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206536 Alexander, Stephanie A Cook's Life - signed Lantern/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2012. Octavo; hardcover, with decorative boards and upper board titles; 362pp., with 32pp. of full-colour and monochrome plates. Mild wear; board edges lightly scraped; text block edges lightly toned and spotted with small stain to lower corner; inked inscription by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

207088 Bernstein, Leonard Findings - signed Simon & Schuster Inc., New York NY, 1982. Royal octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 376pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; spine extremities softened; some light spotting to the text block edges; signed in ink with a dedication by the author to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $350

212054 Bingham, Howard L. (Introductions by Muhammad & Lonnie Ali, Henry Cooper, Bill & Camille Cosby, Reg Gutteridge, Harry Carpenter, Jim Murray, Jarvis Astaire, Gordon Parks, George Plimpton, Budd Schulberg & Nelson Mandela) Muhammad Ali - signed A Thirty-Year Journey Robson Books Ltd., London, 1993. Quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles; unpaginated (192pp.), with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; a heavy bump to the upper board; light spotting to the text block edges; mild offset to the endpapers; bookplate signed by the subject and author tipped-in to the half-title page. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; a heavy bump to the upper panel (transferring through to the upper board); now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $400

202085 Bird, Nancy (foreword by Sir Richard Boyer) Born to Fly - signed Angus & Robertson Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1961. Octavo; hardcover, with metallic red spine titles; 190pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and 16pp. of plates likewise. Moderate wear; spine extremities lightly softened; text block and page edges toned with some marks; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf; author's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with a few small tears with associated creasing; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $60

74271 Chang, Jung, with Jon Halliday Mao - signed by the authors The Unknown Story Jonathan Cape/Random House, London, 2005. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 814pp., with 32pp. of monochrome photographic plates. Minor wear; signed, with a dedication, in ink on the title page. Dustwrapper is sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Signed by the authors. Banned in China upon its release, this is an uncompromising biography of the Great Leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution which re-evaluates his accomplishments without the dogmatic spectacles of the Red Guard worldview. Chang has been criticised for being overly critical of Mao (given her family's history as outlined in "Wild Swans") but her observations are not without their basis in fact as discovered in documents heretofore unpublished in the West. For those interested in the man without the party line. Click here to order $50

206799 Charlton, Eddie (Foreword by Les Wheeler) The Complete Book of Snooker - signed incorporating Winning Snooker and Trick Shots The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., Crow's Nest NSW, 1987. Quarto; hardcover, illustrated boards; 191pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Moderate wear; somewhat rolled; spine extremities softened and spine lightly sunned; corners lightly bumped; text block edges toned; a small pen mark to the flyleaf; signed in ink with dedications by Eddie Charlton and 13 other well-known players and referees to the verso of the flyleaf and the half-title page. No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $125

206792 Charlwood, Don Settlers Under Sail - signed Burgewood Books, Warrandyte Vic., 1999. Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 49pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers slightly scuffed and edgeworn; signed in ink by the author to the first page. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $20

82006 Clark, David (ed.) David Campese - signed Ironbark Legends Ironbark/Pan Macmillan Aust. Pty. Ltd., Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1996. Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated endpapers; 114pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Signed in ink by David Campese on the half-title; minor wear to board edges. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed; some minor wear and creasing to the top of the lower panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $30

201404 Collis, Ian, & Alan Whiticker The History of Rugby League Clubs - signed limited edition New Holland Publishers, Sydney NSW, 2004. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt upper board and spine titling; 399pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Slipcase with slightly frayed corners. Fine. Signed by the Fox Sports Team: Wally Lewis; Laurie Daley; Gary Freeman; Wayne Pearce and Greg Alexander; this is no. 277 of 500 issued. Click here to order $300

31301 Cottee, Kay First Lady - signed A history-making solo voyage around the world Pan Books (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Chippendale NSW, 1990. Octavo; paperback; 226pp., with maps, diagrams and 24pp. of full-colour and monochrome plates. Mild wear; covers lightly rubbed and edgeworn; spine lightly sunned and creased; some minor spotting to the text block edges; signed in ink to the title page. Very good. Click here to order $25

97585 Dalrymple, William The Last Mughal - signed by the author The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2006. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and decorative endpapers; 580pp., with maps and 24pp. of monochrome and full-colour plates. Moderate wear; shaken; spine extremities lightly softened; text block edges lightly toned with heavy spotting; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries; signed in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $40

90749 Dalton, Robin Aunts Up the Cross - signed copy Foreword by Ben Travers Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., South Melbourne Vic., 1980. Octavo; hardcover; 104pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink on the flyleaf. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and sunned along the spine panel. Very good to near fine. Evoking Sydney of the 1930s, Paddington, King's Cross and the Bayswater Road. With a foreword by Ben Travers. Click here to order $30

