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1988réf. 106913Adelaide: Wakefield Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide Wakefield Press 1988. Quarto xii 179 pages. Papered boards; small ink mark on the front flyleaf; one leaf at the rear a little tanned by a newspaper review cutting now in Mylar; bottom corner creases to two leaves; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper. The title page is inscribed 'To my beloved friend Walter Crocker with regards John Bray 8/7/88'. The Honourable Dr John Jefferson Bray AC QC 1912-1995 was the South Australian Chief Justice and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. Sir Walter Russell Crocker 1902-2002 was a career diplomat: 'His first posting was as High Commissioner to India. Later he served as Ambassador to Indonesia 1955-56 High Commissioner to Canada 1956-58 and another stint as High Commissioner to India 1958-62. He retired in 1970 as Australian Ambassador to Italy having in the intervening years also served as Ambassador to the Netherlands and Belgium 1962-65 and Ethiopia Uganda and Kenya 1965-67' Obituaries Australia. Loosely inserted are rough drafts three pages quarto of a personal letter-cum-review of the book from Crocker to Bray. Wakefield Press hardcover
1907réf. 20477Adelaide: Government Printer 1907. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1907. Folio 22 pages plus 12 pages of plates. Wrappers; a fine copy. A supplement to Parliamentary Paper 55 of 1906 'Northern Territory of South Australia north-western district. Reports geological and general resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905'. Incorporated in this supplement are details of 'the diamond drill boring operations in search of gold reefs at the Union and the Ironstone Blow and in search of coal at Port Keats; bringing the history of the Northern Territory drill operations up to date'. Government Printer paperback
1996réf. 144208Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1996. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Friends of the State Library of South Australia 1996 facsimile edition/ 1862. Octavo vi 19 pages with illustrations. Pictorial card covers; a fine copy in the fine blue cloth book-form box with a paper title-label on the front panel. Number 96 of only 99 copies of the deluxe edition with as issued two facsimile copies of the chapbook 'Death and Burial of Cock Robin' 16 pages with illustrations; one in wrappers in an endpocket the other as a loose sheet folded once. Friends of the State Library of South Australia paperback
1911réf. 28769Melbourne: Government Printer 1911. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1911. Folio 24 pages plus 3 large folding maps. Titling-wrappers stapled as issued wire slightly rusty; a fine copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 39 of 1911: only 950 copies printed. Government Printer paperback
1916réf. 117535Adelaide: Vardon & Sons Printers 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Sons Printers 1916. Octavo 48 pages. Full calf stylishly decorated with double blind rules on all surfaces and lettered in gilt on the front panel; extremities a little rubbed; spine slightly marked and a little sunned; inner hinges tender but holding; a very good copy in an attractive binding by an unidentified local craftsman. On the verso of the front flyleaf is an expansive thank-you note signed by the author 15 August 1916: 'Dear Mr Adey May I ask you to accept of this little booklet as a memento of the improvement which has already shown itself in the poetry book scheme through your kind interest and valuable suggestions'. The author was 'Teacher of Voice Production and Elocution Education Department South Australia'. At the time the recipient William James Adey 1874-1956 was the founding headmaster of Adelaide High School see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for more on him. Vardon & Sons, Printers hardcover
1971réf. 83065New York: Grune & Stratton 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York Grune & Stratton 1971 first edition in book form. Quarto vi 172 pages. Cloth very slightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. The book is essentially a bound reprint of the February 1971 issue Volume 3 Number 1 of 'Seminars in Psychiatry'. The introduction notes that 'To date no publication has attempted to gather in one issue the current thinking about psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation; this volume represents the first such effort'. This copy carries the ownership details surname of one of the contributors Professor William Cramond. His article 'Renal Transplantations - Experiences with Recipients and Donors' pages 120-28 is based on his experiences with South Australian patients. Grune & Stratton hardcover
1962réf. 138332Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1859. Duodecimo v 38 pages with a few illustrations. Synthetic cloth; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned; an excellent copy. Peade SA43: one of only 53 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library 'reproduced . using the xerographic process' with the text bound from concertina-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
