Table Wines. The Technology of their Production
Berkeley, University of California, 1970 (second edition, revised, amplified and rearranged)/ 1951. More
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Ballander Boy
Adelaide, Rigby Opal Books, 1979. A photobook, depicting the adventures of a young white ('ballander') boy lost in the Arnhem Land bush. He is found by an Indigenous man, Murrawongi, and spends some days with him, his son Binda and other boys. David Gulpilil plays the part of Murrawongi, and..... More
The Place at Whitton
London, Cassell, 1964 (first edition). The author's scarce first book. More
Rambles in Australia. With Thirty-Two Illustrations from Photographs and a Map
London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1916. More
Anson, Hudson and Sunderland in Australian Service
Canberra, Aerospace Publications, 1992 (first edition). The ninth book in the Australian Air Power series. More
South Australia. Its History, Resources, and Productions
London, Sampson Low ... 1876. Provenance: the South Australian historian and bibliographer Thomas Gill, with his signature on the title page and the first page. His collection was bequeathed to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, which later disposed of duplicates; this copy has the RGSSA stamp on two..... More
The Technology of Wine Making
Westport, The AVI Publishing Company, Inc., 1972 (third edition)/ 1960. Loosely inserted is the carbon copy of a contemporary wine receipt from South Australian wine and spirit merchants Walkerville Wines. More
Nolan on Nolan. Sidney Noland in his own words
Camberwell, Viking/ Penguin Books, 2007. More
An Australian Native's Standpoint. Addresses
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. 'This book contains newspaper reports, reproduced without elaboration, of addresses uttered by the white native of Australia whose name is printed on the title page' (author's introductory 'explanatory'). Sir William John Sowden (1858-1943), journalist and newspaper editor, was associated with the major daily, the..... More
Grape Varieties of South Australia
Adelaide, Department of Agriculture, 1967. More
Studies on the Sherry Flor
Adelaide, Australian Wine Board, 1972 [revised edition]/ 1953. More
Bacterial Spoilage of Fortified Wines
Adelaide, Australian Wine Board, 1969/ 1943. More
William Light's Brief Journal and Australian Diaries
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1984. Loosely inserted is the prospectus. Signed on the date of publication (17 October 1984) by David Elder. The deluxe edition, with notes and a lengthy introduction by David Elder. 'This book collects Light's Australian journals for the first time. Many of his maps and watercolours also..... More
Sentenced to Cross the Raging Sea. The story of Sam Johnson, victim of Oldham's Bankside Riot of 1834
[Adelaide], The Author, 2004. Presentation copy dated (May 2011), warmly inscribed and signed by the author to, and with the ownership signature of, eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018). More
Gumtops [Poems]
Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons, 1935. The author's first book; this copy is signed on the title page. Rex Ingamells co-founded the 'Jindyworobak' movement in 1937. Provenance: Colin Thiele, with his contemporary signature on the front free endpaper ('Colin M. Thiele | Adelaide University | 1939'). More
Pacific Profiles. Volume Three: Allied Medium Bombers: Douglas A-20 Havoc Series, Southwest Pacific 1942-1944
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2021. More
The Other Meaning. Poems ...
Sydney, Lyre-Bird Writers and the Commonwealth Literary Fund, 1956. With the pencilled ownership signature of fellow poet Robert Clark, and an annotated typescript of a speech by him on Smith. More
Commercial Implications of Native Title
Annandale, Federation Press, 1997. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
The Letters and Journals of Samuel Marsden, 1765-1838. Senior Chaplain in the Colony of New South Wales and Superintendant of the Mission of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand. Edited by John Rawson Elder
Dunedin, Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd and A.H. Reed for the Otago University Council, 1932 (first edition). Number 302 of 1000 copies, signed by the editor, John Rawson Elder. More
Songs for My Dog and Other People
Harmondsworth, Kestrel Books, 1980. Inscribed and signed by the author 'For Christobel [Mattingley]/ fair and/ wondrous/ from her/ admirer' and with a small doodle by (and signed by) Atchison on the title page (his signature scruffy dog). Loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting, an article on the author and this..... More
The Meeting of the Waters. The Hindmarsh Island Affair
Sydney, Hodder Headline Australia Pty Ltd, 2003. More
Nebuchadnezzar
London, Thames and Hudson, 1972. More
Clyde Company Papers. Prologue, 1821-35 [and] ... [Volume] II, 1836-40
London, Oxford University Press, 1941 and 1952. More
Bedfordshire to Bedford Farm. The Family Histories of the Descendants of George Snr and Mary Hollitt
[Wirrabara], The Hollit Family Reunion Committee, 1988. More
The Wohling Saga. The Story of One Family's Part in the Colonization of South Australia and Beyond
[Glenelg North], The Wohling Family Club, 1982. More