Echo Publishing Melbourne (26 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 277pp. Trade paperback. As new. The incredible true story of Lale Sokolov- a Jew on the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz he is put to work as the tattooist. One of them is a young woman, Gita, who steals his heart at a glance. Based on years on interviews with real-life Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov. Size: 8vo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. ix+310 pages. Illustrated.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. 302 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 160pp, bw & col ills. Or pictorial boards. Near new. The cool road trip of our collective imagination captured by the Diana, a cheap plastic camera of the 1960s and the Polaroid with its unique effects caused by climate, temperature and physical interaction. Size: Oblong 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Oblong format, 222 pages. The jacket's front cover has a small, closed tear at the tail's outer edge, as well as minor shelf wear, else in excellent confition. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. "Heartland is a commemorative photographic book of around 200 photographs celebrating fifty years of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), Australia's oldest and largest national environmental group. The uplifting and inspirational images capture the natural world across the continent and people interacting with nature in a myriad of ways, all original photography by the MAPgroup of documentary photographers. Heartland also features written pieces from various Australian writers. (Publisher's blurb).…

xx+479pp. 8vo. Original wrappers, some b&w illustrationss, clear contac cover ,a very good copy. First edition. Account of the Great Tichborne Trial, in which the verdict was that the Australian claimant, Arthur Orton, had tried to pass himself off as someone he had never met or even seen.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Applicable. First Edition. Large softcover, first edition, 392gms, 259 pages. More than 100 real life case studies from around the world highlight the sometimes deadly, but always distressing, consequences. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 224 pages. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Some general edgewear. Bend to front cover right tail corner. Up From Down Under tells the remarkable untold story of how Australian music took over the world. Beginning with Peter Allen's unlikely journey from the plains of Tenterfield to the stage of New York's Radio City Music Hall astride a camel, no less and charting the rollercoaster rides of the Little River Band, Helen Reddy, the Bee Gees, Air Supply, Rick Springfield, Men at Work, Keith Urban and recent Grammy-winner Gotye, this broad panorama plots the massive influence our tiny population has had on popular culture over the past 40 years. Along the way Australian artists have collected Grammys, Oscars and sales registering in the hundreds of millions. (publisher blurb).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian, even world, music history. As ubiquitous as the falsetto harmonies, flares and multi-platinum record sales were the tragedies: the highs, the lows, the highs again. Then the brothers fell, one by one. Shortly before his death, Robin made it clear that he believed the Gibbs had been forced to pay the highest possible price for their success. 'All the tragedies my family has suffered .is a kind of karmic price we are paying for all the fame and fortune we've had.'This is the story of all four brothers' incredible careers, lives and influence. A beautifully drawn examination of the Gibb 'curse' and an all-too-human look at the rollercoaster ride of fame. It captures the incredible highs, and the terrible lows: divorce, drunkenness and death. For Bee Gees fans, and for everyone, because we've all been touched by the music. (back cover).…

Slightly tall 8vo, 100pp. Original textured paper wrappers, slightly marked and edgeworn. Numerous b/w maps and photographic illustrations. Features the article 'The Gold Rush to British PNG' Theodore F. Bevan. A near-fine copy.

Decorative Cloth. No Jacket. Presumed First Edition. very good ++ , binding firm pages white red cloth has faded with bumped corners and light handling wear, legible gilt titles Undated c early 1900's PP 436 index, frontis, Illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback, 12mo, 35pp plus advert. Fair condition only in blue cloth. Significant wear and marks. Sunned and water-damaged at edges. Spine faded and cracked, with numerous small glue repairs. Inner hinges craked. Offsetting at front and rear. Poet's inscription penned on half-title, with occasional corrections throughout. Pages age-toned and a little foxed.…

704pp. Large 8vo. Original green flecked boards with gilt decoration. Gilt page edges. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy.

