Sport
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# 35600
THE GREGORY PICTORIAL COMPANY
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Highlights of Kosciusko
Sydney : The Gregory Pictorial Company, [between 1955 and 1960]. Paper wallet, 113 x 147 mm, with illustrated front; containing an accordion-style foldout with 12 b/w photographic views; intended for mailing, but unused; in excellent condition.
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# 24237
MICHELL, H. (ed)
[HORSE RACING] Victoria’s greatest races.
With full descriptions of the Melbourne Cup 1921, Caulfield Cup 1922-3, Melbourne Cup 1922-3. Biographical sketches of owners – trainers – jockeys. Fully illustrated. [Cover title : The Melbourne Cup]. Melbourne : The British and Australasian Publishing Service, [ca. 1924]. Quarto, gilt-lettered full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooling, edges lightly rubbed, all edges …
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# 35588
SKI STUDIO (SYDNEY)
The Chalet, Kiandra, N.S.W. : Snowy Mountains of Australia.
[Sydney, NSW] : Ski Studio, 106 Riley Street, [circa 1950]. Promotional flyer, 215 x 140 mm, printed recto only on thin card; vignette illustration and information about accommodation for skiers and holidaymakers in the ‘completely modernised brick and stone building, supplied with electric light, hot and cold water, sewerage and central heating’; light foxing and …
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# 35585
[NEW SOUTH WALES TOURST BUREAU?]
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Three photographs of scenes around Mount Kosciusko, with their original Hotel Kosciusko envelope. Early 1920s.
Three gelatin silver print photographs on medium stock, in uniform format 115 x 160 mm, each wet stamped on the verso ‘Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W.’; all in good condition; purchased by a holidaymaker from the Hotel Kosciusko around 1920-25, the photos are accompanied by the original Hotel Kosciusko manila envelope, which is in pristine condition. …
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# 35599
YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
[SNOWY MOUNTAINS] Ski-ing this season : Kiandra, N.S.W., the home of ski-ing in Australia, 5000 ft. above sea level.
Sydney : The Youth Hostel Association of New South Wales, [between 1950 and 1960]. Folding sheet, 108 x 130 mm, [4] pp, front with photographic illustration; contains information about accommodation, hire of skiing equipment, tour itineraries etc.; in fine condition.
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# 35553
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TRAVEL ASSOCIATION
Australia : travel and general information
Melbourne : Australian National Travel Association (Printed by Troedel and Cooper), circa 1934. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers with cover image of a girl at the beach with a surfboard (the lower wrapper features a koala), staple bound, worn and marked, [36] pp, with b/w photographic illustrations throughout, double-page central image of girls at a …
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# 32103
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Spring Racing Carnival Edition Prints (complete set)
[Melbourne : Spring Racing Carnival, circa 1994]. Complete set of four limited edition edition posters, each featuring a photographic image by Rennie Ellis taken at the Spring Racing Carnival, blind embossed with fine detail of the racefield along the lower margin. Each poster hand signed by Rennie Ellis below the image. Limited to 250 copies, …
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# 34192
CAMERON, A.R. and SHARP, Bruce (editors)
The science of wrestling : complete course 130 illustrations
Sydney : Scotow Press, for Withrow Physical Culture School, [c.1930]. Small quarto, original pictorial wrappers (water stained), staple bound, pp 64, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates and line drawings in the text.
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# 33207
ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)
Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)
Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …
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# 32952
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1942-43
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1943. Duodecimo (155 mm), original printed blue wrappers (sunned at edges), staple bound, 27 pp; contents clean. A very slender wartime edition in which mention is made of the fact that activities and income have been severely curtailed because of “the occupation of the Ground by the Crown” (even …
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# 32951
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Melbourne Cricket Club Annual Report, for the Season 1894-95
Melbourne : Mason, Firth & M’Cutcheon, 1895. Duodecimo (155 mm), original printed salmon-coloured wrappers (heavily sunned, some paper loss on spine), 96 pp; contents very clean. Includes a full report on all activities, match reports, averages, a complete list of members, etc.
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# 30281
Photographer unknown.
Three photographs of Wesley College, Melbourne, taken in 1904: the school’s champion Australian Rules Football team; view of the main building; view looking across the school oval.
Three sepia tone gelatin silver photographs, each 70 x 90 mm, printed on Kodak postcard stock (89 x 138 mm), all mailed from Melbourne and addressed to Master Norman Hart in Launceston, Tasmania (postmarks dated 28 June 1904; 19 September 1904; 14 November 1904), the fronts with handwritten messages signed W. H. (William Hart?) which …
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# 28439
CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
Studio portrait of a young brother and sister holding hands; the boy is posing with his cricket bat. Armidale, New South Wales, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 62 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘A. Cunningham, Photographic Artist, Barney Street, Armidale, New England’; the print is in good condition, as is the mount (some light toning to verso). Pioneer New England photographer Andrew Cunningham is probably best known for his 1870 carte de …
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# 28270
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of five official programmes for Grand Open-Air Concerts at the M.C.G. organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1902-03.
Melbourne : Syd. Day [for the Melbourne Cricket Club], 1902-03. Five individual programmes for Monday-evening concerts on 22 & 29 December 1902, and 5 January, 2 February and 30 March 1903. Narrow quarto (290 x 150 mm), single-sheet flyers printed on both sides (versos with advertisements for Robert Hurst shoes); each example has some marginal …
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# 28435
DAILY MIRROR (U.K.)
Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion Australian wood-cutters.
[London, U.K. : Daily Mirror, 1909 or 1910]. Two gelatin silver print photographs, 205 x 150 mm and 150 x 205 mm, respectively; versos with wet stamp of of the London Daily Mirror, and an identical caption label which reads: ‘Fine Fellers. Jackson and McLaren, world’s champion wood-cutters, felling trees on Lord Salisbury’s estate at …
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# 28279
MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB
Group of notices relating to the Bowling Club Tournament organised by the Melbourne Cricket Club, 1909-10.
Melbourne : MCC, October – December 1909. I. 6 October 1909. Folio, [1] page; with information about the MCC Cup (open exclusively to bona-fide Playing Members of the MCC Bowling Club), prize money, and Mode of Play. II. 21 October 1909. Folio, [4] pp; with information about the MCC Cup, prize money, Handicaps and Draw, …