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1939140988Adelaide: Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. Duodecimo 48 pages pages 44-48 numbered but otherwise blank. Flush-cut limp red cloth slightly sunned about the spine with the rear cover very slightly marked; an excellent copy. The word 'SECRET' is printed in the top corner of the front cover. 'This book is published for the use of Special Constables only and is not to be shown to or left about where it may come into the hands of other persons . Upon the holder ceasing to hold office as a Special Constable the book must immediately be returned to the Police Department .' page 3. Trove records only two copies. Frank Trigg, Government Printer hardcover
1911142584Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1911 first edition. Octavo 156 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus a small colour map with an illustration on the verso a full-page colour plate and 2 folding colour maps. Attractive colour-pictorial wrappers; minor loss to the head and foot of the spine; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Numerous dates in the 'Facts about South Australia' at the rear of the book and contemporary newspaper reviews support this figure. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback
1913142583Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1913. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 'Third Edition' printed at the head of the title page 1913. Octavo x 167 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus a large folding colour map and an addendum slip tipped in on page 145 dated 1 November 1916 it relates to the impact of the War on the cost of living. Attractive colour-pictorial wrappers a little rubbed with a small chip to the foot of the spine; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. The date comes from Trove; numerous dates in the 'Facts about South Australia' at the rear of the book support this figure. R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback
1939124430Adelaide: Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Frank Trigg Government Printer 1939. Duodecimo 48 pages pages 44-48 numbered but otherwise blank. Flush-cut limp red cloth slightly rubbed; rear cover slightly marked; a light crease to the the first 18 leaves; annotations in ink on one of the blank pages perhaps a list of share-holdings; an excellent copy with 'SECRET' printed in the top corner of the front cover. Trove records only two copies. Frank Trigg, Government Printer hardcover
1879123653Adelaide: E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Acting Government Printer 1879. Octavo 31 pages. Flush-cut card with the full title page details reprinted within a decorative border on the front cover; new plain paper spine; covers a little marked chipped and creased; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy internally excellent. The Adelaide 'Advertiser' of 10 June 1890 makes reference to a recently published 'Marine Board Directory . a mercantile navy list containing the names of masters and mates of the Mercantile Marine of South Australia'. We find no record of that edition nor of the much earlier one we have for sale in Trove. E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer unknown
1925177239Adelaide.: The Intelligence and Tourist Bureau. 1925. Concertina style brochure that folds up to 29 x 10cm with two coloured maps one of central Adelaide: Scale 3 inches to a mileand the other of Adelaide and Suburbs: 2 1/4 inches to 3 miles1925. Descriptive text on the rear wrappers and advertisements for Adelaide's leading cafes. Some foxing & very slight insect holes to one fold slightly discoloured crease to top front cover corner but a very good copy. Printed by H.E. Powell Government Photographer Adelaide. 55 x 28cm A delightful glimpse of Adelaide and environs that includes adverts for excursions to the Mt. Lofty ranges by Char-a-Banc . The Intelligence and Tourist Bureau unknown
1840131291London: 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1840. Very Good. London 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 10 April 1840. Foolscap folio 32 pages last one a docket with numerous tables and lists. Sewn as issued the thread recently renewed and now holding a place a piece of archival paper protecting the spine; all edges uncut; first and last pages unevenly tanned and lightly foxed; leading edge of the first leaf lightly chipped; light tidemark to the top and bottom margins of four consecutive leaves; a very good copy. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 223 of 1840. The full title runs to 23 lines enumerating ten separate returns. 'Contains valuable information with respect to many South Australian subjects' Ferguson but the perennial value of this paper is the headline one which runs to eleven pages. Its complete title is 'A Return of the Quantity of Land in South Australia sold by the Colonization Commissioners since the 5th day of May 1835:- Of the Amount of Money paid for the same in London and the Names of the Purchasers:- Of the Amount of Money paid to Agents in England and Scotland as Commission on Sales effected through their Agency specifying the Name of the Agent and the Name of the Purchaser on whose Purchase Commission has been charged'. Ferguson 3002. 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed' unknown
