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Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1980
ISBN 10: 0006153836ISBN 13: 9780006153832
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Condition: Very Good.
Published by Fontana Picture Lions, Collins Australia, Sydney, 1984
Seller: Antiqua U. Braun, Detmold, Germany
Book
illustr. Karton. Condition: Zustand in der Beschreibung. 32 Seiten mit zahlr. Abbildungen. Englischsprachiges Exemplar. Einband stellenw. schwach gebräunt. Ansonsten gutes und sauberes Exemplar.
Published by Collins / Fontana, Sydney, 1984
ISBN 10: 0002174766ISBN 13: 9780002174763
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Photographic (illustrator). Reprint. foreword by Bill Hayden, MP, introduction by author. At the beginning of the text. There is a map showing the Philippines and specifically Negros Island and The Plan of Cell Seven Negros Provincial Jail. The text is illustrated with three inserts, of four pages each, of black-and-white photography. Photographic card cover with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Father Brian Gore, a Catholic priest from Australia, went to the Philippines, and more specifically Negros Island, and to the poor and oppressed people of that place. He was accused by President Marcos (and Roberto Benedicto  supporter of Marcos and sugar baron) of inciting rebellion, possessing arms and "subversive literature". He, along with his fellow accused, were thrown into Negros Provincial jail. This is the tale of the political machinations (both in Australia and the Philippines), the trials and eventual exoneration. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Fading to the backstrip, which has also a reading crease. Browning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], VI - X, 114, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Philippines; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0002174766. ISBN/EAN: 9780002174763. Inventory No: 0116689.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney No date
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. previous owner's details and a gift annotation at the top and bottom of the first page. Otherwise internally clean. A collection of occasional writings starting back in 1943, and finishing off with words spoken at the funeral of David Campbell in August 1979. An insight into a writer of renown. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). X, 269, [9] pages, in colour illustrated softcover binding, with a small abrasion on the rear panel where a price sticker once resided, spotting of the top edges of the pages, and age-toning of the edges also. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 0246498.
Published by Fontana / Collins, Sydney, 1984
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Thus. Very good book in light card covers; a little light creasing. Internally very good; airline library stamp to title page.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1987
ISBN 10: 0006369197ISBN 13: 9780006369196
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Faded spine. No creases.; Well known Australians share their mid-life experiences. 300gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1980
ISBN 10: 0006357199ISBN 13: 9780006357193
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Reprint, 1983. A tidy copy in tight binding.
Published by Collins Fontana, Sydney, 1975
ISBN 10: 0002114267ISBN 13: 9780002114264
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. annual. slight foxing to the front and rear page of the book, no other damage to describe. Illustrated with colour plates and black-and-white photographs, book covers flowers and fruits and vegetables, and the treatment of pests and diseases Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gardening; Gardening -- Australia.; Australia; ISBN: 0002114267. ISBN/EAN: 9780002114264. Inventory No: 0264112.
Published by Fontana / Collins, Sydney, 1983
ISBN 10: 0006365841ISBN 13: 9780006365846
Seller: D. A. Horn Books, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A view of the 1983 Election won by Margaret Thatcher by an Australian journalist & speech writer for the Australian Labor Party. Original paperback edition. Pp. 205 with Acknowledgment. Review of book (by Bill Guy) folded inside front cover.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1985
ISBN 10: 0006367348ISBN 13: 9780006367345
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Crease to back cover bottom corner, Yellowed paper; Part personal experience, tips for others and interviews with single parents, either widowed, divorced and never married. 250gms weight ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 190 pages.
Reprint; 8vo; pp. 232; glossary, index; stiff illustrated wrapper, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, previous owner's notes in ink to back endpaper, a good copy.
8vo; pp. 232; glossary, index; original stiff illustrated wrapper, spine faded and creased, lightly browning to pages, a good copy.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, Australia, 1986
ISBN 10: 0006369065ISBN 13: 9780006369066
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Reprint. Sydney, Australia: Fontana/Collins, 1986. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1986 reprint. Illustrated with photographs on glossy stock and maps. From the rear cover: "In 1928, Bill Lancaster and Chubbie Miller were international heroes after their sensational long-distance areoplane flight from England to Australia. In 1932, Lancaster was on trial in Miami, accused of murdering Chubbie's lover. Less than a year later, Bill Lancaster disappeared on a flight over the Sahara, and it was almost 29 years before his body was found beside his wreaked plane. A log book, tied to the wing, contained the moving record of the last eight days of his life." . Reprint. Softcover. Very Good condition. 240pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Fontana Collins Australia, Sydney, 1978
ISBN 10: 0006345123ISBN 13: 9780006345121
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 344 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. This Period Is Still Close Enough To Be Reached In Memory By Some, But To Anyone Like Myself, Born Well And Truly In The 20th Century, It Seems Infinitely Remote. The Commonwealth's First Two Decades Are Separated From Us Today By Such A Density Of Event And Change That They Might Well Have Belonged To Another Country.
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Published by Fontana Picture Lions / Collins, Sydney, 1984
ISBN 10: 000662040XISBN 13: 9780006620402
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
1st p/b ed. Paperback oblong octavo, card covers, very good condition, colour drawings, minor edgewear. 32 pp. A children's picture story about a young girl living with her grandmother on an island in the South Pacific Ocean. The large colourful illustrations make her adventures seen very real. Text and illustrations by Treloar.
Published by Fontana Picture Lions / Collins, Sydney, 1986
ISBN 10: 0006620337ISBN 13: 9780006620334
Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Reprint ed. Paperback small square, very good condition, spine & some pages little creased, covers lightly marked, f minor edgewear. 28 pp. A wonderful children's picture story by Libby Hathorn about a boy named Keiran who sold papers, and planned to drive the trams he loved to travel on so much. The bright life-like drawings by Julie Vivas bring this book to life. Highly commended by The Children's Book Council as picture book of the year.
