1938ref. 056090Brisbane: David Whyte Government Printer 1938. 56pp bw ills map. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover prev owner name inside front cover. A most attractive early publication on Lamington National Park. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. David Whyte, Government Printer Paperback
1925ref. 146779Melbourne: Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. Printers for the Author 1925. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. Printers for the Author 1925. Small octavo 76 pages first four blank with 20 illustrations. Original green overlapping wrappers printed in gold; covers a little worn and marked; minor signs of handling; a very good copy. 'Much is being said at the present time for and against the construction of an overland railway the possibility of large tracts of so-called desert country carrying stock and providing water from underground and climatic conditions for the settlement of white people in the interior. This little book merely deals with what was my own experience during a sojourn of two and a half years in the centre of Australia' foreword. Jean Finlayson spent the time from February 1914 as a nurse at Oodnadatta Hospital; with considerable Aboriginal content. Arbuckle, Waddell Pty. Ltd. [Printers, for the Author] paperback
1886ref. 20650Adelaide: Rigby 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Rigby 1886. Octavo xii 610 pages. Original bright red cloth very slightly marked and lightly flecked; a near-fine copy. Rigby hardcover
1894ref. 109597Adelaide: School of Design Art Club 1894. Very Good. Adelaide School of Design Art Club 1894. Octavo 43 pages with a full-page illustration the author's monogram. Flush-cut card lettered in gilt on the front cover a little foxed and nicked with a chip to the foot of the spine; a very good copy. Harry Pelling Gill 1855-1916 art curator and teacher at the time Director for Technical Art. 'In 1892 he was appointed honorary curator of the art gallery and following the resignation in December of Louis Tannert as master of the school of painting Gill assumed control of all the board's art teaching activities. His growing authority in art matters his self-confidence and abrasive manner and his attitude toward other art schools led to criticism. Critics found Gill a vain man who controlled lucrative and influential art offices and who disdained the democratic brotherhood of art. His supporters admitted that he could be uncompliant and disagreeable but said that he had worked hard was a good judge of the monetary value of pictures saved the board expense and was a courageous and incorruptible curator. He supported and reorganized the South Australian Society of Arts and was its first president elected from the fellows 1909-11' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; this entry contains one of the few errors we have noted in the ADB - the title of this book is given as 'The Straight and Crooked Paths of Studentship'. School of Design Art Club unknown
1886ref. 64090Adelaide: Government Printer 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1886. Octavo ii pictorial lithographic title page signed 'Leo' 118 pages. Original orange cloth with black lettering and a decorative border; flyleaves offset; a fine copy. Prepared for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886; with a presentation inscription from the author to J.G.O. Tepper. 'It is to be regretted that some legislation was not passed in the early days of the colony enforcing the lodgment in the South Australian Institute of a copy of every colonial publication' from the author's preface. An eight-page bibliography of the Northern Territory plus extra material in the appendix is included. With the later pencilled ownership initials of Tom Austen Brown. J.G.O. Tepper 1841-1923 born in Prussia arrived in South Australia in 1847: school teacher natural history collector and entomologist. Government Printer hardcover
1994ref. 144176Largs Bay: The Author 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Largs Bay The Author 1994. Large octavo xxii 311 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus endpaper maps. Papered boards a little marked rubbed and bumped at the extremities; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy with the good dustwrapper slightly creased with the rear panel cockled and lightly stained in the top half and a little crushed along the bottom edge with a short tear sealed with tape on the verso. The title page is signed by the author. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by him written in 2002 in response to a request for the book. 'All the books have been sold I had only 1000 copies printed in June 1994 and within two years they were all sold. I have only one copy myself.' The letter is enclosed in a large gift card featuring the reproduction of 'The Encounter 1802' a watercolour by John Ford signed and captioned beneath the image by the artist. 3 items. The Author hardcover