1840132007London: 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 10 April 1840. Foolscap folio 32 pages last one a docket with numerous tables and lists. Uncut and sewn as issued; outer pages lightly marked; occasional light foxing; an excellent copy in a fine custom-made Solander box with a leather title-label on the spine. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 223 of 1840. The full title runs to 23 lines enumerating ten separate returns. 'Contains valuable information with respect to many South Australian subjects' Ferguson but the perennial value of this paper is the headline one which runs to eleven pages. Its complete title is 'A Return of the Quantity of Land in South Australia sold by the Colonization Commissioners since the 5th day of May 1835:- Of the Amount of Money paid for the same in London and the Names of the Purchasers:- Of the Amount of Money paid to Agents in England and Scotland as Commission on Sales effected through their Agency specifying the Name of the Agent and the Name of the Purchaser on whose Purchase Commission has been charged'. Ferguson 3002. Provenance: the signature 'C.A.S. Hawker' is written in pencil at the head of the first page. Charles Allan Seymour Hawker 1894-1938 politician and pastoralist: his grandfather George Charles Hawker arrived in Adelaide with his brother Charles in September 1840. They settled on land at Bungaree near Clare in December 1841; C.A.S. Hawker he was born there. He was seriously wounded on several occasions at the Western Front losing one eye and 'his legs were in surgical irons to the end of his life'. He was a minister in the Lyons Government from 1932 until he 'was killed on 25 October 1938 when the aircraft "Kyeema" crashed into Mount Dandenong in Victoria. His untimely death was sharply felt. He had been an outstanding and respected figure in the Federal parliament whom some of his own party would have supported as prime minister. John Curtin the Opposition leader believed he had been on the threshold of great achievements' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed' hardcover
190684574Adelaide 1906. Fair. Adelaide 1906 facsimile of Number 1 1878 facsimile of Number 2 and 1837 to 1840. Tabloid approximately 128 issues each generally 4 to 6 pages but Number 10 lacks the last leaf. Unbound as published more than half of them or disbound with some inner marginal blemishes; marginal stains to a few early issues; occasional signs of use and age; the first issue on acidic paper discoloured and brittle; overall in decent condition. The original first number was published in London the second one in Adelaide almost a year later. Although the originals of these two significant issues are not present in this run it must be said that ALL of these early issues of South Australia's first newspaper are utterly rare on the open market and the opportunity to purchase virtually all of the first three years' worth and more will probably not arise again. unknown
184380073London: J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert 1843. Octavo 32 pages plus a small folding map 205 × 156 mm an engraving of Adelaide and 2 full-page lithographs: 'Farm of J. Barton Hack . Echiunga sic Springs Mount Barker' and two portraits on the one plate of Kertamaroo King John and Mogata his wife. Later half calf and cloth retaining the original pale yellow front wrapper lettered 'South Australia in 1842' and with numerous binder's blanks at the rear to make a more substantial object; covers slightly rubbed at the extremities and high spots; wrapper lightly stained and creased with the leading edge neatly reinforced presumably when the binding was done; first and last leaves lightly foxed with the last one lightly marked; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy. This copy contains the armorial bookplate of Henry Percival Moore and his pencilled ownership initials on an early binder's blank. Moore was the Colonial Manager for the South Australian Company from 1901 to 1929. Interestingly the lithographs are by George French Angas from the artwork of others 'a sketch by Col. Gawler' in the first instance and from drawings 'Model'd from life by Mrs Walker - cropped to Walk' in the second. There are some extracts from official reports and various statistics up to August 1842 but the book is comprised predominantly of first-hand accounts often in the form of lengthy quotes from letters from settlers. The passage of time puts things into perspective. There is a PS to Alexander Lorimer's letter: 'I have neglected to mention that vineyards are forming by many of the settlers'. The closely-printed two pages on Aborigines concludes with this paragraph: 'It is hoped that a conviction of the deep responsibility which we have incurred toward the aboriginal inhabitants of that beautiful country of which we have taken possession will render the minuteness of the preceding information not unacceptable'. Ferguson 3721 not mentioning Angas nor identifying the author. Susan Woodburn has recently alerted us to a paragraph in the 'Adelaide Observer' of 1 July 1843: 'The "South Australian News" of January last announces the publication of a pamphlet to be entitled "South Australia in 1842" not by "One who is going" but by "One who lived there four years". We understand it will contain a full true and particular account of the Colony and be embellished with views of Adelaide Mr Hack's Farm and the portraits of two natives King John and his wife. We suspect our friend David McLaren to be the author of the pamphlet'. David McLaren 1785-1850 arrived at Kingscote Kangaroo Island in April 1837 as the second colonial manager of the South Australian Company. He left Adelaide on his return to London in January 1841 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. J.C. Hailes and S. Gilbert hardcover
