Adelaide, 3rd Light Horse Regiment (South Australian Mounted Rifles), 1950. Part 1, 'The Regiment prepares for War' and 'Gallipoli Campaign' (pages 1-52), was compiled by 111 Trooper Frank Mead Blackwell, who enlisted on 24 August 1914. Part 2, 'Western Egypt, Sinai, Palestine. Rewritten from the original history of the 3rd..... More

This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly enlarged version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as..... More

Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; by descent. More

Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934 to 1942. Volumes 5, 6 and 11 are first editions, the others are mixed editions ranging from the third (Volume 1) to the ninth (Volume 8). The Australian Government accepted Charles Bean's 1919 recommendations for 'the official history and for a national war memorial which..... More

London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1907/ 1861. The lengthy preface to this new edition states that it is 'half as large again as the previous edition' and lists many improved or added sections. For instance, the section on Colonial and Foreign Cookery 'has been enormously increased. Australian, American, Canadian..... More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1894. Mounted on the front pastedown is an autograph letter signed by the Clerk of the Assembly, J.C. Morphett (one page octavo, 25 April 1911, on South Australian Parliament letterhead). 'Dear Sir, I have just heard that His Excellency is desirous of obtaining a copy..... More

Melbourne, The Art Student (Managing Editor, C. Leyshon White), 1932. This issue also includes an article on the poster artist James Northfield (4 pages with 4 illustrations). There are only two institutional holdings of this title in Trove (both in Brisbane); it ceased publication with Volume 1, Number 4, June..... More

Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by..... More

[Sydney, The Author, 1938]. Inscribed, dated (1939) and signed by Barnett. Basically a catalogue of Barnett's publications, 'Limited de luxe editions designed and published by the author and printed by Harrie P. Mortlock's Beacon Press'. The mounted Japanese prints were 'two of the smaller illustrations from "Japanese Colour-Prints"'. The bookplate..... More

Sydney, The Beacon Press (for the Author), 1931. Number 260 of 300 copies thus (with a further 100 copies of a deluxe edition). Artists represented by tipped-in examples include George Perrottet, Sydney Long, Adrian Feint, Lloyd Rees, Lionel Lindsay, Sydney Ure Smith, and Tom Roberts. Tipped in facing the Sydney..... More

Sydney, 'Privately Printed' (for the Author) by The Beacon Press, 1934. Number 49 of only 70 signed copies of the De Luxe Edition. A Standard Edition of 210 signed copies was also issued; it contained far fewer plates (one example we have sold contained 108 tipped-in bookplates, with 14 signed..... More

Subjects include Harry Muir, Frank Clune, John Gartner, M.I. Humphries, S.R. Phippard, Roger Norris Martin, Ewing Rixson, and Edward, Prince of Wales. Six are black and white (two signed); three are monochrome (one signed); and one is in two colours. Five are unmounted, as issued; five are individually tipped in..... More

Sydney, The Australian Ex Libris Society (printed at The Beacon Press), 1934. Number 116 of 150 copies signed by Adrian Feint; it was presumably hand-set and hand-printed by Harrie Mortlock at his Beacon Press. The contents include two essays ('Bookplates of Adrian Feint' by Carlyle S. Baer, and 'Adrian Feint..... More

In 1907 Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934) was Professor of Geology at the University of Sydney, with a world-wide reputation, when 'Ernest Shackleton invited him to journey south with his expedition and return in the "Nimrod" at the end of the summer.... [In] December 1907 David, with two former..... More

London, Collins, 1957 [first edition]. Mounted on the front flyleaf is a small printed label ('Autographed copy of "The Turn of the Tide" ...') signed in ink by Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke (as 'Alanbrooke'). More

Melbourne, E.W. Cole, [1910s]. Loosely inserted is a handwritten postcard-sized letter (27 March 1978) signed by Marcie Muir, the Australian children's book bibliographer. 'Thank you so much for letting me see & record details of your copy of "Cole's Jingle Jungle Book" - most interesting as I hadn't seen it..... More

The albumen paper photograph (approximately 78 × 143 mm, mounted on a standard cabinet card, 108 × 167 mm) takes the form of a triptych. The left and right panels contain 'The Noble Game of Cricket', five quatrains of verse 'written with the right and left hands' as mirror images..... More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. More

[Adelaide, The Compiler], 1926. The copy in the State Library of South Australia has a presentation inscription on the front cover 'by the author'. It also contains an introductory leaf of text which is worth quoting: 'These maps are to be issued in sets of six at short intervals. They..... More

Sydney Cove, AMP Society, 1984. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. The half-title and the page facing it contain over 50 signatures, at the head of which is a signed inscription from Peter Lewis, Member for Mallee at the time: 'With respect to those who made..... More

Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 [first thus]. Number 141 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of 850 copies); it was oversubscribed on publication. This is the first published transcription of the private journal kept by Flinders 'from the first..... More

Adelaide, [The Author], 1953 and 1955. Number 451 of 500 copies (the first volume), and number 84 of 200 copies (the Supplement). An important work, containing much material from 'the unpublished Log Books of the "Investigator". Extracts from Flinders' rough and also his compilation manuscript charts, are presented for the..... More