German Ersatz Bayonets. 1. A Concise Illustrated History of the Emergency All-Metal Designs, 1914-1918
Brighton, Lyon Press, 1976. More
Our copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may be just one of the 12,000 printed in the two years after it first appeared in 1866, but the exquisite double Cosway binding it received some forty years later makes it unique – and uniquely desirable. In the same league, we have an original South Australian land grant for Town Acre 558, issued to Osmond Gilles in December 1837, less than a year after the colony was established. At the time, he was also the Treasurer and one of the largest land speculators in the province!
In our latest offering, you will find complete runs of some rare Australian ‘little magazines’: Manuscripts (13 issues, 1931-35); Phoenix (nine issues, 1935-50); and Ern Malley’s Journal (six issues, 1952-55). A sampling of other titles includes Lindt’s Picturesque New Guinea (1887); Lambert’s A Trip to Cashmere and Ladak (1877); Menpes’ The Grey River (1889, one of only 230 copies with 12 original signed etchings, a gift from co-author Rosa Praed to Katie Langloh Parker); and Whitworth’s An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710 (Strawberry Hill Press, 1758).
Indigenous Australian history includes a copy of The London Chronicle for 6 April 1789, containing one of the earliest accounts of the indigenous inhabitants of the Sydney region; Spencer and Gillen’s The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899, signed by both authors); and two nineteenth-century portrait photographs.
Of course, there’s much more!
Brighton, Lyon Press, 1976. More
Tokyo, Hasegawa, [1898?]. Japanese Fairy Tale Series Number 15. More
London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd., September 1937 (second impression)/ September 1937. From the Earl of Rosebery to King George V, with the ex-Kaiser, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Chamberlain, Lawrence of Arabia, Leon Trotsky, and Hitler just some of the other 'Great Men of our age' discussed in these essays 'written by..... More
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
Roseville, The Author, 1999 (revised second edition)/ 1998. Inscribed ('More than a list of names') and signed by the author on the title page. He is also quoted on the rear cover as writing 'It is ironical that the tombs of the long departed Greeks and Romans are more frequently..... More
Adelaide, Lynton, [early 1970s facsimile edition]/ 1925 and 1927. The 56-page cross-referenced index, new to this facsimile reprint, is indispensible. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1934. Number 124 of 675 copies. Sarah Fricker was married to Samuel Taylor Coleridge from 1795 to 1808; the poet himself died in 1834. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1965. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1971 (facsimile edition)/ 1798 and 1802. Peade A76: 1,002 sets. [2 items]. More
Perth, V.K. Jones & Co. Ltd., 1916. The balance of the title sets the scene: 'Where the Writer, Mrs. J. Fairfax Conigrave (a daughter of one of South Australia's well-remembered pioneers, Mr Charles Price, of Hindmarsh Island) spent her childhood'. The verso of the frontispiece is inscribed to 'Mrs Lewis..... More
Perth, Australian City Properties Limited, 1990. More
London, The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1914. The deluxe edition. More
[Adelaide, Battle of Inkerman Jubilee Committee], 1904. Inscribed in a neat calligraphic hand in black ink, under the heading 'Roll Call' in red ink are the names 'of those who served in the Crimean War and are now in Adelaide, South Australia, 1904'. There are 36 on the roll, under..... More
New York City, Magickal Childe Publishing, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1904. More
[London, Mandrake Press, 1993]. The collection comprises: The Avenger to the Theosophical Society; To Man; The World Teacher to the Theosophical Society; Your Interest in Magick ...; and MadameTussaud-Besant (all quarto); and Songs for Italy; The Rites of Eleusis; England, Stand Fast!; Hymn to Pan; New Year 1903; The Creed..... More
'London, The O.T.O. [Ordo Templi Orientis], BM/JPKH, 1936' [but a later facsimile edition with no alternative imprint details provided; perhaps circa 1970s]. More
[London], First Impressions, 1993 (facsimile edition)/ 1904. First Impressions Series Number 17. More
[Grantham], Hell Fire Club Books, 2017 (new edition)/ 1938. Sixteen essays by Aleister Crowley, with notes and a glossary by Frater V.V.V. This is one of only 22 copies of the deluxe issue bound in 'English Vellum' (a further 200 copies of the 'Standard Hard Back' edition were also produced)..... More
Oxford, Mandrake Press Ltd, 1990. This volume contains the complete scripts of Crowley's dramatic cycle, 'The Rites of Eleusis', together with an introduction by Keith Richmond, explanatory essays by Terence DuQuesne, and additional illustrations by Dwina Murphy-Gibb. Number 587 of 1000 copies. More
[England], Exploration-5 Publishing, 2009 [2010]. A study of Crowley's exposition of sex magick, his 'Ritual of the Star Sapphire' ("Liber XXXVI" or "Chapter 36" in "The Book of Lies")', with detailed instructions. More
[Grantham], 'Privately published by the A.'.A.'. [Astrum Argenteum]; Printed and Bound at the Hell Fire Club', 2017 (new edition)/ 1938. Number 1 of only 22 copies of the deluxe issue bound thus (a further 200 copies of the standard edition were also produced). More
Sacramento, The College of Thelema of Northern California, August 2008 (first edition). Number 21 of only 31 copies of the deluxe edition, signed by David Shoemaker. Much of this work comprises a facsimile of Wolfe's typescript of her handwritten diary entries, with Crowley's annotations. 'The diaries collected here represent the..... More
