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1999Best.-Nr. 105020North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 very large folding maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate leather-covered case. These two maps are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. Full blue leather lettered in gilt on the spines with the text volume also lettered in gilt on the front cover; a fine set. Number 31 of only 50 sets of this deluxe edition in the total print-run of 400 sets. The publisher's Catalogue Number 3 January 2000 is loosely inserted. 2 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 142315Adelaide: Gillingham Printers 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Gillingham Printers 1985. Large quarto xiv 209 pages with several maps and numerous illustrations mainly from historical sources plus a folding plan 'Plan of the Green-Hills. Special Survey . by J.R. Burslem Jan. 1841' and pictorial endpapers. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover; edges speckled red; a fine copy. A presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author to historian Iris Nesdale: 'If this book was to have a dedication it would read - "For Iris Nesdale who prompted and inspired the editing and compilation." My sincere thanks for your generous assistance. Geoff Manning. August 1985'. The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 27 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton Managing Director of Gillingham Printers. 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer gardener shepherd cowherd drover miner house-repairer builder contractor and ultimately architect with such well-known buildings to his credit as Brougham Place Church and Whinham College until recently the Lutheran Seminary. He had tendered for the construction of the Overland Telegraph his tender being rejected apparently unfairly . There is an artlessness about his reminiscences but this is due to his truthfulness and sincerity' from the foreword by Sir Walter Crocker. Gillingham Printers hardcover
1905Best.-Nr. 144832Adelaide: Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Vardon & Pritchard Printers 1905. Octavo viii 161 pages with 37 illustrations plus 4 pages of plates including a map and a frontispiece with a tissue-guard. Original contrasting half cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; a number of ink stamps of the Gawler Institute throughout the text and on the three edges; mild signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. Provenance: Geoffrey Farmer the Australian private press bibliographer with his bookplate designed by Mary Quick this one printed in red on the front pastedown. Vardon & Pritchard, Printers hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 147468Sydney: The Legend Press 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sydney The Legend Press 1950. Oblong folio 305 × 380 mm 12 pages plus 26 plates 3 in colour. Cloth; a fine copy with the very good pictorial dustwrapper lightly worn at the extremities complete with the original plain celluloid dustwrapper. One of the Australian Artist Editions series 'illustrating the work and methods of Australian painters'. The Legend Press hardcover
1918Best.-Nr. 108521At Sea: The Societies as above 1918. Very Good. At Sea The Societies as above 10 August 1918. Duodecimo 172 × 107 mm 4 pages a bifolium last page blank comprising the title page and the toast list-cum-programme on the centrespread. Folded horizontally with a few light creases elsewhere and occasional light foxing; overall in very good condition. Not surprisingly we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith indicates that he hailed from the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh enlisted on 8 February 1918 'Embarked for Active Service . HMAT "Orontes" Sydney 5-6-18 Disembarked Liverpool 11-8-18'. This Final Reunion must have been quite a party; all nine entertainments listed on the programme are preceded by a toast. This might be related somewise to the instruction printed at the foot of the first page: 'Guests are requested to bring the Lid of their Mess Tin with them'. The Societies, as above] unknown
1941Best.-Nr. 79998Adelaide: 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' The Author 1941. Octavo v first two blank 5 last two blank 484 pages. Overlapping limp cloth with a paper title-label on the spine; covers slightly marked bumped and indented with marginal pinpricks to the front cover and the first 60 or so pages; endpapers offset with the rear one marked; overall a very good copy of an indifferent production meaning the pinpricks are probably 'as-issued'!. Inscribed 'To Eric & Jean McLaughlin with the Compliments & Best Wishes of F.E. Rogers Xmas /41'. The book was hand-set and printed by the author who apologizes in the preface for the many errors present. 'These errors are due I think mainly to composing much of the matter without an intervening manuscript stage' - no mean feat! Frederick Edward Rogers 1865-1947 was an English doctor. He recounts in his memoirs that 'In 1923 my health being indifferent my wife and I and two younger daughters set sail for Adelaide South Australia where we joined our second girl who had married a Digger'. We have previously sighted an obituary that mentioned that a second volume of memoirs was published in 1945; Farmer does not record this in 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 and the supplement in 1976. 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' [The Author] hardcover