196783236Sydney: Reed 1967. Hardcover. Fine. Sydney Reed 1967 facsimile edition/ 1847. Imperial folio 10 pages plus an extra colour pictorial title page 60 colour plates each with at least one leaf of descriptive text facsimile covers of the original ten parts and the certificate of limitation. Half morocco and marbled papered boards; trifling external signs of handling; essentially a fine copy. Number 535 of 1000 copies of this fine facsimile. The Indigenous Australian content is considerable and significant: 22 of the 60 plates and the accompanying leaves of text are devoted exclusively to the state's Aborigines and they are depicted in a further five plates and on the pictorial title page. There are numerous portraits usually four or more to a page plus groups of artefacts and scenes of daily life from different areas of South Australia. Reed hardcover
1880010830Adelaide : E. Spiller Government Printer North Terrace 1880. Book measures 33x22.cm. First work as listed 79pp. Bound with. South Australia Statistical Register 1879. Compiled from Offical Records. Published by E. Spiller. Adelaide.1880. In 7 parts collation 18 3547 96 20 2335pp 10pp appendix. Bound in period half calf calf corners cloth boards gilt lettering. Binding heavily worn top board loose library label. Binding in good condition. Internally occsaional library stamp about 10 in all . some light tanning. Pages in good clean condition. A good copy. . Half Calf. Good Plus. Large Quarto. E. Spiller Government Printer, North Terrace Hardcover
183864089London: Robert Tyas 1838. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Robert Tyas 1838 'Second Edition considerably augmented'/ 1837. Octavo vi 118 4 publisher's catalogue pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding map 147 × 268 mm comprising a map of Australia with South Australia marked out a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St Vincent and a plan of Adelaide. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt within a decorative border on the front cover; cloth a little sunned about the spine mottled and lightly marked; corners slightly bumped with minimal wear to the extremities; minor foxing confined mainly to the folding leaf of statistics and adjacent leaves the advertisements and the last few leaves of text; an excellent copy. Robert Tyas hardcover
183880160London: Robert Tyas 1838. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Robert Tyas 1838 second edition 'considerably augmented'/ 1837. Octavo vi 118 pages plus a folding leaf of shipping statistics and a folding frontispiece 147 × 268 mm containing on it a map of Australia with South Australia marked out a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St Vincent and a plan of Adelaide. Original cloth slightly mottled and a little silverfish-nibbled; spine renewed with most of the original spine retained; frontispiece a little foxed; an excellent copy. Provenance: Robert Kyffin Thomas with his ownership signature 1902 on the front flyleaf. Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas 1851-1910 the grandson of Robert Thomas who arrived on the 'Africaine' at Holdfast Bay in 1836 with a printing press was himself an influential newspaperman in the state. Ferguson 2452 our copy does not have the four pages of 'book advertisements' clearly never present. Robert Tyas hardcover
1936118163Adelaide: 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Published by the Artist Lionel Coventry 15 Fashoda Street Hyde Park South Australia' 1936. Quarto xvi pages plus 106 full-page caricatures rectos only with brief biographical details of each subject on the facing verso. Eight leaves are printed on matte green paper; all others are printed on gloss white paper. Three-colour pictorial cloth a little rubbed scuffed and lightly sunned and bumped; a very good copy internally in fine condition. Number 73 of 120 copies numbered and initialled by the artist. 'Published by the Artist, Lionel Coventry, 15 Fashoda Street, Hyde Park, South Australia' hardcover
195017707Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth a little scuffed and sunned; small erasure to an early page; a very good copy. Number 123 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 15 December 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
195095964Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth slightly sunned and flecked; an excellent copy. Number 84 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 20 November 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
