Highlights from our last offering for 2020 include an 1890s Yokohama Nursery Company catalogue with 142 superb handcoloured plates; Pastoral Homes of Australia (1931), the last volume – and possibly the scarcest – in the seven-volume series commenced in 1910; a selection of rare editions signed by J.M. Coetzee; and numerous ephemeral Boer War printings.
Photographs and autographs are also well-represented: among them are Indigenous Australian portraits; a significant collection of 44 vintage photographs (circa 1887-94) of indigenous life in the Bismarck Archipelago and German New Guinea by Richard Parkinson; a group photograph signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and the crew of the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928; items signed by Birdwood of Anzac, and a menu signed by 14 VC winners.
Season’s greetings and happy browsing!
Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. Dornbusch 324; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 219. More
A later handwritten note taped to the verso states this is the 'Leongatha Group - Heliopolis (at YMCA Hut') in January 1916, and that the image was published in 'A Valley in France [World War I Letters to his Parents and Sister while on Active Service from Egypt, France and..... More
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1984] (facsimile edition)/ [1920]. One of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 225. More
[England], The Company, 1918. Inscribed 'With love from your affectionate nephew Rex'. The menu features traditional fare with the traditional comic exceptions: the pastries on offer are 'Miller's Bombs', 'Abbeville Tarts', and 'Norman's Sticky Fingers' (a fourth choice has been blocked out, 'Censored'); the wine list comprises 'Wood Preserving Oil'..... More
Internal evidence places the 25th FAB in the vicinity of Ginchy and Le Transloy in the Somme. Routine observations (temperature, barometric pressure, ammunition expended, casualties) are secondary to the often lengthy reports of brigade and enemy activity. A typical day's work might involve the registration of new 'S.O.S.' lines ['pre-determined..... More
[In the Field, France], The Battalion, 1917. Among the 33 events listed are Putting shot [naturally], Throwing Grenades, Assault training, Lewis Gun Assembly, Whistling Race and Mounted Tug of War. More
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1990 (facsimile edition)]/ 1919. The limitation is not stated, but the Burridge editions were typically limited to between 200 and 300 copies. More
McCrae, Slouch Hat Publications, 2009. Number 12 of the deluxe limited edition of only 50 copies signed by the author. More
Adelaide, Hassell Press, 1924. With the ownership details of Ronald C. Slater, Port Pirie (1204 Trooper Ronald Campbell Slater, a veteran of the 9th Light Horse). Dornbusch 384; Fielding and O'Neill, page 233; Trigellis-Smith 279. More
Adelaide, K.M. Stevenson, Acting Government Printer (for the Civil Defence Department, South Australia), April 1942/ April 1941 (revised edition)/ January 1939. 'These lectures for instructors were compiled by the Controller of Training (Mr C.E. Bayer) from notes taken at a School of Instruction conducted at Keswick Barracks by Captain H.H...... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1964. The last volume in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. More
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Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1958. One of four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. More
Cape Town, Central News Agency ('By Arrangement with the Editor of "The Nongqai", the South African Services Journal, Pretoria'), September 1917. First World War humour, not a patch on Bairnsfather, but decidedly less common. More
London, The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society, Limited, Printers, 1917. 'Issued under A.I.F. Order 758, dated 13th July 1917'. More
London, Scarlet Imprint, 2008. Number 71 of 555 copies in cloth. More
London, Scarlet Imprint, 2008. Number 52 of only 55 copies of this deluxe edition, each one containing an original drawing by the author ('Famille Eros Ghuedhe' in this instance). More
The letter (octavo, two pages on one leaf, dated '26 Oct. [1942], Coates, Cirencester, Glos.', on embossed House of Lords writing paper), is warm and effusive in its praise for Simopoulos and its expressions of sympathy for his widow. Apart from a single crease across the centre for posting, it..... More
London, Jarrold & Sons, [1916]. The front flyleaf is signed by W.R. Birdwood, R.A. Carruthers, C.B.B. White, S.S. Butler, R.G. Chirnside, J.S. Churchill, C.H. Brand, Alec McGrigor and Walter A. Coxen. In November 1914 Sir William Birdwood (1865-1951) was appointed commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and..... More
London, Printed for George Nicol, 1792. The revised, official account of the voyage of the 'Bounty', including the mutiny and Bligh's subsequent voyage in the ship's launch with eighteen loyal crewmen. 'In their small boat Bligh and his companions made a remarkable journey of more than three and a half..... More
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Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
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Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
