b'1511029MARTIN BOYD (1893 - 1972),Retrospect,[Melbourne; Australasian Authors Agency, 1920] 1st ed., 45pp,octavo; original paper-covered boards.$100150 1030PIONEER AVIATION: The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia by Sir Ross Smith, K.B.E, - With Aeroviews by Capt. Frank Hurley. [New South Wales Edition] with 27 full-page views. [Angas & Robertson, Sydney, 1920].$120200 1031FRAMED COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS comprising 1922 Commercial Bank of Australia cheque for William Lawrence (Dye Works), South Yarra, and early 1900s The National Bank of Australia for R&J Linay (timber merchant), South Yarra, mounted together in a single frame; also two 1913 share deed certificates for The Southern Alberta Land Company, separately framed and glazed; largest 35x41cm. (3 items)$120200 10321923 MELBOURNE 2a.m. SPECIAL EDITION NEWSPAPER - POLICE STRIKE:The Argus / Sunday 2am / RIOTS IN THE CITY / UNPRECEDENTED SCENES / Window Smashing & Looting / APPEAL BY THE MINISTRY / No Trains or Trams To-Night .,single sided special edition,68 X 15cm, framed and glazed 85 x 30cm overall.The 1923 Victorian Police strike occurred on the eve of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in November 1923, when half the police force in Melbourne went on strike over the operation of a supervisory system using labour spies. Riots and looting followed as crowds poured forth from Flinders Street railway station on the Friday and Saturday nights and made their way up Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, smashing shop windows, looting, and overturning trams. The response to the crisis saw a legal prerogative first established in Melbourne in 1842 invoked. The Riot Act had been invoked on several previous occasions by the State Government, enabling volunteers to be sworn in as Special Constables in times of crisis. This single column of newsprint was the entire newspaper, a 2a.m. edition on 4 November 1923 reporting on the strike, associated looting and distribution from Melbourne Town Hall of Special Constable armbands. 500 mainly ex-servicemen were sworn in under the direction of Sir John Monash and issued batons to break up the rioting which went for 2 nights.$1,0001,5001033JOHN BUTLER COOPER,The History of Prahran from its first settlement to a city,[Melbourne; Modern Printing Co; 1924], pp. xvi + 372, 2 hand-tipped coloured plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard), plus 55 black & white plates (1 folding); with signed dedication from A.H. Woodfull (Mayor 1921-22, 1928-29 & 1940-41) on the upper free endpaper.$80120 1034Wells Cartoons, Sporting, Political and General (2nd Edition) by S.G. Wells, cartoonist for The Herald newspaper (Melbourne), 136pp softbound, some light aging and minor spine damage, very good condition overall, c.1924; also The Billy Book - Hughes Abroad cartoons by Low, published by NSW Bookstall Co (Sydney, 1918), cover faults & spotting to cover and end pages. (2 items).$150250 1032'