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Pioneer BooksMilitary 16.aupioneer@.au+61 8298 4645*m3001 Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (London: Secker and Warburg: 1960) First British Edition. First Printing. Decorated cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 1247. Endpapers. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A very good copy in good price-clipped dust-jacket. $45*m3002 Wake, Nancy The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo called The White Mouse (South Melbourne: The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd: 1985) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 206. Illustrated. Index. Maps on endpapers. Errata slip. A near fine copy in very good dust-jacket. $100*m3003 Bergin, Bob (Compiled by) With The Assistance Of Kevin Johnstone And John Kelly They Called Us ‘Nashos’: This booklet commemorates National Servicemen who served in the armed forces of Australia between 1951 and 1972 and, in particular, those from South Australia, on the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Intake in August, 1951 50 Years Commemorative Booklet 1951-2001. ([Adelaide]: National Servicemen’s Association of Australia South Australia Branch Inc.: 2001) Pictorial wrappers plus pp. ii, 68 (295 x 210 mm). Illustrated. Loosely included information relating to the proposed Nasho service medal. A near fine copy. $45*m3004 Bergin, Bob (Compiled by) Proud to have been a ‘Nasho’: This booklet, originally entitled “They Called Us ‘Nashos’” was first produced in 2001 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Intake of National Servicemen, in August, 1951. Such personnel were to serve proudly in the armed forces of Australia until 1972. Changes have been made, additional information added and the book renamed. It has been printed on the eve of the 55th Anniversary of that first historical Intake 55 Years Commemorative Booklet 1951-2006. ([Adelaide]: National Servicemen’s Association of Australia South Australia Branch Inc.: 2006) Pictorial wrappers plus pp. 76 (295 x 210 mm). Illustrated. A near fine copy. $60*m3005 Cox, Leonard ‘A Gallant Old Liner’: H.M.S. ‘Moreton Bay’ armed merchant cruiser manned by the R.A.N. 1939-41 (no place: no imprint: no date) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 48 (298 x 210 mm). Illustrated. South Australian Personnel who served in ‘Moreton Bay’. A very good copy. $40*m3006 Dandy, Philip The Kookaburra’s Cut-Throats Volume one: 7 Div A.I.F. (Highton, Vic.: McPherson’s Printing Group for The Author: 1995) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. iv, and iv, 248 (303 x 215 mm). Illustrated. Maps. Author’s signed inscription on front free endpaper to Bob Johns, who commanded A Company’s 7 Platoon, and signed again on title page. Corner creases to a few leaves; a near fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $120*m3007 Reddrop, Mary (introduced, edited and set in context by) Jim’s Story with the 37th Battalion – A.I.F. (Melbourne: Spectrum Publications: 1982) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 132 (192 x 125 mm). Illustrated. Footnotes. Based on the diary of James Henry Roberts. A near fine copy in very good dust-jacket which is sunned on its spine. $22*m3008 Bell, A.D. (Edited by) Sergeant Richardson’s War: An Australian in World War I (Adelaide: Rigby: 1980) Rigby Education. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. vi, 98 (240 x 180 mm). Based on the pocket diaries of Sergeant Thomas William Victor (Vic) Richardson who enlisted in 1915, along with half the league football team he played with, and published to help young people understand World War One. Illustrated. Maps. Appendix. Index. An about fine copy. $20*m3009 Matthews, Glenn (Edited by) In the Pink: The Letters of William Johnson Williams Prisoner of War – Europe WWII (no place: Wholly published and printed by the editor: 2006) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. viii, 100 (295 x 210 mm). Illustrated. Williams enlisted in the 2nd AIF and saw service in Palestine and Italy, before becoming one of ‘Hitler’s slaves’ and dying while being moved to Stalag camp in March 1945. A very good cancelled ex-library copy. $25*m3010 Pigot, Neil (Written and Compiled by) 1995 Changi Diary: Celebrating the Australian Spirit P.O.W.s in S.E. Asia 1942-45. (Elizabeth Bay, Sydney: The Crimson Flower Project: 1994) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 144 (268 x 198 mm). Illustrated. An about fine copy. $20*m3011 G New South Wales Troopers: Snapshots of Colonial Soldiers at Home (London: Published at 57 and 59 Ludgate Hill: [1900]) Four leaves excised from Young England An Illustrated Annual for Boys Throughout the English-Speaking World Vol. 21 of which pp. 108-109 and 170-171 display five ‘photographs taken on the exercise ground at Sydney, and reproduced for the first time’, captioned, and with considerable accompanying text, which refutes the idea ‘that the great island continent of Australia would soon detach itself from the Empire’. Repair to one leaf, otherwise near fine. $25*m3012 Smith, Alan Outback Corridor: World War II Lines of Communication across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin and Mt Isa; Northern Territory Wartime Experiences; Army Women’s Services in the NT (Plympton, S.A.: Printed by Griffin Press for the Author: 2002) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xviii, 388 (252 x 172 mm). Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. A very good cancelled ex-library copy. $30*m3013 Vincent, David Mosquito Monograph: A History of Mosquitoes in Australia and R.A.A.F. Operations (Highbury, South Australia: David Vincent: 1982) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 264 (245 x 185 mm). Illustrated. Bibliography. Index of personnel. Appendices. A very good copy. $50*m3014 Jennings, Margaret Australia in the Great War (Melbourne: Hill of Content: Copyright 1969) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 95. Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Errata slip. WITHIN large cardboard envelope printed ‘Hill of Content Archive Series Australia in the Great War’ which also includes ‘The Murdoch Letter’, copy of a letter from Mr K. Murdoch to the Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth 1915’ as well as eleven* separate sheets including the great conscription debate. *Note: as there is no detailed listing of the contents it is unclear whether the envelope includes its full complement of sheets. A very good collection. $30*m3015 Wells, E., Returned Soldier Fragments From Gallipoli and France by a Returned Anzac (Melbourne: Mitchell and Casey, Printers: 1920) First Edition. Subsequently reprinted under the name V. Pretty in 1921. Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 32 (210 x 135 mm). In his Introduction Wells claims that the ‘following sketches of life in the trenches are a faithful account of a soldier’s life as it really is. Stripped of all gloss and glamor, the realities of war are truthfully portrayed…’. Short and longer pieces cover topics such as ‘A Story of Gallipoli’, ‘Over the Top’ and ‘Winter on the Somme’ but there is no doubt that a legend with mythic overtones has been born, although it is a legend that is being built on a foundation of bloody-mindedness as much as heroism, and finds expression here in the vernacular rather than the elegiac, for example in verse two of ‘Anzacs’ ‘Some of you got the V.C.,/Some the Gallipoli trot,/Some got a grave by the sea,/And all of you got it damned hot’. Three short tears to the leading edge of the front wrapper, neatly repaired; wrappers foxed; has been folded vertically; a good copy and internally very good. $200*m3016 Freeman, R.R. (Compiled by) Hurcombe’s Hungry Half Hundred: A Memorial History of the 50th Battalion A.I.F. 1916-1919 (Norwood, South Australia: Peacock Publications: 1991) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 350 (310 x 230 mm). Well illustrated. Maps. Honour Roll. Honours and Awards. Citations and Recommendations. Officers of the Battalion. Nominal Roll. Death dates of some of those who survived the War. Personal Photographic Index. Reinforcements to the Battalion. WITH ‘Supplementary Edition’ loosely included. Previously owned by the family of one of the Half Hundred, James McKenzie; there is small unobtrusive marking below the photographs in which he appears; McKenzie’s original ‘patch’ has been neatly affixed to the front free endpaper and a paper pocket has been pasted down on front fixed endpaper to include original publicity (without the order form) on the publication of the book, signed circular letter from the Author, with relevant newspaper clippings, and finally a letter on publication thanking the purchaser for the support. Another circular letter put out on the occasion of the publication of the ‘Supplement’ is loosely included therein. Two neat annotations on front fixed endpaper. A little rubbing to head and foot of spine, otherwise near fine in very good dust-jacket. $200*m3017 McKenzie, James [The 50th Battalion Late 15/10th Batt.] No. 4828 Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force Certificate of Discharge (D.482/V.16 – C4062) Linen backed form (222 x 195 mm) completed on both sides. He was discharged on 25th March 1918 and the accompanying ‘Field Medical Card’, (1012 Wt. W15045/H3401 1750m. 5-3-17 J.R.and C.) 4pp. (125 x 100 mm), completed in pencil and with the Field Ambulance stamp dated 11/6/17 and signed by Captain and Medical Officer, indicates the serious wound to the right forearm which led to his eventual discharge. Also present is the Marriage Certificate dated April 17 1918 of James McKenzie and Maud Adeline Edmonds whose occupation is given as ‘Charge Nurse’. All three documents folded and in very good condition housed in home-made brown paper pocket. $500*m3018 Australian Military Forces Fitting of Boots and Care of Feet (T.H. Tennant, Government Printer: 1940) Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 15 (132 x 105 mm). An ownership inscription on front wrapper. A very good copy. $20*m3019 Evatt, The Right Honourable H.V. (Prepared under instructions from) Free Legal Assistance to Members of the Forces and Their Dependants (Melbourne: Printers Pty Ltd for Legal Service Bureau. Commonwealth of Australia: no date) Wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 20 (140 x 95 mm). ‘This booklet sets out the legal position as at 1st December, 1944’. An ownership inscription on verso of front wrapper. A very good copy. $20*m3020 Rickard, D.R. In the Navy (Adelaide: Openbook Publishers for the Author: 1999) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 158 (243 x 170 mm). Illustrated. Glossary. An about fine copy. $15*m3021 Wurth, Bob 1942: Australia’s Greatest Peril (Sydney: Pan Macmillan: 2008) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xvi, 463. Illustrated. Maps. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. An about fine copy. $20*m3022 no author How to see the Battlefields: Season 1919 (Paris: Thos. Cook and Son: July 1919) Decorated wrappers pp. 6. War tourism in the first summer after Armistice. ‘Passengers are particularly warned against touching objects in the war area such as grenades, shells, etc.’ Gives details of three separate day excursions. An about fine copy. $25*m3023 Eyre, Donald C. in collaboration with Douglas Bowler Ordeal by Endurance (London: Hamilton and Co.: June 1960) A Panther Book. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 192. Map. Escape after the fall of Singapore. Light creases to front wrapper; a very good copy. $20*m3024 Hunt, A.D. Methodism Militant: Attitudes to the Great War 1914-1918 ([Adelaide]: South Australian Methodist Historical Society: no date) Pictorial wrappers plus pp. viii, 36 (260 x 210 mm). Illustrated with maps additional to pagination. Roneoed. An about fine copy. $25*m3025 Stanley, Peter Digger Smith and Australia’s Great War: Ordinary Name – Extraordinary Stories (Millers Point, NSW: Pier 9 and Murdoch Books Pty Limited: 2011) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 368 (258 x 206 mm). Illustrated. Bookseller’s mark to lower edge. A near fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $25*m3026 Parkin, Ray Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom (Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press: 1999) First Omnibus Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 955. Illustrated. Maps. Foreword by John Clarke. What Reviewers Have Said. A near fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $25*m3027 Martinkus, John Indonesia’s Secret War in Aceh (Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia: 2004) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. xii, 340. Map. Glossary. Index. A very good copy. $15*m3028 Llewellyn, Chaplain W.R. (Edited by) The Regimental Magazine of the 16th National Service Training Battalion, Woodside, South Australia, Lt-Col. K.M. MacKenzie, Commanding (Adelaide: The Advertiser Printing Office: no date) ‘Intake 1, 1956’. Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 40 (271 x 217 mm). Illustrated including photos by F. Boase. Loosely included is a snapshot of a group of 18 young servicemen. Spine split and neatly repaired; a very good copy. $60*m3029 no author Withdrawal of Troops from Australia Ordered by the House of Assembly to be printed, 22nd July, 1870. (Adelaide: [W.C. Cox Government Printer]: 1870) Drop title pp. 2 (340 x 218 mm). Edges uncut. South Australia. Parliamentary Paper No. 58. Four perforations at the inner margin left after the disbinding; otherwise near fine. $45*m3030 no author Proclamation, etc., on Neutrality Ordered by the Legislative Council to be printed 27th September, 1870. (Adelaide: [W.C. Cox Government Printer]: 1870) Drop title pp. 4, last blank (340 x 218 mm). Edges uncut. South Australia. Parliamentary Paper No. 130. WITH South Australia. Parliamentary Papers Nos. 156 AND 157 AND 174: Drop titles pp. 4, 7 and 1, last blanks ‘Proclamation of Foreign Enlistment Act Laid on the table of the Legislative Council, 25th October, 1870, and ordered to be printed’ AND ‘Despatch Enclosing Foreign Enlistment Act Laid on the table of the Legislative Council, 25th October, 1870, and ordered to be printed’ AND ‘Despatch on Transmission of War News Ordered by the House of Assembly to be printed, 22nd November, 1870’. Directions to the Colonies to keep out of the Franco-Prussian War e.g. may coal ‘properly be furnished to the French sloop-of-war carrying mails from Sydney to New Caledonia’? Four perforations at the inner margins left after the disbinding; otherwise near fine copies. $100*m3031 no author Proposed Militia Expenditure Ordered by the House of Assembly to be printed, 27th September, 1870. (Adelaide: [W.C. Cox Government Printer]: 1870) Drop title pp. 2 verso blank (340 x 218 mm). Edges uncut. South Australia. Parliamentary Paper No. 132. Four perforations at the inner margin left after the disbinding; otherwise near fine. $20*m3032 Royal Naval Division Two Christmas cards from the Front, ‘France 1916. Up Anchor!’ AND ‘1917 Christmas Greetings Cheerio! 1917’ (Paris: Devambez, Gr.) Each pp. 4 (155 x 117 mm). Inside the 1916 card are the words ‘With best Wishes from’ and an ‘Almanack’ ie Calendar for 1917; the 1917 card has on the front (signed S.R. Good) a soldier in an R.N.D. helmet peering out of a hole in the map of France and inside on the page facing the Greetings is a cartoon signed H. Hestoun? of a British R.D.N. soldier, his pack bearing the words Antwerp, Gallipoli, Ancre, Arras, Ypres, pursuing a German at bayonet point with the caption ‘A little “Salt” on his Tail’. The earlier card has a small chip to the front lower corner and scattered silverfishing; the later card has a little light soiling but is generally very good. $45*m3033 Hohne, Heinz The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s S.S. Translated from the German by Richard Barry. (London: Pan Books Ltd.: 1972) First paperback edition. Unabridged. