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WWII (117)
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We Also Served: Reflections of Far North Coast Women who in WWII were members of;
$50.00 Add to cartM. Buckley; L. Irwin; H. Kinsella
Goonellabah: M. J. Buckley, 1995.
The Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. The Australian Army Nursing Service. The Australian Women’s Army Service. The Australian Women’s Land Army. The Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service. The Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force. The Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service. The United Kingdom’s Women’s services. North Coast New South Wales. This copy signed by all three editors and with the signature of one of the subject Jean Crane to the wrappers panel and with pencil marginalia to her page -
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 (12 Volumes)
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Various Editions.
22cm x 14cm. 12 volumes, black and white illustrations, maps. Cloth, gilt lettering.
Complete set of of Bean’s history of the Australian military in the First World War. Various editions, most 1938-39
Two volumes with slightly discoloured spines. Most with minor to moderate foxing to endpapers and minor foxing or soiling to edges, moderate to edges of volume 12. A few volumes with some flecking or soiling to cloth. All bindings intact. Good Condition. -
A Choco of Chermside Camp Brisbane
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
21cm x 14cm. [ii], 169 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Australian WWII biography of time at the Chermside training camp and then serving in PNG.
Wrappers somewhat shelf worn. Spine discoloured and soiled. Good Condition. -
The Fiery Phoenix: The Story of the 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion, 1939-1946
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 18cm. xxii, 442, [16] pages, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, lettered jacket.
Minor shelf wear to boards. Minor foxing and soiling to edges and endpapers. Jacket heavily shelf worn and moderately soiled. Good Condition. -
I’m For Hire
$500.00 Add to cartMarie-Therese
Paris: Olympia Press, 1955.
First-person account of a Parisian prostitute working all sides of WWII. Translated from the French, Vie d’Une Prostituee, later titled The Memoirs of a Prostitute. KEARNEY 17. -
Green Shadows: A War History of the Papua Infantry Battalion
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29.5cm x 20cm. [x], 271 pages, black and white illustrations. Green cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
1 New Guinea Infantry Battalion, 2 New Guinea Infantry Battalion, 3 New Guinea Infantry Battalion. Foreword by John A. Chalk. The larger format edition with compliments slip of Pacific Book House.
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The Lee-Enfield Rifle
$100.00 Add to cartE. G. B. Reynolds
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962. -
The British Falling Block Breechloading Rifle From 1865
$100.00 Add to cartJonathan G. Kirton
Livonia: R&R Books, 1997. -
Australian Defences and New Guinea Compiled from the Papers of the Late Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley
$550.00 Add to cartC. Kinloch Cooke
London: Macmillan & Co., 1887. -
History of the 11th Light Horse Regiment: Fourth Light Horse Brigade Australian Imperial Forces WAR, 1914-1919
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 13.5cm. [xvi], 186 pages, frontispiece lacking, [66] pages of black and white illustrations, 4 full page maps in the pagination. Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Recased. Lacking the frontispiece portrait. Minor wear to cloth. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition. -
The Boxer Rebellion
$100.00 Add to cartAdriano Madaro
Quinto di Treviso: Europrint Editore, 2001.
A new historical review on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boxer Rebellion, copiously illustrated throughout. Originally published in Italian as ‘La Rivolta dei Boxer Pechino 1900’ and here translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Tomlin. -
Carving Up The Melon: Australians in the Boxer Rebellion, 1900-1901
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First Edition. Signed by Author
27.5cm x 19cm. viii, 76 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Old sticker rub to wrappers upper panel, and with another sticker to lower panel. Slight discolouration to spine. Good Condition. -
My Buddy: World War II Laid Bare
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Second Edition.
25cm x 28cm. 320 pages, illustrations. Brown papered boards, black lettering, pictorial jacket.
Homoerotic imagery of Allied WWII soldiers. The Michael Stokes Collection. Introduction by Scotty Bowers with texts by Gore Vidal, James Jones, E. B. Sledge, and Allan Berube.
Very slightly cocked. Very minor bumping to crown fore-edge corner. Very Good Condition. -
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 (12 Volumes)
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Various Editions.
22cm x 14cm. 12 volumes, black and white illustrations, maps. Cloth, gilt lettering.
