Guilty or Innocent? The Gordon Bennett Case
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
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The Story of a Battalion
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. More
Wirra. The Bush that was Adelaide
Adelaide, Nature Conservation Society of SA, 1986 (first edition). More
Grindell's Hut. A Story of Mystery and Intrigue in the Flinders Ranges
[Adelaide], Blackened Billy Books, 2014 (third, revised edition)/ 1986. 'The major events and conversations recorded in this true story are taken from evidence given in court hearings'. Formery titled 'Cloud over the Gammon'. A true story of murder near Grindell's hut in the lonely Gammon Ranges of South Australia during..... More
Corvettes. Little Ships for Big Men
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Derrick V.C.
Adelaide, Rigby, 1982. Farquhar fought at 'Tobruk, El Alamein, Sattelburg and in Borneo, where he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan'. This account uses Derrick's own diaries. More
Spin Me a Dit! Tales of the Royal Australian Navy
Adelaide, The Author, 1984. Loosely inserted is a reproduced poem, 'Sabbath Partings' by one of the crew of 'HMAS Pirie', believed to be Dorky Kendrick. More
Southern Lights. The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937
London, The Travel Book Club, 1939 [first thus]/ 1938. Provenance: Dr Malcolm Evans, with his purchase receipt mounted on the front pastedown, and his ownership label on the front free endpaper. Evans was a part of 'the 1957 team stationed at Horseshoe Island on one of the Falklands Island Dependency..... More
A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
The Founders of Australia. A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet
Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1989. Appendices by Yvonne Browning, Michael Flynn and Mollie Gillen. More
Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 97. The Geology of the Yilgarn Goldfield, South of the Great Eastern Railway
Perth, Fred Wm. Simpson, Government Printer, 1939. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership signature on the front cover and his occasional pertinent highlighting and ink annotations. With an appendix by Dorothy Carroll on 'Sand Plain Soils from the Yilgarn Goldfield'..... More
The Cockatoos and Nestors of Australia
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1981 [facsimile edition]/ 1888. Number 102 of 500 copies signed by the author's great-grandson. The second appendix, 'Gracius Joseph Broinowski: His Books and His Prospectuses' by Keith Hindwood (7 pages) contains much important bibliographical information. The short summary states, in part, that 'Broinowski's main work, the "Birds..... More
Handbook for Canberra. Prepared for the Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science on the occasion of its Meeting held in Canberra, January, 1939
Canberra, L.F. Johnston, Government Printer for ANZAAS, 1938. More
From Our Broken Toil. South Australian Catholics 1836-1906. [Together with] Colour and Shadow. South Australian Catholics 1906-1962
Adelaide, Archdiocese of Adelaide, 1986 and 1991. More
An invitation to a 'hearty welcome' to 'Our old C.O., Col. Scott' by the author of the regimental history, 'With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War' (1924)
The invitation, headed '9th L.H.O.C.A.' (9th Light Horse Old Comrades Association), invites members to give a hearty welcome to the old commanding officer (Colonel William Henry Scott, 1881-1960), who 'will be in Adelaide for a few days this month on a visit to his son'. The date for the event..... More
![Item #129563 'Barambah' Souvenir. June - July 1918 [cover title]. HMAT 'Barambah', RQM Sergeant...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129563_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328075)
'Barambah' Souvenir. June - July 1918 [cover title]
At Sea, The Editors (and printed by Cape Times Ltd., Printers, Capetown), 1918. The souvenir of the return voyage 'to our "Bright Australia" of several Nursing Sisters and Troops, most of whom have taken part in active operations on various fronts of this world war' (the introduction). The editors 'regret..... More
The Limber Log, 1917
London, Printed by Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1918]. A souvenir of the voyage of the troopship HMAT A15 'Port Sydney', which left Melbourne on 9 November 1917 'carrying 1200 Field Artillery Reinforcements and about 300 of other units' (including elements of the Railway Section and the AFC). It arrived at..... More
The Book of the 'Ballarat'. Left Australia, 19 February - Torpedoed Anzac Day, 25 April, 1917 - With a Few Laughs in Between [cover title]
London, Wightman & Co., Old Westminster Press [Printers], [1917]. HMAT A70 'Ballarat' was torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel on 25 April 1917 and sank the next day without loss of life. 'This souvenir was practically ready for publication on the eve of the disaster to the..... More
![Item #129555 A Tale of Two Quotas. SS 'Beltana'. Devonport [UK] to Australia, June-July 1919....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129555_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328055)
A Tale of Two Quotas. SS 'Beltana'. Devonport [UK] to Australia, June-July 1919
Sydney, O'Loughlin Bros. (for the Editorial Committee), [1919]. The quotas, Numbers 30 and 31, for repatriation to Australia on HMAT A72 'Beltana', were from the 4th and 5th Divisions; with a six-page 'Tentative Nominal Roll'. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
Dragropes. Souvenir Number. [New South Wales and Queensland Field Artillery (cover subtitle)]
London, G. Harmsworth & Co., Printers, [circa 1917]. 'This Booklet is intended as a Souvenir of the eventful, and, on the whole, happy time we spent together; both in our dear land, Australia, and during the voyage to England' (foreword). Provenance: 'O'Sullivan | Mosman' is written in pencil on the..... More
Aussie Illustrated Fragments. HMAT 'Port Darwin'. Returning to Australia. 32 Quota [cover title]
Sydney, Finn Brothers, Printers, [1919]. A souvenir of the repatriation voyage of the troopship 'Port Darwin' in June and July 1919. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
'In the Dawning of the Day'. In Memoriam, J.D. Burns, Late Corporal 21st Battalion, 6th Brigade, AIF. Born 18th June 1895. Killed in Action 18th September 1915 [cover title]
[Melbourne], printed by Brown, Prior and Co., [1916]. James Drummond Burns was a Scotch College alumnus; this is strongly reinforced in the contents. There are also 19 pages of his verse, including his well-known patriotic poem, 'For England'. More
![Item #129550 Homeward on HMT [sic] A14. March, 1918. HMAT 'Euripides'](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/129550_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685328039)
Homeward on HMT [sic] A14. March, 1918
Sydney, Printed by John Sands Limited, [1918]. 'A Record of the return to Australia of 1,500 members of the AIF' in February-March 1918. More than the standard fare: the last twenty pages contain the complete nominal roll of the officers and men on board. This copy belonged to one of..... More
Remnants from Randwick. Compiled by the Committee for the Patients of the 4th A.G. Hospital
Sydney, printed by Arthur McQuitty and Co. [and distributed by Tyrrell’s Limited], [1919, re-issue in boards]/ 1919. A superior re-issue in boards (possibly for presentation) of 'Remnants from Randwick. N[umber] 2. No. 4 Australian General Hospital, 1919'. Contents include memoirs, short stories, verse, jokes, cartoons and drawings (not least, by..... More