Portugal. With an Afterword by Mary McCarthy
New York, Lustrum Press, 1971. A pictorial record of Portugal during the reign of Salazar. More
New York, Lustrum Press, 1971. A pictorial record of Portugal during the reign of Salazar. More
Coventry, 'Privately printed' by Curtis & Beamish, Printers & Publishers [for the Author], 1893. George Melly (1830-1894) 'was an English merchant and shipowner and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1875' (Wikipedia). The frontispiece (an original gelatin silver photograph, now moderately silvered-out) is..... More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1978 [first thus]. A Limited Edition; the 42-page index is derived from the Edwin Cannan edition. More
[Florence], Privately Printed ['Printed for the Author by the Tipografia Classica'], 1929. Number 216 of 550 copies signed by the author. 'Here they are, then - just a few footnotes, a few asides that touch the fringe of a great problem: East or West?' (page 11). More
London, Skeffington & Son, Ltd., [circa early 1930s]. Inscribed and signed in red ink by the author on the front free endpaper, and with an ink correction; Dudley Symon was a nephew of Sir Joshua Symon. One of the Keble Books, issued in connection with the Centenary of the Oxford..... More
The photograph is inscribed and signed 'To John, with Gratitude from Anthony, 1963'; the mat is signed in ink 'Vivienne, London' (the usual credit of photographer Florence Vivienne Mellish). Documentation accompanying the photograph indicates that it was presented to Sir John Montague-Stow (1911-1997), Governor-General of Barbados (and previously that country's..... More
London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1952 (fourth edition, revised and with a new chapter)/ 1938 (third edition, substantially revised)/ 1931 (revised second and cheaper edition)/ 1931. Initially the Halley Stewart Lectures for 1929; this is the fourth revised edition, with a new chapter. More
Quorn, The Author, 1950. Signed in ink by the author on the title page, and inscribed and signed by him 'with Fraternal Greetings' to 'Ernest Henry Grimes, Editor of The Herald'. More
Leabrook, Printed by A.R. & A.G. Smedley for Oswald Pryor, 1950. Inscribed and signed in ink by Oswald Pryor (1881-1971) on the verso of the title page; the recipient has signed his name above the title on the front cover, adding 'A.W.U. Office'. 'Cornish families at Moonta and Wallaroo, the..... More
Sydney, A Susan Haynes book/ Allen & Unwin Australia, 1990. Dated (18 July 1990), signed and warmly inscribed by the author in ink on the half-title. Loosely inserted is the invitation to the book launch (on the same day). + Bill Guy: 'A Life on the Left. A Biography of..... More
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981. Signed in ink on the half-title by the author, the long-serving 35th Premier of South Australia (1970-1979). More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1947. Provenance: With the bookplate of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-1993), who was (among many other things) Minister for Territories from 1951 to 1963 and author of several books on the Australian Aborigines. More
Brisbane, The Edmonds Publishing Co., [1944]. With sections on 'Your Military Rights', 'Your Civil Rights', and 'Your "New Order"'. More
London, Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd, 1906. One of The Native Races of the British Empire series. Provenance: With the ink ownership signature of John Grant Duncan-Hughes (1882-1962), South Australian senator, lawyer and pastoralist (dated 4 December 1906, London). More
London, Cassell & Company, 1958. A self-selected collection of speeches and writings of former Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Menzies. Topics include Winston Churchill, the Commonwealth, the Suez Canal crisis and the future of democracy. More
Sydney, State Library of New South Wales Press/ Power Publications, 1995. More
New York, Walker and Company, 1967. More
London, Cassell, 1960, 1962 and 1965 (all first editions). The title page of the first volume is signed by the author (as Anthony Eden). The third volume has the small ex libris label of the Dutch historian Professor F.F.X. Cerutti (1915-1970) on the front pastedown. [3 items]. More
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, The Text Publishing Company, 1992. Inscribed and signed in ink by the author, first wife of Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. Also with the ink ownership signature of Australian historian Helen R. Pearce. More
Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1993 and 1999. More
London, Heinemann, 1967 to 1988 (all first editions, with the exception of Volume 3, a second impression in the same year as the first edition). Specific details of the individual volumes are as follows. Volume 1: Youth, 1874-1900 (1965). Volume 2: Young Statesman, 1901-1914 (1967). Volume 3: The Challenge of..... 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
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897. Offered together with the volumes for the Second and Third Sessions of the Convention Debates, held respectively in Sydney in 1897, and in Melbourne in 1898. Official Record of the Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention. Second Session. Sydney, 2nd to 24th September, 1897..... More