Groups, Clubs & Associations
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Tiger Territory: The History of Oberon Rugby League
$65.00 Add to cartWendy Casey
Mudgee: Landers Publishing, 2009. -
If The Walls Could Speak: A Social History of the Mechanics Institutes of Victoria
$80.00 Add to cartPam Baragwanath
Melbourne: Mechanics Institute Inc., 2000. -
The Centennial Story: The History of Freemasonry in Queensland Australia over the first One Hundred Years, 1859-1959
$80.00 Add to cartArthur Richards
Brisbane: United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Queensland, 1959.
A detailed history of Freemasonry and prominent members in Queensland over a hundred year period. -
Officers of Anchorage Chapter, Alaska, 1924
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Adelaide: Kodak Austral, 1956.
Real photo post card of the officers, manuscript note on verso of the positions from left to right. -
Installation Masonic Temple, Neil Street, Toowoomba, Thursday. 23rd, Oct, 1930
$80.00 Add to cartDarling Downs Royal Arch Chapter, No. 194
Toowoomba: McD, & R., 1930.
Rare Queensland Freemasonry ephemera. -
At The Sign of the Square and Compasses
$250.00 Add to cartGeoffrey Hodson
Madras: The Eastern Federation, 1976.
Occultist, Co-Freemason, mystic, Liberal Catholic Priest, and Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson authored of over fifty books on subjects such as Theosophy, psychic powers, Spiritualism, fairies, angels, clairvoyance, health, and disease. This work posits Freemasonry and Co-Freemasonry as “the survival of Ancient Mysteries”. -
For Mutual Good: The Story of CUA: Australia’s Largest Credit Union
$10.00 Add to cartAdam McNicol
Ballarat: Ten Bag Press, 2017. -
The First Ten Years of the Modern Country Music Association (Later A.C.M.A.), 1964-1974
$30.00 Add to cartDick Eckert
Yandina: Australasian Country Music Association Incorporated, 2001. -
Installation Banquet
$60.00 Add to cartLion and Lamb Lodge
[London]: Lion and Lamb Lodge, No date.
Circa 1908. Includes menu, musical entertainments, and list of Past Masters to 1907. -
Fugitive Books: The U Committee’s Book Fair 1968-2012 & Women’s Voluntary Work at UNSW
$40.00 Add to cartRoderic Campbell
Sydney: University Archives, UNSW, 2014. -
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[Murat] New Temple Ceremonial
$400.00 Add to cartJohn E. Milnor
Indianapolis: Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 1922.
in Murat’s Jama Masjif on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month Rabih Ul Akhir, 1343 which is to say Friday, December 15, 1922. An invitation to the opening celebrations of the extensions to the Murat Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the Oasis of Indianapolis, Desert of Indiana. A great ballroom, it was decorated with an Egyptian theme to match the Arabic concept of the Shrine, with hieroglyphics and drawings found in ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes. Shriners membership form laid in, and housed in an original unmarked posting envelope. Unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2022. -
Revidirte Statuten fur den Deutschen Kranken=Verein in Brisbane
$30.00 Add to cartDeutschen Kranken-Vereins
Brisbane: A. Cleghorn, 1872.
Revised statutes for the German Health Association in Brisbane. -
Constitution and Rules of the Queensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
$30.00 Add to cartQueensland Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
[Brisbane]: Watson, Ferguson, and Co., 1891.
Founded, 1885. Amended at the Annual General Meeting, July 6, 1891. FERGUSON 15166a. -
Rock Me Hard.. Rock Me Soft… A History of the Geological Society of Australia Incorporated
$10.00 Add to cartB. J. Cooper; D. F. Branagan
Sydney: Geological Society of Australia, 1994. -
The Mantle of Surgery: The First Seventy-Five Years of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
$10.00 Add to cartA. W. Beasley
Melbourne: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2002.
Foreword by the Prince of Wales. -
Medicine Without Tears: Humanity and Humour in the Early Medical School, Queensland
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First Edition.
24cm x 17cm. vii, 63 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor foxing. Moderate general wear. Good Condition. -
Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
$50.00 Add to cartKevin Evans; Carrie Galbraith; John Law
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2019.
“The history of the most influential underground cabal that you have never heard of. A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, for years to come. Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, The Cacophony Society, at its zenith, hosted chapters in over a dozen major cities, and influenced much of what was once called the underground. Flash Mobs, Urban Exploration, and Culture Jamming are a few of the pop culture trends that Cacophony helped kick off. Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Burning Man and Internet social networking powerhouse Laughing Squid were informed and inspired by Cacophony. The Burning Man Festival actually began as a Cacophony event as did the annual, and now world-wide SantaCon.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Respectable Radicals: A History of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1896-2006
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xiv, 497 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
“For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia, and through the International Council of Women, to the world. This history of NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work which is still far from achieved. In these days when women can no longer be imagined as speaking with one voice, and women as a group have no ready access to government, we still need something of the optimistic vision of the leaders of NCWA. Respectable in hat and gloves to the 1970s and beyond, they politely persisted with the truly radical idea that women the world over should be equal with men.” (publisher’s blurb)
Very minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
The Call of Duty: A History of the RSL in Hervey Bay
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Book is in Very Good condition, by which we mean it has light marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
Constitution and Rules
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First Edition.