Best.-Nr. 109232The Hundred of Kappakoola sic derived from Kappakoola Hill near Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula is the best we can do to give this item some context. The horse features at South Australian country races in a few issues of the 'Sporting News' in 1913 and 1914 information courtesy of Trove; apparently she photographed better than she raced. unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 128025Unley: Chas P. Scott 1900. Very Good. Unley Chas P. Scott circa 1900s. A sepia-toned postcard-format gelatin silver photograph 138 × 87 mm blind-stamped with the photographer's details 'Chas P. Scott Unley S.A.'; the caption is inkstamped at the head of the recto and the verso is printed for use as a postcard. Tiny surface chip and crease to the top right-hand corner-tip; in excellent condition. Charles Scott 1878-1928 is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street Adelaide in directories from 1909 to 1915 his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street Goodwood Park' Photohistory SA website. The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image in its collection; this example with the address in Unley an Adelaide suburb near Goodwood Park would appear to have been produced prior to Scott's relocation to Waymouth Street. The Adelaide 'Chronicle' for 8 September 1932 quotes a letter from F.W. Marsh formerly of Oodnadatta reminiscing about this portrait a copy of which hung 'in the strangers' room at Tattersalls Club. Well Jacky Rags when about three years old came with two other black boys early one morning to my place in Oodnadatta. When I asked what they wanted I was told that his father Charlie had killed his mother that night with a boomerang and that Jacky had come to me for protection. I kept him for a long time but when he was about 15 years old he was persuaded to ask me to allow him to go for a spell meaning he wanted to go to the camp in the bush. I let him go and later found that the older blacks had performed certain ceremonies on him from which he never recovered. He developed consumption and died a year or so later. I think living on the whites' food for so many years and then going to the bush where those to be initiated are starved until they are very weak so that the ceremony can be performed easily led to his early death. The name Jacky Rags was given him because whatever clothes he received in a day or two they would be in rags. He was a good lad'. Chas P. Scott unknown
1839Best.-Nr. 131166London: C. Dolman 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London C. Dolman 1839. Octavo ii title leaf to Volume VI 449-466 pages. Full green morocco bordered and lettered in gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; expertly sealed tear to the inner margin of the title leaf; in fine condition. The reviewer well-informed but facetious in the extreme engages almost entirely with James's book and shares some of his reservations about the planning and organisation of the fledgling colony of South Australia. He concludes: 'Mr James's book exposes all that is evil in the management of the experiment of colonizing on the new plan . and in order that both sides may be heard the reader may consult Mr Stephens's hypercritical and somewhat captious reply'. C. Dolman hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. 108334Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co 1887. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. 1887. Square octavo 17 pages with two full-page portrait illustrations of Robert Thomas and William Kyffin Thomas versos blank. As issued without wrappers and stapled through the inner margins; first page a little foxed; staples slightly rusty; pencilled ownership signature on the first page; overall an excellent copy. Although all 7481 words of this publication are transcribed in the Trove Digital Library record for this item only two copies of the original edition are listed in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of South Australia. W.K. Thomas & Co paperback
