Australia, Signed (61 results)

Condition: Fine. First edition first printing softcover Fine in stiff pictorial wrappers SIGNED BY MEAD ON THE TITLE PAGE.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xviii, 198pp., b/w illustrations, diagrams, project team. Inscribed and signed on the title page by Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie. Lightly rubbed covers else Fine. uncommon.(BH) 6/25. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Fine / Fine. AUSTRALIAN ARTActually presentation copy ISBN: 0909873356 128 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. #281023 National Australia Bank -- Art collections Art galleries. Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria. Exhibits: Australian paintings from the collection of the National Australia Bank. Catalogues Painting, Australian -- Exhibitions Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

First edition. Signed by the contributor of the introduction, C.J. Horne. Small quarto-size stapled pamphlet, of 32 pages. With a handsome bookplate of a French-Australian bookseller/collector on the verso of the front wrapper, otherwise very good in mildly soiled wrappers. A catalogue (of Folios, Quartos, and other editions) of an exhibition, one of a number around the world celebrating the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's birth, illustrated with two b/w title-page facsimilies. Arranged by the Libraries Board for the Third Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 7-21, 1964. Signed on the half-title, "With regards from Colin Horne" who contributes a 2 page introduction to the catalogue. An uncommon item. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5 ($10 overseas), so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.

First edition hard back black cloth covers with white titles and illustration to front panel. 305 pp. Illustrated. Separate Compliments Slip from the High Commissioner For Australia, Kenneth Bailey, and SIGNED by him 8th January 1965. Corners bumped, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRALIA (Terra Australis).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pre-tour guide for the 1985 Ashes cricket series. Paperback. A5. 112pp + pictorial wrappers. Very good. Signed by Alan McGilvray and dedicated to Ian Davies, the former Sports Editor of the World Service. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Wrapper is rubbed and lightly marked, boards lightly marked, ink inscription to front free endpaper, authors signature title page. Clean throughout. Very good. Signed by Author(s). Book.

330 pp including index, b&w frontispiece, d/j edges chipped with some minor losses, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. Signed by William Willcock, who was assistant Governor of the Commonwealth Bank under H. C. Coombs - in scarce d/j.

Farbige Fotoporträtpostkarte mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift signiert.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo album of 20 leaves, containing numerous photographs, menus, passenger lists, newspaper cuttings, and related ephemera, annotated in pen, several of the menus signed, the album original cloth- backed paper boards titled "Snapshots" to upper board, mostly in very good condition. Elizabeth Osborn joined a party of Australian undergraduates from the universities of Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne on her Students Educational Tour Australia to the Orient in 1931-32 aboard S. S. "Taiping" of the Australian Oriental Line. The first ten leaves in this album contain photographs of the students, ten menus and passenger lists, a folding printed leaf The Torres Straits Daily Pilot (Thursday Island, December 28, 1931), and a printed menu for the Victoria Hotel, Canton. The tour visited Thursday Island, Manila, Hong Kong, Canton, and the Barron Falls in Cairns. In 1933 Osborn sailed on S.S. Mariposa from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand, with the Victorian Farmer's Tour of New Zealand. Seven leaves of the album contain more photographs, menus and postcards relating to this tour, and a small souvenir booklet lists Osborn as B. Sc. The final three leaves relate to Osborn's "Round Trip to Singapore 1933-1934", aboard S. S. Marella., and have fifteen captioned snapshots of her visit, a shipboard printing for crossing the equator, two menus, and nine real photographic postcards of Singapore. Signed by Author(s).

