Catalogue of Regal Records ... 1928 [cover title]
Sydney, [Printed by] V.S. French & Co., 1928. The inkstamp of the local distributor (Gladiola Co., Waymouth Street, Adelaide) is on the front cover. More
Sydney, [Printed by] V.S. French & Co., 1928. The inkstamp of the local distributor (Gladiola Co., Waymouth Street, Adelaide) is on the front cover. More
Sydney, Palmtree Press, June 1928. Number 85 of 125 copies numbered and signed by Adrian Feint and published under his private imprint; the typography is by Percy Green. This copy is inscribed and signed on an early blank page 'For Enid Wienholt with all good wishes. Adrian Feint. Sydney, 1932'..... More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1928. Number 51 of the Limited Autographed Edition for subscribers, signed in ink by the author, journalist and historian Angus John Neville Harrop (1900-1963), who was the 'author of many books on New Zealand, but was best known by New Zealanders in England for..... More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1929. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1929; only 815 copies printed. The Government Resident at the time was J.C. Cawood. The Northern Australia Act of 1926, which resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927, was repealed on..... More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1929. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 12 of 1929 (Second Session); only 825 copies printed. The Government Resident at the time was J.C. Cawood. The Northern Australia Act of 1926, which resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927, was..... More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1929. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 27 of 1929; only 845 copies printed. The Government Resident for the period was R.H. Weddell. The Northern Australia Act of 1926, resulting in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927, was repealed on 11..... More
London, Fanfrolico Press (but printed at the Westminster Press), [1929]. Number 30 of 500 copies. More
North Melbourne, Vidler, [1929]. One of the Australian Young Folks' Story Books series. Muir 3514 (supplying the date). More
Thebarton, The School, 1929. This very detailed souvenir programme includes a six-page history of the school. More
London, Allen & Unwin, 1929 [first edition]. More
Adelaide, printed by Felstead & Omsby [for the Author?], [circa 1929]. The Adelaide 'Mail' of 15 July 1929 contains the following paragraph: 'Mr Charles Edward Carter is well known to [radio] listeners as "Accelerator" and "Domus".... Mr Carter is the author of a book on homecraft, "The Australian Small Home..... More
Adelaide, Church Congress Office, 1929. More
Adelaide, Commonwealth Club of Adelaide, 1929. Sir Herbert William (Bert) Gepp (1877-1954), 'mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist ... Gepp began a new career in 1926 as a public servant. Stanley Melbourne (Viscount) Bruce appointed him chairman of the Development and Migration Commission, which, like the Council..... More
London, Edward Arnold, 1929 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of Dr Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated March 1930. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson'. The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to..... More
Cheltenham, England, Burrow's Press Ltd, 1929. A short article in the Adelaide 'News' (15 January 1930) notes that 'An interesting booklet entitled "Australia Visits England" has just been published by Burrows Press Limited. It is the record of an actual visit, and consists of three parts, describing the journey, the..... More
Perth, History Committee of the 16th Battalion Association, 1929. Dornbusch 324; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 219. More
Melbourne, The Arrow Printery (for the 14th Battalion and 4th Brigade Association), 1929. Provenance: F.S. Ross, with his ownership signature on both front and rear flyleaves. 5726 Lance Corporal Frederick Saltoun Ross was a member of the battalion. Loosely inserted are two duplicate message forms signed in ink ('Certified true..... More
Sydney, Art in Australia Limited, 1929. More
[Sydney, Church of England], 1929. Forword by Rev. Dr. Gerald Sharp, Archbishop of Brisbane. More
London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, November 1929 (second impression)/ September 1929. A collection of stories for children featuring animals native to Borneo. More
London, The Fanfrolico Press, [1929]. The frontispiece illustration is reproduced on the front panel of the dustwrapper, which carries the subtitle 'A Novel in Dialogue form'. More
Stockholm, B.A. Hjorth & Co., 1929. Loosely inserted is price list (September 1932; quarto, 6 pages, folded down the centre), and a supplementary leaf advertising spare parts and novelties (1933; left-hand margin torn and crumpled). [3 items]. More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [first published 1929; suggested third issue, with minor differences as detailed below]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition..... More
