1901réf. 102262Melbourne: Arbuckle Waddell & Fawckner Printers 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Melbourne Arbuckle Waddell & Fawckner Printers 1901. Octavo 238 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 4 plates. Textured maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little marked and rubbed at the extremities; a very good copy. The front flyleaf is inscribed 'To Mr A W Piper With kind regards from B & M Adamson'. Adam Adamson 1821-1898 'arrived in South Australia in September 1839 on board the ship the "Recovery". Agricultural implements manufacturer Adelaide' State Library of South Australia. Provenance: Arthur W. Piper 1865-1936 a South Australian Supreme Court judge and notable book-collector with his personal library number 1700 on the front pastedown and verso of the front free endpaper. Arbuckle, Waddell & Fawckner, Printers hardcover
réf. 106714The carte de visite an albumen paper photograph 55 x 91 mm was recently removed from an old album leaf and remounted on acid-free card; the title above was written in pencil on the verso of the image. The number '202' is pencilled on a fence-post in the foreground; in excellent condition. The photographer is unidentified; undated but possibly 1860s. unknown
1964réf. 124456Adelaide: W.L. Hawes Government Printer 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.L. Hawes Government Printer 1964. Oblong quarto 24 pages with a map and numerous illustrations from photographs plus a large printed 'with compliments' slip from the Minister of Roads mounted on the front flyleaf. Full leather lettered in gilt now oxidised to green; boards a little bowed; endpapers a little discoloured around the edges; overall an excellent copy. An official presentation binding. Provenance: The Honourable David Brookman MP with his signature 24 April 1964 on the front flyleaf. David Norman Brookman 1917-2000 'was elected to the seat of Electoral district of Alexandra in the House of Assembly for the Liberal and Country League in 1948 filling the seat made vacant by the death of Sir Hubert Hudd and held that seat until 1973. He served as Minister for Agriculture 1958-1965 and Minister for Lands 1968-1970' Wikipedia. W.L. Hawes, Government Printer hardcover
1938réf. 110462Adelaide: Theodore Bruce & Co. Fine Art Auctioneers 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Theodore Bruce & Co. Fine Art Auctioneers 1938. Octavo 72 pages. Wrappers a little tanned with a couple of tiny chips; acidic text paper tanned; an excellent copy. Some 3252 lots were offered for sale; some prices realised are pencilled in but bibliographical details are thin on the ground. Stitz: Volume 1 pages 73 and 127-28. Theodore Bruce & Co., Fine Art Auctioneers paperback
1927réf. 112587Adelaide: Advertising Sales Agency 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Advertising Sales Agency 1927. Oblong tall octavo 153 × 246 mm 72 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs and pictorial advertisements plus advertisements on the covers. Stapled colour-pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with minor loss of plain paper on the spine; an excellent copy. The Duke in this case is Albert Frederick Arthur George 1895-1952 King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth. The Duchess was Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon 1900-2002 the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952 after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to avoid confusion with her daughter. She was the last Empress of India. Advertising Sales Agency paperback
2000réf. 105018Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 2000 facsimile edition/ 1862. Octavo xvi 128 pages with a frontispiece and a large folding map in an endpocket. Quarter calf and cloth; a fine copy. Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 221. This is number 96 of 99 copies of the deluxe issue from a total edition of 500 copies. The seven-page introduction by Valmai Hankel is new to this edition. Friends of the State Library of South Australia hardcover
1858réf. 24945Adelaide: Government Printer 1858. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1858. Foolscap folio 2 pages. Drop-title; four small holes in the left-hand margin where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; an excellent copy. The seventy-seven petitioners were the promoters and subscribers of the Camel Troop Carrying Company 'established in the City of Adelaide to facilitate the organized introduction of camels into South Australia . We are satisfied that the exploration of Australia will only be profitably accomplished by the employment of these animals'. A Government bonus of 20 pounds per head was sought on the proposed first importation of sixty head of the best breeds. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 86 of 1858. Government Printer unknown
1943réf. 102428Adelaide: Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia 1943. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia 1943. Quarto 52 pages with numerous illustrations mainly from photographs. Saddle-stapled pictorial textured wrappers; minor signs of age and use; a very good copy. The annual report for 1942 with directories of personnel committee members and churches for the two years ahead plus short articles on the history of the Congregational Church in South Australia and the Parkin Aboriginal Mission at Point McLeay. Congregational Union and Home Mission of South Australia paperback