14cm x 10.5cm. [8] pages. Lettered saddle-stapled wrappers.
Constitution and Rules adopted at a general meeting of members of the Country Milk Association of Brisbane held in Brisbane on Friday, 14th July, 1933, together with a list of branches and delegates.
Worn with vertical and horizontal centre folds. Some insect damage to edges and with a small hole at top of wrappers upper panel and first two leaves. Minor foxing and soiling. Good Condition. -
Constitution and Laws of The Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Queensland
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Revised Edition.
13.5cm x 10.5cm. 98 pages, 22 pages of illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering.
Includes and appendix containing drawings of the jewels to be worn by the officers of grand chapter and all subordinate chapters. Rare Queensland Freemasonry, only the 1926, 1931, and 1959 editions recorded in Australian collections.
Minor mottling to cloth. Issue number stamp to endpaper. Minor tanning. Very Good Condition. -
General Regulations for the Government of the Order of Royal Arch Masons of England, Established by the Grand Chapter
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First Edition. Signed by Author
22cm x 14cm. [viii], 29, [3] pages, 14 plates. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, blind rule.
Published by the Authority of the Grand Chapter, by William Henry White, As Grand Scribe E.. The first edition of the General Regulations as published by Grand Secretary White. With 14 plates showing regalia. This copy signed by White on the Sanction page.
Some staining to cloth, especially to tail fore-edge corner of lower board and rear endpaper. Minor creasing to preliminaries. Good Condition. -
Manual 1918 and Directory, Of Loyal Orange Lodges and Royal Black Preceptories in the State of N. S. Wales
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First Edition.
12cm x 9cm. 336 pages, 1 plate, 1 folding table. Wrappers.
Directory for New South Wales, Australia, outposts of the Irish Protestant fraternal societies of the Orange Order and the Imperial Grand Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth.
Hinges pulled but intact. Moderate handling wear. Good Condition. -
Maryborough Gas Company, Limited. Registered under The Companies Statute, 1864. November, 1881.
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 14.5cm. 13 pages. Saddle-stitched wrappers.
Articles of Association of the Maryborough Gas Company. Rare, unrecorded in Trove or OCLC.
Minor soiling and wear to wrappers. Near Fine Condition. -
First Australian Women’s Bowling Carnival
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 64 pages. Illustrated saddle-strung wrappers.
Programme of Events. First Australian Women’s Bowling Carnival held under the auspices of the Australian Women’s Bowling Council and conducted by the N.S.W.W. Bowling Association at Sydney from 7th March, 1949 to 18th March, 1949.
Some foxing to wrappers, very minor to interior. Minor creasing. A couple of competitor autographs. Very Good Condition. -
35 Magicians’ Magic Movements and Ceremonies: According to the Latest Formulas, 1925
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Second Edition.
15cm x 10cm. 195 pages. Leather wrappers, worn lettering.
A Freemason ritual cipher book to assist ceremonial participants to remember their cues. Not actually used during ceremony, books of this nature are the rehearsal script. Printed entirely in cipher so as to stay true to the vow of not sharing fraternal secrets, despite this precaution, such books were still condemned by some members, though praised by others who welcomed the assistance. Scarce 1925 edition, unrecorded in OCLC. Aside from the title and copyright page, entirely in cipher, no introductory text as in the 1915 edition, pp. title, copyright, 5-195, as though lacking a preliminary leaf although other copies identified as having identical pagination.
Lettering on upper panel worn. Some pencil annotations to the final two chapters. Very Good Condition. -
The Constitution and Laws of the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons of Scotland
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17.5cm x 11.5cm. 78, xiii pages. Lettered wrappers.
Minor chipping and soiling to wrappers. Some creasing and foxing. Good Condition. -
The Builders Club: 50th Anniversary: A History of the Illawarra Master Builders Club, 1962-2013
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First Edition. Signed by Author
27.5cm x 21.5cm. [ii], 122 pages, colour illustrations. Black faux leather, gilt lettering.
Very minor shelf wear and soiling to boards. Slightly cocked. Near Fine Condition. -
Constitutions of the Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons Under the Grand Lodge of South Australia
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Eighth Edition.
10.5cm x 9cm. 233 pages. Blue soft cloth wrappers.
Discolouration to wrappers. Minor insect damage to rear endpaper. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Life and Cricket on the Coomera
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First Edition.
30cm x 21cm. [iv], 124 pages, colour photographs and illustrations. Pictorial glossy papered boards.
A journey through 140 years of cricket, life and history along Queensland’s Coomera River. Foreword by Ian Healy.
. Fine Condition.