Boards. 1st edition. 1st ed., quarto, pp. 98, col and b&w photos, orig bds., cnrs bumped, lower edges rubbed, small loss to f.e.p. Presentation certificate, some off-setting, tipped in to f.f.ep., signed by Lord Mayor (John Murray) to Brigadier H.B. Norman and his wife. Very good condn. Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Condition: Good. Two Typed Letters signed with notes inked in margins (Gartner to Goldwasser) and Two Page Serendipity Books List of Grabhorn Press Books for sale 8.5" x 11" Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Pre-tour. The squad included future Test stars such as David Boon, Wayne Phillips and Geoff Marsh. The brochure has been signed by 10 of the squad next to their portraits, including Boon and Phillips. Also included is a partially completed scorecard for the match against England Young Cricketers at Arundel. Paperback. Oblong format. 20pp. Decorative card covers. A fine copy. [Padwick 5196-24].

Pre-tour cricket guide for the 1962-63 Ashes series. Paperback. 8vo. 64pp. Illustrated covers, rubbed. Good condition. Signed to the back cover in ink by Alec Bedser, Allen, Coldwell, Sheppard, Keith Miller, Graham McKenzie and one other.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Dimensions:275mm H x 220mm.pp.136. Non-fiction. History. Architecture. 106 B/w photographs illustrate the text, with a section of Notes on each plate. List of Architects.Original publisher's binding of pale linen boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. The first Australian National Trusts were formed in New South Wales in 1945, South Australia in 1955 and Victoria in 1956; followed later by Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. This publication resulted from a competition to recognise,promote, and conserve Tasmania's historic heritage. Birthday presentation : "with best wishes for a Happy Birthday. 31st March 1965." bought from Kensington Palace from the estate of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947. His birthday was 31/3/1900 Signed names on front endpaper include Jean Maxwell-Scott. Dame Jean Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (1923Ð 2004) was the Laird and Chatelaine of Abbotsford which she and her elder sister, Patricia Maxwell-Scott, opened to the public, restored to its former glory, and ran for nearly five decades. Very good indeed.

See his entry, and that of his father the civil engineer, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On separate letterheads. The recipient is not named and there is no salutation (though the letter is complete). Signed 'Brassey'. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Begins: 'I have two maxims for [hourly?] use. / I do the little I can do and leave the rest to thee / What thou livest live well. The rest commit to Heaven / Nor should the last message of the greatest sailor since the world began ever be forgotten / England expects that every man this day will do his duty'. The quotation from Nelson is not entirely accurate.

8'' x 5'' flown cover No. 620 of 1470 post marked Brisbane Australia 19th November 1980 | SIGNED to the front cover 'Hughie Edwards' | Two London Heathrow stamps to the rear dated 13th November 1980 and 20th November 1980. Three cachet inserts. Certification signed by Jim Sastick Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRALIA (Terra Australis).

8vo. x+226pp. Original stapled limp cloth, b/w illustrations, folding maps and plates, a very good copy. Includes Quarantine Law by JHL Cumpston; and Design of Quarantine Stations by JSC Elkington. First edition, Cumpston's own (signed) copy.

Pp. 28(last 2 blank), tables and graph (1 folding table); post 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, backstrip and edges lightly worn; fore-corners worn, those at top lightly creased; A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra, 1958. *With a loosely inserted TLs, from John Iremonger to Terry Cutler, headed 'Labour History', regarding 'Strike Book', the text of the report with some heavily underlined passages in red pencil by Terry Cutler. Signed.

Kleines, frühes Albumblatt (mit aufgezogenem Porträtdruck), in Tinte mit Empfehlung, Unterschrift eigenhändig signiert.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed. Fine copy bound in full gilt-blocked aniline calf. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations. "This project was assisted by the University Research Budget, Flinders University, and the Dante Alighieri Society of Adelaide."--Page [vii]. "Publication of the volume was made possible by grants from the Italian Embassy in Canberra and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Melbourne."--Page [vii]. Includes index. Subjects: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Bibliography. Libraries -- Australia -- Union catalog. 3 Kg.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original chalk blue paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 409 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Hint of tanning to the text block edges. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small crease lines across the spine ends, not price clipped. From the private library of Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace 'Digger' Hart Kyle and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle - Kingswood, Tiptoe, Lymington, Hampshire'. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Digger (Sir Wallace Kyle). Bless you for being kind - I'm so very grateful - Laddie Lucas, 2. xii. 83.' Sir Wallace Kyle in index pp 229-231. Loosely inserted two hand written poems (i): 'A friend of Sir Wallace named Chris Considered Pub Hunting Sheer Bliss, By Drinking Ale Stout and Bitter He Grew Fitter and Fitter, And Exclaimed no Other Life Quite Matches This. (ii): The General Wallace H. Kyle Had a Very Heart Warming Smile, He was Always so Jolly as Was his Wife Molly, They Really Made Living Worthwhile.' Signed ? Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.

