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By: Barton, Rod
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Black Inc/Schwartz Publishing: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007875
x., + 278pp., plus 8 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. " . . . tells of a professional life replete with adventure, urgency and achievement. From the chaos of Somalia to the inner sanctums of the UN, Barton has more than once been in the eye of the historical storm . . . describes the fascinating chess-game of weapons inspection, with its mixture of dete... View more info
By: Bower-Miles, Tony 'Bomber', and Whittaker, Mark
Price: $15.20
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Macmillan (Pan Macmillan Australia): 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013015
ix, + 292pp., unpaginated colour and monochrome halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper bumped on foredge corners, else very good. Textblock unmarked. 'Bomber' is the story of Tony Bower-Miles, who was a young sapper in the Australian Army when he first went to Vietnam in 1969. This is his story . . . Contents include: Prelims., Prologue, 28 chapters. Book weight approx. 495g. View more info
By: Bradford, John
Price: $26.60
Publisher: Henley Beach, South Australia, Seaview Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 013412
xviii, + 224pp., b/white halftone plate illustrated section, plus line-drawn maps and facsimiles. Book clean. Spine firm, minor repair on head. Colour-art illustrated (Tom Offord) gloss wrapper noticeably creased on front, else lighty bumped, plus a minor dampstain on plain inner. A short personal inscription on the title page, signed and dated by the author, else textblock unmarked. Including a listing of names and citations for Australian military personnel recommended... View more info
By: Carlyon, Les
Price: $20.90
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Macmillan: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010054
600pp., plus 2 x 16 page, b/white photographically illustrated sections. Illustrated endpapers. Book clean, square, Spine firm, white title there-on. Plain boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket softly creased at head of spine and front panel only. "The struggle for the Gallipoli Peninsula was dominated by the terrain as much as by the men and steel, and author Les Carlyon makes the battlefields come alive, walking through the... View more info
By: Carlyon, Les
Price: $20.90
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Picador: 2007
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 011101
xi, + 863pp., b/white maps, plus 3 x 16 page, b/white photographically-illustrated sections. Book clean, square. Spine firm, minor reading crease there-on. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. Contents include: List of Maps, Key to Maps, Prologue, 50 chapters (Three 'parts', plus Aftermath), Australian Divisions in France and Belgium 1916-1918, Endnotes, Select Bibliography, Acks., Index. "LEST WE FORGET". Book weight approx. 1.4 KG. * ... View more info
By: Clarke, Michael
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Toorak, VIC, Australia, Michael Clarke Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 012386
viii, + 527pp., b/white, author-portrait frontispiece, intext halftone plates and two colour-maps, throughout. Book clean. Bright gilt title over mildly canted and bumped spine. Plain ochre-brown boards lightly edgeworn. Textblock flecked on edges, else leaves clean. Portrait-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket slightly edgeworn and colour-faded on spine. " . . . utterly candid, personal story of a young Australian artillery officer during WW2." Descr... View more info
By: Davies, Will
Price: $17.10
Publisher: North Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Vintage Books (Random House Australia): 2008
Edition: First Impression
Seller ID: 013304
(xiii), + 257pp., unpaginated colour and b/white halftone plate sections (various sources), plus an intext map section. Book clean and square. Spine firm, a soft reading crease there-on. Illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Textblock lightly tanned only. Private Edward Lynch was a member of the 45th Battalion A.I.F. and in this contextual history the author Will Davies traces Lynch and the 45th Battalion's travels - long route marches, front line at Messines... View more info
By: Dean, E.T. (Edwin Theyer) [Compiled by]
Price: $294.50
Publisher: [swanbourne, Western australia], [J. Burridge Military Antiques]:
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 012837
No publication date (1988). 247pp. Illustrated throughout: b/white halftone plate frontispiece, one other like plate, plus four undamaged fold-outs. Book clean and square. Bright gilt titles over undamaged spine and front green board. Rear green board unmarked. Textblock near fine. No dustjacket (as issued). This book is a facsimile edition of the title first published c. 192-?, printed by W.K. Thomas & Co., Adelaide. Extremely scarce in any edition, contents include: Pr... View more info
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The Jacaranda Press:
Edition: 1st Thus.
