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1995139538Northbridge: Access Press 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Northbridge Access Press 1995. Large octavo xii 204 pages with 24 illustrations plus colour endpaper maps. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The title page is signed and dated 23 May 1995 by the author. Access Press hardcover
191382236Adelaide: Sharples Brothers 1913. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sharples Brothers 1913. Oblong duodecimo 20 pages with 10 illustrations. Overlapping pictorial red card covers with pink cotton binding; covers very slightly rubbed and a little creased with a corresponding light crease to the first leaf; an excellent copy. Sharples Brothers paperback
1918108521At Sea: The Societies as above 1918. Very Good. At Sea The Societies as above 10 August 1918. Duodecimo 172 × 107 mm 4 pages a bifolium last page blank comprising the title page and the toast list-cum-programme on the centrespread. Folded horizontally with a few light creases elsewhere and occasional light foxing; overall in very good condition. Not surprisingly we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh enlisted on 8 February 1918 'Embarked for Active Service . HMAT "Orontes" Sydney 5-6-18 Disembarked Liverpool 11-8-18'. This Final Reunion must have been quite a party; all nine entertainments listed on the programme are preceded by a toast. This might be related somewise to the instruction printed at the foot of the first page: 'Guests are requested to bring the Lid of their Mess Tin with them'. The Societies, as above] unknown
1919120356Adelaide: 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Adelaide 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase by J.L. Bonython & Co.' 1919. Quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations mainly caricatures signed 'ESBEE' - possibly 68529 Private Edgar Stead Bailey listed in the nominal roll on page 28. Pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with some expert conservation sealed tears with minor loss to the edges filled in; bottom corner lightly stained throughout; signs of age and use; overall a presentable copy. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' foreword. The extensive Nominal Roll pages 25-31 contains about 1200 names. The contents are a little more sobering than the usual troopship journal. The Honor Roll page 24 lists 29 men and women all but one of whom died from influenza after the ship had returned to Fremantle on 12 December this number includes four nursing sisters. A further three pages are devoted to accounts of the Spanish influenza that raged through the ship having been brought on board by infected local stevedores at Durban. 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.' paperback
193180489Adelaide: 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. Octavo 171 pages with the press mark on the title page. Flush-cut quarter cloth and plain papered boards with the title indistinctly printed along the spine; stitching loose; however it is probably pretty much an as-issued copy of a very indifferent private press production. Inscribed by the author who later released his hand-set and hand-printed items under the imprint of The Horace Walpole Press. Offered together with four other titles from the Press: 'Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1933; 'More Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1935 and 'Selections from Modern French Poetry' and 'Dips into the Classics' both translated by H.E. Ashley and F.E. Rogers. Although the last two mentioned are undated Farmer 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 gives 1938 as the publication date of 'Selections from Modern French Poetry'. As this book lists all of the titles recorded by Farmer other than 'Memoirs of a Medico' 1941 it seems reasonable to suggest that the six undated titles in Farmer appeared not later than 1938. Of the four extra titles offered here only 'Occasional Verse' is not inscribed and signed by the author. Frederick Edward Rogers 1865-1947 was an English doctor. He recounts in his memoirs that 'In 1923 my health being indifferent my wife and I and two younger daughters set sail for Adelaide South Australia where we joined our second girl who had married a Digger'. 5 items. 'Printed and Published by the Author' hardcover
194179998Adelaide: 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. Octavo v first two blank 5 last two blank 484 pages. Overlapping limp cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; covers slightly marked bumped and indented with marginal pinpricks to the front cover and the first 60 or so pages; endpapers offset with the rear one marked; overall a very good copy of an indifferent production meaning the pinpricks are probably 'as-issued'!. Inscribed 'To Eric & Jean McLaughlin with the Compliments & Best Wishes of F.E. Rogers Xmas /41'. The book was hand-set and printed by the author who apologizes in the preface for the many errors present. 'These errors are due I think mainly to composing much of the matter without an intervening manuscript stage' - no mean feat! Frederick Edward Rogers 1865-1947 was an English doctor. He recounts in his memoirs that 'In 1923 my health being indifferent my wife and I and two younger daughters set sail for Adelaide South Australia where we joined our second girl who had married a Digger'. We have previously sighted an obituary that mentioned that a second volume of memoirs was published in 1945; Farmer does not record this in 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 and the supplement in 1976. 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' [The Author] hardcover