Kleines E.Albumblatt (16° quer, in Tinte) mit Datum, Unterschrift signiert "L amitie est une fleur que l on vuille en toutes saisons ! .16 Decembre 1941" BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto der Sängerin.

Pre-tour brochure, introducing Greg Chappell's 1977 Australian tourists. Large 8vo. [12]pp inc. pictorial paper wrappers. Very good conndition. Signed to the front cover by Tony Greig, Brearley, Underwood, Lever, Amiss, Miller, Barlow and one other.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed. Fine copy bound in full gilt-blocked aniline calf. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations. "This project was assisted by the University Research Budget, Flinders University, and the Dante Alighieri Society of Adelaide."--Page [vii]. "Publication of the volume was made possible by grants from the Italian Embassy in Canberra and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Melbourne."--Page [vii]. Includes index. Subjects: Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Bibliography. Libraries -- Australia -- Union catalog. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very good condition. Signed presentation copy, to Charles A. Clough, compliments of N. A. Cobb. Dr. Cobb was one of the first to be appointed to the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, as Government Vegetable Pathologist, where he investigated parasitic diseases of plants and farm stock. He later was appointed to the Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association Experiment Station in Honolulu, having researched diseases of sugar cane. The publication includes many b&w printed photographic images of mechanical harvesters in the field, with the parts numbered, and identified in captions, as well as horse powered combined harvesters. Tall 8vo, 32pp, b&w ills, printed b&w photographic and b&w line drawings. Pink paper wrappers, titles printed in black. Front wrapper only slightly toned at margins; small attached chip at upper corner rear wrapper. Miscellaneous Publication, No. 519.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. * Association Copy. * First Edition, publisher's original cloth & paper label. C.pp300 uncut, slight wear, paper label rubbed & backstrip darkened, very good. Scarce book : no copy in NUC. Includes the final version of Hervey's poem on the rise, progress & future of Australia & New Zealand. Includes also his poem The Convict Ship. Hervey 1799-1859 of Manchester and Trinity College, Cambridge : litterateur and later editor of The Athenaeum. * Sadleir notes the publisher Bull as the proprietor of an 'obscure imprint' through which several of Lady Bulwer Lytton's 'very uncommon' novels were issued, as was a rare Gerald Griffin title. ** This copy inscribed on endpaper 'William Bull . 21 September 1927. Great-nephew of the publisher Edward Bull 1798-1842' : and title-page inscribed beneath the imprint 'Published the year his nephew & my father Henry Bull was born'. *** Also with the earlier booklabel of Miss S. Sheppard [?1840s poet & writer on Laetitia Landon?] and her elegant signature dated 1843. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. Signed by Author(s).

