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MACKENZIE Donald A.
Egyptian Myth and Legend with historical narrative notes on race problems comparative beliefs
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
Bookseller reference : 83898
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Photography. SMITH W. Ramsay
An original gelatin silver photograph 110 x 90 mm mounted on stiff card 220 x 170 mm inscribed in white ink on the mount beneath the photograph: 'With Christmas Greetings from Dr and Mrs Ramsay Smith'. It is stamped on the rear 'Photo. by Dr. W. Ramsay Smith' and captioned in his hand 'At Port Vila - New Hebrides'
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
Bookseller reference : 19126
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HUGO William Marks
History of the First Bushmen's Club in the Australian Colonies established at Adelaide South Australia. Compiled from Various Sources and furnishing in detail its Origin and Progress up to the Present Year 1872; also Miscellaneous Readings Letters etc.
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
Bookseller reference : 97606
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Adelaide
Lord Mayor's Committee on Victoria Square cover title
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
Bookseller reference : 98008
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BRAY John
Satura. Selected Poetry and Prose
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
Bookseller reference : 97791
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BONYTHON C. Warren editor
I'm No Lady. The Reminiscences of Constance Jean Lady Bonython O.B.E. 1891-1977
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
Bookseller reference : 61768
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South Australia
'Who's Who' South Australia Centenary 1936
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
Bookseller reference : 97765
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PARSONS Ronald and JC. TOLLEY J. C.
Paddle Steamers of Australasia
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
Bookseller reference : 96094
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MOON Damon and John NEYLON
Stephen Bowers. Beyond Bravura
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
Bookseller reference : 97563
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GILES Ernest
The Journal of a Forgotten Expedition in 1875. Edited by James Bosanquet
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
Bookseller reference : 97645
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LENNAN Lee
The Legendary Magic Cave and Christmas Pageant
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
Bookseller reference : 97369
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Royal SA Yacht Squadron. The First 100 Years
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
Bookseller reference : 97440
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CASSADY Stephen
Spanning the Gate. The Golden Gate Bridge
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
Bookseller reference : 97442
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BONYTHON C. Warren and A. Stewart FRASER editors
The Great Filling of Lake Eyre in 1974
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
Bookseller reference : 97415
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St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide
An unusual and striking photograph from the front western spire of St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide looking east towards the hills with the top portion of the eastern spire the dramatic focus of the image
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
Bookseller reference : 96068
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South Australia
An Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee Year of South Australia 1886 with the Reminiscecnes sic of Early Settlers the Names of the Pioneers who arrived in South Australia in the Year 1836 and Other Interesting Information connected with the Foundation of South Australia
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
Bookseller reference : 95117
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MANLEY Elizabeth
Manley Enough
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
Bookseller reference : 89335
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HELSBY Malcolm
Exhibition. Water Colors sic Etchings and Pencil Drawings of England France and Belgium by Malcolm Helsby . Society of Arts Gallery . Adelaide August 18th to 30th 1926
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
Bookseller reference : 97260
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HELSBY Malcolm
Exhibition. Water Colors sic Etchings and Pencil Drawings of England France and Belgium by Malcolm Helsby . Society of Arts Gallery . Adelaide August 18th to 30th 1926
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
Bookseller reference : 97255
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Cricket. WRIGHT WR. W. R.
Souvenir of English Cricketers' Visit to Adelaide. Third Test Match. January 13 1933. International Cricket. England v. Australia. Souvenir of Visit of MCC Team. October 1932 to March 1933. Third Test Match . cover title
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
Bookseller reference : 97242
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WADDY EM. E. M.
Those Shades of Earliest South Australia. A Story of the Romantic Pioneering Days in the Colony of South Australia: Historical Geographical and Domestic. Founded on fact
Adelaide: The Author 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 1958. Octavo x 270 pages. Cloth very slightly rubbed; flyleaf offset; ownership signature; an excellent copy. One of only 250 copies. Taped to the front pastedown is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the author Mrs Eva May Waddy. [The Author hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96893
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MATTINGLEY Christobel
The Jetty
Leicester: Brockhampton Press 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Leicester Brockhampton Press 1978. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the very slightly dustwrapper. Signed and dated 19 October 1978 by the author. Brockhampton Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97032
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South Australian Railways. Southern Province Distance Table showing Distances between all Stations on connected Lines as on July 1st 1910
Adelaide: Government Printer 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1910. Tall octavo; quarter cloth and papered boards a little sunned worn rubbed and marked; pastedowns offset; a good copy. Government Printer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97074
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COMPORT AL. Pip A. L.
