London, The Folio Society, 1997 (first thus). Subtitle: Being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the Autumn of the year 1933. Introduction by Margaret Drabble; this edition follows that of the 1984 Jubilee edition..... More
Brighton, Teredo Books Ltd., 1975. With an Introduction by Alex. A. Hurst. 'The story of the years the author spent in the four-masted barque 'Silberhorn', running to Oregon and San Francisco ... together with many memories and reflections' (dustwrapper). More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (second printing)/ 2009 (first thus). 'My title is from Keats, who believed that Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colours. Keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1986. Edited by Sebastian Barker. 'The poets ... have been selected from those born in the first forty years of the century (1897-1939), writing and publishing in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England' (Preface). More
New Lambton, The Digger's View Pty Ltd, 2014. ''The Digger's View: WW1 in Colour' offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life in full colour, the images provide a unique perspective of war' (from the..... More
The photographer's credit and reference number ('Sweet | Adelaide | 526') is scratched in the negative. The photograph was taken from on top of the Kent Town Brewery, looking west along Rundle Street across the parklands, taking in all to the right (north) as far as the old Royal Adelaide..... More
The photograph shows the eastern side of a fairly quiet King William Street; the clockless tower of the Town Hall has a prominent position to the right of the image. Captain Samuel White Sweet (1825-1886), was a sea captain, surveyor and photographer: after he was censured when his ship ran..... More
London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1945 ('First published, Winter, 1945-6'). 'Cecil Beaton was sent to India and China by the Ministry of Information to take photographs. The narrative of his journey, "Far East", has been published, but only a few of the vast number of pictures taken could be used to..... More
Petaling Jaya, Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad, 1983. 'The postcards reproduced in this book show a wide variety of views[:] buildings, street scenes, transport, people and occupations, and rural scenes covering the major towns of Malaya between the period 1900 to 1930' (introduction). Text in English and Malay. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1978. More
Sydney, John Ferguson, 1977. Signed by the author, W.B. 'Bill' Pitcher. More
Sydney, ABC Books/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. More
Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877 (first thus). Bound by Alfonso Dori, Florence, and extra-illustrated with nine original albumen paper photographs of religious paintings in Florentine collections. Dori specialised in fine bindings for the English tourist trade. Translated from the Latin by W. Benham, Vicar of Margate. More
Richmond, Hodja Educational Resources Cooperative Ltd, [1985]. More
Hong Kong, O & A Editions/ Elsworth Books Limited, 1997 [new edition/ 1993]. Loosely inserted is a colour pictorial commemorative leaf; 'In Commemoration and in Witness of the Handover of the British Colony of Hong Kong to Chinese Sovereignty at Midnight, 30th of June 1997', from JW Marriott Hotel, Hong..... More
New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1969 [first thus]/ 1957. '50 Years of Great Marine Photographs'. More
[Burra], Burra History Group Inc, 2014 (second edition)/ 2009. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1967. 'These sensitive studies are neither tourist poses nor anthropological records' (dustwrapper blurb). The title page is inscribed and signed 'To Olga Hardy with much regards from the Author, Charles P. Mountford'. We know of Olga Hardy only as the author of 'Like a Bird on..... More
Sydney, Macmillan, 1995. More
Christchurch, Printed by Horace Weeks Limited, and published by R. Allen and J.H. Scott for the Souvenir Art Publishing Co., 1906. A 'work combining both the useful and beautiful, showing the commercial enterprise of the Colony, and depicting at the same time some unrivalled beauty spots' (Introduction). More
Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Number 10 of only 24 copies of this 'special presentation' edition, bound and boxed thus, containing an original signed pencil drawing (figurative nudes, 210 × 154 mm), and an original signed photograph of Olsen drawing in his sketchbook (210 × 135 mm). They are tipped..... More
[No Place, No Publisher, 1990s facsimile]/ 1919. Chiefly some 50 pages (rectos only) of small portraits. More
South Yarra, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005 [presumed first edition, second printing] (printed in China, with the printed dedication 'For Tessa and Cassandra | & | Tim, Louise and Jane' and ISBN 1 876832 23 1). Number 7 of one of two series of 10 copies of the 'special presentation' issue..... More
Dr Julian Smith (1873-1947), surgeon and photographer, 'took up photography late in life, exhibiting locally and overseas, becoming an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and gaining renown for his distinctive portraits' (National Portrait Gallery of Australia, dating the image 'c. 1937'). The National Gallery of Victoria also holds..... More