Sydney, Hodder, 2003. More

Potts Point, [South Pacific Feature Services], July 1965. The first of only two issues of this satirical magazine; the second and last issue appeared in March 1966. More

Dublin, The Phoenix Publishing Co., Ltd, [1924]. Pearse was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising, and was executed in 1916. The first part of this volume comprises the memoir of his founding of the St. Enda's School (Scoil Éanna), which taught in Irish and English. The second part..... 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dictionary of Biography' states that 'he spent his last eleven years bed-ridden in hospital where he wrote his unpublished autobiography'.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

London, The Folio Society, 2007. More

London, Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1938 (first edition in English). Provenance: Michael L. Dunne, with his bookplate. Father Michael Leonard Dunne (1901-1994), Irish-born South Australian Catholic priest. In February 1934 'he was appointed Editor of "The Southern Cross," the weekly Catholic newspaper of the Archdiocese [of Adelaide].... In addition..... More

Paris, E. Dentu, 1865 (first French edition)/ 1821. Translated by Charles Bernard Derosne from the revised edition of 1865. More

London, William Heinemann, 1914 (second impression)/ 1913. Chiefly British politicians of the period just before World War I; one features a young Winston Churchill. More

London, George Harrap & Company, 1931. 'As a member of the judiciary committee of the Federal Convention he opposed the suggested constitution and acted with the Victorian Labour party in its attempt to throw out the Federation Bill. He became Attorney-General in the Watson Government and in 1906 was made..... More