Wendy Scarfe (100 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 214 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light discoloring; very good otherwise. Endpapers have a map of Sokhoedeora, India. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 134636.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Co., Date of Publication: 1967, Binding: hardcover, Condition: Very Good, Description: Name plate inside front cover, DJ corner clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Published. Dust jacket has rub marks, uneven fading, scuffs and some soils; a nice copy of book with minor wear. 213 pages. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Browning to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library hardcover no dj (orange boards) with all the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gopal Ghose (cover) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Dusty paper over boards/red cloth backstrip/ illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; unnumbered pages. Cover and dust jacket sunned at edges. Wendy and Allan Scarfe volunteered at Jayaprakash Narayan's Sarvodaya Ashram, in Sokhodeora, running a Montessori school, working with Harijan women and children in what even Jayaprakash terms a particularly poor and backward area of the State of Bihar, India. ISBN: 0-89253-733-7.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good edgeworn dust jacket (in mylar). Taplinger Publishing Co., 1967. First U.S. Edition. Map endpapers; 22 b\w photos; statistics, ix + 214 pages. Australian volunteer teachers spend 3 years in rural Bihar, India, in the village of Sokhodeora, near his ashram, Sarvodaya, at the invitation of Jayaprakash Narayan. 1960S Bihar. A lesson in how to help. Narrated by Allan.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. (1967). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 214 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, pages lightly toned .

soft cover. No Jacket. Reprint. 20.5 cm. 170 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It is 1916. The Australian community is riven over a referendum to conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old Matthew's family, divided politically and sinking into poverty, reflects the social conflict. Handsome, generous Edward is at the centre of the family friction. Gran hates the war as Edward does, Mother flirts with him to escape the misery of her marriage, and young Matthew adores him.As patriotic frenzy takes hold, police informers spy on Edward and track his anti-conscription activities. Sabotage and anarchism are meaningless words to Matthew. Absorbed in childhood fantasies, he is unaware that he too is helping draw the net around Edward. It is left to Matthew's German headmaster to teach him that, like music, people grow with love. It is 1916. Australia is riven over a referendum to conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old Matthew's family, divided politically and sinking into poverty, reflects the social conflict. As patriotic frenzy takes hold, police informers spy on Edward (Matthew's brother) and track his anti-conscription activities. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket (Biography, India, Technology).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Fleeing Kuala Lumpur after the Japanese capture Penang, young Zeny Havilland arrives in Darwin shortly before Christmas 1941. Uprooted and knowing no one, she finds work as a reporter on the Northern Standard and a home with Olive, a gentle Quaker who takes in waifs and strays. Robert, a troubled young man damaged by war, lives in a shed in the garden.The Japanese army's advance into the Pacific seems unstoppable and Australia a probable target. Amid the growing tensions in a frontier town unprepared for Japanese attack, Zeny and Robert fall in love and face with courage not only the threat of invasion but their fear that Robert's personal demons will destroy their future together. Fleeing Kuala Lumpur after the Japanese capture Penang, young Zeny Havilland arrives in Darwin shortly before Christmas 1941. Uprooted and knowing no one, she finds work as a reporter on the Northern Standard and a home with Olive, a gentle Quaker who takes in waifs and strays. Robert, a troubled young man, lives in a shed in the garden. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Good +. Presume 1st Edition. Signed & Inscribed By Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light foxing side edge; 250gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Mouthful of Petals is a nonfiction account of three years working in an Indian village in the early 1960s. Previously published, it became a minor classic among good samaritans, particularly in Britain, and was reviewed by The Times, New Statesman and such like.At the invitation of India's venerated political leader and activist Jayaprakash Narayan, Wendy and Allan Scarfe, two dedicated but far from solemn young Australian teachers, travelled to the remote village of Sokhodeora in Bihar in 1960. They had been asked to take charge of the educational activities of his ashram, but over the three years they lived there, their activities extended far beyond that.This humane and important book recounts their efforts in helping local people counter the misery, poverty and ignorance that afflicted so much of the region. By the time they left, the Scarfes had succeeded in teaching both children and adults much that would help them to lead better and fuller lives. And they left behind, for the young at least, something to hope and work for.This new edition of A Mouthful Of Petals includes an account of Wendy Scarfe's return trip to Sokhodeora during a famine in the late 1960s, and how those who live in Bihar state fare in the early twenty-first century. At the invitation of India's venerated political leader and activist Jayaprakash Narayan, the Scarfes, 2 young Australian teachers, travelled to the remote village of Sokhodeora in 1960. They had been asked to take charge of the educational activities of his ashram, but over the 3 years they lived there, their activities extended far beyond that. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

c.60pp. 8vo. Original cloth backed boards in rubbed dustwrapper. A very good copy. . First edition.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. Paperback - FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 214 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Heinemann, London, 1967. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has substantial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are significantly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Inventory No: 17030027.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. A collection of memoirs by thirteen Greek Resistan ce fighters now living in Australia. All the contributors suffere d because of aspiring to a democratic Greece and were caught in t he Nazi Occupation and the Civil War in Greece. Tells of cruelty, injustice, sacrifice and a nation torn apart. The editors have w ritten many books together including 'Tiger on a Rein'.

Softcover. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 455 pages. Judith Larsen grows up on a coaling hulk in the Port Adelaide River. The Australian political landscape is changing and unemployment, hunger, protests and police reprisals spawn new radical ideas for managing society. Judith falls in love with Harry, an idealistic dreamer who embraces the dogma of the Communist Party while she flourishes as a satirical cartoonist. Political tensions rise between them but when Harryâ s life is threatened Judith embarks on a perilous journey across the world to save him. In doing so she comes face to face with the cruelty and oppression of fascism and the importance of those who fight against it. Drawn from family recollections and based on historical events.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A biography of Percy Brookfield, socialist Labor MP from Broken Hill. The author, Gil Roper, was a Trotskyist who led the 40 hour week strike and ended up a Labor alderman on the Sydney City Council. The cover has light wear. Several copies are available. 133 pages. 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: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. slight wear to covers and cover edges, library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 213 pages. The dust jacket is a bit worn, with heavy rubbing, scuffing, and a clipped inside flap. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Ex Library.

Condition: New.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardback copy in good dustjacket. x, 214pp, b/w plates.

HB RED CLOTH AND WHITE BOARDS OWNER SIGNATURE VERY GOOD UNPAGINATED DW GOOD 8V0 Poems by an Englishwoman living and writing in India.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A collection of memoirs by 13 Greek resistance fighters now living in Australia. Several copies are available. 256 pages. 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: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Reprint of 1st Edition. Curious that this item has a plain white cover, perhaps a pre-release copy of the second printing.

1st edition stiff wrappers Nice copy small octavo vii + 133pp., b/w pls., appendix,