Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1905 (third edition, preface dated 30 June)/ 1905. We presume the first edition to be the series of newspaper articles. We have not seen this third edition before; apart from the tipped-in leaf, it also contains an additional two pages of text..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1926]. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders (it) appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' (established in 1867 by the author). A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly..... More
Dural, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2007. More
Melbourne, Specialty Press, [1946]. 'Compiled by some who were there, and with acknowledgements and thanks to Major W. Lennard, formerly of "Guinea Gold", now of the Melbourne "Herald" for his assistance'. With a full honor roll and list of decorations and awards. More
![Official History of Australia in the War, 1914-1918 [the complete twelve-volume set]. Charles...](/pictures/thumb/124072_01.jpg?v=1623377827)
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934 (one volume), 1935 (one volume), 1936 (two volumes), 1937 (three volumes), 1938 (two volumes), 1942 (one volume), 1943 (one volume) and 1944 (one volume). The sixth volume is the first and only edition of 1942, the fifth volume is the first edition of 1937, the..... More
Melbourne, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. This catalogue was issued in conjunction with an exhibition organised by The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, from 1999-2000. More
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Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1921 ('From the SA "Register", September 2, 1899'). The frontispiece is inscribed and signed by Sir George Brookman (1850-1927), mining entrepreneur, businessman and politician. 'After news of promising gold finds in Western Australia, Brookman formed the Adelaide Prospecting Party (later Coolgardie Gold Mining and..... More
Perth, V.K. Jones & Co. Ltd., 1916. The balance of the title sets the scene: 'Where the Writer, Mrs. J. Fairfax Conigrave (a daughter of one of South Australia's well-remembered pioneers, Mr Charles Price, of Hindmarsh Island) spent her childhood'. The verso of the frontispiece is inscribed to 'Mrs Lewis..... More
Adelaide, Publishers Limited, 1925 and 1927 (first editions). An important series of lengthy biographical sketches of SA pioneering pastoralists. 'Publication of the series began in the "Adelaide Stock and Station Journal" on January 10, 1923, and continued weekly until August 10, 1927.... During that period, a total of 230 articles..... More
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1944. Number 107 of only 375 copies of the fourth publication of the Harry Muir's original Wakefield Press - oversubscribed at the time and scarce to this day. More
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London, Ward, Lock and Co., [1883]. There is no spoiler alert before the published letter to the editor of the Melbourne 'Leader' on 22 July 1882. Emily of Geelong has just finished reading the last chapter of the novel serialised in the newspaer, and she's not at all happy with..... More
Geelong, The Book Nook (Numbers 1 to 11) and Melbourne, The Bookshop of Margareta Webber, 1931 to 1935. Number 1 is the deluxe edition limited to 50 copies numbered and signed by the editor, containing 'Original, Signed and Numbered Lino-cuts, by Christian Waller, Arthur Baldwinson, Marjorie Wood, Ron Meadows, -..... More
Heidelberg, The Editors, 1952 to 1955. 'Six years ago Ern Malley lived and died in Australia. Child of the unintended creative act of two other Australian poets he became overnight the most significant figure in the current literary scene. Alike as poet and as a symbol of creative living ....... More
Adelaide, Adelaide University Union, 1935 to 1948, and Adelaide University Students' Representative Council, 1949 and 1950. 'Phoenix' supplanted 'The Adelaide University Magazine'; in turn, it was supplanted by 'Angry Penguins' during the war years. The post-war issues generally do not compare with those from the 1930s, which contain illustrations (often..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1946 (ninth edition)/ 1931. More
East Melbourne, AGMEDIA, 1995. More
Renmark, The Author, 2017. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Canberra, Nicholson Prints & Publishing, 1970. A conspiratorial book by the widow of nuclear scientist George Clifford James Dalton (1916-1961), claiming that he was poisoned 'by malevolent elements of the [Australian] intelligence community ... [Her] conviction that he was murdered for refusing to stop helping the Dutch to break the..... More
[Broome], The Author, 2001. Signed by the author. More
[Adelaide], Cooper and Son, 1987. Signed by Maxwell and William Cooper. More
Tumby Bay, National Trust of SA, [1975 (early reprint)/ 1974]. More
Marion, Howden Printing, 1982. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Norwood, Sydenham Gallery, 1976. Number 820 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. Loosely inserted is the prospectus. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1998. More
Sydney, Ure Smith, 1953. An edition of only 200 numbered copies, this copy is unnumbered but signed by Stuart Scougall), with the illustrations printed from the original boxwood engravings. An account of the garden at 'Kepdowrie' in Wahroonga; 'possessors of the book are invited to the garden on the first..... More
