Drongo Magazine [July 1965]
Potts Point, [South Pacific Feature Services], July 1965. The first of only two issues of this satirical magazine; the second and last issue appeared in March 1966. More
Potts Point, [South Pacific Feature Services], July 1965. The first of only two issues of this satirical magazine; the second and last issue appeared in March 1966. More
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981. Signed in ink on the half-title by the author, the long-serving 35th Premier of South Australia (1970-1979). More
Sydney, The Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1916. Provenance: 'Senator W.H. Story' is stamped in gilt on the front cover. Adelaide-born William Harrison Story (1857-1924) 'was educated at state schools before becoming a stonemason and bricklayer. He served as President of the Operative Masons and Bricklayers Society and the..... More
Boulder, Westview Press/ Harper Collins, 1996. More
The photograph is inscribed and signed 'To John, with Gratitude from Anthony, 1963'; the mat is signed in ink 'Vivienne, London' (the usual credit of photographer Florence Vivienne Mellish). Documentation accompanying the photograph indicates that it was presented to Sir John Montague-Stow (1911-1997), Governor-General of Barbados (and previously that country's..... More
London, Cassell, 1960, 1962 and 1965 (all first editions). The title page of the first volume is signed by the author (as Anthony Eden). The third volume has the small ex libris label of the Dutch historian Professor F.F.X. Cerutti (1915-1970) on the front pastedown. [3 items]. More
Brisbane, University of Queensland, 1942. More
Brisbane, The Edmonds Publishing Co., [1944]. With sections on 'Your Military Rights', 'Your Civil Rights', and 'Your "New Order"'. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: '29/6/91. Draft of a Bill as adopted by the National Australasian Convention, 9th April, 1891. Henry Parkes, President. F.W. Webb, Secretary'. Provenance: Sir John William Downer (1843-1915), one of the South Australian delegates..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1886. The author was 'late Colonial Secretary of the Province, and First Chief Secretary under Responsible Government'. Ferguson 9610. More
Adelaide, W.C. Rigby, 1886. Provenance: Simpson Newland (1835-1925), the SA pioneer, pastoralist, politician and author of 'Paving the Way', with his large surname-only ownership signature on the front free endpaper (along with the less-prominent details of a later owner). More
Sydney, HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. Signed on the title-page by Kim Beazley, politician, diplomat, professor and currently Western Australia's 33rd Governor General. More
London, Allen and Unwin, 1984. With review requests and review notes (to and by the historical author, Dr Heinz Kent) loosely inserted. More
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1953. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More
The original document appears to have been a Treasury Bond issued for £50. Offered with an early engraved portrait of Fox as Secretary of State (145 × 115 mm). Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. 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
Melbourne, Jedgarm Publications, 1951. Number 252 of 300 copies signed by Archibald Gilchrist (1878-1955), WA businessman and politician who also served in the Australian Army Medical Corps, AIF. 'A few copies, numbered from 301, will also be issued for overseas'. More
New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1981. With the ownership signature of noted Russian scholar Associate Professor Fredric S. Zuckerman. More
London, Hurst, 1986. Signed and with a personal inscription by the author. 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
Melbourne, Black Ink, 2000. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (dated 'II, '01'). More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. More
Hobart, Government Printer, [1956]. With the ownership signature of Baron Rowallen, Chief Scout of the British Empire and Commonwealth (1945-1959) and Governor of Tasmania (1959-1963). More
'My dear Holland, I should like very much to help in your Candidature, but I have foresworn all further promises & engagements, till I have got rid of those which I now have & which will take all of my spare time till Easter. And it is only some six..... More