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1874124156Melbourne: E. & D. Syme 'The Leader' Office and Adelaide Frearson & Bro 1874. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne E. & D. Syme 'The Leader' Office and Adelaide Frearson & Bro. 1874. Octavo iv second and last blank 59 pages. Original flush-cut printed stiffened wrappers with slight loss to silverfish; light tidemark to the top margin of the front cover and the top inside corner tip of the first ten leaves; front joint split a little top and bottom with minor loss to the ends of the spine; minimal signs of use and age; a very good copy internally excellent. 'The following Papers are reprinted from "The Farm" section of the Melbourne "Leader". The writer left Melbourne on 1st September 1874 and returned on the 30th November. The early Papers were written during September in which month the country round Adelaide is seen at its very best. The areas of Gawler Kapunda Kooringa Hill River Estate Clare and surroundings were visited during October and the return journey between Adelaide and Mount Gambier including Strathalbyn Willunga Goolwa Hindmarsh Island Narracoorte and the Drainage Country took place during November' preface. The critical comments on contemporary vine cultivation and wine production make interesting reading. Visits were made to properties and individuals well-known to this day: Davenport Boothby Crompton Auld Mrs Penfold Thomas Elder and Birksgate Thomas Hardie sic and Bankside and 'Clare - Seven Hills and St. Aloysius' College' with numerous 'Notable Wine Growers' in the region mentioned. Many areas significant in the modern vine and wine industry are conspicuously absent in this survey at least in this regard. This item is rare in our experience. Ferguson 9210. E. & D. Syme, 'The Leader' Office, and Adelaide, Frearson & Bro paperback
196783236Sydney: Reed 1967. Hardcover. Fine. Sydney Reed 1967 facsimile edition/ 1847. Imperial folio 10 pages plus an extra colour pictorial title page 60 colour plates each with at least one leaf of descriptive text facsimile covers of the original ten parts and the certificate of limitation. Half morocco and marbled papered boards; trifling external signs of handling; essentially a fine copy. Number 535 of 1000 copies of this fine facsimile. The Indigenous Australian content is considerable and significant: 22 of the 60 plates and the accompanying leaves of text are devoted exclusively to the state's Aborigines and they are depicted in a further five plates and on the pictorial title page. There are numerous portraits usually four or more to a page plus groups of artefacts and scenes of daily life from different areas of South Australia. Reed hardcover
1863132869Adelaide: C. Platts E.S. Wigg G. Dehane and others 1863. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide C. Platts E.S. Wigg G. Dehane and others 1863. Octavo 109 19 advertisements pages plus advertisements on three surfaces of the covers. Original burnt orange wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; joints splitting a little top and bottom but still firm; plain spine slightly bumped at the ends and a little chipped; bottom edge of the front cover a little chipped with a small piece missing from the bottom left-hand corner; minimal signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. In the preface the author states that 'About four months were occupied in visiting the Mines and collecting information and during this time I travelled about 1800 miles chiefly on horseback'. 'First Edition of Three Thousand' and 'Illustrated by a Map' are printed on the title page and front wrapper. The list of 173 subscribers accounts for 1200 copies. We have previously handled a copy in original stippled cloth with a large folding map 635 × 420 mm but this undisturbed copy in wrappers has clearly never had a map bound in. <p>Ferguson 6183 referring only to the edition in wrappers states that the map is loose. The first half-page advertisement after the text is one for Austin himself; the line and a half relating to Scrutton of London have been ruled out in ink presumably by the author himself. C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, G. Dehane (and others) paperback
1862144315London: George Philip & Son 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London George Philip & Son not before 1862. A full-colour map printed surface 610 × 510 mm cut into 20 panels mounted on linen as issued folded and mounted in the publisher's gilt-decorated cloth case external dimensions 190 × 118 mm. Cloth a little bumped at the extremities and sunned on the spine; original leading-edge ribbon ties missing; minimal discolouration to the map; overall in excellent condition. Philips' Authentic Maps of the Australian Colonies Number 6 according to the information printed on the front pastedown. The name 'Holdsworth 1867' is written in ink at the head of the pastedown. Pertinent details printed on the map that provide evidence of the date of publication include 'Burke & Wills 1860-61' and the locations where King and the bodies of Gray Burke and Wills were found King was found in September 1861. The latest reference to Stuart is 'Stuart's Route 1860' presumably his fifth expedition from November 1860 to September 1861. The entire region of South Australia west of about 133 degrees east longitude and north of the coastline is described as 'Unexplored Country added to South Australia in 1861'; the Act to annex this land was passed in Great Britain in August 1861. <p>Tooley 974 basic details of the map only not noting the Travelling Maps series. George Philip & Son hardcover