1929Best.-Nr. 147300Kapunda: 'Kapunda Herald' Print 1929. Very Good. Kapunda 'Kapunda Herald' Print 1929. Small octavo 116 pages. Later red rexine lettered in gilt on the spine; boards a little bowed; endpapers slightly bubbled and offset; an excellent copy. 'This short account would have been impossible to put forth in book form but for the generous co-operation of Mr L.N. Tilbrook our valued friend and fellow townsman and the present-day proprietor and editor of the "Kapunda Herald". To him we owe our grateful thanks for his risk in printing and publishing. Also to those who readily contributed their store of "memories" we offer our sincere thanks our only regret being that more did not join in the work and thus enable a fuller and more complete volume to be issued' preface. The primary binding is blue cloth; these red rexine covers were produced by the bindery of the State Library of South Australia in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We have seen reference to a similar copy with the ownership signature of the South Australian historian Dr John Tregenza. It included a note in his hand on the front endpaper: 'Made up from sheets discovered in the "Kapunda Herald" office by R.J. Noye c. 1966. Presented by Mr Noye 15 May 1969'. Robert James 'Bob' Noye 1932-2002 was a Clare local historian and pre-eminent photo-historian. The original issue of this parochial history is very rare; this later issue is very scarce in our experience. 'Kapunda Herald' Print unknown
1903Best.-Nr. 140399Adelaide: Webb & Son Printers 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb & Son Printers 1903. Octavo 248 pages with numerous illustrations plus an errata slip tipped in at the title page. Watered cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; one gathering misfolded resulting in incorrect pagination; final leaf creased a trifling production flaw; occasional pencil annotations; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. The early inkstamp of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia SA Branch Adelaide is on the title page and one other page; the first one has a cancellation stamp dated 7 October 1925. The later ownership signature 1975 of Brian Lewis Jones author and South Australian Uniting Church identity is on the front free endpaper. Webb & Son, Printers hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 96383Adelaide: Webb and Son 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Webb and Son 1903. Octavo 248 pages with numerous illustrations plus an errata slip tipped in on the title page. Watered cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little sunned on the spine and lightly marked with light wear to the extremities; minimal conservation to the inner hinges; minor signs of use and age; overall a very good copy. Provenance: James Richard Fowler 1865-1939 one of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty D. & J. Fowler Limited and the famous Lion Brand with his ownership signature Jas R Fowler on the front free endpaper and his emphases in pencil on about 15 pages. His 'beautiful home and grounds on Osmond Terrace' is illustrated on page 10. Webb and Son hardcover
Best.-Nr. 108942Fine. A gelatin silver photograph 237 × 307 mm unmounted as issued: in fine condition. The ink-stamp of the photographer 'J. Gazard 111 King Wm. St. Adelaide' is on the verso together with a pencilled caption reading: 'June 21 1905. Unveiling of the Monument to Colonel Light the founder of Adelaide in Light Square Adelaide where his remains are buried'. Light Square became the burial place of Colonel William Light in 1839; the original monument erected over his grave in 1843 became damaged and was replaced. 'The new monument which still stands today consisted of a theodolite placed on a tall column. It was unveiled on the 21 June 1905 to a large crowd that included "old colonists" who had witnessed Light's funeral 66 years previously seated on either side of the monument. Sir Samuel Way addressed the crowd reinforcing Light's legend by recalling the achievements and adventures of the founder of Adelaide. The Mayor of Adelaide Mr Theodore Bruce then proceeded with the unveiling of the monument' 'Adelaidia' website. This impressive image captures it all. unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 100289Adelaide: printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works 1914. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works 1914. Quarto 8 pages plus the covers. Overlapping two-colour wrappers a little foxed and marked with slight loss to the bottom right-hand corner tips; a very good copy internally fine. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba Miss Doris Madden Mr John Lemmone Mr Fred C. Collier Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society' and not least The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works. They produced a very handsome souvenir with all pages printed in two colours and the title page festooned with the colour flags of the Allied nations. printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works paperback
