A School on a Mission. 140 Years of CBC on Wakefield Street
Adelaide, Christian Brothers College, 2018. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. More
Adelaide, Christian Brothers College, 2018. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page. More
Banksia Park, The Author, 2018. One of only 500 copies. More
Banksia Park, SAR Lines Railway Books, 2021. A history of the north-south railway now known as 'The Ghan'. More
Salisbury, Melbourne Sports Books, 2018. More
Bowden, Minda Inc., 2018. 'Minda is the largest non-government disability support organisation in South Australia, supporting more than 1750 people with disability and employing close to 1700 people'. More
1997 (second edition)/ 1995. Inscribed, dated (2008) and signed in ink by the author on the verso of the title page. More
Adelaide, Hancock and Martin Publishing Committee, 1986. More
[Adelaide, The Author], 1966. 'Printed for private distribution' and decidedly scarce on the open market. More
Port Adelaide, Le Messurier Timber Company, 1991. The title page is signed in ink by the author. More
Melbourne, E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1913]. The author's first published book. The front cover illustration is by David Low; the last six pages are a glossary 'for the use of the thoroughly genteel'. McLaren 243. The Institute of Australian Culture contains on its website some interesting information about this book..... More
Sydney, Rigby Publishers, 1987 [first trade edition]. This first trade edition (issued at the same time as the signed limited edition bound in full green calf), is greatly superior in quality to subsequent reprints. The first volume of this set has the frontispiece portrait signed in blue ballpoint pen by..... More
London, William Heinemann, 1915. Conrad, page 208; Spence 774; Renard 1021; Taurus 100; Rosove 217.A1. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1980. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. More
Adelaide, H. Buring & Sobels Ltd, 1967. Number 927 of 1000 numbered copies. More
Melbourne, Printed for the Author by McCarron, Bird, 1875. More
Adelaide, [H.M. Martin & Son Ltd], 1958. One of a numbered limited edition (upper limit not stated); this unnumbered copy is out of series. We have previously sold copy number 449 (inscribed to Sir Hubert Mayo), and number 186 (inscribed to Keith Christie-Ling); we have also sold several unsigned and..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978. A history of the 'Copper Kingdom' or 'Copper Triangle' (Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo) and the Cornish mining families that settled there. More
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Number 680 of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and..... More
Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949. More
Adelaide, The Hassell Press, 1950. Loosely inserted is a Mary Martin Bookshop 'Customer's Report' card inscribed and signed in ink by Max Harris, and the original purchase receipt (dated 14 June 1962). More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell and | Lady Price | with much thanks | and many regards | from | Monty | Charles P. Mountford' (the anthropologist Charles Pearcy Mountford, 1890-1976). The recipient, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has..... More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author, the popular South Australian Labor politician John Charles Bannon AO (1943-2015), the 39th Premier of South Australia, who resigned in 1992 in the wake of the State Bank collapse. A huge electoral defeat for Labor..... More
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2005 [first thus]. 'Edited and with an introduction by Anthony J. Brown and Gillian Dooley. Foreword by Witgar Hitchcock. Preface by Paul Brunton.' The title page is signed by Brown, Dooley and Hitchcock (the great-great-great-nephew of Flinders). This is the first..... More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Peade A26: only 208 copies. More