Ansel Adams. Singular Images
New York, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., March 1975 (second impression)/ April 1974. The half-title is signed in ink by Ansel Adams. The text is contributed by Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes and Ansel Adams. More
New York, Morgan & Morgan, Inc., March 1975 (second impression)/ April 1974. The half-title is signed in ink by Ansel Adams. The text is contributed by Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes and Ansel Adams. More
[Adelaide], The author, 1995. Signed by the author. A personal history of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, now called the Women's and Children's Hospital. More
London, George Routledge and Sons, [circa 1880s/ 1837]. Provenance: South Australian ornithologist and conservationist Captain Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page. More
[Toorak, The Author, 1999]. Signed and inscribed by the author to 'Les' (Dr Leslie O.S. Poidevin). Loosely inserted is a signed handwritten letter from the author, with 'Les's inscription indicating his reply. More
New York, St Martin's Press, 1999. Signed by the author on the title page, and the 'autographed copy' sticker on the front panel of the dustwrapper. More
Bundoora, School of Archaeology, La Trobe University, 1996. Presentation copy. Inscribed and signed in ink by the editor to pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), and with Smith's ink ownership details. Tempus. Archaeology and Material Culture Studies in Anthropology, Volume 4. More
New York, Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1975. Presentation copy. Inscribed, dated (June 1976) and signed by the author. More
Canberra, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1987. Working Paper No. 7. Department of Political and Social Change. With the ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton (and his enigmatic annotation on page 54). More
'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee, in Henry county [Illinois] ... The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch, when, on the morning of August 7th, a muster roll was opened in the office of..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956, 1960, 1958 and 1964 (all first - and only - editions). Charles Mountford was the leader of the expedition; he was also the author of the first volume, the editor of the second, and co-editor of the third with R.L. Specht (who edited the fourth..... More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1956. The first (and most important) of the four volumes in the series, published between 1956 and 1964. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper 'To Mr and Mrs W. McCaffrey with all good wishes from Charles P. Mountford 1960'. The standard binding is..... More
London, Shaw, 1852 (fifth edition)/ 1847. Provenance: George Fife Angas, with his ownership signature ('G.F. Angas') in pencil at the head of the title page. The book has the (later) inkstamp of 'Herbert Angas Parsons, Solicitor, Adelaide' on the front endpaper; the name of George Fife Angas in pencil on..... More
London, George Philip and Son, 1860. 'George Fife Angas' is written in pencil on the front endpaper; we know this to be in a later secretarial hand, indicating that the book came originally from his personal library. More
London, John Richards & Co., 1841 ('Third edition, revised and corrected to the present time'). Western's apparent aim was to demonstrate the superiority of the English constitution over all other forms of government. In that context, the parochial provenance of this copy is hard to beat. The ownership signature of..... More
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press Pty Ltd, 1986. Signed in ink on the title page by the author. More
Richmond, John Kerr, 1989. 'An overdue look at business's most important person'. Inscribed and signed by the author. More
Sydney, The Author, 1947. Number 88 of only 150 copies 'prepared for presentation' and signed in ink by the author, who has also inscribed this copy to Professor Andrew Abbie, then occupying the Elder chair of anatomy and histology at the University of Adelaide. ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). '... some..... More
Melbourne, The Windsor Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1938. Dated (22 July 1943), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author ('Mr & Mrs J. McD. Kellie/ With Every Good Wish/ From the Author/ on the occasion of their/ marriage'). More
London, Isbister, 1900. With the ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide; loosely inserted is a four-page leaflet (dated May 1900) appealing for funds for a new mission ship, and a Melanesian Mission stamp (depicting 'Reef Islanders'). The latter is unpriced, so presumably it is not..... More
Waikerie, Waikerie and District Council, 1989. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. A relevant newspaper clipping is taped to the verso of the flyleaf; loosely inserted is another relevant clipping. Loosely inserted are 2 photographs depicting the author. More
Sydney, Hamilton Publishing, 1993. Dated (23 November 1993) and signed in ink on the title page by the author, and inscribed, dated (1993) and signed in ink above the title by the man who conceived the book (see foreword), Sinclair Hill. More
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972 (first edition). The half-title is inscribed by the author 'To Peter Osborn, who invited me for a drink. Hugh Atkinson. Leura [NSW], 6th June '78'). Loosely inserted is a note from the author's wife Phoebe, written on the same day. 'Dear Father Peter: I do hope..... More
Woollahra, Sotheby's Australia, 2001. With a memo slip on the letterhead of Justin Miller Sotheby's Chairman, inscribed and signed by Miller. More
Blackwood, Lynton Publications Pty. Limited, 1976. Dated (28 March 1978), warmly inscribed and signed in ink by the author on the title page ('With my thanks for coming to the rescue of the author!'). More
McCrae, R.J. and S.P. Austin, 1989 [first edition]. Signed by the author on the title page, and with an inscription by Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Smith, DSO, ED, MID (1905-1995). Too young to serve in World War One, Smith 'served with 6 Infantry Brigade in 1939; as a major with 2/6..... More