Recent Arrivals from Good Reading Second Hand Books

Winona Lake Indiana: Rodeheaver Hall Mack, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 120 gospel songs, with score. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "In this little collection of gospel solos and duet, you will find many that can be adapted to almost any voice or combination of voices, any good accompanist can… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton , 2019. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 356 pages, illustrated with black and white photos. Clean, unmarked and solid. "The compelling memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on. 'The dead keep many secrets. Sometimes they… Read more about this item

Oxford UK: Oxford University Press , 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxi 705 pages, bibliography, index, illustrated. Overseas customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and will attract additional postage. A clean, unmarked and solid copy as though never read. " The Black Death, the Peasants'… Read more about this item

London: Ebury Press, 2021. Pictorial Boards. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 319 pages, indexed, illustrated.Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage., "Claudia Roden is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. ....From Provence to Petra, Madrid to Morocco, explore the many and varied flavours of… Read more about this item

Adelaide etc.: Rigby , 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 368 pages , illustrated with coloured plates and black and white sketches. Includes glossary and index. First edition. Apart from a inscription, clean, unmarked and solid. "Nine specialist authors have pooled their research findings and knowledge of this remarkable area to produce… Read more about this item

London: Encyclopaedic Press, 1954. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 848 pages, illustrated with black and white and colour plates The boards are rubbed; the preliminaries are stained along the outer edge as are the last six pages, back end paper and back paste down. Apart from these, the pages clean and unmarked,… Read more about this item

Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Publishing, 2018. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. xv 357 pages, indexed, endnotes, illustrated. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. "Bruce Rickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentieth century. A key member of the Sydney School, his… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii 566 pages, maps, annotated, bibliography, index. The pages are tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "Tells the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards,… Read more about this item

Boston Toronto: Little Brown and Company, 1965. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 222 pages. The jacket is rubbed and chipped at the edges, the body of the book is clean, unmarked and solid. First American edition. Full title: "The Reawakening (La tregua)A Liberated Prisoner's Long March Home Through East… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxiii 198 pages, annotated, indexed. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "The story of the group of mainly Catholic laymen who, during the 1940's and 50's, worked in a clandestine manner within the Labor Party and the unions, against communism." (Trove) … Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 414 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index. The jacket is chipped at the edges with tears and very minor loss art the head. The body of the book is clean, unmarked and solid. "When Frith began working for the CSIRO the value… Read more about this item

Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 371 pages, indexed, illustrated. The book is ex library. The preliminaries suffer from the usual library stamps and remnant sticky tape marks, the tape stains are again present at the back end paper and paste down. The body of… Read more about this item

North Sydney NSW: Australian Pharmaceutical Publishing Co. for The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large 8vo. x 433 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index. The jacked is chipped at the edges and suffers from a closed tear at the head of the spine, repaired. Internally the book is clean, unmarked and solid. Includes Edith M. Witt's … Read more about this item

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 258 pages, annotated. First published by The Campion Press in 1964 The jacket, now protected, suffers from a closed tear at the head's inner edge. This has caused very minor loss and the title to be very slightly out of sinc. The body… Read more about this item

Deniliquin NSW: Modern Press, for Deniliquin Chamber of Commerce,, 1970. Stapled Card Wraps. Very Good. Large 8vo. 16 pages, illustrated with black and white photos. On the front cover "This copy with the compliments of Deniliquin Stock & Station Agents' Association" The publication data was taken from Trove as the booklet offers none." Clean, unmarked and solid. … Read more about this item

London: The Book Club, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 835 pages, Volume Two of a six volume series. Original 'pink' cloth with red title on spine. The pages are lightly tanned, and there is the remnant stain of a small circular price sticker on the front end paper else clean, unmarked and… Read more about this item

Carlton: Melbourne University Press , 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii 335 pages. The jacket is chipped at the edges, with very minor loss to the head of the spine, remnant price sticker stain at the front. The body of the book is clean, unmarked and solid. "This is an autobiography of… Read more about this item

Parkville Victoria: Melbourne University Press , 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 378 pages, index, bibliography. First published in 1935, this is a second impression, printed with corrections. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "Story of squatting life, in its formative years, is presented against the general background of colonial existence before the unsettling years of the gold discoveries… Read more about this item

Pymble, Sydney: HarperCollins, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviiii 814 pages, index, endnotes, bibliography, maps, illustrations. The edges are bumped, else clean, unmarked and solid. Customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and will attract additional postage. "The participation by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam conflict (1962-1975), including political… Read more about this item

Goonellabah, N.S.W: Dragonwick Publishing, 2010. Soft cover. As New. x 78 pages, index, bibliography, illustrated with black and white photos and cartoons. Inscribed by author. We Only Had Hoes is the story of my father, Roderick William Samuel McKenzie and his experiences during five years of World War II...This work has been produces in recognition of the conditions… Read more about this item