UFOs & Mysteries Books at Dial a Book Sydney

Madman's Island
Idriess, Ion L.
Book Number: 68179
ISBN:
Publisher: Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941
8vo. hardcover. 253pp. b/w illus. good+, spine slanted, price mark on fep., endpapers foxed. fep torn (repaired). / good+ d/w. The works of Ion L. Idriess National Edition Vol. XII.
Price: $25.00

Bing Crosby. A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years 1903-1940
Giddins, Gary
Book Number: 68183
ISBN: 0316881880
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 727pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

Turner Sketches 1789-1820
Wilkinson, Gerald
Book Number: 68178
ISBN: 0214203875
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins, London 1977
8vo. softcover. 160pp. index. Very good.
Price: $18.00

American Negro Songs and Spirituals: 230 Songs
Work, John W.
Book Number: 68182
ISBN:
Publisher: Bonanza Books New York, n.d. 3rd edition.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 259pp. Musical score.
Price: $18.00

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
Nordenskiold, A. E. translated by Alexander Leslie
Book Number: 68180
ISBN:
Publisher: Macmillam. London 1883.
8vo. hardcover, 413pp. Two colour maps, one folding. Two b/w portraits engraved by G. J. Stodart of which one is the b/w frontis with tissue guard. B/w illus. Good+, tissue guard foxed, some light foxing throughout. Light stain on cover, light wear to cover corners, spine slanted.
Price: $250.00

The Trials of Isabella Mary Kelly
Garland, Maurie
Book Number: 68181
ISBN: 1920785698
Publisher: Brolga Publishing, Australia, 2005
8vo. softcover. 434pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

A Voyage to New South Wales: The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of HMS Sirius 1786-1792: Volume I & II
Bradley, William
Book Number: 68172
ISBN:
Publisher: Ure Smith Sydney 1969
Two volumes, volume I: Large 8vo. hardcover 495pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine, light toning to endpapers. / Very good+ d/w. Volume Two is box containing charts in excellent condition except for some toning to the edges of charts list. Box and cover Near Fine.
Price: $95.00

Cooma Country
Neal, Lauri
Book Number: 68174
ISBN: 0950090328
Publisher: Cooma - Monaro Historical Society, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 315pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w with wear on front panel corner.
Price: $25.00

Zumbarons
Zumbo, Adriano
Book Number: 65701
ISBN: 9781742669700
Publisher: Murdoch Books, Australla, 2012
8vo. illustrated boards, hardcover. 117pp. index, colour illus. Very good+, slight wave to top edge of pages. Scarce.
Price: $55.00

Forest Trees of Australia. Over 200 of Australia's most important native trees described & illustrated.
Boland, D.J. M.I.H. Brooker, G.M. Chippendale, N. Hall, B.P.M. Hyland, R.D. Johnston, D.A. Kleinig and J.D. Turner
Book Number: 68171
ISBN: 0170062643
Publisher: CSIRO. , New Edition 1987.
4to. hardcover. 687pp. index, b/w & colour illus. very good, light spots on top edge of text-block. / very good d/w with tiny tears on top edge and rubbing on front edge.
Price: $40.00

Story of the Snowy Mountains: Its history and people
Larkins, John
Book Number: 68175
ISBN: 0589502018
Publisher: A H & A W Reed, Sydney 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 80pp. colour & b/w plates. very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Black Cockatoos Mean Snow
Mitchell, Elyne
Book Number: 68176
ISBN:
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. Very good, owner's name on front pastedown. / Good d/w with chipped edges.
Price: $125.00

Around the Moon
Verne, Jules
Book Number: 68170
ISBN: 0460050877
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd / E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, London / New York, 1970
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. Colour plates and line drawings by W. F. Phillipps. Near Fine, bookseller stamp on fep./ Very good+ d/w with some tiny edge tears, a tiny chip and some minor rubbing . Translated by Jacqueline and Robert Baldick.
Price: $95.00

Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo''s Fantastical Kitchen of Other-Worldly Delights
Zumbo, Adriano
Book Number: 68177
ISBN: 9781741968040
Publisher: Murdoch Books, Australla, 2011.
4to. hardcover. 256pp. index, colour illus. Good, wear to cover spine ends and corners. / no d/w.
Price: $25.00

Dr. John Lhotsky - The Turbulent Australian Writer, Naturalist and Explorer
KRUTA, VLADISLAV., WHITLEY, GILBERT P., VALLANCE, THOMAS G., WILLS, JAMES H., WAKEFIELD, NORMAN A., ANDREWS, ALAN E.J., PASZKOWSKI, LECH.
Book Number: 67287
ISBN:
Publisher: Melbourne, (Australian Felix Literary Club), 1977. Documentary and Historical Series No. 2
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 176; 7 maps, 25 illustrations, index of persons, index of geographical names, original illustrated stiff wrappers, Near fine.
Price: $15.00

