London, Religious Tract Society, [1900s?]. The first page of the preface is rubber-stamped 'Aust. Expeditionary Force / S.S. Ceramic / J.B. Rentoul / (Chaplain)'. Reverend James Buchan Rentoul embarked on HMAT A40 Ceramic at Melbourne on 23 November 1915. His middle name suggests he is member of the extended family... More about The Reformed Pastor. Edited by the Reverend William Brown
Melbourne, City of Melbourne YMCA, 1912. The military camps were organised with the Second Infantry Brigade and the Third Light Horse; a short article on their involvement appears on page 14. More about Men of Melbourne. Field Service Department Special Issue. Kilmore Campaigning Days 1912. Being...
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 29 of 1914; only 950 copies printed. Disturbances at the Bridge on Saturday and Sunday, 29 and 30 November: "the result of ignorance rather than insubordination. It was mainly the expression of a number of inexperienced youths of their desire to go... More about Report of Court of Enquiry, MO 19/1914. Fifth Infantry Brigade Camp, Liverpool, NSW. 29th...
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 52 of 1914 (Second Session); only 1000 copies printed. The Commissioners were Alfred Deakin, Dugald Thomson and G.H. Knibbs; with a detailed 11-page list of imports from Germany and Austria-Hungary considered in the light of probability of supply by local production. More about Food Supplies and Trade and Industry during the War. Reports and Recommendations of the...
Adelaide, printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works, 1914. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba, Miss Doris Madden, Mr John Lemmone, Mr Fred C. Collier, Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society', and not least The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works. They produced... More about Souvenir. Melba Patriotic Concert. Exhibition Building, Adelaide, 21st November, 1914 [cover title
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1914. More about Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory for 1914
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1915. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 68 of 1914-15; only 950 copies printed. More about European War. Diplomatic Correspondence respecting the War published by the Belgian Government
Adelaide, Holland Print (issued by F.J. Stephens), (1915)? More about War Finance and the Worker
South Melbourne, Popular Publications, [circa 1915]. With the ownership signature of a captain of the 2/48th. Cover title: 'Easy Conversational Arabic and French for the Australian Soldier. An Indispensible Guide for the Soldier Abroad'. More about The Australian Soldiers' Guide to Easy French and Arabic
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Strathfield, A.M. Parsons, 1915. 'This little paper is, with kind assistance, the loving effort of the "Old Girls" of a small school. May it do its part on Australia Day. A.M. Parsons, Wooroonook, Strathfield' (at the foot of the second-last page). Alice Mary Parsons was the wife of Frederick William..... More about Jabberwock, July 1915 [cover title
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1915. The missing leaves are not critical, but the price of this rare wartime issue is reduced accordingly. More about Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory for 1915
(London), Daily Telegraph... 1915. More about King Albert's Book. A Tribute to the Belgian King and People
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1916 (ninth edition)/ 1916. With the early ownership signature of sometime Chief Justice Sir Herbert Mayo (1885-1972), dated July 1916, on the half-title. More about The First Seven Divisions. Being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres
Sydney, William Brooks, 1916. The rare, and very attractive, deluxe edition. Dornbusch 355; Fielding and O'Neill, page 242; Trigellis-Smith 190. More about Imperishable ANZACS. A Story of Australia's Famous First Brigade. From the Diary of Pte. H.W....
London, Longmans, Green, 1916 (second impression)/ 1915. The author has signed the title page in pencil; at the head of the list of plates is the early ownership signature of one H. Downie. Accompanying the book is the original ink drawing of one of the line illustrations in the book... More about The Dardanelles. Colour Sketches from Gallipoli. Written and drawn by Norman Wilkinson, R.I. With...
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Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Co. Ltd., 1916 (second edition)/ 1915 and 1916. The frontispiece of both volumes, and two other plates in the first volume, depict the author, a medical graduate with the RAMC, without naming him. At the outbreak of war, Robert Marshall Allan (1886-1946) was working at the... More about Letters from a Young Queenslander. [Together with] Mesopotamia and India. A Continuation of...
