John Constable, the Natural Painter. An Exhibition arranged for Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney by the Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. September - 1973 January 1974
Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, (1973).
New Arrivals
Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language. Warburton Ranges Dialect, Western Australia
Perth, United Aborigines Mission - Language Department, (1959). Loosely inserted are a supplementary Pronunciation Sheet (one page quarto, produced in the later 1960s) and a receipt signed by the author.
The National Capital Development Commission. Tomorrow's Canberra. Planning for Growth and Change
Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1970 (first edition).
Fair Dinkum
London, Cassell, 1960.
Lazarus of Bethany. The Story of His Life in Both Worlds
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1872. On the front flyleaf is a gift inscription from Albert Gard to his father, Melbourne, 9 May 1872. The author, a medical practitioner, records a discussion on the preservation of human bodies in the six-page preface to this 'quaint novel'; the only other publications attributed to...
The Country Hotel and Guest House Guide 'Where to Go' in Victoria [1937-38]
Melbourne, The Victorian Railways Advertising Division, [1937]. Cover illustration by Norris.
The Diaries of John McConnell Black. Volume I: Diaries One to Four, 1875-1886. With selected extracts from his "Memoirs". [Together with] Volume II: Diaries Five to Eight, 1887-1910. Edited by his granddaughters, Marjorie Andrew and Shirley Clissold
Hawthorndene and Adelaide, Investigator Press (Volume 1) and the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium (Volume 2), 1986 and 1991. John Black (1855-1951) was a reporter who turned to botany relatively late in life; he emigrated to South Australia in 1877.
A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1923. 'The Fatimids, Fatimid Caliphate or al-Fatimiyyun is the Shia dynasty which ruled much of North Africa from January 5, 910 to 1171 AD. After about 1070 AD, Fatimid authority over the Levant coast and parts of Syria was challenged first by Turkic...
Oh, Doctor!
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923 (second impression)/ 1923. American novelist and dramatist Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1939) was part of the Bohemian colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, which included Jack London, Mary Hunter Austin, George Sterling, Upton Sinclair, Xavier Martinez, Ambrose Bierce, Alice MacGowan, Sinclair Lewis, Francis McComas, and Arnold...
The Just and the Unjust
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1943. '... a full-scale modern novel of a whole community ... the scene is intensely dramatic - a county seat during a murder trial'.
Sea Way Only
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 (fifth impression)/ 1937. 'In this man of the Merchant Service you will find the true successors to the Cabots and the Frobishers, the Grenvilles and the Drakes'. Frontispiece by Stanley Rogers.
Oomingmak. The Expedition to Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea
New York, Hastings House, 1967. 'The Nunivak Expedition captured a large group of musk ox calves ... a magnificent piece of work on Arctic life: the Eskimos, the tundra ... and the sheer excitement of chasing the musk ox'.
Low Company. Describing the Evolution of a Burglar
London, Peter Davies, 1938 (sixth impression)/ 1936. Rare with the dustwrapper (which states 'First Cheap Edition'; front flyleaf stamped 'Overseas Edition'. Benney was a London street urchin (cum-petty crim) during the Great War who graduated to be a fully-fledge career criminal'.
Aircam Aviation Series. Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XII-24, Supermarine Seafire Mk. 1-47
Canterbury, Osprey Publications, 1971/ 1969. Loosely inserted is a list of Griffon-Spitfire and Seafire RAF squadrons. Excellent early modelling reference.
When I Was Seven
London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. An Auckland, New Zealand, setting.
The Maru Special. Japanese Naval Operations in WWII. Number 94 [and] Number 95
[Tokyo, Maruzen, 1980s]. Text in Japanese. A few related pieces of ephemera are loosely inserted.
A-20 Boston at War
London, Ian Allan Ltd, 1979. The Boston was later renamed the Havoc in the USAAF.
The World by Sextant. The Experiences of a WW2 RAAF Navigator
Brisbane, Gerald Reid Godschall Johnson, 1991. 53 Squadron, flying Lockheed Hudsons. Two small sheets of related ephemera are loosely inserted.
A Piece of Cake in the Middle East
Bega, The Authors, 1994. 454 Squadron RAAF; Baltimore bombers in the Middle East.
Can You Hear Me? RAAF Radio Risibility
Box Hill North, Bonall Publishing, 1980. By the author of 'A Saga of Achievement. A Story of the Men and Women who maintained and operated Radio and Radar Systems of the RAAF over 50 Years'.
A Woman at War
Greenslopes, McCANN Publications, 1985. Signed by the author, with her address label, on the verso of the front cover. The first page bears a few tiny emphases... An ex-WAAAF Sergeant's story.
A Pale Blue Handkerchief
Noble Park, The Author, 1992. 'A Tasmanian Royal Australian Air Force Serviceman's World War II letters'.
Handley Page Hampden & Hereford Crash Log
Earl Shilton, Midland Counties Publications, 1980. Comprehensive; includes a date cross-reference, and a location map of the UK.
Wild Flowers of the Chalk
London, King Penguin, 1947.
Poems. Real and Imaginative
Adelaide, G. Hassell & Son, 1916 (third edition)/ 1916. Not least, the final poem, 'Gallipoli, 1915'.