2013réf. 145228Norwood: Moon Arrow Press 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Norwood Moon Arrow Press 2013. Large square quarto 160 pages with nearly 190 illustrations many in colour. Papered boards; ownership signature on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper. This book is a companion volume to the biography of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz 1918-1999 also written by his son and published in 2006. It 'reveals the battles the artist fought as a Polish partisan and as a leader of the displaced Persons' camp in Bavaria where he found himself after the war; the story of his migration to Australia; battles in the minefields of Australian art and his confrontation with the hugely conservative art world of Adelaide in the 1950s. It chronicles the extraordinary range of his artistic output in painting sculpture public art and on the stage as actor and producer and as an actor for Crawford Productions' television dramas in the late 1960s' dustwrapper blurb. Moon Arrow Press hardcover
1999réf. 69693North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case. Cloth; a fine set. One of only 400 numbered sets. The map in the original edition is here in duplicate; the second copy is the geological map overprinted in colour. Not previously reprinted hence great value at the price. Corkwood Press hardcover
1935réf. 107885Eudunda: Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Eudunda Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee 1935. Oblong octavo 64 pages with 36 illustrations from photographs. Overlapping title-wrappers a little creased along the leading edges; later gift inscription on the front cover; neatly sealed tear to one leaf; an excellent copy. Back-to-Eudunda Celebrations Committee paperback
1921réf. 53948Adelaide: RGSSA 1921. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1921. Octavo pages 1-67. Original wrappers slightly discoloured; a fine copy. This issue also contains MAWSON Sir Douglas: Macquarie Island. A Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna 70-85 pages with a map plus a map and 6 full-page plates after photographs by Frank Hurley Douglas Mawson and Leslie Russell Blake; and NEWLAND Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life pages 89-110. RGSSA paperback
1924réf. 102211Tanunda: Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tanunda Printed at Auricht's Printing Office 1924. Octavo 64 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within an ornamental border on the front cover; wrappers slightly marked staples slightly rusty; an excellent copy. The edition in German; although the title page and front cover state that an 'English Copy of this Report is also available' neither version has yet found its way into Trove. Printed at Auricht's Printing Office paperback
1905réf. 15579Adelaide: Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien 1905. Octavo 76 pages. Wrappers with the full title page details repeated within an ornamental border and with the addition of the price of 9 pence on the front cover; wrappers a little marked creased and lightly chipped with a light tidemark to the rear one; trifling signs of handling and use including a few annotations; a very good copy. Printed by Oscar Muller and Company at Hochkirch in the Western District of Victoria. The town was renamed Tarrington in March 1918 as a response to anti-German sentiments. Sudaustralischen Distrikts der Ev.luth Synode in Australien paperback
1920réf. 66183Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham 1920. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham 1920. Octavo 52 pages plus 4 plates and a large folding map. Original flush-cut stiff card covers; staples a little rusty staining slightly the paper in close proximity; an excellent copy. Hussey & Gillingham paperback
1926réf. 139014Adelaide: Rigby Ltd 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Adelaide Rigby Ltd. 1926. Small octavo viii 122 2 advertisements pages with an illustration and a map. Flush-cut pictorial cloth; a near-fine copy. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders it appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' established in 1867 by the author. A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly realistic story written in South Australia in this period' Depasquale. Rigby Ltd hardcover
1929réf. 146897Adelaide: Thornquest Press 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Thornquest Press 1929. Quarto 32 pages with numerous illustrations most from photographs plus 2 printed slips a title-label tipped in on the first page and an erratum slip mounted on page 19 and advertisements on the covers. Colour-pictorial card covers lightly marked with minimal loss to silverfish along the rear top edge; trifling signs of handling; an excellent copy. The lavish pageant play 'The Warrior' by Nora Collisson and Kenneth Duffield was staged to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the League of Nations at the end of the First World War. It included elaborate tableaux including a battlefield in Flanders; skits featuring personifications 'Democracy' 'Internationalism' 'Armenia' etc. many played by members of Adelaide's notable families; musical numbers; and ballets. The programme includes numerous advertisements for Adelaide businesses. Thornquest Press paperback