Despite the four years (1840-1844) Howitt spent in the colony with his brother the entomologist Godfrey Howitt (1800-1873), the present letter has nothing to do with Australia. The letter is addressed to the editors of 'The Aurora Borealis: A Literary Annual edited by Members of the Society of Friends'. This periodical was the work of a group of Quakers in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with George Atley Brumell (1800-1877) one of the founding editors. Another of those involved was Joseph Watson (1807-1874), named in the letter's address. Howitt, as the present letter reveals, was one of a number of prominent Quakers to contribute. Only one number of the periodical was published under the title 'The Aurora Borealis', in Newcastle and London in 1833; but the following year a second number appeared with the title 'The Friends' Annual; or Aurora Borealis for 1834'. No other numbers were published. The University of Illinois holds a collection of manuscripts relating to the magazine. 3pp, 4to. Bifolium, addressed, with remains of seal in red wax, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Editors of the "Aurora Borealis" | Care of Joseph Watson | St. Nicholas' Church-yard | Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.' Signed 'Richard Howitt.' In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with closed tears to second leaf repaired with strips of paper. The recto of the first leaf is filled with the first six of the seven five-line stanzas of the poem, with the page headed 'Esteemed Friends | Editors of the "Aurora Borealis"'. The seventh stanza is on the reverse of the leaf, at the head of the second page. Each of the seven stanzas of the poem ends with the refrain 'The Aurora Borealis'. The poem is unpublished, and the first and last stanzas give an indication of its tone. The first reads: 'Now the days are dark and dreary | Now the nights are long and weary | Very welcome, very cheery, | With the glory it doth trail is | The Aurora Borealis.' The last stanza reads: 'Blessings on ye for the blessing! | Tome of many a heart's caressing, - | Past a homely bard's expressing, | Balm of many a bosom's bale is | The Aurora Borealis.' The letter itself begins without salutation after the last stanza, at the head of the second page, and Howitt himself concedes the mediocre nature of his poem: 'So far not "so good" - but "so long." To speak plain truth setting aside poetry - "poets are such liars, and take all colours like the hands of dyers" says Lord Byron, yet, in plain prose, I have been much pleased with uyour little tome.' He comments approvingly on some of the volume's contributions, before continuing: 'I must confess that when I first met with the title of the book in the Public Prints it struck me as flashy and unsubustantial and I believe I expressed my feeling to be such but the work itself has altered my opinion.' The volume has however left him with some 'dissapointment': 'I hoped to meet with an Essay from Thomas Knott, and with a Poem of Montgomery's if not with one from the pen of the great Lake Poet, Wordsworth. And I have also vainly sought for something with Thomas Wilkinson's signature.' The editors have 'so many gems' that Howitt's own contributions to the volume 'shrink into comparative significance'. He does not blame them 'for making the last line of Eventide, if more correct, less vigorous. If I remember right it was "To feeling and to slinking hearts." Many would prefer the line as it is printed, but I would turn from the many to the few and I have Wordsworth on my side of the question He says not "thinking minds" - but "To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts." He ends with the gentle reproof: 'I perceive another or two verbal variations not of any consequence but they would have been as well as they were.' He was also borther to William and Mary Howitt, both writers.

13pp., 12mo. On three bifoliums and a last single leaf. On aged and worn paper. A semi-literate, but spirited epistle. Little is to be discovered concerning the identity of the writer. Addressed to 'My Darling Son' and signed 'good bye, be good, ever yours and yours alone William Kay', but with a few hints that the letter may not in fact be from a father to his son. Kay begins by stating that he is going to fulfil his promise and write 'a long letter'. Of the journey he writes: 'its not particularly rough, but its the speed we are going that makes her roll, we are now steaming past Deal at the rate of 19.8. so you can judge the rate we are going [.] we are ripping, as the sailors call it. She's a very good sea boat so far. Shes alright down below, but on deck oh my, she simply washes down fore and half, so we stay down below as much as we can. We had it rough last night off lands end, but she behaved very well, you would laugh if you were here, we were standing on the forecastle last night watching her capers and a big fat wave came and washed us out of it, she doesnt attempt to jump over them, but she simply plunges right through it | You ought to of seen us we was like a lot of drownded rats, and then their was a yell, how do you like Her.' He reports that 'we have a lot of young Blue Jacket [sailor] Boys on board we are going to take them out to Australia and I pittied them last night, they were all sick, and one of our little drumer [sic] Boys was that bad we had to take him to the Doctor, in fact we thought he was going to roll up but he's alright now, of course it doesnt effect us old seadogs'. He reports that the ship is going to Grimsby and Hull, and then Torquay. He declares 'I shant kiss anybody else, Annie Glenister ask me for one when I was at home but I wouldnt giver her one, she said it was to bad of me, she said if it was Lou Blane you wouldnt say no, Not I. why should I, you had better answer that, one day when I was in No. 9 Union terrace the two annies got me down, in the dressmaking shop and both of them kissed me, what cheek, but didnt I pay them out for it, I got annie J. Down and capsized all her dressmaking gear all over her'. Docketed 'Very last letter. From on board ship.' HMS Tauranga was an Pearl-class Royal Navy cruiser, built by J. & G. Thomson, Glasgow, and originally named HMS Phoenix. She was launched on 28 October 1889, and was renamed Tauranga as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station on 2 April 1890, arriving in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She saw service during the Samoan civil war in 1899, and spent between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney, before being assigned to the New Zealand division of the Australia Station. She left the Australia Station on 14 December 1904, and was sold for scrap in July 1906.

