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1978Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1994Best.-Nr. 128682Largs Bay: The Author 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Largs Bay The Author 1994. Large octavo xxii 311 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; tiny stain to the leading margin of the front flyleaf and the two adjacent leaves; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly creased. The title page is signed in ink by the author 10 June 1994. Loosely inserted is an index card with details of the schooner 'Crinoline' in the author's hand signed 'Jim Gillespie'. Provenance: Keith McCoy with his ownership details on the title page. He is presumably a descendant of Captain Alexander McCoy owner of the 'Crinoline' there are some annotations next to his name on page 36 and in the index. Keith McCoy was a Cape Horner 'Pamir' 1949: he was about 19 at the time!; later he was an airline pilot with Guinea Airways and Ansett. In his retirement he flew the replica 'Southern Cross' in Australia and New Zealand. The Author hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 143811Adelaide: E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Very Good. Adelaide E. Spiller Government Printer 1880. Foolscap folio 2 pages plus 5 maps 4 full-page; one folding sheet size approximately 334 × 302 mm. Drop-title; needle-holes and small notches in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound now neatly disbound; a few trifling spots of foxing; in excellent condition. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 112 of 1880. The maps are: 'Plan of Proposed Hundreds and Addition to Hundred No. 244 Cos. Taunton & Blachford' folding; ' . County Burra'; '. County Mac-Donnell'; '. County Musgrave'; and 'Plan of Proposed Additions to Hundreds of Wirrega and Tatiara Co. Buckingham'. E. Spiller, Government Printer] unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 146612Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Corkwood Press 1997 facsimile edition/ 1906. Octavo xvi 384 pages with 6 illustrations plus 14 pages of plates 5 maps 4 in colour and 2 large folding colour maps in an endpocket. Full kangaroo leather with a pictorial paper onlay on the front cover; a fine copy. Number 25 of only 50 copies of the deluxe issue from a total print run of only 250 copies. Gregory's expedition was the first comprehensive scientific survey of the Lake Eyre Basin. Corkwood Press hardcover
1916Best.-Nr. 026991Brisbane: Watson Ferguson & Co 1916. 160pp few b/w plates. The spine binding is slackening although no pages seem to be detached. Endpapers toned. Occasional foxing. Previous owner's name with ownership statement on the front paste-down another prev owners name torn from top of title page. Decorative cloth boards. The boards are heavily silverfished with the decoration on the front board almost the only undamaged part of the original binding. Most of the spine title is still legible. Somewhat ugly but an extremely scarce first edition. An account of the author's time at Gallipoli and in the trenches as a rank and file soldier. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. Watson, Ferguson & Co Hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 050389Adelaide: Rigby 1976. 246pp index bibliography notes bw ills endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Light foxing to top edge otherwise as new-the best copy I have seen. The thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales have dwindled to a mere handful mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Rigby Hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 108091Mitcham: The Author 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Mitcham The Author 1997. Small quarto xvi 210 pages with numerous illustrations; loosely inserted is an addendum/corrigendum leaf for pages 151 and 154. Pictorial card covers; essentially a fine copy. Two issues of the newsletter of the Antique and Historical Arms Association of SA numbers 325 and 356 from 2000 and 2003 respectively are also loosely inserted. The Author paperback
1899Best.-Nr. 138187Adelaide: E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide E.S. Wigg & Son 1899. Octavo 84 pages plus a frontispiece portrait. Dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little rubbed and marked; free endpapers offset; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The author's memoirs dating back to 1838 first appeared as a series of articles in 'The South Australian Register' and 'The Adelaide Observer'. An utterly rare second series was published in 1901. Ferguson 10297 noting only black cloth; we have seen various colours. E.S. Wigg & Son hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. 1709020Milsons Point: Knopf 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A neat bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original charcoal boards with gilt title and credits to spine map endpapers. 