![Item #121030 Speech by the Right Honourable R. Seddon, Premier [sic] of New Zealand. [Hon....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121030_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606533545)
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
![Item #121029 Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]. Boer War, Lieutenant General Lord...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121029_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606202257)
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
Sydney, Printed and Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., 1902. Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902) was executed by firing squad in Pretoria for murder on 27 February 1902. The first notice we have found relating to this short work appeared less than three months later. A...... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press/ Australian War Memorial, 2002. More
Melbourne, Printed by Goldsworthy & Davey, [1919] (this example was presented on 1 April 1922). 1886 Gunner Donald Davidson Smith enlisted in Melbourne on 14 August 1915, and he was initially attached to the 8th Light Horse, as this certificate attests. However, his service record indicates he ended up in..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1888. Sir William Henry Bundey (1838-1909), for ten years Commodore of the South Australian Yacht Club, was a South Australian MP (Attorney-General, 1878-81), and later a Supreme Court judge. An uncommon book on an uncommon (Australian) topic. More
York Beach, Teitan Press, 2015. One of the deluxe numbered edition limited to 72 copies; each one is signed by the author, 'with an original hand-drawn seal of one of the Spirits of Goetia housed in a pocket at the rear of the volume. These copies [are] designated by the..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1990 (second impression)/ 1990. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1999 (fourth impression)/ 1999. 'Each of the shortlisted authors receives ... a specially bound edition of their book' (from the Man Booker Prize website). This novel was awarded the 1999 Booker Prize; this copy has mounted on the pastedown a paper label with the printed heading..... More
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Douglas, Isle of Man, Oak Tree Press, 2006 (first thus). The second volume in the Oak Tree Press First Chapter Series (first chapters from Booker Prize-winning novels; the series is 'dedicated to children living with HIV/AIDS'). The total edition comprised 350 copies: 300 in the standard edition, numbered 36 to..... More
Santiago, El Faro, 2015. The limited edition comprised 110 copies signed by the author (100 copies numbered 1-100 for sale, 10 copies numbered I-X not for sale). This is copy number VIII, signed by both the translator and the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in..... More
London, Rees & O'Neill, 2003. Published in an edition of only 87 copies ('75 copies, numbered 1-75, are bound in cloth; 12 copies, numbered I-XII, are bound in Nigerian goatskin. All copies are signed by the author'). This is copy number V. Not only is the colophon signed, as stated..... More
Austin, Intermezzo Press, 2002. The text is the postscript to the author's novel, 'Elizabeth Costello', published in 2003. The title page is signed by the author. More
London, Secker & Warburg, 2005 (first edition). 'This leather-bound edition ... signed by the author, is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1.' The author was the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature..... More
London, Faber and Faber, and Harvill Secker, 2013. 'One hundred and ten copies have been specially bound and signed by the authors. One hundred copies numbered 1-100 are for sale. Ten copies numbered i-x are reserved for the authors'; this is copy number iii. J.M. Coetzee was the first person..... More
Germany, Verlag Thomas Reche, 2012. In spite of the title, the book is in fact bilingual, the first half being 'The Farm' (an extract from the author's fictionalized 1997 memoir 'Boyhood') in English. One of 400 unnumbered copies signed in pencil at the rear by the author and the artist..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971 (facsimile edition)/ 1798 and 1802. Peade A76: 1,002 sets. [2 items]. More
The fret-worked polished wooden frame (overall external dimensions approximately 420 × 320 mm, with a 120 × 80 mm oval cut in the centre for the photograph) has hand-painted decorations in colour of the Union Jack, the Australian flag and a sprig of flowering wattle. The image size of the..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1970 (facsimile edition)/ 1777. Peade A191: only 781 sets printed. [2 items]. More
London, Michael Joseph, 1961 (first edition). More
The match was over in three days, with Western Australia winning by an innings and 124 runs (WA 444, with Carmody 198; SA 109, following on with 211). The photograph comes from one of the SA team, Dick Niehuus, and is accompanied by some ephemera from the celebrations surrounding the..... More
Image size 218 × 347 mm (plus captions); in fine condition. Digby Jephson 'was one of the last of the lob bowlers and one of the very best. At the height of the Golden Age of cricket, he kept the flame of old-fashioned lobs burning, with the spectators switching between..... More
London, Neptune Press, 1955 [first thus]. One of 1100 copies. More
