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1969028376Brisbane: Grevillea Press 1969. No 21 of limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author. 293pp 12 illustrations of the Irving Family. This is a family memoir which is divided into three parts depicting the early life of William Howe Irving from 1845 to 1885.Other historical characters represented are members or connnections of the families Howe Armstrong Scotland Irving Corser King and Armstrong Ireland. The book is in three parts: One: Ausralian Sons and Daughters 1854; Two: The English Arrivals 1865; and Three: The Irish Settlers 1852. . Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Grevillea Press Hardcover
1949143064Adelaide: The Company 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Company 1949. Quarto 36 pages with numerous illustrations and a colour frontispiece by Ian McBain. Cream cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in brown on the front cover; cloth slightly foxed; boards slightly bowed as often; an excellent copy. A 'With the Compliments' slip from the company is loosely inserted. A small pressed metal plaque celebrating the company's 100th anniversary is mounted on the half-title; we have not seen this before in the numerous copies we have handled. The Company hardcover
015266Sydney: Sydneysider Company No date c 1932. 52pp 23 poems on the page rectos with illustrations by French Paris Salon exhibition artists facing on the page versos. The title and facing pages have been lightly attached in one place causing the loss of a small section of the the word 'Sonnets' in the details of author's other books beneath the author's name on the title page. One or two minor closed page edge tears. Illustrated textured wrappers ligthtly worn at the spine foot. Note: 'Under the title 'A thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever' these poems some over noms-de-plume all appeared in The Sydneysider together with the companion reproductions of the paintings which inspired them'. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Decorations by Roy Hodgkinson. 4to. Sydneysider Company Paperback
18815Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 1879. In Swedish. Small octavo. 124 pages. Five illustrations titlepage and pp. 9 11 76 and 100 including one of kangaroos and another of 'King Okalia with suite'. Good in worn late 19th/early 20th century binding. Front wrap with illustration of aborigine throwing spear bound in. Bookplate of Gunnar von Heideken and neat initials of 'F. V. Hen' at head of wrap. Apparently an account of a stay in the area of Adelaide. Includes glosses in Swedish of such words as boomerangs bushrangers waddies piccaniny and swag. Intriguing to non-Swedish speakers mention of Lord Byron and Dick Turpin. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. 1879. unknown
192996747Thebarton: The School 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thebarton The School 1929. Octavo iv advertisements 64 4 advertisements pages with 14 illustrations and numerous advertisements plus cover advertisements. Colour pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with a few tiny edge tears to the rear panel; an excellent copy internally fine. This very detailed souvenir programme includes a six-page history of the school. The School paperback
78173Sydney Artt in Australia 1932. 4to. c.74pp. Colour and b/w illustrations a very good copy. First edition. Issue devoted to the work of Thea Proctor. Sydney Artt in Australia 1932. unknown
1939042081Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1939. vi 266pp bw ills. Or green cloth with circled kangaroo in gilt to front. Even toning to page edges spine a little faded endpapers toned. SIGNED by author on title page- "Cheerio. Ion L Idriess. 1939." . Signed by Author. National Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
1939024450Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1939. vi 266pp bw ills. Or green cloth with circled kangaroo in gilt to front. Very light foxing to page edges endpapers toned. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page- "To Beryl. May all your friends be true ones. Ion L Idriess. April 1941." . Signed & Inscribed By the Author. National Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
19700241095th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment 1970. 207pp profusely illustrated with photos in colour and in b/w with map of South Vietnam showing 5 RAR operation area with legend followed by 16pp of folding operation maps at the rear with a location map of Phouc Tuy Province and surrounds to the east of Saigon inset in blue on each. Decorated textured cloth boards gilt with 5 RAR crest on the front board. With dust-jacket which has a taped repair to a closed tear from the front panel to the spine foot. The jacket is lightly edge-worn with creases in the laminate at and by the spine. The book includes the Roll of Honour; Decorations and Awards: Citations; 5 RAR -- The Tigers: The Raising; Vietnam historically independent; Operations: 16 major oprations; Support: Armour Artillery Engineers and Air; The Enemy: The Vietcong and his supporters: A Pictorial Records: Peronalities how the war was really won pp122-200; The Nominal Roll. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment Hardcover