818 pages including 32 black & white photographic plates bibliography and index. A highly engaging biography of the passionate controversial interpreter of Aboriginal culture. A major work of scholarship. A very nice copy of this scarce edition. Knopf hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 142574London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Octavo two volumes xii 391 and viii 400 pages plus a large folding colour map 850 × 590 mm in Volume I and a large folding 'Diagram shewing Lands sold between the Years 1835 and June 1892' in Volume II. Slate-blue cloth the secondary binding very lightly marked; hinges cracked but firm; tiny sealed tear and short crease to the leading edge of one front free endpaper; short sealed tear to both the folding map and diagram adjacent to the stub; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent set. The useful chronology extends over 228 pages. 2 items. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 115337Adelaide: The Author 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide The Author 1947. Octavo 94 pages. Wrappers; a few trifling blemishes near the foot of the spine; essentially a fine copy. 'The comments and collection of incidents in this Book are intended as a brief defence on behalf of a section of the South Australian people who had to endure much odium during two Wartime periods' introductory note. Sixty years on it's still an uneasy read. Hermann Robert Homburg 1874-1964 was a South Australian-born lawyer and politician. 'In 1906-15 and 1927-30 he was a non-Labor member for Murray in the House of Assembly and from 1933 to 1941 was a member of the Legislative Council Central No. 2. He was attorney-general under Peake in 1909-10 and minister for industry as well in 1912-15 and attorney-general and minister for industry in 1927-30 in the R.L. Butler ministry' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. He was also 'interned on 25 November 1940 but released after appeal on 21 December under open conditional arrest one condition being that he moved interstate. In January 1941 he was taken to Melbourne and in February moved to Ballarat whereupon he retired from parliament and did not recontest his seat. On 18 December 1942 he was allowed to return to Adelaide reporting to the police three times a week for the next eighteen months. None of the evidence presented against Homburg was more than circumstantial unsubstantiated or inconsequential. He recorded his experiences in both wars' in this publication. [The Author] paperback
1897Best.-Nr. 144087Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham 1897. Octavo viii 504 pages with 13 illustrations and numerous head- and tail-pieces plus a frontispiece portrait. Gilt-decorated tan cloth a little flecked and lightly sunned on the spine; endpapers and frontispiece lightly foxed with a few minute tears to the leading margin of the latter; a very good copy. Inscribed dated 17 December 1915 and signed by the author's nephew Geo. F. Hussey. Henry Hussey 1825-1903 'evangelist millenarian printer and historian' arrived in South Australia in 1839 and by 1850 was established as a printer. He later became a successful publisher and bookseller so his autobiography is not least an account of printing in colonial Adelaide. He was George Fife Angas's secretary from 1865 and compiled his biography which was edited by Edwin Hodder and published in 1891 under Hodder's name as was the 1893 two-volume 'History of South Australia'. 'Hussey's achievements in history and biography though somewhat filtered were more enduring than his adventism though his evangelical career was long and enthusiastic' and the work highlights 'the remarkable religious climate in South Australia in the nineteenth century'. If put off by the title read Gerald Fischer's engaging account of Hussey in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' first - it may change your mind. Bibliographers may be interested to learn that we have identified slight variations in copies. This copy with the posthumous inscription is overall 194 mm high with the publisher's name in sans serif type with all letters of uniform size. We have also handled a copy with a contemporary inscription by the author; it was 190 mm tall with the publisher's name in much smaller serif type using both large and small capitals on the first line. Both copies contained the paper binder's label of Hussey & Gillingham so presumably this is the sort of thing that can be done when the family firm prints binds and publishes one's autobiography. Provenance: Captain Samuel Albert White 1870-1954 South Australian ornithologist and conservationist not identified as such but we purchased the book from the White estate 'Weetunga' in suburban Fulham many years ago. Hussey & Gillingham hardcover
1980Best.-Nr. 139307Adelaide: Rigby 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adelaide Rigby 1980. Large quarto xii 888 pages with '1550 black and white illustrations'. Simulated half leather and parchment lettered in gilt; a fine copy with the fine original plain celluloid dustwrapper in the original cardboard mailing carton. The 'trade' edition limited to 990 copies this fact is not noted in the book. A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. Rigby hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 022941Berlin: Schliessen Verlag 1927. 239pp appendices 28 bw ills 2 folding maps. Or light brown cloth. Place/year written on front free endpaper bookplate on front pastedown-otherwise excellent. Extremely scarce first edition of this account of the Gallipoli camapign from the 'other side of the hill' by the Prussian and Turkish Major-General. Text in German/auf Deutsch. Printed in Gothic type. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Schliessen Verlag Hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 89752Adelaide: W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1925. Small quarto 64 pages with a full-page frontispiece portrait and 9 in-text illustrations mostly portraits. Flush-cut plain quarter cloth and printed papered boards; front cover a little marked with a small light stain near the top edge; first and last pages heavily offset as ever there are no endpapers as issued; a very good copy internally fine. The title page is signed boldly by the author. These memoirs of 42 years in the South Australian police force first appeared as a series of articles published in 'The Register'. Le Lievre was stationed at Burra Quorn Port Augusta Port Pirie Port Germein Redhill Nairne and Henley Beach among other places. W.K. Thomas and Co. [Printers] hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 054495Brisbane: Rodney Liddell 1996. viii 276pp bibliography chronology maps bw ills.Or pictorial glossy boards. Minor foxing to page edges and prelims-otherwise excellent. Somewhat controversial look at Aboriginal history in particular on Cape York greatly enlarged from the 96 page edition of five years earlier. Looks at a supposed Aboriginal 'invasion' of Australia and extermination of the original Papuans less than 1000 years ago savagery among the native tribes of Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands last century and violent confrontations of native tribes and massacre of hundreds of Europeans including men women and children cast ashore from numerous shipwrecks. 'The history many authors were afraid to write for fear of being branded as racist by biased and prejudicial views'. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Rodney Liddell Hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. BIB332836Adelaide: Men of South Australia/Vardon & Sons Ltd. 1933. Octavo Size approx 14x21cm. Very Good condition. Lovely red leather boards with gilt titles. Spine a little rubbed at rear edge and ends. Corners also a little rubbed. patterned foil endpapers and speckled edges. Name stamped to front cover. 106 plates with caricatures by H. Payze which include a photograph of the head of the subject biographical information and jokes about the subject. A lovely copy of a very uncommon book. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 116 pages. A who's who of prominent South Australians of the era. . Very Good. Private Edition. Hardback. Men of South Australia/Vardon & Sons Ltd. hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. BIB327888Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company. 1890. Quarto Size approx 24x29cm. Very Good condition. Gilt to page edges. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White lithographs portraits scenes plates. Repaired tear to one blank plate cover. Volume 1 only. 384 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback. The Aldine Publishing Company hardcover
1917Best.-Nr. 80144Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Hussey & Gillingham Limited Printers for the Author 1917. Octavo 112 pages. Original wrappers with the title page details repeated within a border on the front cover slightly rubbed creased and marked with minimal wear to the head of the spine; very light cockling to the front bottom corner throughout; overall an excellent copy. 'For private circulation'. Provenance: Frederick Fred Johns 1868-1932 journalist and biographer with his signature in pencil at the head of the front cover. In '1906 Johns compiled and published a biographical dictionary that was to become a national institution "Johns's Notable Australians". Three features characterized this and later editions: painstaking accuracy information obtained directly from the individuals concerned and apolitical factual entries with no comment or eulogy. It was republished in 1908 and in 1912-14 appeared as "Fred Johns's Annual". The series revived in 1922 as 'Who's Who in the Commonwealth of Australia' and in 1927 as "Who's Who in Australia"' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. Hussey & Gillingham Limited, Printers [for the Author] paperback
1992Best.-Nr. 7666Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1992. Small quarto. xi 220 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Limited edition of 1200 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 6900Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1992. Small quarto. xi 220 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. No.283 of the limited edition of 1200 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
1888Best.-Nr. 147537Adelaide: H.F. Leader Government Printer 1888. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide H.F. Leader Government Printer 1888 first thus. Octavo 188 last blank pages. Wrappers slightly chipped at the head of the spine; minimal signs of age and handling; an excellent copy. The book was originally prepared for the Jubilee Exhibition held in Adelaide the previous year. That edition contained a lengthy catalogue to the exhibition and index to the exhibitors pages 189-255 not included here. Provenance: Harold Llewellyn Sheard 1890-1975 amateur anthropologist and dedicated Charles Mountford archivist with his bookplate designed by his wife Rose Lowcay on the flyleaf. H.F. Leader, Government Printer paperback
