A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth. Pp. 478, 7 plates (1 double page), notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; grey cloth, spine blocked in maroon and lettered in gilt, edges slightly browned; price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed and worn, with tears at head of backstrip tape-repaired on verso; upper hinge..... More
An American Theme and its application to Australian History. Pp. [viii]+48, frontispiece portrait [of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner], bibliographical note, appendices; post 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faded (heaviest on backstrip), edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; endpapers slightly offset, the..... More
Ideas for the future of a civil society. Preface by Jonathan Mills. Foreword by Sir Gustav Nossal. Pp. [ii]+xiv+592, vignette portrait of Deakin on limitation page; demy 8vo; dark green art. leather, lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; ABC Books, Sydney, 2001. First edition; one of 100 specially..... More
The Anglo-American Relationship since 1783. A revised and enlarged edition of Part I of "Great Britain and the United States: A History of Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1952." Pp. 248(last blank), index; edges of boards bruised and faded at a couple of points, the spine a trifle rubbed and split at extremities;..... More
Pp. xii+354(last blank), half-title and title page vignettes; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; Simon & Schuster, London, 2011. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. 480, 8 plates, 4 maps (one full page), notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984. First edition. *'Written in co-operation with Yasser Arafat and the top leadership of the PLO' [wrapper blurb]. More
Pp. 32; cr. 8vo; paper wrappers, printed in navy, stapled, backstrip and edges lightly browned; leaves browned; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939. Printed in Melbourne. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs No. 17. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on verso of upper wrapper. More
Australian-American diplomatic relations since 1945. Pp. viii+246(last blank), notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards lightly rubbed, the fore-corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip faded, tiny chip to top edge of back panel near backstrip; name stamp at head of upper free..... More
Memoirs of politics and diplomacy. Pp. xiv+234(last blank), 4 plates, index; dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board next to spine; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, backstrip lightly faded; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1977. First edition..... More
Pp. xviii+712, frontispiece portrait, plus 36 plates, sources, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver and ruled in blue, corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly browned; edges of leaves a trifle soiled, a couple of pages faintly..... More
Foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. Pp. xiv+336(last blank), full page illustration; top fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1976. Second edition. *First published in 1944. Autobiography of the writer, miner, and politician..... More
Pp. 32, numerous illustrations (some tinted, a couple full page), index; small post 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; upper free endpaper faintly creased; Childrens Press, Chicago, 1990. Picture-Story Biographies series. More
Australian-American relations and the Pacific War. Pp. x+278, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. More
being a record of facts concerning naval policy and administration from the year 1902 to the present time. Pp. viii+216(last 7 publisher's advertisements), appendix, index; cr. 8vo; qr. navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, lettered in navy, the boards marked, edges lightly worn, fore-corners bruised and slightly..... More
The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. Pp. xvi+204(last blank), notes, bibliography , appendices, index; med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, maize papered boards; dust wrapper, worn, edges browned and chipped with a few small closed tears and creased; ownership stamp on the upper free endpaper, top..... More
Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 affair. Pp. xviii+494, 24 plates, coloured endpaper map, appendix, historical notes, general sources, notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, back panel lightly creased, edges slightly worn; free endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves foxed; Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1986. First edition. *From the..... More
The struggle between the British, the Jews and the Arabs 1935-48. Pp. 384, 12 plates, 3 full page maps plus endpaper map, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, the backstrip a trifle faded; a little light foxing;..... More
Pp. xviii+250, each chapter with notes and bibliography, glossary and index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; Frank Cass, London, 2003. First edition. More
The Joh Bjelke-Petersen Memoirs. Pp. vi+260(last blank), 32 plates, index; med. 8vo; dark green textured papered boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990. First edition. More
Pp. x+326, 16 plates (15 coloured) med. 8vo; white cloth, spine lettered in blue; dust wrapper, with Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist sticker on front panel; fore-edges of leaves faintly soiled; HarperCollins Publishers, Sydney, 2015. First edition. *Autobiography. More
Politics and American Culture during World War II. Pp. xii+372, notes, index; dust wrapper, a little browned, edges worn; edges of leaves foxed; Harcourt Brace Jonanovich, New York, 1976. Second printing. More
Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. Pp. xvi+214, 8 plates; med. 8vo; bottom edge of boards a trifle shelf worn; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, edges a trifle split; a little light foxing; Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1973. First edition. More
The decade that transformed Australia. Pp. 16 plates (12 coloured in whole or part), pictorial endpapers, endnotes, index; med. 8vo; grey cloth, spine lettered in yellow, tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; text block faintly browned; Black Inc., Melbourne, 2015. First edition. *Inscribed..... More
The Next Twenty-five Years in Asia and the Pacific. Pp. viii+228, 2 maps (1 double page), reading list, index; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; a little light foxing; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1978. First edition. More
Pp. 354(last blank), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; lower fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled, edges lightly browned and worn, with short closed tears from bottom edge into back panel and back flap, backstrip faded; top edges of leaves foxed; Collins, London, 1973. First edition. *From the..... More