The Western Idea of Law
London, Butterworths, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
London, Butterworths, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
London, Methuen, 1922. Stamped 'Presentation Copy'. More
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Provenance: Professor Archibald Grenfell Price, with his pencilled ownership signature (1939) on the front flyleaf. Beneath this is a 2003 inscription in pencil in another hand: 'Dear ... this year I had many hours of pleasure finding old books as Christmas Gifts. I liked..... More
New York, Funk and Wagnalls, April 1936 (fourth printing)/ June 1935. "This is an epoch-making contribution to the art and science of police procedure". (A small collection of books on forensic science is currently in stock; details on request). More
Adelaide, Frank Trigg, Government Printer, 1939. Trove records only one copy (in the State Library of South Australia). More
[Adelaide], Government Printer (for the Education Department), 1880 [first edition]. A pioneering work, being 'the first social studies textbook used in Australian schools, and anticipated similar courses in the other colonies by twenty years' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). It was reprinted the following year with this prefatory note: 'it is..... More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1852. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2003. Warmly inscribed in ink to Alan Brissenden ('amico mio'), dated (July 2016) and signed by the author on the title page, and again beneath the author's printed name. Brissenden's pencilled ownership signature and details are inscribed on the front flyleaf. 'One life, many roles: soldier..... More
London, The Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., 1899. 'The garrote is a peculiarly Spanish institution, and is used in Spain, Portugal, and parts of the West Indies as an instrument of capital punishment.... In the modern garrote the neck of the criminal is enclosed in an iron collar, containing a...... More
Adelaide, [Government Printer], December 1995. More
London, Selden Society, 1983. Loosely inserted is the 24 page pamphlet Canon Law and English Common Law (London, Selden Society, 1983, card covers, a fine copy) by R.H. Helmholz, and sundry Selden Society ephemera. More
Melbourne, The Hawthorn Press, 1946. One of only 500 copies. One of the Australian Heritage Books series. More
[Adelaide], The Author, 1999. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author ('For Joy, with thanks, Helen Tolcher, 1999') to South Australian historian Joy Chilman, who is mentioned in the acknowledgments. 'Policing in the Outback has always been difficult and sometimes dangerous, and nowhere more so than on Cooper..... More
Kyoto, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2011 (first English language edition). Nichibunken Monograph Series Number 12. More
[No Place, No Publisher, 1993]. The memoir of one of the six RAAF servicemen court-martialled and jailed for insubordination at Benalla in 1941. Some fifty years later, in 'February 1990, it was suggested I write my history as it might tend to eradicate the cause of my tension and anxiety..... More
Victoria Park, Hesperian Press, 1993. More
Melbourne, Wesleyan Book Depot, 1888. Provenance: 'Chief Justice Way', with his inkstamp on the front flyleaf and the rectos of the following two leaves. Sir Samuel James Way (1836-1916) was (among other positions) Chief Justice of South Australia from 1876, chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1883, and 'lieutenant-governor..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. The autobiography of a WW1 veteran and coutry lawyer from Naracoorte in the south-east of SA. Two clipped newspaper reviews of the book are loosely inserted. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1960. Sir Samuel James Way (1836-1916) was 'for many years Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide' (dustwrapper blurb). The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' is somewhat less prosaic: 'Sir Samuel Way was not a great jurist. His pragmatic cast..... More
London, Capemoss, 1975. More
London, Capemoss, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. More
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1982. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1988 (facsimile edition)/ 1920 (second, revised and enlarged, edition). One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Singapore, Singapore University Press, 1975. With some 20 or so cancelled leaves. Foreword by The Honourable Tan Sri Mohamed Suffian, Lord President of the Federal Court of Malaysia. More