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xxx, 655, 3 publisher’s advertisements. Illustrated. Folding chart. Calendar of Events. Glossary. Appendices. Index. Spine a little sunned; a near fine copy. $20*m3034 a Disabled Soldier (Compiled by) Poems and Humorous Sketches (Brisbane: H. Pole and Co. Pty. Ltd. no date) Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 16. Two marginal hole-punch perforations; a near fine copy. $25*m3035 Olsen, Ludwig (Editor, Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney) The Aircraft Employees’ Handbook No. 1 Pocket Edition (Sydney: Websdale Shoosmith Pty. Ltd.: June 1943) First Edition. Pictorial limp cloth (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 192 (170 x 115 mm). Illustrated. A near fine copy. $40*m3036 Davidson, Peter A. Sky Pilot: A History of Chaplaincy in the RAAF 1926-1990 (Fyshwick, ACT: Department of Defence: Copyright 1990) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 248 (295 x 208 mm). Bibliography. Roll and Service Record. Creases to lower corner of front wrapper; otherwise near fine. $25*m3037 Parkin, Ray The Sword and the Blossom (London: The Hogarth Press: 1968) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xx, 266. Illustrated. An about fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $30*m3038 Childers, James Saxon War Eagles The Story of the Eagle Squadron (London: William Heinemann Ltd.: 1943) First British Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 261. Illustrated. Glossary of Slang. No. 71 (Eagle) Squadron, R.A.F.: Roster of Officers and Pilots. List of Victories. Roll of Honour. An ownership inscription on title page; a near fine copy in good dust-jacket which has old tape stains. $20*m3039 Mutton, Bob, 2/20 Bn. 8 Aust. Div. (Compiled by) Home for Christmas but Five Years Late: A Record of Australian POWs in the Hands of the Japanese 15th February 1942 to 15th August 1945 Compiled from Diaries and Notes kept at the time by those who were there (Mount Garnet, North Queensland: Jenkin Buxton, Printers: Copyright 1995) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 152 (275 x 210 mm). Copiously Illustrated by George Sprod 2/15 Bn. and from photographs. Gift inscription on title page. Small corner creases to front wrapper; otherwise near fine. $20*m3040 Stewart, John To the River Kwai: Two Journeys 1943, 1979 (London: Bloomsbury: December 1988) Reprint. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xiv, 175. Illustrated. A near fine copy in near fine price-clipped dust-jacket. $20*m3041 Spurling, Kathryn A Grave Too Far Away: A Tribute to Australians in Bomber Command Europe (Sydney: New Holland: 2012) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. 400. Illustrated. Endnotes. Bibliography. A near fine copy. $15*m3042 Lodge, A.B. The Fall of General Gordon Bennett (Sydney: Allen and Unwin: 1986) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 347. Illustrated. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A few marks to fore edge; a near fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $22*m3043 ‘Irven’ (of ‘The Daily Herald’) Referendum of 1916. To the Women of Australia. ‘Are you in favour of the Government having, IN THIS GRAVE EMERGENCY, the same compulsory powers over Citizens in regard to requiring their Military Service, FOR THE TERM OF THE WAR, outside the Commonwealth as it now has in regard to Military Service within the Commonwealth?’ Vote = “No.” (Adelaide: Printed at ‘The Daily Herald’ Office for the Women’s Branch Anti-Conscription Council, Vera Block, secretary: 1916) Pamphlet of 4 pages, 3 pages double-column closely printed in small type being the anti-conscription case of Jean Irven McKenzie, a prominent thinker and activist of her day. Three horizontal folds; fraying to leading edge; a fair copy of a rare and fragile item. $75*m3044 Marks, Roger R. Queensland Airfields WW2 – 50 Years On (Brisbane, Qld: R and J Marks: 1994) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. vi, 276 (295 x 210 mm). Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. A very little underlining to a couple of pages; a very good cancelled ex-library copy. $50*m3045 Nicholson, Colonel W.N., C.M.G., D.S.O. Behind the Lines (London: Jonathan Cape: April 1939) Second Impression. Blue cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 320. Account of administrative staff work in the British Army 1914-1918. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper; a very good copy in good price-clipped dust-jacket which has tape reinforcement to its blind side. $25*m3046 Walker, Richard and Helen Curtin’s Cowboys: Australia’s secret bush commandos (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin: 1989) Reprint of the paperback edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xviii, 194 (230 x 150 mm). Illustrated. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A near fine copy. $60*m3047 Stanley, Peter Quinn’s Post, Anzac, Gallipoli (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin: 2005) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xxii, 226 (225 x 152 mm). Illustrated. Maps. Bibliography. Index. A near fine copy. $25*m3048 Macmillan, Captain Norman, M.C., A.F.C. Into the Blue (London: Duckworth: December, 1929) Second Impression. Blue cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 213. Illustrated. An ownership inscription of Lieut V.E. Dowdy 9th Light Horse Regiment on front free endpaper. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; spine sunned and gilt lettering faded; scattered marks internally; a good copy. $30*m3049 Lewis, Cecil Farewell to Wings (London: Temple Press Books: 1964) First Edition. Blue boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 84. Illustrated by Leonard Bridgman with plates additional to pagination. An owner’s signature on front free endpaper. Light patch of discoloration to rear board; otherwise near fine in damaged and incomplete dust-jacket – the front panel and front flap are almost complete. $40*m3050 Pentland, Geoffrey and Malone, Peter Aircraft of the RAAF 1921-71 Foreword by Air Marshal Sir George Jones, KBE, CB, DFC. (Melbourne: Kookaburra Technical Publications: 1971) First Edition. Jubilee Issue. