T.E. Lawrence to his Biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart
London, Cassell, 1963 (second edition)/ 1963 [first thus]/ 1938. More
First World War
My Army, O, My Army! and Other Songs
Sydney, Tyrrell's Limited, 1915 [first edition]. One of only 250 copies of the deluxe large-paper edition; this copy is unnumbered. Henry Lawson (1867-1922) suffered 'a ghastly decline' in his creativity from the turn of the century. He 'wrote a great deal despite his often squalid circumstances but his work alternated..... More
The Gordon Bennett Story
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1965. 'Because of his temperament, [Bennett] was considered unsuitable for a semi-diplomatic command, and one that involved subordination to British generals. Bennett was as scathing of British officers as he was of Australian regulars ... His relationships with his senior officers were unhappy and some of..... More
Messages from The War. Postcards from World War I
Strathfield North, The Author, 1999. More
'Tis But the Time. The Biography of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Espie Dods
McCrae, Slouch Hat Publications, 2007. Not least, Dods was at Sunnyside with the Queensland Mounted Infantry, at Anzac with the 5th Light Horse Regiment, and the Somme with the 1st Division AIF. More
Norman Lindsay War Cartoons, 1914-1918. Edited and with a Commentary by Peter Fullerton
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1983. Full-page reproductions of over 150 cartoons which appeared on the title-wrapper of 'The Bulletin', together with four recruiting posters. More
Hot Air in Cold Blood
London, Selwyn and Blount, 1933 [first edition]. More
Tales of the Ten Mile. A Gallant Life. The Story of an Old Soldier
Melbourne, Histec Publications, 1998 (second, revised and expanded, edition)/ 1992. Inscribed, dated, (23 February 2001) and signed by the author. 'The first edition of 20 copies in 1992 was produced for private distribution among the descendants and relatives of Benjamin Frederick Lloyd [1888-1951]. This expanded edition includes much additional material..... More
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936. Dornbusch 322; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211 (none of them noting that the first impression binding is lettered in gilt, the second in black). More
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb and Son, 1936. A little-known fact: black lettering on the cover denotes the second impression; the first impression is blocked in gilt. Dornbusch 332; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211. More
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb and Son, 1936. A little-known fact: black lettering on the cover denotes the second impression; the first impression is blocked in gilt. Dornbusch 332; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211. More
Island Films. Reminiscences of 'German New Guinea'
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925 [first edition]. Not least, life in New Guinea after ANMEF (the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force) had removed the Germans in 1914, and some of the problems facing Australian colonisation in NG (Australia received a mandate from the League of Nations to govern PNG in 1921)..... More
Legacy. The First Fifty Years
Melbourne, Legacy Co-Ordinating Council/ Lothian Publishing Company, 1978. 'This study, commissioned by Legacy for its fiftieth anniversary, provides the first detailed history of this uniquely Australian organization [and] traces Legacy's first fifty years in considerable detail, [placing] it firmly within its social environment ... Its members are all returned servicemen..... More
Among the Ottomans. Diaries from Turkey in World War I
London, I.B. Tauris, 2011. 'Two unique diary accounts written by two generations of the same family in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire'. Not least, Gallipoli. More
Bud the Monkey and Other Tales of Soldiers' Pets
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1932. General Sir Ian Hamilton states in his introduction: 'Major Lin MacDonald's book (shows) the real Digger as he became known to the British officers at the Dardenelles'; however, the book seems to have been overlooked by the military bibliographies (but certainly in Muir!). More
1914 - 1918. Voices and Images of the Great War
London, Michael Joseph, 1988. More
Ordeal by Fire. Witnesses to The Great War
London, The Folio Society, 2014 (second Folio Society edition)/ 2001. With research by Shirley Seaton. A new introduction to this edition by Richard Van Emden. More
To the Last Man. Spring 1918
London, Viking Penguin, 1998/ 1998. More
Anthem for Doomed Youth. Poets of the Great War
London, The Folio Society, 2000 (first thus). Contributors include Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, E.E. Cummings, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and W.B. Yeats. More
Ordeal by Fire. Witnesses to The Great War
London, The Folio Society, 2001 (first thus). More
Cunard Line Australasian Service. Commonwealth & Dominion Line, Ltd. S.S. 'Port Macquarie'. Christmas Day. Menu. Dinner ...
At Sea, SS 'Port Macquarie', [1919]. Provenance: Lieutenant Ivan Schroder Webley, AFC, with his signature at the head of the menu. The blank verso has been signed by 25 fellow passengers on this ship (renamed HMAT 'Port Macquarie' for the duration of the war) returning troops to Australia. Not least..... More
A Kind of Family Album
Wahroonga, The Publisher, 1989. Presentation copy. Warmly inscribed, dated (22 February 2002) and signed by the author. Number 79 of a small print-run. More
National Life and Thought of the various Nations throughout the World. A Series of Addresses
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. Tipped-in to the front free endpaper is a newspaper clipping on the funeral of Gladstone. 21 addresses; two of which are on Germany and German culture, with one each on Jews and Gypsies - noticeably absent is Great Britain. More
The Digger's View. WW1 in Colour
New Lambton, The Digger's View Pty Ltd, 2014. ''The Digger's View: WW1 in Colour' offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life in full colour, the images provide a unique perspective of war' (from the..... More
The Middle Parts of Fortune. Somme & Ancre, 1916
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). Introduction by David Malouf. 'The text of this edition follows that of the first, unexpurgated, edition ['Her Privates We', (1929, Peter Davies)], with minor emendations'. More