Supreme Federalist. The Political Life of Sir John Downer
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. Three sheets of photocopied handwritten notes are loosely inserted. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. Three sheets of photocopied handwritten notes are loosely inserted. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. With the bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), annotated with his acquisition date: 'March 2009', mounted on the front pastedown. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author, the popular South Australian Labor politician John Charles Bannon AO (1943-2015), the 39th Premier of South Australia, who resigned in 1992 in the wake of the State Bank collapse. A huge electoral defeat for Labor..... More
Dublin, Turoe Press, 1985. Presentation copy inscribed to local town planner Dr Alan Hutchings, dated (20 September 1997) and signed by the author. One of Hutchings' business cards is loosely inserted. More
Greenacres, Foundation 21 Incorporated, [2009] and [2012]. The publisher, Foundation 21, supports kids with Downs syndrome; local identities contribute photographs and yarns about South Australia. More
Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene were written in pencil on the mount of another example of this photograph we have handled. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two..... More
Angaston, C.C. Yates [Photographer], [circa 1920s]. The details identifying the scene are written in pencil on the verso of the mount. Light Pass (as it is known today) is in the Barossa Valley, 3 kms from Nuriootpa. The tiny hamlet is home to two Lutheran churches (the Immanuel, and the..... More
Mount Pleasant, The Mount Pleasant Agricultural, Horticultural and Floricultural Society Inc., 2013. More
London, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. The volume contains another 22 articles, including Daisy M. BATES: A Few Notes on some South-Western Australian Dialects (pages 65-82); R.J.A. BERRY and others: The Craniometry of the Tasmanian Aboriginal (pages 122-126); Elsdon BEST: Ceremonial Performances pertaining to Birth, as..... More
Sydney, Endeavour Press, July 1935 (first edition). Predominantly the Northern Territory, where Dr Basedow was 'Chief Medical Officer and Protector of the Aborigines ... and later Special Aborigines Commissioner' (Preface). More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1918. Undertaken initially (in April-June 1916) to explore the mineralogical possibilities of the region; the end result is of considerable anthropological significance. To quote Dr Basedow: 'Realising the rare opportunity for conducting scientific research in a tract of practically unknown country, I resolved that, after the work entrusted..... More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1910. Special Intelligence Bulletin Number 17, issued by the South Australian Intelligence Department. More
Adelaide, McClory & Masterman, Printers [for the Author], 1881. The list of subscribers records only 185 names; although this copy is inscribed beneath the frontispiece to 'A.M. Bickford Esq with the Author's Compliments', Bickford is not one of the subscribers. He is also not the original Bickford of A.M. Bickford..... More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1918. This volume also contains numerous other papers, some of them lengthy, some of them well-illustrated, on subjects as diverse as Australian fungi (with 4 colour plates), Australian orchids, the geology of Ardrossan, and moths from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. More
Netley, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 (first complete edition in English). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1965. A 'Thesis for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in History, at the University of Adelaide, 1964.' Provenance: Sir Archibald Grenfell Price: the front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell, In grateful recollection of your unfailing kindness, Christine Cooper [nee Cornell]..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1967. Inscribed, dated (February 1985) and signed by the author, who selected and helped prepare the location of the Maralinga atomic bomb tests. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. '"Bush Bashers" continues the story of Len Beadell and his "Gunbarrel Road Construction Party" who made a network of 4,000 miles of the loneliest roads in the world' (dustwrapper blurb). More
[Lock], Lock History Book Committee, 1984. More
Sydney, South Head Press, 1968. Presentation copy signed, dated (July 1968) and warmly inscribed to the South Australian poet Robert Clark and his wife Dorothy. More
Ringwood, Viking, 2001 (second impression). More
North Melbourne, Spinifex, 1998. More