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Waiting Under Southern Skies
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartColin Abbott
Sydney: T&G Publishing, [2019].“Waiting Under Southern Skies is a selection of evocative, and previously unpublished, images from Colin Abbotts personal archive of over 50 years documenting Australian life, as it presented to him. It is an intimate narrative of people and places during a period of immense social change in Australia.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy signed by Abbott on the title page and with a signed photographic print in a paper folder laid in.
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The Windmill Collection: Photographs by Rose & Emma Windmill
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPeter Elliston
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2008.“These rare photographs, never published before, present a charming portrait of times gone by, an Australian ambience that no longer exists. The Collection comprises vignettes of family and social life in the years between the first and second world wars in Victoria. The photographs also provide the viewer with an opportunity to see what life was like at that time, the emotional landscapes of cities and towns that are today dramatically altered by the modernisation of life.” (publisher’s blurb)
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If The Walls Could Speak: A Social History of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPam Baragwanath
Melbourne: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000. -
Victorian Butterflies And How To Collect Them
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Anderson; Frank Palmer Spry
Melbourne: H. Hearne & Co., 1893.Early work on Australian butterflies. FERGUSON 5965. Issued without the 4 pages of advertisements cited in Ferguson. This copy with the ownership signature of Australian cartoonist Vane Lindesay.
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Beyond Gold: 150 Year of Memories, 1848-1998
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Treacy
Bright: The Catholic Parish of Bright and Mt. Beauty, No date.Incorporating a History of the Parish of Bright, Part 1 – The First Hundred Years, 1848-1948.
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The Making of Women: The History of Mac Robertson Girls’ High School
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPauline F. Parker
Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006. -
Top Fellas: The Story of Melbourne’s Sharpie Cult
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTadhg Taylor
: Surefire Productions, 2013.“Gang Wars! Rock n Roll! Fine Knits! Step into the world of the sharpies, Australia’s answer to mods and skinheads. A world of custom-made clothing and blood n’ guts street brawls. Packed with first-hand accounts from sharpie veterans and rock n’ rollers like Lobby Loyde and Angry Anderson, illustrated with over fifty photos of teenagers in cardigans, Top Fellas is smart as a pair of Acropolis shoes and lively as a Q-Club punch up.” (publisher’s blurb) “…a fast-paced, slang-laced, laddish style – plenty of first hand recollections… loaded with photos… highly enjoyable” Mike Stax, Ugly Things
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Mildura: Scenes from the Land of Winter Sunshine
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. V. & W. R. Hiscock
Melbourne: The Valentine Publishing Co., No date.Circa 1930s souvenir booklet of views of Mildura and surrounds.