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| Tabulo, Tom: Pacific Surf Life Saving Club The First Forty Years 1947-1987
Book Number: 48336
Weldons for Pacific SLSC 1987 4to. Pictorial Laminated Boards. Very good, minor foxing on end pages. 112pp. Illustrated throughout with b&w club and competition photos. Contents include The History of the Palm Beach Strip, The Pre-War Years 1930-1939, The Beginning of the Pacific Surf Life Saving Club 1947-1950, Tragedy and Consolidation 1950-1960, Pacific A Club at the Top 1960-1970, The Difficult Years 1970-1980, Pacific Bounces Back 1980's, Anecdotes, Personalities, Club Members 1949-1987, About the Author.
Keywords: Palm Beach Queensland Life Saving
Price: $22.00 |
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| Chaffey, Will: Swimming With Crocodiles - An Australian Adventure
Book Number: 48389
Picador 2008 8vo. Paperback. 314pp. Illustrated with photographs. Will Chaffey and a herpetologist and wanderer call Geoff walk from the headwaters of the Prince Regent River to the falls of the King Cascade in WA., a hazardous journey never before attempted by white man. Along the way they would seek Australia's rarest python, live off the land and document their experience for Australian Geographic. Michell Plateau, Millaa Millaa, Perry Farm, Middlebrook Road, Tanami, Wyndham, Oralee Creek, Cascade Creek, Mount Elizabeth.
Keywords: Michell Plateau, Millaa Millaa, Perry Farm, Middlebrook Road, Tanami, Wyndham, Oralee Creek, Cascade Creek, Mount Elizabeth
Price: $16.00 |
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| Lawrence, Joan: Pittwater paradise
Book Number: 48410
Kingsclear Books 4to softcover 108pp colour & b/w illus. index. very good, top corner slightly bumped.
Keywords: History Australia Oceania Australia Pittwater paradise Lawrence Joan
Price: $18.00 |
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| Fitzgerald, Shirley: Sydney, 1842-1992
Book Number: 48475
Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1992. 4to. hardcover. 324pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good, owner's signature on fep. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: sydney history australian
Price: $75.00 |
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| Lasseter, Howard: Lasseter's Diary
Book Number: 48516
Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1986. Small oblong 8vo. wraps. very good.
Keywords: Lasseter's Diary gold reef outback central australia furphies myths australian mining hoaxes
Price: $22.00 |
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| Seal, Graham: These Few Lines - A Convict Story : The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes
Book Number: 48517
ABC Books 2006 Small 8vo. hardcover. 236pp. colour illus. Fine. / Fine d/w.
Keywords: Myra William Sykes australian history convict
Price: $25.00 |
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| Storey, Robyn: Valley Belles
Book Number: 48615
R.E. Storey, Qld, 2005 8vo. softcover. 255pp. b/w illus. very good. Scarce.
Keywords: dawson valley queensland history australian women
Price: $35.00 |
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| Shortridge, C W: A Time for Action - Fundraising brochure for the building of Sydney Opera House
Book Number: 48558
National Fundraising Counsel of Australia 1959 4to. Oblong Brochure 12pp. Good condition, minor wear to edges and lightly folded in half. Illustrated with b&w photo's of what the Sydney Opera House was supposed to look like finished, diagram of footprint. Individual photo's of Board Members. Brochure put out to 'the driving force of business, professional, cultural and trade unions leader' to raise funds to build the Sydney Opera House.
Keywords: Sydney Opera House
Price: $60.00 |
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| Stone, Derrick & Garden, Donald S.: Squatters and Settlers
Book Number: 48577
Sydney: Popular Books, 1984 4to. laminated boards, hardcover. 224pp. index, b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: australian history Squatters and Settlers
Price: $15.00 |
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| Oakes, John: Sugarflower: Memoirs of a Passionate Woman
Book Number: 48689
Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. New Holland Publishers Ltd 2001 8vo softcover 486pp index, b/w illus. very good. John Oakes has written the biography of his grandmother, Lucy Horn - a tale of social mores, of passion and of a woman whose strong determined character guided her - or sometimes thrust her headlong - through life.
Keywords: Wilkie Lucy Sugarflower Memoirs of a Passionate Woman Oakes John
Price: $14.00 |
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