London, Thomas Nelson, [no date, late 1920's]. The contemporary presentation inscription on the flyleaf is dated 25 March 1929. More

Sydney, Publicity Press, 1938. More

London, OUP, 1929. A publisher's sample of the 11th issue; with the relevant tear-sheet from OUP's catalogue tipped in. 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

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

Melbourne, George Robertson and Company (Printed in Scotland), [1910]. The cover title is 'Some Childrens' [sic] Songs by Marion Alsop. Words by Dorothy McCrae. Designed by Edith Alsop'. Dorothy Frances McCrae (1879-1937) was a daughter of George Gordon McCrae, 'poet and man of letters', and sister of the poet Hugh..... More

Berlin, Axel Juncker, [c.1920]. With the bookplate of Lorna Waterhouse. With illustrations by Alfred Thon. Text in German. 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

[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, Warne, [circa 1930]. Muir 604 (Wally the Kangaroo): 'Simple story about toy animals with no reference to Australia'. More

Melbourne, Heinemann, 1985/ 1985. Signed and inscribed by the artist. More

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973 (first edition). From the first sentence ('Blooming Christmas here again!'), this is a classic. More

Edinburgh, T.N. Foulis, [1920s]. Illustrations, including several in colour, by H.C. Preston Macgoun, RSA. More