ref. 96175Fine. An original etching 255 × 185 mm captioned within the image signed and editioned one of 60 in pencil below the image. 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. unknown
1906ref. 106843Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1906. Large octavo viii 74 8 advertisements pages plus 25 plates many from photographs and 2 maps. Pictorial blue wrappers slightly rubbed and creased with expert infill to a small chip to the front leading edge; minimal foxing; an excellent copy. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
1880ref. 143814Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Foolscap folio 42 pages with numerous tables plus 4 full-page lithographed plans. Needle-holes and small notches in the left-hand margin where previously bound now neatly disbound; two of the plans creased a production flaw; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 139 of 1880. The four plans show timber plantations at Bundaleer Forest Reserve Wirrabara Mount Muirhead Flat and Woolundunga. E. Spiller, Government Printer unknown
1982ref. 034482Melbourne: James Flood Charity Trust. 1982. HEAVY. 272pp subscriber list index hundreds bw & col ills. Or beige cloth with laid on pictorial label in slipcase. A few light rubs marks to slipcase. Light foxing to limitation page. Some wrinkling of jacket laminate. Edition limited to 5000 copies of which this #1460. The fifth and last of this sought after series showcasing early motoring in Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Folio. James Flood Charity Trust. Hardcover
1948ref. 146571Adelaide: 'Printed for private circulation' at The Hassell Press 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Printed for private circulation' at The Hassell Press 1948. Octavo vi 71 pages plus 2 plates from portrait photographs. Quarter green cloth and textured cream papered boards lettered in green; textured paper a little tanned; a few other trifling signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. Geoffrey William Hassell was killed in action off the coast of Norway on 5 April 1945 at the age of 20 while piloting a RAAF Bristol Beaufighter. This private memorial volume printing a selection of Geoffrey's letters sent during training and on active service was produced by his parents Fred and Minnie Hassell at their Hassell Press. Their personal 'With Compliments' card is mounted on the front pastedown. The book is rare in our experience and the edition was presumably a very limited one. 'Printed for private circulation' at The Hassell Press hardcover
1934ref. 108344Adelaide: Gillingham & Co. Ltd 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Gillingham & Co. Ltd. 1934. Quarto viii 94 pages with 19 illustrations from photographs featuring approximately 150 implements. Cloth a little scuffed and rubbed and bumped at the extremities with minimal wear; endpapers unevenly offset; a few mild signs of handling; a very good copy. Provenance: Stanley Robert Mitchell 1881-1963 ethnologist mineralogist metallurgist and businessman with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. 'In the 1930s and 1940s he belonged to a distinguished group of "amateur" ethnologists and collectors who gathered around Sir Baldwin Spencer. They collected massive numbers of Aboriginal implements and championed the value of field-work over "armchair theorists". They believed that the raw geological material was the dominant factor in determining the forms of stone implements and that these forms had not changed from earliest times to the period of European contact' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. One correction in ink 'lava' for 'land' near the end of the first paragraph on page 14 and some light marginal emphases in pencil are presumably by Mitchell. The original four-page prospectus a little chipped and torn at the edges is loosely inserted. Gillingham & Co., Ltd hardcover
1980ref. BIB189994Adelaide: Rigby. 1980. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition in half leather boards brown leather over cream boards with clear slightly rubbed glassine dustjacket. Gilt to face and spine. Numerous black & white photographs and reproductions of drawings etchings and engravings. A lovely book in excellent condition. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally - please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 888 pages. An excellent reference work and probably the most important work on this topic. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Rigby hardcover
1986ref. 125648Netley: Wakefield Press and the Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Netley Wakefield Press and the Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia 1986. Quarto 95 pages with nearly 100 illustrations many in colour. Full maroon calf with an original embroidered design 126 × 96 mm inset in the front cover; a few light indentations and a tiny scrape to the front cover; commercial bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf; an excellent copy with a Mylar dustwrapper. One of only 100 specially bound copies featuring one of eight different embroidery designs copies of details of a seventeenth century British hanging panel with Biblical scenes illustrated in full on the endpapers. Two 'Festival of Embroidery' cards are loosely inserted; one is signed by the author the other gives details of the cover design and attributes this particular piece of work to local Guild member Alice Bosch. Wakefield Press and the Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia hardcover
