Our first catalogue for 2022 contains some very appealing rarities: an American Civil War muster roll; eight issues of Verve (containing numerous original lithographs by the likes of Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Derain, Giacometti, Klee, Léger, Matisse, Miro, and Roualt); Stoddart’s presentation copy of the Australian Cricket Annual 1896-7; the first edition of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (with the dustwrapper); a 1930 autograph letter signed by Aldous Huxley (with very interesting literary content); rare examples of Indigenous Australian portraiture; a fine copy of the golden jubilee edition of Winnie-the-Pooh (one of only 300 copies signed by Christopher Robin himself); and an album of 87 large-format aerial photographs of New Guinea, circa 1943.
Don’t worry, there are also some standard works: Oxley’s Journals (1820); Our Pastoral Industry (1910); Pastoral Homes of Australia, New Series, Volume 1 (1929); Wild Rivers (1983) by Peter Dombrovskis and Bob Brown (signed by both of them) … we won’t go on ...
Canberra, Bureau of Flora and Fauna and AGPS Press, 1983 to 1987. Volume 1: Amphibia and Reptilia. Volume 2: Hymenoptera - Formicoidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Volume 3: Arachnida - Mygalomorphae, araneomorphae in part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Volume 4: Coleoptera - Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. The series is on-going; Trove..... More
[Adelaide, 2/10th Battalion Association, 1958]. Loosely inserted is a photograph (mounted on card, flush-cut to 203 × 152 mm) of a member of the 2/10th, identified on the verso as QX 32901 Private G.J. Porter (see the nominal roll, page 447). The photograph is inscribed in ink by him 'All..... More
Adelaide, The Collotype Co., Commercial Printers [for the Adelaide 5th Pioneer Reunion Club], 1937. The author was 'late Sergeant "D" Company'. Dornbusch 338; Fielding and O'Neill, page 235; Trigellis-Smith 303. More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1882 (first UK edition)/ 1880. 'Democracy is a novel about political power, its acquisition, use and abuse. It is set at the beginning of a new administration, with the election campaign just over and the new President of the United States just having been elected' (Wikipedia)..... More
'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee, in Henry county [Illinois] ... The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch, when, on the morning of August 7th, a muster roll was opened in the office of..... More
Adelaide, Gresham Studio, [1890s]. 'The South Australian Register' (2 November 1891) featured a review of the recently published biography of George Fife Angas by Edwin Hodder (London, Hodder and Stoughton). It is described as having an 'etched portrait by H. Manesse'. We have identified several variant portraits used as the..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. The background to this biography of George Fife Angas (1789-1879) is not without interest, and it is to be gleaned from the entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' on Henry Hussey (1825-1903), 'evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian ... Hussey's printing and publishing encouraged him..... More
Adelaide, Vardon & Pritchard, 1905. John Howard Angas (1823-1904) was the second son of George Fife Angas. 'In 1841 he entered G.F. Angas & Co. His father's affairs in South Australia were then causing him great financial difficulties. That year he told John that he was to go to the..... More
Woolloomooloo, Alan Scott (The Bush Music Club), 1957 to 1965. Four complete volumes, each comprising four issues. [16 items]. More
Everton Park, L.G. Freeleagus, 1988. 'Limited Edition' is printed on the front cover; the number 356 is stamped on the front pastedown. On the front flyleaf of this copy there is an original two-colour self-portrait in ink of the artist, with the following inscription: 'To Commander James Hume RAN. The..... More
Adelaide, Nature Lovers' League, [1931]. An interesting posthumous miscellany of autobiography and nature studies by an early conservationist. More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2007 (new edition, first thus). Bibliothèque de Verseau, Volume 1: number 60 of 700 copies (in a total edition of 788). 'First appearing nearly thirty years ago the original work has been corrected and augmented with a new introduction and many illustrations drawn especially for this limited..... More
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1958. The half-title is inscribed and signed to prominent (South) Australian businessman Oswald James O'Grady (1901-1971) by George C. Hill, Chief Manager of the National Bank of Australasia (Melbourne, March 1959). In his time, Ossie O'Grady was described as 'Australia's most dynamic businessman'. However, the 'late 1950s..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson and Co., 1884. The scarce first edition, signed on the dedication page 'T.A. Browne. | The Author', we believe to his younger sister Constance. Tipped in on the front flyleaf is an autograph letter signed by Boldrewood (once again as T.A. Browne): small octavo, 2 pages, being..... More
Melbourne, Fergusson and Moore, 1868 (second edition)/ 1867. The front flyleaf is inscribed to 'The Hon. W.M.K. Vale with the Author's kind regards'. Provenance: William Mountford Kinsey Vale (1833-1895), politician and bookseller. As 'a liberal with a keen interest in protection, Vale represented Ballarat West in the Legislative Assembly from..... More
[Adelaide, The Author], 1966. 'Printed for private distribution' and decidedly scarce on the open market. The introduction commences thus: 'I have compiled this book simply for members of the Bonython family. It is deliberately written in an entirely unorthodox style, but one that I hope will hold the reader's interest'..... More
Crawley, University of Western Australia, 2008. 'Written by three of Western Australia's most prominent orchidologists and featuring over 200 hundred full-page, colour illustrations by renowned botanical artist Pat Dundas, this long-awaited volume is the first modern text cataloguing all known species of Western Australia ... [It] is a comprehensive resource..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1962 (first edition). More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1862. One of only 99 copies of the deluxe edition with, as issued, two facsimile copies of the chapbook 'Death and Burial of Cock Robin' (16 pages with illustrations; one in wrappers in an endpocket, the other as a loose sheet..... More
Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 [first edition, Colonial issue, with an asterisk in gilt near the foot of the spine]. Cohen A27.2; Woods/ICS A12aa; Langworth, pages 80-89 (calling in error for '46 unnumbered photo pages' on page 81). More
Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1976 [first edition]. The title page is inscribed and signed 'For Bob Brown, In memory of rivers. Manning Clark. 5 June 1980'. I was about to say that nothing I could say would improve on that, when I noticed the small pencilled marginal annotations against nine..... More
Sydney, Macmillan, 1982/ 1981 (illustrated second edition, first thus). Signed by the author on the half-title. Loosely inserted is the original purchase receipt (dated 29 July 1982) from the ALP National Secretariat for 'Book offer' and postage. More
London, Collins, 1982 (first edition). The third in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Melbourne, George Robertson & Co., [1897]. Provenance: Andrew Ernest Stoddart, with the verso of the binder's blank facing the title page inscribed in ink by the editor to 'A.E. Stoddart | with compliments | J.C. Davis 1897'. Andrew Ernest Stoddart (1863-1915), 'one of the greatest of batsmen' (his obituary in..... More
Chicago, The Teitan Press, 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1910. The original edition was limited to only 350 copies. The title page carries the ownership signature of Olav Hagen (1921-2013) 'a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed during the 1940s. He won a bronze ... at the 1948 Winter Olympics' (Wikipedia). More
Saint Paul, Llewellyn Publications, 1971 (second printing)/ 1969. More
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906. 'The object of this little work is twofold. In the first place I wish to show that, concurrent with fetishism or Jujuism, there is in Africa a religion giving us a much higher conception of God than is generally acknowledged ... And, in the..... More
Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. A singular copy: the title page is signed by Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996), Bob Brown and Alan Missen, 'Senator for Victoria' (1925-1986), who 'spoke out against the building of Tasmania's Franklin River dam' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). More
Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1980. The '1980 Perth Survey of Drawing' catalogue; this copy is signed in ink on the title page by Russell Drysdale. More
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[Tampa], The Holy Order of RaHoorKhuit [HOOR], 2009. More
West Hollywood, Luxor Media Group, 2013 (first trade edition)/ 2012 ('Privately issued' in an edition of only 44 copies). Number 133 of 220 copies (the first 31 numbered copies being a deluxe edition). More
London, Faber and Faber Limited, September 1939. The first edition of Eliot's popular book of poems for children. The illustrations and lettering on the dustwrapper and boards are after designs by the poet. Gallup: 'T.S. Eliot. A Bibliography' A34a ('Published 5 October 1939 at 3s. 6d.; 3005 copies printed. On..... More
Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1980 (ninth printing)/ 1964. More
Adelaide, The Hassell Press [Printers], 1931. The catalogue contains 1776 entries, each containing a short description of the item and (frequently) the name of the lender. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. More
New York, Ives Washburn, 1930. One of 2000 copies. Provenance: the bookseller Mary Maydwell Martin (1915-1973), with her signature, dated 1939, the year 'she won the Tormore prize for English Literature' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The later armorial bookplate of L.S. Walters is on the pastedown: Lance Walters, an industrial..... More
Atglen, Schiffer Military History, 1999. More
Land Grant Number 639 is for 'Eighty-two acres numbered "903" in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'James Warland and George Warland of Adelaide' for the sum of £2. Elizabeth Warburton, in 'The Paddocks Beneath. A History of Burnside from the Beginning' (1981), makes short work of locating the land in..... More
The grant is for 'Eighty acres numbered 161 in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'Henry Giles of Adelaide | Merchant' for the sum of £80. Henry Giles (1812-1892) was born at 'Farrington-Gurney, Somerset, England and came to South Australia on the ship 'Buffalo' in 1836, listed as a Labourer. He..... More
![Item #127459 A Brief Account of the Military Life and Times of George Gawler. [Contained in]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127459_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643854938)
Adelaide, RGSSA, December 1955. The Presidential Address of George William Symes, MC and Bar (1896-1980), sometime commander of 70th Division, second-in-charge to Major General Orde Wingate's Special Force, and commander of the South Burma District; and secretary to governors Sir Robert George and Sir Edric Bastyan ('Australian Dictionary of Biography')..... More
Paris, Librairie de A. Pougin, 1837. Inscribed in ink on an early binder's blank 'Bought at the sale / of Governor Gawler's effects / May 27, 1841. J F'. Unfortunately it is not James Hurtle Fisher - we have checked! There are approximately 40 male JFs in the 1841 South..... More
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958 (first edition). Gordimer was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. This work, her second novel, was banned in South Africa for twelve years. More
London, Macmillan, 1994 (first UK edition, with the first-issue dustwrapper). The front panel of this dustwrapper features a hand, not an eye. More
London, Collins, 1971 (first edition). The second Dalziel and Pascoe The title page is signed by the author. More
Woodstock, Foul Play Press, 1991 (first American edition)/ 1989. Signed on the half-title by the author (as Reginald Hill, identified as the author on the dustwrapper). More
At Sea, 'Barambah Battler', 1919. The foreword, written 'At Sea, 25th Sept., 1918' explains that this is a souvenir of the journey from the soldier's 'Homeland to the theatre of War', and credits the production of this issue to the editors and staff of 'The Barambah Battler', the weekly shipboard..... More
At Sea, SS 'Port Macquarie', [1919]. Provenance: Lieutenant Ivan Schroder Webley, AFC, with his signature at the head of the menu. The blank verso has been signed by 25 fellow passengers on this ship (renamed HMAT 'Port Macquarie' for the duration of the war) returning troops to Australia. Not least..... More
