Serle Geoffrey (168 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 274 pages including Index. Trade paperback. Spine slightly creased. Text clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A masterful history of Victoria's explosive first decade after separation, charting the gold rush, mass migration, political upheaval, and the forging of a new colonial society. Serle blends scholarship with narrative energy to show how Victoria transformed from a frontier settlement into the most dynamic colony in Australia. Soft covers, pages are clean and tight. Very light tanning to front end page.…

Paperback. Condition: New. New Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some discoloration to pages. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself. Tips are slightly bumped. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers along with light creases and/or wrinkles at some spots.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised and Illustrated edition with new and updated material: 247 pages. Illustrated, small tear at top of dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, Hardback with Unclipped Dust Jacket. 151 Pages. Illustrations. Overall A Near Fine Copy in Likewise Dust Jacket. Extra Postage Costs may apply to overseas orders. All books posted in sturdy book box.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 274 p ; 23 cm. Subjects; Arts, Australian. Australian literature History and criticism. Australia Intellectual life History and criticism. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 392 pages. Clean hardback with a slightly worn and faded dust jacket. The Rush to Be Rich: A History of the Colony of Victoria 1883-1889.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some wear, creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions, Volumes 7 to 10 of the complete dictionary, covering the years 1891-1939. Includes corrigenda loosely laid in to cover volumes 1 to 10. Ex library with labels to endpapers and ink stamp to title pages, otherwise in very sound and clean condition, including dust jackets which have a little uneven sunning but otherwise are very good in protective sleeves. A heavy set, will need extra shipping outside UK, please enquire for a firm quote. Will split to sell individual volumes. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 274 p ; 23 cm. Subjects; Arts, Australian. Australian literature History and criticism. Australia Intellectual life History and criticism. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. pp.xii+274. 21.5cm. Notes. Index. Soft covers which are creased and have light edge wear. Text block clean. A fair copy of the reprint.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1977 reprint (with corrections) of first edition. Very good softcover with light edge wear & moderate rubbing marks to wraps, front, rear & along spine edge. Book is otherwise like new with tight & square binding, no spine crease, crisp & unmarked pages. 455 pp. Maps on endpapers, b/w photos. See photos, ships same day or next day. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text clean and tight; Monash Classics; 9 X 6 X 0.70 inches; 282 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear, with a few scuffs along the top edge. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. The front endpaper has a name inscirption from a previous owner. 660 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 308 pages. Several copies are available. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Hardback. 1987, Revised and illustrated edition. A fine copy with a previous owners bookplate on the front pastedown. The d/w is also fine. {"length"=>["25"], "width"=>["18"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light shelf wear. The edges of the book have light tanning. 660 pages. Includes corrigenda. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm). …

Hardback. Geoffrey Serle, Melbourne University Press. Geoffrey Serle is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he taught history before moving to Monash and the Australian National universities. He was general editor of the "Australian Dictionary of Biography" and is the author of "The Golden Age" (1963), "The Rush to be Rich" (1971), "From Deserts the Prophets Come" (1973) and "John Monash" (1982). Ray Marginson was for 23 years Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, ten years of this as part-time Chairman of Melbourne Water. He is now President of the Museum of Victoria, and Deputy Chairman of the Melbourne Theatre Company. Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with a few scuffs and small tears. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 392 pages w/ b/w images. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

8vo. 274pp. Original wrappers with Fred Williams illustration. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pp.(xiv)+455. 23.5cm. Frontispiece & 37 black and white photographic illustrations. End paper maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Stiff card covers. Slight creasing to the upper cover. Slight wear to the spine. S good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp.xii+274. 21.5cm. Bibliography and Notes. Index. Hard cover in slightly worn dust jacket. A good clean copy ISBN. 0-85561-029-8. A short history of (Australian) literature, art, music, theatre .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. xvi, 600pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Black boards in jacket. Presentation label on front free endpaper, slight edge wear to jacket. Biography of Sir John Monash which for the first time utilises his immense collection of personal papers. Size: 8vo.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. V Good in New Archival Sleeve. First Edition. A firm straight book, ex reference library. 274 pages. Usual library stuff at front and back, text pages spotless. Dust jacket bright, complete.

paperback. Condition: Good. 3rd Printing. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint 1985 Large Soft Cover near fine book, foxing to page edges. No inscription. 600 pages with index. 3 Appendices. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. pp.x+392. 23.5cm. Black and white photo plates. Line illus in the text. End paper maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Small rubber stamps of the C of A Library Service on end papers. No other marks. Hard cover in worn dust jacket. A good clean copy ISBN. 0-522-84009-4.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 274 pages. cover worn In the early 1970s, Geoffrey Serle presented a series of groundbreaking lectu res on Australian cultural history. These lectures became the book From Deserts the Prophets Come, first published in 1973. Serle relates in his preface to the original edition, I was aiming to cut a new path for teaching and research in A ustralian history, to bring cultural history into the general discourse of Austr alian historians, and to bridge the gap between general history and the major wo rks in literary, art, musical, and architectural history which have appeared in recent years. Serle's articulation of the particular relations between the arts , politics, economics, and society within Australia, and what he called his rud imentary attempt at a theory of cultural growth, remain important. *** The firs t edition of From Deserts the Prophets Come was the winner of the 1974 National Book Council Award for Australian Literature. (Series: Monash Classics) [Subject : History, Australian Studies, Cultural Studies].…