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1936réf. 125803Adelaide: D. Darian Smith Commercial & Aerial Photography 1936. Very Good. Adelaide D. Darian Smith Commercial & Aerial Photography 1936. A panoramic gelatin silver photograph 128 × 322 mm unmounted as issued with the ink-stamp of the photographer on the verso. The print has a slight longitudinal curl and a few light creases near the right-hand edge; overall in excellent condition. The photograph was taken as the landscaping in the front of the building was being undertaken; the horse-drawn roller seems an anachronism against the backdrop of the impressive Art Deco facade. The State Library of South Australia has in its collection a raking shot of the building taken from the north-east showing the completed landscaping SLSA B 7265. 'Centennial Hall built to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Colony later State of South Australia and to house the 1936 Centennial Empire Exhibition was opened on 20 March 1936. It was considered to be a significant historical landmark and was one of the few remaining examples of 1930s Art Deco architecture in Adelaide. However the building developed "concrete cancer" and was closed at the end of the 2005 Royal Show because it was unsafe. Demolition of Centennial Hall commenced on Wednesday 18 July 2007' Wikipedia. A huge poster advertising the Centennial Exhibition is visible in this image. D. Darian Smith, Commercial & Aerial Photography unknown
réf. 122553First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 22 numbers bound as two books 68 Volume 8; 72 Volume 9; 68 Volume 10; 72 Volume 11; 70 Volume 12; and 88 Volume 13 pages with illustrations plus plates and the original printed wrappers. Contemporary non-uniform binder's cloth flecked heavily in one case with the title written in ink on the spines; very good copies with the contents in fine condition apart from minor wear along the hinge of one folding plate. Provenance: Frank Trigg 1876-1963 with his personal 'Conchological Library' bookplate on the front pastedowns his annotations on the front free endpapers and his occasional signature or initials. Frank Trigg 'held the office as treasurer and committeeman of the Field Naturalists' section of the RGGS for a number of years. He was also a past chairman of the Malacological Society' Port Elliot 'Southern Argus' Thursday 25 April 1935. He was also the SA Government Printer from 1935 to 1941. Many of these issues contain contributions by him in his capacity as secretary of the South Australian Shell Club. Many of the other contributors are well-known: John Burton Cleland Edwin Ashby Herbert Hale Bernard Cotton Walter Howchin John Black Ernest Ising Charles Fenner . even George Aiston and Norman Tindale make cameo appearances. 2 items. hardcover
réf. 109418The signatories are a'Beckett Fairfax Grimmett Hurwood Kippax Oldfield and Walker. The signatures were collected by the parents of a five year-old boy when the family travelled on the same ship as the cricketers on the voyage to England in early 1930. The leaves are the first two in an album with the printed image of the ship the Orient Line's SS 'Orford' on the front cover; some of the leaves are held in place with clear paper tape but the overall condition is very good. The page was also signed in pencil by Victor Richardson and again by Walker but the young owner went over these signatures in ink after first having tried to erase the second Walker signature written at right angles along the right-hand side at the end of the other signatures. The balance of the squad's signatures on another page are similarly gone over. However among the seven decent signatures there are some famous names as well as some rare and interesting Test players. Ted a'Beckett played in four Tests; Alec Hurwood played in only two Tests; Charlie Walker toured twice 1930 and 1938 without playing in a Test match due to injuries and he was killed in action in a bombing mission over Germany in 1942. unknown
1999réf. 54792North Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. North Adelaide Corkwood Press 1999 facsimile edition/ 1893; 2002 first thus; and 2003 first thus. Octavo 207 pages plus 2 huge maps each 770 × 1450 mm in a separate cloth-covered case the journal; oblong quarto xii pages plus 107 plates printed rectos only the photograph album; and octavo vi 133 pages the confidential report. Cloth; a fine set. Each of the three parts is limited to 400 numbered copies; the three were published at different times and the volumes offered here do not carry the same edition number. The two maps accompanying the journal are essentially the same but the second one has geological details overprinted in colour. 4 items. Corkwood Press hardcover
1931réf. 127583Adelaide: The Hassell Press Printers 1931. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Hassell Press Printers 1931. Octavo 136 pages with a few illustrations of exhibits and numerous advertisements many of them illustrated plus rear cover advertisements. Pictorial wrappers featuring a striking design by Rex Wood on the front cover slightly marked; essentially a fine copy. The catalogue contains 1776 entries each containing a short description of the item and frequently the name of the lender. The Hassell Press [Printers] paperback
1970réf. 142152Adelaide: 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' for the Author 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' for the Author 1970. Small octavo 177 × 112 mm iv 20 pages with a few illustrations plus a loosely inserted postscript leaf dated 1 May 1971. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly flecked; an excellent copy. Number 18 of only 30 copies signed by the author. A personal account of where Paul Gauguin was in January and February 1903. 'Privately printed by A. & E. Lewis' (for the Author) hardcover
1910réf. 114269Adelaide: Gawler Institute 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Gawler Institute 1910. Large octavo iv 450 xxv advertisements pages with numerous illustrations and likely to cause collation discrepancies most of the pages from 427 are unnumbered illustrations mainly portraits printed on the versos of the advertisements. Original quarter cloth and papered boards lightly rubbed at the extremities and a little worn at the corners with the boards a little marked; spine sunned; light tidemark and cockling to a thin strip along the bottom margin of the last fifteen leaves; a very good copy. A substantial history of a town with a substantial history; a feature of the book is a detailed biographical register running to more than 80 pages. Provenance: Charles E. Cameron Wilson with his pencilled ownership signature on the title page. Gawler Institute hardcover
1931réf. 80489Adelaide: 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide 'Printed and Published by the Author' 1931. Octavo 171 pages with the press mark on the title page. Flush-cut quarter cloth and plain papered boards with the title indistinctly printed along the spine; stitching loose; however it is probably pretty much an as-issued copy of a very indifferent private press production. Inscribed by the author who later released his hand-set and hand-printed items under the imprint of The Horace Walpole Press. Offered together with four other titles from the Press: 'Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1933; 'More Occasional Verse' by Rogers 1935 and 'Selections from Modern French Poetry' and 'Dips into the Classics' both translated by H.E. Ashley and F.E. Rogers. Although the last two mentioned are undated Farmer 'Private Presses and Australia' 1972 gives 1938 as the publication date of 'Selections from Modern French Poetry'. As this book lists all of the titles recorded by Farmer other than 'Memoirs of a Medico' 1941 it seems reasonable to suggest that the six undated titles in Farmer appeared not later than 1938. Of the four extra titles offered here only 'Occasional Verse' is not inscribed and signed by the author. 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'. 5 items. 'Printed and Published by the Author' hardcover
1905réf. 80055Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers 1905. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers and Publishers May 1905 second edition first in book form. Small octavo 45 pages with an illustration plus 22 pages of plates and a small folding map. Bound without the original pictorial wrappers or advertisements in contemporary half morocco and cloth a little rubbed at the extremities and bumped on the bottom corners; spine lightly sunned with a few short surface cracks; cloth slightly marked; a very good copy internally excellent. This edition was published in pictorial wrappers and contained four leaves of advertisements before the title page and six leaves of advertisements at the rear; these ten leaves have been excised from this copy. The first edition was the series of newspaper articles treating of visits to the island in January and March 1905. Provenance: the ownership signatures of two South Australian identities are written in pencil on the front free endpaper - A. Kyffin Thomas possibly Amelia the wife of Robert newspaper proprietor and son of the W.K. Thomas of W.K. Thomas & Co. and W.H. Langham at one stage President of the Board of Governors of the Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of South Australia and the bibliographer of The Hassell Press. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers and Publishers paperback
1926réf. 144507Adelaide: The Lutheran Publishing Co. Ltd 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Lutheran Publishing Co. Ltd. 1926. Octavo ii 89 pages with 40 pages of plates. Cloth blue intermingled with white and black lettered in black on the front cover; entire thin book slightly bowed and lightly rubbed at the extremities; an excellent copy. The front pastedown carries a presentation inscription indicating the book was a Christmas gift in 1945 19 years after it was published! to a student at 'St Pauls Lutheran Church Sunday School at Summerfield' originally Summerfeldt near Mannum an area currently known as Tepko. Offered together with the 'Second Koonibba Jubilee Booklet 1901-1951' octavo 40 pages with 35 illustrations; an excellent copy in the original wrappers edited by the Reverends E. Harms and C. Hoff who may have also edited the first volume. The former Lutheran mission of Koonibba is in the far west of South Australia near Ceduna. 2 items. The Lutheran Publishing Co., Ltd hardcover
2002réf. 146488Adelaide: Axiom Publishing in association with the John Bray Law Chapter of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Adelaide Axiom Publishing in association with the John Bray Law Chapter of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide 2002. Small quarto 366 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Papered boards; front cover slightly marked; front free endpaper slightly stained from the adhesive used to mount two signed cards see below; overall an excellent copy with the near-fine dustwrapper slightly rubbed in the pictorial slipcase with the original laminate bubbled with slight loss on one side. The deluxe edition being number 220 of 275 copies with the limitation stated on the first of two cards mounted facing each other on two early blanks. The cards are personally signed by the editor and 13 prominent members of the South Australian legal and political fraternities above their printed names. The signatories are Sir William Deane Sir Harry Gibbs Len King Elizabeth Evatt Ted Mullighan Marcus Einfeld Amanda Vanstone Geoff Muecke Clyde Cameron Kevin Marjoribanks Noni Farwell Peter Bassett Susan Magarey and Helena Jasinski. The cards are now loosely inserted as the paste is ineffective as well as decidedly inferior. A contemporary personalised presentation plate is mounted on the half-title. Axiom Publishing in association with the John Bray Law Chapter of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide hardcover
