Books

[tiger_one]

 

[The Chad]

My first 11 working years were spent working in a public library.

To this day I regret how eager I was to get out of that world & into something else for 'more money'.

I was a haphazard reader as a kid until I found Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Then my world changed.

 

[Suzie-Q]

My first 11 working years were spent working in a public library.

To this day I regret how eager I was to get out of that world & into something else for 'more money'.

I was a haphazard reader as a kid until I found Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Then my world changed.

I'm a primary school librarian - but only teacher trained. I LOVE it! I am seriously considering doing training to get into a public libraryinstead, though. Education is becoming so boring and data driven, going USAian led by beurocrats, not educators, when IMO we should be following the Nordic style. Anyway, I would love to be a proper librarian in a public library.

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

 

[pawsandclaws1]

I'm a primary school librarian - but only teacher trained. I LOVE it! I am seriously considering doing training to get into a public libraryinstead, though. Education is becoming so boring and data driven, going USAian led by beurocrats, not educators, when IMO we should be following the Nordic style. Anyway, I would love to be a proper librarian in a public library.

The library at Trinity College in Dublin is one of the most magnificent collections I have ever seen. I collect antique books but keep running out of library cabinets in which to store them.😁

 

[pawsandclaws1]

The wonder of books. This is a part Australia's military history -

Three photos of the 1907 second edition (suppressed) of "Scapegoats of the Empire" by George Witton. I purchased this book from Canada and it is extremely rare. Previously it was owned by an individual from the Government Deeds Office in Pretoria. The first edition was destroyed by the Aust Govt due to perceived criticism of Lord Kitchener. If you check ABE books and other book search engines, so little is known about the book that some sellers refer to the 1982 reprint as the first edition.

Witton was a permanent soldier and the only survivor of the trio tried by the British during the Boer War. Morant and Hancock were executed shortly after. Witton spent a number of years in a British gaol following the trial and naturally was bitter about their treatment.

During WW1, then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher made the comment about fighting to the last man and last shilling for the mother country. Witton is reported to have said "I will be that last man".

This is the first paragraph written on the front-end piece (page photographed) -

"I cannot accept the author's account of the BVC (Bushveld Carabineers) as complete and wholly accurate according to my knowledge of the incident he narrates. I agree that the treatment of Morant, Hancock, 'Picton' and himself after arrest and before sentence was abominable.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Following on from yesterday, the book titled "The Malay Regiment 1933 to 1947" is not a particularly impressive book but there are only 5 known copies in libraries in the world according to the bookseller. This came from London and is very collectable.

The latter two books are 2 copies of the same book. One bookseller believes 100 copies were privately published in 1946, while another source believes only 50 copies were privately published. One copy is in slightly better condition with the title "My Own War In Malaya" well-presented. Both are in excellent condition, and both are presentation copies signed by the author.

I have kept both because the inscriptions from the author are very different. The first "To Mrs Barran, In grateful appreciation of so much" - Dennis Russell-Roberts is not personal whereas the second says "To Primrose - with love and best wishes, Dennis" clearly suggests a relationship of some type.

Russell-Roberts was British Indian Army Officer who fought in the Malayan Campaign. His wife died in a prison camp in Java 1945.

There is a copy of this book for sale in London now at the attached link. It's condition is not as good as the copies I have photographed. I didn't pay anywhere near that price for my copies, one of which I purchased from the rural UK for around $200AUD.

My Own War in Malaya. by RUSSELL-ROBERTS, Denis.: Signed by Author(s) | Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.

Signed by Author(s) - 1st Edition - [No stated place: likely privately published, 1946] - First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Brian, with every good wish, Denis Russell-Roberts." The author describes his experiences of the Malaya Campaign...

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