19700180005th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment 1970. 207pp profusely illustrated with photos in colour and in b/w with map of South Vietnam showing 5 RAR operation area with legend followed by 16pp of folding operation maps at the rear with a location map of Phouc Tuy Province and surrounds to the east of Saigon inset in blue on each. Insription on the half title page: 'To Father John from Karl Richardson RMO 5 RAR 1971-3'. Decorated textured cloth boards gilt with 5 RAR crest on the front board. The upper corners and spine foot are bumped. With dust-jacket which is worn with creases in the laminate and wear at the edges with loss at the corners and at the spine head and foot. The book includes the Roll of Honour; Decorations and Awards: Citations; 5 RAR -- The Tigers: The Raising; Vietnam historically independent; Operations: 16 major oprations; Support: Armour Artillery Engineers and Air; The Enemy: The Vietcong and his supporters: A Pictorial Records: Peronalities how the war was really won pp122-200; The Nominal Roll. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment Hardcover
1849115821London: John Murray 1849. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London John Murray 1849. Duodecimo xii 110 6 advertisements 16 'The South Australian Handbook Advertiser' pages but lacking the small folding map. Later binder's cloth retaining the original printed wrappers; all edges uncut; a short sealed tear to one preliminary leaf with a few tiny closed marginal tears elsewhere; light marginal tidemark to the front wrapper and title leaf; trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Provenance: Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope 1920-2018 Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' LCA obituary; his signature in pencil appears on the front free endpaper. Ferguson 5248 not noting that the wrappers have the details and full catalogue of Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library' printed on the inside front and both rear surfaces. John Murray 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
187780794London: Elliot Stock 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Elliot Stock 1877. Octavo iv 187 pages. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black on the spine and front cover and decorated in blind at the rear; cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; inner hinges neatly reinforced; endpapers and title page a little offset and foxed; Xmas 1886 'Ciphering Prize' presentation inscription on the front pastedown and an early ownership signature on the title page; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. An 'evangelical novel . which gives a most favourable impression of Adelaide as a pleasant place in which to live. One need not linger over the religious and psychological crudities in the novel - cards liquor dancing the theatre all are condemned in the customary dogmatic but dramatically unconvincing manner' Paul Depasquale: 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'. Elliot Stock hardcover
1910007036Auckland: Knyvett Defence Committee 1910 54pp stapled into printed pink paper wrappers spine split to lower half staples rusted minor soiling to wrappers clean enough copy very rare Knyvett brings to public attention the minutes of his court martial which resulted in his dismissal from service in 1910 for according to him 'unspecified charges'. First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Booklet. Knyvett Defence Committee paperback
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1989041063Woden Canberra.: Popinjay Publications 1989. Unpaginated approx 100pp. Or black buckram. Prev owner bookplate on front free endpaper. Limited edition of 40 copies bound in buckram by Capital Bookbinders and signed by Stephan Williams this being #6. . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. Popinjay Publications Hardcover
186877340Melbourne: Clarson Massina 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Clarson Massina 1868. Duodecimo 182 last blank 2 sectional title for 'An Australian Night's Entertainment' verso blank 48 pages. Original dark green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt; covers slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities; both inner hinges cracked causing the book block to drop but it is still firmly cased in with the muslin; edges a little marked or foxed with scattered foxing to the text; basically a very good copy. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed 1902-1995 Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide with his bookplate. Clarson, Massina hardcover
