Item #80055 Kangaroo Island, 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'. Kangaroo Island, E. H. HALLACK, 'A Native'.
Kangaroo Island, 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'
Kangaroo Island, 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'

Kangaroo Island, 'Adelaide's Sanatorium'. Comprising a Series of Articles written for 'The Register' and 'The Observer'

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers, May 1905 (second edition, first in book form).

Small octavo, 45 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates and a small folding map.

Bound without the original pictorial wrappers or advertisements in contemporary half morocco and cloth, a little rubbed at the extremities and bumped on the bottom corners; spine lightly sunned, with a few short surface cracks; cloth slightly marked; a very good copy (internally excellent). This edition was published in pictorial wrappers, and contained four leaves of advertisements before the title page, and six leaves of advertisements at the rear; these ten leaves have been excised from this copy.

The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Provenance: the ownership signatures of two South Australian identities are written in pencil on the front free endpaper - A. Kyffin Thomas (possibly Amelia, the wife of Robert, newspaper proprietor and son of the W.K. Thomas of W.K. Thomas & Co.), and W.H. Langham, at one stage President of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia (and the bibliographer of The Hassell Press).

Item #80055

Price (AUD): $300.00