Paris, Éditions de la revue Verve, 1952. All lithographs are present: Georges Braque (2); Henri Matisse (3, including one double-page); Henri Laurens (2); Alberto Giacometti (2); Andre Masson (3, including one double-page); Fernand Leger (3, including one double-page); Joan Miro (3, including one double-page); Francisco Bores (2); Marcel Gromaire (2); and Marc Chagall (7, including one double-page).
London, William Collins, 1978.
Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. A substantial history of a town with a substantial history; a feature of the book is a detailed biographical register running to more than 80 pages. Provenance: Charles E. Cameron Wilson, with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page.
Sydney, Rigby, 1987 [first trade edition]. The first trade edition (issued at the same time as the signed limited edition in full leather), is greatly superior in quality to subsequent reprints. In this set, the frontispiece portrait of each volume is signed in blue ball-point pen by Don Bradman, and...
Melbourne, Hutchinson, 1976. Number 1240 of 1500 copies signed by the author.
Adelaide, South Australian Cricket Association, 1933. 'International Cricket. England v. Australia. Souvenir of Visit of MCC Team. October 1932 to March 1933. Third Test Match ...' (cover title).
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF.
Adelaide, Printed by Webb, Vardon, and Pritchard [for the Author], 1882. 'Essential; an important regional novel and nearly a comic masterpiece' states Depasquale ('A Critical History of South Australian Literature, 1836-1930'); 'a rambling, episodic, undisciplined novel, part romance, part satire, part detective novel and ... part didactic religious novel'. The...
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1893. The journal was originally published with two maps; they are basically identical, but one has added chromolithographic geological features, and a key. This second map is not offered here. McLaren 12614 (the dimensions for the maps are larger than those we have recorded here, because McLaren...
Honolulu, Wall, Nichols & Company, 1908. Loosely inserted is a small folding leaflet, 'The Scenic Trip Supreme. In and Around Honolulu by the Honolulu Coach Co.' (duodecimo, 8 pages with 2 maps and 2 illustrations; undated but probably 1920s). Offered together with 12 vintage snapshot photographs (each 92 × 146...
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1933 [first edition]. The statement of limitation indicates this is 'One of 200 copies in art [artificial] leather, with jacket bound in. This is No. 125', numbered and signed by the author. The book is based on the life of Cecil John Levien (1874-1932), district officer...
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1939 (first edition, with the variant 'red question-mark' dustwrapper).
London, Archibald Constable and Co., 1902 [first UK edition].
[Hobart], Wellington Bridge, 2012.
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1926. Department of Mines Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin Number 12. With the ownership signature of C.T. Madigan on the front cover and title page. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer, was selected by (Sir) Douglas Mawson as meteorologist for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914...
A press release gimmick, produced for the renowned mime's tour of Australia in August and September 1986. Offered together with a black and white photograph (255 × 205 mm) by the Adelaide photographer Jan Dalman, featuring Marceau in mufti with the local radio announcer to whom the inscribed item was presented.
Crafers West, Stuart Gallery Publications, 2012. The first volume is signed and numbered by the author; this is set number 328 (the upper limit is not stated, but we know it to be 500). A catalogue raisonne of the etched works of the Australian-born British artist Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), considered...
London, Bickers and Son (and others), 1875 (new edition).
London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1893]. 'Australia is practically Southern Europe' (title page). Not least, there are 70 pages 'On Australian Wine and its place in the Australian Daily Dietary' (pages 178-247).
Willoughby, 'Photographed, Printed and Published by H. Phillips', [circa 1910]. The small amount of text includes several press comments dated 1910.
Willoughby, 'H. Phillips, Photographer, Printer and Publisher', [early 1920s]. One of the images is a 'Combination print made by Captain Frank Hurley' from a negative of the Jamieson Valley by Phillips and another of 'one of the early Aeroplane flights over Sydney'. The caption refers to the pioneering flight of...
Willoughby, 'Photographed, Printed and Published by H. Phillips', [1910s].
Melbourne, Albert J. Mullet, Government Printer (for the Department of Home Affairs), 25 September 1915. This copy possibly lacks the last leaf, but we cannot locate a copy in Trove to confirm our suspicions.
London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. There are (relevant) contemporary annotations in ink in the margins of pages 39 and 47. The first comprehensive English guidebook to Italy.
Redgrave lived in Australia in the early part of the century, then continuously here from 1908 until his death in obscurity in 1922. His chequered career and unsettled personal life included three marriages (with children from two of them, and a son from another relationship). One of his sons was...
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