See his entries in the Oxford DNB and Australian Dictionary of Biography. The recipient George Kenneth Menzies (1869-1954) was Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts between 1917 and 1935. The nine items are in good condition, lightly aged, and are folded for postage. Each bears the stamp of the RSA, some with manuscript docketting. Letters of 4 April and 18 September 1925 are in autograph, the rest typed; all nine are signed 'Walter Rosesnhain'. A letter of 1 October 1924 responds to a request for information about zirconium, with reference to the 'literature' on the subject and British and American firms 'interested in Zirconium products'. The rest of the correspondence is taken up with lecturing. The first item (ANS, 2 February 1915) is a covering note for 'the synopsis of my forthcoming course of Cantor Lectures'. On 13 September 1924 Rosenhaim writes that he could 'quite well give either one lecture or a course of three during the coming Autumn and Winter. The subject I habe in mind is the Inner Structure of Alloys, on which I gave a Royal Institution Friday lecture last year. While it is possible to deal with the subject in a single lecture, it would be much more satisfactory to give a course of three lectures upon it. The subject really relates to the X-ray study of crystal structures and its application to metallurgical problems and consitutes, I think, perhaps the most important metallurgical advance which has been achieved recently.' He asks for a quick response, as his 'Winter engagements have a way of piling up during the year'. On 4 April 1925 he states that he has 'mentioned the matter of Cantor lectures to one or two of my colleagues & I think either Mr. Higgins or one of the others might give a course on such a subject as "Thermometers" or possibly "High Vacua', but before approaching them he would like to clarify the question of a fee. 'I am also interested in the matter because, although about a month has now elapsed since my recent course was finished, I have received no fee & I am wondering whether a letter may have gone astray.' The matter is presumably resolved, as a few weeks later, on 30 April 1925, he sends (not present) 'a memorandum on the subject of a course to be entitled "Thermometry" by Mr W. F. Higgins of this Laboratory', and mentions that '[t]here is also a possible suggestion of a course entitled "The Production and Measurement of High Vacua" with experimental demonstrations by Dr G. W. C. Kaye', both of which courses he thinks 'would be very satisfactory for your Society but that of Dr Kaye would be particularly interesting and would, I think, attract a considerable audience as the whole problem of high vacua is becoming of every [sic] increasing importance in connexion with electric lamps and radio valves'. On 8 January 1926 he wonders whether Higgins's communication with Menzies regarding a proposed lecture has also 'gone astray', and agrees to review 'Sir Robert Hadfield's book on Metallurgy' for the RSA journal, 'provided that the review may be anonymous. I very much object to writing signed reviews'. On 11 February 1926 he asks for an offprint of a lecture by Sir Richard Paget: 'I may be able to obtain a copy by asking Sir Richard Paget himself, but I would prefer not to trouble him if it can be got from you.'.