GASTON RENARD Pty. Ltd. Postal Address: Established 1945 Electronic communications: P.O. Box 1030, (A.C.N. 005 928 503) Telephone: +61 (0)3 9459 5040 Ivanhoe, Melbourne, ABN: 68 893 979 543 Website: www.GastonRenard.com.au Victoria, 3079, Australia. www.GastonRenard.com E-mail: [email protected] Short List No. 338 - 2020. A Twentieth-Century List. [This is the tall (portrait) version of this list. If you prefer the wide (landscape) version you can get it here: Gaston Renard Short List No. 338 - Landscape Version] Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 1 Adam Smith, Patsy. PRISONERS OF WAR. From Gallipoli to Korea. Impl. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 600(last blank); several illustrations, bibliography, index; original papered boards; a fine copy in dustwrapper. (Ringwood, Victoria); Viking; (1992). #31113 A$60.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 2 Akhurst, Adrian. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Roy. 8vo, 2nd Edn.; pp. [iv], 68(last blank); 17 plates, appendices; original buckram; a nice copy. [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1978]. ***The original edition of 1943 reprinted in the Club’s Centenary Year. [with] Knight, F. F. HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB, MELBOURNE. Volume II, 1932-1965. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. [viii], 128; 8 plates; original cloth; a nice copy. [Melbourne; The Australian Club; 1971]. ***The continuation of Adrian Akhurst’s history first published in 1943 and covering the period 1878 to 1932. #14775 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 3 Alexander, Field-Marshal Earl; of Tunis: THE ALEXANDER MEMOIRS 1940-1945. Edited by John North. First Edition; pp. xiv, 210; 16 double-page & 22 full-page battle maps, portrait frontispiece & 32 plates, index; original cloth; a nice copy in dustwrapper. London; Cassell; (1962). ***Including operations in North Africa, France & Belgium, Burma and Italy. #2977 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 4 Amundsen, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912. Translated from the Norwegian by A. G. Chater. 2 vols. in 1, Facsimile Edition; pp. [iv], xxxvi, 392; x, 458(last 9 blank); 6 maps (including 1 folding), 100 plates, folding diagram of the “Fram”, several text figures; appendices, index; original blue papered boards, spine gilt; endpapers foxed; otherwise a fine copy in dustwrapper. St. Lucia; University of Queensland Press; (1976). ***A facsimile of the First Edition by John Murray, see Spence 28 - variant imprint; Renard 22; Rosove 9.D2. #3945 A$220.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 5 Angel, J. R. THE AUSTRALIAN CLUB 1838-1988. The First 150 Years. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. [vi], iv-x(recto), 1-403(verso); numerous illustrations (several coloured), notes, 4 appendices, bibliography, index; original vinyl; a fine copy in dustwrapper (spine a little faded). Sydney; John Ferguson, in association with The Australian Club; (1988). #67526 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 6 Augarde, Tony; Editor. THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MODERN QUOTATIONS. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 372(last blank); original buckram; a fine copy in dustwrapper. Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1991. #43528 A$35.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 7 [Bechervaise, John; & 38 other Authors]. ANTARCTICA: Great Stories from the Frozen Continent. Med. 4to, First Edition; pp. 320; 1 double-page & 2 full- page maps & numerous smaller ones throughout (mainly coloured), hundreds of coloured & b/w. photos, gazetteer to the maps, general index; original slick, colour- illustrated boards; (a very slight bump to lower board); a nice copy in dustwrapper. Sydney, London, [etc.]; Published by Reader’s Digest; (1985). ***As with so many other Reader’s Digest reference books (as opposed to the condensed variety) a very useful and informative reference, well illustrated, and now out of print and much sought after. Renard 104. #12799 A$135.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 8 Bekker, Cajus. THE LUFTWAFFE WAR DIARIES. Translated from the German and edited by Frank Ziegler. Med. 8vo, First Edition in English; pp. 400(last blank); 20 text maps, 48 plates, 19 appendices, bibliography, index; original cloth; (name on endpaper); a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. London; Macdonald; (1966). #55198 A$70.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 9 Benson, Sir Irving. THE MAN WITH THE DONKEY. John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the Good Samaritan of Gallipoli. First Edition; pp. 96; map, 10 illustrations on 7 plates, glossary, bibliography; original papered boards; a very good copy in dustwrapper. (London); Hodder and Stoughton; (1965). #3126 A$40.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 10 Berndt, Ronald M. AN ADJUSTMENT MOVEMENT IN ARNHEM LAND Northern Territory of Australia. Med. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 112; double-page map, 8 plates, 6 diagrams, folding genealogical table, 2 appendices, references, index; original printed wrappers (very slightly faded); a fine copy; scarce. Paris; Mouton & Co.; MCMLXII (1962). ***Cahiers de l’Homme, Ethnologie - Geographie - Linguistique, Nouvelle Serie II. #67813 A$125.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 11 Berndt, Ronald M. & Berndt, Catherine H. END OF AN ERA. Aboriginal Labour in the Northern Territory. Small super roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xxii, 310, [4](blank); 3 maps, several illustrations, diagrams and tables, appendix, bibliography, indices; original stiff pictorial wrappers; a nice copy; scarce. Canberra; Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1987. #18216 A$110.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 12 Braxton, Dorothy. THE ABOMINABLE SNOW-WOMEN. First Edition; pp. 204(last 3 blank); endpaper maps, 16 plates; original light blue cloth-grained papered boards, spine lettered in blue; a nice copy in dustwrapper with a fine coloured illustration of an elephant seal on front. Wellington; A. H. & A. W. Reed; (1969). ***Not in Spence; Renard 167. Antarctica as first seen and recorded by a woman. #8182 A$60.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 13 Breen, William J.; Editor. BUILDING LATROBE UNIVERSITY. Reflections on the first 25 years 1964-1989. William J. Breen Editor. John A. Salmond Chair, 25 Year history Committee. Roy. 8vo, First Edition; pp. xii, 212(last 7 blank); 16 plates, chronology, 3 appendices, notes, index; original papered boards, gilt; a fine copy in dustwrapper; scarce. Melbourne; La Trobe University Press; 1989. #67586 A$50.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 14 Brown, Colin H. STALEMATE IN KOREA. And how we coped 1952- 1953. [The Royal Australian Regiment in the static war of 1952-1953]. Cr. 4to, First Edition; pp. xii, 100; a few maps, several illustrations, 4 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index; original slick pictorial papered boards; a fine copy. (Loftus; Australian Military History Publications; 1997). ***Inscribed and signed by the Author. #30963 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 15 Burchett, Wilfred and Purdy, Anthony. COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN. First Man in Space. With 32 pages of half-tone Illustrations. Cr. 8vo, First Edition; pp. 188(last blank); 32 plates, index; original papered boards; (inscription on endpaper; a little foxing); a very good copy in worn dustwrapper. London; Anthony Gibbs & Phillips; (MCMLXI) [1961]. #64923 A$25.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 16 Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard; Founders. BURKE’S GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE PEERAGE, BARONETAGE AND KNIGHTAGE. Privy Council & Order of Precedence. Founded 1826 by John Burke & Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., (Ulster King of Arms 1853-1892). Edited by Peter Townend. One Hundred and Fourth Edition. Very thick impl. 8vo, 99th Edition; pp. xcvi (including adverts., some coloured), 3060(last blank); title-page in red & black; hundreds of heraldic illustrations, index & index to advertisers, abbreviations and symbols used; original buckram, gilt; (tape repair to one leaf ); a nice copy. London; Burke’s Peerage Limited; MCMLXVII [1967]. ***Includes Special Articles, Portrait and Biographies of the Royal Family, Royal Lineage, Royal Warrant Holders, Peerages in order of Precedence, Baronetcies in order of Precedence, etc., etc. #67535 A$220.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 17 Butt, Peter; Eagleson, Robert. MABO. What the High Court Said. First Edition; pp. 96(last 3 adv.); frontispiece; original pictorial stiff wrappers; a fine copy. (Annandale); The Federation Press; 1993. #67878 A$20.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 18 Byrd, Commander Richard Evelyn. OUR TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT. Super roy. 8vo; pp. 347-522; map, 16 photos.; contained in The National Geographic Magazine, September, 1927; original wrappers (rear wrapper repaired). Washington; National Geographic Society; 1927. #23462 A$30.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 19 Byrd, Richard E. ALLEIN! Auf einsamer Wacht im Sudeis. Mit 42 Abbildungen. Dritte Auflage. German Edition, Third Impression; pp. 300(last blank); 16 plates, 12 chapter decorations by Richard E. Harrison; original cloth; a very good copy. Leipzig; F. A. Brockhaus; 1940. ***German translation of “Alone”. This edition is a useful addition to the literature as the 16 plates are not contained in the original American Edition. #8663 A$45.00 Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books Short List Number 338 2020 20 Callinan, Bernard J. INDEPENDENT COMPANY. The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian Independent Companies in Portuguese Timor, 1941-1943. Foreword by Lieutenant General Sir Vermon Sturdee. Introductory Chapter [by] Nevil Shute. With 44 Illustrations and Maps.