1927réf. 140773Adelaide: RGSSA 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1927. Octavo pages 47-77 plus 3 plates. Original wrappers; a fine copy. This previously unpublished manuscript from 1844 'more particularly relates to the Adelaide tribe'. Other articles of interest include LENDON A.A.: Kent versus Torrens. An Episode in the History of Suburban Settlements pages 29-46 plus 2 plates and a facsimile map of Adelaide in 1839; and FENNER Charles: The First Discoverers of SA. The Tercentenary of Nuyts pages 23-28 plus a folding plate containing 2 maps comparing Nuyts' journey with that of Matthew Flinders. RGSSA paperback
1891réf. 146565London: Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1891. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society 1891. Octavo pages 343-362 in ii 313-380 pages with an illustration plus a folding colour lithographed map. Original printed wrappers slightly chipped and tanned; joints splitting; a few other minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy. Chewings offers 'a brief outline of Central Australia and its prospects' with an introductory summary on exploration; the main emphasis is on geology. The other contributions to this volume are BAKER G.P.: 'Travel and Ascents in the Basardjusi District Daghestan' with a folding colour map and PRATT A.E.: 'Two Journeys toTa-tsien-lu on the Eastern Borders of Tibet'. Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society paperback
1910réf. 74107Adelaide: printed by E.S. Wigg for the Author 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide printed by E.S. Wigg for the Author 1910. Duodecimo 29 pages with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Flush-cut limp textured cloth with the cover title 'Australia. By Clow the Younger'; a fine copy. Poems structured loosely as a play. The third scene of the first poem 'Vive l'Australie!' 3 pages features 'Blacks in Pheasant plumage assembled to celebrate the feast of Nyarrin; which marks the first appearance of that group the Pleiades on the sky'. The second poem 'La Mythologie de l'Australie' 6 pages is subtitled 'Native Legend'. Not in Greenway not in Depasquale but Miller is informative. printed by E.S. Wigg [for the Author] hardcover
1887réf. 64213Adelaide: Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb Vardon and Pritchard 1887. Octavo viii 173 pages. Green cloth a little flecked and slightly rubbed; a little offsetting to the title-page; light marginal stains to the first three leaves of text; a very good copy. Webb, Vardon and Pritchard hardcover
2004réf. 26080149Self published Australia 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. 256 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Self published Australia 2004. First Edition. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for short gift inscription in ink. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A brief history of the rush for gold the deaths the Chinese tragedy and the rebellion that culminated in the infamous Buckland riot. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; ISBN: 0975717006. ISBN/EAN: 9780975717004. Inventory No: 26080149. 9780975717004 Self published paperback
1964réf. 147532Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1964 facsimile edition/ 1845. Octavo two volumes ii xx 448; and ii vi 512 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates and 2 folding maps in endpockets. Synthetic cloth; endpapers tanned; leading edge of one rear free endpaper lightly nibbled; an excellent set. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 7. Peade A7: only 891 sets printed overall. 2 items. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
1936réf. 108162Tanunda: The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda The Author and printed by Auricht 1936. Octavo three volumes 32 16 and 92 4 pages with several photographic portraits. Pictorial wrappers lightly rubbed; a fine set. Text in German. Three pamphlets commemorating the golden jubilee of Lutheran missions to New Guinea. The Author (and printed by Auricht) paperback
1932réf. 111827Tanunda: Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Tanunda Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office 1932. Octavo 208 pages the last 32 pages contain 34 plates and a map. Pictorial wrappers; a fine copy. An abridged English version by the author of his 'Wunder der gottlichen Gnade' published the previous year. Printed for the Author by Auricht's Printing Office paperback
1986réf. 146604Adelaide: Sullivan's Cove 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Sullivan's Cove 1986. Octavo 118 pages. Cloth; a fine copy without a dustwrapper as issued. Number 24 of 160 copies. A new edition of the rare 1875 first and only other publication South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875 here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November 1872; although unsuccessful in his attempt 'to penetrate to the sources of the Murchison River' he named Palm Valley Glen of Palms Mt Olga Kata Tjuta and Lake Amadeus. Sullivan's Cove hardcover
1880réf. 143806Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Foolscap folio 1 page plus a full-page map 'Hd. of Dudley. Aboriginal section No. 100 proposed to be cancelled and re-surveyed as suburban lands'. Drop-title; needle-holes and small notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; a few tiny creases chips and marks at the extremities; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 78 of 1880. The land in question is on Hog Bay in what is now Penneshaw. E. Spiller, Government Printer] unknown
