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Storm Over Mono. The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future.

HART, John. · 1996

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University of California Press, 1996. 4to Paperback. B/W & col. photos. Details the dramatic environmental saga to save Mono Lake, an ancient inland sea in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park. Its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply water to Los Angeles, ...

One in Four. A Year in the Life of a Channel Four Commissioning Editor.

KUSTOW, Michael. · 1987

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Chatto & Windus, 1987. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Reflects the cycle of a broadcasting year with its scheduling patterns, festivals, prizes & markets. Follows the conception, preparation & making of programmes, & provides close-ups of the people & process...

Colossal Corcoran In the Caribbean.

MORGAN, W. Ingram. · 1952

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E.W. Cole, 1952. 1st Australian edition. Hardcover. Edges & heads of spine of dj worn. A little wear to bottom edges. Pages a little yellowed. Inscription to inside cover. Illustrated by Wally Driscoll. 95pp.

The Heights of Rimring.

HART-DAVIS, Duff. · 1980

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Jonathan Cape, 1980. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Owner's stamps to fep, o/wise condition vg in price-clipped dj. 332pp.

Australian External Policy Under Labor. Content, Process and the National Debate.

ALBINSKI, Henry S. · 1977

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University of British Colombia Press, 1977. Hardcover. Normal shelf wear to bottom edges, o/wise good condition. An in-depth analysis of Australian external policy under the Whitlam Labor government. 373pp. ISBN 0702212121.

John Donne. An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism: 1968 - 1978.

ROBERTS, John R. · 1982

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University of Missouri Press, 1982. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, neat internal markings only. Continues his earlier work to bring the bibliography up to 1978. 434pp.

The English Library. Sources and History.

IRWIN, Raymond. · 1966

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George Allen & Unwin, 1966. Paperback. Proof copy. Examines the history & development of the library. Ex-library, neat internal markings only. Two pin-holes to top RH corner of cover.

The Uncertain Self. Whitman's Drama of Identity.

CARLISLE, E. Fred. · 1973

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Michigan State University Press, 1973. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Spine of dj rubbed, o/wise good condition. Develops a perspective on Walt Whitman's poetry that is based upon modern psychological & theological assumptions, revealing the continuing presence of the American poe...

Religion and Reality. A Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism.

TUCKWELL, James Henry. · 1971

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Kennikat Press, 1971 (1915). Hardcover. Condition vg. No dj. 318pp.

Dramas From the American Theatre. 1762 - 1909.

MOODY, Richard ed. · 1966

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The World Publ. Co., 1966. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Gilt to cover & spine. A few small tears to dj, otherwise good. B/W plates. A collection of plays with introductory essays from the American stage, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. 873pp.

Ever a Fighter. A Modern Approach to the Work of Robert Browning.

KENAMRE, Dallas. · 1952

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James Barrie, 1952. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Small tear & a few edges of dj a little rubbed, o/wise good condition. Consists of six lectures given on the work & life of Robert Browning. 96pp.

The Work Ethic in Industrial America. 1850 - 1920.

RODGERS, Daniel T. · 1978

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University of Chicago Press, 1978. Hardcover. Gilt to spine. Some sunning & a few tears to dj, & some underlining to first 15 pages. Inscribed by author. Explores the work ethic in American society at a critical point in its history, when traditional work values collided with...

The Devil of Bruges.

JOHNSON, Edwin. · 1968

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Collins, 1968. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to edges of price-clipped dj, o/wise good. Inscription to fep. 128pp.

Gerard Manley Hopkins. Priest & Poet.

PICK, John. · 1943

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Oxford University Press, 1943 (1942). Hardcover. Gilt to spine. Top edge of covers, & spine of dj a little sunned, o/wise good. Examines the importance of religion to Hopkins' poetry. B/W plate. 169pp.

The Commonwealth in Asia. Being The Waynflete Lectures Delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1949.

JENNINGS, Sir Ivor. · 1951

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Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Gilt to spine. A few marks to spine, o/wise good condition. Focuses on India & Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). xi, 124pp.

Excursion Flora of the British Isles.

CLAPHAM, A.R., TUTIN, T.G., & WARBUG, E.F. · 1959

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Cambridge University Press, 1959. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Some stains & a small tear to back cover of dj, o/wise good condition. 579pp.

Capitalism, Primitive and Modern. Some Aspects of Tolai Economic Growth.

EPSTEIN, T. Scarlett. · 1968

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Australian National University Press, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover. B/W plates. Slightly rubbed dj, o/wise good condition. Examines the development among the Tolai of Papua New Guinea of a modern cash economy - through cash cropping to investment in tertiary industry. Inscript...

Reason's Double Agents. The Uses of Reason in Poetry.

JOHNSON, Carol. · 1966

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The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small scratch to spine, o/wise good condition in dj. Examines the uses of reason inpoetry, illustrated in the works of Donne, Jonson, Pope, Tate, Winters, & Berryman. 135pp.

Life and Liberty. A Return to First Principles.

STERN, Frederick Martin. · 1975

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Crowell, 1975. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. 212pp.

John Webster. Citizen and Dramatist.

BRADBROOK, M.C. · 1980

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. An in-depth study of the English playwright's work. 218pp.