London, Cassell & Company Limited, [1920s]. Only two contributions of Australian relevance are apparent: 'The New Chum' by Mary Martin; and 'The Blue Hills of Whingarry' by Nancy M. Hayes. The main contribution is a 'Long Complete Book-length Story' by Ethel Talbot ('The Riddle of the Crimson Fez'). More
London, Thomas Nelson, [no date, late 1920's]. The contemporary presentation inscription on the flyleaf is dated 25 March 1929. More
[No Place, No Publisher, 1930s]. More
Sydney, Publicity Press, 1938. More
London, The Religious Tract Society, [circa 1860]. More
[No place], The Texas Company (Australasia), [1950s?]. In the foreword, the Company (producers of the Texaco range of oils and fuels) 'feels it is rendering a service' by presenting some topical side-lights on the vanishing race, particularly as the 'problem of exploiting [the Northern Territory's] commercial possibilities' is at hand..... More
London, The Religious Tract Society, [circa 1860]. More
Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1876. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them, which we are finally getting around to processing. More
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1928. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground, South Terrace (4); the Glover Playground, North Adelaide (3); the West Terrace Playground (3); and the East Terrace Playground (2). Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are..... More
Adelaide, The Corporation of the City of Adelaide, 1928. The last 12 plates depict playgrounds: the Glover Playground, South Terrace (4); the Glover Playground, North Adelaide (3); the West Terrace Playground (3); and the East Terrace Playground (2). Clearly visible at the entrance to the charming North Adelaide precinct are..... More
London, Gollancz, 1976. More
London, Castell Brothers Ltd., [1909]. More
London, Castell Brothers Ltd., [circa 1904]. One of Ainslie's charming and outrageous peg-doll books for naughty Edwardian children. This one is an account of what happened when 'I' went to boarding school. When some of the other boarders start a pillow fight, disturbing a peg doll sleeping peacefully, the response..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1995 [first thus]. 'The text of this edition is taken from a selection of the fairy tales ... published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1913'. Loosely inserted is the publisher's flyer for the William Heath Robinson Trust. 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
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1993. 'A history of child welfare in the Northern Territory as it affected Aboriginal children in the period to the Second World War [discussing] the development of government policy ... including a remarkable attempt, in the 1930s, at ethnic cleansing through biological assimilation in the North'..... More
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Sydney, Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1946. More
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Sydney, Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1948. More
[Sydney], 'Imprinted by Richard Edwards & Roderick Shaw at the Barn on the Hill, over St Columbkille's', [1939]. A collection of stories for children, told from the perspective of a young girl, Juditheden. The exuberant design of the book matches its eccentric prose style. One of only 600 copies of..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second impression)/ 2004/ 1912. With a preface by David Wootton. Offered together with a copy of the matching companion volume from the Folio Society: 'Peter Pan and Wendy' illustrated by Debra McFarlane (in fine condition and still in the original shrink-wrap). [2 items]. More
Melbourne, The Lothian Book Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 1923. Front cover illustration by Victorian artist Eileen Pearcey. Muir 540: 'Although classified by the publishers as a children's book, this story of the activities of an imaginary adopted child does not appear to have been intended for children.'. More
Camberwell, Viking, 2009/ 2008. Foreword by Walter McVitty. More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). Introduction by Maria Tatar. '"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was first published in 1900 by the George M. Hill Company. This Folio Society edition follows the third printing of the first edition, with minor emendations' (publication page). More
Gundaroo, Brolga Press Pty Ltd, [2001]. A presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the inside surface of the front cover. More