![The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures [cover title]. Gallipoli](/pictures/thumb/114064_01.jpg?v=1555493221)
London, The Alfieri Picture Service, [1916] (first edition). The contents of the book comprise a facsimile 'envoi' from Sir George Reid, a foreword, 93 captioned plates from photographs taken during the Gallipoli Campaign, and a 'Description of the Operations from Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch' (15 pages). Loosely inserted is an... More about The Dardanelles. An Epic told in Pictures [cover title
Rouen, The Editors, September 1917. Melbourne-born William Farrow described himself as a 'Black & White Artist' on his enlistment form in March 1916. He was in the 3rd Division Cyclists' Corps, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion and going to France in September 1916. His service records indicate that for... More about The Con Camp Chronicle. Published by Permission of Lt. Col. H.L.W. Norrington DSO RAMC. Editors:...
Eaglehawk, The Author, [c.1917]. Not least, 'Gallipoli', pp 8-10. More about A Bit o' Worn Khaki and other Poems
Melbourne, Australasian Authors' Agency, (1918). The author was an Australian who was killed in August 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. More about Letters of an Airman
London, Macmillan, 1918. More about The Marne. A Tale of the War
Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More about Twelve Sonnets
London, Constable, 1918 [first English edition]. World War 1 interest. More about Sword and Plough
[Sydney], 'J.W. Rogers, 1st Battalion, Late AIF, Gallipoli', [1918] (the copyright registration form in the National Archives of Australia is dated 4 September 1918). The first plate is fairly pedestrian ('Making a New Road on X Beach'), but the last two make one wonder what market research the author undertook... More about The Gallipoli Letter Card. Souvenir [cover title
[At Sea, The Societies, as above], 10 August 1918. Not surprisingly, we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith (courtesy of the invaluable National Archives of Australia... More about HMT 'Orontes'. Saturday August 10th, 1918. Final Reunion of South Australians under the auspices...
Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Company, 1918 (second edition)/ 1916. The second edition has an extra plate. The author, 902 Private Eric Hanman, 15th Battalion, writes in the preface that he 'has not the slightest intention of presenting to the public this little effort as an authentic, or detailed history of... More about Twelve Months with the 'Anzacs'
![Aussie. Xmas Number, 1918. Next Year At Home! [cover title]. Aussie. The Australian Soldiers'...](/pictures/thumb/112894_00.jpg?v=1559636400)
[Printed in the Field? AIF Printing Section?], December 1918. + 'Aussie. The Australian Soldiers' Magazine.' Number 4, April 4, 1918. Printed in the Field, AIF Printing Section, 1918. Small quarto, 16 pages with numerous illustrations (mainly cartoons) plus pictorial wrappers with additional cartoons and text on the inside panel, and... More about Aussie. Xmas Number, 1918. Next Year At Home! [cover title]. Aussie. The Australian Soldiers'...
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1918. More about Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory for 1918
Melbourne, Australasian Authors' Agency, [1918]. The author was an Australian who was killed in August 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. More about Letters of an Airman
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1919. Perceptive contemporary thoughts on the value of war cemeteries. More about The Graves of Picardy. Reprinted from 'The Saturday Journal', June 28, 1919
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More about The Story of a Battalion
Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More about The Story of a Battalion
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, fourth edition [circa 1919]. Inscribed and signed to E.J. Bowen by the author ('Mrs Wordsworth James, Febry 27th 1919'). A genuine oddity - a personal anthology in praise of the humble coo-ee, the 'Call of my Country' - featuring verse, art, crafts, limericks and yarns. Military... More about The 'Coo-ee' Call by an Australian. Dedicated to all Men in Khaki
Adelaide, John Francis Hills, 1919. 'It is not my intention to be drawn into any newspaper controversy either about what is contained in this book ... or about the notes and appendix matter I have added to it. My friend and collaborator, John P. Fletcher, is at present serving, as... More about Conscription under Camouflage. An Account of Compulsory Military Training in Australasia down to...
