covers, end papers, fly leaves, excellent. Pages clean and excellent. No bent corners, no spotting, no foxing.

Hamish Hamilton Australia 1st Edition Hardcover. Cover condition: very good. Some shelf wear, bumped corners. No dust jacket. Pages clean, intact. Printed end papers. Binding starting to loosen after front fly leaf. Heavy book, may incur additional postage fees.

Book is very good, dust jacket, good. See additional photos for cover and endpapers.

Boards are moderately marked and stained and have mild edge wear, slight bumping to corners, light crushing and wear to spine.

1st Edition (1968), 2nd Impression. Book good, dust jacket good.

A must for bus/trolley/tram-spotters.

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2003, Time Life Books. Hardcover, printed boards, illustrations. Good condition.

Murdoch Books 2007 2nd edition. Softcover. Pages intact, clean. Cover slightly creased with bumped corners.

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2013 1st Paperback Headline UK edition. Over all very good condition but cover shows bumped corners and warn edges, especially at spine.1972 Mayflower soft cover edition. Condition: GOOD. Covered in plastic, so cover in predominantly in good condition despite age. Corners bumped, one slightly creased. Some pages have bumped corners, dog-ears. While slight foxing is apparent in margins, no pages are stuck together or otherwise stained.

Hardcover, 1st edition. No dust jacket; illustrated cloth bound cover in very good condition – some corner, edge and spine wear; book very good – pages mostly clean; slight foxing/tanning/spotting of endpapers.

A man braves waist-deep mud, snakes, crocodiles and quicksand while trying to get help for his companions, stranded in quicksand themselves, facing a slow death. Part of the Raintree Survival series.

2015 Australian 2nd Paperback Edition from the Award Winning Rowland Sinclair Mystery series. Book is in very good condition. Cover shows slight creasing and slightly bumped corners. Pages are bright, clean and unmarked.

BRAND NEW, 1st trade paperback edition published by Halstead Press Australia, November 2021 and available at the early-bird price of $29 (RRP $36.95 in shops, February 2022). Order now.
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Tracing the history of community radio station 2SER – founded October 1979 by NSW Institute of Technology (now UTS – University of Technology Sydney) and Macquarie University – through the 46 boxes of archives that lay in the basement of the studio building.

Featuring new interviews with Anne Sheridan, Marla Guppy (‘Harridan Screenprinting), Tanya Plibersek (Labor MP), Robbie Buck, Richard Kingsmill, Tracee Hutchison, Virginia Madsen, Mchele Bawden, Kaye Blackman, Melanie Withall, Barbara Morison, Keith Jackson, John Martin, Ian Coombe, Yarraka Bayles, Bill Anthes, Nik Fish, Kenny Sabir (Trak Sewt), Luke ‘Snarl’ Dearnley, Cath Dwyer, Steve Ahern, Glenn Wightwick, Prue Borthwick, Stephen Crane, Michael Jones

1985 (33rd impression) of 1958 Faber & Faber paperback. Condition: POOR. Cover and fly leaf clipped; cover creased; covered in plastic; owner's name on sticker on cover. Sections of pages have detached from binding (although all are still present). However, selling point is former owner: Australian Comedy Industrialist and show-runner Dan Ilic (google him) who owned it in Year 10 at Oakhill College. Previous owners' names (Dan's brothers) in ink on fly leaf.

1968, Progress Publisher Moscow, 5th printing. 420 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages remain clear with minor tanning to text block edges. Crushed spine, moderate edge wear to joints. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping.

Second volume of autobiography from the founder of the socialist realism literary method; has also been published as ‘In the World’

1981 First Edition Hardcover. Jacket condition: nf. Sun worn, slight bumping to edges; price clipped. Book condition: FINE. No evidence of bumping. Pages clean, clear, no marks, no spotting, no foxing. Deckled makes it a classy 1st edition.

1972 Mayflower soft cover edition. Condition: GOOD. Covered in plastic, so cover in predominantly in good condition despite age. Corners bumped, one slightly creased. Some pages have bumped corners, dog-ears. While slight foxing is apparent in margins, no pages are stuck together or otherwise stained.

Chafie 1st Edition trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. Some edge and corner wear.

Penguin Australia, 2011 1st Edition Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Some creasing to cover. Slight spotting/tanning to page edges. Heft of edition will incur higher postage rates.

2017 1st paperback edition, Affirm. As new, with very slight shelf wear.

You know how good Nordic crime writing can be. Horst is a former Senior Investigating Officer at Vestfold police district. He made his writing debut in 2004 with Key Witness, based on a true murder story, and has continued writing since.