Heroes Denied - The Malayan Harrier Conspiracy
Frisch, Colin, foreword by Chris Hill
Book Number: 61817
ISBN: 1875165177
Publisher: Marlin Publications Wheelers Hill Victoria 1990
8vo. Softcover. 176pp. Very good. The amazing story of fifteen Australian soldiers who refused to surrender to the Japanese when they steamrolled the Malayan Peninsula in 1942. They evaded capture and enduring starvation, illness, and hardship returned to Australia. Far from being greeted as heroes they were met with disbelief, accused of deserting and given the title The Malayan Harriers. In 1990 with only nine of the original fifteen alive it was time for their story to be told.
Price: $6.00

A Life on Pittwater
Duncan, Susan
Book Number: 68100
ISBN: 9781741666694
Publisher: Random House, Sydney, 2009.
4to. hardcover. 240pp. colour illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $25.00

To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844 Expedition
Brock, Daniel George
Book Number: 68151
ISBN: 0909112002
Publisher: The Royal Geographical Society Of Australasia South Australian Branch, Adelaide1975.
8vo. hardcover. 222pp. colour frontis. Very good+. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $28.00

Thomas Doggett Deceased A Famous Comedian
Cook, Theodore Andrea & Nickalls, Guy
Book Number: 68159
ISBN: 9781904799504
Publisher: Tiger of the Stripe, Surrey 2009.
8vo. softcover. 179pp. b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $20.00

Louis Becke.
Day, A. Grove.
Book Number: 68160
ISBN:
Publisher: Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 176pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Life and Death of John Price
Barry, John Vincent
Book Number: 68155
ISBN:
Publisher: 1964 Melbourne University Press.
8vo. 204pp. index. b/w illus. + b/w plates. very good/very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

The Invasion Before Normandy. The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
Hoyt, Edwin P.
Book Number: 68158
ISBN: 070902598x
Publisher: Hale, London 1987.
8vo. hardcover. 210pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Cruise of H.M.S. Galatea, Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1867-1868.
Milner, John, Brierly, Oswald W.
Book Number: 68163
ISBN:
Publisher: W. H. Allen, London 1869.
8vo. hardcover. 488pp. Colour & b/w plates, Folding map. Good, wear to cover corners, small tears on title page and map, small stain on top edge of frontis & title page & some of the colour plates. Some light foxing. Bottom cover corners bumped.
Price: $150.00

Hawkesbury Journey. Up the Windsor Road from Baulkham Hills.
BOWD, D.G
Book Number: 68162
ISBN: 0908120613
Publisher: Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1986.
8vo. hardcover. Companion volume to Maquarie Country. 252pp. index, b/w illus. Local history of the Hawkesbury area, North West of Sydney, New South Wales including many brief biographies of early settlers in the area. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $22.00

In Step with Sturt.
SWAN, Keith. and, Margaret Carnegie.
Book Number: 68157
ISBN: 0959636552
Publisher: Graphic Books, Armadale, Victoria, 1979.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 115pp. index, b/w illus., maps. Very good.
Price: $20.00

To Sandakan: The Diaries of Charlie Johnstone, Prisoner of War 1942-1945 British North Borneo
Dawson, C
Book Number: 38698
ISBN: 1863738185
Publisher: Allen Unwin, Australia, 1995.
8vo. Pictorial softcover. 120pp illus. Very good. Within 7 fateful weeks, from the fall of Rabaul to the surrender in Java in March 1942, more than 22,000 Australians became prisoners of the Japanese. This was Austalia's greatest wartime disaster. This is the story how one man survived. Serving with the RAF. Singapore, capture in Java, moved to Jesselton, Kota Kinnabalu, brutal Sandakan, Kudat and Kuching, in Sarawak. His ordeal and revisit 50 years later.
Price: $14.00

Dead Fishy - 20th Anniversary The Collector's Edition
Hansen, Derek - Signed
Book Number: 68093
ISBN: 978192520918
Publisher: The Collector's Edition Vivid Publishers 2014
8vo softcover 327pp Very good+, toning to top edge outside of text-block, light creases on spine. Signed by author. This book contains a collection of short stories about fishing and sex, fishing and murder, fishing and cross-dressing, romance, betrayal, revenge and interesting ways of cooking seafood. It features killer marlin, killer crabs, transcendental lobsters, really quirky people and some rather nice sauvignon blancs. It is also about catching seriously big fish.
Price: $250.00

The Hoskins Saga
Hoskins,Sir Cecil
Book Number: 68156
ISBN:
Publisher: Sir Cecil Hoskins, Australia, 1969.
8vo. hardcover. 140pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $28.00