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Australia is one of the richest countries, growing far more food that can be eaten, as well as a major source for minerals. To whom should Australia sell its food, minerals and energy? On what terms? How secure are Australia's relations with its major trading partners? How much does Australia's growth depend on immigration. These are just some of the themes covered in this book. -
A remarkable man, E. W. Cole, the self-styled "Professor", compiled this amazing picture book in 1879 and released it in a welter of hilarious advertising in time for Christmas. He it was who invented Girl Land, Laziness Land, the fabulous steam-driven Whipping Machine For Naughty Boys, the Scolding Machine for Naughty Girls and a list of over 100 Names Suitable for Dollies and Babies. There's puzzles and games, wise words about people and places, funny words about travelling and husbands and wives. Now wildly politically incorrect - and who cares? It's Cole's Funny Picture Book, an Australian institution, looked for in stockings on Christmas Day for decades. There's plenty of gentleness, love, humour and morals. This facsimile edition has been carefully edited to resemble, as nearly as possible, the klast edition in Cole's lifetime. Illustrated. -
From the introduction: 'The whole five are sober youngsters - none of them drinks. Gilbert is a very jolly fellow.. O'Meally is a murderous looking scoundrel. Ben Hall is a quiet, good looking fellow, lame one leg having been broken, he is the eldest...and the leader...Vane is a big sleepy-looking man. Mickey Burke is small. They seem at all times to be most thoroughly self-possessed and to understand each other perfectly...they are not likely to quarrel.' A fascinating A4 book, possibly a desk top publication, with black and white photos. A small part yet vital part of the romanticism of Australia's bushranging era of the 1860s. -
Only A Tramp: Grace Stebbing
$45.00Mr Charles Wynn, the Tramp of Silverdale Rectory, makes a reappearance. -
Don't feel like a novel? Then this is the perfect 'dip into' bedside book. There's humour, drama, history, poetry, satire... something for everyone in this volume of treasures from the Post: Reprieve For Jemmy And James/Apology For Printers/Adventure With A Tar Barrel, Benjamin Franklin; The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe; Assassination of President Lincoln, Official Gazette; Good-by, Jim, James Whitcomb Riley; The Man Who Could Not Be Cornered, George Harris Lorimer; The Sergeant's Private Madhouse, Stephen Crane; Carrie Nation And Kansas, William Allen White; The Passing Of 'Third Floor Back', Jerome K. Jerome; The Ransom Of Red Chief, O. Henry; The Great Pancake Record, Owen Johnson; The Nickelodeons, Joseph Medill Patterson, The Mishaps Of Gentle Jane, Fred R. Bechdolt; Sad Days At Old Siwash, George Fitch; A Piece Of Steak, Jack London; The Bolt From The Blue, G.K. Chesterton; The First Birdman, J.W. Mitchell; Words And Music/A Little Town Called Montignies St. Christophe/Speaking Of Operations, Irvin S. Cobb; Alibi Ike, Ring W. Lardner; Consider The Lizard, Eugene Manlove Rhodes; Who's Who - And Why? Post Ads; In Alsace, Edith Wharton; Turn About, William Faulkner; A Victory Dance, Alfred Noyes, Pershing At The Front, Arthur Guiterman; Scattergood Baines - Invader, Clarence Budington Kelland; Beyond The Bridge, Joseph Hergesheimer; Tutt And Mr Tutt - In Witness Whereof, Arthur Train; Tact, Thomas Beer; Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Three Poems, Edna St. Vincent Millay; The Terrible Shyness Of Orvie Stone, Booth Tarkington; Tugboat Annie, Norman Reilly Raine; Room To Breathe In, Dorothy Thompson; Everybody Out, George S. Brooks; Wildfire, Elsie Singmaster; Lightning Never Strikes Twice, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Devil And Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benét; Money, Gertrude Stein; Hundred-Tongued Charley, The Great Silent Orator, Alva Johnston; Dygartsbush, Walter D. Edmonds; Pull, Pull Together, J.P, Marquand; The Child By Tiger, Thomas Wolfe; The Hunting Of The Haggis, Guy Gilpatric; Poems, Ogden Nash; My Father Was The Most Wretchedly Unhappy Man I Ever Knew, Gene A. Howe; The Atom Gives Up, William L. Laurence; City In Prison, Joseph Alsop; How The British Sunk The Scharnhorst, C.S. Forester; The Immortal Harpy, Hobert Douglas Skidmore; Solid Citizen, Pete Martin; The Last Night, Storm Jameson; A Few Kind Words For Uncle Sam, Bernard M. Baruch; Vermont Praise, Robert P. Tristram Coffin; Is There A Life After Forty? Robert M. Yoder; Note On Danger B, Gerald Kersch; The Murderer, Joel Townsley Rogers; The Colonel Saved The Day, Harold H. Martin; Old Ironpuss, Arthur Gordon; A Ballad Of Anthologists, Phyllis McGinley; The Ordeal Of Judge Medina, Jack Alexander; Death On M-24, John Bartlow Martin; The Secret Ingredient, Paul Gallico; I Grew Up With Eisenhower, R.G. Tonkin; The Devil In The Desert, Paul Horgan. Illustrated. Cover art by Norman Rockwell. -
