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Collins London, 1962. Hardcover. Original cloth. Very Good +.  MILITARY NAVAL MARITIME GENERAL  352 p. : map, plan ; 24 cm. #170823 First Edition. (No dustjacket, some foxing to prelims) 352 p. : map, plan ; 24 cm.At the outbreak of hostilities on 3rd September 1939, Alfred Holt and Company was in a sound financial position, and its fleet comprised 76 Blue Funnel and 11 Glen Line ships. However, 28 of these ships had been built before or during the First World War, and the average age of the fleet was almost 20 years. “A Merchant Fleet in War 1939-1945” by Captain S W Roskill RN is a beautifully crafted and deeply moving account of the tragedies and triumphs experienced by the Holt fleet during the Second World War. Richard Holt died in March 1941, and Lawrence Holt became senior partner. Richard Durning Holt had been a Manager since 1895 and Senior Partner since 1904. He had, for over 40 years, been the dominant force in Alfred Holt and Company. On 3rd May 1941, India Buildings,… Read More

Ballistic Publishing, 2005. Softcover in slipcase.. As new.. The definitive 3D character tutorial book showcasing the astonishing work and technical skills of leading artists Pascal Blanch, Francisco A. Cortina and Steven Stahlberg. Each master artist presents their character modeling techniques through a series of step-by-step tutorials from concept to creation. pp. 192 illusts #10183ds max angle animation Animatrix areas Art Director background Ballistic Publishing body box modeling Brazil r/s bump cage CGTalk character modeling character’s clothescolor copyright Square USA Cortina create d’artiste Dayside default deformation delete DIGITAL ARTISTS drawing edgeloops edges eyes face facial Final Fantasy Final Fantasy IXFrancisco Fresnel hair curves Here’s High Moon Studios highlights idea illustration Image copyright Square inspired Lambert layer legs light look Maya mental ray mermaid mesh modeling and texturing monster’s movie muscles nice Nurbs Oren-Nayar overall painting… Read More

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Softcover. FINE!. WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS Â   The Moore River Native Settlement. ""The people in this story were from a part of Western Australia that is practically on the edge of the Great Western Desert. On the whim of the the government authorities of the day, eighteen Wongutha people were exiled away from their Country and their people, sent a thousand kilometres away, almost to Perth. They were seemingly powerless. They were locked up, trucked off, given inmate numbers in a government compound - their fate was sealed. And then they escaped. It was perhaps the largest escape bid in the history of that place of exile. They escaped, and walked home to their Country."" Story of exile and escape. The people in this story were from a part of Western Australia that is practically on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. On the whim of the Government of the day, 18 Wongutha People were exiled away from their country and their people sent… Read More

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2020. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA / BIOGRAPHY Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and dared walk a pet cheetah through Hyde Park in London on a diamond collar. In early twentieth century society where women were expected to be demure and obedient, the grand-daughter of Hunter Valley wine pioneer Henry Lindeman waltzed through life to her own drum beat. She drove an ambulance in World War I and hid escaped Allied pilots behind enemy lines in World War II, played bridge with Somerset Maugham and entertained Hollywood royalty in the world's most expensive private home on the Riviera, allegedly won in a poker game. Enid bedazzled men with her beauty, outlived four husbands - two shipping magnates, a war hero and a larger-than-life Irish Earl - spent two great fortunes and earned the nickname Lady Killmore. From Sydney to… Read More

Wajon Publishing, 1999. Softcover. FINE. AUSTRALIAN FLORA WEST AUSTRALIANAWild flowers -- Western Australia -- Identification. pp. 120 illusts #0218/040723R 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.

Wajon Publishing, Winthrop WA, 2001. Softcover. As new.. The third in a series of guides to Western Australian wildflowers which groups the flowers by colour rather than by family or genus. Wildflowers of the same colour are grouped together, and each plant is described in very simple, clear, non-technical terms. This book is designed for those with no knowledge of botany, tourists and locals alike, but who have a curiosity and love of beautiful wildflowers.This conveniently sized field guide contains vivid colour photographs of more than 220 of the most common spring wildflowers which grow in the woodland and heath between Perth, Albany, Cape Arid and Hyden. There are two maps showing the towns named in the book. Flora roads, where good wildflower displays can be found right along the roadside, are marked on the maps. pp. 120 illusts detailed identifiers Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four… Read More