Clean Cut. A Selection of Linocut Prints
Adelaide: Comport 1997. Fine. Adelaide Comport 1997. Small quarto viii 128 pages with 66 plates. Laminated pictorial boards; a fine copy. Number 308 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Loosely inserted is a handwritten letter from the artist. Comport hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97055
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FATCHEN Max
The River Kings
London: Methuen 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London Methuen 1970/ 1966. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper very slightly rubbed creased and torn. The half-title is signed by the author and inscribed 'Where the bend comes/ slowly swinging to/ the whistle's haunting/ note // Give me just the/ gray-green river/ and a Murray/ riverboat'. Methuen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96845
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FATCHEN Max
Conquest of the River
London and Sydney: Methuen and Hicks Smith 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London and Sydney Methuen and Hicks Smith 1970 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper with the laminate lifting a little as ever and a small tear with slight loss to the rear panel. Inscribed and signed by the author. The sequel to The River Kings. Methuen and Hicks Smith hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97030
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JENKIN Graham
The Famous Race for Wombat's Lace
Adelaide: Omnibus Books 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Omnibus Books 1982. Oblong octavo; papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper. The author also wrote Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri. Omnibus Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97091
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Van RAALTE Henri
Henri van Raalte Master Printmaker
Perth: Arthur Spartalis Fine Art 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Arthur Spartalis Fine Art 1989. Quarto 118 pages with 174 plates some in colour. Pictorial card covers lightly sunned and rubbed; laminate at one corner slightly peeling; a very good copy. Presentation copy inscribed dated August 1997 and signed by the publisher. Henri van Raalte 1881-1929 was a pioneer of Australian etching; this is a fully illustrated catalogue of his prints and drawings. Arthur Spartalis Fine Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 97058
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DALY John A.
Elysian Fields. Sport Class and Community in Colonial South Australia 1836-1890
Adelaide: The Author 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1982. Octavo viii 225 4 pages with numerous illustrations plus the loosely inserted note on the cover by S.T. Gill. Laminated colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. Loosely inserted is the small original prospectus and a related newspaper clipping. Pencilled on the title-page is a brief annotation indicating that the previous owner had confirmation from the author that only 1000 copies were printed. The Author hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97001
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BRAY John
The Bay of Salamis and other poems
Adelaide: Friendly Street Poets 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Friendly Street Poets 1986. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Warmly inscribed dated 7 March 1986 and signed by the author to fellow-poet Kevin Pearson 'with gratitude admiration and regards'. Friendly Street Poets paperback
Bookseller reference : 55547
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FATCHEN Max
Conquest of the River
London and Sydney: Methuen and Hicks Smith 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. London and Sydney Methuen and Hicks Smith 1970 first edition. Octavo; papered boards; a fine copy with the slightly rubbed creased and torn dustwrapper with the laminate lifting a little as ever. Signed by the author. The sequel to The River Kings. Methuen and Hicks Smith hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97029
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KLAASSEN Nick
Sliding Rock. To Mine or Not to Mine
Eden Hills: The Author 1986. Very Good. Eden Hills The Author 1986. Oblong octavo 248 pages with numerous illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards; rear cover lightly marked; an excellent copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. The Author hardcover
Bookseller reference : 95885
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COVENTRY Lionel
South Australian Personalities. A Selected Gallery of Notable Citizens Leaders in their Respective Spheres in the Communal Life of this State at the End of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Adelaide: The Artist 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Artist 1950. Folio xiii pages plus 135 full-page caricatures with biographical details and a small portrait photograph of each subject on the opposite page. Cloth slightly sunned and flecked; an excellent copy. Number 84 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 20 November 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
Bookseller reference : 95964
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BENNETT JM. J. M.
Sir Charles Cooper First Chief Justice of South Australia 1856-1861
Leichhardt: Federation Press 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Leichhardt Federation Press 2002. Octavo xiv 136 2 first blank the second containing a corrigendum to another volume in the series pages plus 3 plates. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Inscribed dated 2002 and signed by the author to Emeritus Professor Alex Castles who wrote the foreword. One in the Lives of the Australian Chief Justices series; a worthy series not least for telling us something we didn't know - Sir Charles Cooper 'had supported the explorations of Charles Sturt who named the legendary Cooper's Creek in his honour'. Federation Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 87869
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ANDERS Lynette R.
