Search Results: Books from Bookhome Sydney

Melbourne: Penguin Group, 2005. Reprint ed.. Paperback wide small quarto, very good condition, colour drawings, bottom corner front cover little creased (few minor scratches), minor edgewear. 32 pp. Australian children's picture story about a very special lady named Lily Laceby who is nearly ninety, and lives in a cottage in the hills with her dog Butch Aggie. This book with the large colourful drawings and simple text will appeal to all ages.

Red Hill, QLD: D.R.B. Investments, 1984. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, looseleaf, corners tips coves slightly creased, minor edgewear. 8 pp. Sheet music for young adults for this very popular Australian song. Rear cover lists ten titles of sheet music available in the Youth Choir Series.

Sydney, Botany: Davis Gelatine (Australia) Pty Ltd, 1957. Paperback small, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white text-photos, colour photos covers, covers lightly creased, minor foxing & edgewear, small biro scribble front cover. 36 pp. This small pamphlet provides recioes for the basic use of Davis Gelatine as a jelly. It also can be mixed in with deserts, salads and savory dishes to improve their appearance (as a setting agent). Many delicious recipes. (No date, but 1950s, Trove. This 36p pamphlet is about 1957. A presumed earlier 28p version is dated 1954.).

Melbourne: Puffin / Penguin Books, 1996. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, black & white drawings, minor foxing & rubbing edges. 79 pp. A story for young adults by Australian author. Elizabeth's grandmother is very special to her, but she is dying, and she wishes to give grandma's spirit to the dolphins. This is a story about what there is to lose, and all there is to find. Elizabeth meets an old beachcomber named Bull Morgan, who helps her to understand sacrifice and hope.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1995. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), pictorial cover, colour drawings (decorative page edges), minor edgewear. 64 pp. Quotations about forgiveness by the Australian Jewish rabbi and scholar. Stories and sayings concerning the universal need for forgiveness.

Sydney: Castle Music Pty Ltd, 1932. Modern reprint ed.. Paperback quarto, very good condition, single folded sheet, shop sticker front cover. 6 pp. (Copyright 1932, this is a modern reprint.) Sheet music.

Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1943. Australian ed.. Paperback small, dustjacket, good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), thick card covers, black & white photos, inner hinge little split (pages firm), small edge tears jacket, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear, owner's written name. 80 pp. Australian edition. Followup from his previous book "H.M. Corvette". The author describes his new life as First Lieutenant of a navy ship as it patrols the sea board of Britain, searching for Nazi e-boats, mines, etc.

Sydney: Tor / Pan Macmillan, 2008. Reprint ed.. Paperback thick, very good condition, top edge lightly toned, minor edgewear. 611 pp. Science fantasy novel by Cecilia Dart-Thornton Jarred is leaving the sun scorched desert village that has always been his home to explore the world-and to seek out the truth about his father who disappeared when jarred was ten, never to return. This is the first book in 'The Crowthistle Chronicles’.

Melbourne: Hinkler Books, 1994. Paperback, very good condition, pages toned as common, spine faintly creased, minor edgewear. 254 pp. The Bachelors of Broken Hill (Hinkler, 1994, paperback). When two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time - and now she too has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of 28,000 people is a job to tax even Inspector Bonaparte. Bony needs the unorthodox skills of burglar Jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all his Aboriginal deductive and tracking skills at his command.

Melbourne: Puffin Books / Penguin Books, 1982. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 178 pp. An impressive 21 interlocking short stories by William Mayne about the children and adults who live around the Salt River. His first collection of stories written in and about Australia. The stories capture both the idiom and the atmosphere of a small Australian community.

Sydney, East Roseville: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Australian ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 281 pp. A guide to 50 proven classics in the self-help field, including by Dale Carnegie, Deepak Chopra, Stephen Cover, Louise Hay, Victor Frankl, Benjamin Franklin, Buddha. Each consists of a 2 to 4 page summary of the life skills advocated, a brief biography of the author, and a history of the book.

Melbourne: Allan's Music Publishers / Allan & Co., 1941. Ephemera, large quarto, single folded sheet, good condition, top corner near hinge creased, minor edgewear. 4 pp. Sheet music. Music by Dominguez, English lyrics by Cugat, Heagney and Leeds. Picture of Jim Gussey on front cover.

Sydney, Hunters Hill: Margaret Hamilton, 1991. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback small square quarto, staples, very good condition, colour drawings, minor edgewear. 32 pp. A delightful children's picture story about a very determined snail with one ambition. The lyrical, poetic language is easy for independent reading, and the life-like colourful drawings make this book suitable for any age.

Cambridge: Icon Books, 2003. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear jacket. 172 pp. This book takes the mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was built in different ways in different national contexts in the United states, Europe and the Far East. Jon Agar tells a truly global history of the mobile phone.

New York: Owl / Henry Holt, 2002. Paperback wide trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 211 pp. What you need to know about sinusitis: causes, prevention, self-care, medications, complementary health. Senior author is American professor of otolaryngology.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1994. Paperback, very good condition. 156 pp. Bony and the Black Virgin, by Arthur Upfield (Angus & Robertson, 1994). An Inspector Bonaparte mystery - the Australian part-Aboriginal detective. Bony is called to the drought-stricken outback. At a desolate sheep station two men have been savagely beaten to death and it's Bony's job to make an arrest.

London: George G. Harrap, 1970. 1st ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, minimal EX-LIBRARY, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos, frontispiece, minor edgewear jacket (light foxing reverse side, few small edge tears, flap corners clipped), light foxing edges. 192 pp. This fascinating anthology reveals Charles Dickens the man as remembered by friends and family.

Sydney: J. Albert & Son, 1923. Paperback small folio, looseleaf, fair condition (reading copy), colour pictorial front cover, row staple holes along spine, patchy foxing covers & pages (edgewear & small edge tears), pages lightly toned, owner's written name. 6 pp. Sheet music for this song, from Hugh J. Ward's musical comedy "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly". Lyrics and music by Cohan. By arrangement with M. Witmark, New York (American publishers).

Kirkwood, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 1958. Paperback large quarto, very good condition, stapled, few small black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 40 pp. Sheet music for 23 song with melody, lyrics and chords. Plus illustrated instructions how to hold and use the guitar. Sticker: "Supplied by Clifford Essex Music Co. Ltd, London".

London: Fontana Books / Collins, 1978. Reprint ed.. Paperback mass market, good condition, slight crease spine & front cover, pages toned as usual, small mark top edge, minor edgewear. 192 pp. A Poirot case, by Agatha Christie. A murder hunt, arranged by the mystery writer, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, appears to be covering the tracks of a killer. Can the quick wit and those little grey cells help Hercule Poirot solve this crime? Originally published in 1956, this is Fontana Books edition, 1960, later 1978 reprint with ISBN.