Pp. 124, frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, text illustrations; dust wrapper; name and date in ink on upper free endpaper, occasional minor pencilling; The National Press, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *Autobiography. The author started work as a bookseller at George Robertson & Co., Melbourne, aged 14. More
Pp. 12, printed in brown & black; demy 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers; leaves lightly browned; F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, n.d.[1947]. *Some notes from Cheshires. More
Edited by S. McInerney. Pp. xl+308(last blank), full page illustrations, notes, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1977. First edition. *Autobiography of the Australian eccentric whose controversial theories on sex, nudity and diet led to..... More
The Third Man. Foreword by John G. Gorton. Pp. x+254, 8 plates, index; boards a trifle bowed, edges lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly damp stained; date in ink at head of upper free endpaper, outer leaves and edges slightly soiled; Rigby, Adelaide, n.d.[1978]. First edition. *Signed by Don Chipp on..... More
Pp. [viii]+98, title page printed in brown & black; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised, foot of spine and bottom edge of boards lightly faded; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966. First edition. More
The Life and Work of Alan Rowland Chisholm (1888-1981). Foreword by Wallace Kirsop. Pp. xviii+220(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait, 7 full page black & white illustrations, list of works cited, further reading, index; dust wrapper; Ancora Press, Melbourne, 2019. First edition, limited to 200 copies. *Posthumously published biography of one..... More
The Adventures of Ludwig Leichhardt and John Gilbert. Pp. xxii+306, 16 plates, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, full page map, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle creased, with publicity wrap-around (also lightly creased); inked ownership inscription on upper free..... More
Issued in connection with the commemoration of one hundred years of church services held in the parish of Warrnambool 1847-1947. Foreword by Ronald E. Richards, Vicar, Christ Church, Warrnambool. Pp. 16, pictorial title page and several text illustrations; small cr. 4to; printed brown paper wrappers, stapled, the upper wrapper lettered..... More
An Australian journey. Pp. 408(last blank), double page map, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Viking Press, 1986. More
Reminiscences and autobiography of Emily E. Churchward nee Padman 1853-1933. Edited by Stella Mary Macdonald nee Churchward Kelly. Pp. 214, text illustrations (some full page); demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; a little light foxing; Investigator Press, Adelaide, 1984. First edition. *Inscribed by the editor on..... More
Pp. [vi]+282(last blank), 24 plates, printed endpapers, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; occasional minor pencilled marginalia, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Methuen/Haynes, Sydney, 1987. First edition. *Autobiography. Phyllis McGlew Cilento, M.B.B.S. has been a general practitioner, a pioneer in the fields of mothercraft, child care..... More
Complete in six volumes, totalling over 2,700 pages, with 98 plates, text maps (some full, one double page), appendices, bibliography, sources, indices; med. 8vo; blue cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards of Volume V slightly scuffed the bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised same volume; dust wrappers..... More
including the Report of Operation Sandfly, the 1981 Search. Pp. 64(last blank), text illustrations including maps (some full page), bibliography; demy 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges worn; ownership inscription on the title-page; The Mahogany Ship Committee, Warrnambool, Vic., 1982. Second edition. *Includes an opening address by Manning Clark..... More
Pp. x+214(last blank), 16 plates; med. 8vo;edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; Viking Press, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *The historian's first volume of autobiography, dealing with his early years. More
The story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia, 1945-85. Foreword by Sir Ninian Stephen. Pp. xii+288, 36 plates, pictorial endpapers, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial textured papered boards, corners a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, the front flap vertically creased; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1986. First edition. More
Convict, bushranger, explorer. Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly faded; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber, lived for five years among Aborigines in New South Wales in the early 1800s. He..... More
Pp. 288(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus text illustrations (some full page), index; small demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, a trifle sprung, edges lightly discoloured and rubbed; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1994. First edition. *Autobiography. More
An Australian Experience. Pp. [viii]+314, pictorial double title page, text illustrations (a couple full page); bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny surface chips to back panel; the title page faintly offset, pp. 304/5 quite..... More
An autobiography. Pp. [vi]+250(last blank); boards a trifle soiled and slightly canted, the spine faintly faded; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, short split to bottom edge of back panel near backstrip; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. *Autobiography. In 1945 the author's debut novel, Love..... More
A Sea Saga of the Sixties. Pp. 32(last colophon), title page vignette and text decorations by Allan Jordan; pictorial paper wrappers over card, stabbed & tied, edges slightly rubbed and browned; text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing; The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1945. First edition thus. *Adapted..... More
Pp. [viii]+124(last colophon), title page decoration printed in brown & black, patterned endpapers; dark red cloth, spine lettered in dull gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the cloth faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, browned on reverse and slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split; text block faintly browned..... More
Pp. xvi+208, frontispiece, title page vignette, 16 plates, text maps, endpaper map printed in green; top edge of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and a trifle foxed, edges slightly creased; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1958. First edition. More
with some fragments of autobiography. Introduction by Frank Eyre. Pp. xxiv+240, frontispiece portrait; dust wrapper lightly worn, edges rubbed and creased, with several small chips or splits, the backstrip slightly foxed on reverse; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; outer leaves and edges faintly soiled; Oxford University Press, Melbourne..... More
The Will that Found the Way. Pp. xviii+190, 16 plates, full page map, glossary, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, rubbed and edges a trifle worn and split; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. *Sir Albert Coates served with the first AIF at the Gallipoli landing and was one of the last..... More