1846139438London: T. and W. Boone 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London T. and W. Boone 1846. Octavo ii x 361 pages with 7 illustrations in the text 2 full-page plus 5 plates 4 tinted a map and a large folding hand-coloured map by John Arrowsmith printed surface 613 × 494 mm sheet size 683 × 530 mm in a pocket. Three additional advertisements from the publisher are tipped in namely: on the front endpaper 2 pages for J. Lort Stokes' expedition; before page 1 a slip printed recto only for Eyre; and on the rear flyleaf an 8-page catalogue for T. and W. Boone's 'Library of Australian Travels'. Original brown ribbed cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with the sides decorated in blind; all edges uncut; cloth slightly chipped at the head of the spine with the joints slightly split now protected with a Mylar dustwrapper; folding map lightly offset and marked; plates and adjacent pages a little foxed and offset; stitching slightly strained near the centre of the textblock; a few other minor signs of age and handling; overall an excellent copy of a scarce work difficult to find in this condition and rarely found complete with the map. A presentation copy inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'Mrs T. Wilkinson with the authors kind regard'. <p>Wantrup: 'Thomas & William Boone's Library of Australian Travels' page 81 this copy conforming with his Aii variant. Ferguson 4267. T. and W. Boone hardcover
1978145944Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint 1978 facsimile edition/ 1846. Octavo ii x 361 pages with a few illustrations plus 5 tinted plates and a colour map. Foil-blocked black cloth; covers slightly rubbed with tiny wear on the rear board; an excellent copy. Not identified as such but limited to 500 copies and issued without the large Arrowsmith map found in an endpocket in the original edition. Austaprint hardcover
BIB287029Adelaide: Austaprint. 19781846. Octavo Size approx 14x23cm. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Attractive black cloth binding with gold gilt illustration of a miner blocked on front board and silver lettering on front board and spine. Three-toned colour illustrations and maps. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 361pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1846 1st edition published by T and W Boone London. . Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Austaprint hardcover
186612625London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. Octavo xii 474 2 16 catalogue pages plus a folding hand-coloured frontispiece map 370x325mm. Original blind-stamped cloth; new endpapers retaining the bookplate of Arthur Kingston Moore; first and last leaves foxed; map slightly foxed with the leading margin slightly chipped and sunned; a very good copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
186669158London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Son and Marston 1866. Octavo xii 474 2 16 catalogue pages plus a folding hand-coloured frontispiece map 370 × 325 mm. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities and slightly worn at the head of the front hinge; map very slightly chipped on the two bottom corners when folded with two short tears expertly repaired; a very good copy internally a fine uncut copy. The author was 'late Member of the Legislative Council at Adelaide' from 1855 to 1864; he was also George Fife Angas's agent in SA from 1841 to 1844. This copy comes from the collection of the South Australian historian and bibliographer Thomas Gill with his signature on the flyleaf and the first contents page along with his attractive ownership stamp based on the letter G. His collection was bequeathed to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia which later disposed of duplicates; this copy has the cancelled RGSSA stamp on the title page and the John Goodchild-designed Gill bequest bookplate on the front pastedown. Ferguson 9691 not recording the map. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
1838140755London: Harvey and Darton 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Harvey and Darton 1838 first edition. Duodecimo viii 136 pages. Original full dark green leather extensively decorated in blind on both sides recently rebacked in dark green calf retaining an early cloth backstrip and small leather title-label with slight loss; new marbled endpapers; leather worn at the extremities with the corners of the boards rounded off; all edges gilt; minor signs of age and use including some early pencilling most of it lightly erased; overall a very good copy. A presentation copy in a presentation binding inscribed on the flyleaf to 'The Revd. H.M. Villiers with the author's best regards'. <p>Robert Gouger 1802-1846 'Earnest persistent and practical . with a pleasant manner and a persuasive tongue but he was inclined to exaggerate his own republican views and the virtues of South Australia. With his youthful looks and boyish ardour he was often thought to be brash and reckless yet he was South Australia's most devoted promoter' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'The South Australian Act was passed in August 1834 and a month later Gouger presented his library of colonial books to the South Australian Literary and Scientific Association. After much delay and more hard work by Gouger the South Australian Colonization Commission was gazetted in May 1835. Its first appointment was Gouger as colonial secretary a recognition of faithful service that was affirmed even by the Colonial Office'. <p>He arrived on the 'Africaine' in November 1836. His young wife and new-born son both died five months later. He 'bought eight town acres 3.2 ha at Adelaide's first land sale and began to build a house but was soon entangled in the party factions that bedevilled the new settlement. He quarrelled with Osmond Gilles; after a public brawl they were both arrested and Gouger was suspended. By way of Hobart Town he left in November 1837 for England where he was reinstated by the Colonization Commission raised funds for a Congregational chapel in Adelaide and published "South Australia in 1837; in