York Beach, The Teitan Press, 2008 (first US edition)/ 1914 ('Sepher Maphteah Shelomo' [sic]) and 1903 ('Clavicula Salomonis'). Number 52 of 358 copies; a 'Weiser Antiquarian Books' bookplate signed by Stephen Skinner is mounted on the front free endpaper. More
New York, Weiser Books, 2017 (facsimile edition)/ 1969 (first thus)/ 1944. A limitation label is tipped in on the front flyleaf; this is number 40 of 156 copies. More
London, Neptune Press, 2004. Signed on the title page by the author. '"Progradior" was the "magical name" of Frank Bennett (1868-1930), one time disciple of Aleister Crowley'. He migrated to Australia in 1911 and 'strove to promote Crowley's teachings' (dustwrapper blurb). Offered with a companion volume edited by Keith Richmond..... More
Dallas, Sangreal Foundation, Inc., [1969]. Frater Perdurabo and Soror Virakam are pseudonyms for Aleister Crowley and Mary d'Este-Sturges. More
Chicago, The Teitan Press, 1990 (first facsimile edition)/ 1907. The original edition was limited to 500 copies. More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
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Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
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[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
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Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
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Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
[Newcastle, Natal, Greaves & Teversham, Printers, 25 June 1902]. Provenance: a Western Australian member of the 4th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse. More
Cape Town, Central News Agency ('By Arrangement with the Editor of "The Nongqai", the South African Services Journal, Pretoria'), September 1917. First World War humour, not a patch on Bairnsfather, but decidedly less common. More
Sydney, Printed and Published by H.T. Dunn & Co., 1902. Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902) was executed by firing squad in Pretoria for murder on 27 February 1902. The first notice we have found relating to this short work appeared less than three months later. A...... More
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1849 (first edition). 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' describes this as 'an important work of early colonial fiction', with authenticity to the events narrated and their background. One of the major plots is 'the machinations of the American Negro Martin Beck ... Harris's elevation..... More
[London], Scarlet Imprint, 2009. Number 303 of 1000 copies. More
London, Fulgur Limited, 2010. One of 800 copies in cloth. More
London, Macdonald, 1971. More
London, Starfire Publishing Limited, 2016 (enhanced edition)/ 1999. One of 1500 copies (including 111 of a deluxe edition). More
London, Starfire Publishing Limited, 1999. More
London, Skoob Books Publishing, 1992. More
London, Skoob Books Publishing, 1994 (first edition). More
London, Skoob Books Publishing, 1991, 1992 and 1994 [corrected editions]/ 1972, 1973 and 1975. A note printed on the verso of the contents leaf in each volume states that it has been reprinted from the 'first edition in which there were a number of errors. These have been corrected where..... More
