Doomed Battalion. Mateship and Leadership in War and Captivity. The Australian 2/40 Battalion 1940-1945
St Leonards, Allen and Unwin, 1995. More
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Chauvel of the Light Horse
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1978. More
Welfare Work. Employers' Experiments for improving Working Conditions in Factories. With a Foreword by The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd-George
London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1916. Emily Dorothea Pavy (nee Proud, 1885-1967), teacher, sociologist and lawyer, was awarded the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship for sociology in 1912. 'She left next year for the London School of Economics where she investigated the industrial conditions of female factory workers (DSc..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen (in Ten Volumes)
London, J.M. Dent and Company, 1894 and 1895 (variously fourth and fifth impressions)/ 1892 (first thus). The novels are Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; and Persuasion (the first four titles are each in two volumes). More
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus. Volume 1: The Rosetta Stone. Volume 2: The Rosetta Stone [continued]. Volume 3: The Decree of Canopus
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1904. Books on Egypt and Chaldea series, Volumes 17, 18 and 19. [3 items]. More
The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
London, William Heinemann, 1915. Conrad, page 208; Spence 774; Renard 1022 ('top edges dyed blue'); Taurus 100; Rosove 217.A1b ('top edges pale blue'). More
A portrait photograph inscribed and signed 'Sincerely, Spencer Tracy'
Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), one of the major stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. More
Finden's Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects of the Engravings
London, John Murray, 1833, 1833 and 1834. An 'Advertisement' printed at the beginning of the first volume states 'It has been thought desirable, in making up the first Eight Numbers of these Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of Lord Byron into a Volume, to arrange them in a manner less desultory..... More
A signed program for the Old Vic Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's 'Richard III', performed on its Australian and New Zealand Tour in 1948
Adelaide, Thornquest Press Limited [Printers], 1948. Signed in ink on the front cover by Vivien Leigh (slightly faded) and Sir Laurence Olivier. At that time, they were married; the tour was a great success, but stressful and exhausting, and it put the marriage under considerable pressure. Extra-marital affairs, and Leigh's..... More
Masonic Plain Song for Use in the Ceremonies of Craft Masonry
Adelaide, 'Fray, Music Seller and Publisher, 154 Rundle St', [1880s], 'New and Revised Edition'. 'Dedicated by express permission to The Hon. Chief Justice Way, Most Worshipful Grand Master of South Australia'. More
American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
London, Virtue & Co., City Road and Ivy Lane, [circa 1855]/ 1840. More
Australian Legendary Tales. Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies. Collected by Mrs K. Langloh Parker. With an Introduction by Andrew Lang
London, David Nutt, 1896 [first edition]. Andrew Lang, an anthropologist with a special interest in folk tales, correctly notes in his four-page introduction that 'till Mrs Langloh Parker wrote this book, we had but few of the stories which Australian natives tell'. The illustrations, 'from the sketch-book of an untaught..... More
An Unparalleled Achievement. Cleveland Six (cover title)
Sydney, New Century Press Ltd, [early 1920s]. An attractive sales brochure for this American automobile, printed in Australia for the 'Agents Throughout the Commonwealth'. 'The success of the Chandler Motor Car Co. encouraged Frederick C. Chandler (1874-1945) to organize the Cleveland Automobile Co. to produce a lower-priced automobile. Founded in..... More
The Life and Work of Russell Drysdale
Sydney, Murdoch Books, 1996 (revised edition)/ 1983. More
The Drifting Continent and Other Poems. Illustrated by Arthur Boyd
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1979. Number 184 of 285 copies signed by both author and artist. The sixth book of the Brindabella Press. Loosely inserted is the original prospectus (4 pages with 2 illustrations by Arthur Boyd; creased across the middle and slightly marked). More
Occasions of Birds and other Poems
Deakin, Officina Brindabella [Brindabella Press], 1987. Number 169 of 275 copies signed by the author. The thirteenth book of the Brindabella Press. More
Times and Places. Poems of Locality
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1975. Number 150 of 230 copies signed by the author and Alec Bolton, the printer-publisher. The third book of the Brindabella Press. More
The Spring-Mire. Poems
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1982. Number 108 of 240 copies, signed by both author and artist. The ninth book of the Brindabella Press. More
Time Given. Poems, 1970-1976
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1976. The fourth book of the Brindabella Press, and the rarest. Although the print run was standard for this private press - in this instance, 230 copies were printed (this is number 93) - apparently many were not distributed because the printer-publisher, Alec Bolton, was dissatisfied with..... More
Elegies. Nine Poems
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1974. Number 175 of 310 copies signed by both author and artist. The second book (and fourth publication) of the Brindabella Press. More
The Exiled Immortal. A Song-Cycle
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1980. Number 90 of 240 copies signed by the author (together with his personal chop). The seventh book of the Brindabella Press. More
The Continuance of Poetry. Twelve Poems for David Campbell
Canberra, Brindabella Press, 1981. Number 195 of 275 copies signed by the author. The eighth book of the Brindabella Press. Loosely inserted is the illustrated prospectus, itself a fine piece of Brindabella ephemera. More
Greek Coins. A Sequence of Poems with Line Drawings by the Author
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1977. Number 150 of 240 copies signed by the author. The fifth book of the Brindabella Press. More
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City of Adelaide. Souvenir of Visit of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of York, 1927 [cover title]
A cord-bound loose-leaf cloth album (230 × 340 mm) containing 22 gelatin silver photographs (generally 120 × 200 mm or the reverse, with some a little smaller), mounted on both sides of card album leaves with printed captions. The first plate is a composite group portrait of the then-current Adelaide..... More
Popular Manual of Phrenology
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. More