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Sydney: Sally Milner, 1994. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white drawings, a few colour photos, minor edgewear. 114 pp. A great reference book that clearly explains all the basic needlepoint stitches, plus a variety of not-too-complicated stitches which will enhance any design. By an Australian crafts teacher who learned needlecraft initially at the Women's Institute in England.

Melbourne, Malvern: Brolly Books, 2010. Paperback square quarto, very good condition, full-page colour drawings, thick glossy pages (gilt spine), bottom corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 14 pp. A delightful children's picture book by Australian artist and author Jan Wade consisting of exquisite drawings of fairies interacting with Australian native birds and animals, including. A full-page drawing of each is accompanied a side pael of verse verse. The thick boards are designed for young children, but the delightful illustrations will interest any age. NOW SCARCE.

Sydney: Murray David Publishing, 1998. Paperback large quarto (30 x 22.7 cm), very good condition, colour drawings (many full-page), glossy paper, minor creasing bottom edge rear cover, minor edgewear. 32 pp. A delightful children's picture book by Australian artist and author Jan Wade consisting of exquisite drawings of fairies interacting with Australian native birds and animals, including willie wagtail, Major Mitchell cockatoo, feathertail glider and tawny frogmouth owl. A full-page drawing of each is accompanied on the facing page by appropriate verse and description of the bird or animal. The bright lifelike illustrations will appeal to all ages. SCARCE.

Sydney: Woollahra Sales & Imports / Murray David Publishing, 2003. Paperback large quarto, very good plus condition, colour drawings, minimal edgewear. 32 pp. Australian children's picture book, based on traditional nursery rhymes, and with delightful Australian illustrated pictorial themes by Jan Wade, an Australian illustrator.

Sydney, Willoughby: Nine Network Australia, 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, full-page colour text-photos, small crease front cover, minor edgewear. 80 pp. The recipes have been hand picked from a list of personal favourites for this special book, as shown on a popular cooking show on the Channel Nine television station.

Windsor: Dean and Canons of Windsor / Printed by Shenval Press Limited, 1980. Paperback tall trade, very good condition, folded pamphlet, black & white drawings, plan, minor edgewear. 8 pp. This pamphlet is about the St George's Chapel at Windsor. The building is an outstanding architectural part of history, and an important place of prayer. The pamphlet includes a plan of the chapel with arrows indicating the best route to take. There are 26 points of special interest, with short notes about them. (The 8 pages are folded into 4 sections front and rear. No date, about 1980.).

Boston: Boston Music Company, 1955. Paperback small folio, very good plus condition, card cover, stapled, minimal edgewear. 28 pp. The purpose is to impress upon new students of violin the fundamentals of music as related to the violin. Most other theory books refer to the piano keyboard, bass clef, etc., which may be foreign to the violin player. Materials and sheet music related to notation, rhythm, fingering, bowing and general music terminology are included.

Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Service / Melbourne Family Care Organization / Allen & Unwin, 1984. Reprint ed.. Paperback small folio, very good condition, black & white cartoons, minor edgewear. 89 pp. A popular pictorial guide by Yoland Wadsworth to social research methods. (The scarce first edition, 1984, reprint. Publisher: Victorian Council of Social Service in association with Allen & Unwin.).

London: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1949. Paperback, stapled pamphlet, very good condition, single-colour drawings, minor foxing edges, minor edgewear, minimal annotation (digit) one page. 32 pp. (Estimated date: 1949, Worldcat.) A school reader in the Albert and Alice Jenks series of four booklets. They have the flavour of a comic so as to encourage reading in youngsters.

Sydney, Marrickville: Choice Books / Australian Consumers Association, 2003. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, bottom edge little marked, top spine lightly bumped, minor edgewear. 181 pp. Teresa Wainwright provides a clear step-by-step guide about profitable investing in residential real estate, but you did not know where to begin. There are case studies of actual investors and tenants, and useful information on picking the perfect property, the key role of location, the value of perfect property management, and how to attract the desirable tenants.

