Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1960. Sir Samuel James Way (1836-1916) was 'for many years Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide' (dustwrapper blurb). The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' is somewhat less prosaic: 'Sir Samuel Way was not a great jurist. His pragmatic cast..... More
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London, Methuen & Co Ltd/ Sweet and Maxwell, 1977/ 1937 (second edition)/ 1924, 1973/ 1937 (second edition)/ 1925, 1978/ 1966 and 1972. Provenance: Chris James (an Adelaide barrister), with his armorial bookplate and ownership stamps in each volume. [4 items]. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1900 (ninth edition, 'carefully revised')/ 1880. Provenance: Sir John Hannah Gordon (1850-1923, South Australian politician and judge), with his small circular inkstamp on the front pastedown, title page and bottom edge; the occasional annotations and emphases in pencil to the text, and in pencil and ink..... More
London, Butterworths, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
London, Macmillan and Co., 1878 (first edition in English)/ 1874. The 'additions and alterations in the present edition make it in several respects almost a new work' (author's preface), and the 18-page introduction by T.E. Cliffe Leslie is new to this edition. Provenance: Charles H. Pearson, with his ink ownership..... More
London, Capemoss, 1975. With the armorial bookplate of Adelaide barrister Christopher James on the front pastedown. More
London, The Folio Society, 2003 (seventh printing)/ 1996. Introduction by Albert French. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1976. The autobiography of a WW1 veteran and coutry lawyer from Naracoorte in the south-east of SA. Two clipped newspaper reviews of the book are loosely inserted. More
Christies Beach, The Author, 1992. 'In the year 1873 Elizabeth Lillian Woolcock, an attractive young widow, was charged in the South Australian Supreme Court with the wilful murder of her husband Thomas Woolcock. Was she the innocent victim of malicious gossip? ... Though all major events in this, her true..... More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 2020. 'Biting the Clouds - a euphemism for being stoned on opium - combines historial, personal and cultural imagery to reclaim the Badtjala story from the colonisation narrative' (rear cover blurb). The Badtjala are indigenous to K'gari (Fraser Island). More
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, 1977. Number 32 of only 750 numbered copies. More
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1980. Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. More
North Ryde, CCH Australia Limited, 1987. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1993. Introduction by Robert Hughes. The story of the literary hoax of the twentieth century. More
Crows Nest, Sue Hines/ Allen & Unwin, 2005. More
Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967 (facsimile)/ 1838. Peade A116: only 592 copies. Australiana Facsimile Editions number 116. More
Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982. Aboriginal Lands Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. More
South Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1984. With historical notes by Ken Byron. More
Melbourne, Castle Books/ Horwitz Grahame, 1983/ 1981. More
Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1988 (second impression, with corrigenda)/ 1985. John Small sailed in First Fleet convict transport ship "Charlotte". 'It seemed an impossible task - to try to find the origins and background of a man whose first appearance in known records was at the moment of conviction..... More
Marrickville, Labour Press Books, 1994. 'This volume contains the record of the campaign conducted by the Socialist Labour league and the Committee for a Workers Inquiry' (from the blurb). More
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1979. 'Political struggle in the last three decades of Aboriginal affairs in Australia'. More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (third impression)/ 2003 (first thus). More
London, Folio Society, 2002 (first edition). Introduction by H.R.F. Keating. [4 items]. More
Adelaide, The Commission, 1971. In 1970, Sir Charles Hart Bright (1912-1983), judge, 'was appointed royal commissioner to inquire into the anti-war demonstration organised by the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, which, held in Adelaide in September of that year, ended in a violent confrontation with police. His recommendations formed the basis for..... More