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115 pages. Black and white photos. Above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Unmarked. Covers tanned with age. Faint name atop front cover. Book
130 pages. Black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
126 pages. Black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
111 pages. Black and white photos. Above-average wear externally. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
106 pages. Black and white photos. Above-average wear externally. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
107 pages. Black and white photos. Above-average wear externally. Unmarked. Textblock free from covers which are present. Last page affixed inside back cover. Book
95 pages. Black and white photos. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Binding intact. Unmarked. Covers tanned with age. Book
2002141804Melbourne: Black Inc 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Black Inc. 2002 first thus/ 1961 first edition published by Melbourne University Press. Octavo viii 404 pages. Colour-pictorial card covers lightly bumped on the spine; front cover slightly creased; text block tanned around the margins; a very good copy. 'The text of the original book has not been altered. Some usages generally accepted in 1961 may now distract or jar .' author's note printed on page vii. However new to this edition is the lengthy and important 'Epilogue 1959-2002' pages 323-404. <p>Provenance: Australian historian Professor Hugh Stretton 1924-2015 and his wife Pat with a presentation inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: 'For Hugh who sent me in Providence R.I. the first copy I ever saw inscribed "With compliments to the author" and for Pat to whom I had self-indulgently given a set of proofs with love from Ken March 2004'. Black Inc paperback
1931HM268121931 96 p., 27 pls (among which two large, folded col. maps), large 4to, hcloth (original front cover laid on). Ex library Dr. Max Weber (with his stamp).
1894109597Adelaide: School of Design Art Club 1894. Very Good. Adelaide School of Design Art Club 1894. Octavo 43 pages with a full-page illustration the author's monogram. Flush-cut card lettered in gilt on the front cover a little foxed and nicked with a chip to the foot of the spine; a very good copy. Harry Pelling Gill 1855-1916 art curator and teacher at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting Gill assumed control of all the board's art teaching activities. His growing authority in art matters his self-confidence and abrasive manner and his attitude toward other art schools led to criticism. Critics found Gill a vain man who controlled lucrative and influential art offices and who disdained the democratic brotherhood of art. His supporters admitted that he could be uncompliant and disagreeable but said that he had worked hard was a good judge of the monetary value of pictures saved the board expense and was a courageous and incorruptible curator. He supported and reorganized the South Australian Society of Arts and was its first president elected from the fellows 1909-11' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; this entry contains one of the few errors we have noted in the ADB - the title of this book is given as 'The Straight and Crooked Paths of Studentship'. School of Design Art Club unknown
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages unmarked; tight binding. 439 pages. Some water damage to lower corner of pages. Second edition of 1500 copies. Many b&w photos.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears.175 pages, fold-out map at back in excellent condition, full color photos throughout.
1937144807Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth a little stained and marked; a very good copy internally fine. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter DSO 1885-1963 the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. He states in the introductory paragraph to his foreword that he is 'keenly sensible of the fact that probably a book three times larger could have been written had it been possible to get in touch with the men of the Battalion who were in a position to know well the activities of their various Companies. <p>The story such as it is is correct as to salient facts and this is entirely owing to the fact that Colonel Carter soon after his return to Australia wrote a complete Diary of the Battalion's movements and operations from the early days in Egypt to the Armistice'. Herbert Gordon Carter was a very interesting man: consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1937127709Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 large folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth lightly marked; endpapers offset; essentially a fine copy of a very rare book. The author was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1937132767Adelaide: The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Collotype Co. Commercial Printers for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club 1937. Quarto 116 pages with 19 full-page plates plus 2 folding maps. Blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover along with the battalion's colour patch a rectangle white around purple - here blue; cloth a little marked and rubbed and lightly bumped at the extremities; top edge and endpapers a little foxed; endpapers offset; trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy of a very rare book. The book includes a five-page Honor Roll and a preface by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter DSO 1885-1963 the Battalion's Commanding Officer from August 1916 to the end of the war. The editor was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. He states in the introductory paragraph to his foreword that he is 'keenly sensible of the fact that probably a book three times larger could have been written had it been possible to get in touch with the men of the Battalion who were in a position to know well the activities of their various Companies. <p>The story such as it is is correct as to salient facts and this is entirely owing to the fact that Colonel Carter soon after his return to Australia wrote a complete Diary of the Battalion's movements and operations from the early days in Egypt to the Armistice'. Herbert Gordon Carter was a very interesting man: consult the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club] hardcover
1986145851Burra: Investigator Press Pty. Limited for District Council of Burra Burra 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Burra Investigator Press Pty. Limited for District Council of Burra Burra 1986. Quarto x 475 pages with numerous maps and illustrations many from photographs including 2 colour maps one double-page and 15 colour plates. Cloth; leading edge a little thumbed; a few relevant newspaper clippings taped to the front pastedown; light pencil highlighting in the acknowledgements; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper slightly sunned marked and chipped with the laminate beginning to lift. A presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author to Jack Connell mentioned in the acknowledgements. Investigator Press Pty. Limited for District Council of Burra Burra hardcover
1953144737Bordertown: Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Bordertown Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees 1953. Octavo 68 pages plus 18 pages of plates including 2 maps and a plan. Overlapping pictorial wrappers with French flaps; wrappers unevenly tanned with a few small marks; edges slightly creased; tiny chips at the head of the spine; ownership signature on the half-title; a very good copy. Printed by the 'Border Chronicle' for the 'Back to Keith' and Hospital Building Committees paperback
1986BIB329155Burra SA: The District Council of Burra Burra. 1986. Quarto Size approx 22x28cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Inscribed by the author to previous owner. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Maps. An uncommon title. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 475 pages. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. The District Council of Burra Burra hardcover
1925BIB261567Sydney: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company Australasia Limited. 1925. Small Quarto Size. Very Good Condition. Lovely deep brown boards with copper-look embossing to face. The light coloured patches behind the ship are a little rubbed on some volumes. Each book is a little worn at corners and spine ends. Some volumes are also a little rubbed at edges. All volumes have previous owner's bookplate stuck to front pastedown. Several volumes are lightly cracked between the half-title and title pages - the binding is solid otherwise. Gilt to top-edge now dulled. Illustrated with black and white plates. Still a very attractive set. This is a heavy set so please contact us for a shipping quote. . Volume 1: Searching for a Continent; Volume 2:Exploring the Continent; Volume 3: Settling a Continent; Volume 4: Developing a Continent; Volume 5: Governing a Continent; Volume 6: The Pioneers. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. 1st thus. Hardback. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Australasia) Limited hardcover
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
194134Sydney: Fairfax 1941. xx 169 pages. Quarto. Quarter calf; papered boards. Colour frontispiece and many illusts. Scarce. Very Good. Fairfax hardcover
20117718Bexley: Sydney Technical High School 2011. Quarto. 624 pages. Many b/w photos and text illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Hard Cover. Fine. Sydney Technical High School Hardcover
1970000589Wellington: Reed 1970 VG copy SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page 249pp many plates map end papers former owners name to fep tipped in newspaper cutting review of the book plus one page typescript giving some of 'Rakiura's' unwritten history mainly to do with the opening and ownership of the Oban hotel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Reed hardcover
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown books
1883513221883. Western Australian Statutes 1883 Australia. The Statutes Of Western Australia. By Authority. Melbourne: M'Carron Bird & Co. 1883. 2 volumes. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary calf rebacked lettering pieces to spine. Moderate rubbing with some wear to extremities internally clean. Ex-library with shelf location labels to spines small property stamps to title pages. $500. Contents digested alphabetically. Topics include Aborigines administration of justice admiralty lands aliens hawking immigrants industrial schools intestates' estates jetties and bridges juries joint stock companies justices of the peace wild horses and wrecks. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 6:91. unknown