Book, Paperback. Condition: Used. Paul B Kidd's 50 Australian Crimes of the 20th Century. These are USED books. Please only purchase if you are happy with that. Images & Editions We use stock images and database descriptions based on the ISBN. The image shown may NOT be the actual book cover you will receive. Covers, editions, printings, and publishers may differ. If you need a specific cover, edition, or printing, please contact us before purchasing. What "Used" Means Because these books are pre-owned: Colouring books may be coloured in Textbooks may have answers filled in, highlighting, notes, or underlining Workbooks may have writing inside Access codes, download codes, CDs, DVDs, or online content are usually missing or already used Books that originally came with toys, inserts, maps, cards, or bonus items will usually NOT include them Pages may be folded, marked, or show normal signs of use If you are buying a book for anything other than reading (e.g. colouring, study use, collecting, gifts, specific covers, bonus items, or digital access), used books may not be suitable. Condition All books are listed as Used - Good Books are clean and readable but not new Some books may have: Writing, highlighting, or markings Folded pages or minor wear A small warehouse or inventory sticker on the spine Original retailer stickers (we do not remove them) Our Process We purchase books by the pallet and scan thousands at a time. For this reason, we cannot photograph or individually inspect every book. Acknowledgement By purchasing, you acknowledge that: You understand the book is used You accept the condition and limitations described above Stock images and descriptions may not exactly match the item received Thank you for supporting Oak Books and helping give books a second life.…

308 pp, b&w photographic plates, wrappers creased, else good copy in pictorial, limp wrappers. . Includes the shooting of James Gribble in 1957 (supposedly swayed by pulps and comics).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 224pp, num col ills (most full page). Pictorial boards in jacket. Generally very ligth edge wear to jacket with 1cm tear to top of front panel. Photographs or rural Australia- homes, sheds, out the back and town. Size: Oblong 4to. …

Small 8vo, vii + 256pp. Reset in bright red 'periodical' cloth. Some very light marking of preliminar pages. b/w illustrative etchings, in addition to original advertising copy at rear. Name inscription of Justice J. A. Keely on ffe. A beautifully and fastidiously reset copy.

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Australian Edition. BEFORE HEALTH FOOD BECAME AN INDUSTRY, THIS LITTLE COOKBOOK WAS TEACHING FAMILIES TO EAT DIFFERENTLY. THE KITCHEN AS MEDICINE. Anna L. Colcord's A Friend in the Kitchen combines approximately 400 recipes with an unusually broad program of household nutrition: healthful cookery, canning, weekly menus, food combinations, infant feeding, dishes for the sick, wholesome drinks, digestion, nutritive values, and kitchen measures. The recipes emphasize grains, fruits, vegetables, simple preparation, and economical household cooking, placing the book within the late nineteenth-century movement toward dietary reform. Colcord explains that her object was to provide plain directions for food that was simple, economical, wholesome, nutritious, palatable, and varied. Later editions would make the book more explicitly vegetarian. AN AMERICAN COOKBOOK REMADE IN AUSTRALIA. The bibliographical story is particularly interesting. Colcord had published an earlier American version, but while living in Australia she substantially prepared the work for its Australian audience. This 1898 Melbourne issue is recognized as the first Australian edition and predates the American edition of this expanded form published the following year. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Publisher's dark cloth over boards, front cover decoratively stamped in silver with title, subtitle, author's name, ruled title panel, and a vignette of a woman working in a kitchen. Patterned floral endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece depicting a woman at a kitchen range, captioned How Is It Made?-'A Friend in the Kitchen' Will Tell. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings, diagrams, food illustrations, decorative advertisements, and other instructional material. Title page states approximately 400 tested recipes and identifies Echo Publishing Co., Limited, 343 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1898. Small octavo, approximately 7 inches tall; 128 pages with index. CONDITION: The binding remains firm. Text is clean with light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf-handling wear. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE - REFORMING THE VICTORIAN TABLE-FOOD, HEALTH, AND BELIEF. A Friend in the Kitchen belongs to a larger nineteenth-century movement that connected diet with health, domestic efficiency, and moral well-being. Colcord and her husband were Seventh-day Adventists, and the Melbourne publisher, Echo Publishing Company, was an Adventist enterprise. The church's publishing program combined religious literature with an important parallel interest in healthful living. The 1898 edition is especially revealing because the dietary program was still evolving. According to Monash University's Sandy Michell Cookbook Collection, this first Australian edition retains a chapter of meat recipes; in later editions that material was replaced by recipes for meat substitutes as the book became more explicitly vegetarian. AN AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLER. This was not merely an obscure denominational cookbook. Contemporary evidence shows considerable demand. In September 1898 the Union Conference Record reported that no Echo publication had sold so rapidly and that almost all 10,000 copies of the first edition had been sold within its first three months. Echo's successor, Signs Publishing Company, still identifies A Friend in the Kitchen as an Australian bestseller in the history of the firm. SUBJECTS: Anna L. Colcord, Australian Cookery, Vegetarianism, Health Food, Seventh-day Adventists, Echo Publishing Company, Melbourne, Domestic Cookery, Nutrition, Food Reform, Victorian Cooking, Women's Domestic Writing, Cookbooks, Culinary History, Vegetarian Cookery, Health and Nutrition, Domestic Economy, Australian Cookbooks, Dietary Reform.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near-Fine. 1st Edition. A decade of iconic Australian rock photography by Philip Morris. First Edition [Echo Publishing, Melbourne, 2015]; viii, 216 pages; illustrated laminated boards, titling on front & spine, a fine copy; in near-fine dustjacket replicating boards, a little rubbed on edges. Profusely illustrated with images of Lou Reed, Midnight Oil, AC/DC [their first gig], Led Zeppelin & more in concert & behind the scenes on tour in Australia. ISBN: 978-1-76006-741-0 / 9781760067410. Morris, Philip (illustrator).…

