Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1979 (facsimile edition)/ 1837-38. Number 446 of 500 copies signed by Allan McEvey, Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Victoria. McEvey has supplied the detailed appendices, published here for the first time, in which he 'traces the complicated bibliographical history of the work, and provides..... More

London, Collins Harvill, 1985 (first edition in English). 'At the centre of the novel ... stands the battle of Stalingrad ... Grossman delivers a message of terrifying simplicity: that Stalinism and Nazism are one and the same in their falsehood, cruelty and inhumanity ... When it appeared in France and..... More

Adelaide, Jindyworobak Club, [1940]. The poet's first separate publication. More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1977. Number 428 of 1001 copies signed by David Heysen, the artist's son. More

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1933 [first edition]. The statement of limitation indicates this is 'One of 200 copies in art [artificial] leather, with jacket bound in. This is No. 44', numbered and signed by the author. The book is based on the life of Cecil John Levien (1874-1932), district officer..... More

Perth, Heytesbury Holdings, 1990. Written 'in association with Rodney Gooch, CAAMA Shop and the Utopia artists'; the numerous portrait photographs are by Nicholas Adler. More

Basel, Gordon and Breach Arts International, 1994. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c.1932-2002) was 'one of the truly visionary Australian artists of the twentieth century.... [He] was an expert wood-carver and took up painting long before the emergence of the Papunya Tula School in the early 1970s. When [he] joined this group..... More

Paris, Faber & Faber, 1933 (first UK edition)/ 1927. This short collection of 13 poems was sold for 1/- (12 pennies) or 12 francs, hence 'Pomes Penyeach' (the thirteenth poem being the 'tilly', the Irish term for the thirteenth item in a 'baker's dozen', and also the title of the..... More

Signed in pencil on the lower right of the exposed original mount. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. This item forms part of our major retrospective exhibition of the works of John Kauffmann (1864-1942), the pioneering Australian..... More

London, Max Parrish & Co. Limited, in association with Chanticleer Press Incorporated, New York, 1948. The book was issued in conjunction with Kokoschka's first American exhibition, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The colophon states that 'Of this edition of 2,000 copies, 200 numbered copies have been specially..... More

London, The Mallinson Publishing Company, Ltd., 1933. A collection of eighteen short stories dedicated to bookseller and anarchist Charles Lahr. This is number 56 of 95 copies signed by all 18 contributors, of which only 85 copies were for sale. The contributors are: John Arrow, H.E. Bates, Oswell Blakeston, Alec..... More

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. 'Alan John (Jock) Marshall (1911-1967), professor of zoology ... was a member of University of Oxford expeditions [including this one] to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), in 1934' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More

The archive comprises nearly 440 pieces (each approximately 320 × 510 mm or larger), many from the later 1970s when Mitchell was at the height of his powers. A unique commentary on the personalities and events of the times: when Hawke, Fraser and Dunstan were in power, Nixon went to..... More

London, J. Hatchard (unless otherwise noted), 1803 to 1808. The disruption in Europe caused by the rise of Napoleon is naturally the principal theme, but the volume also contains a very early account of the Haitian Revolution, extolling the heroism of the recently deceased Toussaint Louverture, and an early work..... More

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1931 [first thus]. 'The Iliad' is number 860 of 1450 copies for sale; 'Odyssey' is inscribed 'out of series', of a total edition of 1300 copies for sale. Loosely inserted in 'The Iliad') is the single-sided information sheet by Francis Meynell on how to properly open..... More

London, Nonesuch Press, 1938 (first thus). Number 26 of 800 copies, 'designed by Francis Meynell and printed by R. Maclehose & Company on Pannekoek mould-made paper, bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company'. [2 items]. More

[Melbourne], Australian Post Office, 1972. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 (46 photographs, including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station), and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August (5 photographs). Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme (Postmaster General), Sir Arthur..... More

Edinburgh, 'printed for Cadell and Davies, London and William Creech, Edinburgh', 1802. John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist. 'Following the death in 1797 of his friend James Hutton, Playfair proceeded to make a careful analysis, clarification, and amplification of Hutton's "Theory of the Earth" [1785 and 1795, the essence of..... More

[Adelaide], The Authors, 1991. Number 55 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. A copy of the original prospectus is loosely inserted. Torrens Park Estate is a 'large mansion and its surrounding grounds, set in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges six kilometres south of Adelaide in South Australia..... More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1930s]/ [1912]. The book was first published in 1912, before his name began to become synonymous with illustrations of fantastic and humorous contraptions. More