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3 CAMPBELL, David. STARTING FROM CEN-TRAL STATION. A Sequence of Poems. Illustrated by William Huff-Johnston. Canb. Brindabella Press. 1973. wrapps. 17pp. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. Edition limited to 220 copies signed by the author. Inscribed by Alec Bolton, founder of Brindabella Press on title page to poet Judith Wright, signed underneath by Campbell. The first book of the press. [SOLD]
4 FAVENC, Ernest. THE HISTORY OF AUSTRA-LIAN EXPLORATION FROM 1788 TO 1988. Gladesville. Golden Press. 1983. Facsimile reprint of 1888 original. 474pp. Plus Appendix. Fine copy. With free front cover, 12 cm x7 cm which includes the signature of famous Australian explorer Charles Sturt (1795 – 1869). Free fronts were envelopes that were delivered by hand or courier in Britain before Penny Post was introduced. $110
eList No.4 - Some Signed ItemsAll books are hardback with dust wrappers unless otherwise specified
1 BERTRAND, John. BORN TO WIN. A LIFE-LONG STRUGGLE TO CAPTURE THE AMER-ICA’S CUP. New York. Ban-tam Books. 1985. 385pp. Fine copy with slightly worn edge of spine dustjacket. Signed by Bertrand on front end papers “John Bertrand”. $50
2 B H U T TO , B e n a z i r. DAUGHTER OF THE EAST. AN AUTOBI-OGRAPHY. London. Pocket Books. 2008. 441pp. First paperback edition, some browning of pages.
Inserted white card, 15cm x 10cm, signed by Bhutto, who was assassinated in Pakistan on 27 December 2007. $50
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7 HAGGARD, H. Rider. THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD. 1914-1925. Edited by D. S. Higgins. London. Cassell. 1980. 299pp. Fine copy in protected dustjacket. With inserted 9×4 cm card inscribed, “Truly yours, H. Rid-er Haggard”. Haggard achieved overnight fame in 1885 with the publica-tion of King Solomon’s Mines. $100
8 HAGGARD, H. Rider. KING SOLOMON’S MINES. THE BOOK OF THE FILM. London. Ward Lock. 1950. Large 8vo. 96pp. Official book companion to the MGM movie starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. Slightly worn edges to coverselse a Fine copy, with eight colour photographs internally. Small booksellers label on inside front cover. Loosely inserted is a 7.5cm x 2cm, blue slip
5 GORBACHEV, Raisa. I HOPE. REMINIS-CENCES AND REFLECTIONS. London. Harper Collins. 1991. 207pp. Fine copy in dustjacket with small booksellers label on inside front cover. Trans-lation by David Floyd of Mikhail Gorbachev’s wife’s memoirs, covering her life story and im-portant issues in Russia including Gorbachev’s reforms in the late 1980s. Inserted white card, 12 cm x 7cm, signed by Raisa Gorbachev appropriately in red on 20 September 1988. $65
6 GRAMMER, Kelsey. SO FAR New York. Dut-ton. 1995. 239pp. Fine copy Autobiography of Kelsey Grammer, best known for his role on TV’s Frasier. With signed colour photograph of Grammer, 19cm x 25cm. $60
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signed by Stewart Granger, in conservation envelope. Also an inscribed black and white photograph from the early 1970s, 20cm x 24cm, of Deborah Kerr, signed in green ink. $85
9 JEFFERSON, Graham. FRASIER. New York. Pocket Books. 1996. 277pp. Fine paperback copy of the offi-cial companion to the TV series. With a 20 cm x 26cm colour photograph signed by Kelsey Grammer, who played Frasier, and by John Mahoney , who played Frasier’s father. $65
10 MOLONEY, Ed. PAISLEY. FROM DEMA-GOGUE TO DEMOCRAT? Dublin. Poolbeg Press. 2008. 562pp. Fine C format, paperback copy. Inserted small white gloss card, 8cm x 3cm, signed by Paisley with Biblical reference. Loosely inserted are several obituaries of the controversial politician and religious leader, who died on September 12, 2014. $40
11 NEHRU, Jawaharlal. CENTENARY VOL-UME. Edited by Sheila Dikshit and others. Delhi. Ox-ford University Press. 1989. 736pp. Small folio volume. Slight dent to front cover edge, otherwise fine condi-tion. Small stamp on front end paper “Information Ser-vice of India”. With 17cm x 27cm cardboard with colour photograph of Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and a white card, 10cm x 6cm, signed by Nehru 6 May 1960. $100
12 OPPENHEIMER, Jerry. SEINFELD. THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN ICON. New York. Harper Collins. 2002. 398pp. Fine copy in dustjacket but with remainder mark on lower edge. Comes with signed, 18cm x 24cm, black and white photograph of Julie Louis-Dreyfus who played one of the main characters in the Seinfeld series and is now the star of the Veep tv series. $50
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13 PACKARD, Vance. THE PEOPLE SHAPERS. Melbourne. Nelson. 1978. 398pp. Fine copy with small booksellers label on inside front cover. With Australian Parlia-ment House commemorative envelope, 16cm x 9cm, with 18c stamp, signed by Packard to commemorate his visit to Aus-tralia in February 1978. Pack-ard is best known for his key books, The Hidden Persuaders and The Status Seekers. $45 14 REID, Richard. GALLIPOLI 1915. Syd. ABC. 2005. (4th imp) Oblong. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 158pp. Many b/w ills. Fine. With the loosely inserted signa-ture of Sir Ian Hamilton who was Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in
the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey at Galli-poli. An account of how ordinary “blokes” from many different countries coped in extraordinary circum-stances not only in battle but back in the trenches. $80
15 SIMPSON, Graham. THE JUDITH DUR-HAM STORY. Sydney. Random House. 1994. 384pp. Fine copy with dustjacket. Inserted signed white card by Durham, 15cm x 10cm. On reverse, attribution that it was signed by Durham at the BBC in London on 25 March 1994. $45
16 SMITH, Constance Babbington. AMY JOHN-SON. London. Collins. 1967. 384pp. Biography of the famous aviator, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia (1930). Slightly worn dust-wrapper in protected covers. Bookseller stamp on inner front cover and snapshot of Johnson pasted on rear end paper. Inserted 11×8 cm white card signed by Johnson. On reverse of card, original request for auto-graph from a Geelong man. $125
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17 SPENCER, Charles. BLENHEIM. BATTLE FOR EUROPE. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2004. 365pp. Fine copy. Signed on the title page by Charles Spencer, the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales. The book has its origin in the Spen-cer-Churchill link to the Battle of Blenheim. $55
18 STATHAM-DREW, Pamela. JAMES STIRLING. ADMIRAL AND FOUNDING GOV-ERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Perth. UWA Press. 2005 reprint. 655pp. Fine copy with inserted 11x8cm card signed by Sir Charles Howe Fremantle (1800 – 1869), adding the words ‘Rear Admiral’. Fremantle was named after him. [SOLD]
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