1866115170Adelaide: C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide C. Platts E.S. Wigg J. Howell and W.C. Rigby 1866. Duodecimo iii viii 128 iv 122 South Australian Directory iv index 145 South Australian Almanack Advertiser pages including endpaper advertisements plus a rear cover advertisement. Flush-cut cloth boards lightly used; an excellent copy. With the contemporary ownership inscription 'Official Assignee's Office' in ink on the front cover. C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby hardcover
1878139670Adelaide: Printed at the 'Advertiser' 'Chronicle' and 'Express' Offices for the Author 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed at the 'Advertiser' 'Chronicle' and 'Express' Offices for the Author 1878. Octavo x 304 24 advertisements pages plus a frontispiece lithograph 'Adelaide 1838' and an advertising slip for Alfred Waddy bookbinder whose small paper label in affixed to the rear pastedown. Original green textured cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth rubbed lightly stained and a little worn at the extremities; inner hinges expertly reinforced; endpapers discoloured with slight loss to silverfish; text paper a little tanned; occasional signs of age and use but overall a very good copy. Curiously 'Barrow & King Adelaide' is stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. This first edition essentially deals with the period 1836 to 1842 and in far greater detail than the 1884 edition. <p>Provenance: W.H. Bailey possibly William Harris Bailey circa 1840-1907 commercial traveller storeman jeweller and grocer with his ownership details on the endpapers. The later signature 'E. Hack' is written in ink on the front free endpaper. This is possibly Edward Hack 1829-1904 the second of 15 children of John Barton Hack and his wife Bridget née Watson. John Barton Hack 1805-1884 landed at Holdfast Bay with his wife and their first six children in February 1837; his many and varied pioneering activities are recorded in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Ferguson 7652. Printed at the 'Advertiser', 'Chronicle' and 'Express' Offices [for the Author] hardcover
183880160London: Robert Tyas 1838. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Robert Tyas 1838 second edition 'considerably augmented'/ 1837. Octavo vi 118 pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding frontispiece 147 × 268 mm containing on it a map of Australia with South Australia marked out a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St Vincent and a plan of Adelaide. Original cloth slightly mottled and a little silverfish-nibbled; spine renewed with most of the original spine retained; frontispiece a little foxed; an excellent copy. Provenance: Robert Kyffin Thomas with his ownership signature 1902 on the front flyleaf. Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas 1851-1910 the grandson of Robert Thomas who arrived on the 'Africaine' at Holdfast Bay in 1836 with a printing press was himself an influential newspaperman in the state. Ferguson 2452 our copy does not have the four pages of 'book advertisements' clearly never present. Robert Tyas hardcover
1989176617Sydney.: National Library of Australia. 1989. Original printed poster to accompany a travelling exhibition held throughout Australia as part of the Bi-Centennial celebrations this particular poster advertises the exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales Sydney to open on 11th January 1989. ' Celebrating the Books of Australia'. 84 x 59cm. A large striking image of a Lionel Lindsay woodcut depicting a sulphur crested cockatoo munching through an old book. Poster design by Debbie McLeod SLNSW. . National Library of Australia. unknown
186480178Adelaide: W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide W.C. Rigby and Melbourne Geo. Robertson 1864. Octavo xii last one blank 82 2 colophon pages plus 2 lithographs by William Wyatt a double-page plate of 'Method of training the White Mulberry to a standard' and 'The Reeling Machine'. Original yellow card covers with the plain spine expertly renewed; absolutely trifling surface loss to silverfish; essentially a fine copy with the contemporary blind-stamp of Rigby as bookseller on the front flyleaf. Sir Samuel Davenport 1818-1906 was an ardent promoter of agriculture and new industries in South Australia and served as president of both the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society and the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Other new industries discussed in the book are Verdigris and Flower-Farming. Ferguson 8971 pagination incorrect and the plates are not recorded. W.C. Rigby and Melbourne, Geo. Robertson paperback
1988145396Morwell: Alella Books 1988. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Morwell Alella Books 1988 second edition/ 1987. Quarto viii vi 416 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; an excellent copy. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author 'Best Wishes Tom Dixon 30/10/90'. The recipient was Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author anthropologist and historian. Loosely inserted is a short autograph letter signed by Dixon to Kimber with the same date as the inscription relating primarily to the Night Parrot. It closes 'Hope you find the "Wizard" helpful in more ways than one'. <p>Thomas Sidney Dixon 1916-1993 was a Catholic priest and a missionary to the Arrernte people of Central Australia. This is Dixon's detailed account of his role in the case of Rupert Max Stuart an Arrernte man sentenced to death for the 1958 murder of a young white girl. Called to visit Stuart in prison because of his knowledge of Arrernte Dixon quickly realised that Stuart's limited English meant he could not have made the detailed confession presented to the court by police and spearheaded the high-profile campaign to overturn Stuart's conviction. While it was upheld by a Royal Commission public pressure led Premier Thomas Playford to commute the sentence to life imprisonment and the case exposed systemic injustices faced by Aboriginal people in the Australian justice system. 2 items. Alella Books paperback