a series of letters with a postscript as to 1838". In October 1838 he married his cousin Sarah Whittem of Kenilworth. <p>Gouger returned to Adelaide in June 1839 and resumed office but his health began to fail. Soon after Governor Sir George Grey arrived he was appointed colonial treasurer. He bore the brunt of Grey's economic reorganization until August 1844 when he had to apply for leave because of mental affliction. He had also suffered in the depression but his claims for a pension and repayment of salary lost during his suspension were refused by the Colonial Office. Although Gouger had £1700 worth of securities the sale of his effects yielded barely enough for him to return to London with his family. He died at Kensington on 4 August 1846 survived by his widow two sons and a daughter'. Ferguson 2497. <p>Provenance: Henry Montagu Villiers 1813-1861 bishop of Durham fifth son of George Villiers 1759-1827 and younger brother of George William Frederick Villiers fourth earl of Clarendon . In 1836 he was ordained to the curacy of Deane Lancashire and on 25 Jan. 1837 was removed to the vicarage of Kenilworth Warwickshire. The lord chancellor Lord Lyndhurst gave him the wealthy rectory of St. George's Bloomsbury London in 1841 and it was as rector of St. George's that he made his reputation displaying great ability and untiring zeal in the management of his large parish. He was an extreme low churchman and especially appealed as a preacher to the poor. The dissenters in his vestry eagerly supported him and with men of every sect and stamp who belonged to the evangelical order he avowed the fullest sympathy. He introduced an admirable system of management into his parochial schools. From 26 March 1847 to 1856 he was a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. In June 1860 he was translated to the see of Durham. Great things were expected from his energy and tact in Durham where the spiritual provisions were very deficient; but he died at the Castle Bishop Auckland on 9 Aug. 1861' 'Dictionary of National Biography'. <p>The book later entered the collection of Sir Archibald Grenfell Price 1892-1977 geographer historian and educationist; his armorial bookplate has been remounted on the renewed pastedown. Harvey and Darton hardcover
1876138384London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. Octavo xvi 432 pages plus 66 engraved plates a folding table a folding full-colour map of Australia 320 × 400 mm and a large folding map of South Australia 795 × 545 mm with minimal colour in an endpocket. Cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities with the rear top corner a little bumped; edges slightly marked or darkened; front free endpaper slightly cracked near the head of the hinge with a small piece snipped from the top corner; tiny splits at a few intersecting folds in the map; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. An undervalued work: the plates wood engravings from photographs are a major pictorial record and there are two supplementary chapters on the Northern Territory and Central Australia. 'In the chapter on the Northern Territory I have incorporated some useful papers written by residents there and prepared for publication by Mr J.G. Knight'. <p>The chapter on Central Australia is even more important: 'Since the foregoing was in type the following interesting and well-written account of Central Australia along the line of telegraph has appeared in the "Register". The writer Mr J.A. Giles is well acquainted with the whole of the country which he describes. It is the best and most trust-worthy account of Central Australia which has yet been published'. The entire chapter is devoted to the article which refers on occasion and thus eliminates any misattribution to Alfred Giles the explorer with strong telegraph line credentials. Ferguson 10233 not recording the maps. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover
1947115337Adelaide: The Author 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1947. Octavo 94 pages. Wrappers; a few trifling blemishes near the foot of the spine; essentially a fine copy. 'The comments and collection of incidents in this Book are intended as a brief defence on behalf of a section of the South Australian people who had to endure much odium during two Wartime periods' introductory note. Sixty years on it's still an uneasy read. Hermann Robert Homburg 1874-1964 was a South Australian-born lawyer and politician. 'In 1906-15 and 1927-30 he was a non-Labor member for Murray in the House of Assembly and from 1933 to 1941 was a member of the Legislative Council Central No. 2. He was attorney-general under Peake in 1909-10 and minister for industry as well in 1912-15 and attorney-general and minister for industry in 1927-30 in the R.L. Butler ministry' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. He was also 'interned on 25 November 1940 but released after appeal on 21 December under open conditional arrest one condition being that he moved interstate. In January 1941 he was taken to Melbourne and in February moved to Ballarat whereupon he retired from parliament and did not recontest his seat. On 18 December 1942 he was allowed to return to Adelaide reporting to the police three times a week for the next eighteen months. None of the evidence presented against Homburg was more than circumstantial unsubstantiated or inconsequential. He recorded his experiences in both wars' in this publication. [The Author] paperback
