In Looking-Glass Land
West Lakes, Seaview Press Pty Ltd, 1996. 'The period, the region and events, are historically true ...' (title-page). More
West Lakes, Seaview Press Pty Ltd, 1996. 'The period, the region and events, are historically true ...' (title-page). More
Adelaide, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1949. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1988. More
Sydney, Beagle Press, 1989. Nora Heysen (1911-2003), the fourth child of Hans Heysen and a fine artist in her own right, was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and the first Australian women to be appointed an official war artist. 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
Red Cliffs, The Author, 1997. Copy number 1121 (of an unstated upper limit), dated (23 September 1997) and signed by the author in ink on the title page, and with the ownership stamp of Isobel Redmond & Co. Biography of author's mother which accurately describes life on the land in..... More
[Kingswood, Women's Australian National Services of South Australia, 1981]. More
London, Da Capo, 1978 (facsimile edition)/ 1913. The memoirs of this French singer and composer (1821-1910), whose musical family (Viardot, Garcia, Malibran etc) put her at the heart of European cultural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Translated from the German manuscript and arranged by E.S. Buchheim..... More
London, Chatto & Windus, 2004. Inscribed in ink, 'Best wishes', and signed by one author, barrister Lady Cherie Blair QC (née Booth), wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. More
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
The cheque was written after Florence's husband Warren was elected President (2 November 1920) but before his inauguration on 4 March 1921. 'Energetic, strong-willed, and popular, she was an important influence on her husband's business and political careers.... [President Harding died in office in August 1923] ... Before returning to..... More
Alice Springs, IAD Press, 2003. 'A delightful guide to bush tucker, and a treasure trove of insights into the relationship between Aboriginal women and their country and its numerous species of plants and flora. The Laramba women introduce us to a host of plant products, edible fruits and more. Illustrated..... More
Alice Springs, Intjartnama Village, Barry & Elva Cook, 1994. Presentation copy. Dated (1996), inscribed and signed 'from Barry and Elva Cook'. 'To develop and run an Aboriginal Rehabilitation Unit and to revive and preserve the Aboriginal culture of clients and families participating in the program, with minimum Government sponsorship' (Statement..... More
Alice Springs, Congress Alukura and Nganampa Health Council Inc, July 1994 (second edition)/ 1990. '... aims to provide standard management protocols for health staff working with Aboriginal women in Central Australia'. More
London, Collins, 1968. With hundreds of colour illustrations. More
Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania, 1991. 'The volume is published in appreciation of the work of Dr. W.M. Curtis AM and to mark her 85th year. 'Richea curtisiae Gray', one of many species named in her honour, is featured on the cover' (from the loosely inserted - slightly creased -..... More
[Unley, Chas P. Scott, circa 1900s]. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy (captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta'), blindstamped with the photographer's details ('Chas P. Scott | Unley S.A.'). The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this..... More
Salisbury, Salisbury and District Historical Society, 1995. More
The short message was written in the autograph book of a young Sandra Waterman, daughter of Ewen Waterman, President of the South Australian Deaf and Dumb Society. Helen Keller visited South Australia with her travelling companion Polly Thompson from 23 June to 11 July 1948; a surprise party was held..... More
Lutetiae [Paris], Apud Mamertum Patissonium [Mamert Patisson] Typographum regium, in officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1585 (first thus). An early collection of Latin satires by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) and Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), as well as the satire attributed to the female poet Sulpicia. This is the second edition..... More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (1841-1911), barrister, pastoralist and politician. Baker was 'the first South Australian-born member of the colonial legislature, being elected at the head of the poll for Barossa in the House of Assembly ... [and] became..... 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, Frances Lincoln, 1997. 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
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938 [first English edition]. More