1932ref. 029047Sydney: Herald Press 1932. 224pp bw ills endpaper maps. Or blue cloth with title plane and mountains in white. Endpapers toned light to moderate foxing throughout some fading to spine. Much nicer than usual example of this volume that did not survive well. Kingsford_Smith writes of his pioneering flights in the Southern Cross. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Herald Press Hardcover
1997ref. 021145Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1997. 46pp large folding map frontis. Or grey cloth with blindstamped vignette red leather spine quarter leather. Faint toned spot on front cover. Edition limited to 500 copies of which 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather- this copy #41 of the deluxe edition of 99 copies. Facsimile of 1853 original edition. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Friends of the State Library of South Australia Hardcover
2011ref. 050456Toowoomba: Blue Flyer Publishing 2011. vii 200pp index bibliography Roll of Honour num bw & col ills map DVD in front pocket. Pictorial glossy boards. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page To John with many thanks for your help-again. Rob. Three of the Australian infantry battalions that served in Vietnam were ANZAC units incorporating companies of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. This is the story of one such unit: 6RAR/NZ ANZAC Battalion. Features hundreds of photographs taken during the 1969-70 tour of duty. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 4to. Blue Flyer Publishing Hardcover
1982ref. 047933Canberra: Australian National University 1982. xviii 325pp index bibliography notes appendices bw ills maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Spine faded otherwise excellent. Studies Aboriginal-European relations on four frontiers of conflict- pastoral mining rainforest and sea. A challenging look at the frontier war in North Queensland. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Australian National University Hardcover
1837ref. 048412London: D. Walther 1837. viii 344pp index appendices tables 1 folding. Rebound in modern green cloth titled and decorated in gilt with new endpapers. Lacks map. Folding table with tear gift note at front pencilled lines in some margins some toning/foxing small bookseller label inside front cover. Ex-NSW public library with stamps inc cancelled stamp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library. D. Walther Hardcover
2010ref. BIB328689Adelaide: Friends of State Library of South Australia. 2010. Folio size 27x37cm. Fine copy - Near to Mint condition. Lovely Grey decorated cloth with blind-stamped title to face and black leather with gilt title patches to spine. Limited edition of 450 copies. Colour illustrations. The pages of the "Adelie Blizzard" are reproduced complete with editorial annotations at their original size and printed on archival quality munken premium uncoated fine paper pure cream 120 gsm paper. The effect is fantastic. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxvi 216 pages. The Adelie Blizzard was conceived by Douglas Mawson as way of keeping his men focused and keeping up their spirits. The Blizzard's purpose as articulated in the first volume was 'the crystallisation of our ideas an additional means of social enjoyment and incidentally we hope to voice the spirit of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition'. Includes Adelie Blizzard Vol 1 No's 1-5 covering April - October 1913. Preface by Emma McEwin Sir Douglas Mawson's Great-Granddaughter. Introduction by Elizabeth Leane & Mark Pharaoh. The pages are reproduced complete with editorial annotations at their original size. . Fine. 1st thus Standard Edition. Hardback. Friends of State Library of South Australia hardcover
2007ref. BIB331873South Australia: Kanawinka Writers and Historians Inc. 2007. Folio size. Near Fine condition - Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by the Editor. Colour and black & white illustrations and maps. Limited edition of 500 copies only this is copy No 483. Only small flaws are some mild rubbing to top front corner and light crease to lower corner of front flap almost invisible otherwise 'as new'. A very scarce title. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxxviii 312 pages. A very scarce title. As well reproductions of the transcripts this beautifully produced volume contains essays under the following headings: An Appreciation of the Significance of Goyder's Records from a Number of Viewpoints; The Evolution of South Australia's Land Laws and Goyder's Influence on their Shaping; Between the Pages of the Forest Flora of South Australia; Notes on the Early History of the Collections of the National Herbarium of Victoria. Also includes: Explanation of the Terms used by Goyder; Vegetation Communities; Conversions; Sources of Information; Index. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover. Kanawinka Writers and Historians Inc paperback