1994017587Nowra NSW: Alan Clark 1994. 60pp name index bw ills map. Or red pictorial card covers. Slightest of rubbing to covers. An account of the South Coast Recruiting march on New South Wales' south coast in 1915. The march started at Nowra and went through Berry Jamberoo Unanderra Kiama Dapto Port Kembla Wollongong and many other centers before ending at Sydney after 18 days. Includes the contents of the only known diary of a Waratah an account of the Waratahs at Pozieres details of 84 men who were almost certainly among the marchers and a selection of letters from Bert Rauch at the front. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Alan Clark Paperback
2003030993Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2003. xxiii 631pp index bibliography glossary appendices maps bw ills. Or pictorial laminated boards. Very slight bump at top front corner. Brings together Australian eyewitnes accounts of the Anglo-Boer War. Includes the guerilla phase of the war from July 1900 to May 1902 which has traditionally been avoided by writers with generally only superficial accounts previously published. Of importance to history students military enthusiaist collectors of medals and genealogists. The birth of the Australian spirit that became famous a generation later on the cliffs of Gallipoli. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Australian Military History Publications. Hardcover
1923034796Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. 1923. xxii276pp appendix bw ills maps. Or tan cloth lacking jacket. Small crease to cloth at mid-spine bottom corner of last 2 pages creased. Presentation slip from Auckland Returned Soldiers Association as prize for a 1926 essay competition laid onto front free endppaer signed by the president of the association. Content includes supply of reinforcements; seizure and occupation of Samoa; Senussi Campaign; The Work of the Philomel; NZ Army Nurses; NZ hospitals at Salonika Egypt and in the UK; NZ Hospital ships; NZ Dental Corps; NZ Veterinary Corps; Repatriation; War relief and patriotic societies; the peace conference; education in the NZEF; war finance and the NZ camps in England. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Hardcover
9946Melbourne 1914: Albert J Mullett Govt Printer. Pamphlet. <p>The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. The War - Temperance Measures in Russia.</p> <p><br /> The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia<br /> <br /> The War - Temperance Measures in Russia: despatch from his Majesty's Ambassador at Petrograd enclosing a memorandum on the subject of the temperance measures adopted in Russia since the outbreak of the European War<br /> <br /> Melbourne : Albert J Mullett Government Printer for the State of Victoria. No 108 - F6748.<br /> <br /> <br /> Folio 340x210mm cream single leaf printed to both sides 2pp<br /> <br /> When World War I broke out in 1914 almost all of the participant countries including Russia restricted alcohol. Because of the policies noted here closing all liquor outlets and prohibiting the sale of alcohol until the end of the war Russia was able to put its armies in the field much quicker than Germany securing early victories on the Eastern Front. Although the Tsar had been seeking to reduce his empire's reliance on and addiction to vodka spurred on by the Government's absolute control for some centuries of vodka production and distribution for some time in September 1914 he effectively invoked prohibition; making Russia the first prohibition country in the world five years early than the USA. Some scholars now contend that this prohibition and its economic consequences was one of the main causes contributing to the Russian Revolution. Prohibition of State controlled Vodka continued until Stalin came to power in 1924.<br /> <br /> The recipient Sir Edward Grey was the British Foreign Secretary. Why he forwarded it to the Australian Parliament or why it was published in 1915 is unclear; howeverduring World War I temperance and patriotism had become firmly welded together in the public's mind due to increased activism by the temperance movement. In 1915 there was a significant debate about temperance and its importance to the war effort. Bipartisan political and religious support meant that temperance measures but not prohibition were enacted throughout Australia such as early closing hours to 'preserve the empire' and 'support the troops'.<br /> <br /> An intriguing insight into the confluence of war and prohibition. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> § Trove records 1 holding. Only 950 copies were produced.</p> Albert J Mullett, Govt Printer unknown
1993134082Adelaide: The Book Collectors Society of South Australia 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Book Collectors Society of South Australia 1993. Octavo vi 18 pages. Card covers; a fine copy. Number 54 of 250 copies 200 for sale signed by Marcie Muir. This copy is additionally inscribed and signed by Muir to Flinders University librarian Noel Stockdale and by Michael Treloar who compiled the checklist of the eleven publications of Harry Muir's private press pages 16-17. <p>This is the second publication of the Book Collectors Society of South Australia. The Book Collectors Society of South Australia paperback