1954. 1st edition. The story of the early Australian pearling industry.
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1983. Investigation into the theory that 1960s Australian PM Harold Holt who disappeared without trace during a swim at a Melbourne beach was actually a spy for foreign governments.
1974. 1st edition. History of the colonial era cemetery at Kingston on Norfolk Island.
1986. 1st edition. The Scartwater Fund is a private initiative operating within Australia from the earnings of a cattle station, and caters not only to the needs of ex-servicemen and their dependents,
1978. 1st edition. Signed by the authors. The tragic story of men willing to risk their lives to avoid the 'living death' of the ghastly penal settlement of Norfolk Island wrings the heart.
1978. 1st edition. The story of Norfolk Island's first 70 years.
1993. A history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
1981. 1st edition. Based on the oral history of the Bounty mutineers many of whose descendants were resettled on Norfolk Island in the 1850's.
1950. This story concerns the wonder and beauty of the greatest coral region of the seven seas.
1977. 1st edition. The fascinating chronicle of Cook's discovery and of the subsequent ownership and settlement of the island by traders and speculators of different nationalities.
2018. This story of Australia's own stage-coach line gallops along as swiftly as a four-horse team. K. A. Austin records seventy turbulent years and recreates a fascinating era.
1941. Details of the memorial exhibits at the time including a brief history of the conflicts etc.
1989. The author's fourth book. Limited edition copy 178 of an edition of 300 copies.
1993. 1st edition.
1968. History of Norfolk Island, including a newspaper cutting.
1977. 1st edition. Australian landscape and its interpretation during the brief period of a hundred and forty-three years.
1993. 1st edition. A sample of the outstanding achievements of Australians at war, both in the colonial period and in the actaclysm of 1914-18.
1983. 1st edition. Cape York history.
1994. The story of a couple who gave up their city jobs to fulfil a dream to live and work in a remote wilderness.
1967. 1st edition. Takes us on a fascinating journey through the strange succession of remarkable events which make up Norfolk Island's infamous history.
1969. 1st edition. SIGNED. Australian ancient history, people and places.
1950. The Story of the Red Cross by the Australian Red Cross Society.
1980. 1st edition. Alexander Green dispatched 409 offenders in his official role of hangman and finisher of the law in the colony of New South Wales.
1995. Life and death in one of the harshest penal colonies ever administered by Britain is recorded on tombstones of the early cemetery of Norfolk Island.
1949. 1st edition. A travel book mostly on Northern Queensland, Australia, but also including the southern states.
1999. 1st edition. The great city of Sydney. a brilliant history of Australia's principal metropolis.
1894. Facsimile copy of original memoirs of a delightful Australian colonial butcher and politician.
1970. Captures the atmosphere and unique character of Norfolk Island.
1980. Well illustrated and detailed history of this South Australia town and district; signed by the Lord Mayor of Salisbury.
1888. (132yo). 1st edition. Rare book on early Australian history.
1961. Autobiographical account of Nancy Polishuk's life on the Daly River in Northern Australia 100 miles south of Darwin.
1979. 1st edition. Documents 50 of Brisbane's historically significant homes.
1999. A wonderful collection of yarns relating to this icon of Australian culture, illustrated with monochrome photos
2011. Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address.
1994. 1st edition. A portrait of a middle-aged Australian woman who spent nearly thirty years living in the deserts of South Australia among the aborigines of the outback.
1966. 1st edition. Memoir of 'Dad & Dave' style farming on an Australian small-holding.
2001. For nine years, Linda and Ken explored a Cape York wilderness that not many people saw. There are close encounters with crocodiles, man-eating snakes and just about every disaster imaginable.
1946. 1st edition. Wandering in Northern Australia. Rare and collectable.
1999. 1st edition. A fascinating insight into the extraordinary lives and experiences of the Shanghai immigrants who travelled to Australia as refugees.
1966. 1st edition. What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s?
1970. 1st edition. A history of the convict settlement on Maria Island, off the east coast of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).
1979. 1st edition. In the study, the first to be devoted to leisure time activities in early colonial life.
2014. How Governor Macquarie invented an idea of Australia, a convict built it - and how Britain tried to tear it down.
2004. A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.
1997. 1st edition. A most attractive copy of this important history of the famous Southern Highlands NSW school.