1937ref. 20731Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Royal Society of South Australia 1937 1938 and 1939. Quarto three volumes; flush-cut quarter cloth and card covers the first volume and full card the other two volumes; crease to the bottom corner of the front cover and a lighter one to the first 30 leaves of the first volume otherwise in fine condition throughout. The articles appear under the general title of 'Aboriginal Crayon Drawings' with the following individual sub-titles. Number 1: Relating to Totemic Places belonging to the Northern Aranda Tribe of Central Australia 12 pages with a map and 18 illustrations. Number 2: Relating to South-Western Central Australia 15 pages with a map and 19 illustrations. Number 3: The Legend of Wati Jula and the Kunkarunkara Women 14 pages with 12 illustrations plus 4 plates. Number 4: Relating to Every-day Incidents of the Ngada Tribe of the Warburton Ranges of Western Australia 11 pages with 11 illustrations plus 2 plates. Other relevant articles in these issues are MOUNTFORD C.P.: Examples of Aboriginal Art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour North-Western Australia 11 pages with a map and 48 illustrations; TINDALE N.B.: Native Songs of the South-East of South Australia 14 pages and Two Legends of the Ngadjuri Tribe from the Middle North of South Australia 5 pages; MADIGAN Dr C.T.: The Boxhole Crater and the Huckitta Meteorite Central Australia 4 pages with 2 illustrations; LOVERIDGE A.: On Some Reptiles and Amphibians from the Central Region of Australia 9 pages; CAMPBELL T.D. and C.P. MOUNTFORD: Aboriginal Arrangements of Stones in Central Australia 5 pages with 3 illustrations plus 2 plates; and CLELAND J.B. and T. Harvey JOHNSTON: Aboriginal Names and Uses of Plants at the Granites Central Australia 5 pages. 3 items. Royal Society of South Australia paperback
2016ref. 147319Kent Town: The Moyes Family 2016. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kent Town The Moyes Family February 2016/ August 2014 first edition. Quarto 124 pages with numerous maps and illustrations some in colour; a later list of nine errata two of them containing errors! is loosely inserted. Colour-pictorial card covers; tiny surface abrasion to the front cover; an excellent copy. The short introduction by the author's niece Monica Moyes states that 'Some years ago my uncle sought to have his manuscript of twenty two stories published . Difficulties arose and the years passed. but we have at last been able to cary out his wishes. We have taken the liberty of adding other stories that tell of his achievements his life and work'. 'Captain Morton Henry Moyes OBE 1886-1981 was a teacher naval officer and Antarctic explorer of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Winner of three polar medals Captain Moyes took part in the Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 under the leadership of Dr Douglas Mawson; the Shackleton Relief Expedition 1916-1917 under the leadership of Captain John King Davis; and the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition BANZARE 1929-1930 again under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson. His Antarctic recollections recounted in his own words in a wry and readable style reveal a man of courage of humility of humour and of determination; an intensely loyal man who never lost his fascination for living and working on the vast Antarctic continent' rear cover blurb. We have established from receipts retained by the Moyes family that the print run of the first edition was 100 copies with the reprint comprising a mere 50 copies. [The Moyes Family] paperback
1993ref. 147682Cobargo: Croft Press for the Author 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Cobargo Croft Press for the Author 1993. Octavo 3-45 pages with 2 tipped-in bookplates one in colour by George Perrottet; the other by Eric Thake. Plain card covers with attached overlapping stiffened wrappers with the two-colour paper title-label mounted on the front cover; a fine copy. Number 127 of 220 copies with only 100 for sale signed by the author Harry Muir's widow. Croft Press (for the Author) paperback
1887ref. BIB319529Adelaide: Wesleyan Book Depot. 1887 to1894. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Bound in one volume. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Some minor annotations - mostly in pencil. Leading edge has year dates in ink approximating the place of each year covered in the volume. Uncommon. approx 70 pages each. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Hardback. Wesleyan Book Depot hardcover