It may be that a catalogue from an antiquarian bookseller is the last thing you are looking for at the present time. But this is what we do, and old habits die hard. Hopefully you will find something in our latest offering to lift the spirits or engage the mind.
Highlights include a signed original print of Max Dupain's iconic photograph 'Sunbaker', and early issues of Verve complete with the sumptuous colour lithographs by the likes of Klee, Miró, Kandinsky, Chagall and Matisse.
Happy browsing, and stay healthy!
![Item #116854 A typed letter signed by Amy Johnson to the Mayor of 'Narracoorte, Q'ld' [sic]. Amy...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/116854_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576541630)
The letter was written while Amy Johnson was touring Australia after she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. It is a more-or-less routine thank-you to the Mayor for 'your kind telegram of congratulations which I received in Longreach, and for your invitation to visit your..... More
Banksmeadow, Renniks, 2008 (first edition). Number 2 of only 50 copies signed by the author on a large card mounted on the front flyleaf. The card is printed with small colour portraits of Keith Payne VC and Cross of Valour recipient Timothy Britten; small cards with their signatures (and place..... More
Banksmeadow, Renniks, 2014 (second edition, revised and expanded)/ 2008. The title page is signed and inscribed by Keith Payne VC, and three (of the five) Cross of Valour recipients (Timothy Britten, Allan Sparkes and Darrell Tree). The Cross of Valour is awarded 'only for acts of the most conspicuous courage..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., 1887. Although all 7481 words of this publication are transcribed in the Trove Digital Library record for this item, only two copies of the original edition are listed (in the National Library of Australia, and the State Library of South Australia). More
Sydney, Law Book Company of Australasia Limited (and printed at The Hassell Press, Adelaide), 1925. The author's personal copy, extensively annotated on the printed text and the interleaves, with numerous newspaper review cuttings and original letters from distinguished members of the law fraternity mounted in the book. There are minor..... More
[Port Melbourne], DACOU Aboriginal Gallery [Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia], 2009. The front endpaper is signed in ballpoint pens of divers colours by seven relatives of Emily Kngwarreye: Alan, Joy, Dolly, Jeannie, and Trisha (see page 235 for details); Heather Long (daughter of Jeannie Petyarre); and Rebecca Jones (daughter of..... More
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. The authors discuss 'Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to manage moneys of account and coins. Money merchants of Venice developed a system whereby a premium attached to moneys of account acted as a stabilizing force and..... More
London, A. Zwemmer (and printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin), 1937. Number 92 of 250 copies signed in pencil on the colophon by Aristide Maillol. The work 'was printed on hand-made paper manufactured by an old process rediscovered by Aristide Maillol', who 'engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which..... More
Nashville, Battery Press, 1950. A unique copy, containing signed testimonials to the 7th Infantry Division from four two-star and three one-star US generals, including the five Commanding Generals from August 1941 to September 1945. These are Major-General Charles H. White; Major-General Albert Eger Brown; Major-General Charles H. Corlett; Major-General Archibald..... More
![Item #118308 Verve. Revue artistique et littéraire ... Vol. VI, Nos 21 et 22 [a double issue]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118308_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1584676389)
Paris, Éditions de la revue Verve, 1948. Published in Paris in both French and English editions under the directorship of E. Teriade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals..... More
[Brisbane, circa 1893]. The dedication is 'To all honest and industrious workmen located throughout Australasia who are endeavouring to overcome the pernicious influence of socialism and agitators' jugglery'. Ferguson 18915 (suggesting the author, and place and date of publication: 'This work of fiction is written around the ... Strike in..... More
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930 (twentieth edition)/ 1924. An attractive unsigned binding, with a gift inscription on the verso of the front flyleaf to 'Andrew with best wishes always. E. Toohey 8th February 1931' (perhaps a member of the Toohey family of brewery fame?). More
![Item #117827 Early Adelaide Architecture, 1836 to 1886. [A Photographic Record]. E. J. R. MORGAN,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/117827_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1584676389)
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969. Signed by both authors on the title page. This copy is also carries a contemporary personal inscription from one of them, Sir Edward James Ranembe Morgan (1900-1977), signed as 'Edward'. The book contains '191 photographs of buildings erected before 1887 in the City of Adelaide..... More
![Item #118171 Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke [New edition of the complete works, in 20 volumes]....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/118171_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585022082)
Basel, Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1991 [first thus]. The complete works of Mozart; the descriptive text is in German. Volumes 1-3: Geistliche Gesangswerke I-III [Sacred Works]. Volumes 4-10: Buhnenwerke I-VII [Stage Works]. Volumes 11-13: Orchesterwerke I-III [Orchestral Works]. Volumes 14-16: Konzerte I-III [Concerts]. Volume 17: Kirchensonaten / Ensemblemusik / Kammermusik I [Church..... More
Singapore, The Author, 1994. 'At the height of Peranakan cultural richness between 1910 and 1930, locally carved teak furniture gilded in gold leaf were favoured by wealthier Peranakan families. These "brown and gold" pieces, conceived usually on a grand scale for homes of almost palatial dimensions, displayed intricate designs of..... More
Amsterdam, Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964. The text is in French and Dutch. The title translates as 'The Golden Benelux. Directory of gold coins minted in the area of the former Netherlands'. More
Amsterdam, Jacques Schulman N.V., 1967. Text in English, French and Dutch. More
Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1900. Golden and Roland 727. A London edition appeared in the same year, but this is apparently the first edition. More
London, Countrywide Editions, 2005. Signed by the author on the title page. A serious 'first attempt to present in chronological order an account' of the mapping of the 'larger Southeast Asian region to which the true Spice Islands belong, from classical times through to the beginning of the nineteenth century'..... More
Katoomba, Tranter Enterprises, 1990. Number 209 of 1200 copies signed by the author. More
Roseworthy, Roseworthy Agricultural College, [1982]. Number 24 of an unspecified limited edition. Copies in the standard binding - papered boards with a dustwrapper - state that the edition is 1000 copies, which presumably includes a modest quantity with this deluxe binding (which we have not seen before). More
[Port Adelaide], Friends of the South Australian Maritime Museum, 2003. More
![Item #117794 Remembrance of Things Past. Illustrated Edition [complete in 12 volumes]. Marcel PROUST](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/117794_00.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1584937196)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1957 (first thus, eight volumes); 1960 (reprint, three volumes)/ 1957; and 1961 (reprint, one volume)/ 1957. Illustrations by Philippe Jullian; translations from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Volumes 1-11) and Stephen Hudson (Volume 12); the dustwrapper design is by Enid Marx. [12 items]. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1973. Number 305 of 1001 copies signed by the author. An extensively illustrated survey of the colonial Adelaide's cast-iron lacework, interspersed with illustrations from rare trade catalogues of the time. More