Seller ID: 005953
No publication date (c. 1965). 128pp., one unpaginated b/white halftone plate illustration, plus numerous intext b/white sketch-art (various contributors) throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. A former owner's name crudely deleted on half-title page, plus impressions on several subsequent leaves resulting from that deletion. Otherwise, leaves are clean. Art-illustrated wrapper has a beverage ring stain on front, otherwise mild edgewear. Published to coincide wit... View more info
By: Geddes, Margaret
Price: $23.75
Publisher: Camberwell, VIC, Australia, Viking (Penguin): 2004
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
Seller ID: 013441
viii, + 503pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections. Patterned endpapers: security bar affixed to rear pastedown. Book clean and square. Red title over lightly bumped spine. Plain beige boards undamaged. Textblock edges flecked, leaves tanned. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket minimally edgeworn and colour-faded on spine. " . . . brings together the first-hand accounts of more than seventy-five ordinary Australians who did extraordinary things ... View more info
By: Gillett, Ross
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Australia, Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd.: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013140
162pp., illustrated throughout: colour and b/white halftone plates (mostly archival), plus line-drawn plans and sections, with numerous tables. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour illustrated, gloss card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock unmarked. "The first ever complete history of Australian Naval Aviation, from the First World War to the present." Contents include: Prelims., Introduction, 8 chapters, Appendices, Epilogue and Bibliography. Book wei... View more info
By: Greg Kerr
Price: $34.20
Publisher: South Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Oxford University Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 012183
xiv, + 306pp., intext, mostly candid, b/white halftone plates throughout. Book clean and square. Lightly bumped spine firm. Plain black boards undamaged. Several minor splash specks on textblock top edge, else leaves unmarked. Duo-tone, pictorially-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket minimally edgeworn only. From the jacket flap: "Greg Kerr traces the experiences of about 160 participants in the Great War, using 200 rare photographs to illustrate the fron... View more info
By: Howard, Ann
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Dangar Island, 2083, Australia, Tarka Publishing: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013011
193pp., b/white intext illustrations throughout: line-drawn frontispiece map, halftone plates, facsimiles and cartoons. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain green boards very good. A former owner's name on green tinted ffep., else textblock unmarked. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket mildly edgeworn, with several blind indentations. From the jacket flap: "The part that over 24,000 women played in the Australian Army ... View more info
By: Hunt, Roger
Price: $14.25
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Horwitz Publications: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006355
130pp. Book clean and square. Leaves flecked and acidic (browned) . Art-illustrated card wrapper has a reading crease to front, minimal edgewear and soiled on rear. Stories of Australian air aces from World War One. Book weight approx. 90g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. View more info
Price: $23.75
Publisher: Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Black Inc: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009003
vii, + 432pp., colour maps, plus colour and b/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated, flapped card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. ". . . ideal for armchair travellers and lovers of history, 'Pilgrimage' invites readers on a voyage of discovery. It shows the changing face of Australian battlefields around the world and the tragedy and heroism of a nation at war." Contents include: Introduction, 8 c... View more info
By: Johnson, Carl
Price: $20.90
Publisher: Bentleigh, Victoria, Australia, Bentleigh RSL Sub Branch: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013045
(iv) + 180pp., b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout (archival and other sources). Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper bumped and creased, mainly on foredge corners. Textblock unmarked. This book is a combination of two 'parts' - the first is the Bentleigh Sub-Branch history: six chapters, Symbolism of the RSL Badge, Appendices, Acks. The second part is the poignant 'Record of Service': Dedication, Preface, Boer War, Local District and t... View more info
By: Laidlaw, J.M. (Edited by J.G. Rogers)
Price: $24.70
Publisher: Victoria, Australia, Janette G. Rogers: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013302
(x), + 222pp., illustrated throughout: b/white halftone plates, facsimiles, and line-drawn maps. Book clean and square. Backstrip firm and unmarked. Yellow chartreuse coloured cloth boards undamaged. Textblock pristine. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket colour-faded on spine (title clearly legible) and less so on front and rear panels. This case-bound copy is numbered '224' of an unstated 'Limited Edition'. Comprising 10 'diaries' written by Private James M... View more info
By: Lee, Sandra
Price: $17.10
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W., Australia, Allen & Unwin: 2011
Edition: First Edition, First Impression.
Seller ID: 010508
xvi, + 311pp., plus 1 x 16 page, colour photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper negligibly edgeworn only. "Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable." Book weight approx. 385g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will po... View more info
Price: $24.70
Publisher: Chatswood, NSW, Australia, The Currawong Press: 1994
Edition: First Thus.
Seller ID: 005907
288pp., frontispiece, intext b/white halftone plates (mostly archival) throughout. Book clean. Spine firm, nominally cocked. Leaves clean. Illustrated (montage-style) gloss boards mildly faded on spine, abraded on upper rear foredge corner, otherwise very good. No dustjacket. The story of the ANZAC soldier and the arenas in which they have gallantly fought . . . Contents include: Prelims., The Long March Begins, First World War 1914-1918. Second World War 1939-1945. Unce... View more info
By: McAuley, Lex
Price: $13.30
Publisher: Milsons Point, N.S.W., Australia, Arrow/Random House: 1992
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 010158
432pp., b/white maps, plus 16 page, b/white, photographically-illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, a hint of tanning to textblock edges, and several leaves have a soft corner crease. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to front and rear panels. "Lex McAuley tells the full story of the Kokoda campaign - from the beginning, when an untried force of Australians went to do battle with a Japanese army which had swept aside all b... View more info