1936réf. 108347Adelaide: Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours 1936. Quarto 68 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Colour pictorial wrappers with a colour map of Adelaide on the inside rear cover; trifling signs of use and age to the covers including slight silverfish loss to the front top edge; an excellent copy. Bastin's Australian Scenic Tours paperback
1975réf. 137498Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Libraries Board of South Australia 1975 facsimile edition/ 1899 and 1901. Octavo ii 83 1 colophon 2 blank 22 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Synthetic red cloth; a fine copy. Peade A197: one of only 501 copies. The original 1901 edition of the Second Series is impossibly rare we have seen only one in nearly 50 years in the trade in Adelaide thus making this short print-run facsimile edition somewhat more important than the average reprint. Libraries Board of South Australia hardcover
2011réf. 135311Kent Town: Wakefield Press 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Dust Jacket Included. Kent Town Wakefield Press 2011. Quarto viii 152 pages with colour pictorial endpapers and numerous illustrations most in colour. Papered boards; extremities very slightly bumped; a near-fine copy with the very slightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper lightly scored on the rear panel. Presentation copy dated 5 March 2012 signed and warmly inscribed in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper by the author to prominent local home economics educator and sometime Carrick Hill guide Marietta Resek. Numerous ink signatures and inscriptions to Marietta appear on page vi; signatories include Jan Murray and Pam Debelle. Loosely inserted is a 32-page booklet 'Carrick Hill Guides 1984-2014. Thirty Years of Volunteer Guiding at Carrick Hill' Springfield Carrick Hill 2014 signed in ink by three of the writers Ilonka McInnes Pam Debelle and Jan Murray with a loosely-inserted ALS on Carrick Hill notepaper signed and warmly inscribed by Jan Murray to Marietta and a colour Carrick Hill postcard. 4 items. Wakefield Press hardcover
1915réf. 136140London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. Ltd 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. London Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. Ltd 1915 first thus/ 1901. Octavo 47 1 colophon pages plus 10 plates several from wood carvings by the author. Cloth a little marked and slightly bumped; front hinge cracked but sound; a few leaves adjacent to the plates lightly discoloured; ink ownership signature; a very good copy. The four-page introduction by the author is new to this edition. Loosely inserted is the 'A Few Opinions' sheet contributors include William Gilbert Simpson Newland and Chief Justice Way. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd hardcover
1906réf. 113886Adelaide: RGSSA 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide RGSSA 1906. Octavo 12 pages plus 2 plates and a map in a total of xxi 60 pages plus plates. Original wrappers with text on the inside front cover; a fine copy. 'In 1846 Mr Horrocks organised what proved his last exploring party and but for the fatal accident which so unhappily terminated the expedition he would doubtless have left a high record in the history of exploration and would probably have traversed a great deal of the country afterwards explored by his successors Warburton and Stuart'. The journal runs from 29 July 1846 when the expedition set out from Penwortham to 27 August; Horrocks was accidently shot on 1 September near Lake Gill now Lake Dutton 75 miles north-west of Port Augusta. A lengthy death-bed letter dictated by him at Depot Creek on 8 September is also printed here. This issue also contains EITEL E.J.: Social Life in China 20 pages; and SOWDEN W.J.: On Pearl-Fishing in North-West Australia 11 pages. McLaren 10029. RGSSA paperback
réf. 20730First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo 174 pages with 2 maps. Wrappers; a fine copy. 'Permission has been obtained through Professor Newton of the University of London for the publication of a very brilliant thesis written by Dora Howard in 1925'. paperback
1901réf. 109637Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Printers for the Author 1901. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Printers for the Author 1901. Duodecimo 28 pages last blank. Cord-bound gilt and brown-decorated card covers; text printed in gilt and brown; front cover and the first two leaves lightly creased; two short tears to the second leaf expertly sealed; a very good copy. Hussey & Gillingham [Printers, for the Author] paperback
1962réf. 138348Adelaide: Public Library of South Australia 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Public Library of South Australia 1962 facsimile edition/ 1839. Octavo ii 95 pages. Synthetic cloth slightly rubbed; endpapers and adjacent leaves a little tanned at the edges; text block beginning to separate from the binding but firm; a very good copy. Peade SA30: one of only 37 copies. This was one of the earliest facsimile editions published by the library 'reproduced . using the xerographic process' with the text bound from concertina-fold paper printed on one side only uncut and unopened along the leading edges. Public Library of South Australia hardcover
