Adelaide: SATPHA 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide SATPHA 1919. Octavo 10 pages. Wrappers repeating the title page details on the front cover; a fine copy. The author was the Minister controlling Town Planning in South Australia at the time. SATPHA paperback
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 2001. Quarto 88 pages with numerous plates many in colour. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. The sculptor a Rat of Tobruk responsible for many of Adelaide's most definitive public sculptures died on 18 March 2008. Wakefield Press paperback
The artist and arts benefactor Elizabeth Maud Wholohan nee Vizard 1875-1950 was a lifelong friend of Hans Heysen exhibiting with him at an early age. On her death she bequeathed a substantial sum of money to establish the Maud Wholohan-Vizard Art Prize awarded first in 1957. Offered together with two not-unrelated newspaper cuttings. unknown
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Art Gallery Board of South Australia 1994. Oblong small quarto iii 100 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title held at the AGSA August to September 1994. Art Gallery Board of South Australia hardcover
Adelaide: SACA 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide SACA 1928. Duodecimo; card wrappers a little creased and slightly rubbed and marked; a very good copy. SACA paperback
Adelaide: Rigby 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1982. Folio; papered boards; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. Photographs by Steve Parish. Rigby hardcover
Strathalbyn: The author and Judy Dutton 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Strathalbyn The author and Judy Dutton 1995. Quarto vi 81 pages with numerous illustrations plus 16 colour plates. Pictorial card covers; an excellent copy. Signed by the author. The author and Judy Dutton paperback
Adelaide: The Author 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1987. Oblong quarto v 166 pages with numerous illustrations. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. One of only 250 numbered copies. Members of the family lived for lengthy periods at Oodnadatta and Coober Pedy and there are sizable well-illustrated sections on these two isolated settlements 10 pages and 5 pages respectively. Brief details are supplied of the descendants of Hans Hamilton Mack the only known brother of John Hamilton Mack. The prolific authors Louise and Amy Mack were two of his daughters; Nancy Phelan was a grand-daughter. The Author] paperback
Adelaide: The Authors 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1994. Quarto; laminated pictorial papered boards; ownership details; a fine copy. [The Authors] hardcover
Berri: Cobdogla Irrigation and Steam Museum and The Cobdogla Steam Friends Society 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Berri Cobdogla Irrigation and Steam Museum and The Cobdogla Steam Friends Society 2003. Quarto vi iv 389 pages with numerous maps and plans and hundreds of illustrations 8 in colour - mainly from vintage photographs - plus 3 large folding charts. Laminated colour pictorial card covers with illustrations on all surfaces; a fine copy. An invaluable record over 40 years in the making dealing 'solely with historic aspects of the development of irrigation and settlement along the Murray Valley of South Australia'. The author spent most of his working life 'in the Government irrigation settlements as an Inspector then District Officer then Superintendent administering and managing those areas for the Department of Lands. Reference material cannot be widely quoted because very little is in published form. Also much of this history . has been compiled over the years starting in the 1950s from my personal notes writings and knowledge and other private sources'. The illustrations sourced in the main from the author's personal collection now dispersed are a significant contribution to the history of the Murray not least the riverboat trade. Cobdogla Irrigation and Steam Museum, and The Cobdogla Steam Friends Society paperback
Adelaide: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Royal Geographical Society of South Australia 1981. Octavo 62 pages with 3 maps plus 14 colour and 2 black and white plates. Full leather; a fine copy. Deluxe edition. Number 16 of only 50 numbered copies signed by the editor Kenneth Peake-Jones and with a copy of the prospectus loosely inserted. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia hardcover
Adelaide: The Author 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1975. Quarto xii 88 21 leaves of processed typescript printed rectos only plus numerous tables and charts and 4 mounted original photographs 2 in colour. Binder's cloth; a fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author to his parents; a photocopy of an article in Nature July 1976 making extensive reference to the work of Crisp and a colleague is loosely inserted. The Author] hardcover
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 a little scuffed and sunned; small erasure to an early page; a very good copy. Number 123 of a 'Private Edition' total number not stated initialled and dated 15 December 1950 by the artist. [The Artist] hardcover
Adelaide: The Author 2012. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Adelaide The Author 2012. Octavo xii 110 pages with numerous illustrations including a colour map. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a mint copy. Signed by the author. The Author] paperback
