New Guinea Poems
Port Moresby, Printed by Papua and New Guinea Printing [for the Author], 1968. Inscribed, dated (28 September 1972) and signed by the author. More
Port Moresby, Printed by Papua and New Guinea Printing [for the Author], 1968. Inscribed, dated (28 September 1972) and signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Almost half the book (58 pages) is given over to verse by Stephenson, who died at the age of 18 in May 1865. With a contemporary inscription (in Charles Todd's hand?) to 'Lizzie Todd 4th Decr 1865' in ink on an early blank; the..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. Inscribed on an early blank, in what we know to be the hand of Charles Todd, to 'Mr Edwd Stirling Junr / Xmas 1865'; with the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of Edward Charles Stirling. Ferguson 16245; Holden 103. We have previously sold a copy..... More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1938 (first edition). John Riddoch Rymill (1905-1968), polar explorer and farmer, was the leader of the expedition; he was born in Penola, South Australia, a grandson of the pioneer John Riddoch. 'Rymill's party proved that Graham Land was part of a continental extension (now the Antarctic..... More
Adelaide, Andrews, Thomas, and Clark, 1865. With the contemporary ownership details of 'Revd Henry Pollitt, Woodville, 4th Decr 1865' on the flyleaf. One of the earliest Australian imprints illustrated with original photographs (see Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia' [Sydney, 1988]), where the author is incorrectly referred to in the text..... More
Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1997. '... how St Petersburg learned to control its development...'. More
Portland, Timber Press, 1999 (second impression)/ 1994. With over 100 colour illustrations from photographs. More