1909réf. 101652Adelaide: W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Adelaide W.K. Thomas & Co. Printers 1909. Quarto 23 pages plus 11 full-page plates. Card covers; a near-fine copy. A lavish souvenir produced to commemorate the opening of the new building in Grenfell Street on 3 April 1909. The substantial pile near the corner of King William Street has since been demolished. W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers paperback
1868réf. 58411Adelaide: Government Printer 1868. Very Good. Adelaide Government Printer 1868. Foolscap folio 12 pages. Drop-title; small holes in the inner margins where stab-sewn when bound now neatly disbound; uncut leading and bottom edges slightly chipped with some lightly tidemarked; scattered pale foxing; a very good copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 81 of 1868. Government Printer unknown
1887réf. 144645Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1887 this Adelaide edition is the first edition. Octavo xxii last blank 301 2 blank colophon pages plus a Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Bishop Short image size 145 × 98 mm mounted on card printed with his facsimile signature. Gilt-pictorial brown cloth a little flecked rubbed and bumped; trifling signs of use and age; overall an excellent copy. A London edition of this book was published in 1888 with pages ix-304 from the table of contents onwards being the sheets of this Adelaide edition. The first eight pages the cloth colour lettering and decoration differ and it invariably contains the Woodburytype frontispiece portrait. The Woodburytype is derived from the original albumen silver photograph occasionally but not invariably found as the frontispiece in the Adelaide edition. Ferguson 18499 not noting the last point. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
réf. 73309One item is quarto; one is 260 × 140 mm; the others are octavo nine of them are single-paged - five of which have conjugate blanks - and the others each contain two to four pages of text. The most interesting items are leaflets for the Annual Literary Competition in 1885 one page 1888 2 pages 260 × 140 mm and 1889 4 pages with one page announcing the sixth annual competition and another page devoted to reading clubs. The other items are notices of meetings some with agendas an 1888 questionnaire sent to member societies and an unused SALSU prize plate 100 × 80 mm mounted on a blank page of the only duplicate item in the group. George Hussey was general secretary for the entire period. The 1885 item above has a chipped creased and torn blank bottom margin and the 1888 item above is creased and folded with some mainly marginal splits along two folds; overall the condition is very good or better. Nothing if not rare and there is enough wheat among the chaff to get the literary taste and flavour of the times. 14 items. unknown
1986réf. 140420Marden: South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Marden South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc 1986. Octavo four volumes xvi 479; xvi i 480-945; xvi i 946-1414; and xvi 1415-1762 2 127 index pages. Cloth slightly rubbed; ownership label to each front free endpaper; an excellent set. A perennially useful reference work. 4 items. South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc hardcover
réf. 96068A vintage gelatin silver photograph 210 × 150 mm on the original mount. The photograph has a small chip and slight surface loss near the bottom right-hand corner affecting only the canopy of a large tree; the mount is a little worn with light marginal stains well clear of the image. Undated but probably circa 1900 with a horse-drawn tram and a bicycle the only vehicles on King William Road below; the photographer is unidentified. unknown
1850réf. 110032London: James Blackwood 1850. Hardcover. London James Blackwood early edition circa 1850s. Duodecimo xxxii 33-323 pages plus a frontispiece 'Castle of Chillon'. Early half calf and marbled papered boards all edges and endpapers marbled with the spine extensively gilt-decorated in compartments with a contrasting title-label; leather a little rubbed at the extremities and bumped at the corners; marbled paper moderately rubbed and worn along the edges with slight loss to the rear cover; early leaves slightly marked; a binder's blank at the rear has an internal tear; overall a very presentable copy. The initial binder's blank is inscribed 'To Mrs Tennant With Mary Gardner's Kindest Love. North Terrace. 28 Augst 1862'. With more than a little help from the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' we have discovered this was a wedding present. On that day Rachael Christina Ferguson married a young Andrew Tennant 1835-1913 pastoralist and politician Tennant Creek is named after his father. One of their daughters Rosina Forsyth Tennant married the pastoralist William Tennant Mortlock yes genealogy is sometimes confusing. One of their children was John Andrew Tennant Mortlock 1894-1950 pastoralist and philanthropist. He was the State Library of South Australia's most significant benefactor and the Mortlock Wing is named after him. James Blackwood hardcover
