Guilty or Innocent? The Gordon Bennett Case
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
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The Story of a Battalion
Melbourne, Melville & Mullen Pty. Ltd., 1919. The author was a Catholic priest attached to the 48th Battalion as chaplain; he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Dornbusch 309; Fielding and O'Neill, page 230; Trigellis-Smith 246. More
Wirra. The Bush that was Adelaide
Adelaide, Nature Conservation Society of SA, 1986 (first edition). More
Grindell's Hut. A Story of Mystery and Intrigue in the Flinders Ranges
[Adelaide], Blackened Billy Books, 2014 (third, revised edition)/ 1986. 'The major events and conversations recorded in this true story are taken from evidence given in court hearings'. Formery titled 'Cloud over the Gammon'. A true story of murder near Grindell's hut in the lonely Gammon Ranges of South Australia during..... More
Corvettes. Little Ships for Big Men
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Derrick V.C.
Adelaide, Rigby, 1982. Farquhar fought at 'Tobruk, El Alamein, Sattelburg and in Borneo, where he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan'. This account uses Derrick's own diaries. More
Spin Me a Dit! Tales of the Royal Australian Navy
Adelaide, The Author, 1984. Loosely inserted is a reproduced poem, 'Sabbath Partings' by one of the crew of 'HMAS Pirie', believed to be Dorky Kendrick. More
Southern Lights. The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937
London, The Travel Book Club, 1939 [first thus]/ 1938. Provenance: Dr Malcolm Evans, with his purchase receipt mounted on the front pastedown, and his ownership label on the front free endpaper. Evans was a part of 'the 1957 team stationed at Horseshoe Island on one of the Falklands Island Dependency..... More
A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
Moroccan Textile Embroidery
Paris, Flammarion, 2003. 'Moroccan textile embroidery is a resplendent craft tradition born of the desire to create a refined backdrop to everyday life. The embroideries - the product of patience, perseverence, and rigor - use natural silk thread in radiant colors such as flame yellow or old gold, raspberry red..... More
The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
St. Peters. A Suburban Town
St. Peters, The Corporation of St. Peters, 1983. Includes local histories on the suburbs of St. Peters, Hackney, Maylands, Stepney and Evandale, local schools, buildings, hotels and roads. More
Other Voices. A Critical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 1 to Vol. 1, No. 3 (all issued)
Glebe, Other Voices, 1970. With the ink ownership signature of University of Adelaide Professor of Architecture David Saunders (1928-1986) on the verso of the front cover of the first volume). A 'critical journal concerned with seeking an informed and discriminating assessment of contemporary Australian Art'. Not least, a contemporary interview..... More
Sculptures. Africa, Asia, Oceania, Americas
Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. More
Sculpture from Africa and Oceania. Sculptuur uit Afrika en Oceanië
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Muller, 1990. Text in Dutch and English. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition held 17 November 1990 to 20 January 1991 at the Rijksmuseum, chosen from the collections of members of the Association of Friends of Ethnographica. More
Art of Northwest New Guinea. From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani
New York, Rizzoli, 1992. Not least, contributions by ethnologists Simon Kooijman, Jac. Hoogerbrugge and Theodoor van Baaren. More
Melanesian Design. A Study of Style in Wood and Tortoiseshell Carving [two volumes bound in one]
New York, Hacker Art Books, 1969 (first thus). 'The extent of the land surface of the world referred to as Melanesia is relatively infinitesimal. Yet in an area comprising one comparatively large island, New Guinea, and innumerable small islands, there has developed an exuberance of decorative art which, taken as..... More
Art in North-East New Guinea
Budapest, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1961. The author was Director of the Ethnographical Museum of Budapest; translated by Eva Racz. More
Kunst und Kultur aus der Südsee. Sammlung Clausmeyer Melanesien
Köln, Stadt Köln, 1987. Text in German. Extensive catalogue of the Clausmeyer collection from the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. More
The Sounds of Oceania
Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum. More
Voyageurs et Curieux. Arts Primitifs, Curiosités, Livres Anciens. Regard sur les Îles Salomon
Paris, Voyageurs et Curieux, 2002. Text in French. A catalogue of Solomon Islands artefacts. More
Shields of Melanesia
Belair, Crawford House Publishing Australia/ Oceania Art Society, 2005. Provenance: Professor Joost Daalder with his occasional pencilled annotations. Loosely inserted are several sheets of a printed draft review of the book by Daalder, with his annotations. 'This book ... illustrates twice as many types of Melanesian shields as ... previous..... More
The Lost World of Irian Jaya
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Prehistoric and Primitive Art
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969. More
The Founders of Australia. A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet
Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1989. Appendices by Yvonne Browning, Michael Flynn and Mollie Gillen. More