Vietnam Remembered. [Includes the Names of All Those who Served (cover sub-title)]
Willoughby, Weldon Publishing, 1991/ 1990. A few related newspaper clippings are loosely inserted. More
Willoughby, Weldon Publishing, 1991/ 1990. A few related newspaper clippings are loosely inserted. More
[Townsville, 4 RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion, 1969]. + A second copy with the two defective leaves noted above both intact, and with a fine facsimile dustwrapper, but the boards are soiled, the spine is damaged and the bottom margin of the text is a little water-cockled throughout. Contents include the Honour..... More
Fitzroy, Regimental Trustees, 1990. The title page is signed by the author. More
Isle of Capri, The Author, 2007. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2018. Adelaide, Gawler, Mallala, Mount Gambier, Parafield, Port Pirie, Victor Harbor. 'At the start of the Second World War there was no permanent RAAF presence in South Australia, but within just two years there were several facilities housing thousands of personnel and hundreds of aircraft. The..... More
London, Robert Hale, 1946. With the contemporary initials of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front flyleaf, and his inscription indicating the book was a Christmas gift from a member of the pioneering Hubbe family. A companion volume to 'Surgeon's Mate'. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1945. The front free endpaper is inscribed in pencil 'With Compliments (after reading "Searchlights in Australia"). Canberra ACT 15/5/46. A.G. Butler'. Presumably the reference is to 'Talks given in Radio Programmes: Searchlights on Life and Searchlights on Australia, by Various Speakers' (cover title). Trove records this..... More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
Horn Island, The Authors, 2005/ 2002. More
Cobourg, Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 1998. 'The result of over twenty years of research, this is the most complete account ever published of the life and times of Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, and his crowning invention, the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun, as well as other arms designs including the Lewis..... More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. A variant dustwrapper was also issued: it is a red and green pictorial dustwrapper, with illustrations front and rear, and text on both flaps. This includes the following: 'Funds accrued from the sales of this book will be donated to Legacy.... Here, again, we gratefully acknowledge..... More
Adelaide, 'Printed and Published for Lieut. A.T. Penglase, by J.L. Bonython & Co.', [1919]. A 'Chronicle of the doings of the last Australian troopship to reach South Africa and find that their services were not required, as an Armistice had been signed but a few days previously' (foreword). The extensive..... More
London, Faber and Faber, 1952. Not least, the Battle of Jutland. More
Adelaide, My Vietnam Trust, 2002 and 2004. First volume inscribed, dated (2003) and signed by the author. More
Polstead, J.B. Hayward & Son/ The Imperial War Museum, 1990/ 1945. Includes 'the names of approximately 169,000 Officers and men of the British, Dominion and other Allied Forces[;] originally published in ten parts by His Majesty's Stationery Office ... in limited numbers for internal reference, updated ... until the last..... More
London, Cassell, 1921. Dated 1921, and with the pencilled ownership details ('Athelney') and signature (all twice) of Edgar Bristow Hughes (1866-1951). On 9 acres 'Athelney' was built in 1858 by P. D. Prankerd; Herbert Bristow Hughes (1821-1892) bought the house for his wife in 1864; Edgar Bristow Hughes purchased the..... More