Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 324; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227;..... More

Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, 1919. The author served with the battalion, and was awarded the MC. In his preface he records that 'Most of the book was written on the Somme at irregular intervals, in dugouts or ruined villages, or beneath that well-known tarpaulin which, in the forward..... More

Melbourne, Modern Printing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1936. This copy is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 330; Fielding and O'Neill, page 228; Trigellis-Smith 233..... More

Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, for the 40th Battalion Association, 1922. The front flyleaf is inscribed and signed by the author to Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson, Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion, and the author of that battalion's history. 'Dear Colonel Paterson, I would be honored by your acceptance of..... More

Melbourne, Black Inc., 2001. More

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1919. A 'popular narrative of the Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to China in 1916-17'. Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960), explorer, adventurer and naturalist, later became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. More

Melbourne, Commonwealth Immigration Office, June 1924, and 1925. [2 items]. More

[Amsterdam?], BH Jeugdbibliotheek, [1934]. Jeugdbibliotheek (Youth Library) Number 36A. An account of the MacRobertson International Air Race, London to Melbourne, 1934. Offered together with a companion piece (Number 38A) by the same author: 'Amsterdam-Batavia in 24 Uur. Een Spannend Verhaal voor Jongens' (pictorial wrappers showing trifling signs of use and..... More

Highbury, The Author, 1982. A detailed history of war service and post-war survey work in North Australia. This copy has unique provenance: the title page is inscribed 'For the Mitcham A.F.A. Branch Library', dated (8 October 1982) and signed by the author (on the day, and at the venue where..... More

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1936. 'With the Publisher's Compliments' is stamped in ink on the title page. More

Portland, Timber Press, 2006. More

Adelaide, The Company, 1965. Number 166 of only 320 copies; this copy is signed by Chairman of Directors, Tom Elder Barr Smith. Not all copies were signed; only three of the seven copies we have handled have been. The first of the Beltana stations was acquired in 1862; the early..... More

Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition). One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. Hard to..... More

Those present are Colonel James Rowell, Captain Howard Locke Dexter Wilson, and Lieutenant James Hay. 'James Rowell (1851-1940), soldier, orchardist and politician ... is best known for his association with the Volunteer Military Forces of South Australia before Federation, then with those of the Commonwealth.... He commanded the South Australian..... More

A lengthy patriotic poem (twelve four-line stanzas) dated at the end 'Italia March 1900'. Under the pseudonym 'Arthur Ferres', John William Kevin (circa 1843-1903) wrote several Australian boys' adventure books and published one volume of verse. 'The Contingent', presumably unpublished, is very much a product of its time and place..... More

London, Harrison and Sons, 1926. Pages 21-26 deal with the well-known South Australian branch of the family, descended from Thomas Bonython (1787-1860). Loosely inserted is a related pamphlet, 'The Honourable Sir Langdon Bonython, KCMG. An Eminent Australian' by Fred Johns (London, Camborne Printing Company; title-wrappers, 4 pages plus a portrait;..... More

Hawthorn, The Hawthorn Press, 1943. Number 24 of only 50 signed copies. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his George Perrottet-designed 1942 bookplate (signed in pencil by the artist). Loosely inserted, tipped in on separate sheets, are another two Hunter etched bookplates. The subjects are..... More

Dulwich, Tudor Australia Press, 2012. One of only 100 numbered copies of the 'ordinary edition'; this copy is signed by the author on the title page. There were also 25 copies of a 'special edition'. Anomalously, the numbering in this copy suggests a total print-run of 130. More

London, Richard Bentley, 1834 ('second edition revised, with additions')/ 1833. Inscribed on an initial blank to 'W.H. Cooper from his friend Richard Stephens on his leaving Eton, November 1837'; Cooper's armorial inkstamp is on the facing page (the verso of the flyleaf). More

Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2017. More