1890Best.-Nr. 128029Adelaide: Fruhling Studio 62 Rundle Street 1890. Very Good. Adelaide Fruhling Studio 62 Rundle Street mid- to late-1890s. A vintage gelatin silver photograph 134 × 94 mm mounted on the original cabinet card 165 × 110 mm with the photographer's details blindstamped in the bottom margin. Both the photograph and mount are in excellent condition. Contemporary business directories indicate that Fruhling Studio commenced operating from 62 Rundle Street in 1895 'Portrait and Enlarging Co. Fruhling & Co.'; this 'continued until 1913 when the address was changed to 62A Rundle Street. From 1918 to 1927 the address was given as 103A Rundle Street. Although listed as Fruhling & Co. in directories the name Fruhling Studios sic was usually printed on their photographs' Photohistory SA website. The particulars of the uniform elude us but the following information about the parlous state of military affairs in colonial SA at the time this photograph was taken provides some context. These comments come from an unpublished manuscript by Geoffrey H. Manning 'The Russians are Coming - The Defence of Colonial South Australia' now in the State Library of SA. 'By May of 1896 it was finally recognised that the basis upon which the military forces of the Australian colonies were organised was unsatisfactory and it was to cure defects and place matters on a more effective footing that a Consolidating and Amending Act had been passed in the previous session. In the dying days of Parliament its progress through all stages was pushed on and the headlong speed with which it was carried through the two chambers necessarily militated against the critical examination of its many clauses.The fact that the majority of the sections were merely repetitions of those in existing Acts was obviously no justification for dealing with the Bill in such a spasmodic manner. After the Act was assented to more than four months were allowed to pass without anything being done to bring the members of the old force together with a view to acquainting them with the conditions under which they were to be asked to enroll and this policy of procrastination was observed to the last. Enrolment commenced in August but in the face of the many other allurements held out to the youth of South Australia in the form of cricket football baseball lacrosse and - most attractive of all - cycling it was not to be wondered that the process of recruiting was painfully slow; by mid-February 1897 there had been 611 enrollments. With this change came the end of the colourful uniforms that marked the early military history of the colony. The scarlet tunics white-striped blue trousers and white helmets that had followed the grey uniform of the 1880s - the "Destitutes" they called the men in these uniforms - were replaced by khaki with maroon facings and a felt hat. The first parade of the new military forces took place on 3 October 1896 when "The South Australian Army" presented a rather nondescript appearance owing to the fact of so many recruits being in the ranks and yet unprovided with uniforms and also a proportion of men in the old force whose uniforms were worn out and too shabby for wear. The public manifested little interest in the proceedings - it was race-day - and moreover the band was not expressively in evidence. A few people probably the mothers and fathers the sisters and the aunts of the new recruits attended'. Fruhling Studio, 62 Rundle Street unknown
1918Best.-Nr. 129351Adelaide: Intelligence and Tourist Bureau R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Intelligence and Tourist Bureau R.E.E. Rogers Government Printer November 1918. Octavo 48 pages with numerous illustrations plus 2 folding maps. Cord-bound overlapping card covers with a couple of tiny closed tears at the edges; covers and adjacent leaves a little foxed; slight loss to the top corner of the first eight leaves; a very good copy. The French economic mission was touring South Australia when the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. In his welcome at the beginning of this publication the Premier Archibald Peake presages this development. 'Australia rejoices that her citizen soldiers have been afforded the glorious privilege of assisting to vindicate the cause of Truth Liberty and Justice and our men count it an imperishable honour that in the task they have been associated with the soldiers of Immortal France. We pray that ere the distinguished Mission returns to its beloved land complete and decisive Victory will have been won by the Allies and the Joy Bells of Peace will have rung throughout the world'. Intelligence and Tourist Bureau (R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer) paperback