Chief Inspector William Wisting is a dour cop with much experience, and 'Dregs', book six in the Wisting series, is a straightforward police procedural with understated narrative with close attention to detail,

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Dean & Son, 1963 hardcover edition. Book in good condition - yellow boards, black print on spine. Slight bumping. Spine solid. Binding loose. Pronounced tanning, particularly towards the top of pages. Dust jacket very good plus; creasing to inside front flap, slight edgewear, slight chipping.

Undated hardcover Dean & Son edition. Book good. Cover, blue boards with black print on spine. Binding loose, corners bumped. Slight tanning to top of pages. Dust jacket fair with chips, tears, wormed in places, pronounced edge wear.

2008, Chuang Yi, Australian edition distributed by Madman Australia. Paperback with dust just jacket Book very good condition - no markings, binding tight, no creases on spine, no bent corners; dust jacket very good with slight shelf wear. No chips or bumps, but very slight denting and marking.

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2013 1st edition Ballantyne mass market paperback. Very condition. Minimal bumped corners on cover and spinal creasing; clean pages with slight discolouration in top margins.

1998 1st Edition Hodder & Staughton. Ex library book; covered in plastic. Good condition.

King's Bram Stoker Award-winning novel about an author overcoming writer's block. Borrows some plot devices from Daphne De Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

1999 1st Edition Hodder & Staughton hardcover. Dust jacket and book fine - as new. Dust jacket embossed.

Anthology containing two novellas and three short stories (including the 'title track') connected by recurring characters, generally addressing the failings of the baby boomer generation regarding widely held aspirations and ideals, including academia and Viet Nam. Hailed at the time of its release as 'The Great American Baby Boomer Novel'. (I feel like I need to make an 'OK American Baby Boomer Novel' here - in keeping with the meme, not as lit crit. Also, not a novel.)

1992 1st Edition Hodder & Staughton Hardcover. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

This anthology collects various short stories King wrote and published from as early as 1971, in publications as varied as mens' magazine 'Cavalier', horror/fantasy periodicals and 'The New Yorker, as well as five previously unpublished stories.

1988 mass market Aerie paperback. Condition: GOOD. Cover corners bumped. Owner's name in inside cover in pen. Cover and pages showing signs of foxing on inside cover.

Newmarket 1991 1st Edition paperback English translation; advance preview copy. Very Good copy - cover corners slightly bumped; cover edges more so. Sunned spine. Has BW images, documentation of the times.

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2005 Pocket Books 1st paperback edition. Book is in good condition. Cover has some creasing on corner and spine. Pages are clean. Binding is beginning to break between pp 366 and 367.

1st Trade Paperback Zaffre edition. Good condition. Clean pages with a single crease; corners of cover bumped; some shelfwear, slight creasing to back cover corners and slight soiling to page edges. Bookseller Inventory

1965 first edition Monarch Notes (Simon & Schuster) paperback edition critical guide to D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Cover shows edgeware and spineware. Remnants of original price tag on cover; original owner's name on fly leaf in pen. Bookseller

1997 Coronet/Hodder Headline 1st Australia mass market paperback edition. Good condition - cover corners bumped, spine slightly creased. Pages intact, discoloured at margins with spots on edges.

2004, 1st Edition Norton paperback. Book is in good condition with slight tanning and spotting to the page outer edges; cover slightly bowed with bumped corners.

The story of the Oakland Athletics baseball team whose general manager Billy Beane helped build a competitive team despite insufficient budget by focusing on evidence basede sabermetric analytics. Filmed in 2011 with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.

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2003 Vintage 1st mass market paperback edition. Kurt Wallander novel. Condition is very good. Some corner bumping and creasing on spine. Pages mostly clean, with some spotting on page edges.

"Remember that races don't exist; cultures exist." - Fosco Mariani

Mariani, an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic, made his first trip to Japan in 1938, where he taught until he was interred with wife and 3 children in a concentration camp from 1943-46. Retreating to Italy after the Allies occupied Japan, he made his return in 1955.

1996 Hodder & Stoughton 1st Australian Trade Paperback. Good condition. Bumped corners, creased spine. Small book plate of former owner's details on fly leaf and title page; top corner of last quarter of book's pages rippled suggesting water damage but no stuck pages or discolouration. Otherwise, pages clean.

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McCormick and Fisher-Hoch tell the story of those who hunt- at their peril and for our protection- the emerging diseases making global headlines. Book is in good condition with no visible general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.

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A timely tale for this pandemic.

Hardcover, 1st edition. No dust jacket; illustrated cloth bound cover in very good condition – some corner, edge and spine wear; book very good – pages mostly clean; slight foxing/tanning/spotting of endpapers.

Biography of the man whose experiences as a castaway on a desert island in the Pacific inspired Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Part of the Raintree Survival series.

1989 reprinting of 1961 edition paperback. Fair, ex-student copy; covered, owner's name stickered on front, written inside cover; margin notes throughout in pen. Pages beginning to fox.