Search Results: Authors starting with F from Great Southern Books

Lyford Books, CA, USA, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 242 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The horrifying ordeal of a nameless young Marine accidentally abandoned during a training exercise in the Mojave Desert forms the basis of this intense third novel (after Seven Six One) from Borden. As the Marine treks for days and miles in the brutal, arid heat, he sustains himself through imaginary conversations with his drill instructor, Sergeant Kline, and other superior officers. Increasingly, these talks fade into hallucinations in which the Marine relives the final moments of fellow leathernecks in great battles of the past-Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, Korea, Vietnam-and of today and tomorrow. Fraught with relentless… Read More

Puffin, Melbourne, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: 12mo (small). 153 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are moderately foxed and browned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. The remarkable story of an 'ordinary' man. Bert Facey's childhood ended when he was eight years old. That was when his grandmother had to send him away to work for his keep. Bert grew up tough in the vast, wild outback of Western Australia. He lived to eighty-seven, and wrote down his extraordinary story for his grandchildren. In spite of its difficulties and sufferings, he always believed he had had 'a fortunate life'. A classic in Australian writing, A Fortunate Life has been specially… Read More

Penguin Books Australia, Melbourne, 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 331 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 very slightly spotted or marked. Small rubber stamp marks indicating library book.. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. This truly is a classic of Australian writing. A wonderful story about a man and his life in the early part of the 20th century in Western Australia. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; 20th century; ISBN: 0140081674. ISBN/EAN: 9780140081671. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9665. . 9780140081671 Read More

Celestial Arts, Berkeley, California, U.S.A, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Printing. 166 pages. This book is in near fine or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: One of the most important factors in getting your life to be the way you want it is to first understand what's holding you back. Most often, people don't have clear goals in mind and they don't know how to identify and overcome certain of life's limitations. In this book, psychologist James Fadiman takes you through the steps necessary to learn to set and achieve your life goals-in relationships, business, career, and spirituality. Quantity Available: 1. Category: General,… Read More

Thames & Hudson, London, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Quarto. 256 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. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. An unprecedented look inside contemporary archaeology, Discovery! reveals the most exciting, significant, and astonishing finds from the last fifteen years. Many of the book's contributiions are written by the discoverers themselves, who give firsthand accounts of their work and assess the significance. They include famous Egyptologists such as Zahi Hawass, Kent Weeks, and Alain Zivie; pioneering underwater explorers… Read More

William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 377 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. Dust Jacket is not price clipped and in excellent condition. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Germany; 1940s; ISBN: 0002221349. ISBN/EAN: 9780002221344. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6197. . 9780002221344

Hardie Grant Books, London, 2020. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 176 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. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. After a long day at work, heading home to cook a fussy, complicated meal is the last thing anyone wants to do. Keeping It Simple is the ultimate collection to have on hand for these moments. Featuring over 60 quick and easy, drool-worthy one-pot dinners you can whip up in the time in takes to have a glass of wine (or two, let's be honest), Yasmin Fahr has got you covered. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining;… Read More

Book Club Associates, London, United Kingdom, 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 248 pages. This book is in fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition and the dust jacket is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: On every page of this book there are stories to challenge credulity and imagination. Tales of ghosts and poltergeists. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Magic Studies, Prophecy, Reference, Unexplained Phenomena, Supernatural; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002268. .

Boxtree Ltd, London, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 217 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. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The cover has bumps and marks indicating prior use but is in very good condition overall. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. A revised edition of the text originally published in 1996 which analyses the causes of airplane disasters. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; True Accounts & Survival; Aviation. ISBN: 0752221183. ISBN/EAN: 9780752221182. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4412. . 9780752221182