Sacramento, The College of Thelema of Northern California, August 2008 (first edition). Much of this work comprises a facsimile of Wolfe's typescript of her handwritten diary entries, with Crowley's annotations. 'The diaries collected here represent the bulk of the surviving material from Wolfe's Cefalu period [where she studied at the..... More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010. The book accompanied a major Indigenous art exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA in 2010-11. 'Showcasing the Gallery's extensive Aboriginal art collection - one of the finest in Australia - "Desert Country" charts the forty-year journey of the desert painting movement to..... More
London, James Clarke & Co., 1898. Thomas Witton Davies (1851-1923): 'his elementary schooling there was the only education afforded him before he was over 21. In 1872 he entered the Baptist College at Pontypool; there, in addition to pursuing the prescribed courses, he diligently read Coleridge and Carlyle, whose influence..... More
The photograph (paper size 60 × 95 mm, image size an oval 55 × 85 mm) is mounted as issued on a plain card. The photographer is not identified; the item was found in an album in Adelaide, so it is probably of South Australian origin. Five gentlemen are depicted..... More
[Adelaide], W.H. Edmunds, 1938. 'Topographic map of Adelaide Hills from Morialta Falls, Forest Range Heights in the north and Mylor in the south. Includes Norton's Summit, Cherryville, Ashton, Uraidla, Carey's Gully, Piccadilly, Crafers, Stirling, Aldgate, Bridgewater, Hahndorf, Heathfield, Longwood and Mylor. Shows hotels, ovals, churches, orchards, schools and works. Relief..... 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
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920 (first edition, first state). The advertisement for Clutton-Brock's 'What is the Kingdom of Heaven?' on the front flap lists the fourth edition. More
London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901 [first thus]. One of only 226 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette was designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther engraved the other decorations..... More
Houston, Menil Foundation and Cologne, M. DuMont Schauberg, 1975. One of 1500 copies; the text is in German, English and French. The first volume of 'Max Ernest Oeuvre-Katalog', under the general editorship of Werner Spies. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1982 (first English edition). A catalogue raisonné; with contributions by F.H. Bool, Bruno Ernst, J.R. Kist, J.L. Locher and F. Wierda. More
Los Angeles, The College of Thelema, March 2010 (third edition)/ 1995 (revised second edition)/ 1995. More
Los Angeles, The College of Thelema, October 2000 (first hardcover edition)/ July 2000 (revised third edition)/ 1995 (revised second edition)/ 1993. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front flyleaf. More
Los Angeles, The College of Thelema, October 2000 (first hardcover edition)/ July 2000 (revised third edition)/ 1995 (revised second edition)/ 1993. More
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. This sumptuous catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the AGSA in early 2002 to commemorate the bicentenary of the historic meeting of the two expeditions in Encounter Bay. More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1998 (facsimile edition)/ 1875. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 217; there were only 99 numbered copies of this deluxe issue (in a total edition of 600 copies). This is an unnumbered out-of-series copy. The ten-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to..... More
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, [1980 and 1981]. Number 362 of 1000 sets signed by the author and artist (and over-subscribed on publication). [2 items]. More
San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1980 (facsimile edition)/ 1927. A catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of Paul Gauguin. More
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. More
London, Printed by G. Scott for J. Robson, 1768 (second edition)/ 1768. 'In the third edition, of 1781, the author was revealed to be Revd. William Gilpin. The work was well received both in Britain (where it went through five editions by 1802) and elsewhere in Europe. Besides Gilpin's opinions..... More
Port Melbourne, Lothian Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 1985. More
Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1891. Ford 762. Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), with his annotated bookplate on the front pastedown. More
[London], Scarlet Imprint, 2007. Number 140 of only 156 copies; this copy is inscribed and signed by the author. More
Frankfurt, Propylaen, 1979. A catalogue raisonné of Grosz's graphic work; the text is in German. More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1899. These memoirs of James Collins Hawker (1821-1901) date back to 1838, when he arrived with Governor George Gawler. They first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901;..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1975 (facsimile edition)/ 1899 and 1901. Peade A197: one of only 501 copies. Original copies of the 1901 Second Series publication are impossibly rare, making this short print-run facsimile edition somewhat more important than the average reprint. More
Albany, State of New York Department of Farms and Markets, 1925. State of New York, Department of Farms and Markets, Thirty-third Annual Report, Part 2 ... Report of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year ending June 30, 1925. More