London, The Folio Society, 1999 (all volumes first thus). The lengthy introduction (19 pages) by David Lodge in 'Decline and Fall' is new to this edition. [6 items]. 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
London, The Folio Society, 2004 (first thus)/ 1959. Lavishly illustrated, with different endpaper maps showing the advance - and retreat - of Nazi Germany. William Lawrence Shirer (1904-1993) was 'a foreign correspondent whose pioneering live trans-Atlantic radio broadcasts on the eve of World War II helped inform Americans about Nazi..... More
London, The Arcadia Press, 1972 (first thus)/ 1948 and 1946. Number 235 of only 265 copies signed on the title page by the author (as 'Montgomery of Alamein'), and bound by Zaehnsdorf. The title page is dated 1971, but 'This Book was published on the 30th Anniversary of The Battle..... More
Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1984. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during the Second World War. There is a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper from 'Des C. Smith, Chaplain, 43 Batt. RSAR, 1967 - ?, 10/9/72'. Text on the both flap of the..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1960. Loosely inserted in this copy is a stapled group of proof sheets (printed rectos only) from the variant 'Members' edition, subtitled 'The Story of the 2/48th Battalion AIF'. The individual sheets and their page numbers are the title page ([iii]); its verso ([iv]); an expanded 'Acknowledgements'..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1995 (first thus). [2 items]. 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
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (first thus). The six-page introduction by the author is new to this edition. More
Melbourne, Printed and published by Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., [1941]. The very rare first annual. 'Many who have followed their adventures and misadventures in The News and in Digger journals in the Middle East have urged that Bluey and Curley richly deserve a taste..... More
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Melbourne, Printed and published by Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., [1942]. The rare second annual. 'Here they are again, the two irrepressibles - as large as life and as vital as the pen that gave them birth. They have travelled far since, egged on by..... More
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Adelaide, News [Limited], August 1946. 'No more of the Army game of lining up for everything - for pay parade or mosquito nets or new shirts or beer ration - for Bluey and Curley. They're in Civvy street now. They line up only for cigarettes or shirts at the bargain..... More
Plumpton, Rudder Press, 1995. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023. More
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023 [third, revised, edition]/ 1996 [second edition, with minor revisions]/ 1995. 'This edition is somewhat smaller, to enable it to reach a new generation of readers... The biggest changes are the omission of the original Chapter 1 [which] covered the period 1939-1941, [and] the Epilogue [which..... More
Jordan, Australian Embassy, 2021. This book 'celebrates the long-standing and friendly ties between our two nations from Jordan's beginnings over a hundred years ago up to the present day' (from the foreword by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, David Hurley AC DSC). Text in English and Arabic. More
Sydney, Publicity Press, Printers, [1948]. 'The series of Commonwealth-wide radio broadcasts ... 'Mantle of Greatness' deals with dramatised episodes in the lives of these great ones ...'. With a couple of the publisher's related flyers loosely inserted; one explaining that 'all portraits have not been included with the Album, but..... More
Sydney, Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. More
Adelaide, Sands & McDougall Pty. Ltd., 1946. 'Eighty-first Year of Publication'. More
Adelaide, The Author/ Royal Australian Navy Corvette Association, 1982. More
Adelaide, The Author, 1995 (second edition)/ 1995. With the 'Australia Remembers' presentation plate mounted on the verso of the front cover inscribed, dated (25 July 1995) and signed in ink by the author to 27097 Commander J.D. Chittleborough. More
London, Temple Press Limited, 1918. The introduction is by Major-General W.S. Brancker; there is a chapter on the medical aspects of aviation by H. Graem Anderson. Provenance: Sydney Dunstone (14 February 1936), with his ownership details on the front flyleaf. RAAF Wing Commander Sydney Morgan Lewis Dunstone (1917-1990) was a...... More
Budgewoi, Kingfisher, 1995. Includes 108 pages which provide a brief history of each Australian-built corvette, based on material supplied by the RAN and the RAN Corvettes Association. 'In the scale of naval size corvettes were pygmies, but they performed like giants' (subtitle). More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1982. Farquhar fought at 'Tobruk, El Alamein, Sattelburg and in Borneo, where he was killed in action on the island of Tarakan'. This account uses Derrick's own diaries. More