Book Club Associates, London, 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 223 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. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. Charles II was the most popular of Kings in his lifetime and has remained so to posterity. In this biography of 'the Merry Monarch', Christopher Falkus seeks to show why this is so and indicates that the secret lay not so much in the positive achievements of his reign, as in the essentially human qualities which set him apart from other sovereigns. But Charles, of course, was more than a witty, tolerant, urbane man; he… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 599 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. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Deckled edges (rough cut). This book is available and ready to be shipped.. This novel opens in Beirut on the night of the terrifying assault on the US Marine barracks. It is told from the viewpoint of young Italian soldiers in the international peace-keeping force stationed in that strife-torn city, the Arabs and the women in their lives. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Lebanon; 1980s; ISBN: 0701138351. ISBN/EAN: 9780701138356. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8304. . 9780701138356

Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 602 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 very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is sound overall. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways- the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly… Read More

Murcoch Books, Sydney, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Size: Large Octavo. 192 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. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The third book in the Australian Memories series commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. This collection of stills from the Cinesound and Movietone Newsreel Archive, published for the first time, captures Australians at war as they fought at home and abroad for their country . from the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea and the legendary Rats of Tobruk in North Africa to the bombing of Darwin and the shelling of Sydney Harbour. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; 1940s; ISBN: 1740456092. ISBN/EAN: 9781740456098. Pictures of this item not already displayed here… Read More

Agmedia, Melbourne, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition (ex-library). Size: Quarto. 264 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. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Australia; Reference. ISBN: 0730647676. ISBN/EAN: 9780730647676. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7332. . 9780730647676 This book weighs over one kilogram, and may involve extra shipping charges if posted to some countries..

Scribe Publications, Carlton North, VIC, 2009. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 242 pages. This book is in FINE condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some very minor bumps and marks indicating previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: The result of astonishingly wide travel and reporting, Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written account of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near future - politically, economically and culturally. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Natural Disasters, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Meteorology & Climatology; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781921372544. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002576. . 9781921372544

Pan Macmillan Books, London, 1994. New Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 246 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. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This copy is well-read and a little dog-eared but is in sound condition. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Gives the low down on characters such as Archimedes, Gallileo, Caxton, Newton, Nobel, Marie Curie and Henry Ford. The book covers a range of subjects from the earliest fish hooks to the Norwegian Project Phoenix - a floating hotel/island for 5600 passengers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Science & Technology. ISBN: 0330328077. ISBN/EAN: 9780330328074. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available… Read More

Granada, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fine. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 322 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Mild tanning throughout otherwise AS NEW. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Edges browned slightly. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. In a world centuries from now, humanity has come up with a strikingly simple answer to overpopulation: a person is given one day a week to live, work, play and love. For the other six days they are "stoned" - placed in suspended animation until their day rolls round again. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0246126930. ISBN/EAN:… Read More

Allen Lane, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 454 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Sisterhood may be heaven but it can equally, and sometimes simultaneously, be hell. SISTERS guides us through the troughs and peaks of sisterly feelings from earliest childhood memories to muse on the nature of sisterhood itself. Writings on sisterhood by some of the most famous literary sisters as well as familiar and much loved sisters on the page. Through prose, poetry, autobiography and memoir we piece together the world of sisters and sisterhood, in a rich and varied tapestry of… Read More

Pan Books, London, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First Impression. Size: 12mo small. 269 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages slightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The cover has some bumps and marks but is intact.. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. This is a vivid account of the Battle of the Somme which raged from July to November 1916. It tells of bloody military engagements interspersed with trench actions of dreadful intensity. In its entirety, the conflict along the Somme scarred the story of a whole generation, becoming recorded by historians as the graveyard of the 'flower of British manhood'. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Britain/UK;… Read More

The Companion Book Club, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Size: 12mo (small). 286 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. Dust Jacket has small closed tears, but otherwise complete and overall sound.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. The Battle of the Imjin River, fought in April 1951 dring the Korean War, remains one of the greatest defensive actions of modern times. Virtually unsupported, the men of the Glosters heroically beat off successive Chinese assaults for three days and nights until, overwhelmed by human-wave attacks and with their amminition exhausted, they were given the order to fight their way out. Most of those left alive were captured by the Communist insurgents, among them the… Read More