Allen & Unwin, 2003. Softcover. Near Fine. No matter where we find ourselves, we make a home. A place we are cocooned; a place where we can dream.Dream Home asks what our homes mean to us. But not from the rarified view of the architect's drafting table nor from the set of the TV renovation show. It takes as its starting point everyday people and their everyday houses. Looking at the way we've made ourselves at home through history and across cultures, Mark Wakely raises many questions: Why do children all over the world draw houses the same way? What's it like to work with an architect on a multi-million dollar house? Why would a family of five choose to live in one room? Can you build a house out of cardboard?Filled with personal anecdotes and rich insight, Dream Home is a lively exploration of a universal subject - our homes. ""Mark Wakely's wide-ranging meditation on 'house', 'home', 'shelter', richly allusive as it is, never moves so far from the personal as to lose contact with what is… Read More

Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2013. Hardcover. As new.. The Berlin Wall became a forum for public communication; pictures were painted and sprayed onto both sides, representational, figurative, illustrator, surrealistic in mostly garish colours, rarely in black and white. This compilation of over 100 colour photographs documents early street art"" 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.

Mark V. Ziesing". 1989. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FICTION Science Fiction First Edition""Translate the twelve labors of Hercules into the cultural climate of Northern Mississippi in the 1920s, and while you're there make some true insights into human society of any time--why, only Howard Waldrop would attempt such a thing, and only Waldrop could have the panache to pull it off. A Dozen Tough Jobs should have been written 200 years ago so that it could have received the treatment it deserves: that being carved into stone. Waldrop proves that less is more, by condensing magic, bigotry, love, checkers, guitars, romance, and everything else that makes life...well, life, into a novella that is easily read in one night.I.O. Lace is a young black boy who works for Boss Eustis. Well, work is hardly right. Work for blacks in Mississippi at the time was only a step removed from slavery, and Boss Eustis is a man to be feared. Joining I.O. in his life-once-removed-from-slavery is a man who is a slave: a convict… Read More

Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1987. Hardcover. Laminated boards. FINE!. MILITARY GENERALxii, 152 p. : ill.; 26 cm. #311223 Attack planes Close air support Fighter planes 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. Hardcover. Laminated boards FINE!

Giramondo, 2011. Softcover. Cultural historian, David Walker, reflects on his own relation to the past, and that of his family over five generations from the settlement of his great-great grandparents in South Australia in the 1850s. Walker recreates his forebears, an unassuming family of middle-class South Australians - the Walkers, McLarens and Bournes who were enterprising, self-sufficient, tolerant, curious and community minded.Written after the collapse of his eyesight due to macular degeneration. Biography pp 322 illusts #1219 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.

University of Western Australia Press, 2003. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA The White Australia policy continues to haunt Australia. Here, leading Australian scholars provide an informed debate on the essential issues of race, identity and nation that will determine our attitudes to immigration, multiculturalism and Australian-Asian engagement in the twenty-first century.xi, 267 p. ; 21 cm. #261122 Bibliography (p. 251-256).Cultural pluralism -- Australia -- History. | Multiculturalism -- Australia. | Settlement and contacts - Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism. | Race relations - Racial discrimination - Legislative. | Australia -- Emigration and immigration. | Australia -- Government policy -- Emigration and immigration. 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… Read More

Budgewoi, N.S.W. : Kingfisher Press, 2005. Softcover. Near Fine. Pt. 1. HMAS Armidale : the ship that had to diept. 2. HMAS Armidale lives againArmidale (Corvette) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Timor Sea.224 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. 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. Softcover Near Fine

Hachette Sydney, 2010. Softcover. Fine. pp. xi, 356 illusts #0418/0819/1119/0820/0721/110122/140722""The hill tribes made him a demi-god ; the CIA wanted to kill him ; the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen""In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two years before the first official Australian troops arrived. Seconded to the CIA, he was sent to the remote Central Highlands to build an anti-communist guerrilla force among the indigenous Montagnard people. He was sent off with bagloads of cash and a vague instruction to 'get to know the natives'. Petersen took over the running of the paramilitary force that had been started by the local police chief and started to earn the Montagnards respect. He lived drank and ate with the Montagnards, learned their language and respected their skills.The Vietcong dubbed Petersen's force 'Tiger Men'. When Petersen he heard this, he had special badges made for… Read More

