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
New Arrivals
The Riesling Railway. The Railway Branchline from Riverton to Clare and Spalding in the Mid-North of South Australia
Banksia Park, The Author, 2018. One of only 500 copies. More
The Train to Oodna-Woop-Woop. A Social History of 'The Afghan Express'
Banksia Park, SAR Lines Railway Books, 2021. A history of the north-south railway now known as 'The Ghan'. More
Adelaide Sporting Sites
Salisbury, Melbourne Sports Books, 2018. More
120 Minda. Celebrating One Hundred and Twenty Years
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
Hummock Hill to Whyalla. Our Hidden Past. History of Whyalla, 1900-1970
1997 (second edition)/ 1995. Inscribed, dated (2008) and signed in ink by the author on the verso of the title page. More
A Tangled Web. The Histories of the Families of John and Jemima Hancock & Thomas and Mary Martin
Adelaide, Hancock and Martin Publishing Committee, 1986. More
History of the Families of Bonython of Bonython and Bonython of Carclew in the Duchy of Cornwall; to which is added an Account of the Bonythons who settled in South Australia, the Small Branch at Newlyn East and St Columb Minor, Cornwall, and those who settled in what is now Maine, USA, in 1630 [The Bonython Family (spine title)]
[Adelaide, The Author], 1966. 'Printed for private distribution' and decidedly scarce on the open market. More
Le Messuriers of Port Adelaide. Five Generations of Enterprise in Transport and Timber
Port Adelaide, Le Messurier Timber Company, 1991. The title page is signed in ink by the author. More
Backblock Ballads and Other Verses
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
The Bradman Albums. Selections from Sir Donald Bradman's Official Collection. Volume 1: 1925-1934. Volume 2: 1935-1949
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
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 1021; Taurus 100; Rosove 217.A1. [2 items]. More
More of our Heritage
Adelaide, [The Author], 1980. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. More
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A History of H. Buring & Sobels Ltd [Quelltaler (cover title)]
Adelaide, H. Buring & Sobels Ltd, 1967. Number 927 of 1000 numbered copies. More
Geographic Travels in Central Australia from 1872 to 1874
Melbourne, Printed for the Author by McCarron, Bird, 1875. More
The Stonyfell Vineyards, 1858-1958. Being the History of Stonyfell Vineyards and a Record of the One Hundred Years of Winemaking
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
Pictorial History of Australia's Little Cornwall
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
South Australia Illustrated
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
100 Years in the Good Earth. S. Smith & Son Ltd. Yalumba Vineyards, at Angaston, South Australia, 1849-1949
Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949. More
A Naval History of South Australia and Other Historical Notes
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
'Monty'. The Biography of C.P. Mountford
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
Supreme Federalist. The Political Life of Sir John Downer
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
Private Journal. From 17 December 1803 at Isle of France to 10 July 1814 at London
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
Remarks upon the Proposed Establishment of Steam Communication with the Australian Colonies ...
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1963 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Peade A26: only 208 copies. More