George Giffen. A Biography (Signed Copy) by Whimpress, Bernard - 2020

Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2004. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Mint copy in a Mint Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Limited to 1000 copies. (advised by author) 142 pages. Uncommon military history of the only New Zealander to serve on the Staff Corps at Gallipoli in 1915. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Published by Author. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint - a new copy. Profusely illustrated with over 500 photographic postcard images taking the reader on a nostalgic trip into Australia's past. Colour and black & white illustrations. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 260 pages. George Rose, a Melbourne photographer, commenced production of real type postcards in 1913 due to their enormous popularity in Australia and around the world. With attractive images on the front people loved and saved these cards, keeping them in albums and shoe boxes. Today they are collector's items. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. Octavo Size. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes Herbert Basedow's 'Knights of the Boomerang' and David Kaus's essay 'On the Photography of Herbert Basedow'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 324 pages. "When in 1997 the Bringing Them Home Report about the forcible removal of part-Aboriginal children from their parents was published, many Australians felt stunned and ashamed. What was such a brutal policy of biological engineering meant to achieve, and who were the men behind it? One of them was Dr Herbert Basedow 1881–1933 from Adelaide, a geologist, medical doctor, M.P., and anthropologist. He unwittingly provided the administrators of the White Australia policy with a bloodless method of 'breeding out the colour', of biologically absorbing Aborigines into the white-settler society. His studies in Germany had… Read More

Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 279 pages. The central Victorian gold fields region left us a rich material legacy. The modern visitor can wander through historic streetscapes whose elements range from the grand and formal to tiny cottage sites and domestic gardens. This book explores the private and often forgotten lives of gold settlers who built these communities. . New. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: Avonmore Books. 2016. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 317 pages. Teddy Sheean was part of the evacuation of his warship, the corvette Armidale sinking fast while around it swarmed Japanese aircraft, shooting with abandon. Teddy turned back to his gun, an Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft cannon with a broad leather strap to secure the gunner. He began firing... a courageous Tasmanian determined to do his best to save his mates and his ship. He should have received a VC. Also compares the bravery of Sheean with other Australian naval heroes who should have been decorated with the Victoria Cross. Reveals that the RAN was proud of the ‘Armidale’ and her fight and did not cover up her lost. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Adelaide: Published by Author. 2011. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint - a new copy. Profusely illustrated with over 500 photographic postcard images taking the reader on a nostalgic trip into Australia's past. Colour and black & white illustrations. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 260 pages. George Rose, a Melbourne photographer, commenced production of real type postcards in 1913 due to their enormous popularity in Australia and around the world. With attractive images on the front people loved and saved these cards, keeping them in albums and shoe boxes. Today they are collector's items. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 279 pages. The central Victorian gold fields region left us a rich material legacy. The modern visitor can wander through historic streetscapes whose elements range from the grand and formal to tiny cottage sites and domestic gardens. This book explores the private and often forgotten lives of gold settlers who built these communities. . New. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: Avonmore Books. 2016. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 317 pages. Teddy Sheean was part of the evacuation of his warship, the corvette Armidale sinking fast while around it swarmed Japanese aircraft, shooting with abandon. Teddy turned back to his gun, an Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft cannon with a broad leather strap to secure the gunner. He began firing... a courageous Tasmanian determined to do his best to save his mates and his ship. He should have received a VC. Also compares the bravery of Sheean with other Australian naval heroes who should have been decorated with the Victoria Cross. Reveals that the RAN was proud of the ‘Armidale’ and her fight and did not cover up her lost. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Le Havre: Editions du Museum d'histoire naturelle du Havre/MkF editions. 2016. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Translated from the French by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 391 pages. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated his talents as a natural history artist. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, during a golden age for natural history and learned societies, he travelled constantly throughout his life. His sketchbooks and vellums provide a record of the animals, landscapes and indigenous people he encountered. . New. 1st Australian Edition. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2017. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 317 pages. In the 1970s-1990s, with limited material resources, an abundance of originality and style, and seemingly unlimited creative energy, a group of young people helped transform the cultural landscape of inner Sydney. They recast the image of Australian fashion, linked with fashion and identity politics, established the‘look’ of the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras, and reclaimed the urban. Sally Gray describes a restlessly creative, culturally influential group of friends and collaborators as they moved to and from Melbourne, Paris, Sydney, London, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York, and places in between. Four friends in particular form her central narrative: fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson and artists Peter Tully and David McDiarmid. Their creative trajectories and interactions, their collaborations, passion and politics,… Read More