Published by Fontana Picture Lions / Collins Australia, Sydney, 1986
ISBN 10: 0006623263ISBN 13: 9780006623267
Seller: Wormhole Books, Kunyung, VIC, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Robert Ingpen (illustrator). First Paperback. Extremely light edgewear to unclipped dustjacket; shallow crease to upper back corner. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. Children's book. Size: Landscape Quarto.
Published by Fontana / Collins Books, Sydney, 1983
Seller: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australia
softcover, 7¾" x 5" 368 pages Includes a speech by Nobel Laureate Patrick White (3 1/2 pages) delivered at the inaugural meeting of People for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne in 1981. Map, chronology of major nuclear developments and peace initiatives, glossary of terms, index. This book claims to provide an essential understanding of the Cold War, its origins and the factors that sustained it in both USA & USSR. Recounts the history of the nuclear age since Hiroshima. Book in VERY GOOD condition.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1985
Seller: M. & A. Simper Bookbinders & Booksellers, WARRNAMBOOL, VIC, Australia
Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 213pp; illustrations, previous owner's name to front endpaper. ; 195 x 130mm.
Published by Fontana Picture Lions - William Collins Pty Ltd,/Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1986, 1986
ISBN 10: 000662331XISBN 13: 9780006623311
Seller: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Book
soft cover, Highly recommended by Australia Book Council, unpaged, 9 1/2 x 10 inche,s very good + book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Published by Collins Fontana Book, Sydney London, 1977
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1463 pages, includes glossary of aboriginal names and list of characters. Overseas customers please note the book weighs overs a kilo and will attract additional postage.The spine of the slipcase has a 7cm closed tear running vertically to the tail; it is also bumped and chipped at the edges and at the back, the head has been reinforced with clear tape. The body of the book has a small ownership stamp on the front end paper and a bookplate on the front paste down; up to page 48 the blank outer edge there's a small crease running vertically along the blank outer edge, a printer's fault, else the book appears unread. "In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; . Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense. ".
Published by Fontana Collins Australia, Sydney, Australia, 1977
ISBN 10: 0006345115ISBN 13: 9780006345114
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Walter Cunningham A Selection of Australian and New Zealand Folk Songs (illustrator). No Edition Stated. Thitry-two songs, 64 pp. Book has red card wraps. Slight edge wear, ID sticker at base of spine and on record are the only vestiges of this book's earlier life. All songs are illustrated by Cunningham and feature the music notation. Included is the Scholastic Records 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record performed by Warren Fahey and the Larikans of five selections from the book and ' Tunes'. The record does have some scratches on side 2. I don't have the facility to listen to it, so can't vouch for the quality of the reproduction. Bookseller's Inventory # 154993.
Published by Fontana Collins, Sydney, N.S.W, Australia, 1986
ISBN 10: 0006368964ISBN 13: 9780006368960
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed. 284 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Published by Fontana / Collins, Sydney, 1984
ISBN 10: 0006363938ISBN 13: 9780006363934
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Book Signed
Soft Cover. Condition: VG+. Charles McCubbin (illustrator). Reprint. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, occ. tiny nicks, come leaf edge spotting); pp. 240, with illustrations. A very good copy. Flatsigned to title page by both authors, 'A.B. Cribb' and 'J.W.Cribb'. Signed by Authors.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney, 1983
ISBN 10: 0006160298ISBN 13: 9780006160298
Seller: Rotary Club of Albert Park, Albert Park, VIC, Australia
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Douglas Carrel (illustrator). 1463 pages. Thick 8vo. Nice clean copy of this 1983 reprint of an Australia classi.In fine slip case. Book has 2cm tear between spine and bottom of front cover, otherwise in great condition. Inscription on flyleaf "Anzac Day p300". *** This book weighs over 1kg and may require additional postage if sent out of Australia". This reputedly is the longest Australian work of fiction ever written, and the longest single-volume novel to have been written in the English language.
Published by Fontana/Collins, Sydney & Auckland, 1983
ISBN 10: 0006365779ISBN 13: 9780006365778
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Paper Back. Condition: Good. The cover has light wear and a has a texta mark on the back cover. The page edges have minor foxing. 183 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).
Published by Collins/Fontana, Sydney, 1985
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
First Edition
Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Softcover : pp. xv (xvi) 360 : illustrated covers. Top edge lightly toned. Judith Wright was one of the signatories to the advertisement "We Call For A Treaty Within Australia, between Australians" that appeared in the National Times, week ending August 25, 1979. In We Call For A Treaty she documents the work of the first five years of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, from its inception in 1978. [The National Times advertisement is recorded in Walker [865] but the book was published four years after Walker published her Judith Wright bibliography].
Published by Fontana Picture Lions - Collins, Sydney, 1985
ISBN 10: 0006620388ISBN 13: 9780006620389
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: VG. First Paperback. Square 4to. original printed paper wraps (rubbed and creased, a little marking, prev. owner's name to FFE); pp. [30], with colour illustrations throughout. A very good copy.
Published by Sydney : Collins/Fontana, 1985
ISBN 10: 0006368999ISBN 13: 9780006368991
Seller: Antiquariat Peda, Landsberg, Hohenthurm, SA, Germany
Book
20 cm, Softcover / Paperback, Condition: Gut. xv, 360 pages, Zustand: Exemplar in gutem Zustand, Ränder und / oder Cover etwas berieben. Bibliography: p. 308-316 , Includes index. K 124 ISBN 0006368999 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 435.