109232The Hundred of Kappakoola sic derived from Kappakoola Hill near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 information courtesy of Trove; apparently she photographed better than she raced. unknown
122044Two vintage sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs image size 162 × 213 mm on original stiff card mounts external dimensions approximately 250 × 305 mm. The photographs and mounts are in uniformly excellent condition. The photographer is not identified but written in ballpoint pen on the verso of each mount is '1933 Probably funeral of Reg Player Fuller'. Reg Fuller one of 'the State's best riders over hurdles and fences' died as a result of injuries received when his horse 'fell with him in the steeplechase at Victoria Park' on Saturday 22 April 1933. Short articles on his death appeared in a number of Australian newspapers including the 'Sydney Morning Herald'; the most informative one is in the Adelaide 'Chronicle' on Thursday 4 May 1933. In part it states that Fuller 'had been riding at registered race meetings for about 12 years and during that time he had comparatively few falls in jumping races a tribute to his ability. Before the accident at Victoria Park he had broken his collarbone twice and had had several fractured ribs. It was a remarkable record as Fuller always a fearless horseman did not hesitate to ride horses new to jumping. He rode in hurdle races for three years before he had his first fall. Fuller has left a widow and one child'. 2 items. unknown
1994145658Kadina: The Author 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kadina The Author 1994. Quarto x 350 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and genealogical tables. Pictorial card covers a little creased and marked; ownership signature on the half-title; a very good copy. The Author paperback
187297606Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Flush-cut dark blue cloth over thin boards with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; very occasional foxing slightly heavier on the edges and endpapers; small light stain in the front gutter; an excellent copy. The name of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
187280725Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Original flush-cut dark green cloth with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities with slight wear in a couple of places; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; endpapers a little marked with some scuffing and silverfish damage to the front flyleaf; small stain to the bottom edge bleeding very slightly into some bottom margins; very occasional foxing; three smallish areas on pages 167-70 lost to silverfish with two patches affecting some 25 words of text now supplied on an insert; a very good copy. A note dated January 1879 in pencil on the flyleaf gives some details of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Provenance: P. Curzon Clement with his armorial bookplate on the pastedown. Peake 'Australian Personal Bookplates' 983 recording John Shirlow as the artist. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
105467Very Good. Image size approximately 325 × 263 mm on the original ruled mount visible surface 430 × 365 mm framed and glazed. The photograph is beginning to lift slightly at two corners; mount slightly soiled at one corner; frame a little scuffed and marked; overall in excellent condition. On the reverse is the paper label of 'S. Solomon Photographer 51 Rundle Street Adelaide'. The address the original of which was illustrated and illuminated by W.G.P. Joyner gives an indication of the scale and importance of Dunn's enterprises: '. by your perseverance energy and strict integrity you have overcome all obstacles and today you have the satisfaction of leaving to your successors the largest milling and wheat business in the Southern Hemisphere'. <p>An article in the 'South Australian Chronicle' for 8 June 1889 describes the circumstances of the presentation of the address and also describes the original in detail. 'The address is the work of Mr. Joyner and is one of his most artistic productions . The words and the signatures which number 105 being those of most of the leading employés are situated in the centre while all around are well executed paintings of a number of the mills belonging to the firm taken from photographs. In the left-hand corner there is a painting of the site of the original mill at Hay Valley . On the top are Mr. Dunn's residence at Mount Barker 'The Laurels' and the Dunn Memorial Church which that gentleman presented to the residents of Mount Barker while the right hand corner is occupied by a view of the firm's stores and offices in Freeman-street Adelaide now Gawler Place. On the left side of the address there are views of the mills at Wilmington the old mill at Port Adelaide and at Mount Barker and two representations of the new Roller Eclipse mill at Port Adelaide. On the other side the Nairne mill takes precedence while underneath it is the gem of the collection the works at Port Pirie including some of the shipping of the port with the railway in front. The Port Augusta and Bridgewater mills are represented and an excellent portrait of Mr. Dunn is also included in the set.' <p>A number of the source photographs are to be found in a Dunn family photograph album now held by the State Library of South Australia PRG 1485/3. Dunn's entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' records that 'he retired in 1889 and died at Mount Barker on 13 October 1894. The firm's eleven mills five with the most modern machinery then represented an investment of £150000. They annually had an export trade of some 20000 tons of flour to Britain Western Australia New South Wales and South Africa some 400 employees and a payment to farmers of £500000'. unknown