Playwright Ambrose Deacon suffers from acute diffidence. The success of his one-hit Broadway play sends him to Hollywood where he meets moving picture moguls Herbert Ringrose and Ben Griesheimer and the screen goddess Imperia Starling. This is the start of his extraordinary adventures in Hollywood and he discovers that he doesn't know how to say No. One of the first comic novels about life in Hollywood. Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American novelist and was one of the most influential literary figures of the 1910s and 1920s. He began his career in journalism as a reporter and later worked as its Paris correspondent. His first novel, Peter Whiffle (1922) is a first-person account of the salon and bohemian culture of New York and Paris, clearly drawn from Van Vechten's own experiences, and was immensely popular. -
The principal characters in the story are Doris Brunton and Andy with other characters existing mainly for contrast. There is no sickly sentimentalism, the love and romance being concerned with the hero's battle against harsh reality. Set in the sheep country of New South Wales and Queensland with distinctive characterisations and the eternal atmosphere of the Australian bush. -
Subtitle: Being the Story of British Heroism in Voyaging and Sea-fight from Alfred's Time to the Battle of Trafalgar. First published in 1905, this anthology was the first one-volume survey of Britain's historic sea voyages and battles. With selections from John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, Sir Walter Raleigh, King Alfred as well as contemporary accounts from documents, letters and eyewitnesses. This history covers the period from 55 B.C. to 1805 A.D. With one colour plate, several glossy black and white plates and sketches. -
South Australian Matilda Jane Evans, writing under the pseudonym Maud Jeanne Franc, published 14 novels between 1859 and 1885 set in South Australia. These domestic, religious and temperance novels represent a significant contribution of literature to the young colony and demonstrated it was possible to live a worthy spiritual life, dispelling the preconcieved idea that all colonials were necessarily rough and degenerate. Women were represented as being particularly influential in the religious and moral life of the community. The 'Golden Gifts' of the title are their talents and the rich earth of the new country. -
A lively fantasy story set against the background o New Guinea in World War II. Private Dusty, cut off from his unit and lost in the jungle, is rescued and cared for by Squizzy. one of the Jambies - a race of little people no taller than 6 inches. On this journey Dusty will also meet the Jeannies, Hispians and Tamborans and he will learn a great deal about this fascinating, magical land - such as how the wings of butterflies are so beautifully painted by Smudge, the Jambie artist; he'll attend a concert and meet notable Jambies - and become involved in a feud between the Tamborans and Jambies. -
From the Live Longer, Live Stronger Self-Improvement Library. Includes advice on oxygen starvation; diaphragmatic breathing; breathing and walking; posture; exercises; the use of Vitamin E to combat air pollution; recommended eating plans and recipes. First published in 1974, this book was very ahead of its time. -
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An ebullient play inspired by the stories of the homeless men 'on the wallaby' who roamed the Australian roads in search of work during the Great Depression. The story traces the misfortunes of the O'Brien family, waterside workers in Port Adelaide. The effect of eight years' of unemployment, birth, separation, strikes and subsistence on the family are seen in the light of the political strategies of the time. It also incorporates the death of the old music hall theatre and the rise of the age of mass communication. -
Book 3 of the Stories From History series. Contains William Of Normandy; Hereward The Wake; The Bridal Of Norwich; In The New Forest; Emperor And Pope; The Adventures Of Robert Guiscard; The First Crusade; Richard The Lionheart; More Adventures Of King Richard; Marco Polo; St. Thomas Of Canterbury; The Abbot Of Bury St. Edmonds; St. Francis; The Coming Of The Friars; On Pilgrimage; King John And The Barons; The Builder; The Prince Of Wales; Robert Bruce; William Tell; Merchants And Pirates; Six Brave Men; The Manor of Oakthorpe; Dick Whittington; Five Hundred Years Ago; For St. George And England; Saint Joan; Prince Henry Of Portugal; Moors And Christians; The Tale Of An Old Book. Handsomely illustrated with black and white plates and engravings. -
