Florence Buchanan. The Little Deaconess of the South Seas
Sydney, The Australian Board of Missions, 1921. The list of 'Chief Dates' includes '1895-1899. Thursday Island. | 1899-1906. Townsville, Thursday Island'. More
Sydney, The Australian Board of Missions, 1921. The list of 'Chief Dates' includes '1895-1899. Thursday Island. | 1899-1906. Townsville, Thursday Island'. More
London, Cape, 1923 [first English edition]. First published in New York the previous year; this edition has a new eight-page preface by H.G. Wells. An important early work on birth control: 'Mrs Sanger with her extraordinary breadth of outlook and the real scientific quality of her mind ... has lifted..... More
London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. More
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. Includes 8 pages on cannibals. More
Adelaide, Thomas, 1925 (revised and enlarged third edition)/ 1915. An account of the Thomas family's journey to South Australia on the 'Africaine' in 1836, and the fascinating early years of colonization as described in Mary's letters to her brother in England. Her husband Robert was the first newspaper publisher in..... More
London, Heinemann, 1925. More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1925. More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1926 (first thus). Number 478 of 1250 copies. 'This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected'. More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Number 25 of 780 copies (750 being for sale). Loosely inserted is a period postcard of R.L. Stevenson. More
Melbourne, Ramsay, 1926 [first edition]. Number 222 of 1000 copies signed by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Provenance: 'Freida Ruth Heighway | 22/10/26 | Burwood' is written in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper. The name 'F. S. Heighway, Esq.' appears in the list of subscribers at the end..... More
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, May 1927. Inscribed, dated (27 October 1927) and signed by the author to the contemporary Sydney author H.E. Boote. More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. An Auckland, New Zealand, setting. More
Sydney, Bebarfald's Ltd., 1927. 'Bebarfald's ... was a retailer of home furnishings and a manufacturer of furniture, trading for many years from their landmark location opposite the Sydney Town Hall on the corner of George and Park streets.... Bebarfald's also offered customers free dressmaking courses and established an advisory bureau..... More
London & New York, G.P. Putnam's, 1928. With an introduction by H. Beddow Bayly. '...a symposium of the favourable views and practical help of active medical practitioners on the much-debated subject of 'Birth-Control' (Contraception)'. More
London, A. & C. Black, 1928. Muir 5604 (not noting the preliminaries, and calling for quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards). More
[Sydney?], The Shell Company, [1930?]. Muir 3752 (with 192-? as the date; we base our date on the code at the foot of the last page, K-W 4/30). An advertising booklet issued by the petroleum company. More
Firenze [Florence], Francesco Pineider, 1930. 'A sea journey by steamer from England to Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and many points on a radius from these cities' (according to a bookseller's catalogue entry, quoted on Trove). In fact, the voyage is not the focus of the book; it is primarily an..... More
London, Martin Hopkinson Ltd, 1931 (first edition in English). The author is the daughter of Amalie Dietrich; translated from the original German by A. Liddell Geddie. In 1862, the German-born naturalist 'was introduced to the merchant, J.C. Godeffroy, who was persuaded by well-known scientists to send her to Australia to..... More
Sydney, P.R. Stephensen & Co., 1933. The short story first appeared in Harpers in October 1929 and was reprinted in 'The Best British Short Stories of 1930' (Dodd, Mead, 1930). It was 'The first book published in Australia by P.R. Stephensen & Co.'. More
New York, Minton, Balch, 1933. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by 'Lal, otherwise Alice Grant Rosman'. Also known as Alice Trevenen Rosman (1882-1961), the author was born on in 1882 at Kapunda. "Early stories appeared in the Observer, Chronicle and Southern Cross. In 1901 she began an Adelaide branch of..... More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, [1936]. More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. Joan Lindsay's first book, published thirty-odd years before her hugely successful but somewhat less hilarious 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. 'This work alone establishes Miss Serena Livingstone-Stanley as one of that gallant little band of intrepid women who through the ages have sailed uncharted seas, blazed..... More
