John Adams. Party of One
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). More
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). More
Auckland, School of Architecture and Planning, National Institute of Creative Arts, University of Auckland, 2015. 'Dr Tom Fookes (1943-2013) 'was one of the few New Zealanders whose career encompassed the full gamut of planning roles; practitioner, policy analyst, researcher, teacher, mentor and public advocate' (New Zealand Planning Institute website). More
Sydney, Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street, [1888]. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888, the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at..... More
Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2009 and 2011. The first two books in the series. More
Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1920. 'With Commemorative Poems by Mrs Mary Gilmore, Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Roderic Quinn, and J. Le Gay Brereton, and Appreciations by Leading Publicists' (frontispiece). Claude Arthur Marquet (1869-1920), a 'proficient, self-taught black-and-white artist' was born in Moonta, South Australia. He moved to Victoria in 1902..... More
Sydney, Magazine Programmes Pty. [Ltd.], [1927]. 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
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
London, John Cumming, 1800. George Washington (1732-1799) died on 14 December 1799; the four-page 'advertisement' at the beginning of this posthumous publication contains much pertinent information. 'The two letters of General Washington that are given entire ... were published in the "Recreations in Agriculture, [Natural History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature]"..... More
Dublin, The Phoenix Publishing Co., Ltd, [1924]. Pearse was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, and was executed in 1916. The first part of this volume comprises the memoir of his founding of the St. Enda's School (Scoil Éanna), which taught in Irish and English. The second part..... More
Henley Beach, Seaview Press, 2003. More
Adelaide, The Commission, 1971. In 1970, Sir Charles Hart Bright (1912-1983), judge, 'was appointed royal commissioner to inquire into the anti-war demonstration organised by the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, which, held in Adelaide in September of that year, ended in a violent confrontation with police. His recommendations formed the basis for..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1983 (first thus). Translated by J.D. Duff, Introduction by Colin Ward. Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870), 'political thinker, activist, and writer who originated the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. Herzen chronicled his career in My Past and Thoughts, considered to..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1983 (first thus). Translated by J.D. Duff, introduction by Colin Ward. Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870), 'political thinker, activist, and writer who originated the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. Herzen chronicled his career in My Past and Thoughts, considered to..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1981 (first thus). Annotated, and with an introduction, by Christopher Hibbert. More
London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus). Translated with Notes by Peter Green; Introduction by Simon Callow. 'The text of this edition follows the revised 1998 edition, with minor emendations'. More
London, The Folio Society, 1968 (first thus). Edited, and with an introduction, by John Derry. More
Stanley R. Whitford (1878-1959), was a South Australian trade unionist and Labor politician. His short entry in the 'Australian dictionary of Biography' states that 'he spent his last eleven years bed-ridden in hospital where he wrote his unpublished autobiography'. The following chunk of information from the ADB is a taste..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2007. More
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service [for the Department of Foreign Affairs], 1986. More
London, Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1938 (first edition in English). Provenance: Michael L. Dunne, with his bookplate. Father Michael Leonard Dunne (1901-1994), Irish-born South Australian Catholic priest. In February 1934 'he was appointed Editor of "The Southern Cross," the weekly Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese [of Adelaide].... In addition..... More
Canberra, The Author, 1995. Dated (4 October 1995), warmly inscribed, and signed in ink by the author to Sir Walter Crocker. Marshall served over 4 years in the Army in artillery in Australia before embarking on a diplomatic career. More
Paris, E. Dentu, 1865 (first French edition)/ 1821. Translated by Charles Bernard Derosne from the revised edition of 1865. More
London, William Heinemann, 1914 (second impression)/ 1913. Chiefly British politicians of the period just before World War I; one features a young Winston Churchill. More
London, Stanley Paul & Co, [1913] (second edition)/ 1912. Eleanora Mary, Baroness d'Anethan (1858-1935), sister of the author Rider Haggard, and widow of Baron Albert d'Anethan ('Belgian Minister to the Court of Japan'), spent the years 1893 to 1906 in Japan. More