Affirm press melbourne (45 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. A baby boomer (perhaps the most privileged generation in history) documents the year she turned 70. Here are meditations on aspects of ageing, hidden griefs, potential for loneliness, our relationship with the past and our own mortality. But, optimistically, this boomer author becomes a bloomer, ready to embrace a late-life flourishing.278 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £12.40.…

Softcover. Reprint. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition - card wraps. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White & sepia-toned Photographs. 364 pages. Forty boys who fought in the First World War from Gaillpoli to the Armistice. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

8vo. 306pp. First edition. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition. An anti-Kelly account written by a descendant of Sgt. Kennedy, one of the policemen killed at Stringybark Creek.

Octavo paperback, 278 pages, a very good copy. First edition.

Large octavo paperback, 438 pages, a near fine copy. First edition.

8vo. 294pp. Original boards in dustwrapper.A fine copy. . First hardcover issue. Winner of the Stella Prize for 2015.

Octavo, paperback,266 pp.In a world dominated by human interference and rapid climate change, species large and small are increasingly vulnerable to extinction. In Resurrection Science, journalist M.R. O'Connor explores the extreme measures that scientists are taking to try and save them, from captive breeding and translocating genetically rare individuals to frozen zoos and de-extinction. Each chapter in this beautifully written book focuses on a unique species and the people entwined in its fate.…

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, ink cross to barcode on back cover); pp. [vi (last blank)], 338 (last blank), [4 (pubs. advts., last blank)]. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition - card wraps. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 270 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Inscribed by author. In addition to tapping into his ten years as the Bedroom Philosopher, Justin Heazlewood gleans wisdom and insight from interviews with more than 100 fellow artists, including Gotye (Wally De Backer), Clare Bowditch, John Safran, Tony Martin, Amanda Palmer, Christos Tsiolkas, Tim Rogers, Adam Elliot, and Benjamin Law. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 286 pages. 8vo. The complete illustrated autobiography of Australia's greatest ever fast bowler.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Front cover right tail corner now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Near fine condition. Blemish to author bio page. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous antihero from a new perspective: that of the rogue and vagabond who finally put the noose around his neck. In Hanging Ned Kelly, Elijah Upjohn's tale becomes the rusty scalpel that slices open the underbelly of colonial Victoria. Written by Michael Adams, creator of the acclaimed podcast Forgotten Australia, this is an odyssey into an infernal underworld seething with serial killers, clueless cops, larrikin vigilantes, renegade reporters, racist settlers, furious fallen women and cunning waxworks showmen.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing to edges. Interior and binding are still very good. Few Australians have given more to cricket than Rodney William Marsh, one of the most competitive players to wear the Baggy Green. Australia's youngest ever wicketkeeper played 96 Tests, set a world record of 355 dismissals and stood at the heart of the legendary Australian Test team of the 1970s and early 80s, forming a world-best partnership with Dennis Lillee. As a coach at the National Cricket Academy, Marsh helped shape a new golden era for Australian cricket, moulding young players such as Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist. He then did the unthinkable when he went over to the old enemy and helped England to a drought-breaking Ashes win in 2005. Back in Australia, Marsh became chairman of national selectors at a time when Australia won the World Cup and reached the top of the world Test rankings. This illustrated autobiography, including photographs from Marsh's private collection and contributions from a who's who of cricketing legends, is an incredible insight into an Australian sporting icon.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Some scratching and scuffing to covers. Interior and binding are also very good. An extraordinary portrait of a sporting legend, featuring photographs and memorabilia from Dennis Lillee's private collection, and stories and yarns from cricketing greats. This is an intimate, fascinating and compelling illustrated autobiography of Australia's legendary fast bowler, Dennis Lillee. He began his career as a tearaway fast bowler and ended it as the leading Test wicket-taker, taking a wicket off his final ball.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Remnant of price sticker on top right front cover. Large format paperback. We're obsessed with reality television these days, yet we so often neglect the greatest reality of all: the reality of our nation and how it came to be. In Error Australis, TV columnist, comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie recaps the history of Australia from its humble beginnings as a small patch of rapidly cooling rock to its modern-day status as one of the major powers of the sub-Asian super-Antarctic next-to-Africa region. Pobjie recognises that history can be as gripping as any reality show; as thrilling as it is to see Delta Goodrem's chair turn around, there is an argument that the Second World War was even more exciting, and like any good recapper; he provides an immediate, visceral sense of what it was like to be there in the moment at our nation's defining events. All historians know that it is only by looking at where we have been that we can understand who we are, what we stand for, and why nothing seems to work. Error Australis is a scholastic and side-splittingly funny account of a young nation that has spent many years seeking its place in the world and almost as many years not liking what it has found.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent. Includes a newspaper book review.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Interior and binding are also very good. In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys, they have remained forever young. These are their stories. This extraordinary book captures the incredible and previously untold stories of forty Anzac boys who fought in the First World War, from Gallipoli to the Armistice. Featuring haunting images of the boys taken at training camps and behind the lines, these tales are both heartbreaking and rousing, full of daring, ingenuity, recklessness, random horror and capricious luck. A unique perspective on the First World War, The Lost Boys is military history made deeply personal, a powerful homage to youthful bravery and a poignant reminder of the sacrifice of war. (book flap).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside front blank page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. RFID patch on back cover. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good. No driver is as connected to a single track as the legendary Peter Brock is to Bathurst. Half a century ago, a shy and bearded Brock first took on Mount Panorama, the track he was destined to dominate with a record nine wins, earning him the mantle 'King of the Mountain'. That uncanny relationship between driver and track is the focus of this book, a 360-degree look at every race of Brock's glorious Bathurst career. Relive Peter Perfect's reign over the Mountain in the company of Bev Brock, his partner of nearly three decades, as well as mechanics, teammates, rivals and friends who witnessed his genius up close. Featuring over 150 images, including previously unseen photographs from Brock's private collection, Brock at Bathurst is a nostalgic and exhilarating celebration of an iconic pairing in Australian sport.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Zustand: AS NEW COPY. AUSTRALIANA Biography - First Edition. The story of Ned Kelly is also the untold story of Michael Kennedy, the police sergeant slain and robbed by the outlaw 140 years ago. Both Kennedy and Kelly were Irish immigrants struggling to make their way in the new colonies of Australia â" Kennedy was committed to defending the law, while Kelly was hell-bent on breaking it. When their paths crossed one fateful day at Stringybark Creek, it triggered the end for one and the beginning of an incredible myth about the other. Author Leo Kennedy is the great grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy. He was raised in the shadow of his great grandfatherâs murder. He witnessed the deep psychological wounds inflicted on successive generations of his family â" and the families of other victims â" as the Ned Kelly myth grew around them and the sacrifice of their loved ones was forgotten. Leo himself was nicknamed âRed Nedâ at school and taunted for being on the wrong side of Australian history. Now, for the first time and in brilliant prose that brings these historical episodes to life, Black Snake challenges the legend of Ned Kelly. Instead of celebrating an heroic man of the people, it gives voice to the victims of a merciless gang of outlaws. This is a captivating true story, gleaned from meticulous research and family history, of two men from similar backgrounds whose legacies were distorted by history.x, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm #0721/240824/140126"Leo Kennedy - the great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy, slain at Stringybark Creek" Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Little dent to top foredge. Interior and binding are excellent.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are excellent. Major James Francis Thomas was the bush lawyer drafted at the last moment to unsuccessfully defend Breaker Morant and his co-defendants of the charge of murdering twelve Boer prisoners of war. Thomas is often portrayed as a hero or a fool. Greg Growden however, unravels the truth about the lawyer and soldier who returned from South Africa a broken man and ended his days as an eccentric recluse.…

