Guilty or Innocent? The Gordon Bennett Case
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1992. Inscribed, 'To Colonel Chittleborough, The issue of justice and a fair hearing', and signed in ink by the author. More
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852. Provenance: South Australian ornithologist and conservationist Captain S.A. White (1870-1954), with his ink ownership signature; also inscribed 'Wetunga, 1898'. More
At Sea, The Editors (and printed by Cape Times Ltd., Printers, Capetown), 1918. The souvenir of the return voyage 'to our "Bright Australia" of several Nursing Sisters and Troops, most of whom have taken part in active operations on various fronts of this world war' (the introduction). The editors 'regret..... More
McCrae, Slouch Hat Publications, 2008. Number 45 of the deluxe limited edition of only 50 copies signed by the author. This copy is also signed (and dated 26 July 2008) by Lieutenant-Colonel Neil C. Smith AM, who contributed the foreword. More
Sydney, Ronald G. McDonald, 1935. The title page is signed in ink 'Nevill M. Smyth VC'. Major-General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth VC KCB (1868-1941) wrote the foreword to this book. He was a British officer, sent by Kitchener to Gallipoli in May 1915. He was in command of the Australian..... More
Brisbane, 42nd Battalion AIF Association, 1938. Provenance: Miss Adela Dibdin, with the front flyleaf inscribed and signed to her 'from "one amongst those present", A.C. Dibdin, Xmas 1938'. Lieutenant Arthur Coleman Dibdin saw action on the Western Front. His elder brother, Major Edward John Dibdin DSO, was one of the..... More
Brisbane, Boolarong Publications for the 9th Battalion Association, 1985. Number 10 of only 118 copies of the rare deluxe limited presentation (or perhaps subscriber's?) issue, with a bookplate numbered and signed by the author mounted on the front flyleaf. The name 'Edward C. Werda' (QX55210 Sergeant Edward Colin Werda) is..... More
Sydney, Mortons Ltd. [for the 45th Battalion Association, 1927]. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front flyleaf: 'With the compliments of the 45th Bn History Committee, Sydney Herring, Chairman, 26/8/29'. Brigadier General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951) was the battalion's Commanding Officer, and contributed the second of the..... More
Charlotte, Herb Eaton Historical Publications, and Marceline, Walsworth Publishing Company, 1983. The foot of the title page is inscribed ('Best Wishes') and signed by the author. More
Wahroonga, Cowrie Books, 1998. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. The Trobriand Islands are north-east of mainland Papua New Guinea, and north of Fergusson Island. More
Glenfield, Godwit, 2008. Inscribed and signed in pencil by the artist on the front free endpaper; loosely inserted is a related advertising flyer, also inscribed and signed in pencil by the artist, one of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers. More
Cologne, Konemann, 1995. Dated (16 February 1997), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title, with an ink drawing by the author. Text in English, German and French. More
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977. Inscribed and signed in ink on the half-title by the author to his wife. More
Melbourne, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 1953. Provenance: Norman Lewis, former Head of the SA Woods and Forests Department, with his ink ownership details on the front flyleaf and his occasional pencilled emphases. Loosely inserted are two pamphlets, each by the same author, both in very good condition. The..... More
New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1977. Loosely inserted are two enlarged versions of figures 66 and 67, both aligned and taped to allow easier study; and a corrected version of Table 45. Inscribed and signed in ink by pioneering American desert field archaeologist Richard Allen Gould (1939-2020)..... More
Glebe, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1948. With the ink ownership signature of one of Australia's foremost archaeologists, Rhys Maengwyn Jones (19412001) (dated October 1963) on the title-page, and the later colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022) on the front pastedown. More
Coral Gables, University of Miami Press, 1955. Inscribed and signed by the author. The Tarahumara, 'one of the most important North American tribal groups that have, to an extent, survived the civilizing of their conquerers ... live in the most mountainous region of the Sierra Madre, in the West and..... More
London, Allen and Unwin, 1925. Inscribed on the front flyleaf 'T.G. Strehlow March 11th 1932 SA' (purchased new from the Adelaide booksellers Preece & Sons, with their small paper label at the foot of the front pastedown). More
Peake 3888 ('Eagle on rock', 1932). An untrimmed remarque proof, numbered (4/6) and signed in pencil by the artist in the bottom margin (and almost certainly printed by him). Noel Wood (1912-2001) was born in Strathalbyn, South Australia. Soon after producing this artwork, he lived on Kangaroo Island (1933-35) before..... More
Peake 3887 ('Pegasus', 1933). The small plate is numbered (9/15) and signed in pencil by Thake in the bottom margin. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
Peake 3885 ('Tree embracing maps of Canada & Australia', 1943). A proof copy, signed in pencil in the bottom margin by the artist. Offered together with a photocopy of a 1943 autograph letter to Muir from this Canadian artist, primarily regarding the bookplate. It appears Smith produced it as a...... More
Peake 3883 ('Bookstalls with church tower behind'). A signed proof copy, inscribed by the artist 'Opus 22', dated 1980. Provenance: H.B. (Harry) Muir (1909-1992), bookseller, publisher and bookplate collector; by descent. More
Peake 3878 ('Two whales', 1980). Numbered (32/100) and signed in pencil by the artist in the bottom margin; printed on blue paper. More
Peake 3873 ('Devil's face', 1934). A remarque proof, signed in pencil by the artist in the bottom margin. John Barclay Godson (1882-1957), artist and art teacher, was born in England and emigrated to Australia in 1914. He was a founding member of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society. In 1933, Geoffrey Ingleton..... More
Peake 1057. The bottom margin is signed in pencil by the artist. This attractive bookplate, featuring a vase of Australian native flowers, is featured as the frontispiece to Harry Muir's 'The Bookplates of G.D. Perrottet' (Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1942), where it appears as number 161 in the checklist, dated..... More