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1979BIB330134Adelaide: Rigby. 1979. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Signed by author on half-title page. Previous owner's embossed sticker to lower edge of half-title page. Colour illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128pages. A beautifully illustrated & informative book by the Australian artist. Ingpen won the 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Medal and was a founding member of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Rarely have our classic buildings been so aptly pictured. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Rigby hardcover
192159736Adelaide: RSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1921. Octavo 10 pages. Quarter cloth and wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains HOWCHIN Professor Walter: On the Occurrence of Aboriginal Stone Implements of Unusual Types in the Tableland Regions of Central Australia 25 pages plus 11 pages of plates and a supplementary article by the same author: On the Methods adopted by the Aborigines of Australia in the making of Stone Implements based on actual observation 2 pages. The implements were found in the vicinity of the Macumba Head Station "about 34 miles to the northward of Oodnadatta RSSA paperback
1997029022Proserpine: Proserpine Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Ltd. 1997. 190pp index chronology num bw & col ills pictorial endpapers. Bump to centre of bottom edge front cover. Ex-parliamentary library with labels on front free endpaper and spine. An excellent history of both the Proserpine region and its sugar mill. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Ex-Library. Proserpine Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Ltd. Hardcover
1991BIB324419Darwin: Australian National University North Australia Research Unit. 1991. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Two 2 Volumes complete. Overall Good Condition. Volume 1 is Very Good. Volume 2 has some mild moisture damage to last few pages - still very readable. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 338 361 pages. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover. Australian National University [North Australia Research Unit] paperback
1991145918Eden Hills: The Author 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Eden Hills The Author 1991 first edition. Octavo 368 pages with numerous maps and illustrations plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper lightly scuffed. The Author hardcover
1960055068Brisbane: Government Printer 1960. xiv 842pp index bibliography appendices 100 bw ills col frontis. Silver cloth in pictorial jacket. Several chips and minor tears to jacket even toning to page edges. While by no means a scarce title this does seem to be a hard one to find in such nice condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Government Printer Hardcover
1953140739Adelaide: RGSSA 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA December 1953. Octavo pages 35-41 with a map plus 2 plates. Original wrappers; a fine copy. An account by George Lindsay of a trip undertaken with his brother the explorer David Lindsay from Dalhousie to Lake Nash; it is essentially a letter written by George Lindsay to his mother after the trip and it is here extensively annotated by his son the well-known naturalist and bush-survival expert. This issue also contains FINNISS H.J.: The Murray Mouth pages 1-21 with a facsimile of a log entry plus 2 plates; and RENDELL Margaret P.: The Chinese in South Australia before 1860 pages 23-33. RGSSA paperback
19958085Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association 1995. Quarto. xx 130 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Minor waterstains. Pictorial card wrappers. Errata page loosely inserted. Scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Tasmanian Historical Research Association paperback
193971821St Peters: The Author at the 'Ankh' Press 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. St Peters The Author at the 'Ankh' Press 1939. Octavo iv vi 119 pages. Overlapping card covers slightly rubbed creased and marked with a tiny closed tear to the rear leading edge; uncut edges and first and last blank pages slightly foxed; an excellent copy. Number 90 of 150 copies signed by the author. 'I have printed this little book on my small hand-printing machine' from his home at 85 First Avenue St Peters an inner suburb of Adelaide South Australia. The Author at the 'Ankh' Press paperback
1978122114Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint 1978 facsimile edition/ 1880. Octavo i 184 30 advertisements pages plus 24 plates. Gilt-lettered synthetic cloth; an excellent copy. Austaprint hardcover
1981139267Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Inc 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch Inc. 1981. Quarto x 54 pages with 15 illustrations some full-page. Full calf lettered and decorated in gilt; a fine copy. The deluxe edition; number 19 of only 30 copies thus signed in ink by Phyllis Mander-Jones. The total print-run was only 300 copies. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) Inc hardcover
1986143399Adelaide: The Author 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author November 1986. Quarto xliv 244 pages with numerous illustrations and maps some in colour and full-page. Colour-pictorial papered boards; an excellent copy. The hardback version of the first edition of the best of the books on the nomenclature of South Australia. The Author hardcover
19997924Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1999. viii 320 pages. Appendix bibliography and index. Pictorial card wrappers. Signed and inscribed by the author to a former Victorian politician. Related flyers enclosed. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Melbourne University Press Paperback
1981050939Petford: The Author 1981. No date c1981. 274pp b/w ills. Light card cover illustrated by Glen Hutton. Some foxing to cover endpapers and edges. SIGNED by author on title page. The author was born and reared amonst the Lime Buffs where she conducted a store for 20 years and then a Post Office beside the road to Chillagoe. She writes of her family and the characters of the region. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Author Paperback
