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198168884Adelaide: D.J. Woolman Government Printer 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide D.J. Woolman Government Printer 1981. Small folio 8 pages. Black blind ruled gilt-lettered cloth with bevelled edges and cotton binding; a fine copy. Not stated as such but from the estate of Sir Walter Crocker. The Reading of the Lesson was given by the Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser then Prime Minister of Australia. D.J. Woolman, Government Printer hardcover
1929118456Cheltenham England: Burrow's Press Ltd 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Cheltenham England Burrow's Press Ltd 1929. Octavo ii 38 pages. Card covers very lightly marked; an excellent copy with a small leaflet advertising where 'Copies may be obtained' in London loosely inserted. A short article in the Adelaide 'News' 15 January 1930 notes that 'An interesting booklet entitled "Australia Visits England" has just been published by Burrows Press Limited. It is the record of an actual visit and consists of three parts describing the journey the impressions of the author while in England and his reflections on the completion of the visit. Mr. T. Duffield I.S.O. is the author writing under the pen name of "Aussie"'. Burrow's Press Ltd paperback
1991143973Kingswood: Waterwheel Books 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kingswood Waterwheel Books 1991. Oblong small folio xii 146 pages with numerous illustrations and a map. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. The half-title is inscribed and signed by one of Dunn's descendants. Loosely inserted are some related ephemera. Waterwheel Books paperback
2013145228Norwood: Moon Arrow Press 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Norwood Moon Arrow Press 2013. Large square quarto 160 pages with nearly 190 illustrations many in colour. Papered boards; ownership signature on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. This book is a companion volume to the biography of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz 1918-1999 also written by his son and published in 2006. It 'reveals the battles the artist fought as a Polish partisan and as a leader of the displaced Persons' camp in Bavaria where he found himself after the war; the story of his migration to Australia; battles in the minefields of Australian art and his confrontation with the hugely conservative art world of Adelaide in the 1950s. It chronicles the extraordinary range of his artistic output in painting sculpture public art and on the stage as actor and producer and as an actor for Crawford Productions' television dramas in the late 1960s' dustwrapper blurb. Moon Arrow Press hardcover
1936134514Adelaide: Printers Trade School 1936. Very Good. Adelaide Printers Trade School 1936. Quarto 34 pages with two-colour illuminated initials throughout. Overlapping gilt-lettered suede marked and unevenly discoloured with a few signs of light wear; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy internally excellent. Number 15 of only 60 copies. 'It has been the practice ever since the establishment of the Printers Trade School from time to time to issue a volume exemplifying the work done by printing apprentices. This being the centenary year of the State the volume while still maintaining its character as the work of apprentices has been modified to include a resume of the course of education during the past hundred years' from the foreword by the SA Minister of Education the Hon. S.W. Jeffries. Contributors include Dr A. Grenfell Price and Dr Charles Fenner. Printers Trade School unknown
1882112707Adelaide: Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Webb Vardon and Pritchard for the Author 1882. Octavo ii title page verso blank vi preface last blank 9-343 pages. Original olive-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and ruled and decorated in blind on the sides; cloth a little marked flecked and rubbed with light wear to the extremities and minimal conservation to the spine; front board slightly bowed; edges a little marked; textblock reinserted in the binding with the original endpapers retained and reinforced along the inner hinges with cloth of a similar colour; the front flyleaf has a short sealed tear and some residual glue on the recto it had been stuck fast to the pastedown and now has a tendency to curl a little and there are a few numerical annotations and the early ownership signatures of Carl D. and C.O. Lundberg; minimal signs of use and age internally; a very good copy of a great rarity. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'; 'a rambling episodic undisciplined novel part romance part satire part detective novel and . part didactic religious novel'. The five-page introduction by the anonymous author is instructive as are the five pages Depasquale devotes to the work. The novel is set in the mid-north of South Australia; the author notes that Emu Flat the place at which the story begins is 'about four miles S.W. of Clare'. The verso of the front flyleaf carries the later inkstamp of Tyrrell's Bookshop Gawler Place Adelaide. Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author] hardcover
189155171Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch 1891. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of Australasia South Australian Branch 1891. Octavo 39 pages. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale blue-green wrappers with the title page details repeated on the upper one; a fine copy. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch paperback
