Militaria
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# 29553
TURNER, Ethel and STEVENS, Bertram, editors
The Australian soldiers gift book
Sydney : The Voluntary Workers’ Association, circa 1918. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth over bevelled boards (corners a little bumped, a coupl eof spots marking the spine), pp. xvi; 136, occasional foxing, illustrations by Norman Lindsay, May Gibbs, B. E. Minns, D. H. Souter, Lionel Lindsay, Walter Jardine, David Low, John Longstaff, Elioth Gruner, Harry Weston, Florence …
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# 30087
THE WATTLERS
[WORLD WAR ONE] Wattler’s Theatre. Some where in ….. Grand Christmas Pantomime “Robinson Crusoe”. Nightly 6 p.m. Produced by The Wattlers. Presented at popular prices. Officers: 2 francs. Other ranks: 50 cents. Programme 1d.
Hazebrouk : Imp. Stoven, [December, 1917]. Octavo bifolium (245 x 160 mm), lithograph printed on thickish green paper, centre pages with full cast for the evening’s entertainment, rear page with humorous notices such as ‘If you want anything done come to us [The Wattlers]. Our speciality is beershifting. We do this free providing you have …
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# 29704
BELL, Arthur
[MISSIONS] Among the ruins : the story of the New Guinea martyrs.
/ By Padre Arthur Bell, Assistant Chaplain-General. Witha sequel. “A second chance.” Sydney, NSW : Luxton & Hooper, printers (for Australian Board of Missions), 1946. “New edition”. Duodecimo (165 mm), printed red wrappers (old price in ink at top corner of front), stapled, pp 27, with photographic portraits of Rev. Vivian Redlich, Sister May Hayman, Miss …
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# 29572
Photographer unknown.
Photographic souvenir of an A.I.F. serviceman, Palestine, circa 1942.
[Palestine : s.n., circa 1942]. Photographic postcard, 87 x 138 mm, photomontage with two vignette head-and-shoulder portraits – an A.I.F. soldier on the right, and probably his wife on the left – superimposed on a Palestine one pound banknote; verso inscribed by the soldier in pencil with the address of Charles Sassoon, 39 Mohiliver St. …
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# 29573
Photographer unknown.
Photographic souvenir of an A.I.F. serviceman, Palestine, circa 1942.
[Palestine : s.n., circa 1942]. Photographic postcard, 88 x 139 mm, photomontage with three vignette head-and-shoulder portraits – an A.I.F. soldier in the centre, flanked by two women who are probably his wife on the left and mother on the right – superimposed on a Palestine one pound banknote; verso inscribed by the soldier in …
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# 29651
BRACKEN, Thomas; MORTON, Frank; HUNT, Leigh; Anon.
Not understood / by Thos. Bracken. One night the saviour sat by me / Frank Morton.
Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt. An eastern prayer / Anon. Sydney : Gilmours’ Bookshop, [1926]. Duodecimo, original pictorial stiff wrappers, 14 pp, head- and tail-pieces in red, foxing throughout. A volume of religious poetry by returned Australian servicemen.
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# 29446
PIDGEON, W. E.
W. E. Pidgeon : war paintings 1943 – 1945
Catalogue by Lin Bloomfield, foreword by Hal Missingham. Sydney : The Bloomfield Galleries, 1988. Quarto, diecut wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated, catalogue of 100 works. Price list and invite enclosed.
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# 29278
The story of the ANZACS
An historical account of the part taken by Australia and New Zealand in the Great War … From the outbreak in August, 1914 until the evacuation of Gallipoli, in December, 1915. Melbourne : James Ingram & Son, 1917. Quarto, papered boards, cloth spine (a little edge wear, slightly rubbed), name to endpaper, pp. [iv]; 153, …
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# 28731
CLEMETSON, John; BETTANY, Desmond (illustrator)
Changi Industries Incorporated : don’t ever again say “It can’t be done!” / with the compliments of the O/C P.O.W. Rubber Factory Changi, Singapore.
[Cover title]. s.l. : s.n., [1948]. First edition. Small quarto (205 x 165 mm), publisher’s string-bound printed stiff wrappers (front with small loss at bottom corner, else good), pp 5, [30], with 15 full page b/w plates, 14 being photographic reproductions of original cartoons drawn by P.O.W. Des Bettany; contents very clean throughout, a good …
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# 28587
STATE RECRUITING COMMITTEE OF VICTORIA
Memorial service for those who have fallen in the service of their country : St. Kilda, Sunday, 2nd December, 1917, 3.30 p.m. Under the auspices of the State Recruiting Committee of Victoria.
St. Kilda, Vic. : Wellman & Co., printers, [1917]. Quarto (270 x 215 mm), [4] pp, printed in red, blue and black on white paper; centre pages with Order of Service, rear side with Honour Roll listing the names of St. Kilda’s 174 fallen (up to this point in the war); old vertical and horizontal …
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# 26005
81ST AIR DEPOT GROUP [USAAF]
[QUEENSLAND; NEW GUINEA] 81st Air Depot Group. Christmas, 1944 greeting card.
[Brisbane, Qld.?] : s.n., 1944. Folding card (158 x 89 mm), printed on 3 sides; front with colour illustration of the 81st Air Depot Group chapel at Finschhafen, New Guinea; inside with vignette portraits of chaplains Kenneth Urquhart and Walton Sullivan, and the Chaplains’ Message; verso with handwritten message ‘To all, love Gail’; in very …
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# 28679
BROWN, Lyndell et al.
Framing conflict : contemporary war + aftermath. Lyndell Brown, Charles Green & Jon Cattapan
Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Small quarto, illustrated stiff cards, pp. 224, illustrated. This book – focusing on contemporary wars and their aftermath as perceived by war artists Lyndell Brown, Charles Green and Jon Cattapan – will be of equally vital interest to those concerned with contemporary war and terror, art history and theory and …
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# 28094
RAND McNALLY & Co.
The battle ground of liberty, where Americans are fighting for humanity and lasting peace.
A large scale detail map of the western battle front in Europe showing in minute detail the geographic features of the region; cities, towns, villages, rivers, and small streams, railroads and highways, as well as the topographical nature of the battle ground, and giving the farthest advance of the German armies, September 6th, 1914 and …
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# 28333
ÉDITIONS DELANDRE
Set of original designs by Delandre for patriotic vignettes used during World War One, including two commemorating the ANZACs.
[France : Delandre, 1916]. A set of six original handmade designs, together with the printer’s proof sheet, for patriotic and propaganda charity stamps intended to raise money for the Triple Entente powers and the Red Cross in World War One. These designs were created and subsequently printed and issued as vignette labels (for use on …
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# 27106
COUNIHAN, Noel (1913 - 1986)
War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan (signed edition)
London: Collet’s Holdings Ltd., 1950. Later lettered paper portfolio (385mm tall), cut lettering from the original folio pasted on (foxed), 4pp. letterpress (long split along fold), twelve linocuts on separate sheets, very good examples. Limited to 300 copies signed by the artist, this is number 88. In this example, each linocut has been signed by …
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# 27201
NORTON, Lieutenant-Commander Frank
Fighting Ships of Australia & New Zealand.
Sydney and London : Angus & Robertson, 1953. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 96, illustrated, a couple of spots of foxing, but a fine copy. Norton was Official Naval War Artist 1941 – 1945; 1952.