Millers Luck (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear, wirth a few marks. The page edges are a bit tanned and foxed. 520 pages. 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. First Edition. The Life and loves of Keith Miller, Australia's Greatest All-Rounder.

Secondhand, Hardback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Roland Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Keith Ross Miller was named after two adventurous aviators and went on to be one himself. He was all things to all men, and women. Miller was a person of style, charm and grace, a lover of opera and classical music, yet with the common touch. Born of a humble Australian background, he was blessed with outstanding looks, a sonorous voice, freakish athletic skills, and attitude. That attitude encompassed courage and character. Miller played Aussie Rules football and cricket for his original State (Victoria), joined the RAAF in 1942 and became a Mosquito night fighter pilot over European skies with the RAF. After the war he developed quickly into the greatest all-round cricketer Australia ever produced. His brilliance as a batsman, bowler and fielder ranked him easily with W.G. Grace, Garry Sobers and Ian Botham in the pantheon of the sport's finest all-rounders. Miller was appreciated by the British even more than Australians for his cavalier approach to war as a pilot, and cricket. He is one of just three Australians to have their portraits hung in the Long Room at Lord's, along with Don Bradman and Victor Trumper. Miller was loved by the masses and the mighty. He was never far fr. Secondhand, Hardback. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Private library liquidation. Book conditions is Near fine. Some minor corner crease and edge wear. Soft cover. No dj.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Fair; wraps worn, creased, and soiled; a few pages soiled, mostly along fore edge, which may have been wetted. Inscribed on the title page: "Arthur from Hugh, Dec [?] '51" Laid in is a letter with envelope addressed to Madam Arthur Luce Klein in Paris, postmarked from London on 7 June 1955. The letter covers both sides of an 8x7 inch note paper, is dated 31st May '55, begins "My Dear Luce, How very kind of you to write," and goes on the write of his wife Olga (Katzin), and further of his personal and professional life. Hugh Miller (1889-1976) is today known as a very successful actor of stage and screen; his activities as a writer and translator of plays are less well known. Arthur and Luce (nee Weill) Klein "met in a Jeep at the end of the second World War in the south of France. At the time, Luce was working for the French Resistance, securing homes for Jewish children. Arthur was an intelligence officer with the US Army's Signal Corps." In 1956 they founded Spoken Arts, "the recording company that pioneered the recording of literary works, paving the way for audiobooks industry we know today." (per the web site of the Yale University Library). Signed by Author(s). Book.…