1999105020North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 very large folding maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate leather-covered case. These two maps are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. Full blue leather lettered in gilt on the spines with the text volume also lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine set. Number 31 of only 50 sets of this deluxe edition in the total print-run of 400 sets. The publisher's Catalogue Number 3 January 2000 is loosely inserted. 2 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1893104614Adelaide: Government Printer 1893. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus the separately-issued very large folding map 680 × 1500 mm. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated on the front cover expertly stabilized around the edges with minor infill; an excellent copy now loosely inserted in the rear pocket of a custom-made book-form cover with the map with short tears along a few folds expertly sealed in the front pocket. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical but one has added chromolithographic geological features and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here because McLaren invariably - and frustratingly - measures the size of the sheet of paper not the printed surface. See also McLaren 12616 for the foolscap folio edition South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 45 of 1893. The folio edition has a stated print run of 750 copies; apparently only 500 copies of the octavo edition were printed. This copy has a small paper label mounted on the inside front wrapper: 'Publication No. 30. Permanent Record. 1938. Govt. Printer' with the signature in ink of Frank Trigg the incumbent. Lindsay's introduction hints at some of the personality problems that ultimately led to the abandonment of the expedition. This final report includes his own journal 'also a copy of Mr. Wells' journal kept during my absence from the party. Mr. Streich's journal having been in my possession I was enabled to place his geological descriptions on the map. Not having seen the journals or reports of Messrs. Leech Elliot and Helms I cannot in any way refer to them. I regret that Mr. Leech should have seen fit not to hand in the pencil sketches made by him'. Government Printer paperback
199969693North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case. Cloth; a fine set. One of only 400 numbered sets. The map in the original edition is here in duplicate; the second copy is the geological map overprinted in colour. Not previously reprinted hence great value at the price. Corkwood Press hardcover
199954792North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893; 2002 first thus; and 2003 first thus. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case the journal; oblong quarto xii pages plus 107 plates printed rectos only the photograph album; and octavo vi 133 pages the confidential report. Cloth; a fine set. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the journal are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. 4 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
2003146618North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 2003. Octavo vi 133 pages. Cloth; a fine copy. Number 15 of 400 copies. The Society 'had intended to publish this report enquiring what went wrong with the expedition. It is thought that the very embarassing nature of its content particularly the criticism levelled at leader David Lindsay by the scientific members of the expedition prevented it' publisher's introduction. Lindsay's decisions as leader were exonerated by the report. The last seven pages reprint an article from the Adelaide Register of 6 November 1894 'The Elder Expedition. Why it was abandoned. Revelations by the leader'; it is an account of an address given by Lindsay to the Australian Natives' Association. Corkwood Press hardcover
1988146394Sydney: Bay Books 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sydney Bay Books 1988. Quarto 168 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Gilt-lettered padded navy leather; small indentation to the first few leaves; a fine copy. The deluxe leather-bound issue. Bay Books hardcover
188118727London: Her Majesty''s Sationery Office 1881. Very good condition. Circular providing information to those emigrating to Australia with an Addendum inserted at the front listing important changes in eligibility requirements recently imposed by the Agent General for New South Wales. <br /> <br /> The addendum states the changes which will take effect following June 1 1881: "Emigrants will be required to pay a moiety of the passage money. Only married couples not exceeding 35 with our without children and single women will be eligible." The circular provides descriptions of New South Wales resources including gold mining: "The Government is empowered to proclaim Crown lands to be gold fields and to grant what are called "miners' rights on the payment of a small fee which enables any person to search or dig for gold. Leases of auriferous tracts of alluvial ground . for limited periods may be granted at annual rents under special conditions as regards labour and machinery". Also includes current price lists of clothing & food principal trades and rates of wages railways telegraphs and customs duties. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo circular 12pp with color folding map. Color map showing the counties in color as well as established railways and those in progress. Map by J. Bartholomew FRGS. Trove 2385679. Her Majesty''s Sationery Office hardcover
192028022Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria Australia. "Some facts about Victoria UST. - A Country which is progressive and prosperous where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed." For further information "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent. c/o Peck Judas Co. 687 Market St. San Francisco Cal."<br /> <br /> "The Government invites Settlers to come to Victoria preference being given to those experienced in Irrigation and possessed of sufficient Capital to take up land say $1500."<br /> <br /> 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" b&w map image with steamship lines in red verso with "Facts about Victoria. "Trove image: 26643672271. Government of the State of Victoria unknown
2019161628BartonACT: Engineers Australia 2019. new edition. As New. oblong quarto. laminated boards 236pp. colour & b/w plates text ills. glossary index Engineering Heritage Australia has produced a book of 100 significant Australian engineering achievements from the Stump Jump Plough to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Snowy Mountains Scheme. A celebration of our rich engineering heritage these stories will appeal to engineers and non-engineers alike and are accompanied by an array of remarkable images. Engineers have taken often visionary ideas and turned them into practical realities and the pages of this book highlight the combination of toil and genius which have shaped the Australia we live in today. Engineers Australia hardcover
