The Frustrated Raider. The Story of the German Raider Cormoran in World War I
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Inscribed, dated (20 June 1979) and signed by the author. More
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Inscribed, dated (20 June 1979) and signed by the author. More
The message reads in full: 'London, April 10th. Very many thanks for that kind letter, and do please forgive this brevity - I have an ocean of neglected mail about me. I should, of course, be honoured to come to next Festival. It would be stupid of me to reiterate..... More
Hampstead Gardens, Austaprint, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1907 and 1909. This facsimile edition was limited to 1000 sets; loosely inserted is a circular from the publisher, explaining the late delivery of the set. Provenance: T.G.H. Strehlow, with his signature, address in suburban Adelaide and date (13 June and 20 September 1978..... More
Sydney, Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, 1967 (first thus). One of only 250 copies, signed by the entire Publication Committee. + Newsreel in 1862. The Grand Moving Diorama of the Victorian Exploring Expedition (Sydney, 1966; a fine copy; one of 250 copies signed by Keast Burke). + BURKE, Iris: Foreshadowings. The..... More
Richmond, Greenhouse, 1984. Signed by the author on the title page, and dated November 1984. More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1968 [first edition]. Presentation copy. Inscribed 'to recall many happy associations', dated (December 1969) and signed by Harold Leslie White, then National Librarian and Executive Officer, to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (though not stated as such). With numerous illustrations, many in colour. More
London, Red Fox, 1993 (first thus)/ 1964. Inscribed and signed by the author to 'Juliana' [Bayfield], State Library of South Australia children's collection librarian. More
Sydney, Eureka Research, March 1979 (but 1978 on the title page). Number 74 of 1500 copies signed by the author. More
Adelaide, [David Watts], 2002. Signed by Michael Butcher on the first page (a reproduced sketch of the author by Pip Comport). More
Hahndorf, The Author, 1989. Signed by the author on the title page. The College was founded in 1857 and 'it quickly prospered to be one of the leading schools in the colony. For 55 years it provided high class tuition'. Not your average school history - this volume contains nearly..... More
Hawthorndene, Investigator Press, 1979. Signed by the author on the title page. Loosely inserted are three pieces of related ephemera. More
Mount Pleasant, District Council of Mount Pleasant, 1993. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. More
Melbourne, Red Roo Models, 2004 (first edition). Inscribed and signed by both Byk and Hourigan (Kerle passed away before publication). Number 90 of 500 copies. Not least, colours and markings and modelling the Sikorsky S-51; number 9 in a profile series on famous Australian aircraft. More
[USA, Byrd Aviation Associates, 1930?]. Offered together with a companion booklet by Byrd, 'Into the Home of the Blizzard' (1928; octavo, [32] pages), with the recipient's name and the copy number (X-204) written in ink (but not by Byrd) on the presentation page. The cover of the booklet is a...... More
Canterbury, The Cadenza Press, October 1983. Dated 'Christmas 1983' and signed in ink 'Humph'. Number 52 of 'about 200 copies privately printed at the Cadenza Press of G.A. Beale [and] bound by Robert Paling'. More
Sydney, The Authors, 1972. One of 500 copies signed by the authors. Also inscribed and signed by Johnson to Australian historian [Professor] Alex Castles. More
Sydney, A Susan Haynes book/ Allen & Unwin Australia, 1990. Dated (18 July 1990), signed and warmly inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title. Loosely inserted is the invitation to the book launch (on the same day). + Bill Guy: 'A Life on the Left. A Biography of..... More
Glynde, South Australian Congregational History Project Committee, 1987. Signed in ink by the author on the flyleaf. More
Sydney, Writelite, 2009. Signed by photographer John Peel on the title page. Loosely inserted is a colour photograph signed by John Peel. More
Sydney, Australian Artist Editions, 1980. One of only 345 copies bound in crash canvas and signed by the artist. More
New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. With the ownership signature of Peter Sutton (dated October 1998). More
London, Oxford University Press, 1909. With the later (1954) ownership signature of (Professor) Brian Medlin. More
[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed and dated (10 April 1970) by the artist under his frontispiece portrait; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. He died in 1983 at the age of..... More
[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970. This copy is signed on the title page by the author, and signed and dated (1970) by James Cant, under his frontispiece photographic portrait. (The handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined Cant to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s.)..... More
London, Robert Tyas, 1838 (second edition, 'considerably augmented')/ 1837. Provenance: Robert Kyffin Thomas, with his ownership signature (1902) on the front flyleaf. Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas (1851-1910), the grandson of Robert Thomas (who arrived on the 'Africaine' at Holdfast Bay in 1836 with a printing press), was himself an influential..... More