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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.On city management based on the author’s time as Director of Public Works for the City of Philadelphia.
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Organizing a Factory
C. E. Woods
Chicago and New York: The System Company, 1905.An analysis of the elements in factory organization, a presentation of the fundamental principles of factory management, and a description of the methods to be used in every department of factory operation. The first printing of the first work on industrial management by American engineer and electric car manufacterer Clinton Edgar Woods.
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Text Book of Window Dressing and Display
Alan Foley; W. J. Hewett
Sydney and Melbourne: Alfred Lawrence & Co., 1922.Australian manual for the arrangement of shop windows including show card writing. Contains advertisements for Australian businesses supplying relevant materials and services.
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Tailoring. How to Make it Pay.
T. H. Holding
London: T. H. Holding, No date.Late 19th century / early 20th century guide to running a successful tailoring business by British tailor and pioneer of modern camping Thomas Hiram Holding (1844-1930).
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Celestalia: A Fantasy, A.D. 1975
A. L. Pullar
Sydney: The Canberra Press, 1933.Australian dystopian “Yellow Peril” sci-fi in which volcanic disasters destroy Japan causing the Japanese to flee to China, displacing the Chinese to Australia, displacing white Australia to Tasmania.
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The Arms of Phaedra: A Tale of Wonder and Adventure
Nigel Worth
London: Mills & Boon, 1924.Lost Race romance sci-fi set in Crete where ancient Minoans are found to have survived.
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Dead Man’s Love
Tom Gallon
London, Melbourne and Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911.Romance mystery adventure of a prison escapee. The first printing with frontispiece illustration by Howard Somerville.
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Savages & Sinners
John Maitland
Sydney: The Macquarie Head Press, 1933.“This work is described by Miller as presenting ‘social and economic phases of life in mandated territories of the Northern Pacific and the sex-attitudes of whites and blacks’. The dedication and the author’s note suggest that it is a fictionalised re-telling of a diary kept by a Captain Tyarki. Whether this captain is an actual figure or a fictional persona is unclear.” (Auslit) This copy signed by the author to the title page.
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Aboriginal Tribes of Australia
Norman B. Tindale
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. With an Appendix on Tasmanian Tribes by Rhys Jones.
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The Money Tree: Coffee in Papua New Guinea
James Sinclair
Bathurst: Crawford House Publishing, 1995.The deluxe edition, limited to 100 signed and numbered copies.
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Stone Age Moon
James O. Hunter
Bowen: James Oswald Hunter, 2015.Reports of encounters with remote tribes in Papua New Guinea by an Australian Government Patrol Officer. This copy inscribed by the author.
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Luminous Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Ballet
The Australian Ballet
Melbourne: The Australian Ballet, 2011. -
Test Cricket in Australia, 1877-2002
Charles Davis
Melbourne: Charles Davis, 2002.One of 344 signed and numbered copies.
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Island Maidens: The Photography of David Betts
David Betts
Croydon: Creative Monochrome, 1995.Nude photography of female models taken on the Isle of Wight.
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Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries
Pat Zalewski
: Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn, 2010. -
Gap At the Left Hand of Odin
Askr Svarte
: Fall of Man, 2019.Modern Norse paganism / Odinism.
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Jinn Sorcery
Rain Al-Alim
[London]: Bibliotheque Rouge, Scarlet Imprint, 2018. -
The Thai Occult Appendix
Jenx
France: Timeless, 2020.“The final book in the series responds to the questions raised from this project and covers some requested topics. These include the Land Spirits, Spirit Houses, Studying the Wicha, the role of Karma and some final thoughts on the best way to enter the system.” (publisher’s blurb) One of the first 100 copies (of a total edition of 399) with a signed and numbered card by the author laid in, with a copy of this mounted to the rear pastedown.
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The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order
R. A. Gilbert
York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1997. -
The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater
Gregory Tillett
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.Biography of Theosophist and occult author C. W. Leadbeater.