1920033216London: Hodder & Stoughton 1920. xix 408pp4 appendices maps charts bw photographs. Or red cloth with gilt rising sun on front. No date- 1920. Very slight fading of spine spine with vertical crease minor foxing. An excellent example of this scarce Australian unit hisotry. The Fifth Division saw action in many battles including Fromelles Somme Polygon Wood Messines-Wytschaete Villers-Bretonneux Western Front and Peronne. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
1983144244Adelaide: Omnibus Books 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Omnibus Books 1983 first edition. Square quarto 260 × 245 mm 32 pages with numerous superb colour illustrations by Julie Vivas. Colour-pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. The front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by the author: 'For Jurgen - the only German possum in my acquaintance! With heaps of Aussie hugs - Mem Foxxx'. Although the print run was 5000 copies first editions of this modern classic in any condition are uncommon; a signed copy in fine condition is a rarity. Omnibus Books hardcover
1982052407Moulins France: Les Marmousets 1982. HEAVY. 154pp bw ills maps. Full maroon leather with laid on image of Timorese woman in maroon slipcase. As new. Deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies of which this #036. Peron's voyage to Australia at the start of the 19th century. Text in French/en Francais. Deluxe Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Folio. Les Marmousets Hardcover
1862141503London: Hall Virtue & Co 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hall Virtue & Co. 1862. Duodecimo viii 167 1 colophon pages. Blind-stamped dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; top edge uncut and a little dusty; paper a little tanned as usual; trifling signs of age and handling but overall an excellent copy. 'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded or its subsequent career I could not be the partisan at any price of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men' author's preface although he showed the cut of his nib on the title page: 'Castigat ridendo mores'. <p>Indeed nothing is sacred so it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' Ferguson 10265 citing a note in the Petherick copy in the National Library of Australia. Hall, Virtue & Co hardcover
1899137624Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 83 1 colophon pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark brown stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; free endpapers heavily offset the pastedowns lightly so; short tear to the inner margin of one leaf expertly sealed; mild signs of age and use but see below; an excellent copy. These memoirs of James Collins Hawker 1821-1901 date back to 1838 when he arrived with Governor George Gawler. They first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours. <p>This is a presentation copy inscribed and signed in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper to 'J. Tomkinson from James Collins Hawker Feby 22. 1900'. The later inkstamp signature of A. Grenfell Price is on the front pastedown his marginal emphases in pencil are on 40 pages and his annotations in pencil appear on four pages. In the most significant annotation Sir Archibald Grenfell Price 1892-1977 geographer historian and educationist has written at the head of page 12 with reference to an underlined section on rammed-earth or 'pise' houses: 'I used this account of pisé houses in Foundation and Settlement 'The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia 1829-1845' published in 1924. Although the information was incorrect I knew it rested on an early authority. AGP'. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
1924139348London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1924. Octavo xii 184 pages with an illustration plus 48 pages of plates totalling 90 illustrations from photographs and a folding colour map 325 × 275 mm. Handsomely rebound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half green morocco and cloth the spine lettered in gilt in compartments; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; spine lightly sunned; cloth a little mottled; minor signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. The 'country the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours east of Lake Eyre . For the last eight or nine years Mr. Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie although more than twenty years he has spent in aborigines' haunts . Above all an incalculable debt of gratitude is due to Sir Baldwin Spencer who not once but several times read through and corrected the manuscript' from the preface by George Horne. Macmillan and Co., Limited hardcover