Rockhampton QLD Australia: Central Queensland University Press 2007. Usual library marks. 100 pages with b/w illustrations. Broncoing is the name given to a uniquely Australian system of handling cattle for branding dehorning castration or other treatment. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex-Library. Central Queensland University Press Paperback
Mount Remarkable: District Council of Mount Remarkable 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Mount Remarkable District Council of Mount Remarkable 1986. Quarto 280 pages with illustrations and maps. Synthetic cloth; gift inscription; an excellent copy. District Council of Mount Remarkable hardcover
London: Macmillan 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. London Macmillan 1908/ 1885. Octavo; green decorated blue cloth; rear top corner slightly bumped; an excellent copy. Illustrated by Walter Crane. With the ownership signature of Ellinor Doris Scarfe a member of the prominent Scarfe family and mysteriously inscribed 'Number 7'. Macmillan hardcover
Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. 1883. Duodecimo x 116 pages plus an errata slip. Cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover and ruled in blind on both sides; cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy. Not least 'The Wreck of the "Gothenburg" happened February 24 1875 on the Great Barrier Reef not far from Cape Bowling Green .' 6 pages. This copy has the contemporary ownership signature of J.A. Bagshaw 1884 on the title page. Adelaide-born John Augustus Bagshaw 1838-1920 was the eldest son of John Stokes Bagshaw 1808-1888 the pioneering agricultural machinery manufacturer who won public recognition by building for John Ridley the first harvesting machine. John Augustus 'was also a skilful engineer and inventor; he entered the business at an early age . Bagshaw left a well-established business to his family' which later became the well-known firm Horwood Bagshaw Ltd 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. W.K. Thomas & Co hardcover
Adelaide: Division of Land Use Research CSIRO and SA Department of Environment and Planning 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Division of Land Use Research CSIRO and SA Department of Environment and Planning 1982. Quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the slightly marked and torn dustwrapper. Division of Land Use Research, CSIRO and SA Department of Environment and Planning hardcover
Stonyfell: St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Stonyfell St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School 1994. Octavo xvi 241 pages with numerous plates. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. Presentation copy to Canon Andrew Cheesman Chairman of the School's Board of Governors inscribed and signed on the title page by the author and by Cheesman on the half-title. Copy of the School's newsletter Volume 2 Number 9 loosely inserted. St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School hardcover
Adelaide: The Earthmoving Contractors Association of South Australia Inc 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Adelaide The Earthmoving Contractors Association of South Australia Inc. 1991. Small quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper. Signed by the author. The Earthmoving Contractors Association of South Australia Inc hardcover
Adelaide: SA Co-operative Wheat Pools Limited 1933. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide SA Co-operative Wheat Pools Limited 1933. Octavo ii 32 2 pages including the printed covers with 4 charts and 6 illustrations after photographs. Acidic wrappers very slightly chipped and a little discoloured affecting the adjacent pages; an excellent copy. SA Co-operative Wheat Pools Limited paperback
Adelaide: Philatelic Society of South Australia . 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Philatelic Society of South Australia . 1936. Octavo 72 pages with a few pictorial advertisements. Two-colour pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased; a few bottom corners slightly creased; an excellent copy. Not found on Trove. Philatelic Society of South Australia .. paperback
Keswick: The Corporation 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Keswick The Corporation 1953. Quarto; overlapping decorative titling card covers slightly creased; an excellent copy. The Corporation] paperback
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2008. Small quarto; papered boards with a colour plate laid down on the front cover; mint. Wakefield Press hardcover
St Leonards: Allen & Unwin 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. St Leonards Allen & Unwin 1994. Small quarto; papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Allen & Unwin hardcover
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Robertson and Mullens 1948. Octavo xvi 181 pages with a map plus 61 plates. Half morocco and cloth; extremities slightly rubbed and sunned; pp 119 - 122 not bound-in a production flaw; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper tape-stained chipped and torn with minor loss. With a gift inscription to the author's daughter and husband from 'Dad' C.P. Mountford. Robertson and Mullens hardcover
Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide Hussey and Gillingham 1912. Small oblong quarto 106 pages with illustrations plus a frontispiece all by Tom Ferry. Quarter red cloth and pictorial cream papered boards printed in black and red; a very fine copy. Muir 6266 not identifying the author. The dedication to this pseudonymous work is by 'Aunt Sissie' whom we have identified as Lavinia Mary Scammell 1859-1915 the second of twelve children of Luther Scammell of Fauldings fame. This attribution appears not to have been made before. The manuscript is held by the State Library of South Australia in PRG 119: Papers of Mrs A.M. Madden. Item 112 in the list of papers is 'Manuscript of "Laughter and Life: a tale for the young" by Lavinia Mary Scammell. 1912. 3 cm. Typescript. Written by Sissie Scammell Red Gum Blossom with a dedication to her nieces and nephews 12 April 1912. This was published that year as "A little bit of laughter and life for the young" by Hussey & Gillingham and was set in Adelaide. Each chapter is sewn together and housed inside a red covered album. The manuscript shows editorial marks ready for publication'. Hussey and Gillingham hardcover
Melbourne: Cheshire 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Melbourne Cheshire 1962. Octavo viii 47 pages. Decorated cloth; a fine copy with the clear plastic dustwrapper slightly cracked. Cheshire hardcover
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1971. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1971/ 1862. Octavo; covers slightly sunned; top edge a little foxed; a very good copy. Peade A17: 576 copies overall. Libraries Board of South Australia unknown
Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2002. Quarto 88 pages with numerous illustrations many in colour. Laminated colour pictorial card covers; a fine copy. 'Nick Mount is an iconic figure in the hothouse of contemporary glass'. Signed by the artist 2002 on the half-title. Wakefield Press paperback
Adelaide: Kinhill Stearns and others for the Department of Agriculture 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Kinhill Stearns and others for the Department of Agriculture 1986. Foolscap; plastic comb-bound card covers; slight mark on front cover; ownership stamp; an excellent copy. Kinhill Stearns (and others, for the) Department of Agriculture paperback
Upper Sturt: The Australian Quandong Industry Association 2000. Very Good. Upper Sturt The Australian Quandong Industry Association 2000. Foolscap; metal comb-bound plastic covers; top corner very slightly bumped; ownership signature; an excellent copy. The Australian Quandong Industry Association unknown
Adelaide: 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Adelaide 2/10th Battalion Association 1958. Large octavo xxviii 454 pages with a map plus 32 plates and 6 maps including one folding map attached to the rear pastedown. Original light blue cloth a little discoloured and slightly bumped at the corners; new front endpaper; small light marginal tidemark to the bottom corner of the last 25 leaves and 2 leaves of plates; a very good copy no dustwrapper was issued. 2/10th Battalion Association hardcover
Adelaide: South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey 1959. Small quarto; flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards lightly scuffed with some negligible surface loss about the edges; edges lightly marked; a very good copy. South Australian Department of Mines and Geological Survey hardcover
Adelaide: The Author 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Author 2001. Small quarto; laminated colour pictorial papered boards; an excellent copy. Inscribed dated 23 September 2001 and signed by the author to local historian Ken Preiss. The Author hardcover
Adelaide: Kangaroo Press/ BGSA 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Adelaide Kangaroo Press/ BGSA 1990. Quarto 224 pages with 96 colour plates. Papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very lightly sunned and bumped. Kangaroo Press/ BGSA hardcover
Adelaide: The Authors 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide The Authors 1983. Oblong quarto 103 pages with 40 illustrations 8 in colour. Pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the authors. The Authors hardcover
Adelaide: Department of Education Training and Employment 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Department of Education Training and Employment 1998. 240 x 360 mm 116 pages with numerous colour illustrations mainly after photographs by Mark Trinne. Cloth with the front panel of the standard edition spiral-bound card covers mounted on the front cover; a fine copy and possibly one of only a small number bound thus for presentation. Pring and Trinne interviewed and photographed 'more than one hundred Aboriginal artists and their work in cities towns and remote areas of South Australia. The book . presents works by well-known artists as well as those who are just beginning their careers'. Department of Education, Training and Employment paperback
Hawker: Hawker Uniting Church Centenary Committee 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Hawker Hawker Uniting Church Centenary Committee 1984. Quarto 96 pages with numerous plates and a map plus a large folding plate. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy. Hawker Uniting Church Centenary Committee paperback
Adelaide: Rigby 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Rigby 1952. Octavo xx 380 pages with 6 illustrations and 16 maps plus 22 plates and endpaper maps. Cloth; top corners of the covers and text block a little bumped; small top corner piece snipped from the front flyleaf; an excellent copy. Rigby hardcover
Adelaide: Wakefield Press 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Adelaide Wakefield Press 2001. Quarto 88 pages with numerous plates many in colour. Cloth; a fine copy no dustwrapper was issued. Not identified as such but this is one of only 100 copies of the deluxe edition signed by the artist and the author. Dowie a Rat of Tobruk responsible for many of Adelaide's most definitive public sculptures died on 18 March 2008 aged 93. Wakefield Press hardcover
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