8vo. 354pp. . Original wrappers, a near fine copy. . First edition, Signed copy.

Octavo, iv+332 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition Minor wear to book corners and edges. Slight bend to front cover. Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations.There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel movements (an accident that required a parliamentary explanation) or the high-society shenanigans he witnessed after accidentally becoming footman to Queen Elizabeth - all just tasters from this wickedly funny, deeply touching and irresistibly charming memoir.Tony and the love of his life came across the pond as `Ten-Pound Poms'. While he forged a successful career as an anaesthetist, his greatest gift may be for telling rousing tales.A Prescribed Lifeis a warm and engaging chronicle about love, medicine and royalty spanning almost a century of great change.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition. When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn't access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuelled by prejudice.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. Kevin Sheedy is the biggest figure in Australia's biggest sport and has played and coached more games than anyone else in the history of Australian rules. This illustrated autobiography, published on the 50th anniversary of his first senior game, is an intimate, funny, and fascinating portrait of the man, the footballer, and the larrikin.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. AUSTRALIANATwelve diverse writers reveal another Australia hidden behind, beneath and beside the country we think we know.A suburban psychic's ominous warning. A conversation in Yuwaalaraay. A glimpse of a shameful hidden history. AÂlove that moves a mountain. In this unwavering follow-up toÂAfter Australia, 12 more boundary-pushing IndigenousÂwriters and writers of colour show us all that is and could exist in our versions of Australia.Featuring Shankari Chandran, Osman Faruqi, Declan Fry, Amani Haydar, Shirley Le, L-FRESH the Lion,ÂMohammed Massoud Morsi, Sisonke Msimang, Omar Musa, Sara Saleh, Nardi Simpson and Anne-Marie Te Whiu.First Edition. pp. 288 #150923 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…