Joseph Judd. His Ancestors and Descendants c.1500 to 1981
Tanunda: The Author 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tanunda The Author 1981. Small quarto; laminated colour papered boards lightly scuffed; an excellent copy. The Author hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96356
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MITCHELL Norm Australia 1920 1980
A substantial archive of original pen and ink cartoon artwork by Norm Mitchell editorial cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser for 30 years until his untimely death. He won a Walkley Award for the best Australian cartoon in 1975
The archive comprises nearly 440 pieces each approximately 320 x 510 mm or larger many from the later 1970s when Mitchell was at the height of his powers. A unique commentary on the personalities and events of the times: when Hawke Fraser and Dunstan were in power Nixon went to China the war in Vietnam ended and the first wave of 'boat people' began many Indigenous Australians were in a parlous state cricket and cricketers still caused grief. unknown
Bookseller reference : 95963
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STAUDE Lorna Staub
Memoirs of an AWAS Driver
Naracoorte: Naracoorte Herald 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Naracoorte Naracoorte Herald 1989. Laminated colour pictorial card covers slightly rubbed; pencilled ownership signature; two tiny marks; an excellent copy. Australian Women's Army Service recollections. Naracoorte Herald paperback
Bookseller reference : 96637
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JOHNS Fred
Johns's Notable Australians. Who they are and what they do. Brief Biographies of Men and Women of the Commonwealth
Melbourne: George Robertson 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne George Robertson 1906. Octavo i advertisement 208 10 advertisements pages. Cloth slightly rubbed marked and scuffed; extremities very slightly bumped and worn; endpapers offset; a very good copy. The first Australian who's who. George Robertson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96636
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South Australia
The South Australian Colonist and Settler's Weekly Record of British Foreign and Colonial Intelligence. Volume 1 Number 1 Tuesday March 10 1840 to Volume 1 Number 22 Tuesday August 4 1840
London: 'Printed for the Proprietor by William Cecil Huttmann' 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. London 'Printed for the Proprietor by William Cecil Huttmann' 1840. Folio 352 pages 16 pages each issue. Early binder's cloth recently rebacked retaining the top two-thirds of the original spine; cloth marked and mottled with some neat restoration to the corners; edges a little marked; very light tidemarks to the leading edge of the front flyleaf and an initial blank; leading edge of the first few leaves of Number 22 slightly chipped; bottom left-hand corner piece missing from the last leaf with the loss of about 15 words of text and a small amount of the colophon which is the same in each issue; overall an excellent run of the first 22 issues of this very rare weekly newspaper which ceased publication with Volume 1 Number 29 on Tuesday September 22 1840. The prospectus appears on pages 7 and 8 of the first issue; the proprietors' object is 'not mercenary but patriotic . they are not the organs of any party . they will offer a fearless and uncompromising opposition to every deviation from the self-supporting principle on which South Australia is founded'. Their aim in part 'is to present an impartial record of the colonial intelligence . 1st from the colonial papers; 2ndly from direct correspondents in the colony and other exclusive sources'. Accordingly it contains much original material. The editor was John Stephens 1806-1850; 'about 1838 George Fife Angas employed him to write emigration propaganda. Stephens's first notable work was "The Land of Promise" republished in 1839 as "The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South Australia". In that year his exposure of absurdities in T. Horton James "Six Months in South Australia" London 1839 ran to three editions. He also edited the "South Australian Colonist" on which Angas lost heavily; it was replaced in 1841 by the monthly "South Australian News" at a cheaper rate' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The ownership signature of Robert Kyffin Thomas is pencilled onto the front flyleaf and the blindstamp of the 'Register & Observer Office Adelaide' appears on an early blank leaf. Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas 1851-1910 the grandson of Robert Thomas who arrived on the 'Africaine' at Holdfast Bay in 1836 with a printing press was himself an influential newspaperman in the state. 'In 1877 he became the principal joint proprietor of the "South Australian Register" and as chief of staff he also edited the "Adelaide Observer". A parliamentary reporter he was in charge of the Hansard branch until 1882 when he became general manager of the "South Australian Register" which became the "Register" in 1901' ADB. Ferguson 3082. 'Printed for the Proprietor, by William Cecil Huttmann' hardcover
Bookseller reference : 80314
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GAWLER George. LESAGE Alain Rene
