Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2009. The title page is inscribed and signed by the author, the popular South Australian Labor politician John Charles Bannon AO (1943-2015), the 39th Premier of South Australia, who resigned in 1992 in the wake of the State Bank collapse. A huge electoral defeat for Labor..... More

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1993 and 1999. More

[Adelaide], The Author, December 1986. The theseis looks at 'Shakespeare's approach to Renaissance thinking on a number of matters relating to women ... considering the disparity between, on the one hand, the idea that, during the Renaissance, daughters moved directly from the sphere of their father's authority to the sphere..... More

London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). More

Sydney, Kerry & Jones, 308 George Street, [1888]. This informal group portrait features the Governors of each of the Australian colonies, along with the Governors of Fiji and New Zealand. It was taken on 25 January 1888, the day before the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet at..... More

Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1920. 'With Commemorative Poems by Mrs Mary Gilmore, Henry Lawson, C.J. Dennis, Roderic Quinn, and J. Le Gay Brereton, and Appreciations by Leading Publicists' (frontispiece). Claude Arthur Marquet (1869-1920), a 'proficient, self-taught black-and-white artist' was born in Moonta, South Australia. He moved to Victoria in 1902..... More

Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1891. Printed at the head of the first page is the following: '29/6/91. Draft of a Bill as adopted by the National Australasian Convention, 9th April, 1891. Henry Parkes, President. F.W. Webb, Secretary'. Provenance: Sir John William Downer (1843-1915), one of the South Australian delegates..... More

London, John Cumming, 1800. George Washington (1732-1799) died on 14 December 1799; the four-page 'advertisement' at the beginning of this posthumous publication contains much pertinent information. 'The two letters of General Washington that are given entire ... were published in the "Recreations in Agriculture, [Natural History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature]"..... More

Henley Beach, Seaview Press, 2003. More

London, The Folio Society, 1983 (first thus). Translated by J.D. Duff, Introduction by Colin Ward. Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870), 'political thinker, activist, and writer who originated the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. Herzen chronicled his career in My Past and Thoughts, considered to..... More

London, The Folio Society, 2001 (all first thus). Introduction (in 'Burmese Days') by Peter Davison (1926-2022), the 'leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume 'George Orwell: The Complete Works' ('The Guardian' obituary). [5 items]. More

London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus). Translated with Notes by Peter Green; Introduction by Simon Callow. 'The text of this edition follows the revised 1998 edition, with minor emendations'. More

Stanley R. Whitford (1878-1959), was a South Australian trade unionist and Labor politician. His short entry in the 'Australian dictionary of Biography' states that 'he spent his last eleven years bed-ridden in hospital where he wrote his unpublished autobiography'. The following chunk of information from the ADB is a taste..... More