1900128025Unley: Chas P. Scott 1900. Very Good. Unley Chas P. Scott circa 1900s. A sepia-toned postcard-format gelatin silver photograph 138 × 87 mm blind-stamped with the photographer's details 'Chas P. Scott Unley S.A.'; the caption is inkstamped at the head of the recto and the verso is printed for use as a postcard. Tiny surface chip and crease to the top right-hand corner-tip; in excellent condition. Charles Scott 1878-1928 is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street Adelaide in directories from 1909 to 1915 his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street Goodwood Park' Photohistory SA website. The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image in its collection; this example with the address in Unley an Adelaide suburb near Goodwood Park would appear to have been produced prior to Scott's relocation to Waymouth Street. <p>The Adelaide 'Chronicle' for 8 September 1932 quotes a letter from F.W. Marsh formerly of Oodnadatta reminiscing about this portrait a copy of which hung 'in the strangers' room at Tattersalls Club. Well Jacky Rags when about three years old came with two other black boys early one morning to my place in Oodnadatta. When I asked what they wanted I was told that his father Charlie had killed his mother that night with a boomerang and that Jacky had come to me for protection. I kept him for a long time but when he was about 15 years old he was persuaded to ask me to allow him to go for a spell meaning he wanted to go to the camp in the bush. I let him go and later found that the older blacks had performed certain ceremonies on him from which he never recovered. He developed consumption and died a year or so later. I think living on the whites' food for so many years and then going to the bush where those to be initiated are starved until they are very weak so that the ceremony can be performed easily led to his early death. The name Jacky Rags was given him because whatever clothes he received in a day or two they would be in rags. He was a good lad'. Chas P. Scott unknown
1900128024Unley: Chas P. Scott 1900. Very Good. Unley Chas P. Scott circa 1900s. A sepia-toned postcard-format gelatin silver photograph 139 × 88 mm with the caption inkstamped at the head of the recto and the verso printed for use as a postcard. Tiny crease to the bottom left-hand corner-tip; in excellent condition. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta' blindstamped with the photographer's details 'Chas P. Scott Unley S.A.'. The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this uncredited image and vintage print to him. Charles Scott 1878-1928 is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street Adelaide in directories from 1909 to 1915 his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street Goodwood Park' Photohistory SA website. We presume Scott worked from the address in Unley an Adelaide suburb near Goodwood Park prior to his relocation to Waymouth Street. Chas P. Scott unknown
125137South Australia: Unknown Photographer. South Australia Unknown Photographer late nineteenth century. An albumen paper photograph 104 × 158 mm a little creased and marked with expert conservation to the bottom left-hand corner; trifling light surface marks; overall in decent condition. Not least of the fascinating details in this rare image is the paddle-wheeler visible offshore on the left-hand side. Unknown Photographer unknown
1839131166London: C. Dolman 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London C. Dolman 1839. Octavo ii title leaf to Volume VI 449-466 pages. Full green morocco bordered and lettered in gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; expertly sealed tear to the inner margin of the title leaf; in fine condition. The reviewer well-informed but facetious in the extreme engages almost entirely with James's book and shares some of his reservations about the planning and organisation of the fledgling colony of South Australia. He concludes: 'Mr James's book exposes all that is evil in the management of the experiment of colonizing on the new plan . and in order that both sides may be heard the reader may consult Mr Stephens's hypercritical and somewhat captious reply'. C. Dolman hardcover
2004144110Oakbank: J. and A.G. Johnston Limited 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Oakbank J. and A.G. Johnston Limited 2004. Quarto xiv 322 pages with numerous illustrations plus 12 pages of colour plates and a bookmark with the family tree in an endpocket. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. J. and A.G. Johnston Limited hardcover
1887108334Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. 1887. Square octavo 17 pages with two full-page portrait illustrations of Robert Thomas and William Kyffin Thomas versos blank. As issued without wrappers and stapled through the inner margins; first page a little foxed; staples slightly rusty; pencilled ownership signature on the first page; overall an excellent copy. Although all 7481 words of this publication are transcribed in the Trove Digital Library record for this item only two copies of the original edition are listed in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of South Australia. W.K. Thomas & Co paperback
1981124395Tanunda: The Author 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tanunda The Author 1981. Quarto 144 pages with numerous illustrations mainly from photographs. Papered boards lightly rubbed and a little scuffed; an excellent copy. The Author hardcover
1981124625Tanunda: The Author 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tanunda The Author 1981. Quarto 144 pages with numerous illustrations mainly from photographs. Papered boards a little lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. The Author hardcover
1905124129Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905 third edition preface dated 30 June/ May 1905 second edition first in book form. Small octavo 47 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates a small folding map an additional leaf printed recto only tipped in on page 3 being a reprint of the introduction to the second edition dated May 1905 and advertisements on both sides of the rear wrapper. Pictorial wrappers slightly marked and creased; a near-fine copy. The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Apart from the tipped-in leaf this third edition also contains additional text on pages 45-47 'Addenda 3rd Edition'. It is referred to in the introduction to this edition as 'a letter written by the late Colonel Light having reference to Kangaroo Island also an extract from "The Adelaide Observer" of October 11 1845'. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers paperback
185775680Adelaide: Government Printer 1857. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1857. Foolscap folio 1 page plus a folding map 282 × 430 mm. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound leaving a few chips and residual spots of glue; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1857. Government Printer unknown
190589560Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905 third edition preface dated 30 June/ May 1905 second edition first in book form. Small octavo 47 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates a small folding map an additional leaf printed recto only tipped in on page 3 being a reprint of the introduction to the second edition dated May 1905 and advertisements on both sides of the rear wrapper. Pictorial wrappers slightly creased and marked; spine sunned cracked and slightly chipped at the head; an excellent copy. The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Apart from the tipped-in leaf this third edition also contains additional text on pages 45-47 'Addenda 3rd Edition'. It is referred to in the introduction to this edition as 'a letter written by the late Colonel Light having reference to Kangaroo Island also an extract from "The Adelaide Observer" of October 11 1845'. Provenance: George S. Fowler of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty with his contemporary ownership signature at the head of the title page. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers paperback
190580055Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers May 1905 second edition first in book form. Small octavo 45 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates and a small folding map. Bound without the original pictorial wrappers or advertisements in contemporary half morocco and cloth a little rubbed at the extremities and bumped on the bottom corners; spine lightly sunned with a few short surface cracks; cloth slightly marked; a very good copy internally excellent. This edition was published in pictorial wrappers and contained four leaves of advertisements before the title page and six leaves of advertisements at the rear; these ten leaves have been excised from this copy. The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Provenance: the ownership signatures of two South Australian identities are written in pencil on the front free endpaper - A. Kyffin Thomas possibly Amelia the wife of Robert newspaper proprietor and son of the W.K. Thomas of W.K. Thomas & Co. and W.H. Langham at one stage President of the Board of Governors of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia and the bibliographer of The Hassell Press. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers paperback
189959769Adelaide: RSSA 1899. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RSSA 1899. Octavo 10 pages plus 2 plates one folding. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This issue also contains a nine-page address by the President of the Society W.L. CLELAND; he concentrates on the Australian Aborigines with particular reference to the recent publications of Roth Spencer and Gillen. He concludes that the 'Australian is not degenerate but primordial . A consequence of this is that no longer protected by isolation he must shortly entirely disappear from the face of the earth for he is an anachronism and archaic'. RSSA paperback