82003 Dwyer, Bob The Winning Way - signed copy The Rugby Press Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand (Aoteraroa), 1992. Octavo; hardcover; 198pp., with many black and white photographic illustrations. Signed in ink on the title page; minor edgewear to boards. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed with a small tear to the top of the lower flap turn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Bob Dwyer not only coached the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team to victory in 1991 during the World Cup, he also revolutionised how the game is played. In this work he reveals the "Dwyer Rugby Philosophy" as it was relayed to the Wallabies during their 1991 season and how it led them, not only to victory against nemeses New Zealand and England, but how it changed th way the game is played internationally. A fascinating read. Click here to order $22

211255 Fulton, Margaret I Sang for My Supper: signed copy Memoirs of a Food Writer Lansdowne, Sydney, 1999. Hardcover, octavo; yellow boards with pale yellow spine and gilt titling; 288pp., monochrome illustrations. Signed in ink by the author. Minor wear; very slightly rolled; mildly rubbed and faded board edges; toned text block and page edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, faded spine and adjacent; mild edge and corner wear. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $35

200178 Goodall, Jane (Hugo Van Lawick, illus.; Introduction by Stephen Jay Gould) In the Shadow of Man - signed Phoenix, London, 1997. Signed paperback, octavo; 297pp., monochrome plates. Owner's name. A few marks and spots to cover verso and early pages; toned and spotted text block edges; creased spine; wear to cover edges. Very good. Click here to order $45

82004 Gregan, George Halfback, Half Forward - signed copy Pan Macmillan/Macmillan, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2008. Octavo; hardcover; 397pp., with 32pp. of full-colour photographic plates. Signed in ink on the title page; very minor edgewear to the boards. Dustwrapper very lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. George Gregan has played more Rugby Union Test games as captain than any other player in this country. His 59 Tests are a statement of his tenacity, skill, tactical nous and brilliance as one of the game's most effective and respected players. He witnessed the transition of the game from amateur to professional status and led his team through 4 World Cup finals from 1996 to 2007. Drawing attention on the field, Gregan has never been afraid to attract fire off-field also, and this biography is replete with the forthright candour that has defined this great Australian player from the first. Click here to order $25

203956 Hall, Lincoln Blood on the Lotus - signed Simon & Schuster, Brookvale, 1990. Octavo hardcover; blue boards with white upper board and spine titling; 316pp. Inscribed in ink to the owner by the author. Wear and scraping to board edges and corners; one or two spots on endpaper edges; browned and spotted text block and page edges. Illustrated blue dustwrapper sunned along the spine panel with wear to edges and corners. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Click here to order $45

61812 Hall, Lincoln (Jonathan Chester illus.) The Loneliest Mountain - signed copy The Dramatic Story of the First Expedition to Climb Mt. Minto, Antarctica Simon & Schuster Australia, Brookvale NSW, 1989. Quarto; hardcover; blue boards with white spine titling and blue endpapers; 232pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Mild wear; spine board extremities and corners lightly frayed; signed by author and illustrator and inscribed to owner in ink to the half-title page; mild spotting to the preliminaries and text block edges. Dustwrapper lightly edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Lincoln Hall was one of Australia's best-known mountaineers, with a climbing career that spanned three decades. He was the author of seven books, including the bestseller "White Limbo", which chronicled the first Australian ascent of Mount Everest in 1984. Hall, who had worked as a trekking guide and had edited adventure magazines, was also a director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1987 for his services to mountaineering and in 2010 he won the Australian Geographic Society's Lifetime of Adventure award. He was a life member of the Australian National University Mountaineering Club. He died of mesothelioma aged 56 in March of 2012. This book details Hall's ascent of Mt. Minto in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica in 1998, the first expedition to do so, and is inscribed and signed by him. Click here to order $45

212619 Idriess, Ion L. Gold-Dust and Ashes - signed The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, 1933. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and decoration and front endpaper maps; 286pp., (+ 26pp. of adverts) with a monochrome frontispiece and 16pp. of plates likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn and spine sunned; text block edges toned with light spotting and top edge dusted; mild offset to the preliminaries; retailer's bookplate to the flyleaf; inscribed by the author in ink to the title page. Reproduction eighth edition dustwrapper; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $500

206404 Kingsley Norris, F. No Memory for Pain - signed An Autobiography William Heinemann (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1970. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 392pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece, maps and 16pp. of monochrome plates. Moderate wear; rolled spine extremities softened; text block edges toned with some spots; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf; signed by the author in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is mildly rubbed and edgeworn; light moisture damage and lacquer lifting to the spine panel heel; some chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $30

202156 McHarg, Jack (Foreword by Lindsay Hassett) Bill O'Reilly, A Cricketing Life - signed The Authorised Biography Millennium, Newtown NSW, 1990. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 226pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear: a little shaken; spine extremities softened; text block top edge spotted; signed by the author in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Modern biography of one of the greatest of spin bowlers: "In propelling a round leather object 22 yards between two sets of stumps, O'Reilly made it do things which previously only existed in the realm of fantasy". Click here to order $30

212049 Milligan, Spike Adolf Hitler - signed My Part in His Downfall Michael Joseph Classic Collection/Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1986. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and decorative endpapers; 146pp., top edges dyed red, with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed by the author in ink to the title page (with mild offset). Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $100