14523The Oval cricket ground London 1948. A nice piece of cricket memorabilia. The match which Australia won is remembered as Bradman's last test in which he was bowled for a duck in the second innings denying him a three-figure average. On a 16 x 11 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Presented portrait-style with 'ENGLAND - OVAL - 1948' neatly written at the head. Beneath this in two irregular columns are the signatures of the players with the exception of the signature of Eric Hollies bowler of the ball which dismissed Bradman in the Australian second innings the signature of substitute Reg Simpson present instead. The signatories are in the first column: Jack Crapp John Dewes Allan Watkins Jack Young Alec Bedser Reg Simpson substitute for Eric Hollies; and in the second column: Norman Yardley Bill Edrich Denis Compton Len Hutton captain Godfrey Evans wicket-keeper. See signatures of the Australian Cricket Team 1948 #14522 above The Oval cricket ground, London, 1948. unknown
195588622Sydney: A.H. Pettifer 1955. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Blue flexible cloth covers; 484pp. Covers slightly rubbed; text mildly tanned but not brittle; solidly bound and unmarked. Very Good. Report of the Commission assembled to investigate Soviet espionage activities in Australia prompted by the revelations of defected spy Vladimir Petrov. The investigation concluded that the Soviets had been actively spying on Australian targets since WW2. A.H. Pettifer unknown
1935107885Eudunda: Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Eudunda Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. Oblong octavo 64 pages with 36 illustrations from photographs. Overlapping title-wrappers a little creased along the leading edges; later gift inscription on the front cover; neatly sealed tear to one leaf; an excellent copy. Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee paperback
1931105047Adelaide: Printed by The Hassell Press 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by The Hassell Press 1931. Octavo 136 pages with a few illustrations of exhibits and numerous advertisements many of them illustrated plus rear cover advertisements. Pictorial wrappers featuring a striking design by Rex Wood on the front cover; wrappers slightly creased with trifling loss to the corner-tips of the front cover and minor loss to the head of the spine; opening date pencilled at the head of the front cover; corners of the first dozen or so leaves lightly creased or curled; occasional pencilled check-marks; minor signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. The catalogue contains 1776 entries each containing a short description of the item and frequently the name of the lender. Printed by The Hassell Press paperback
1931127583Adelaide: The Hassell Press Printers 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Hassell Press Printers 1931. Octavo 136 pages with a few illustrations of exhibits and numerous advertisements many of them illustrated plus rear cover advertisements. Pictorial wrappers featuring a striking design by Rex Wood on the front cover slightly marked; essentially a fine copy. The catalogue contains 1776 entries each containing a short description of the item and frequently the name of the lender. The Hassell Press [Printers] paperback
1950137446Adelaide: Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd for the author 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd for the author 1950. Octavo 192 pages first leaf blank plus a plate a portrait of the author from a photograph. Flush-cut pale blue papered boards; covers unevenly sunned and a little marked with slight wear to the extremities; endpapers browned; hinge cracked at the front with the binding sound but tender; a very good copy. Including the original Indigenous inhabitants colonisation pastoral pioneers and more. Printed by The Mail Newspapers Ltd [for the author] hardcover
1927140425Adelaide: 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers . Wholly set up Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers-Limited' 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Adelaide 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers . Wholly set up Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers-Limited' 1927. Octavo 208 pages with numerous illustrations advertisements and tables plus 12 pages of inserted advertisements an 8-page section on green paper and two separate leaves on red paper and an errata slip tipped in at page 61. Three-colour pictorial wrappers a little marked and lightly worn at the extremities; bottom half of leaf 81/82 torn away removing part of a form for recording stock purchases and an advertisement respectively; leading edge a little stained bleeding slightly into the margin; minor signs of handling and use including some calculations in ink and pencil on four general expenditure pages with a short internal tear to one leaf; overall a decent copy. Copies in Trove and further details about this publication are scarce. The first volume was published in December 1925 at least one more volume appears to have been published and there is some variation in the titles. 'Compiled and Designed by The Farm and Station Handbook Publishers ... Wholly set up, Printed and Published by Sharples-Printers paperback
189515658Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1895. 2 volumes in-4 de VII-573et [2]-565 pages, pleine percaline verte, dos à 5 petits nerfs ornés de fleurons, filets, titre et tomaison dorés, filet doré encadrant les plats, initiales de l'auteur couronnées au coin supérieur des premiers plats, tranches teintées.
1918117018Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for The College 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for The College 1918. Octavo 16 pages. Title-wrappers a little creased marked and rubbed; a very good copy. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year. These traditional Speech Day lists of successes gained and prizes awarded are overshadowed by the lengthy Honour Roll of Old Collegians 'who were sent overseas or who expected to be sent at the time of the armistice' 7 pages. This is followed by a list a page and a half of those awarded military distinctions including Captain Hugo Throssell VC and a full page of those who did not return. Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College) paperback