1994133217Broome: Magabala Books 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Broome Magabala Books 1994. Octavo viii 216 pages. Colour-pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; essentially a fine copy. Signed on the half-title by the author using his true name Leon Carmen. Purporting to be the memoir of an Aboriginal woman born in Central Australia and fostered in Adelaide as part of the Stolen Generations 'My Own Sweet Time' received critical acclaim was widely set as a school text and won the Nita May Dobbie Award for a first novel by a woman writer. In 1997 it was revealed to be a hoax written by white male taxi driver Leon Carmen with his friend John Bayley posing as literary agent for the entirely fictitious Wanda. When approached with the manuscript for her second book the small Aboriginal publishing house Magabala Books asked to meet with the author. Conscious of the recent Demidenko affair Carmen and Bayley revealed the hoax the book was quickly withdrawn from sale and the prize money returned. Geoffrey Cains gives a lengthy account of the affair in 'Access Denied. A Bibliography of Suppressed Australian Literature' pages 131-135. <p>Offered together with: <p>1 'Door to Door' the sequel to Wanda's story and the first novel to be published under Carmen's true name Surry Hills Despot Publishing 1998; a near-fine copy signed. In the introduction Carmen gives his account of the hoax including his conviction that his previous literary efforts had been rejected because he was white and male. <p>2 'Autographs. Contemporary Australian Autobiography' an anthology featuring an extract from 'My Own Sweet Time' St Lucia University of Queensland Press 1996; a very good copy signed by Carmen. <p>3 items. Magabala Books paperback
1909110166Adelaide: Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League 1909. Quarto 64 pages with 37 illustrations all but 2 of them from photographs many of which are credited to familiar names: Bastard Foelsche Holtze Scott with 7 by Frank Gillen. The fourth page and the last four pages are advertisements although an illustration of 'Egyptian Cotton' pads out one of them. Salmon-pink wrappers with text and a large map on the front cover and advertisements on t he other three surfaces; spine lightly sunned and cracked with minimal expert conservation; very tiny cut to the bottom margin throughout maximum depth 5 mm; tiny tear to the leading edge of the rear wrapper expertly sealed; an excellent copy almost certainly uncirculated. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The Need for a Direct Transcontinental Railway. Can it be developed without Colored Labor Yes!'. The foreword to this prospectus aimed at the 'miner the agriculturalist and the pastoralist' is by Simpson Newland President of the Australian Railways and Territory League. Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League paperback
1889146562London: Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. London Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1889. Octavo pages 650-671 pages plus a folding colour map. The entire volume comprises iv 641-704 pages with 2 maps plus the folding map. Original printed wrappers; some trifling wear at the extremities; in near-fine condition. An account of Lindsay's private expedition of 1885-86 in which '. he took seven men and twelve camels from Hergott Springs to the Gulf of Carpentaria tracing the Finke River to its mouth and seeking information about Ludwig Leichhardt. Lindsay surveyed the country between the overland telegraph line and the Queensland border explored the MacDonnell Ranges made a brief foray into the Simpson Desert and spent six months in the country between Lake Nash and Powell's Creek' Australian Dictionary of Biography. The introduction to this section states that it is 'slightly abridged' but in fact it is more detailed than the narrative read before the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch on 29 June 1887 and published in Volume II of the 'Proceedings' of the Society 1888 and in an offprint the same year. In addition to a different text this publication also contains the colour lithographed map entitled 'Map of Explorations & Surveys in the Northern Territory of South Australia .' and a 'Vocabulary of the Language spoken by the Natives in Latitudes 23° to 28° S. as obtained by a Member of my Expedition 1885-6'. The vocabulary was compiled by the expedition's naturalist Lieutenant Hermann Dittrich and constitutes an early record of the Arrernte Aranda language spoken in the vicinity of Dalhousie Springs and the Finke River. <p>The other contributions to this volume are: <p>RAVENSTEIN E.G.: 'Geographical Co-ordinates in the Valley of the Upper Nile'; <p>FLINDERS PETRIE W.M.: 'Wind Action in Egypt'; and <p>'Explorations and Ascents in the Caucasus in 1889'. Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society paperback
187480075Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; some discolouration to the front endpapers from a newspaper cutting; essentially a very fine copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed to 'Percival Randolph Stow from his affectionate grandfather' and signed by the author. Stow a son of Judge Randolph Stow was the second husband of Catherine Stow Katie Langloh Parker. Loosely inserted is a 1941 newspaper clipping containing a brief biography of the author an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846; he died in 1877. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
187480623Adelaide: William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide William Kyffin Thomas Printer for The Author 1874. Octavo 53 pages. Flush-cut quarter green cloth and yellow papered boards with the full title page details repeated on the front cover; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly marked; front flyleaf removed; an excellent copy. 'These papers are written solely for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and as my family is rather numerous and dispersed the necessity arises of having them printed'. This copy is inscribed on the verso of the title page to 'Charlotte de S. Dutton with kind regards' and signed by the author. MacDermott an 1829 pioneer of Western Australia before settling in South Australia in 1846 died in 1877. <p>The provenance is most interesting: Charlotte de S. Dutton was the widow of William Hampden Dutton 1805-1849; her mother's maiden name was Da Silva. In 1849 William's brother Francis Stacker Dutton 1818-1877 married MacDermott's daughter Caroline. The Duttons and their pastoral property Anlaby were household names in South Australia for generations; to put them into context 'While working at Anlaby in 1842 Francis had discovered with Captain Charles Bagot the Kapunda copper mine' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. William Kyffin Thomas, Printer [for The Author] hardcover
