Literature

Lot 3965    Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C    Literature

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, many associated with G.A.King, a reporter with the Sydney Morning Herald, noted invitation to attend a Military Display at Moore Park, WWI and WWII patriotic items, King's Press Pass no.616 dated 1936, also Commonwealth of Australia Munitions Establishment, Salisbury Victory ball souvenir programme, Sept 1945, ALP Victoria membership ticket 1919 and five ballot slips, The Royal Navy and the Australian Blue Jacket book, 1906, signed by the Editor, another booklet for Australian Naval History, 1970s, also The Skills of Our Aborigines, 1960, and Queensland's Jubilee Souvenir Certificate no.542 and National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland Jubilee Show official luncheon programme 1909, various other documents. Some with foxing and some with tears, overall good - very fine. (lot)

G.A.King was an historian, who worked for the Sydney Morning Herald. A copy of his manuscript, The New South Wales Military Forces 1788-1903, with associated material is in the State Library.