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1970135005La Paz: Impreso en Lito Unidas 1970. La Paz Impreso en Lito Unidas 1970. A large lithographed full-colour pictorial poster 780 × 528 mm unmounted as issued and rolled and stored since then; in fine condition. Provenance: the surname 'Prescott' is written in ink at the foot of the verso. John Russell Prescott 1924-2011 was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide in 1971 and from 1982 until his retirement in 1990 he was Elder Professor of Physics. 'His main research interest was in cosmic rays and he founded the cosmic ray research group at the University of Adelaide. While helping excavate at Roonka on the Murray he decided to apply his knowledge of physics to archaeology using the new technique of thermoluminescence dating. He set up a laboratory and luminescence soon began to dominate his academic research particularly after his notional retirement in 1990. <p>His fieldwork included Lake Mungo the Flinders Ranges and other sites in Australia China and Thailand. At the same time his interest in cosmic rays did not diminish and his paper on cosmic ray penetration in sediments is one of the most cited in the luminescence literature' information from his obituary in 'Adelaide Connect' on the University of Adelaide website. Impreso en Lito Unidas unknown
190855429London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Lane The Bodley Head 1908. Octavo xx 218 8 catalogue pages plus 136 plates. Gilt-decorated cloth top edge gilt; covers slightly flecked; spine lightly sunned; rear endpaper a little offset and creased; an excellent copy. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker 1841-1911; barrister pastoralist and influential South Australian politician. Baker was one of the founding fathers of Federation and the first President of the Senate in the first Commonwealth Parliament. One of the Spanish Series edited by Calvert. John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover
1985774730PN. New. 1985. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1977026318Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service 1977. Book. Very Good . Card Covers. Edition Not Stated. VG Mild wear. Contents: The Prime Minister's Letter; 6 Ministerial Statements; 3 Leaflets; 3 Hansard Lift-outs; 10 Background Papers; 3 Maps & 1 page of photographs of Kakadu National Park. Enclosed in a slightly torn & stained card folder. Photo on request. Australian Government Publishing Service Paperback
1970056464Adelaide: Rigby 1970. 209pp index bw ills. Brown cloth in jacket. Light toning to page edges occasional very light foxing. The early settlement of western Queensalnd including the battles with Aborigines cattle duffers and the Kenniffs colonial characters discovery of gold and the writing of Waltzing Matilda. Scarce as hard cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
1911102651Adelaide: Hunkin Ellis & King General Printers 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Hunkin Ellis & King General Printers 1911. Tall octavo 108 pages with numerous advertisements many with illustrations plus 12 plates mainly portraits. Purple wrappers saddle-stapled to colour pictorial card covers with advertisements printed on all surfaces of both the wrappers and card covers; the edges of the wrappers have been expertly conserved but the poor-quality stock is heavily mottled and the gilt-printed outer surfaces are now competing with the black-printed inner surfaces which are bleeding through; for the rest apart from a trifling production flaw a temoin - an untrimmed dog-ear - to one leaf the deluxe programme itself is in very fine condition. Hunkin, Ellis & King, General Printers paperback
1911117025Sydney: George B. Philip & Son 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Sydney George B. Philip & Son 1911. 127 × 60 mm 86 pages plus numerous advertising leaves including an extensive university text book catalogue by Philip & Son full-page plates and a folding map. Full dark blue leather with the title and university crest in gilt on the front cover all edges gilt; an excellent copy. Offered with copies of the Students' Handbooks for the Universities of Melbourne The Atlas Press - E. Newlands 1910; full leather and Adelaide Vardon & Sons 1913; cloth presented by the respective University Christian Unions. They are both in excellent condition and in a similar format albeit with less content. 3 items. George B. Philip & Son hardcover
1950112442Adelaide: Universal Business Directories 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories 1950. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xxii 482 pages with 2 maps. Two-colour card covers; long tear to the front cover expertly sealed with minimal infill to the bottom left-hand corner; small tidemark to the bottom left-hand corner of the two advertising leaves; spine and edges a little sunned; short sealed tear to the leading edge of the rear cover with short closed tears to the blank leading margin of the last ten leaves; a very good copy basically unread. The towns include Alice Springs and Broken Hill. Universal Business Directories paperback
1952112450Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xii 306 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked; top corner lightly bumped throughout; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1954112451Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. Quarto xx 302 pages with 5 maps illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus a two-colour leaf of advertisements one for Coca-Cola after page 280. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; small light tidemark to the foot of the spine; top corner lightly bumped towards the rear of the book; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955112439Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxvi 362 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 338. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine very lightly chipped and sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1953112455Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. Quarto ii two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned and marked; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956112449Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxii 410 pages with 6 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 388. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; top corner of the front cover and the first third of the book a little bumped; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956112453Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto x two-colour advertisements xiv 288 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered 8-page section of two-colour advertisements after page 282. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955112452Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto xii two-colour advertisements xvi 284 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1952112454Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked and very lightly chipped; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1934144537London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1.: Lenare 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 28 George Street Hanover Square W.1. Lenare 1934. Two large-format gelatin silver photographs each 351 × 264 mm signed by the photographer in the negative with his studio inkstamp and manuscript reference number on the versos. Some silvering-out mainly around the edges; tiny creases to the corners of the white margins of one print; overall in excellent condition loosely inserted in the original cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on the padded front panel in excellent condition albeit with a spot of surface wear near the middle of the spine. Clarrie Grimmett the NZ-born Australian Test cricketer was one of the finest leg-spinners of his time. He is photographed in two different poses: head-and-shoulders from the side wearing his cap and blazer; and three-quarter length from the front wearing pullover and blazer with cap in hand. Lenare was the professional name of Leonard George Green 1883-1946; he specialised in society portraits at his London studio. <p>Provenance: Clarrie Grimmett originally purchased at the Christie's auction of the Clarrie Grimmett Collection sold in Melbourne on 13 May 1998. Grimmett played 37 Tests between 1924 and 1936 taking 216 wickets at an average of 24.21. His record for the fastest bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests achieved in his 36th match stood for 82 years and was broken only in 2018. His first-class record of 1424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941 includes 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931 along with Don Bradman. He was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. 2 items. Lenare hardcover
1999140188North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 first thus/ 1834. Octavo xlvi 298 pages with a frontispiece plus a colour map and 14 plates 4 in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine colour-pictorial dustwrapper. One of the 'Les Hiddins Series of Explorers' Journals'. Corkwood Press hardcover
1963141195Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1963 facsimile edition/ 1833. Octavo two volumes iv lxxx 219 and iv vi 271 pages plus plates and maps one folding. Full leather pigskin - a presentation binding; boards slightly bowed; endpapers and the margins of the first and last few leaves in each volume slightly tanned; an excellent set. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 4. Peade A4: 1117 sets. A personal bookplate is mounted on the front free endpaper of the first volume; a short letter relating to the gift of these volumes is loosely inserted. 2 items. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1999146555North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 new edition reset/ 1833. Octavo xlvi 298 pages plus 17 pages of plates including a colour double-page map and 4 illustrations in full colour. Full black calf lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; a fine copy. Number 15 of only 30 copies of the deluxe issue all inscribed dated September 1999 and signed by Les Hiddins who provided the introduction new to this edition. Corkwood Press hardcover
198273994Lane Cove: Doubleday 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Lane Cove Doubleday 1982 facsimile edition/ 1833. Octavo two volumes ii lxxx 219 and ii vi 271 pages plus 18 plates and a folding map. Synthetic cloth; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers. Doubleday hardcover
1988141109Berri: The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Berri The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd. 1988. Quarto 127 pages with numerous illustrations mostly in colour from artworks by Robert Pope and Robert Todonai plus pictorial endpapers. Quarter contrasting gilt-decorated cloth; spine very slightly sunned; a near-fine copy. The Bonum Research Centre Pty. Ltd hardcover
194557740Melbourne NT: Georgian House 1945. 8vo. 144 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth dark blue lettering on spine minor rubbing edgewear faint tidemark to upper right corner first few leaves w/ d.j. wraparound cover art edgewear rubbing still VG/VG copy. First edition of this oral memoir as told to Elisabeth George describing the efforts of Bill & Henriette Pierce Canadian ex-pats in the Northern Territory tin mines and later in Marranboy before opening their store at Daly Waters. They detail the growth of the airways the impact of World War II and a substantial amount of positive interaction and appreciation of the local aborigines. Georgian House, hardcover
1996100257Lyndoch: Pump Press 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Lyndoch Pump Press 1996. Octavo 5 1 colophon pages with a tipped-in photograph. Overlapping cord-bound card covers; titling label; a fine copy. With a 4-page ALS from Gerald Fischer to Sir Walter Crocker loosely inserted. Pump Press Pamphlet Number 22. One of only 65 copies. Pump Press paperback
1916026991Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. 160pp few b/w plates. The spine binding is slackening although no pages seem to be detached. Endpapers toned. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name with ownership statement on the front paste-down another prev owners name torn from top of title page. Decorative cloth boards. The boards are heavily silverfished with the decoration on the front board almost the only undamaged part of the original binding. Most of the spine title is still legible. Somewhat ugly but an extremely scarce first edition. An account of the author's time at Gallipoli and in the trenches as a rank and file soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
