AUSTRALIAN HISTORY from

Melbourne / Sydney: Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press / State Library of New South Wales, 1994. Hardback large heavy octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white & colour photos, minor foxing edges, some foxing reverse side jacket (minor edgewear). Heavy (1.5 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 539… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2022. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket. 227 pp. This book offers an edited selection, with commentary from Kate Grenville, of the many letters Elizabeth Macarthur wrote 'home' from colonial Sydney over her long life. Circumstances gave her big challenges, but also gave her opportunities unknown to most women… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943. 3rd ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), colour drawing frontispiece, cluster feew dot marks front cover jacket, pages & jacket toned as usual, minor edgewear, owner's written name & date. 286 pp. The Hon. H. V. Evatt records the clash between William Bligh (17 years after the mutiny on the Bounty),… Read more about this item

Sydney / East Kew: Horden House / Boroondara Press, 1987. 1st ed.. Paperback wide octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), card covers, frontispiece, minor edgewear jacket (tiny tear top edge, tiny scuff base spine). 32 pp. This fascinating booklet is about the first published account of Australia's foundation in 1788 and was printed on the front… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. Hardback small octavo, no jacket (missing), good condition, black & white vignettes, edges foxed, pages & endpapers lightly toned, minor edgewear, tiny dents & faint annotation front endpapers, autograph (author's name & date). 117 pp. A collection of 18 fascinating and entertaining personal essays by educator and researcher George Mackaness about his investigations of… Read more about this item

Napier, NZ: Evolve Studios (Printer), 2005. 2nd ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, flexible covers, black & white drawings, minimal foxing top edge, spine edge rear cover rubbed, minor edgewear, small sticker top corner flyleaf (covers faint sticker mark), owner's label inside front cover, loosely inserted corrigenda slip. 329 pp. Jeremy Long has edited the letters of the… Read more about this item

Sydney: Wentworth Press / Walter Stone & Sons (Printer), 1969. Paperback trade, good condition, black & white photos, plans, front endpaper map, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), spine & edges near spine slightly faded, edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned, rear cover little rubbed & marked, small scuff top corner free flyleaf, tiny tear fore-edge rear cover,… Read more about this item

Sydney, Ashfield: Ashfield & District Historical Society Inc., 2014. Paperback large quarto, very good condition, black & white text-photos, plans, corner tips little creased rear cover, bottom cornertip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 183 pp. This issue of the Journal of the Ashfield and District Historical Society brings to a conclusion the celebration of the first 100… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Corkwood Press, 1995. 2nd, facsimile ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), frontispiece, fold-out map attached inside rear cover, faint foxing top edge, pages lightly toned, rubber stamp owner's name front pastedown. 88 pp. The story of the Jardine Expedition is that of two extraordinary men, Frank and Alexander Jardine. This account, edited by… Read more about this item

London & Sydney: Collins, 1953. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), blue cloth cover (spine ends little worn), some edge tears jacket, edges lightly foxed, some tape marks endpapers, pages lightly toned, autograph (author's written name). 143 pp. George Mackaness presents an entertaining gallery of celebrated and notorious early settlers: governors and their wives, convicts, rogues,… Read more about this item

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, few figures, minor edgewear. 182 pp. Lorenzo Veracini looks at the settler colonial 'situation' and explains how there is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism itself is a resilient formation that rarely ends. It is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much… Read more about this item

Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1986. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos & drawings, minor edgewear, old price marks. 176 pp. About a demented Irishman, Henry James O’Farrell, who shot and injured Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868. This episode was used by the unscrupulous politician Henry Parkes for his own political… Read more about this item

Loftus, NSW: Australian Military History Publications / Australian Army History Unit, 2009. Hardback large tall octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour & black & white & single-colour illustrations (including front & rear jacket), maps, minor edgewear jacket. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 242 pp. On 3 December 1854… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2022. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. 338 pp. Dean Ashenden relates a combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history. He returns to Tennant Creek after 50 years where he lived as a boy. He finds the town transformed, but its silence about the past is still… Read more about this item

Melbourne, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing (ASP), 2018. 1st ed.. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, black & white drawings (lithographs, watercolours, & few text-photos), bottom corners few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 345 pp. This is the story of Joseph Anderson Panton, who came to Australia from Scotland during the colonial era. He was a high-minded pillar of… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Collingwood: Black Inc., 2019. Reprint ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 433 pp. In this Volume 2 to his best-selling history, David Hunt provides a masterpiece of humorous retelling of little known facts about Australia’s past frontier history. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous Indigenous… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2000. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 373 pp. To celebrate 100 years of the Australian nation, Phillip Knightley chronicles the history of Australia from its use as a settlement for English prisoners to the present. Part history, part travelogue, part memoir - this book tells the… Read more about this item

Sydney, Cremorne: Angus & Robertson, 1972. New ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white illustrations including frontispiece, minimal edgewear jacket (reverse side foxed, corners trimmed, spine little faded), two stains bottom edge book, few foxed spots endpapers, edges toned (pages lightly toned), owner's written name partly rubbed out (scuff mark front free flyleaf).… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), sepia (brown tinted) illustrations, minor edgewear jacket (spine faded, top corner front flap clipped, tiny tear spine with slight loss one letter, few tiny spots front cover), light foxing endpapers, pages lightly toned, top edge lightly foxed. 142 pp. (This copy: Hardback dustjacket.) The story of… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Carlton South: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2001. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, few black & white drawings, light toning inside covers & page edges, spine little faded, minor edgewear. 251 pp. Leone Huntsman describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded the enjoyment by Australians of their sand and surf, from… Read more about this item