Collins’ Schoolgirls’ Annual
$50.00In this volume: The Adventure of 'The Three Dead Smugglers', Rose Macaulay; The Strange Adventures of A Sun Umbrella, Kay Martin; Netball For Girls, Cicely M. Read; The Disappearance Of Daisy Cheyne, M.B. Sandford; A Treasure From The Snow, Elsie J. Oxenham; A Caravan Holiday, Bertha Leonard; Lawn Tennis Hints, W. Haines Jull; The Lucky Leaf, Florence Bone; The Toy Theatre, A. Waddingham Seers; Dragon House and Trial By Jury, Katharine L. Oldmeadow; A New Hobby, L.G. Fitzpatrick; Curio Collecting, Ethel Talbot; A Castle In Spain, Guy Stirling; The Princess Nuala, Katherine Tynan; Book Parties and The Tree Of Liberty, Violet M. Methley; A Handful Of Three, E.L. Haverfield; Touch-Ball, R.L.G. Goodchild; The Witch's Spell, E.E. Cowper; Hidden Treasure, Jessie Leckie Herbertson; Decoration In Water Colour, Grace Lodge Clifton-Shelton; Keeping A Nature Diary, A. Waddingham Seers; All The Veronicas and Experiments In Sweet Making, Alice Massie; Three Rainy Day Games For Juniors, Doris Wood; Hints To Amateur Actors, C. Bernard Rutley; A Visit From Bashio Bazouks, Kay Martin; Let's Have A Play, Katharine Oldmeadow; Twilight Speaks, Blanche Jones; A Fool's Errand, Catherine A. Morin and Maud Morin; Athletics For Girls, Frank N. Punchard. -
As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house. A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Mrs Beeton was only 22 when she compiled this thorough and authoritative volume, written in response to the lack of such books for the newly married housewife of 1860 - and who might not have the good fortune of a parent or guardian to guide her through the initial lessons of marriage, housekeeping, cookery and the myriad necessary knowledge of the day. Over a thousand pages long, it offered advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons and the management of servants. There's no stuffy moralising here; it's a mix of domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles as well as ranging widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, Household Management highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. -
Storm House: Florence Hurd
$55.00A missive of death called young Laura back to Storm House after eight years in Paris. Her proud, beautiful mother had committed suicide by leaping off Cliff's Edge. Laura had been sent away to school when her mother discovered her love for Armand, her stepfather's poor nephew. Now Armand also returned to Storm House, but he had changed into a brooding, secretive person. Her home had become a deadly trap - boulders hurtled out of nowhere, the vicious mastiffs got loose and attacked her and a ghostly vision of evil appeared in her room. Laura knew someone in this strange, decaying mansion wanted her dead and would stop at nothing until her lifeless body was flung from the treacherous cliffs! Gothic horror/romance at its highest.
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The legendary Robin Hood will never go out of style - he fights for the poor and for justice. This collection traces him from the day of his outlawry, his meeting with Little John, the forming of his band of men of like mind, outlaws all; the embarrassment of the Sherrif and the eventual return of King Richard. Illustrations by R.C. Smith. -
Frederic Slaney Poole (1845-1936), son of Judge Thomas Slaney Poole, stepped off the St. Vincent at Port Adelaide on November 30, 1867 to work at the Poonindie Native Institution, was priested in 1869, and became incumbent of Robe, a vast parish. Before becoming headmaster Christ Church Grammar School, Mount Gambier, he travelled to London and married Rebecca Scott. In 1874 be became incumbent of St John's, Halifax Street, Adelaide. Tall, thin, bearded and a keen sportsman, Poole was a popular preacher, fearless in denouncing commercial and sexual immorality, and with 'the reputation of being a man without cant … who is not above taking an occasional glass of whisky, and who would not express unbounded indignation if asked to participate in a game of billiards or cards'. He was a lecturer in the classics; he conducted a school for choirboys; was chaplain to the Adelaide hospital, gaol and destitute asylum; and was one of South Australia's first clerical Freemasons, helping to establish the Grand Lodge of South Australia in Adelaide in 1884. His descendant Cynthia has told his incredible story of his life, from horseback priest to Canon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Slaney_Poole -
From the Carpenter's World Travels series. A fascinating look at life as it was here - in 1926! With 126 photographs and enticing chapter headings, such as: Life on the Sheep Station; The Three R's in Australia; Gold Diggings in Creek and Desert; Social Pests; Kangaroos and Danc9ng Birds and Mutton and Butter for London Tables. Illustrated with fabulous black and white photographs. -
