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

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

London, Constable, 1914. The Balkans on the cusp of the Great War. Sir Reginald Rankin, 2nd Baronet (1871-1931) 'retells the story of how in 1912-13 all Balkan Slavdom turned against the Turk and, having defeated him, against itself. Much of the book ... carries a flavour of first-hand reality' ('The..... More

Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1914. More

Adelaide, Holland Print (issued by F.J. Stephens), (1915)? More

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

Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1915. The missing leaves are not critical, but the price of this rare wartime issue is reduced accordingly. More

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

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

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

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

Melbourne, Australasian Authors' Agency, (1918). The author was an Australian who was killed in August 1917 while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. More

Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1918. The last five sonnets are war poems: August 1914, Anzac, Glory, Peace, and Roses. More

[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

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

Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1918. More

Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1919. Perceptive contemporary thoughts on the value of war cemeteries. More

Melbourne, Melville and Mullen, 1919. The history of the 48th Battalion AIF. More

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

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

[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

[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

[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

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

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