[London], Australian Imperial Force, [January] 1919. The first headline is 'Repatriation and Demobilisation', and the first page and a half deal with all matters pertaining (not least, 'A.W.L. During Demobilisation'). A full column of sport is then followed by 'Extracts from London Newspapers of Recent Date' (one and a half..... More

London, Cassell, 1919. The first edition of this anonymously published book is fiendishly rare in our experience. This is only the fifth copy we have had in almost forty-three years as booksellers in Adelaide, and the 10th is a local battalion. Arthur Limb (1893-1920) was a member of the battalion;..... More

London, Heinemann, 1959. 'The 16th Battalion, originally recruited in Western Australia, suffered heavy casualties, and eventually, through reinforcements, represented a wide cross-section of the typical Australian citizen-soldier' (dustwrapper blurb). More

[Swanbourne, Burridge, 1991 facsimile edition]/ 1938. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. More

Melbourne, printed by Exchange Press [for the No. 5 A.G.H. Magazine Committee], August and September 1918. A third and final number was published in October. A short article in 'The Argus' on 18 September 1918 announced that the 'use of the Base Hospital in St Kilda Road as a general..... More

Salem, Sebastian C. Clark (lithographed by Strobridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio), 1876 ('Second Edition and seventh thousand carefully, and critically revised and brought down to 1876'; also described as the 'Centinnial [sic] Edition')/ 1871. 'The author is fully aware of the difficulties and uncertainties of any system of Chronology extant..... More

Sydney, New South Wales Branch, Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, September 1919 (Peace Edition)/ 1916. Inscribed and dated (14 May 1920) on the verso of the front free endpaper 'To My Dear Mother ... From Your Loving Son, Leslie Francis Johnson, Bondi, N.S. Wales'. This is the..... More

London, Thames and Hudson, 1964. More

Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during the Second World War. Loosely inserted in this copy is the official AMF 'Certificate of Discharge' certifying that VX102581 Trooper Robert Alexander Cyril Davis, 2/7 Australian Commando Squadron, served on continuous full time war..... More

Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1884 (second edition)/ 1882. Provenance: Dr Robert Hamilton Russell (1860-1933), the eminent English-born Australian surgeon, with his contemporary signature ('R. Hamilton Russell | Salop Infirmary | 1885') on the half-title (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for further information). The front endpaper contains the paper label..... More

Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1944 (first edition). Provenance: this copy is warmly inscribed and signed by the author to fellow neurosurgeon Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns (1896-1952). It also carries the later ownership signature, date of acquisition (11 December 1956), and bookplate of Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), another..... More

London, Folio Society, 1991 (first thus). [4 items]. More

London, Secker & Warburg, 1983 (first edition). 'Each of the shortlisted authors receives ... a specially bound edition of their book' (from the Man Booker Prize website). This novel was awarded the 1983 Booker Prize; this copy has mounted on the front free endpaper a label with 'Booker McConnell Prize'..... More

'London, The O.T.O. [Ordo Templi Orientis], BM/JPKH, 1936' [but an early facsimile edition with no alternative imprint details provided; it was perhaps published by Weiser in 1956]. More

Paris, Printed at the Lecram Press ('Published for Subscribers Only'), 1929. This 'Subscriber's Edition' is the first cased edition, using sheets from the first issue (comprising four parts in wrappers, with one colour plate). Crowley was dissatisfied with the quality of the binding and the colour plate, and the bulk..... More

London, Wieland and Co., [1912, first edition] and [1913, first and only edition]. The first edition print run of both these volumes was only 500 copies each. The print run of the second issue of Part I, also in 1912, was between 1500 and 2000 copies. [2 items]. More

[Grantham], The Hell Fire Club, 2015 [first thus]. Number 184 of only 220 leather-bound copies (with a further 31 copies bound in vellum). 'An in-depth look at the central ritual of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). The first half of the book gives a general overview of the Gnostic Mass from..... More

Singapore, Golden Hoard Press, 2011 (fully edited, reset and corrected edition, first thus)/ 1659. The full subtitle is 'Being British Library Cotton Appendix MS XLVI, parts I & II out of the original copy, written with Dr Dee's own hand, kept in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton, Knight Baronet..... More

Perth, The 'Sunday Times' Publishing Company, 1908. 'Dryblower' (or 'Dryblower Murphy') was Australian journalist and poet Edwin Greenslade Murphy (1866-1939). Following the 1892 gold rush of 1892 Murphy arrived in Coolgardie in 1894; later that year he 'helped Billy Clare to launch his "Coolgardie Miner", contributing a weekly gossip column..... More

Cobourg, Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 1998. 'The result of over twenty years of research, this is the most complete account ever published of the life and times of Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, and his crowning invention, the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun, as well as other arms designs including the Lewis..... More

London, Folio Society, 1999 (first thus). The titles of the individual volumes are Adam Bede; Daniel Deronda; Felix Holt the Radical; Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss; Romola; and Silas Marner. Each volume features an introduction and illustrations unique to the Folio Society editions. The illustrators are, respectively, Simon Brett..... More

Trove records only one example of this item, described in detail as follows: 'Printed Cloth Map ... of the Dardanelles Peninsula (described as part of "TURKEY IN ASIA") as well as the Dardanelles Straits, the Gulf of Saros and the Sea of Marmora. The date of its manufacture is unknown..... More