Self published perth wa (53 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly right front cover. Water stain to right edge of preliminary pages. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner and author have signed the title page. This book traces the origins of two-up in Australia from the First Fleet. Most of the book, however, focuses on the Kalgoorlie Two-Up School, from its beginnings during the 1890s gold rush to its legislation in 1983. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 2nd Edition. Fine condition. Looks new. This book is Robert Baldwin's self-published autobiography of growing up in Melbourne during the 1950s and 60s. Baldwin's childhood difficulties are overshadowed by the Cold War, growing up in the Catholic Church and the White Australia policy. These years also saw the emergence of teenage culture and the coming of television. Baldwin takes his story from his difficult childhood through to his time now is a grandfather.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on title page. Interior and binding are still very good. David Hart is one of the original West Coast Eagles, one of the most popular and dedicated men to pull on the boots with the club. This book is both a revelation about a champion player himself and the story of the Eagles' first ten years through the eyes of a courageous little man who was prepared to give an eyetooth for a chance but made it with all his teeth intact. (back cover).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some marks on title page. Water stain to foredges and back cover only.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Marks on front and back covers. Inscribed by author. Interior and binding are very good. Autobiography of a Bell Nelli who grew up in the Western Australian Goldfields of the 1930s.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Tiny mark on tail right front cover corner. Large inscription by author on title page. Small mark on dedication page. Body text and binding are still very good.Mary Carter, who later became Ma Thomas and finally Mary Raine, made her fortune from Perth real estate. She is best known for acquiring the Wentworth Hotel, United Service Hotel and the Windsor Hotel. In the mid-1950s, the Raines contributed to an appeal to launch a medical school at the University of Western Australia. When her husband, Arnold 'Joe' Yeldham Raine, died, Mary contributed again by establishing the Arnold Yeldham & Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation. On her death, Mary bequeathed the bulk of her estate to the Foundation, bringing her legacy to nearly £1 million.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. A brief history of the Redemptorists in Western Australia, in particular the North Perth Monastery Church, built in 1903.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to the front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. Inscribed by author.Arlene Puddy Beatty's family came to Gwalia c1890. In 1916, her grandfather became the underground manager for the Sons of Gwalia Mine. Kenneth J Irwin worked underground at the mine from 1960 to 1962.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Signed by author. In Western Australian history, there is no story more tragic than that of C Y O'Connor, the engineer who built the Coolgardie Goldfields pipeline. This brief biography trace O'Connor's life from the Irish potato famine that ruined his parents, to the wilds of New Zealand and finally Western Australia where his achievements are still celebrated.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. After a tumultuous and quite disastrous beginning, the Catholic Church in the Swan River Colony began to prosper under Father Martin Griver, who for 37 years laboured as a missionary priest and, for the last 16 years of his life, was the 2nd Catholic Bishop of Perth.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Price in ink has been added to interior page. Dust jacket has wear to edges. Signed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. The autobiography of Bill Rouke, who attended the Claremont Teachers College in 1917. His studies were interrupted by his service in WWI. In 1920, he re-entered Teachers' College to begin a fifty-year teaching career, including time in the North West, Goldfields and the South West.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Fading to spine. Inscribed by author. Body text and binding are still very good. Yarragadee is a pastoral station in the Mid West Region, Western Australia. This is the biography of Colin Pearse and his family. Colin was a jackaroo at Koonoona Stud in Burra, South Australia. It was here that Colin was trained to take over Yarragadee for his family.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Mark on front cover. Personal reflections of Vera A Summers, best known for her long tenure as the Headmistress of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC) in Perth, a position she held from 1934 until her retirement. The Light of Other Days covers her upbringing, her educational journey, and her observations of life in Australia.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Book Description Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges with tail corners now protected with book tape. Faint marks on foredges. Interior and binding are still very good. During the first half of the 20th century, Morse code formed the only communication link between the developing north-west of Western Australia and the rest of the world. A resilient band of post office professionals kept communication alive in the most remote and often inhospitable areas of the State. Knowledge of Morse code was a prerequisite to advancement for post office people, and most learnt from others with the skill. This was no easy task and usually involved many hours of practice. To qualify for advancement, postal clerks had to send and receive Morse code at 22.5 words per minute. This book is a collection of reminiscences and anecdotes of the post office men of the North-West.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to edges and corners.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to half-title page and top and right foredges. This account by Penelope Hetherington of the lives of her parents Ron and Liza Loveday, combines family hisotry with political biography. The analysis of family origins, and of marriage and family patterns provide one of the major themses. The Lovedays made several unsuccessful attempts to secure an independent livelihood for themsleves, includ eight years during the Depression on a marginal wheat farm in South Australia, before Ron joined the industrial workforce in Whyalla in 1938. The final chapters deal with his expereinces as the MP for Whyalla from 1956 to 1970 and as South Australian Minister for Education from 1965 to 1968. (back cover).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. A brief history of the Pilbara town of Cossack, written by Heritage Council site manager Brian Hoey. Hoey spent five years in the 1990s endeavouring to restore the town as part of Australia's National Estate. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to top foredge. Eloise and her husband were post-war English migrants who took to the Australian bush like ducks to water. They lived in many places - Dirk Hartog Island and Deepdale Station being just two. This book covers the histories of stations Deepdale, Yarraloola, Mardie, Chinginarra, Warramboo, Red Hill, Yathala, Yalleen, Mt Enid, and Millstream, located in the Pilbara Region.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author. Interior and binding are still very good. This book provides a comprehensive history of the Toodyay Convict Depot, exploring its establishment, operation and aftermath. At the same time, it offers a valuable insight into the convict period of Western Australia.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small ink mark on right tail front cover. Interior and binding are still excellent. Full title: The Old Woolshed: The Old Mungadal Woolshed, Nestled Alongside the Murrumbidgee River, Hay NSWThe mighty Australian Merino wool industry, as witnessed by the 180-year-old Mungadal woolshed.A yarn about paddle steamers, kelpie dogs, stud breeders, shearing teams, jackeroos and roustabouts. All helping to build a nation, whilst riding on the sheep's back.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Country cricket on Western Australia's goldfields is so different from the norm, that the wider cricketing community should be offered an insight into the sport's colourful past in this region. (Introduction).…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside. Signed by authors. Minor wear to book edges. The authors, Patrick Cornish and David Hough, chose 25 obituaries published in The West Australian, from 2000 when the newspaper began its dedicated obituary column. Every facet of Western Australian community life is covered in the lives memorialised in this book. The arts, charity, business, politics, education, Indigenous affairs, sport and the migrant experience.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. MLight stain on right foredge and back page. The Koolama Incident is the dramatic true story of survival in the north Kimberley Region after MV Koolama is attacked and bombed by three Japanese float planes in February 1942.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges particularly right corners, now protected with book tape.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. Edward Jack (Ned) Watson was born in 1870. He was from a pioneering family with his grandfather John J F Watson a former chief petty officer in the Royal Navy who emigrated to the Swan River Colony in 1841.Watson's father was the superintendent of the Boys Reformatory at Rottnest from 1881 to 1901. Ned had a long career as a telegraphist, culminating in his appointment to Superintendent of Telegraphs at the Perth General Post Office. He had an intimate knowledge of Rottnest and through his manuscript, we have insight into the island's early European settlement and its sad history.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Minor mark on title page. Interior and binding are still excellent. The autobiography of Bruce William West and his life in the Kondinin district.