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Paris: Librairie de A. Pougin 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Paris Librairie de A. Pougin 1837. Duodecimo three volumes bound as one viii 233; iv 220 and iv 236 pages. Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards; leather slightly rubbed and bumped with slight wear to the corners and light tidemarks to the leather on the panels near the spine; marbled paper heavily rubbed and a little marked; light waterstain to the top lefthand corner throughout the book and to the top righthand corner of the front half staining the leading edge a little; a very good copy. Inscribed in ink on an early binder's blank 'Bought at the sale / of Governor Gawler's effects / May 27 1841. J F'. Unfortunately it is not James Hurtle Fisher - we have checked! There are approximately 40 male JFs in the 1841 South Australian census and Fisher is not listed and easily half as many women so we leave the detective work to those with more spare time. A name on both the pastedown and front flyleaf has been blacked out at a very early stage; we suspect underneath the black ink it reads 'George Gawler' but again we leave the forensics to the experts. One thing we can say is that when Colonel George Gawler 1795-1869 was summarily dismissed from his post as South Australia's second governor on 11 May 1841 when Captain George Grey knocked on his door he lost no time in clearing the decks. The 'Register' of the following Saturday 22 May contains a large advertisement for a public sale to be conducted by the Adelaide Auction Company acting 'under instructions from Colonel Gawler to sell . on Wednesday next at twelve precisely his surplus Furniture and effects'. Before the 'very elegant and useful' carriage and 'A lot of pigs' but after the superb piano with 'extra set of Strings Oilcloth Cover Canterbury Tuning Key and pair of elegant Music Stools' a pair of globes 'iron bedsteads brass ornaments with mattress bolster and pillows' and '300 ounces of useful plate in spoons forks fish slices butter knives teapots ladles &c.' there are 'About 200 volumes of books'. This item is one of them. Consult the Australian Dictionary of Biography for the potted history of Gawler's 31 months in South Australia from his arrival in October 1838 with the task of rendering 'viable the experiment in systematic self-supporting colonization' until he was abandoned as the scapegoat under 'the combined weight of outraged Wakefield theorists commissioners anxious to whitewash themselves and enemies of the colony'. He left Adelaide a month later on the 'Dumfries'. This small volume with its curiously affecting inscription inserted on the day by someone with a sense of history in the making is a wonderful footnote to the story. Librairie de A. Pougin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 57115
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TORRENS Robert
Colonization of South Australia. By R. Torrens Chairman of the Colonization Commission for South Australia
London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman 1835. Octavo xvi 304 xxii pages plus a folding frontispiece map 'Part of Southern Australia from the 132 to 141 degree of East Longitude' with an inset map of Australia both hand-coloured in outline 200 x 255 mm. Original plain papered boards all edges uncut; spine later renewed over a century ago with matching paper retaining the original paper title label discoloured and chipped; extremities of the boards a little rubbed bumped and worn; covers a little marked and discoloured with three small light stains to the front cover; pastedowns replaced when binding repaired with the original flyleaves offset and very slightly foxed tipped back in; half-title and title leaves a little offset; a very good copy internally excellent. Ferguson 2056 not noting the binding. Inscribed to 'The Honorable Fox Maule M.P. from the Author' at the head of the title page. The flyleaf carries the ownership signature of R. Kyffin Thomas 'from A.W. Piper / March 3 1906'; a pencilled note from Piper presenting the item is loosely inserted. Robert Torrens 1780-1864 'officer of marines political economist and colonization commissioner'; his 'economic writings are of much importance in the development of economic theory' DNB. In the preface to this book he writes: 'The art of Colonization is based upon the science of wealth; and the rules of the art are principles of the science naturally applied. In replying to objections and in explaining the plan and in unfolding the prospects of the New Colony the Author was naturally and indeed necessarily led into discussions upon some of the fundamental doctrines of Political Economy. In some of these discussions as it is believed new and not unimportant views have been opened'. Not least he was the father of Sir Robert Richard Torrens the lands title law reformer after whom the Torrens system is named. Fox Maule 1801-1874 second Baron Panmure and eventually eleventh Earl of Dalhousie 'sat in the House of Commons in the liberal interest in 1835-7 as MP for Perthshire'; Torrens retired from the House in 1835. Arthur William Piper 1865-1936 was a South Australian Supreme Court judge; Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas 1851-1910 was general manager and joint proprietor of the South Australian 'Register'. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman hardcover
Bookseller reference : 80125
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Woomera. BEADELL Len
Still in the Bush