Sydney, Luxton and Hooper, Printers [for Cinesound Studios], [1936]. The text inside the front cover is self-explanatory: 'Stuart Doyle Presents Helen Twelvetrees in Australia's First World Standard Production, "Thoroughbred". Produced by Cinesound Productions Ltd. Directed by Ken G. Hall. Original Screen Play by Edmund Seward. Photography by George Heath.... [List..... More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938 [first English edition]. More
Perth, Brokensha & Shaw Ltd., 1938 (revised and expanded edition)/ 1916. The balance of the title sets the scene: 'Where the Writer, Mrs. J. Fairfax Conigrave (a daughter of one of South Australia's well-remembered pioneers, Mr Charles Price, of Hindmarsh Island) spent her childhood'. The front cover gives the author's..... More
Adelaide, Thornquest Press, 1940. Foreword by local radio personality Tommy Hudson. More
London, Hogarth Press, August 1940 (second impression)/ July 1940. See Kirkpatrick ('A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf') A25a. The first impression was 'Published 25 July 1940; 2530 copies printed. 12s. 6d.. There was a second impression of 1130 copies in August 1940 and a third of 1010 in November 1940'. More
London, Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1942. The dustwrapper is unclipped but unpriced, indicating it is the Colonial Edition issue; the small ticket on the front pastedown of the contemporary Adelaide booksellers, F.W. Preece Ltd, proves the point. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1942. An 'authentic picture ... of the early colonial days in South Australia' (dustwrapper). More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, 1943. A selection of letters written by Dietrich during her stay in Australia. The original text is edited by Augustin Lodewyckx for students of German. More
Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, 1944. More
Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade, 1944. Inscribed and signed by the poet 'For Alan Brissenden, Rosemary Dobson'. More
[London], Golden Cockerel Press, [1947]. Number 506 of 750 copies (of which numbers 1-100 were specially bound); With the pencilled ownership signature of [Professor] Heinz Kent. A colour postcard depicting a painting of 'La Belle O'Morphi' (Marie-Louise O'Murphy, 1737-1814) by Boucher is loosely inserted. More
Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Limited, [1947]. Contents include a six-page essay by Margaret Preston on silk screen methods. The cover design is by Adrian Feint. More
Sydney, The Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1947. Loosely inserted is a contemporary purchase receipt made out to local doctor F.R. Wicks. More
Melbourne, Meanjin Press, 1948. Number 220 of only 500 copies signed by the author (possibly the most important literary critic in Australia in her time). More
Adelaide, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1949. More
Glasgow, William Maclellan, [circa 1951]. Lavinia Derwent was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Dodd (1909-1989), a Scottish broadcaster and author, mainly of works of fiction for children. 'Thousands of young people follow the comic strip adventures of Tammy Troot from day to day and know the other fascinating little Scots characters..... More
Madras, Diocesan Press, [1952]. Warmly inscribed and dated (September 1954) by the author to 'Les'; Dr Leslie O.S. Poidevin, then Director of Obstetrics at the University of Adelaide. Some thirty years later Poidevin was to author several medical memoirs, including his time as a Japanese POW in WW2. More
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens, 1954/ 1907. Number 603 of 1000 copies signed by the author (as 'Jeannie Gunn'). More
Sydney, Angas and Robertson, 1955. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1957. The book is based on the author's fieldwork carried out on Cape York Peninsula in 1927-31 and 1934. More
London, John Murray, 1962/ 1961. More
London, John Murray, 1962/ 1961. More
London, Michael Joseph, 1962. Presentation copy inscribed, dated (10 April 1963) and signed (in green ink) by the author to Lady Bastyan; the colour pictorial dustwrapper is from a painting by Sidney Nolan. More
London, John Murray, 1962 (second impression)/ 1961. More
London, The Folio Society, 1964 (first thus). Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Lesley Blanch. Harriette Wilson (1786-1845), sometime courtesan to William, Lord Craven and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. More
London, The Folio Society, 1964 to 1970 (all first thus). The introduction to each volume is supplied by 'J.H.', while 'The Professor' contains the original preface by Charlotte Brontë (as 'Currer Bell'). [7 items]. More
Springfield, Charles C Thomas, 1965. Ex-libris the author. More