Complete set of of Bean’s history of the Australian military in the First World War. Editions range from first to sixth, most published in 1936.
Cloth with uneven discolouration, some with lacquer and flecking. A couple of tender hinges but all intact. The edges with soiling, foxing, and some with a bit of insect damage. The endpapers foxed, the interiors mostly clean though there is occasional foxing. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Yesterday and Today: An Illustrated History of the Pacific Islands Regiment
$50.00 Add to cartN. E. W. Granter
Port Moresby: South Pacific Post, 1970.
From Its Formation on 19th June, 1940 Until the Present Day. -
Port Moresby to Gona Beach: 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 1942
$100.00 Add to cartColin Kennedy
Canberra: Colin Kennedy, 1992. -
Nor the Years Contemn: Air War on the Australian Front, 1941-42
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
24cm x 16.5cm. xv, 420 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
War By Stealth: Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942-1945
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First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. xix, 424 pages. Full leather.
Minor shelf wear, soiling, and foxing. Very Good Condition. -
The Accidental Genocide
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Research Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. [iv], iv, 370,18, 23, 39, 28, 58, 4 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor soil to tail edge. Near Fine Condition. -
A History of British Atomic Tests In Australia
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First Edition.
25cm x 17.5cm. xviii, 593 pages, black and white illustrations. Lettered wrappers.
A detailed report and history of British atomic tests in Australia beginning with the first talks between the Menzies and Attlee administrations in 1950, including maps and photographs. This copy with the compliments stamp of Senator Glen Sheil.
Spine creased. Spine tail heavily rubbed. Good Condition. -
The Exhibition of the Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki
$60.00 Add to cartDaniel Hart
Nagasaki: Nagasaki International House, 1973. -
Gunners in the Jungle: A Story of the 2/15 Field Regiment Royal Australian Artillery 8 Division Australian Imperial Force
$80.00 Add to cartCliff Whitelocke; George O’Brien
Sydney: 2/15 Field Regiment Association, 1983. -
No Lost Battalion: An Oral History of the 2/29th Battalion AIF
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First Edition. Signed by Author
25cm x 17cm. 303 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, white lettering, pictorial jacket.
This copy signed by John Lack and with a small collection of related ephemera laid in.
Some insect damage to cloth. Very minor foxing to top edge. Very minor shelf wear to jacket. Good Condition. -
Pounding Along to Singapore: A Story of the 2/20 Battalion AIF with the Letters and Diary of Capt. EW (Bill) Gaden of D Force, POW 1940-1945
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
23.5cm x 15cm. 320 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Z Special Unit’s Secret War: Operation Semut 1
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Second Edition.
21cm x 15cm. 608 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Soldiering with the head-hunters of Borneo.
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
6th Div. Sketches: Aitape to Wewak
$100.00 Add to cartJames Wieneke
Sydney: John Sands, No date.
Being a collection of sketches, drawings and notes, form the Sixth Australian Division’s last New Guinea campaign – through Aitape, Maprik and Wewak, 1944-1945 -
To Find a Path (2 Volumes)
$120.00 Add to cartJames Sinclair
Brisbane and Bathurst: Boolarong Press and Crawford House Press, 1990-1992. -
Green Shadows: A War History of the Papua Infantry Battalion
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21cm x 14.5cm. [x], 271 pages, black and white illustrations. Green cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
1 New Guinea Infantry Battalion, 2 New Guinea Infantry Battalion, 3 New Guinea Infantry Battalion. Foreword by John A. Chalk.
Very minor shelf wear. Very minor soiling to efges. Near Fine Condition. -
The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, 1939-1943: A History
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First Edition.
26cm x 19cm. 359 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial glossy papered boards, pictorial jacket.
Including Nominal Roll.
Minor soiling. Near Fine Condition. -
B Company 1st Regiment of Queensland Infantry (Moreton Regiment)
$50.00 Add to cartPeter D. Anderson
Brisbane: Peter D. Anderson, 1986.
Cover title: Moreton Regiment, 1886, Infantry, First Regiment of Queensland. A brief history to the Defence of Queensland from 1859, leading up to the formation of the First Regiment of Queensland Infantry sometimes called the Moretons, 1885.