An English family moves to the New World of Australia. First published in 1864. -
Very scarce story collection for girls. In this volume: Poor Miss Robinson, Katharine Tynan; The Great Winter, R.D. Blackmore; Twilight Wind, Thora Stowell; Marcia Of The Mill, Estrith Mansfield; Two Gardens (poem), Lilian Holmes; Sky-High, Margaret Lillie; Felicity's Revenge, E.L. Haverfield; The Shepherdess (poem), Alice Meynell; Concerning Theodosia, Christine Chaundler; The Mocking Fairy (poem), Walter de la Mare; Violeting, Miss Mitford; Signal No. 52, Brenda Girvin; Sheep And Lambs, Katharine Tynan; Eleanor's Valentine, Margaret Stuart Lane; Our Dutch Garden, Lilian Quiller Couch; Uncle Jasper, Winifred Letts -
David is the art student son of the Minister for Communications. He knows his father has a chance of becoming Prime Minister but he also knows that his father's brother is a homosexual living with a flamboyant young actor. Even a touch of scandal will bring ruin. So it strikes David as odd when his battle to live away from home is successful on condition that he becomes his uncle's lodger. Set in the England of the late 1960's. The author, Martyn Goff, was one of the creators of the Booker Prize and he wrote several novels on the theme of homosexuality at a time when homosexuality in Britain was a criminal offence. -
Set in England prior to the coronation of Elizabeth II. Mrs 'Arris is a charlady, hard-working, cheerful and always obliging. When she sees the beautiful Dior gown that one of her titled ladies will wear to the Coronation festivities, Mrs. 'Arris is determined to have one too. And she can - if she gives up catching the bus...and going to the cinema...and going to the pub for a drop of gin with her neighbour...and if she takes on extra work and does some sewing from home...She faces all manner of obstacles and snobbery and unwittingly does some good on her journey, but she is determined. Made into a beautiful film, Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris with Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Ada 'Arris. and Omar Sharif - and recently remade. -
With loads of features and stories from Norman Collin, Noel Streatfield, Eleanor Farjeon and Hilton Brown; loads of articles and puzzles; projects and cartoons; riddles and jokes; fabulous colour and black and white illustrations. -
There was a person sitting on the kitchen table - a person about eighteen inches tall - looking for all the world like a large, fat cucumber. And it was talking...Perhaps there's nothing unusual about a cucumber. But a cucumber that talks, that suddenly appears in the kitchen and starts throwing its weight around (about being a KING cucumber)...Then to discover it's planning revenge on rebellious cucumber subjects (living in OUR basement...) and it expects us to lend a hand in the massacre...It's enough to disrupt any family. And especially ours! A children's book? Maybe - but have a look and seeing what the grown-ups on Goodreads remember about it! Translated by Anthea Bell. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252879.The_Cucumber_King?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=lB0Ziy5MGJ&rank=1 -
A series of books encompassing visual images of the decades and the changes the world underwent. These are not just iconic images of famous events and people, but images of everyday people doing everyday things all over the world. The 1930s: Old dreams turned to dust and new dreams turned into nightmares. The nations of Europe marched to war, Strikes and lockouts, 'talkies' and skyscrapers, dictators and New Deals...a unique collection by the world's finest photographers. The 1940s: A decade divided: the world at war, its triumphs and tragedies, victories and victims. Peace, rest, recovery and rebuilding. New hopes and new problems - the tumult of history through the eye of the camera. The 1950s: A world in the icy grip of the Cold War. The Shadow of the Bomb. Little Rock and Notting Hill, the Hungarian Uprising, Suez and Cyprus. The conquest of space - all the triumph and tragedy of a tense and violent age. The 1960s: The Swinging Sixties, a maelstrom of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Pop and the Pill, the Maxi and the Mini, the Stones and the Beatles, Sharpeville, Dallas, Vietnam - the agony and the ecstasy, captured as only the camera can. The 1970s: Terrorism and violence from Beirut to Belfast, from Cyprus to Soweto, from Munich to Mogadishu. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Tricky Dicky Nixon, General Ami, Pol Pot - a young Michale Jackson and an ageing Elvis - explosively revealed by the camera's silent witness.
