Militaria
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# 46815
[Maker unknown].
A souvenir of the Great World War and the glorious part played by Australia and New Zealand.
[United Kingdom? : s.n., c.1915]. Cotton handkerchief, 450 x 600 mm, recto lithograph printed in colour, with patriotic illustrations featuring a large central cartouche captioned ‘The Landing of our Gallant Sons of Empire on the Gallipoli Peninsula’, smaller uncaptioned cartouches at each corner depicting ships of the Royal Australian Navy (including HMAS Sydney), and at …
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# 46734
CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)
The Great War
Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. London : George Newnes, 1934. Three volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered embossed blue cloth (edges slightly rubbed), edges speckled red, a very good set. Originally issued in 26 fortnightly parts, this is the first bound edition of Churchill’s monumental history of the First World War.
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# 46817
HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )
Action Man Story
Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …
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# 46735
CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)
The Second World War
London : Cassell & Co., 1948 – 1954. First editions. Six volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered black cloth (lacks dustjackets), light handling marks, a couple of spines creased, top edges stained red, pagination various, folding maps, a very good set. Winston Churchill’s monumental history of the Second World War. Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948). Volume …
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# 46694
MADIGAN, Col; SENBERGS, Jan and WATSON, Don
Armidale ‘42 Memory and imagination : a survivor’s account
A collaboration between survivor Col Madigan; artist Jan Senbergs; historian Don Watson. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 92; (4), illustrated. The ‘HMAS Armidale was sunk by aerial torpedoes on 1 December 1942. One hundred lives were lost. Survivors from the sea returned to Darwin 10 December, 1942’ – the publisher.
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# 45890
POZZI, Michel
[WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne
Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …
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# 46287
BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)
[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego
[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …
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# 46363
USAF (NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND)
Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.
Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 200 x 250 mm format; no inscriptions to versos, but presumably taken by a USAF serviceman; all of the prints are in excellent condition. These original photographs, taken sometime between 1942 and 1945, show USAF personnel at the airbase at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq), Greenland, which had been …
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# 46305
HARDISTY, Sue & MASLIN, Sue
“Thanks Girls and Goodbye” (working title only). Written by Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin. [Draft script for the 1988 documentary film about the Australian Women’s Land Army in World War Two].
[Melbourne] : Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin, 1986. Foolscap folio, spiral-bound stiff wrappers; 45 pp, roneo-printed typescript with b/w photographic illustrations; fine. ‘Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film …
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# 46196
[WUNDERLICH LIMITED]
Embossed metal decorations suitable for peace celebrations.
[Redfern, N.S.W. : Wunderlich Limited], 15 May 1919. Broadsheet with photogravure illustrations, 310 x 250 mm, printed recto only; central horizontal fold, small perforation lower section, light edge wear. ‘Leaflet advertising Wunderlich coats of arms and shields with design numbers, dimensions, and materials used. Halftone photographs show the following designs: Royal Arms nos. 580, 719, …
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# 46195
MINNS, B. E. (Benjamin Edward) (1863-1937) (artist)
Grand Military Tattoo. Tendered to the Admiral Commanding and Personnel of the visiting United States Battle Fleet, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Sydney, New South Wales. Thursday July 30th at 8pm, 1925.
[Drop title]. Sydney : The Motor Press Ltd., 1925. Octavo (225 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper design signed in the image lower right ‘B. E. Minns’ and incorporating symbols of the United States of America and Australia, including the flags of both nations, the kangaroo and emu, and the New South Wales waratah; …
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …
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# 45883
GLASSOP, Lawson (1913-1966)
[MILITARY] We were the rats
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1944. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth over boards (canted), in the rare illustrated dust jacket by Frank Hodgkinson (defective, splits and tears repaired with old brown paper), 275 pp; foreword by Norman Lindsay; contents clean and sound. Author and journalist Lawson Glassop served in the Middle East between 1940-1943, during …
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# 45717
BLUTH, Manfred (1926-2002)
Gallipoli-Kampagne.
Berlin : Graphische Werkstatt, [1975]. Edition limited to 20 copies (no. 2), signed and numbered by the artist. Oblong elephant folio, original red cloth boards lettered in black (a few light marks) with black cord binding, containing 12 coloured lithographs signed by the artist, each 370 x 750 mm; text in German, English and Latin. …
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# 45822
A.N.Z.A.C.
The Anzac book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the men of Anzac (first impression, first issue)
London : Cassell and Company, 1916. First impression, with the 2’6 price on upper wrapper. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with yapp edges (edges worn and frayed, a couple of short splits to foot of spine), pp. xvi; 170, scattered foxing, colour plates and other illustrations, general wear. First impression, the poem ‘Trojan War’ maintaining its misattributed …
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# 45575
JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)
Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)
Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …