South Australia
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# 19629
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 19494
BENNETT, Mary M. (1881-1961)
Human rights for Aborigines : how can they learn without a teacher?
Brisbane : Printed by “Truth” and “Sportsman” Ltd., [1957?]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (sunned at edges), lower wrapper with map of Central and Western Aboriginal Reserves and the Rocket Range, staple bound, 63 pp, illustrated, a fine copy. An important work by a significant advocate of Aboriginal rights, based to a large extent on Bennett’s …
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# 19313
SMITH, William Ramsay (1859-1937) ; UNAIPON, David (1872-1967)
Myths and legends of the Australian Aboriginals
/ by W. Ramsay Smith ; with sixteen plates in colour by Alice Woodward, and other illustrations. London : George G. Harrap and Co., 1930. First edition. Small quarto, publisher’s pictorial cloth with gilt lettering (fine) in like dust jacket, 356 pp, [63] plates (16 in colour), fore-edges uncut, internally clean and bright; an exceptional …
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# 18805
MANNING, Charles H.
Photographic portrait of Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877-1883
Circa 1878. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 55 x 37 mm (image), on green celluloid mount with decorative embossed border, 106 x 63 mm, recto with gilt lettered imprint of ‘Duryea’s Studio, Adelaide … C.H. Manning, Adelaide … His Excellency Major-General Sir William Jervois, K.G.C.M.G., C.B., Governor of South Australia. Photographed by C.H. Manning, …
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# 18840
ADELAIDE CHORAL SOCIETY
Town Hall, Adelaide, … December 18th, 1906. Handel’s Oratorio “Messiah” … Adelaide Choral Society.
[Adelaide] : [Adelaide Choral Society], 1906. Broadside, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only in blue ink on buff paper; paper toned, old horizontal and vertical fold lines with short tears at ends of each, chipped at upper right edge.
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# 18675
SMEATON, T.H.
From stone cutter to Premier and Minister for Education : the story of the life of Tom Price, a Welsh boy who became an Australian statesman.
Adelaide : Hunkin, Ellis & King, [1924]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s blue buckram boards lettered in gilt (boards a little faded and lightly marked), later ex libris to front pastedown, frontispiece photographic portrait, pp 244; a good copy. Biography of South Australian politician Thomas “Tom” Price (1852-1909).
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# 17209
WHITE, H.J. (Harry John)
Homeland and outland : song and story
Adelaide : Webb & Son, 1908. Octavo, original red pebbled cloth boards with decorative lettering to upper board, later bookplate to front pastedown, patterned endpapers, pp 192; a fine copy. ‘This Volume of Poems is dedicated by permission to the Earl and Countess of Kintore, who, by reason of the most kindly and homely disposition, …
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# 17455
'Ellie' [DEBNEY, Ellen Elizabeth]
Poems / by Ellie
Adelaide : Andrews, Thomas, & Clark, 1873. Octavo, original blind blocked brown cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, front hinge cracked, later bookplate to front pastedown, publisher’s printed Note about the authoress tipped-in at front endpapers (offsetting), pp ix, 209, a near fine copy. ‘Many personal friends of the late lamented Authoress of these Poems …
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# 18924
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. May 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; a little roughened at top edges, a couple of annotations made by the original owner, else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation …
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# 18923
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. June 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; short marginal tears at fore-edges (no loss of text), else a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia …
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# 18922
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. July 30, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18921
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. March 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18920
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. December 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18918
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES' MISSION
Australian Aborigines’ advocate : a record of work amongst the dark people of Australia / the organ of the Australian Aborigines’ Mission. October 31, 1927.
Annandale, NSW : T.E. Colebrook, 1927. Small quarto newspaper, 255 x 195 mm, single sheet folding to form 8 pages; illustrated masthead, text in two columns; faint vertical fold, but a fine copy. The Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) was an interdenominational Protestant organisation active in most states of Australia between 1908 and 1929. It had …
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# 18542
BATES, Daisy May (1863-1951)
The passing of the Aborigines : a lifetime spent among the natives of Australia. (With an ALS by Daisy Bates)
With a foreword by the Hon. Sir George Murray, and an introduction by Arthur Mee. London : John Murray, 1938. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; top edges red; front pastedown with small later ownership sticker; front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of A.J. Norman dated 1939, and newspaper cutting reporting on …
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# 18661
VICKERY, John (1906-1983)
Outposts of Empire : Central Australia
[London] : General Post Office, 1937. Colour lithograph poster, 470 x 610 mm, signed and dated in image, laid on linen; fine condition. The poster depicts the underground post office in Coober Pedy, northern South Australia, often referred to as “the opal capital of the world”. One of a series of four lithographic posters featuring …