1976145410Adelaide: Rigby 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adelaide Rigby 1976. Quarto 628 pages with a frontispiece map 33 numbered line illustrations and 737 numbered 'plates' many from photographs plus 12 colour plates and a very large folding colour plate with an integral black and white key. Papered boards; front top corner lightly bumped; top and bottom edges slightly marked; two items mounted on the front free endpaper see below; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper lightly scored with a short scrape along the front leading edge. A seminal study of the Pitjandjara sic of the Mann Ranges and the Junkandjara sic of the Musgrave Ranges on the borders of South Central and Western Australia Mountford explains his use of these names on page 40. The following caveat is printed on the verso of the dedication page: 'Where Australian Aborigines are concerned and in areas where traditional Aboriginal religion is still significant this book should be used only after consultation with local male religious leaders. This restriction is important. It is imposed because the concept of what is secret or may not be revealed to the uninitiated in Aboriginal religious belief and action varies considerably throughout the Australian continent; and because the varying views of Aborigines in this respect must on all occasions be observed'. <p>Provenance: Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author and historian with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2001 for 'services to the community through research projects and the recording of information of national interest in the areas of history anthropology Aboriginal art ecology and land management practices in Central Australia'. Taped to this page is the original slip of mustard-colour paper 100 × 203 mm with the text of the disclaimer printed on it; the clear tape is now discoloured staining a little both the slip and the endpaper. The small three-colour label of 'Marron's Newsagency Alice Springs N.T.' is mounted at the foot of the page; the original retail price of $35 is pencilled in the top corner. Rigby hardcover
1898136660Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne George Robertson & Co. and London J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited 1898. Oblong folio 330 × 450 mm 36 pages plus 15 tipped-in chromolithographs by the author each with a paper guard now with associated offsetting. Dark green pebble-grain cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover all edges gilt; cloth lightly flecked with slight bumps and minimal wear to the extremities; frontispiece mount a little foxed; an excellent copy and probably as nice as they come given the age and large format of the volume. 'Captain Sturt discovered and followed this river down. My friend and I went over the same water after an interval of many years but the greater portion of its scenery remains unchanged the population is so sparse; so in effect this illustrates his exploration. I have confined myself almost entirely to the natural scenery' the preface. George Robertson & Co. and London, J.S. Virtue & Co. Limited hardcover
193499357Perth: Govt Printer: Fred Simpson. 1934. 1st ed. royal octavo. pp xviii 489 b/w & colour fold. maps half-bound in kangaroo retaining the original gilt titled silk moire boards professionally repaired new gilt leather spine label ownership in ink of Western Australian historian to ffep. Loosely inserted news-cutting "The Case for the Case" dated 19th September 1934 showing the casket made of local wood which will contain the Secession petition . which will be presented to the King by the Secession delegate". A beautifully bound copy in near fine condition. The 1934 'case for secession' failed and support for the Dominion League in the Western Australian community dwindled. The secession debate was reignited briefly in 1974 by mining magnate Lang Hancock with the formation of the Westralian Secession Movement. The movement was sparked in reaction to the centralist policy of the Whitlam Labor Government. However the movement failed to achieve prominence due to the strong economy at the time and disappeared as quickly as it emerged. Harrop 1st edition. Half leather. Govt Printer: Fred Simpson hardcover
1912131253Sydney: The Bookfellow 1912. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney The Bookfellow 1912. Octavo ii 56 2 blank colophon 2 publisher's list verso blank pages with an original autograph poem 'The Singer' initialled by the poet as the frontispiece and 23 original ink drawings by him 7 on five blank pages 4 with lengthy captions. Original half morocco and marbled papered boards retaining the original two-colour pictorial wrappers; all edges uncut; leather lightly worn at the extremities with the headcap missing; papered sides a little rubbed; old ownership details on an early blank; trifling signs of use and age; an excellent copy internally fine. Number 2 of only 15 copies of this deluxe edition 'marginally illustrated by the author' and signed by him. It was priced at 'half-a-guinea'; the balance of the edition in papered boards printed as per the wrappers in the deluxe edition comprised 'one hundred and eighty-five copies at half-a-crown'. The autograph poem appears to be unpublished. The Bookfellow paperback
