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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
2008050474Crows Nest Qld.: Progressive Community Crows Nest 2008. vi 178pp num col ills. Or pictorial laminated boards. Near new. Completes the story of Crows Nest Shire begun in From Tall Timbers the shire's history to 1988 covering the period from 1988-2008 at which date the Shire ceased to exist having been amalgamated into Toowoomba Shire. Tells of individuals busineses organisations churches and government of the Shire over the period. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to. Progressive Community Crows Nest 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
2006107964Palmerston North: School of People Environment and Planning Massey University 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Palmerston North School of People Environment and Planning Massey University 2006. Foolscap folio xiv 530 pages with several illustrations including maps. Laminated colour pictorial card covers a little lightly rubbed at the extremities; a very good copy. Loosely inserted are two erratum slips. Not least Dr Alan Hutchings' 'The Woof and Weave of Planning Practice and Planning History: A Personal Reflection'; Dr Hutchings is a prominent South Australian town planner. School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University 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
2012033859Franklin Tasmania.: The Franklin Press 2012. HEAVY. 258pp num bw photographs vintage ads. Or card covers. Near new. A superb history of early Tasmanian motoring. Before 1910 the motor car was considered a millionaire's plaything. About that time the Tasmanian public accepted the car. In 1910 the average motorist travelled about 20 miles from home but by the 1920s he travelled as far as he could go for the motor carhad improved. The only thing that plagued him was the condition of the roads but as time went on these also improved and this was the real beginning of motoring in Tasmania. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. The Franklin Press 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
2010030915Tweed Heads: Summit Press 2010. 200pp bw ills. Or card covers. Light rubbing slight surface abrasion to bottom corner of title page. Local hisotry of the northern New South Wales beachside town of Kingscliffe. Deals with numerous individual families as well as the general history of the town. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Summit Press Paperback
1860047449London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1860. xiv 414pp publishers list bw ills maps folding facsimile document. Or brown cloth with gilt vignette of ship to front. Lacks spine front free endpaper detached but present small stain to folding facsimile. Otherwise internally very good. Twelfth Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardcover
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
2022BIB327203Walkerville: Robert O'Shannassy. 2022. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. As new conditon. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Foreword by Gideon Haigh. Signed by the authors on the title page. 407 pages. A history of AUCC starting with its beginnings in 1881 its formal formation in 1907 and its invitation to join South Australian Cricket Association in 1908 through the highs and lows finishing with the triumphant 20-21 Premiership season. 395 illustrations including historic team photos and over 30 pages of appendices. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . As New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Robert O'Shannassy hardcover
2002102122Mitcham: Anglican Parish of Mitcham 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Mitcham Anglican Parish of Mitcham 2002. Quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper a little unevenly sunned. Inscribed dated October 2002 and signed by the author to Dorothy Hamilton whose ownership signature is on the front flyleaf. Loosely inserted is some related ephemera including an invitation to the book launch at the Church signed by the author and the pamphlet 'The Church of St Michael Mitcham 1852-1977'. Anglican Parish of Mitcham hardcover
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