London, Constable and Company, 1919. With the ownership signature of Professor Heinz Kent. More about Commerce and Industry. A Historical Review of the Economic Conditions of the British Empire from...
London, Cassell, 1919. The first edition of this anonymously published book is fiendishly rare in our experience. This is only the fifth copy we have had in almost forty-three years as booksellers in Adelaide, and the 10th is a local battalion. Arthur Limb (1893-1920) was a member of the battalion;... More about History of the 10th Battalion AIF [1914-1918. Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium (cover sub-title
Melbourne, H.H. Champion, Australasian Authors' Agency, 1919. The author served with the battalion, and was awarded the MC. In his preface he records that 'Most of the book was written on the Somme at irregular intervals, in dugouts or ruined villages, or beneath that well-known tarpaulin which, in the forward... More about 'With The Twenty-Second'. A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, AIF, with an Introduction by...
Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1919 (second edition). More about The New South Wales Handbook for Returned Soldiers and Sailors. Containing Information for the...
[Melbourne, Gordon and Gotch, circa 1919]. Primarily a picture book; there is one introductory page of text, and a two-page prose piece, 'The March Past' at the rear. Trove correctly attributes authorship of this work to Roy Bridges. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More about The Great Adventure of 1914-1918
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Brisbane, F.W. Thiel, 1919. All photographs were taken by Thiel; presumably he supplied the foreword: 'In the pages that follow are given glimpses of the war as it was seen in Brisbane - the training and despatch of our soldiers, their parades through the streets, their departure from our shores... More about Brisbane's War Pictorial, 1914-1919 [cover title
Melbourne, Salvation Army, 1919. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 241. More about The Army that went with the Boys. A Record of Salvation Army Work with the Australian Imperial Force
[Adelaide], Citizens and Business Men's Committee, 1919. A very attractive publication, rarely seen on the open market. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill, page 247. More about Souvenir Guide of South Australia's Fighting Men of the AIF. The History, Achievements and Colors...
Melbourne, British-Australasian Publishing Service (Head Office in Australia: 'Whitehall', Bank Place, Melbourne), [1920], revised edition/ [1917]. Mounted within the decorative border printed on the recto of the stiff card to which the frontispiece is attached, is a four-page ACMF card with a gelatin silver portrait photograph (120 x 90 mm)... More about The All-Australia Memorial. A Historical Record of National Effort during the Great War....
Bendigo, 38th Battalion History Committee (printed by the 'Bendigo Advertiser' Pty Ltd and the Cambridge Press), 1920. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's... More about The 38th Battalion AIF. The Story and Official History .. Foreword by Rt. Hon. W.M. Hughes, Prime...
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1920]. With a foreword by Marshal Foch. The book is not identified as such, but it comes from the personal collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Thomas Paterson (1886-1950), Commanding Officer of the 39th Battalion AIF, and the author of that battalion's history. Dornbusch 311; Fielding and... More about The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. Being an Authoritative Account of the Division's...
Ballarat, [The Author, circa 1920s] (printed by S.L. Vale). The photographer, 319 Private William Edwin Leslie Clapham, was at Gallipoli at the time of the landings, in which he almost certainly took part. Evacuated to Malta with a gunshot wound to his hand on 14 May 1915, he served there... More about Souvenir Photos of Egypt, Malta and Durban. Taken by L. Clapham, late of the 8th Battalion, AIF...
Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1920. The first plate is captioned 'First Class. 1919; joined, 1916; Graduated, December 1919'; the second is an aerial view of Duntroon 'taken from Sir Ross Smith's aeroplane when passing over the Royal Military College on 23rd February, 1920'. Not in Dornbusch; not in... More about Report on the Royal Military College of Australia for the Year 1919-1920
London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1920. Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), English poet and officer in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment; 'he was captured on 17 August 1916 and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps. His first volume of poems, "A Gloucestershire Lad", was published shortly after... More about Comrades in Captivity. A Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps
