Adelaide: The Author 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1993. Quarto; laminated pictorial card covers slightly marked and creased; an excellent copy. Presentation copy inscribed to Russell Starke dated 1998 and signed 'Pip' the author a local artist; loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from Pip to Starke. The Author paperback
Brisbane: Philip Bacon Galleries 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Brisbane Philip Bacon Galleries 2005. Oblong tall octavo; laminated colour pictorial wrappers with colour pictorial flaps; an excellent copy. Invitation exhibition catalogue. Price list loosely inserted. Philip Bacon Galleries paperback
Coober Pedy: Sandstone Press 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Coober Pedy Sandstone Press 2006. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by the author to Audrey Abbie. Sandstone Press paperback
Adelaide: Comport 1997. Very Good. Adelaide Comport 1997. Small quarto viii 128 pages with 66 plates; a 4-page priced catalogue of prints for sale is tipped in on the rear pastedown. Laminated pictorial boards; an excellent copy. Number 364 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Comport hardcover
Brighton: St Jude's Players 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Brighton St Jude's Players 1998. Quarto; stapled laminated colour pictorial card wrappers; a fine copy. Inscribed dated 16 October 1998 and signed by the author. Loosely inserted is the 1999 addendum And The Show Goes On. St Jude's Players paperback
Urrbrae: Australian Wine Research Institute 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Urrbrae Australian Wine Research Institute 2005. Foolscap folio 272 pages with numerous illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial papered boards; small light tidemark near the top front of the front endpaper and first leaf with minimal cockling to the top lefthand corner of the first handful of leaves; an excellent copy. Australian Wine Research Institute hardcover
Port Macquarie: Smart Viticulture 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Port Macquarie Smart Viticulture 1999. Foolscap folio 152 pages with graphs charts and a few portrait illustrations. Plastic comb-bound card covers with a clear plastic overlay on the front; a fine copy. Smart Viticulture paperback
North Adelaide: Endeavour Publishing 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. North Adelaide Endeavour Publishing 2001. Large quarto 132 pages with numerous colour plates after the author's photographs. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Endeavour Publishing hardcover
An attractive calligraphic testimonial to the outgoing Honorary Secretary in blue ink on a two-tone blue background within a decorative gilt border signed by nine senior members of the congregation. It is surmounted by a large ornamental scroll a mass of wattle blossom and a large vignette illustration of a paddle steamer towing a heavily-laden barge on the River Murray. The copious amounts of dirty smoke belching forth are starkly realistic - an unexpected bonus on an otherwise routine production. The work is signed 'Niehuus & Lucy Adelaide'; we are unsure when they commenced work together but the partnership was dissolved four months after this commission was completed. Minimal foxing and light surface blemishes do not detract from this charming period piece recently archivally mounted. unknown
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2005. Octavo vi 394 pages with several illustrations. Papered boards; a fine copy with the lightly sunned dustwrapper. Signed by Susan Magarey and Barbara Wall on the title page. Wakefield Press hardcover
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2011. Quarto; colour pictorial card covers; all edges gilt; a fine copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Art Gallery of South Australia paperback
London: Thornton Butterworth 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Thornton Butterworth 1936/ 1923. Octavo; cloth; head and foot of the spine slightly sunned; flyleaf slightly marked a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned sunned chipped and torn with slight loss. With the contemporary pictorial bookplate of Professor Andrew Abbie on the pastedown. First impression in the Keystone Library series. Thornton Butterworth hardcover
Adelaide: Frank E. Cork 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Frank E. Cork 1944. Large quarto 23 pages with 8 vignette illustrations and 11 tipped-in monochrome plates one in colour by Trevor Clare. Stiffened overlapping wrappers with a twelfth monochrome plate mounted on the front cover slightly marked chipped and creased; an excellent copy. Signed 'Helene Kirsova 1944' on the title page. 'The drawings and sketches in this book are not intended to be a comprehensive record. They are selected at random from the young artist's typical back-stage impressions formed in the fascinating atmosphere of wings and back-stage'. Frank E. Cork paperback
Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer and the State Library of South Australia 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide South Australian Government Printer and the State Library of South Australia 1979 facsimile edition/ 1849. Large quarto iv ii facsimile wrapper 19 pages plus 6 colour plates 2 maps one folding and endpaper maps. Full calf; a fine copy in the publisher's original plain dustwrapper slightly creased marked and torn with slight loss. Number 22 of only 100 copies of this deluxe edition in a total print run of 500 copies. Loosely inserted is the prospectus and a pro forma letter from the publisher. South Australian Government Printer and the State Library of South Australia hardcover
Adelaide: 'Colonist' Press 1886. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide 'Colonist' Press 1886 sic. Octavo 20 pages. Salmon-pink wrappers with the title page details repeated now within a decorative border on the front cover; one corner slightly chipped with minimal conservation to the bottom edge; ink handwriting offset onto the outside rear cover; slight adhesion damage to two adjacent pages with minimal loss to a few words of text; occasional light marks; an excellent copy with the contemporary ownership details of Addie Pickett Robe on the front cover. Loosely inserted is a bookmark from the 'Trade Industrial School for the Blind' distributed at the Queen's Jubilee Adelaide International Exhibition 1887 with Addie Pickett's name in Braille in the blank middle section. A roughly-torn piece of card with the alphabet and Addie's name again in Braille is also present. 'Colonist' Press paperback
Willunga: National Trust of South Australia 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Willunga National Trust of South Australia 1982 reprinted/ 1952. Octavo viii 92 pages with several plates. Cloth; large ownership label; a fine copy. National Trust of South Australia hardcover
Willunga: National Trust of South Australia 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Willunga National Trust of South Australia 1982/ 1952. Octavo viii 92 pages with several plates. Cloth; ownership signature; a fine copy. National Trust of South Australia hardcover
All are bank-stamped. Recognisable payees' signatures written on both sides of the notes include Benno Seppelt Albion Tolley George Wood and Philip Santo. Local well-known businesses represented include Simpson James Martin Faulding Wills William Morgan Fowler Harris Scarfe and Duncan Fraser. Offered together with 50 or more similar but lesser items from mainly the 1910s. unknown
There are details of all component parts for approximately 230 items of furniture with hand-drawn illustrations included for about 155 of them of which 90 are quite charming miniatures. There is a small comprehensive alphabetical index booklet mounted inside the front cover. A small piece has been snipped from the head of the flyleaf leaving only the handwritten word 'Factory'. Internal evidence suggests an Adelaide business styles of bedsteads are 'Enfield' and 'Prospect'; of clocks 'Gawler' 'Rundle' Sturt' and 'Pulteney'. Undated but possibly the 1920s. unknown
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 16 pages with numerous local advertisements. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. A pre-match souvenir of the first international match in Mount Gambier - a South Australian Country XI versus India on its first tour of Australia - 'indutiably the outstanding event in the cricketing annals of the South-East'. India won by an innings and 106 runs although they lost the five-match Test series 4-0. Not in Padwick; not in 'Not in Padwick'; not in Trove. Offered together with the combined teams' group photograph 'Indian X. v. Sth. Aus. Country XI. Vansittart Park Mount Gambier January 20-21 1948' with all present identified in print on the mount below the image 280 x 300 mm overall. The photographer is Arthur & Son Mount Gambier. The mount is lightly marked with one corner creased; the photograph is in fine condition. paperback
Adelaide: Sands and McDougall 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sands and McDougall fourth edition circa 1919. Oblong octavo ii 34 pages with illustrations plus text printed inside both covers with a small 1919 calendar mounted inside the front one and a postage rate slip inside the rear. Cord-bound flush-cut colour pictorial card covers; light tidemark to only the blank portion of the bottom margin throughout; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed to E.J. Bowen by the author 'Mrs Wordsworth James Febry 27th 1919'. A genuine oddity - a personal anthology in praise of the humble coo-ee the 'Call of my Country' - featuring verse art crafts limericks and yarns. Military and Aboriginal themes are well-represented; not least is the one-page account of several visits the author paid to Mr Gillen of Spencer and Gillen fame then near the end of his life 'all helpless and paralysed as he was'. Sands and McDougall paperback
CHECK ON TWO ADDITIONAL ALBUMS. Internal evidence suggests they were taken in the mid- to late-1990s by someone with a passion for South Australia's colonial architecture from workman's cottage to squatter's castle as well as the more commonly recorded churches and public buildings. Although this extensive gallery of our built environs is barely twenty-five years old it is already looking in parts like a revised edition of Michael Burden's 1983 classic work 'Lost Adelaide'. The photographs either 100 x 160 mm or 95 x 150 mm are in very fine condition easily removable from the album leaves hopefully they are indeed 'acid free card with alkaline glue and polypropylene overlays'. The places depicted in each album are noted in order on adhesive labels on the front covers there are many visual clues to what and where is pictured and samples taken at random from each volume indicate that a percentage of the prints are captioned on the verso in ink presumably by the photographer who unfortunately remains anonymous. In addition there are also approximately 185 reproductions of early black and white photographs 35 commercial colour postcard photographs and 30 miscellaneous photographs including a few of people which may lead to the identity of the photographer. unknown
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2008. Large quarto x 262 pages with numerous illustrations and plates some in colour. Papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper. Dr William Wyatt 1804-1886 emigrated to South Australia in 1837. He became a 'notable pioneer of the town of Adelaide' with his 'major interests and influence . in the fields of cultural development medicine and education'. The trust he set up on his death 'has grown to become one of Australia's leading philanthropic institutions'. Wakefield Press hardcover
Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Crawford House Publishing 2000 first edition. Octavo xx 512 pages with 12 maps plus 59 plates 34 in colour. Papered boards; bookplate; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Crawford House Publishing hardcover
First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto ii 89 2 leaves of original typescript rectos only with a few typographical corrections in ink and typed onto small pasted-on strips of paper. Binder's cloth; a fine copy. Signed by the author on the declaration of originality page with a further inscription on an initial blank 'To Ken and Peggy Mountford from Dad' to his son and daughter-in-law. He has also written 'First Copy Superseded' at the foot of the title page. Offered together with the revised version dated 30 October 1963 quarto iv iii 93 ii leaves of duplicate typescript in binder's cloth; this is the author's retained personal copy with his signature on an initial blank as well as the declaration of originality page. Tipped in at the rear of this volume is a typed letter on University of Adelaide letterhead signed by the Registrar awarding Mountford his MA 'when you have made some minor corrections'. These may be the corrigenda typed onto small pasted-on strips of paper scattered throughout the work many of them relate to citations in the footnotes. In 1965 Mountford published 'Ayers Rock. Its People Their Beliefs and Their Art'; in the acknowledgements he refers to this MA thesis 'which forms the core of this book'. hardcover
Adelaide: Family of George Johnson Association 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Family of George Johnson Association 1994. Quarto; colour pictorial card covers slightly creased rubbed and sunned; a few tidy ink corrections; a very good copy. Family of George Johnson Association paperback
Adelaide: Young Family Reunion Committee 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Young Family Reunion Committee 1991. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial card covers very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Young Family Reunion Committee paperback
Adelaide: South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board 1981. Quarto 81 pages with 34 colour plates plus endpaper maps. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper a little unevenly sunned. Number 345 of 750 numbered copies. South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board hardcover
Sydney: Angus and Robertson under the Sirius imprint 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Angus and Robertson under the Sirius imprint 1984. Octavo vi 183 pages. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; first and last pages lightly tanned; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed 'to Christopher cicerone of wisdom and excess - Les' - to Christopher Pearson 1951-2013 publisher editor and newspaper columnist. Angus and Robertson (under the Sirius imprint) paperback
London: Gresham 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Gresham c. 1910s. Octavo; gilt and black decorated cloth; top edge gilt; an excellent copy. With the Rex Wood-designed bookplate of C. Jean Bonython. Gresham hardcover
Ramsay Smith describes 'picture-making' at Port Vila in detail in his 1924 book 'In Southern Seas' and this image contains all the elements referred to: one's wife 'for comparison and relief to the various objects in the picture' the harbour as background to the wooded heights the ship in the distance . The corners of the mount are slightly rounded and both the image and the mount are a little foxed; overall it is an attractive item with more than the usual amount of background information. William Ramsay Smith 1859-1937 physician naturalist anthropologist civil servant soldier - and controversy was often never far away see the Australian Dictionary of Biography. His entry there states that 'Believing that tribal Aborigines were dying out he recorded their folklore in 'Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines' London 1930. Subsequent to this being published Dr Philip Jones has also recorded in the ADB that from the early 1920s David Unaipon 1872-1967 the Aboriginal preacher author and inventor 'studied Aboriginal mythology and compiled his versions of legends . Gathered before 1930 the legends are in his surviving manuscript in the Mitchell Library: they were commissioned and published by William Ramsay Smith without acknowledgment'. unknown
Adelaide: 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'published by Superintendent of Club' 1872. Octavo viii 9-408 pages the last 8 being advertisements plus 2 frontispiece lithographs 'Present Bushmen's Home' and 'Proposed Bushmen's Home'. Flush-cut dark blue cloth over thin boards with the short title in gilt on the front cover; cloth lightly marked and rubbed at the extremities; spine a little sunned; inner hinges cracked but firm; very occasional foxing slightly heavier on the edges and endpapers; small light stain in the front gutter; an excellent copy. The name of the anonymous author a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'. 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers who were often victims of their own excesses and were preyed upon between jobs. Hugo pressed for a "bushmen's home" like a seamen's home as a quiet sober refuge. Opposition came from those who saw it as a squatters' movement but his canvassing bushmen's subscriptions and philanthropic support enabled the home to open in Whitmore Square Adelaide in May 1870' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'published by Superintendent of Club' hardcover
Adelaide: Adelaide City Council 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Adelaide City Council 1971. Oblong folio ii front cover 32 1 inside rear cover pages with numerous illustrations a few in colour. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Forty-three years later they've just had another stab at it. Adelaide City Council paperback