Kingfisher Press, 2006. Softcover. Fine. AUST MILITARY ""A wrong decision cost 100 lives, but produced an epic of sea survival and an act of sublime heroism."" #140522/081122/070423 224 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm. Armidale (Corvette) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Australian. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Timor Sea.(Including the original ""The Ship that had to Die"")HMAS Armidale (I) was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as part of the Commonwealth Government’s wartime shipbuilding programme. Twenty were built on Admiralty order but manned and commissioned by the Royal Australian Navy. Thirty six (including Armidale (I)) were built for the Royal Australian Navy and four for the Royal Indian Navy.These ships established an enviable reputation in the RAN as ‘maids of all work’ but were also renowned for ‘rolling on wet grass’ by those who… Read More

Hachette, Australia, 2013. Softcover. Near fine. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY""39 Australian soldiers, Vietnam, 1969 the army denied they existed what were they trying to hide?""For 39 years the Australian Defence Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defense and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War.The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late April to June.The ragtag unit was thrown together with diggers left behind in Vietnam when their regiment returned to Australia. It was so slapdash it didn't even have an officer or sergeant in charge.But a rugged ex-Royal Marine, Jim Riddle, stepped forward to take the lead. When the platoon was thrown into one of the biggest firefights of the Vietnam War against hundreds of enemy, Riddle proved his leadership, bringing all his men through unscathed and leaving the battlefield littered with enemy bodies.It was a highly successful… Read More

The Author, Huntingdale Western Australia, 2004. Softcover. Fine. Produced for the Goodenough family reunion, 2004. xiv, 294 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.  #0521 Goodenough family.  |  Western Australia -- Genealogy.  |  Devon (England) -- Genealogy. 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. Softcover Fine

Herridge & Sons, UK, 2003. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE. First Edition. Signed by Author. After outlining the story of Bentley Motors and the Rolls-Royce takeover, the author gives a thoroughgoing account of Rolls-Royce s search for a car with which to relaunch Bentley before the earlier glories began to fade. Then he gives a highly detailed technical analysis of the 3 1/2 Litre, covering every aspect of the chassis, running gear, engine and transmission. This is followed by equivalent coverage of the succeeding 4 1/2 Litre and the short-lived Mark V. Each of these receives comprehensive treatment, including information on differences from previous models, revisions, the range of bodies available from coachbuilders, performance and behaviour, and appearances in competitive events. There are also chapters on using the cars today and on the practicalities of ownership, with advice on parts availability, maintenance and preservation. Prev ownership on prelims. pp. 160 illusts #0818 Elizabeth's… Read More

Herridge & Son, United Kingdom, 2005. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE. First Edition. Signed by Author. A SUPERIOR copy. All car enthusiasts know, or think they know, what a vintage Bentley should look like. It should have a four-seater tourer body, and should be painted British Racing Green. But Bentleys weren't always like that. When these cars were new, other types of body by many different coachbuilders - saloons, limousines, fixed-head coupes, landaulets, cabriolets, drophead coupes, sedancas de ville - outnumbered the tourers and sports models. Sadly, these were the bodies which were the first to be scrapped, even though their chassis were often saved. This book uses over 200 contemporary black-and-white illustrations and some 50 specially-shot color photographs to tell the story of Bentley coachwork during the 1920s, and up to 1931 when the company went into receivership. Each of the three classes of coachwork - saloons and limousines, drophead coupes, and tourers - is traced as it evolved… Read More

Phoenix Books, NZ, 2001. Softcover. Very Good +. NEW ZEALAND""There had been a history of mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English people in New Zealand dating back to the 1760s. In 1869, after an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one more Maori boy, aged five or six, was captured. This little boy was to be adopted by the Prime Minister and educated to become a lawyer and an 'English gentleman'."" ""The small captive was photographed, just a few days after his kidnapping, in a studio in the town of Wanganui. He is wearing a fine English suit and boots; there is a vase of flowers and a weighty book on the ebony stand beside him. As Peter Walker comments, 'Someone has combed the boy's hair and taught him to put one hand in his trouser pocket. He looks as if he's seen a ghost.'"".""It was Walker's question, 'Well, I wonder what happened to you?' which set him off on this remarkable quest. Not only did he follow Ngatau Omahuru (or little 'William Fox') out of the forest and… Read More