1904réf. BIB331194Adelaide: Royal Society of South Australia. 1904. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. Some age-toning to edges and light crease to front free endpaper. Fifteen black & white plates inc one fold-out and 10 colour plates. Also includes an additional 22 plates including two fold-out diagrams relating to the geology of the Mount Lofty Ranges. 40 pages plus 29 plates at rear. Basedow's work on the Aboriginal tribes of Central Australia He names the Tribes as i. The Karkurrerra; ii. The Alinjerra; iii. The Wilrurrerra Wilruddida; iv. The Ullparidja. Also contains other items relating to Natural History and Geology including Howchin's Geology of the Mouth Lofty Ranges part I. The Coastal District. . Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover. Royal Society of South Australia paperback
1884réf. 144503Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1884. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1884. Foolscap folio 3 pages plus a large folding map 530 × 580 mm overprinted in blue. Drop-title; needle-holes and small notches in the inner margins where sewn when bound now disbound; paper lightly tanned; clean tears to the map expertly sealed; an excellent copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 178 of 1884; 2550 copies printed but decidedly uncommon in our experience. The 'etc.' in the title refers to 'White Mulberry Planting' and 'Planting Dates in the Far North'. The map of the entire state is overprinted in blue with 'some Waters suitable for Irrigation in the Northern portion of the Province' and the principal fresh-water springs north of Port Augusta which have 'more or less small areas of land in proximity' likely to be suitable for growing dates. These include Lungley's Gully Glen Ferdinand Titania Springs and the source of the Read Creek all in the Musgrave Ranges. E. Spiller, Government Printer] unknown
1983réf. 147611Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Melbourne Oxford University Press 1983. Quarto 224 pages with hundreds of illustrations from photographs. Papered boards lightly rubbed at the extremities; a few light pencil annotations in the text; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper. 'This book traces in photographs drawn from archival sources the destruction of the city's architectural heritage from 1900 to the present day' dustwrapper blurb. Loosely inserted are modern reproductions of two vintage photographs extensively annotated on the verso.3 items. Oxford University Press hardcover
1978réf. 146160Hampstead Gardens: Austaprint 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Hampstead Gardens Austaprint 1978 facsimile edition/ 1907 and 1909. Quarto two volumes vi viii 630; and iv viii 1101 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Cloth slightly flecked and rubbed; edges a little marked; an excellent set. This facsimile edition was limited to 1000 sets. 2 items. Austaprint hardcover
1978réf. BIB329277Adelaide: Austaprint. 1978. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition and excellent set. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt to face and spine. Two 2 volume set. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 630 1101 pages. A facsimile of the original 1907 and 1909 editions. An historical and commercial review with descriptive and biographical facts figures and illustrations. The Cyclopedia presents a comprehensive account of the State of South Australia in most of its multifarious aspects and of its founders and builders who have been actively engaged in its affairs. A fantastic resource. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Very Good. Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Austaprint hardcover
1938réf. 129295Perth: Brokensha & Shaw Ltd 1938. Hardcover. Near fine. Perth Brokensha & Shaw Ltd. 1938 revised and expanded edition/ 1916. Octavo 84 pages with a captioned portrait of the author 'now in her 98th year' mounted on the verso of the title page plus 8 pages of plates and a folding map. Stylish two-tone papered boards lettered in gilt on the front cover lightly rubbed at the extremities; title page and the verso of the folding map a little discoloured due to contact with the pastedowns - there are no flyleaves as issued; folding map lightly creased along the leading edge; a near-fine copy of a fragile production. The balance of the title sets the scene: 'Where the Writer Mrs. J. Fairfax Conigrave a daughter of one of South Australia's well-remembered pioneers Mr Charles Price of Hindmarsh Island spent her childhood'. The front cover gives the author's name as 'Sarah Conigrave'. While the original 1916 edition is very rare this edition is also very scarce: it is only the fourth copy we have handled in over 45 years. Brokensha & Shaw Ltd hardcover
réf. 127210Fine. An original black pencil drawing mounted and matted visible image size 254 × 180 mm initialled and captioned in pencil along the bottom edge. The drawing is slightly foxed with one short errant pencil mark in the right background; the mat is in fine condition. Robert Emerson Curtis 1898-1996 English-born Australian artist architectural draftsman camouflage officer and official war artist emigrated to Queensland in 1914. In 1922 he 'travelled to the USA with his great friend the pioneer filmmaker Charles Chauvel. There he developed what was to become a lifelong interest in industrial modernism and on returning to Sydney in 1928 he set about documenting the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He painted murals and did industrial illustration in 1932-38 including the series "Australia at Work" which was syndicated in Australian newspapers. During WWII Curtis recorded working life in the Commonwealth Munition factories 1939-41 worked as Camouflage Officer in Australia and with the RAAF in New Guinea 1941-43 until he was finally appointed an official war artist to record the nation's industrial war-time production 1943-45. More than 200 works are in the Australian War Memorial AWM collection' Design & Art Australia Online. unknown
