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MCCALMAN, IAIN; COOK, ALEXANDER & REEVES, ANDREW (EDITORS). Gold: Forgotten Histories And Lost Objects Of Australia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2001. ISBN: 0521805953

344 pages. Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. Immigrants flooded in from Asia and Europe, and the population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce a cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. This fascinating book will add a new dimension to previously recorded Australian history, and provide a richer understanding of the foundations of Australian culture. Like a handful of tailings, Gold brings together a collection of stories that have been left out of standard Australian histories. It is an essential history. Lavishly illustrated with color wraps and halftones throughout. Vivid, readable stories that will appeal to general readers. An innovative and entertaining history of Australian culture. Its contents are as follows: PART I: GOLD AND MODERNITY - THE IMPACT OF THE GOLD RUSHES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES 1 Making an edgier history of gold; David Goodman 2 'The finger of God': Gold's impact on New South Wales; Paul Pickering 3 Gold-rush Melbourne; Graeme Davison 4 Labour and trade unionism in Victorian goldmining: Bendigo, 1861-1915; Charles Fahey 5 Mullock heaps and tailing mounds: the environmental effects of alluvial goldmining; Barry McGowan PART II: IMMIGRANTS AND ETHNIC RELATIONS 6 'Men of all nations, except Chinamen': Europeans and Chinese on the goldfields of New South Wales; Ann Curthoys 7 Undesirable persons: race and West Australian mining legislation; Patrick Bertola 8 Golden opportunities? Immigrant workers in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, 1900-1965; Bill Bunbury PART III: WHITE GOLD/BLACK GOLD - SETTLER AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES OF GOLDMINING 9 Eyewitness? Drawings by Oscar of Cooktown; Kim McKenzie and Carol Cooper 10 Golden reflections: depictions of Aborigines on the North-West Australian goldfields; Ian Coates 11 Lasseter's stories: tending the ghosts of desert gold; David Raftery 12 Isla del Oro: seeking New Guinea gold; Hank Nelson 13 Jukurrpa - golden dreams; Derek Elias PART IV: DAILY LIFE AND DOMESTIC CULTURE 14 Mrs Charles Clancy, Lola Montez and Poll the grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields; Margaret Anderson 15 After the gold rush: material culture and settlement on Victoria's central goldfields; Susan Lawrence 16 Vegetable plots and pleasure gardens of the Victorian goldfields; Suzanne Hunt PART V: ART VISUALITY AND MATERIAL CULTURE 17 Edward Snell: sketching a fortune; Tom Griffiths and Alan Platt 18 Antoine Fauchery: a French artist's view of the goldfields; Dianne Reilly 19 Cinderella's jewellery: the gold-rush brooches of Western Australia; Dorothy Erickson 20 A broad brush dipped in gold: the expansion of Australian vision; Anita Callaway. "Gold is lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced, and will prove a most useful adornment to most academic bookshelves E it embroiders the mainstream story with a wealth of stimulating and useful contextual material, and this establishes it as a valuable teaching tool, and a most readable highly recommended text." -The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Contributors to this volume are: Margaret Anderson, Patrick Bertola, Bill Bunbury, Anita Callaway, Ian Coates, Alexander Cook, Carol Cooper, Ann Curthoys, Graeme Davison, Derek Elias, Dorothy Erickson, Charles Fahey, David Goodman, Tom Griffiths, Suzanne Hunt, Susan Lawrence, Barry McGowan, Iain McCalman, Kim McKenzie, Hank Nelson, Paul Pickering, Alan Platt, David Raftery, Andrew Reeves, and Dianne Reilly. Includes an Index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

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Cole, Dollie (ed); ...John Gardner, Tex Greg Cooper, Peter Andrews, James Thurber, Stephen Crane, Isaac Asimov, Golda Meir, Starkey Flythe Jr., Nancy Hansen, Jesse Owens, Frederic A. Birmingham, Nick Thimmesch: The Saturday Evening Post - April 1976,...King of the Hummingbirds, The Adventures of Little Jack Curry, Adventures of the Mind: No Longer Alone?, Golda Meir on the Palestinians, Ricky Nelson Celebrates, Listen to the Nautilus, Glenn Cunningham: Never .. New York Curtis Pub. 1976
Very Good Cover by Robert Charles Howe, Interior Art Work by Derek Grinnell, Kinuko Y. Craft, Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Dave Taylor,

....Tight square and clean, minor edge wear, no address label. Contents include: The Adventure of Little Jack Curry by Tex Greg Cooper, with illustrations / King of the Hummingbirds by John Gardner, illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker / A Bicentennial Salute to Tin Pan Alley by Peter Andrews, illustrated / You Could Look It Up by James Thurber, illustrated by Norman Rockwell / The Sergeant's Private Madhouse by Stephen Crane, illustrated / Adventures of the Mind: No Longer Alone? by Isaac Asimov / Golda Meir on the Palestinians / Busing: The Hypocrisy in Washington by Nick Thimmesch / Ricky Nelson Celebrates Twenty-five Years in Show Business by Starkey Flythe, Jr. / Listen to the Nautilus by Nancy Hansen / Glenn Cunningham: Never Say Die by Jesse Owens / The Peril of Patricia / Kidnapping Victims: Tragic Aftermaths by Frederic A. Birmingham ( Patty Hearst ) / +. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! First Edition First Printing Magazine Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