1962réf. 138331Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1846. Duodecimo v viii 188 pages with several illustrations. Synthetic cloth; endpapers lightly tanned; edges a little marked; an excellent copy. Peade SA22: one of only 49 copies of this xerographic facsimile published with the text bound from fan-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. Pages 73-134 relate to South Australia. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
1922réf. 106841Adelaide: The Author and printed by Gillingham Swann & Co. 1922. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author and printed by Gillingham Swann & Co. 1922. Octavo 48 pages. Wrappers; a fine copy with a contemporary ownership signature on the front cover and first page. Our man reflects on Patriotism Militarism Internationalism Prohibition Over-Government and Wowserism among other cussed things. The first page is date-stamped 30 May 1922 and the original owner has supplied the name we have given as the author. Trove records the author as 'Patroclus'. The Author] (and printed by Gillingham, Swann & Co.) paperback
1906réf. 59550Adelaide: Government Printer 1906. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1906. Folio 1 page plus a large folding map approximately 490 x 605 mm. Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 57 of 1906; only 570 copies printed. Primarily a detailed map of a roughly rectangular region from Farina in the south extending about 20 miles east of Farina to about 20 miles north and west of Marree. Government Printer unknown
1872réf. 27371London: Hodder and Stoughton 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Hodder and Stoughton 1872. Octavo ii catalogue vi 312 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Blind-stamped cloth; spine a little sunned; trifling stain to the frontispiece; an excellent copy virtually unused. The life of the pioneering South Australian Methodist New Connexion minister after whom Maughan Church in Franklin Street is named consult ADB Volume 5; with the presumably association signature of M. Maughan on the flyleaf. Not in Ferguson. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1963réf. 107862Adelaide: Printed by Cruickshank for The Congress 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Printed by Cruickshank for The Congress 1963. Small quarto 250 × 200 mm 4 pages comprising two sheets of plywood printed recto and verso. The two boards are hinged together with strips of green cloth tape inside and out as issued; leading edge of the front cover a little marked; an excellent copy. The front cover has the title as above printed in green surmounted by the congress logo in brown and green; the centrespread features the menu and wines both printed in brown; the rear cover headed 'Autographs' has an image of the Hotel Australia on O'Connell Street North Adelaide printed in green on the bottom half. The hotel building still stands refurbished into an apartment block. Printed by Cruickshank [for The Congress] hardcover
1949réf. 73137Barmera: Irving Print 1949. Barmera Irving Print 1949. External dimensions 100 x 205 mm but cut and printed to resemble a digger's slouch hat 8 pages comprising title double-page 'rations' list double-page toast list with relevant colour patches a page for autographs the committee list and details of deaths since the last meeting. Light-brown card printed in dark brown; one 'rations' page slightly marked; trifling abrasion to the front cover; a superb item. A most attractive souvenir menu from the South Australian Riverland. It is interesting to note that these annual reunions did not commence until 15 years after the First World War ended. The outside rear cover has the pencil ownership signature of H.L. Bowen #1866 Sergeant Haddon Lancelot Bowen 50th Battalion returned to Australia in February 1919 after more than three years on active service. Irving Print] unknown
1944réf. 145888Adelaide: K.M. Stevenson Government Printer 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide K.M. Stevenson Government Printer 1944. Oblong quarto 52 pages including numerous illustrations mainly full-page plates from photographs and diagrams some in colour. Cord-bound overlapping card covers a little marked rubbed and bumped; initials on the title page; a very good copy internally fine. This extensively-illustrated souvenir befits 'the most important public work undertaken in South Australia. It is the last and greatest of the many fine water schemes carried out by the State to overcome the disabilities arising from the lack of natural water supplies' introduction. K.M. Stevenson, Government Printer paperback
1972réf. 109072Adelaide: Rigby Limited 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Adelaide Rigby Limited 1972. Octavo viii 222 pages plus 16 pages of plates 30 images. Papered boards; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine. Inscribed and signed 'with much regards Monty'. Loosely inserted is a small quantity of interesting related ephemera: an invitation to the launch of this book and a newspaper review clipping; a photograph captioned 'Monty's Hon Ph.D Investiture Melbourne Uni' it was an honorary Litt.D. in 1973; his funeral notice clipped from a newspaper; and a remembrance card from Mountford's funeral inscribed in ink 'With special remembrance to you CPM's fellow worker'. Rigby Limited hardcover