1924Best.-Nr. 144460Adelaide: Lonnen & Cope Printers for the auctioneers Bagot Shakes & Lewis Limited 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide Lonnen & Cope Printers for the auctioneers Bagot Shakes & Lewis Limited 1924. Quarto 8 pages with 2 plans a bird's-eye view of the area and numerous illustrations from photographs. Overlapping wrappers lettered and decorated in black and gilt with an oval illustration 79 × 144 mm mounted on the front cover; in near-fine condition. A substantial sales brochure for a subdivision opposite King's College now Pembroke School in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide. The area includes the present-day streets The Parade Dunstan Avenue Tobruk Avenue Yeronga Avenue Borda Street and Spencer Street. The houses being sold were the substantial stone villas at 341 The Parade Kensington Park on the corner of The Parade and Dunstan Avenue and Lot 3 Hill Street now 22 Dunstan Avenue Kensington Park. Lonnen & Cope, Printers (for the auctioneers Bagot, Shakes & Lewis, Limited) paperback
1904Best.-Nr. 20556Adelaide: J.L. Bonython & Co 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide J.L. Bonython & Co. 1904. Tall octavo 248 × 165 mm 12 pages last blank. Salmon-coloured wrappers with the full title page details repeated within a decorative border on the front cover; a fine copy. J.L. Bonython & Co paperback
1936Best.-Nr. 94645Adelaide: 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
1936Best.-Nr. 124788Port Augusta: Port Augusta Diamond Jubilee and State Centenary Celebrations Committee 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Port Augusta Port Augusta Diamond Jubilee and State Centenary Celebrations Committee 1936. Quarto 122 pages with numerous illustrations plus a colour frontispiece tipped in on the first page and visible through a gilt-edged oval-shaped window in the front cover. Overlapping wrappers slightly creased and chipped with minimal conservation to a few of them; an excellent copy. Port Augusta Diamond Jubilee and State Centenary Celebrations Committee paperback
2005Best.-Nr. 147477Sydney: Art Gallery NSW 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Sydney Art Gallery NSW 2005. Quarto 300 pages extensively illustrated mainly in colour complete with the CD-ROM catalogue raisonné of paintings monotypes and ceramics in a plastic sleeve mounted on the rear free endpaper. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. The book was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales July to October 2005. Art Gallery NSW hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. 145883Kent Town: Prince Alfred College 1948. Very Good. Kent Town Prince Alfred College 1948 to 1950. Quarto six issues bound in one volume comprising Volume XV Numbers 210-214: pages 293-528 with numerous illustrations plus the original wrappers except for the rear cover of Number 210; and Volume XVI Number 215: 64 pages plus 4 pages of plates from photographs. Contemporary quarter burgundy suede and tan sheep unlettered but decorated in blind on the front cover see below; minor signs of age and handling; overall in very good condition. The amateur but competent binding features the school emblem and motto 'Fac Fortia et Patere' hand-tooled on the front cover. Prince Alfred College unknown
1886Best.-Nr. 140873Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1886. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1886. Foolscap folio xiv last blank 60 last blank pages with 4 line illustrations and numerous tables plus a large folding plan 'Design for Economical Permanent Way for Railways and Tramways' approximately 486 × 678 mm. Drop-title; a few needle-holes and notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now disbound; short sealed tear near the stub of the plan; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 111 of 1886; one of only 700 copies. The Committee was 'appointed to take evidence and report upon the advisability of constructing a light line of railway from Port Augusta to the north-west'. Phillips Ponds is about 180 kms from Port Augusta which puts it about 10 kms from Woomera. An interesting paper highlighting pastoral pioneering difficulties. E. Spiller, Government Printer unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 106625Adelaide: Government Printer 'Issued by authority of the Minister for Trade and Customs and the Commonwealth Rationing Commission' 1943. Adelaide Government Printer 'Issued by authority of the Minister for Trade and Customs and the Commonwealth Rationing Commission' 1943. Tabloid approximately 380 × 255 mm printed recto and verso; a fine copy. A dotted line is printed across the middle of one side where the sheet was apparently intended to be cut in half. The top half forms an oblong double-sided leaflet 'The Black Market is the Traitor's Market'. The bottom half is designed to be folded to form a four-page octavo leaflet 'Coupons or Chaos'. The publication date is derived from internal evidence not least the date on the facsimile registration slip 15 June 1943 made out to John Citizen Kokoda Road Melbourne. Government Printer ('Issued by authority of the Minister for Trade and Customs and the Commonwealth Rationing Commission') unknown
