Search Results: Australia from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 338 pages, with index, bibliography. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, faint foxing to edges and inside of wraps, page margins age-toned, binding solid and supple, Australian bookstore price sticker on back wrap. Underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 10 pages.

Allen & Unwin, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 295 pages, with index, bibliography, illustrated with tables and graphs of economic data. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, a couple of tiny spots of soil to bottom edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Pan Books Ltd., 1971. Soft cover. Good. 319 pages, with index, bibliography, map of exploration and settlement, map of mineral deposits. Updated edition of book first published by Macmillan in 1953. Mass-market paperback, shelf-wear, crease to rear top corner, pages age-tanned, binding tight, underscoring or marginalia on approximately 10 pages.

Sun Books, 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 150 pages, with index and bibliography, illustrated with b&w photos on 4 double-sided plates. A journalist looks at terrorist threat to Australia as of 1986. Trade paperback,light wear to wraps, with reading crease, front bottom right corner bent. Bookstore print pencilled on half-title, text pages unmarked.

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 280 pages, with index, illustrated with b&w photos and documents (full-page and cuts). Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, binding tight. Underscoring observed on one page.

Horwitz Publications, 1965. Soft cover. Fair. 152 pages, with index, bibliography, map showing land quality. Mass-market paperback, creasing to corners and spine, spine chipped at heel, 1" tear along front wrap/spine at top, binding cracked and separated at p. 46-47, but both halves still attached to spine, pages and edges keeply age-tanned. Pages unmarked. This copy has two newspaper clippings (cuttings) laid in, sources not identified: a review of this book as a distillation of Ward's earlier The Australian Legend, and 1995 obituary of Ward, highlighting his career troubles because of an earlier Communist affiliation.

Sphere Books Limited, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 287 pages, eight pages of b&w photos, two maps. "In 1983 two young Australians were forced by a storm to moor their yacht Tiger Rag in a port in south west India. Within weeks, the Milgates realized that Cochin was not the quiet naval base it seemed, but the centre of a massive international drug-smuggling and intelligence operation." Mass-market paperback edition of book published the previous year, creases to spine, wraps and edges lightly soiled. No markings within.

Freedom Publishing Co, 2002. Soft cover. Good. 203 pages, with index and bibliography. Foreword by former Australian Labor leader (and Governor-General) Bill Hayden. Trade paperback, soil to back wrap and a few tiny spots to edges, scant edge-wear, binding tight. Underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 40 pages, one marginal note.

Text Publishing, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 184 pages, with bibliography, chronology, text of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos and drawings (plates and cuts). Published to accompany the Film Australia/ABC television documentary "Federation". Small trade paperback (5" x 8"), scant edge-wear, binding tight. Underscoring in red ink on approximately 20 pages.

William Heinemann Australia, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 420 pages, with index and bibliography, b&w photos on plates. 8vo, black boards with white lettering on spine, edges and page margins age-toned, corners of a few pages accidentally dog-eared at bottom, in DJ with only light shelf wear, Australian bookstore price sticker on back panel. Former owner's name written on front pastedown, underscoring and/or margin bracktets (primarily the latter - short vertical lines) on approxiately 90 pages.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 253 pages, with index, illustrated with B&W photographs and maps. An Australian historian recounts the cover-up of the slaughter, by a police-led posse, of Aborgines in Western Australia s Kimberley region in 1926, and its subsequent investigation by the Rev. Ernest Gribble. Trade paperback, minor wear to corners, foxing to edges, binding tight, Australian bookstore price sticker on back wrap. Pages unmarked.

Allen & Unwin, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 386 pages, with index and timeline. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, faint foxing to edges, binding solid, pages unmarked.

Sun Books, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 282 pages, with index and refernce notes. An appraisal of the Australian "way of life" by a psychologist. Mass market paperback, wraps rubbed and edge-worn, vertical crease to spine, edges and page margins age-toned, binding supple. Former owner's name stamp on half-title, bookstore price handwritten on back cover, no other markings observed.

Gunn Putlishing Co. of Australia, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages, illustrated with drawings by Bob Gunn. Poems by nine members of the Gunn family, graziers in western Queensland since the early 20th century. 5-3/8" x 8-3/8", wraps rubbed, page margins lightly age-toned, binding solid. Bookstore price written on title page, gift inscrition on inside front cover. Pages unmarked.

Melbourne University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 380 pages with index, family tree, illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates, additional b&w drawings as cuts. History commissioned by the leading Australian publishing company for its 150th anniversary; it entered receivership on the eve of that event. 8vo, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pink end papers, corners sharp, two small damp-stains to front board at bottom, pages bright and unmarked.

Pluto Press, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 118 pages, with index. Introduction by Australian Labor Party figure Martin Ferguson. Trade paperback, minor shelf wear, Australian bookstore price sticker on back wrap, binding tight. Underscoring on approximately 7 pages.

Penguin Books, 1985. Soft cover. Good. 292 pages. Edited by David Adams, foreword and illustrations by Norman Lindsay. The letters were first published in 1951-2, first Penguin edition 1969. Trade paperback, reading creases, soiling to wraps, edges and page margins age-tanned, binding supple. Pages unmarked.

Pluto Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. 289 pages, with index and texts of several legal and government documents. Trade paperback, light edge wear, faint foxing to edges and half-title, binding tight. Pages unmarked.

Pluto Press, 1999. Soft cover. Fair. 248 pages, with index. Trade paperback in graphic-design wraps, no visible shelf wear, binding tight, pages bright. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately half the pages, which is the reason this copy is not listed as "very good.

The University of Michigan Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 759 pages + 28-page index, 11 maps. From the History of the Modern World series, which contained an earlier volume by the same author on the SW Pacific to 1900; this is the "since" volume only. 8vo, blue buckram with white lettering and gilt decoration, boards rubbed but corners sharp. Ex-library with stamps and other marks on edges, end papers, front-matter pages. Edges age-toned with page-turning soil to bottom corner, no markings observed to text pages. Heavy book, priority or international orders may incur shipping surcharge.