Ballet in Australia. From Pavlova to Rambert
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1948. More
New Arrivals
The Milky Way as told to Ted Egan
Sydney, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Group, 1978. Aboriginal Australia Reading. More
A Systemic List of the Pelecypoda, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda and Crepipoda. The bivalve mollusca, tusk-shells, nautilus, squids, octupi, and chitons of South Australia
Adelaide, Government Printer, [1941]. Malacological Society of SA publication No. 2. 'This completes a systematic list of the Mollusca of South and Central Australi, to our present state of knowledge' (preface). The first list, by the same authors, was published in 1938. More
Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in..... More
Savage Life in Central Australia
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. The 'country, the habits and customs as well as the beliefs of the Wonkonguru and their neighbours [east of Lake Eyre] ... For the last eight or nine years Mr Aiston has dwelt at Mungeranie, although more than twenty years he has spent in..... More
The Collegiate School of St Peter, 1847-1947. Being an Illustrated Record of the First Hundred Years
Adelaide, The Advertiser, 1947. With the School's prize label (dated 1945) mounted on the half-title signed in ink by teacher Robert Ewen Cameron, and a loosely-inserted School prize label (1944). More
Models of Propriety, or I'd Love to Render Brenda
Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Signed by the author and the artist in ink on the title page. From the author's foreword: 'This light-hearted nonsense was written in 1933 for the amusement of my fellow-students in Marie Tuck's life-drawing class. I was eighteen and in my first year at the South..... More
Visions of Gallipoli. The Complete Catalogue, 1990 [cover title]
Melbourne, Infinite Art Gallery, 1990. Signed in black text by the artist on the front cover. Compiled by Lesley and Lloyd Nicholson, with a one-page introduction by the artist and a foreword by conservator Maxwell Hall. Loosely inserted is a 4-page pamphlet from Julie Hart's Broken Hill Gallery. More
Turning the Tide. A Personal History of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1979. 'Political struggle in the last three decades of Aboriginal affairs in Australia'. More
Botanical Riches. Stories of Botanical Exploration
Carlton and Melbourne, Miegunyah Press/ State Library of Victoria, 2006. Number 80 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. More
Her Majesty's Pleasure. A Centenary Celebration for Adelaide's Theatre of the Stars
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2013. The theatre was closed for two years for a major redevelopment; it re-opened in 2020. More
The J. K. Walker Lecture for 1954. [About Vines and Wines (cover title)]
Sydney, The Wine and Food Society of New South Wales, 1953. Signed in ink by then-president of The Wine and Food Society of New South Wales, Timothy Kelly on the title-page (who also contributed the foreword). Lecture originally delivered on 30 September 1954 at the Pickwick Club, Sydney; cover design..... More
Outstanding Australian Wines I Have Seen [cover title]
Sydney, The Wine and Food Society of New South Wales, 1953. The work was originally delivered on 20 November 1952 as the Ninth J.K. Walker Lecture. Provenance: Thomas Claudius Seabrook (1886-1967), wine merchant and wine judge. The initial blank page is inscribed 'To Tom Seabrook | With Compliments | David..... More
Adventure in Watercolour. An Artist's Story Written and Illustrated by Kenneth Macqueen. With a Letter from Professor J.V. Duhig, Biographical Summary by Vida Lahey, also an Explanation of Technique by the Artist Himself
Sydney, The Legend Press, [1948]. Number 967 of 1,100 copies signed in ink by the artist. More
Rosa Fiveash's Australian Orchids. A Collection of Paintings by Rosa Fiveash
Adelaide, Rigby, 1974. More
A Feast of Wonders. Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
Milan, Skira Editore/ Nouveau Musee National de Monaco/ Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, 2009. More
The Art of Ballets Russes. The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
New Haven, Wadsworth Atheneum/ Yale University Press, 1997. 'Serge Lifar, the last great protégé dancer of famed Russian ballet producer Serge Diaghilev, collected paintings, set designs, and costume designs from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and from his own later productions at the Paris Opéra' (from the blurb). More
Cradle of Adversity. A History of the Willunga District
Blackwood, Historical Consultants/ The District Council of Willunga, 1991. More
Michelangelo
London, The Folio Society, 2007 (first thus)/ 1985 (second, revised, edition). Introduced by Michael Levey. The text of this edition follows that of the second edition, with minor emendations. More
Epics of the Middle Ages
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second impression)/ 2005. Comprises 'The Song of Roland', 'The Song of William', 'Raoul of Cambrai', 'The Cid', 'The Deeds of the Norman People', 'The Bruce', and 'Godfrey of Boulogne'. More
The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery
London, The Folio Society, 2006 (first thus). The text follows that of the 2003 edition, with some further revisions and a new preface by the author. More
Charlemagne. Father of a Continent
London, The Folio Society, 2006 (first thus). Translated by Allen Cameron and with a preface by the author. More
King Arthur. History & Legend
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). More
Dust in the Lion's Paw. Autobiography 1939-1946
London, John Murray, 1962 (second impression)/ 1961. More
Playford's South Australia. Essays on the History of South Australia, 1933-1968
Adelaide, Association of Professional Historians Inc., 1996. More