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North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. More
North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. More
Adelaide, Frank A. McNeill, Gawler Place, 1913. In 1907 the South Australian Football Association 'changed its name to the South Australian Football League with the previous title ... passing to the body governing Seconds football. The new SAFA did much to promote football among country areas with visiting "B" grade..... More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. Dated (17 February 1917) and inscribed by the author in ink on the front free endpaper. Not least, Adelaide and Melbourne. Contains a 5-page list of subscribers to the first edition; preface by J. Wilbur Chapman; loosely inserted are a few newspaper clippings. More
[Adelaide, Unknown Photographer, 1913]. The SS 'South Africa', laden with 4486 cases of explosives, caught fire while moored at the North Arm, Port Adelaide, on the afternoon of 21 August 1910. With much of the crew abandoning ship, it was left largely to the firefighters, police and boatmen of Port..... More
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913. Provenance: 'Rendel Kyffin Thomas. Prize for English lessons. December 1913. Presented by E. Kyffin Thomas' (from Evan Kyffin Thomas, 1866-1935, one of the proprietors of the Adelaide newspaper, 'The Register', to his son). More
Melbourne, E.W. Cole, Book Arcade, [1913]. The author's first published book. The front cover illustration is by David Low; the last six pages are a glossary 'for the use of the thoroughly genteel'. McLaren 243. The Institute of Australian Culture contains on its website some interesting information about this book..... More
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material..... More
London, Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913 [deluxe illustrated edition]/ 1893. This edition was advertised as an 'edition de luxe' in November and December 1913. The new preface by the author, dated June 1913, is notable for his observations on the Aboriginal characters featured in the novel, their tribes and material..... More
London, Pitman, 1914. Johns pioneered the who's who in Austral[as]ia, publishing his first volume in 1906, with a second one appearing in 1908. In 1912, the first volume of the 'Fred Johns's Annual' series appeared, giving rise to the slightly confusing 'Third year of issue' statement in this edition -..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1914. More
New York, Macmillan, 1914. With the contemporary ownership signature of the Australian biochemist, Thorburn Brailsford Robertson, at that stage an associate professor at the University of California in Berkeley. More
Adelaide, printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works, 1914. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba, Miss Doris Madden, Mr John Lemmone, Mr Fred C. Collier, Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society', and not least The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works. They produced..... More
[Blackwood, Literary Society of the Blackwood, Coromandel and Belair Club], 1914. This elusive journal was 'devoted to the interests of [the Adelaide Hills suburbs] Blackwood, Coromandel Valley, Belair, and Eden Hills'. The editorial to what became the final issue commences thus: 'Many a good man has been hung for no..... More
Adelaide, A.C. Harley and Co., 1914. 'Notwithstanding the fact that we have more than doubled the number of illustrations, it has been found impossible to include all our patterns, as we are constantly adding to their number.' A rare, handsome and important catalogue of decorative ironwork; the very rare first..... More
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1914. More
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1914. More
Adelaide, Frank A. McNeill, Gawler Place, 1914. Only two of these players made it to first grade; it is sobering to consider how many survived war service. The captain, Ted Colquhoun (1895-1982), 'a top ranking defender ... commenced with Sturt in 1919, and was a member of the club's premiership-winning..... More
Adelaide, Edwards & Errington, Photo., 52 Flinders Street, 1914. Those featured in the photograph are (left to right, top to bottom) A. Brunt, C. Martin, A. Pyle, W. Bowden, H.I. Nicolle, H. Hartell, G. Cronin, F.A. Pippett, W.R. Leaker, R.J. Rosevear (timekeeper), and E.A. Lord; R. Barron (committee), W.G. Noal..... More
Sydney, William H. Beale, Methodist Book Room, 1914. With the conetmporary ink ownership signature of Sir William 'Will' Sowden (1858-1943), the influential SA newspaper proprietor and editor on the title page, and his pencilled notes on the rear flyleaf. Stamped 'Review Copy, Methodist Book Depot', and 'Methodist Book Depot, Adelaide'..... More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1914 to 1919. Spanning the First World War, this run offers powerful insights into the effects of the war on the school community. Among the usual sporting fixtures and school news are first-hand accounts of important actions sent back to Australia by 'old boys'..... More
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1915. This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE (and others): Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates). White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds, and..... More
