Sport
A vintage photograph of the 'Adelaide Junior Football Club. Season 1887 & 8'
Adelaide, Stump & Co., [1888]. Very little information about the Adelaide Football Club's Junior team appears in the local press of the day. A contemporary article linking the two appears in the 'The Evening Journal' on Friday 20 March 1885: 'The annual meeting of the Adelaide Football Club was held..... More
A vintage photograph of the 'Inter-University Football. Adelaide v. Melbourne. Played on Melbourne Cricket Ground 1907. Adelaide Team'
Melbourne, The Sears Studio, 1907. The Adelaide University Football Club was formed in 1906. 'During the three years 1908-1910, the Club existed in name only and, except for the annual match against Melbourne University, did not compete at all. This put the Club at a disadvantage in these matches as..... More
More than a Game. History of the Western Province Cricket Board 1959-1991
Cape Town, Western Province Cricket Association, 2000. More
The 'American Game Dog Times' Presents the Book of 'American Pit Bull Terrier Times'. A Compilation of the Issues Published by Ken Allen from 1987 to 1990
[No place], The American Game Dog Times, 2009 [first thus]. A facsimile of 'American Pit Bull Terrier Times' Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 6, and the issues for November-December 1988, January-February 1989, March-April 1989, May-June 1989, August-September 1989, and January-February 1990. The publication briefly changed its name to..... More
Thirty Years with Fighting Dogs
Washington, Jack Jones, 1981 (third facsimile reprint)/ 1935. More
Champions. The Racing Record of Famous Thoroughbreds in Australia
Sydney, Tralca, 1980. More
Australian Cricket Team. South African Tour, 1935-36 [cover title]. An official Christmas card
The third page is inscribed ('To you both and Lin') and signed in ink by Bert Oldfield, wicket-keeper on the tour. The centre-spread makes a most attractive display item. More
An original photograph (140x160mm) mounted on a detached autograph album leaf (165x195mm), captioned in pencil '1st Test Team for Australia at Brisbane. Dec 1947'. The match was against India on 28-29 November and 1-4 December 1947; it was India's first tour of Australia. The team comprised Bradman (Captain), Brown, Hamence (12th man), Hassett, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack; the Manager is also in the group portrait
'The late withdrawal of key (Indian) players ... greatly weakened its side. The strength of Australian cricket at this time further unbalanced the contest, resulting in a 4-0 thrashing in the series' (Webster). This is hardly surprising, considering that ALL of the Australians in this particular team went on the..... More
An official Australian Board of Control for International Cricket autograph sheet for the Australian Team on Tour, 1968
The seventeen signatures are Lawry (Captain), Ian Chappell, Connolly, Cowper, Freeman, Gleeson, Hawke, Inverarity, Jarman, Joslin, Mallett, McKenzie, Renneberg, Redpath, Sheahan, Taber and Walters. Very slightly creased; a fine copy. More
An 'unofficial' autograph sheet (but on the gilt-embossed letterhead of the Australian Cricket Board) for an Australian Test Cricket team
There are eleven signatures in neat but random order: Border (Captain), Dodemaide, Dyer, Jones, Geoff Marsh, McDermott, Sleep, Peter Taylor, Veletta, Steve Waugh and Whitney. Very slightly creased; in excellent unfolded condition. More
A vintage group portrait of the South Australian squad for the 4th Australian National Football Carnival, held in Perth in August 1921
Adelaide, Dimond Studios, 150 Rundle Street, [1921]. The inaugural Australian National Football Carnival, an interstate competition, was held in Melbourne in August 1908. 'It was known at the time as the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival because it was designed to commemorate 50 years of Australian rules football' (Wikipedia). The carnival..... More
Laws of the Australasian Game of Football as adopted by the Australasian Football Council
Adelaide, South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope), 1924. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play, such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game, according to the laws, is strong enough, there being no occasion for foulness of any..... More
A vintage photograph (captioned in the negative 'ARS. AFC | Stroud 27/4/18' and 'Photo | Comley'), featuring a team of rugby players wearing ARS-branded jerseys, with Australian servicemen in uniform behind them
We suggest the eighteen members of the squad come from the Aeroplane Repair Section of the Australian Flying Corps based at Leighterton. We purchased this photograph with a small group of aerial photographs of Leighterton Aerodrome, about which the Australian War Memorial has this to say: 'By 1917 the Australian..... More
The Sporting Globe Cricket Book, 1928-29. A Book of Averages and Records. Test and Interstate Matches surveyed. Records of W.H. Ponsford, W.M. Woodfull and A.F. Kippax. Special Article by W.H. Ponsford. Compiled by ...
Melbourne, The Author (for The Herald and Weekly Times Limited), [1928]. Pencilled in the last leaf, the autograph page, are the names and dates of birth of various members of both teams. More
The Centenary Test. Melbourne Cricket Ground March 1977
Melbourne, MCC Library, 2002. Signed by all four authors. More
Eighty Golfing Years. A History of North Adelaide Golf Club
North Adelaide, The Golf Club, 1985. More
The Quest of the Trout
Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd, 1926. A posthumous publication: the author 'died on the seventeenth of September, 1926, before this book had gone through the press; but it is written exactly as he left it, save that Part IV ['Where to Fish'] has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a...... More
A History of the Australian Grand Prix. Volume One. 1928-1939
Adelaide, Museum Publishing Co, 1981. More
Tibby Cotter. Fast Bowler, Larrikin, Anzac
Petersham, Walla Walla Press, 2012 (reprint)/ 2012. Initialled in ink by both authors. More
Arab Horses and the Crabbet Stud
Fort Collins, Caballus Publishers, 1973. One of 1500 copies. More
Irish Hunting
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More
The Charm of Cricket. [Contained in] Adventure Stories for Boys ... 1949
Melbourne, OPC Quality Productions, March 1949. The book also contains several illustrated stories on Australian aviation before, during, and just after the Second World War. More