Adelaide, Register Newspapers Limited, Printers, 1929. The small calling card of the author - with his North Adelaide address, and his Upper Sturt address, 'Manoa' - is mounted on the front free endpaper. More
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930 (reprint)/ 1930. With Neil Lothian's bookplate on the pastedown. More
[Sydney?], The Shell Company, [1930?]. Muir 3752 (with 192-? as the date; we base our date on the code at the foot of the last page, K-W 4/30). An advertising booklet issued by the petroleum company. More
Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by..... More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1930. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 50 of 1930; only 850 copies printed. The Government Resident for the period was R.H. Weddell. The Northern Australia Act of 1926, resulting in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927, was repealed on 11..... More
London, George Harrap, 1930. With the amorial bookplate and signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. More
Tanunda, Soldiers' Memorial Institute, 'Eighth Edition' [mid-late 1930's]/ 1917. The title page states that the proceeds of sales of the book are 'devoted [to] Tanunda Soldiers' Memorial'. The hall was built in 1913 by the Tanunda Club and purchased by the Tanunda Institute in 1920. Early editions of the book..... More
London, John Murray, 1930 (thirteenth impression)/ 1929. With the Helen Bakewell-designed bookplate of George Fowler. More
London, The London Publishing Co., 1930. More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1930. An accurate, detailed snapshot of dairy farm production in the late 1920s. More
Adelaide, 'The Advertiser' Office [for the Author], 1930. Inscribed and dated (January 1931) by the author (with the recipient's name in pencil on the front cover). More
Sydney, Tyrrell's Galleries, 1930. The colophon, signed by Barnett, states that the book is 'Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers'. In fact, the original printing was unillustrated. In the Book Collectors' Society of Australia 2009 publication on Barnett, the bibliography by..... More
Melbourne, Robur Tea Company, [late 1930s?]. 'As tea and coffee are better bought in small quantities for immediate use, we give a discount or share of savings for continuous purchasing.' These attractive catalogues are rare in our experience, probably accountably so, given the presumed target audience, the budget-conscious housewife. Trove..... More
Adelaide, B.O.B.S., 1930. The Programme/ Menu is signed on the rear cover by some 35 local business identities. More
Circa 1930s. 'Photograph by J. Kauffmann, 243 Collins St., Melbourne' inkstamped on the verso of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Signed in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930. Signed and titled in pencil on the mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 47 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
Circa 1930s. Signed and titled (twice) on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 25 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More
Canberra, Government Printer, 1930 and 1931. Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers Number 50 of 1929-30 (only 850 copies), and Number 216 of 1929-30-31 (only 790 copies). The Northern Australia Act of 1926 resulted in the proclamation of the Territories of Central and North Australia on 1 March 1927. Four annual reports were..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1930. With the two-colour bookplate (by George Perrottet, dated 1942) of horticulturalist, naturalist and author Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954). Loosely inserted are some orchid-related newspaper cuttings, a postcard-format photograph of an orchid, possibly taken by Pescott (inscribed on the verso 'Dendrobium? H. Overall, NSW 1927. Rupp..... More
[Melbourne], H.M. Walker [Photographer], [circa 1930s]. Apart from the photographer's credit in the negative, there are no details about the place or date, but we have handled similar Walker panoramas taken at Victorian training camps in the 1930s. More
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. With the ink ownership signature of Chief Brewer of the SA Brewing Co (1944-1980) Lance Walters to the front pastedown, a pencilled checkmark against three books in this "Monographs on Biochemistry" series, and a couple of inoffensive ownership stamps of The South Australian Brewing..... More
Firenze [Florence], Francesco Pineider, 1930. 'A sea journey by steamer from England to Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and many points on a radius from these cities' (according to a bookseller's catalogue entry, quoted on Trove). In fact, the voyage is not the focus of the book; it is primarily an..... More
Sydney, Printed by William Brooks & Co., Limited, [1930]. More
Adelaide, Printed at the Hassell Press for the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1930. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). More