Isaac Isaacs by Cowen Zelman (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Staplebound 8vo. 30 pp.

Condition: Good. Softcover. University of Queensland Press, 1993. Softcover (14 x 22 cm), xix, 272 pages. ISBN: 0702224537. Good condition. Covers bumped, scuffed, creased (most notably at corners).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. TEXT UNMARKED, DJ EDGE WORN WITH SMALL TEARS.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Spine is discoloured. Covers are slightly worn, with some small markings. Binding is slightly unhinged. Else book is in very good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DW: Some scuffing, edge wear and creasing to front cover flap only. p.c. B&W photographs throughout. 22.5 x 15 cm. 272 pp.

First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 272; portrait frontispiece, 8 b/w plates, index; original cloth, spine of dustjacket faded, spine and corners chipped, otherwise a very good copy. Isaac Isaac's career has been described as the Australian version of from log cabin to White House. His life spanned almost a century of Australian history, and he rose from humble beginnings to successive positions as distinguished barrister, politician, Attorney-General and Chief Justice, and finally became the first Australian born Governor-General.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo. 272pp., b/w pls., index, Slightly chipped DJ o/w nice copy.

Pp. viii+272, frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered & decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1967. First edition. *Biography of the distinguished barrister, politician, Attorney-General and Chief Justice who became the first Australian born Governor-General.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 272 pages. 8vo. Near fine copy of this biography of Isaac Isaacs, barrister, politician, Attorney-General and Chief Justice and finally the first Australian-born Governor-General. Inscribed by the author, Sir Zelman Cowen, who was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator and served as the19th Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982. Inscribed by Author(s).

Melbourne U.P. 1967. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Price-clipped dustjacket. (viii, 272pp.). With portr., and 8 full-page plates. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Fine. NOTE: Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948) was a distinguished barrister, politician, Attorney-General and Chief Justice, before becoming the first Australian-born Governor-General from 1931 to 1936.