Sydney: Weldon 1989. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney Weldon 1989/ 1975. Octavo x 175 pages plus 29 plates and endpaper maps. Pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. The gathering of accurate survey information covering the whole of the range line north-west across Australia from the Woomera Rocket Range; not least the "discovery" of a tribe of aborigines in remote central Western Australia. Inscribed signed and dated 1 August 1989 by the author. Weldon paperback
Bookseller reference : 58264
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Thebarton Central School 1879-1929. Back to Thebarton School Jubilee Celebrations. April . 1929 cover title
Thebarton: The School 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thebarton The School 1929. Octavo iv advertisements 64 4 advertisements pages with 14 illustrations and numerous advertisements plus cover advertisements. Colour pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with a few tiny edge tears to the rear panel; an excellent copy internally fine. This very detailed souvenir programme includes a six-page history of the school. The School paperback
Bookseller reference : 96747
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WINNECKE Charles. SUTHERLAND George
The South Australian Company. A Study in Colonisation
London: Longmans Green 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans Green 1898 'New Impression'/ 1898. Octavo viii 238 pages with 5 illustrations plus 4 plates. Cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed; an excellent copy. With the ownership signature of Charles Winnecke on the half-title below a 'With the Compliments of The South Australian Company' rubber-stamp; an unrelated gift inscription dated 1928 appears on a later blank page. Charles Winnecke 1856-1902 surveyor and explorer 'entered the Government Survey Office in 1873 and went with the North Eastern Exploring Expedition to survey the border between South Australia and Queensland circa 1877-81' 'Encyclopedia of Australian Science'. He achieved lasting fame as the leader of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894. Longmans, Green hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10598
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GOODHART Joseph Christian Australia 1875 1952: active 1920s 30s
'Hutchins School Hobart'. An original etching 255 x 185 mm captioned within the image signed and editioned one of 60 in pencil below the image. It is in fine condition glazed within the original simple frame with the label of Richardson's Art Gallery 121 Liverpool St Hobart on the backing paper. Also mounted there is a gift label 'Presented to Mr J.M. Morris by Hobart Branch Staff Union Bank . 15th October 1934' signed by ten members of the staff with some silverfish damage to the signed portion of the label
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South Australian Directory. MORRIS HAYTER and BARRY
The Commercial and Trades Directory of South Australia 1882-3. Comprising a Commercial Trades Banking Professional Hotel and Friendly Societies Directory for Adelaide Suburbs and Country Townships in the Province of South Australia
Adelaide: Morris Hayter and Barry 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Morris Hayter and Barry 1882. Octavo 377 ii-lxvi advertisements 378-588 pages with numerous advertisements in the last 100 or so pages plus numerous unnumbered advertising leaves printed one side only often on different coloured paper and endpaper advertisements. Original cloth a little marked with slight wear to the corner tips; edges and front flyleaf a little marked; endpapers offset; an excellent copy. 'First edition 3000' is printed at the foot of the title page but it is decidedly uncommon; this is the only copy we have seen in nearly 40 years of dealing in Adelaide. Morris, Hayter and Barry hardcover
Bookseller reference : 94719
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FRANCIS Ivor
Goodbye to the City of Dreams. Ivor Francis. An Autobiography
Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery of South Australia 2004. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers with flaps; a fine copy. Inscribed and signed by Ron Radford then director of the Art Gallery of South Australia now director of the National Gallery of Australia who wrote the foreword and introduction to Leslie Thompson whose contribution to the organisation of this edition is acknowledged in the foreword. Art Gallery of South Australia paperback
Bookseller reference : 96259
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LAFFIN Josephine
Matthew Beovich. A Biography
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2008. Octavo; laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Wakefield Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 96294
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MUNTHE Axel
The Story of San Michele
London: John Murray 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1930 thirteenth impression/ 1929. Octavo xvi 536 pages. Gilt-decorated cloth slightly rubbed and sunned; a very good copy. With the Helen Bakewell-designed bookplate of George Fowler. John Murray hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96350
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MARTIN Robert
Under Mount Lofty. A History of the Stirling District in South Australia. Second Edition
Stirling: District Council of Stirling 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stirling District Council of Stirling 1987. Quarto; papered boards; an excellent copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. District Council of Stirling hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96288
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