[SW: ....Tight square and clean, minor edge wear, no address label. Contents include: The Adventure of Little Jack Curry by Tex Greg Cooper, with illustrations / King of the Hummingbirds by John Gardner, illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker / A Bicentennial Salute to Tin Pan Alley by Peter Andrews, illustrated / You Could Look It Up by James Thurber, illustrated by Norman Rockwell / The Sergeant's Private Madhouse by Stephen Crane, illustrated / Adventures of the Mind: No Longer Alone? by Isaac Asimov / Golda Meir on the Palestinians / Busing: The Hypocrisy in Washington by Nick Thimmesch / Ricky Nelson Celebrates Twenty-five Years in Show Business by Starkey Flythe, Jr. / Listen to the Nautilus by Nancy Hansen / Glenn Cunningham: Never Say Die by Jesse Owens / The Peril of Patricia / Kidnapping Victims: Tragic Aftermaths by Frederic A. Birmingham ( Patty Hearst ) / +. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! Cover by Robert Charles Howe, Interior Art Work by Derek Grinnell, Kinuko Y. Craft, Norman Rockwell, J. C. Leyendecker, Dave Taylor, Art & Artists Magazines]

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Boucher, Anthony (ed) ... Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fredric Brown, Mildred Clingerman, Martin Gardner, Leigh Brackett, Arthur Porges, Manly Wade Wellman, P. M. Hubbard, John Dickson Carr, Isaac Asimov, Shirley Jackson, J. T. McIntosh, L. Sprague De Camp, ++: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ..Vol. 8, No. 1 & No. 2, January & February 1955 Featuring "The Royal Historian of Oz" by Martin Gardner, in 2 Installments, + Blind Man's Hood, The Singing Bell, Blood, The Climbing Wave, +++ New York Fantasy House 1955
Very Good to Very Good + Kelly Freas, Nick Solovioff
....Tight clean and square, minor edge wear. Contents include: The Royal Historian of Oz (article: in two parts) by Martin Gardner / Selection by J. T. McIntosh / The Potato Cake by Pauline Clarke / The Tournament by William Sansom / The Expert by Mack Reynolds / One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts by Shirley Jackson / Single Combat by Robert Abernathy / The Glass ot the Future by Herman W. Mudgett / The Girl in the Ice by Emyr Humphreys / The Shopdropper by Alan Nelson / The Singing Bell by Isaac Asimov / Lament by a Maker by L. Sprague de Camp / Blind Man's Hood by John Dickson Carr / The Climbing Wave by Marion Zimmer Bradley / Blood by Fredric Brown / Birds Can't Count by Mildred Clingerman / Tweener by Leigh Brackett / The Tidings by Arthur Porges [Peter Arthur, Abel Jacobi, Derek Page, Pat Rogers, Maxwell Trent] Fantasy and Science Fiction

-----Tight clean and square, minor edge wear. Contents include: The Royal Historian of Oz (article: in two parts) by Martin Gardner / Selection by J. T. McIntosh / The Potato Cake by Pauline Clarke / The Tournament by William Sansom / The Expert by Mack Reynolds / One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts by Shirley Jackson / Single Combat by Robert Abernathy / The Glass ot the Future by Herman W. Mudgett / The Girl in the Ice by Emyr Humphreys / The Shopdropper by Alan Nelson / The Singing Bell by Isaac Asimov / Lament by a Maker by L. Sprague de Camp / Blind Man's Hood by John Dickson Carr / The Climbing Wave by Marion Zimmer Bradley / Blood by Fredric Brown / Birds Can't Count by Mildred Clingerman / Tweener by Leigh Brackett / The Tidings by Arthur Porges [Peter Arthur, Abel Jacobi, Derek Page, Pat Rogers, Maxwell Trent] / Shiver in the Pines by Manly Wade Wellman / Botany Bay by P. M. Hubbard / The Midway by Bryce Walton [Paul Franklin, Kenneth O'Hara, Dave Sands]. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! First Edition First Printing Soft Covers 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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GEORGE, NELSON. Seduced. Ballantine Books, New York: 1997. ISBN: 0345412664

333 pages. A smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel . . . It's the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man easily seduced. Not only do the Big Three *money, fame, and women *keep him running, but Harper falls prey to subtler forms of seduction as well: the ease of rationalizing bad behavior, abdicating responsibility, and keeping the whole world at arm's length. All these issues are brilliantly interwoven with a behind-the-scenes look at the music industry, particularly the evolution of rap. Softcover. Good condition.

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