Card Covers. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 32pp brochure including Lord Brassey's account of his trip to New Zealand in 1896/1897. Also the transcript of his speech "Imperial Federation and Defence" to the Navy League in Christchurch, 29th January, 1897. It is illustrated with a folding chart showing the route taken and a picture of the famous yacht. The card covers have some foxing. At the top of the front cover "with Lord Brassey's compliments" is handwritten. Single rusty staple and broken cord binding which is holding. Folding chart has some foxing but is in good order. Included is a copy of a newspaper review of the book (The Press Friday, July 2, 1897). Book has a no-touch plastic cover.…

(A Lecture delivered before The Australian Literature Society, at the Assembly Hall, Collins Street, on Wednesday evening, the 11th of June 1902). Pp. 44; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed and creased; some pencilled underlining, occasional faint soiling; Echo Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1902. The Australian Literature Society: Occasional Papers - Number 2.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Fourth Edition. Owner's signature. Rubbing and wear to wrappers. Front hinge broken. Rubbing to ends of cloth spine. Spine faded.; 128 pages + advertisements. Card wrappers with cloth spine. No date [c. 1900]. Page dimensions: 179mm x 115mm. Title continues, "Containing About 400 Recipes Carefully Tested; Plain Directions On Healthful Cookery; How To Can Fruit; A Week's Menu; Proper Food Combinations; Rules For Dyspeptics; Food For Infants; Simple Dishes For The Sick; Wholesome Drinks; Useful Tables On Nutritive Value Of Foods; Time Required To Digest Foods, Weights And Measures For The Kitchen, etc."; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.…

244 pp followed by advertisements, b&w illustrations, intermittent foxing, boards lightly marked and flecked, else good copy in black boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Rare First Edition [Echo Publishing, Melbourne, 1898] of this early Australian cookbook. Full title: "A Friend in the Kitchen: Or What to Cook and How to Cook it. Containing about 400 choice recipes carefully tested; Together with plain directions on healthful cookery; how to can fruit; a week's menu; proper food combinations; rules for dyspeptics; food for infants; simple dishes for the sick; wholesome drinks; useful tables on nutritive values of foods, time required to digest food, weights and measures for the Kitchen, etc."; 128pp; illustrated blue paper over card covers, some creasing, inner front hinge taped; a very good copy. Predates American edition printed the following year. An early Vegetarian cookbook including chapters  on "Substitutes For Meats" & "How To Become A Vegetarian". Anna Colcord & her husband Willard were Seventh-day Adventists from the United States. During their stay, the Adventists established the Sanitarium Health Food Company, which continues today & produces Weet-Bix cereal.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Perfect condition! Just a little residue from where the sellers sticker has been removed.