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 147 (290 x 220 mm). Lavishly illustrated from photographs; color illustrations by Geoffrey Pentland. Bookseller’s small mark to lower edge; a near fine copy in good dust-jacket which has a chip to its spine and a few small tears and creases. $25*m3051 Clift, Ken This Magic Land (no place: Terron Press Pty Ltd: 1988) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. viii, 180 (280 x 210 mm). Profusely illustrated. This book is linked to a Film series, and is a ‘serious determined effort to bridge the generation gap’ between ex-servicemen and women and their contemporaries, and Australian youth. Most aspects of Australian experience are covered, but War effort and service, pp. 37-146 get the greatest emphasis. Signed and inscribed on the title page 'To Stan and Sylvie With "Parachutist" memories and Best Wishes Ken Clift DCM'. A near fine copy $25*m3052 Brickhill, Paul The Dam Busters With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder. (London: Book Club Associates: 1984) Revised Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 238. Illustrated. Epilogue. Index. A near fine copy in like dust-jacket. $20*m3053 Griffen, Colin, Family and Friends Mallee Memories and War Heroes Part 2 (no place: Printed by Richard Griffin for the Author: no date) Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 182. Illustrated. Includes substantial sections of war history and reminiscence. D.H.K. Standley, a DEMS gunner, relates his experiences which include the sinking of the ‘Helen Moller’ and being adrift in the Indian Ocean pp. 40-58. Flight Sergeant Malcolm Standley, air-gunner in Bomber Command, killed when his Halifax was shot down over France on September 16 1942, is given a heartfelt tribute pp. 82-106. The book ends with an account by John Griffen of his journey as supervising teacher of the ‘Premier’s Anzac Spirit School Prize Tour 2010’ to the Western Front ‘walking in the footsteps of family members who went to the Great War, some never to return’ pp. 143-177. Signed by Colin Griffen on the title page. A near fine copy. $40*m3054 Mallard, Paul L. (Compiled by) No. 25 City of Perth Squadron: An account of this Squadron’s activities whilst operating B-24 Liberator aircraft from Western Area during 1945-46 (no place: the Author: January 2003) Publication Revised. Pictures scanned and inserted. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. iv, 98 (297 x 210 mm). Loosely inserted is ‘B24 – Liberator Squadrons of Australia Newsletter’ December 2003 Issue #66. Author’s signed and inscribed presentation copy. An about fine copy. $60*m3055 Ralph, Barry Savage Wilderness. The epic outback search for the crew of ‘Little Eva’: The ultimate World War II survivor story (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press: 2004) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xii, 209. Illustrated. Sources. Index. The disappearance of a B-24 Liberator returning from a mission over New Guinea. A near fine copy. $25*m3056 Oppenheimer, Melanie Oceans of Love: Narelle – An Australian Nurse in World War I (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation: July 2006) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 272 (233 x 152 mm). Illustrated. Notes on Sources. Index. A near fine copy. $20*m3057 General Staff, L.H.Q. Australia (Prepared by) Friendly Fruits and Vegetables (Melbourne: Printed by Arbuckle Waddell Pty. Ltd. and issued under the authority of the Commander Allied Land Forces S.W.P.A.: 31st May, 1949) Wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 71 (105 x 135 mm). Illustrated. On the rear wrapper are ownership details of a private in the 27 Aust. Inf. Bn. and below the text on the final page is a handwritten note warning against eating Hawksbill or Shell turtle. Light dampmark to leaves; otherwise very good. $25*m3058 Forbes, Cameron Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War (Sydney: Macmillan: 2005) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 559. Illustrated. Maps. Endnotes. Select Bibliography. Index. A near fine cancelled ex-library copy in near fine dust-jacket. $20*m3059 Jacobs, Rex (Transcribed and Edited by) A Soldier’s Diary: A transcription of Cecil Taylor’s War Diaries 1916-1919 (Netley, SA: Endeavour Print for Rex Jacobs: Copyright 2001) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. x, 141 (290 x 210 mm). Illustrated. No. 33463. Cecil Howard Taylor 108 Howitzer A.I.F. 1916-1919: ‘were I to go through it all again, I’m afraid it would be one short on the roll call’. A near fine copy. $35*m3060 Clarke, Hugh V. The Tub (Brisbane, Queensland: The Jacaranda Press: 1963) First Edition. Pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. vi, 182. Spine sunned and a little slanted; a very good copy. $20*m3061 Macintyre, Captain Donald, D.S.O. and 2 Bars, D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.) Jutland (London: Evans Brothers Limited: 1957) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 210, 2 publisher’s advertisements. Illustrated. Maps. Appendix. Index. Old price at head of front free endpaper. A near fine copy in good dust-jacket. $25 *m3062 Clifton, Brigadier George D.S.O. (two bars), M.C. The Happy Hunted With a Foreword by Lieutenant-General the Viscount Freyberg of Wellington. (London: Cassell and Company Ltd.: September 1952) Second Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 392. Illustrated. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. $20*m3063 Blythe, John Soldiering On: A Soldier’s War in North Africa and Italy (Auckland, New Zealand: Century Hutchinson: 1989) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. vi, 185. Illustrated. Personal account of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force’s campaigns. Bookseller’s small mark to lower edge; a near fine copy. $20*m3064 Warner, Philip The Battle of Loos (Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions: 2000) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. x, 245. Illustrated. Sketch of Battlefield. Appendix. Index. Wordsworth Military Library. Foot of spine rubbed; light corner creases to rear wrapper; a near fine copy. $20*m3065 Clift, NX3698 Ken, D.C.M. The Saga of a Sig: The Wartime Memories of Six Years Service in the Second A.I.F. (Randwick, N.S.W.: K.C.D. Publications: 1972) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 209. Illustrated. Appendices. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise near fine in very good dust-jacket. $20*m3066 Morrison, Ian This War Against Japan: Thoughts on the conflict in the Far East (London: Faber and Faber Ltd: 1943) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 119 plus 64 photographic illustrations additional to pagination. A very good copy. $15*m3067 Garstin, Crosbie, (‘Patlander’ of Punch) Lieutenant, 1st King Edward’s Horse The Mud Larks Again (Sydney: Angus and Robertson: 1919) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 101, 5 publisher’s advertisements. Numerous press notices of ‘The Mud Larks’ from Antipodean sources quoted on rear wrapper, including The Argus (Melbourne): ‘With humour – and good humour – and with fanciful additions, the Author gives readable sketches of life at the front’. Paper of backstrip rubbed away; scattered foxing; otherwise very good. $25*m3068 Hastwell, Geoff My Sky Blue Trades (a sketch of war and after…) a novel (West Lakes, South Australia: Seaview Press for the Author: 2007) Reprint. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. viii, 168. Maps. Bibliography. A novel about the Beaufighter and the men who flew her in the war over New Guinea. A near fine copy. $15*m3069 Fewster, Kevin (Edited and Annotated by) Bean’s Gallipoli: The diaries of Australia’s official war correspondent (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin: 2009) Paperback edition of the 2007 Third Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xii, 292. Illustrated. Biographical notes. Notes. Bibliography and further reading. Index. An owner’s signature on half-title page. Otherwise near fine. $30*m3070 Welham, Michael G. Combat Frogmen: Military diving from the nineteenth century to the present day Foreword by the Right Hon. Paddy Ashdown MP. (Wellingtonborough, Northamptonshire: Patrick Stephens Ltd.: 1989) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 223 (250 x 195 mm). Bibliography. Index. A near fine copy in like dust-jacket. $20*m3071 no author City of Christchurch N.Z. Peace Celebrations (Christchurch, N.Z.: Printed for the Peace Celebration Committee by the Members of the Christchurch Master Printers’ Association, July 1919) Decorated wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 16 (214 x 140 mm). The celebrations extended over three days from the General Salute 21 Guns at 8 a.m. Saturday Morning – July 19 to the Gigantic Coloured Water and Fireworks Display at 7.45 p.m. on Monday July 21, itself culminating in the ‘Grand Panorama: Naval Battle of Jutland’, this much disputed engagement reduced to ‘a realistic pyrotechnic representation of the defeat of the German Squadron’. As the Foreword puts it, this ‘is a peace based on the ruin of autocracies and the creation in their place of a system of real national responsibilities’. No longer will the world be exposed ‘to the constant danger of war’. A little soiling to wrappers; split to head and foot of spine; has been horizontally folded; a very little rusting to staples; a good, and internally very good, copy. $200*m3072 McNicoll, Ronald The Royal Australian Engineers 1919 to 1945 Teeth and Tail Volume Three. (Canberra: Published by the Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers: 1982) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xx, 432. Illustrated. Maps. References. Bibliography. List of Subscribers. Index. Circular to subscribers loosely included. An about fine copy in like dust-jacket. $50*m3073 Hales, A.G. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) (London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited: 1900) Cassell’s Colonial Library, volumes of which are listed on endpapers. Red cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 304, 16 publisher’s advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of the author seated on a box at a portable desk. An owner’s signature and date on title page. A little damage to head and foot of spine; otherwise near fine. $60*m3074 Cleator, P.E. Weapons of War (London: Robert Hale: 1967) First Edition. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 224. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. An ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A near fine copy in near fine dust-jacket. $20*m3075 an R.A.A.F. Officer Great was the Fall: A Story of the Malayan Tragedy (Perth, W.A.: Patersons Printing Press Ltd: no date) First Edition. Decorated wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 131. Spine silverfished and splitting at foot; a very good copy. $100*m3076 Lyall, K.M. (Compiled and Edited by) Letters from an Anzac Gunner (East Kew, Victoria: Lyall’s Yarns Pty Ltd: 1990) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xxvi, 214 (297 x 205 mm). Illustrated. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. A near fine copy. $25*m3077 Bannister, Colin An Inch of Bravery: 3 RAR in the Malayan Emergency 1957-59 (Canberra, ACT: Directorate of Army Public Affairs: 1994) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. iv, viii, 132, 30. Illustrated. Maps. Roll of Honour. Honours and Awards. Nominal Roll. Bibliography. Index. A very good copy. $25*m3078 Kienzle, Robyn The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle – The Man who made the Kokoda Trail (Sydney: Hachette Australia: 2011) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xiv, 338 (234 x 153 mm). Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. A very good copy. $20*m3079 Johnstone, Norman M., 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion Dearest Geraldine: Letters from a Soldier Edited by Lieutenant Colonel Owen O’Brien (Retd). (Loftus, Australia: Publishing Services for the Author: 2003) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. xviii, 105. Illustrated. Glossary and abbreviations. Indexes. The letters pp. 27-92 cover Tobruk, Derna, Benghazi, Greece and Crete. Signed by the Author A near fine copy. $25*m3080 Talbot, Godfrey Speaking from the Desert: A Record of the Eighth Army in Africa (London: Hutchinson and Co.: no date) First Edition. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. 153. Illustrated. Endpaper maps. A near fine copy. $20*m3081 De Jong, Louis The German Fifth Column in the Second World War Translated from the Dutch by C.M. Geyl. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1956) Revised Edition translated into English. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 308. Maps. Glossary of German Terms. Index. Small remnant of sticker to front board; numeral on front free endpaper, half-title page and title page where another numeral has been crossed out; a couple of small light stains; a very good copy and internally near fine. $20*m3082 Junger, Ernst, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment The Storm of Steel From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front With an introduction by R.H. Mottram. (London: Chatto and Windus: July, 1929) Third Impression. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 320. Spine sunned; a near fine copy. $20*m3083 Wilmot, Chester (Story and Commentary of) ‘Sons of the Anzacs’ Documentary Film of the Australian Fighting Services at War. (Sydney: Halstead Press Pty Ltd for the Australian War Memorial: no date) Suggest early 1943. Pictorial wrappers by Cyril Samuels (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 16 (210 x 140 mm). Illustrated. Program for the film ‘produced by Arthur E. Higgins and Neville R. Bletcher …from factual sequences of our servicemen in action taken by Damien Parer, Frank Hurley, Frank Bagnall, William Carty, Roy Driver And other Official Cameramen of the Department of Information. A near fine copy. $100*m3084 ‘Semaphore’ Digger Yarns (And Some Others) to Laugh at A Lot of Nonsense for 1/-. (Melbourne: E.H. Gibbs and Sons, Printers: 1936) Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 32. A Semaphore Smile Book A very good copy. $25*m3085 ‘Semaphore’ Khaki Comedy and Newsy Nonsense Lots of Lilting Laughter For One Shilling. (Melbourne: E.H. Gibbs and Sons, Printers: no date) Suggest 1930s. Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 32. A ‘Semaphore’ Smile Book A very good copy. $25*m3086 no author Roll of Honour Staff of the Myer Emporium Serving in the Fighting Forces on Sea… on Land… in the Air (no place: no imprint: no date) Leaflet printed on Recto only (265 x 150 mm). ‘Those whose names are marked with an asterisk have paid the Supreme Sacrifice’. Has been folded; very short marginal tear; a very good copy. $20*m3087 no author St. Peters Soldiers’ Memorial ([Adelaide]: Harman and Jacka: 1919) Pictorial wrappers pp. 4 (225 x 145 mm). Leaflet dated November 11, 1919 published to raise funds for the proposed monument the design of which (illustrated on front wrapper) was submitted by Mr. Edward Davies at a projected cost of 1,400 pounds. Very good. $30*m3088 Elliott, W/O 18th Sqd., RAAF, and Kimpton, Pte, 2/25th A.I.B. Aussie on Parade (Thornbury, Vic: Clyde Press: no date) Suggest mid 1940s. Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 24 (212 x 137 mm). Illustrated. Has been vertically folded; a very good copy. $30*m3089 Pretty, V. Here’s a Good One! Humorous Stories (Melbourne: Mitchell and Casey Pty. Ltd.: 1941) Pictorial wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 32 (215 x 140 mm). Illustrated. A very good copy. $30*m3090 Schommer, Georges, Chairman, Inter-Allied Information Committee, London (Foreword by) Persecution of the Jews (Australia: Stuart Taylor Pty. Ltd.: no date) Foreward dated 18th December, 1942. Reprint. Wrappers pp. 20. Conditions in Occupied Territories: A Series of Reports Issued by The Inter-Allied Information Committee, London No. 6. Split to spine neatly reinforced with clear tape; a good copy. $25*m3091 no author Cruise Book of the U.S.S. Canberra (CAG-2) Presidential Cruise 1957 Cover title: U.S.S. Canberra (CAG-2) Presidential Flagship March 14-26, 1957 Norfolk – Bahamas – Bermuda. A Happy Cruise. (Norfolk, VA: Litho in U.S.A. by Tidewater Offset Printing Service: no date) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 24 (280 x 215 mm). Illustrated. Portrait of Eisenhower loosely included. Eisenhower was on ‘a restful and leisurely cruise to the Bermuda Conference’ and his ‘cruise was a high spot in the history of the Kan-Do-Kangaroo’. Light dampmarks to rear wrapper and a little to front wrapper; otherwise near fine. $60*m3092 no author the Kangaroo heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957 Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo Cover title: the Kangaroo heads South in the USS. Canberra (CAG-2) midshipman cruise Alfa June 8-August 6, 1957. (Norfolk, VA: Litho in U.S.A. by Tidewater Offset Printing Service: no date) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 64 (277 x 215 mm). Illustrated. Map. ‘sail on, Canberra’ (verse given on page 62) is sung to the tune of ‘Waltzing Matilda’. Ownership inscription of a Captain US Navy on front wrapper. A near fine copy. $100*m3093 McBride, J. (Compiled by) Philip’s ‘Popular’ War Zone Map of Europe (Sydney: George B. Philip and Son: no date) Suggest about 1916. Includes a Map of Europe showing 1914 boundaries. Size 30 x 36 ins. Printed in four colours. A few marginal pin holes; a couple of small tears neatly repaired; a very good copy folded to 230 x 190 mm. $60*m3094 Lockwood, Rupert Japan’s Heart of Wood (Sydney: Current Book Distributors: April 1943) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 32. A very good copy. $45*m3095 Gray, Huon MacArthur: From Bataan and Back: A brief summary of the war in the South West Pacific, 1941-1945 (Terowie Citizens Association Inc.: [2002]) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus pp. 44. Illustrated. Maps. ‘Published by the Terowie Citizens Association Inc to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the arrival in Terowie of General MacArthur on 20 March 1942 on his escape from the Philippines to Australia’. A near fine copy. $25*m3096 no author First Contingent (South Australian Infantry) Raised for Service in South Africa: General Enlistment, October 17, 1899 WITH Second Contingent (South Australian Mounted Rifles) Raised for Service in South Africa: General Enlistment, December 27, 1899 (no place: no imprint: no date) Nine leaves printed on rectos only (340 x 215 mm) plus a folding Appendix A: Mounted Infantry Division, First Mounted Infantry Brigade (Bloemfontein, April 7th 1900) (340 x 430 mm). Brief accounts of each contingent’s movements from South Australia to South Africa, Casualties, Promotions, Distinctions conferred, and with Lists ‘Detail of Officers and Men’. First leaf lightly soiled and a little frayed at edges; final leaf a little silverfished at edges and with a small hole resulting in the loss of a few letters of text; a very good copy. $400*m3097 Callwell, Major-General Sir C.E., K.C.B. The Dardanelles (London: Constable and Company Ltd.: 1919) First Edition. Red cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 361, 6 publisher’s advertisements. Maps. Campaigns and their Lessons (series). Cloth dampmarked, most heavily to the rear board which has marked the rear fixed endpaper; scattered foxing, most noticeably to opening leaves and to fore edge; a good copy. $45*m3098 Rice, T and Jenkin, F.H. (edited by) Souvenir Being an Unofficial Resume of the History of the 11th Australian Field Ambulance Cover title: Souvenir 11th Fld Amb France 1916 to 1918. ([Adelaide]: Eleventh Australian Field Ambulance: March 1919) Decorated wrappers (that is, paper covers) plus pp. 32 (252 x 190 mm). Illustrated. Wrappers frayed at edges and a little chipped at their lower corners; a touch of silverfishing to leading edge of frontispiece; a good copy. $500*m3099 Wightman, P.R. (Designed by) The Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. The Service Record of the 18th Battery Australian Field Artillery: Egypt. France. Flanders. Belgium 1915-1919 (London: Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd. for the 18th Battery A.I.F.: [1919]) Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) plus 4 leaves printed on rectos only (368 x 267 mm). Wrappers a little foxed and lightly silverfished; edges of wrappers lightly rubbed; red and blue cord a little faded; otherwise a near fine copy. $1500*m3100 Australian Commonwealth Military Forces THE ALL-AUSTRALIA MEMORIAL: A Historical Record of National Effort during the Great War/AUSTRALIA’S ROLL OF HONOUR, History, Heroes and Helpers Foreword by Senator The Hon. George Foster Pearce, Minister for Defence. Introductory Narrative by E. Ashmead-Bartlett, Official Press Representative of the British Government at the Dardanelles. (Melbourne: British-Australasian Publishing Service: no date) 1917 appears at foot of spine. Revised Edition (see Editors’ Preface p. 10). Gilt decorated cloth, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 252 [followed by] Part II: Australia’s Fighting Families, all South Australians in these Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, Index pp. 155-8. With over 1,000 Double-Tone Illustrations from Original Photographs, Drawings, Maps, Portraits, etc. (275 x 220 x 50 mm thick). At the front is a photo of an Australian soldier pasted in the space provided and there are two other photographic portraits within. Opposite the first portrait are the details of three soldiers – Leonard V. Trewin, Drv., 5th A.M.D.T.; John C. Randell Pte., 10th Batt. and Horace R. Applebee Sglr., 32nd Battalion Head and foot of spine worn; spine sunned; light patches of discoloration to cloth; some misfolding and neat repair to frontispiece folding panorama; otherwise a very good copy. $750 ................
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