Adelaide, Vardon Pritchard, Printers, 1905 (second edition)/ 1905. The first page (the verso of the frontispiece) is inscribed in ink to 'Jack Rowan from the author Harry Driscoll 10.5.09'. Henry John Driscoll was born in Adelaide in 1857; his obituary appears in 'The Advertiser' on 4 September 1916, and he..... More

Melbourne, Aircraft Exhibition Committee, [1945]. 'The RAAF Locker fund is an entirely voluntary organisation, formed in October, 1939, to provide comforts and amenities for members of the RAAF.' The show took place at the Melbourne Town Hall, 29 January to 3 February 1945. A souvenir leaflet produced by Olympic Tyre..... More

This copy carries over 30 signatures, including many former Test cricketers, not least Les Favell, Don Bradman, David Hookes, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall, Ian Chappell, Barry Richards, Graham Hole, Lance Gibbs, Neil Harvey, Wayne Phillips, Rick Darling, Gavin Stevens, David Sincock, and Rex Sellers. More

London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More

Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, Printers, 1864. The address was delivered by Professor McCoy on 25 April 1864. Among other things, he discusses at some length and in great detail the 'unlucky mischances' that dogged the last weeks of the Burke and Wills expedition. McLaren 6620 (but possibly incorporated in the..... More

Adelaide, J.L. Bonython & Co., Printers [for The Author, circa 1909]. 'Dutton's privately produced [book] records his 1907 and 1908 journeys with Murray Aunger from Adelaide to Darwin on the first car trip across Australia. The journey to[ok] the two men 51 days but left them stranded at Tennant Creek..... More

Manchester, The Open Air Publications Limited, [circa 1937]. 'A valuable guide to the mountains of Ireland complete with one-inch ordnance map' (dustwrapper blurb). More

London, L. Upcott Gill, [circa 1893] (second edition). 'I have been asked many times what to do, if camping out abroad, supposing you shot a tiger or a bear, and wished to preserve the skin as a "flat". Simply lay it on the ground and slit the skin underneath, in..... More

Sydney, Hennessey, Harper & Company, Printers and Publishers, 1898. Apparently, the system in force in SA differed from that in use in Victoria and NSW, and was 'in some respects considered superior'. Trove records one copy only, in the State Library of SA. More

Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College), 1918. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year..... More

Adelaide, 'Authorised by the South Australian Branch of the Navy League' (and printed by G. Hassell and Son), 1918. The attractive cover design is by G.A. Barnes. The calendar for 1919, with noteworthy naval events and nautical quotations by the month. The compilers are father and daughter: Douglas John Byard..... More

[Melbourne, The Editor], 1943. 'Encouraged all forms of experimental writing. Translations of Kafka, Baudelaire and Maupassant. Contributors included Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor, Alister Kershaw, Muir Holburn, Arthur Ashworth, Irvine Green and the Americans Karl Shapiro, Harry Roskolenko, and Wm. Van O'Connor. Ceased for want of 150 subs' (John Tregenza: 'Australian..... More