1999135094Milsons Point: Vintage 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Milsons Point Vintage 1999. Octavo vi 297 pages. Colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; ink ownership signature to the first page; an excellent copy. Dated 10 September 1999 inscribed and signed in ink by the author on page ii; an ALS to the dedicatee dated 26 October 1999 loosely inserted as is a contemporary newspaper clipping. A clipped map of the area referred to in the book is mounted on page iv. Vintage paperback
1986054965Sydney: Library of Australian History 1986. viii 535pp table. Or pictorial blue card. Light edge wear to cover prev owner name on front blanks. Approximately 10000 notified desertions and other absences by seamen during the period 1852-1900. Notices taken from the New South Wales Government Gazette and the New South Wales Police Gazette. Most named were straightforward deserters though a small minority were described as stragglers strays and absentees or as being AWOL. Up to 1864 all desertions reported occurred in NSW mainly Port Jackson but from 1864 notices of Victorian desertions began to appear with other colonies and New Zealand and Fiji following. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to. Library of Australian History Paperback
1990014057Melbourne: Department of Water Resources Victoria 1990. iii 102pp appendix bibliography num col ills maps. Or pictorial card covers. Slightest of use. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fi. 4to. Department of Water Resources, Victoria Paperback
1962119573Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1962. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1837. Octavo; rexine; endpapers offset; a fine copy. Peade SA5 one of only 66 copies. Libraries Board of South Australia unknown
1953029030London: British Museum Natural History 1953. HEAVY. 550pp index appendix check list 364 bw ills photographs and line drawings. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Ex-Queensland Museum library with several stamps card pocket and label to spine. Spine slightly darkened very light bump to top frotn cover minor shelf wear. Exhaustive study of the Trichoptera caddis fly species to be found in Australia and New Zealand. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Ex-Library. British Museum (Natural History) Hardcover
1985BIB324881Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 1985. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. A Near Fine copy. Half-leather binding. Still has fitted glassine jacket with some light chipping to spine ends. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 454 pages. A history of trade union movement in South Australia. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Deluxe Edition. Hardback. Wakefield Press hardcover
1985105636Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1985 first edition. Octavo xviii 454 pages with numerous plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Not stated as such but from the collection of SA historian Ron Gibbs. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the official launch a handwritten memorandum to Gibbs from and signed by John Playford on University of Adelaide letterhead and his scathing - and highly entertaining 'mirror mirror on the wall who's the Marxist of them all' - review of the book one of four photocopies of the annotated typescript. Playford's 1958 thesis for his B.A. Honours was 'History of the left-wing of the South Australian Labor Movement 1908-36'; a more appropriate candidate to review this significant book can hardly be imagined. Wakefield Press hardcover
193768122Adelaide: RSSA 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1937. Quarto 12 pages. Original quarter cloth and stiffened wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains MOUNTFORD C.P.: Aboriginal Crayon Drawings relating to Totemic Places in South-Western Central Australia 15 pages and Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour North-Western Australia 11 pages; TINDALE N.B.: Two Legends of the Ngadjuri Tribe from the Middle North of South Australia 5 pages and Native Songs of the South-East of South Australia 14 pages; TINDALE N.B. with H.K. BARTLETT: Notes on some Clay Pots from Panaeati Island South-East of New Guinea 4 pages and JOHNSTON T.H. and J.B. CLELAND: A Survey of the Literature relating to the Occurrence in Australia of Helminth Parasites of Man 28 pages. RSSA paperback
1989BIB285727Adelaide: Investigator Press. 1989. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Signed & Inscribed by the author to previous owner. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. This history outlines the development of Kangaroo Island society with a distinct sense of identity. It discusses in particular islanders' opinions of government policies and attitudes and their reactions to government decisions affecting them. . 1st Edition. Softcover. Investigator Press paperback
1978146610Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1978. Hardcover. Fine. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint 1978 facsimile edition/ 1864. Octavo viii 37 pages plus a large folding map. Colour-pictorial synthetic cloth; a fine copy. Number 149 of 320 copies; the original edition is excessively rare. Austaprint hardcover
1947140778Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney Angus and Robertson 1947. Small quarto 110 pages with a colour map and numerous colour vignettes. Quarter cloth and decorated papered boards; extremities a little bumped; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little chipped and rubbed with a few short closed tears. Warmly inscribed and signed by Marjorie Cornell active for many years in music art and theatre circles in Adelaide. 'In the 1950s and 1960s Rowe Street was the place to go for Sydney's 'touch of Paris'. A narrow laneway running between Pitt and Castlereagh streets it was small-scale personable cosmopolitan and fun. Its speciality shops offered a mix of fashion tearooms homewares art music literature and good coffee. Art was always part of Rowe Street. At the start of the twentieth century it had garret studios for artists such as Antonio Datillo-Rubbo and Lionel Lindsay. By mid-century Russell Drysdale Sidney Nolan Bill Dobell and James Gleeson gathered at Carl Plate's Notanda Gallery to cast their eyes over prints postcards and books from the overseas art world' 'Dictionary of Sydney'. Angus and Robertson hardcover