Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
London, The Folio Society, 1995 [first thus]. Octavo, xx, 276 pages plus 8 full-page colour plates. Decorated cloth; spine lightly sunned and rubbed; an excellent copy in the slightly marked and flecked slipcase. Introduction by Frederic Raphael with illustrations by Leonard Rosoman; The text of this edition follows that of the revised edition first published by Chapman & Hall in 1960'.
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The Spanish Inquisition. A Historical Revision
KAMEN, Henry London, The Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). Octavo, x, 363 pages plus 12 pages of colour plates and endpaper maps. Pictorial cloth; a fine copy in the fine slipcase. 'This Folio edition is an abridgement by the author of the 1997 [second] edition'.- $20
- $20
Evidence respecting the Soil, Climate, and Productions of the South Coast of Australia, between the 132nd and 141st Degrees of East Longitude
[South Australian Land Company] Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1962 (facsimile edition)/ 1832. Octavo, [ii], 53 pages plus a folding map. Green synthetic cloth; endpapers tanned around the edges; a near-fine copy. Peade SA11: one of only 140 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.- $85
- $85
A vintage photograph of St Peters Cathedral, Adelaide
[South Australia] Adelaide, [Unidentified Photographer, circa 1917]. A gelatin silver photograph (220 × 310 mm) with two tears to the top edge expertly sealed; in excellent condition. '2790 Pennington Park' is written in red pencil on the verso; ''& Cathedral' has been added later in lead pencil. The State Library of South Australia has a damaged smaller-format example of this photograph in its Searcy Collection ('St. Peter's Cathedral, North Adelaide [PRG 280/1/18/356]', 15 × 20 cm, approximately 1917).- $112
- $112
Central Australia
MADIGAN, C.T. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1944 [revised and enlarged edition]/ 1936. Octavo, xiv, 316 pages plus 51 plates and 2 folding maps. Brown cloth a little marked and rubbed; spine lightly sunned, with a touch of wear to the head and foot; rear hinge slightly marked; a few trifling marks; a very good copy. With the ink ownership signature of Australian geographer, historian and educationist Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977) on the front pastedown. 'An outline of the early exploration of Central Australia, and its political history, followed by an account of my own journeys in the regions'; these include important geological expeditions, the first aerial reconnaissance in 1929 and numerous Simpson Desert expeditions. Substantially different from the first edition; the story is brought up to 1939 as against 1932, the maps have been re-drawn and all the plates are new.- $68
- $68
The Blind Watchmaker
DAWKINS, Richard London, The Folio Society, 2008 (second impression)/ 2007 (first thus). Octavo, xxiv, 358 pages with 24 pages of colour plates. Colour-pictorial cloth; a fine copy in the slightly marked and scuffed slipcase. This edition follows that of the 2006 edition, with a new introduction by the author.- $27
- $27
Bungaree. Land, Stock and People
[Hawker family]. HAWKER, Frankie and Rob LINN Adelaide, Turnbull Fox Phillips, 1992. Small quarto, xii, 230 pages with 8 family trees, several tables and maps, and numerous illustrations plus 14 full-page colour plates. Papered boards; extremities slightly bumped and rubbed; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned and creased, with a couple of tiny closed tears. Provenance: Kenneth Bonamy Price (1921-2008), Adelaide barrister, Mayor of Walkerville from 1977 to 1982, and local Councillor in the Town of Walkerville for over 20 years, with his contemporary pencilled signature on the front free endpaper, and his pencilled annotations and emphases. 'The growth of Bungaree follows closely the rise of George Hawker' (dustwrapper).- $27
- $27
The History of Tumby Bay and District. These records have been collected to commemorate seventy-five years of declaration of local government of the Tumby Bay District Council
[Tumby Bay] Tumby Bay, The District Council of Tumby Bay, 1981. Quarto, xiv, 290 pages with a map with numerous illustrations from photographs plus a loosely inserted single-page 'Businesses at Tumby Bay, 1906-1980'. Colour-pictorial papered boards a little marked; lightly sunned about the spine, with a tiny split at the head; a very good copy. Provenance: Kenneth Bonamy Price (1921-2008), Adelaide barrister, Mayor of Walkerville from 1977 to 1982, and local Councillor in the Town of Walkerville for over 20 years, with his pencilled annotations on the front pastedown and occasional emphases relating to the family.- $54
- $54
Waltzing Matildas. The Men and Machines of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group in Australia and Borneo, 1941-1946
[2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group]. DONOVAN, Peter Blackwood, Donovan and Associates for the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regimental Group Association, 1988. Quarto, [xvi], 255 pages with maps and numerous illustrations plus pictorial endpapers. Laminated colour-pictorial papered boards lightly sunned on the spine and a little scuffed; an excellent copy with some annotations in pencil (see below). Pages 226-247 contain the nominal roll. Provenance: Kenneth Bonamy Price (1921-2008), Adelaide barrister, Mayor of Walkerville from 1977 to 1982, local Councillor in the Town of Walkerville for over 20 years, and a member of the unit. SX 15405 K.B. Price has written his personal details in pencil on the 'Record of Service' page, and his occasional pencilled annotations and emphases appear throughout the book.- $170
- $170
1925′. The Story of a Fatal Peace
WALLACE, Edgar London, George Newnes, Limited, November 1915 (second impression)/ October 1915. Octavo, 128 pages plus advertisements on three sides of the covers. Original colour-pictorial card covers lightly worn at the extremities and a little creased; spine expertly relined; text block slightly thumbed and creased at the corners; a very good copy with the contemporary circular price label of the Adelaide Railway Bookstall on the front cover (quoting an Australian price of 1/6 as against the UK price of 1/- printed on the spine ). A prescient work of speculative fiction written at the height of the First World War. Wallace's introduction reads in full: 'My object in writing this story is to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the present war in any other way than by the complete subjugation of Germany, and the destruction of Prussian militarism. Despite the established proofs that Germany planned and willed the present war with the set object of conquest, there are many who are not alive to the probable results of an unfortunate peace. That there would be a terrible sequel in the lifetime of the present generation is certain. We cannot hope to end wars unless we crush the only power in the world which aims at securing aggrandisement by force of arms. We may not always find ourselves so closely allied to three great military nations. It may not even be possible, however much the Powers forming the present entente sympathise with each other, to show a solid front and fight side by side in some future conflict. The only way to secure permanent peace for Europe is to destroy the power, which for forty years has rattled its scabbard at its peace-loving neighbours, and to destroy that power now'. The front cover reprints portion of 'The Hymn of Hate', the infamous nationalistic poem by Ernst Lissauer: 'Come, hear the word, repeat the word, | Throughout the Fatherland make it heard. | We will never forego our hate, | We have all a single hate, | We love as one, we hate as one, | We have one foe, and one alone - | ENGLAND!'. Curiously, the front cover also features two Zeppelins, one of them 'Schwaben'. LZ 10 'Schwaben' made its maiden flight on 26 June 1911. It is 'regarded as the first commercially successful passenger-carrying aircraft. Over the course of the next year it made 218 flights, transporting 1,553 passengers' (Wikipedia). It was destroyed on the ground in a gale on 28 June 1912, more than three years before this book was published.- $340
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