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1988. Quarto xii 179 pages. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Warmly inscribed 'To Maurice my fellow luncher on Saturdays my fellow explorer in linguistics' signed and dated 23 April 1988 by the author poet and erstwhile Chief Justice of South Australia and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. Maurice O'Brien was a minor literary editor. Wakefield Press hardcover
Adelaide: C. Warren Bonython 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide C. Warren Bonython 1981 first thus. Octavo; cloth lightly rubbed; an excellent copy. Ownership stamp of Sesca Zelling on the flyleaf; number 114 of an unspecified number of copies. C. Warren Bonython hardcover
Adelaide: Amalgamated Publishing Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Amalgamated Publishing Company September 1936. Large octavo 352 pages with hundreds of portraits. Faux leather; covers marked and a little bowed; endpapers a little discoloured as ever; ownership details on the flyleaf; a very good copy. Still a useful retrospective parochial biographical dictionary. Amalgamated Publishing Company hardcover
Lobethal: R.C. Parsons 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Lobethal R.C. Parsons 1967. Foolscap vi 196 pages plus two maps and two loosely inserted leaves of corrections and additional information. Stapled card covers slightly rubbed marked and creased; staples slightly rusty; a tiny tear about the spine; a very good copy. Includes a section on River Murray System Vessels. R.C. Parsons paperback
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2013. Quarto 160 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Papered boards with the dustwrapper; mint. Wakefield Press hardcover
Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1979. Folio xiv 54 pages plus 3 plates and a map. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Giles' third expedition to the west of South Australia. Number 41 of 500 numbered copies reset from the first and only other edition of 1880 with minor corrections plus 'the accounts of the expedition brief though they are recorded by his companions Tietkens Young and Ross'. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
Norwood: Peacock Publications 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Norwood Peacock Publications 2007. Quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. 'A Monument to all Participants. South Australian Folklore History'. Peacock Publications hardcover
Netley: Royal SA Yacht Squadron 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Netley Royal SA Yacht Squadron 1969. Oblong small folio; gilt-decorated papered boards lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. Number 291 of 1000 copies. Royal SA Yacht Squadron hardcover
Mill Valley: Squarebooks 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Mill Valley Squarebooks 1979. Square quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed dustwrapper sunned on the spine. With the contemporary presentation inscription to Malcolm Kinnaird co-founder of Kinhill Australia. Squarebooks hardcover
Adelaide: RGSSA 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide RGSSA 1989. Large octavo viii 120 pages with maps charts and numerous plates plus 8 colour plates. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. RGSSA paperback
A vintage gelatin silver photograph 210 � 150 mm on the original mount. The photograph has a small chip and slight surface loss near the bottom right-hand corner affecting only the canopy of a large tree; the mount is a little worn with light marginal stains well clear of the image. Undated but probably circa 1900 with a horse-drawn tram and a bicycle the only vehicles on King William Road below; the photographer is unidentified. unknown
Adelaide: Old Colonists' Association 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Old Colonists' Association 1887. Octavo 79 pages. Original wrappers slightly soiled as are the top outer corners of two adjacent leaves near the centre of the book; light top-corner creases to the front half of the book; a very good copy. An important collection of memoirs. Ferguson 13579 noting a variant binding. Old Colonists' Association paperback
Adelaide: The Author 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide The Author November 2003. Oblong quarto ix 370 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Laminated coloured pictorial card covers with french flaps; covers slightly rubbed; bottom edge a little shelf-marked; an excellent copy. Number 77 of only 300 copies this copy is inscribed 'To my dear friends . who have "always followed their dreams" .' and signed by the author. The quirky autobiography of an Adelaide woman who carved out a successful business career against the odds. The Author paperback
First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Foolscap folio 12 pages with 4 illustrations. Overlapping wrappers; slight surface loss to four small areas on the first page with minimal loss of print; an excellent copy. The foreword notes that Helsby left his home town 'Adelaide on his joyous adventure as student in December 1923'. The catalogue contains 79 items all priced. paperback
First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Foolscap folio 12 pages with 4 illustrations. Overlapping wrappers; a few insignificant marks; essentially a fine copy. The foreword notes that Helsby left his home town 'Adelaide on his joyous adventure as student in December 1923'. The catalogue contains 79 items all priced. paperback
Adelaide: South Australian Cricket Association 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Cricket Association 1933. Octavo 96 pages with numerous illustrations and advertisements plus cover advertisements. Attractive pictorial wrappers printed in green and gold; top corner of the outside rear cover lightly stained; centrefold scoring sheet completed neatly in ink with the final results for the last three Tests on the relevant page; short tear to one leaf expertly sealed; an excellent copy. A pre-match publication for the Test that saw bodyline tactics move from controversy to crisis. Padwick 4487. South Australian Cricket Association paperback