Wyndham, WA: Norma Wainwright, 1990. 1st ed.. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear, autograph (written dedication title page). 155 pp. This book is a diary of events surrounding the lives of the author and her family, spanning 60 years, 40 of them in the Kimberley's. A personal glimpse of their lives from 1930 to 1990. Mud map of Kununurra loosely inserted.

Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), 2005. Paperback thick trade, very good condition, front cover faintly creased, minor edgewear. 328 pp. A collection of 100 cheeky capsules of wit, insight and meticulous research about the oddities of language. Ruth Wajnryb looks at how and why the English language works the way it does. She was a columnist in the Spectrum section of the Sydney Morning Herald. SALE PRICE.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, small crease top edge last few pages, edges lightly marked, remainder mark top edge. 244 pp. A collection of essays published by Derek Walcott, the Nobel Laureate poet, in the New York Review of Books, New Republic and other publications. The collection includes his examination of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel Lecture, and his reckoning of the work of several poets. A volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. Also about the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau.

Sydney: OPSM Group Ltd / Saatchi & Saatchi, 2014. Paperback quarto, very good plus condition, colour drawings, map on endpapers. In plastic envelope with test kit. 28 pp. Kevin Waldron provides an innovative children's picture story that can be used as a prop for testing your child's vision. Comes in a plastic sleeve that includes a test kit (3D glasses, pirate eye patch, symbol key, spyglass and instruction booklet). From the OPSM company (optometrists).

Melbourne: Allan & Co., 1941. Paperback folio, good condition, looseleaf, pages lightly toned, cover spine edge lightly foxed, minor edge tears & edgewear. 6 pp. (Copyright 1941.) Words by Wales, sheet music by Zeller. The melody sung by Elizabeth Schumann and Angela Parselles.

Melbourne: HarperCollins Dove, 1997. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 182 pp. A passionate summation of Christianity by Reverend Alan Walker, a leader of the Methodist Church in Australia. He describes the radical "contrast society" of the Kingdom of God, and argues that these qualities and concerns lie at the core of a vision for the Christian Church in the future.

New York: King Features Syndicate, 2003. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, coloured card folder (loose sheets inserted), very good condition, colour cartoons, minimal edgewear folder (light creases along spine, small light mark near spine). 6 (includes folder) pp. The popular comic strip of a suburban family that is loved internationally. This comic strip is about the Flagston family made up of Hi [Hiram] and Lois, their children, Chip, Dot, Ditto and little Trixie, and their canine companion, Dawg. Hi and Lois is a pun on high and low. Created by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, two of the most celebrated cartoonists in comic art history, but today continued by their sons, including artist Chance Browne. The loose sheets consist of cartoon strips and explanatory material.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned as usual, minor edgewear, old price marks. 192 pp. A qualitative study of the interactions of social class, ethnicity and gender among youths at a school, presumably in Sydney's inner west, with followup after leaving school. The youths are grouped into four distinct styles: footballers (macho Aussie), competitive Greeks, friendly handballers, and three artistic friends.

Sydney, Glebe: Sydney Society of Recorder Players, 2009. Paperback large quarto, very good plus condition, card cover, stapled (little rusted), minimal edgewear. 8 pp. Sheet music for five types of recorders, printed in parallel rows. Loosely inserted: five booklets, each with sheet music for one type of recorder only.

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2014. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white photos centre spread, corner rear cover little creased, minor edgewear. 340 pp. Frank Walker records a shocking and chilling account - with the fallout ongoing - that during the 1950s to 1960s, with the blessing of Prime Minister Robert Menzies, the British government used Australia as its nuclear laboratory. They exploded 12 atomic bombs on Australian soil - at the Monte Bello (Montebello) Islands, Emu Field and Maralinga. About 16,000 Australian servicemen were guinea pigs. RAAF pilots were ordered to fly into nuclear mushroom clouds, soldiers told to walk into radioactive ground zero, sailors retrieved highly contaminated debris - none being aware of the dangers faced. But the betrayal didn't end with our soldiers. Secret monitoring stations were set up around the continent to measure radiation levels and a clandestine decades-long project stole bones from dead babies to see how… Read More