212051 Milligan, Spike The Lost Goon Shows - signed "Operation Christmas Duff"; "The Internal Mountain"; "The Silent Bugler"; "The Dreaded Piano Clubber"; "The Siege of Fort Knight"; & "The Tree Maniac" Robson Books Ltd., London, 1987. Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 160pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; boards a little rubbed with some bumps and spine extremities softened; signed by the author in ink to the title page (with minor offset). No dustwrapper. Very good. Click here to order $85

63465 Oxenbould, Moffatt Joan Sutherland - signed limited edition A Tribute Art Gallery of New South Wales & Honeysett Publications, Leichhardt NSW, 1990. Second impression: quarto; hardcover, full-leather, with gilt spine and upper board titling and colour image tipped onto the upper board; 128pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink by Joan Sutherland on the title page; light scattered spotting to the title page. Near fine in a folding leather case with some minor wear. No. 340 of 500 copies. Click here to order $150

209629 Parkin, Ray The Sword and the Blossom: signed Hogarth Press, London, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, octavo; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 266pp., b&w illustrations. Inscribed in ink to owner. Mild offsetting to endpapers; toned and faintly spotted text block edges. black illustrated dustwrapper with laminate slightly lifted on spine panel edge of front; mild edgewear. Very good. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Third book in the trilogy preceded by Out of the Smoke and Into the Smother. Click here to order $75

82002 Poidevin, Simon, & Jim Webster For Love Not Money - signed by Poidevin The Simon Poidevin Story ABC Enterprises, Crows Nest, NSW, Australia, 1990. Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated endpapers; 205pp., with many monochrome illustrations and 6pp. of full-colour plates. Signed in ink on the title page; slightly rolled; text block edges lightly spotted. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed with very minor edgewear; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. An overview of the changing game of Rugby Union, not from the glamorous, point-scoring perspective of the backline stars, but from the bottom of the ruck, a view often obscured from the eyes of spectators. Simon Poidevin began playing the game in his home town of Goulburn NSW, before being selected for the 1st grade and thereafter becoming a "fixture" of Australia's participation in the world game. He outlines his experiences to Jim Webster in this book, of the changes, both politically and personally, which he experienced from the late 1970s through the heyday of his time with the game in the 1980s. Click here to order $22

203260 Rankin, Ian A Question of Blood - signed Orion, London, 2003. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and black endpapers; 360pp. Mild wear; rolled; text block edges toned; signed with an inscription in ink to the title page by the author. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good to very good. Click here to order $22

212066 Rogers, Ginger Ginger - signed My Story Headline Book Publishing Plc., London, 1991. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 402pp., with 48pp. of monochrome plates. Mild wear; spine extremities softened with a bump to the heel; text block edges toned with some heavy spotting; inscribed to previous Australian dancing champion by the author in ink to the title page, Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; lightly spotted on the verso; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Click here to order $30

99256 Tyquin, Michael Little by Little - signed A Centenary of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Australian Military History Publications/Australian Army History Unit (Dept. of Defence), Canberra ACT, 2003. Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 684pp., with maps and many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; slightly shaken; corners mildly bumped; light spotting to the text block top edge; signed in ink on the title page. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Signed by Governor-General General Sir Peter Cosgrove, Michael Tyquin and Major General John Pearn. Click here to order $100

201780 Wakuda, Tetsuya Tetsuya - signed HarperCollins, Pymble NSW, 2001. Quarto hardcover; black boards with silver gilt spine titling and silver endpapers; 178pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Signed in ink by the author. Faint spotting to upper text block edge. Otherwise near fine in like dustwrapper. Combining a Japanese philosophy of natural flavours, the freshest Australian produce and traditional French cooking techniques, Tetsuya creates imaginative dishes unparalleled anywhere in the world. Click here to order $45

82920 Whitlam, Gough The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 - signed copy Viking/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd, Ringwood Vic, 1985. First edition: octavo; hardcover; 788pp., with 16pp. of monochrome plates. Moderate wear; somewhat shaken; spine extremities lightly softened; spotting to the text block edges and top edge dusted; signed by Gough Whitlam in ink to the title page. Some light wear to the dustwrapper; spine lightly sunned; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Laid in: Two entree cards to the launch of the Trade Union Education Foundation and Whitlam Lecture series; two invitations to the Campaign Dinner of Blue Mountains' local Labor Party member Bob Debus, which Whitlam attended; and a folding menu for the dinner signed in ink by Whitlam, Debus and one other. Click here to order $250

85045 Whitlam, Margaret My Other World - signed by the author Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2001 Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 221pp., with many monochrome illustrations and 8pp. of full-colour plates. Mild wear; text block and page edges yellowed; small tear to upper left corner of edgeworn dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Signed with a dedication by the author in ink on the title page. Click here to order $60

79985 Woods, Donald Asking for Trouble - signed by the author The autobiography of a banned journalist Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1987. Octavo; paperback; 373pp., with 8pp., of monochrome photographic plates. Text block and page edges toned; signed in ink on the first page. Very good. Click here to order $25