Adelaide, Edwards & Errington, Photo., 52 Flinders Street, 1915. An important memento of Sturt's first premiership season, featuring all players and trainers, as well as the patron, chairman, president and members of the committee. 'The Sturt Football club was established on 14 March 1901 ... Sturt enjoyed little success initially..... More
[Port Pirie], 'Geo. T. Row, Photo.', 1915. + A similar item from around the same vintage (the final number on the date written on the football in the image is indistinct - possibly 1913?): the uncredited photograph is a little scuffed, and the mount is a little marked and rubbed..... More
Morphett Vale, Morphett Vale Baptist Church, 1915. The cover title is 'Morphett Vale Baptist Church. Souvenir. Jubilee Celebrations. 1865-1915'. More
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, [1915 (first thus)/ 1901]. The four-page introduction by the author is new to this edition; loosely inserted is the 'A Few Opinions' sheet (contributors include William Gilbert, Simpson Newland and Chief Justice Way). More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, 1916. 'Australian pictures - plain, real, and painted mostly at first hand by one who has known the Australian bush for over fifty-six years'. South Australia, the Territory, Tasmania, Queensland. Short stories, with good Indigenous content. More
Adelaide, R.M. Osborne (printer), (1916). Reprinted from the "Garden and Field", Volume 40, Number 9, February 1915. The head of the title-page is inscribed in pencil "With the Author's Greetings & Compliments" More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers, [1916]. McLaren 16761: 'Visit to the islands at the entrance to the St Vincent and Spencer's Gulfs in January 1916' on board the Rymills' motor yacht. More
Adelaide, Vardon & Sons, Printers, 1916. On the verso of the front flyleaf is an expansive thank-you note signed by the author (15 August 1916): 'Dear Mr Adey, May I ask you to accept of this little booklet as a memento of the improvement which has already shown itself in..... More
London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1916. 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
Adelaide, G. Hassell & Son, 1916. With the ownership signature of John Langdon Bonython on the half tile. More
Adelaide, G. Hassell & Son, 1917. More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers [for the Author], 1917. 'For private circulation'. Provenance: Frederick (Fred) Johns (1868-1932), journalist and biographer, with his signature in pencil at the head of the front cover. In '1906 Johns compiled and published a biographical dictionary that was to become a national institution, "Johns's..... More
Adelaide, Reid Bros. [1917]. A 'Price List of the leading lines of Timber, Mouldings and Joinery'. Offered together with a similar item dated 2 April 1917. Both carry contemporary ownership details of members of the Liebelt family of Echunga. More
London, Edward Arnold, 1918 (second impression)/ (1916). With the contemporary ownership signature of Hedley Ralph Marston (FRS). More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. More
Adelaide, Public Library ... 1918. Cels 'was an art connoisseur, recognized in Europe and England as an authority on Flemish and Dutch art of the 16th and 17th centuries.... His health having been undermined by the war was his reason for making South Australia his home. He brought his pictures..... More
[At Sea, The Societies, as above], 10 August 1918. Not surprisingly, we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb..... More
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1918. More
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers (for The College), 1918. 'First Speech Day. HRA' is written in pencil at the head of the front cover; we presume this is a later inscription by the H.R. Adamson who was awarded third prize in Junior A at the Preparatory School that year..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, Intelligence and Tourist Bureau (R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer), November 1918. The French economic mission was touring South Australia when the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. In his welcome at the beginning of this publication the Premier, Archibald Peake, presages this development. 'Australia rejoices that her citizen soldiers..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, Printed by G. Hassell & Son for the Board of Governors of the South Australian Museum, 1918 to 1921. Other major articles in this volume include CILENTO, R.W.: Observations on a Series of Artificially Distorted Skulls (pages 325-346 plus 9 plates); RAINBOW, W.J.: Arachnidae from Lord Howe and Norfolk..... More
[Adelaide, circa 1919]. All but the first portrait is signed, and only the last one contains an additional inscription (the date, '10.1.19'). The State Library of South Australia has another example of this album, enabling us to confirm the identities where the handwriting was unclear. Ministers of religion, lawyers, doctors..... More
Adelaide, Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1919. Historical Compilations based upon the Study of Original Documents, Number 2. More