b'1771257 12631923 MELBOURNE 2a.m.BALDWIN SPENCER & F.J. GILLEN, The Arunta : A Study of a SPECIAL EDITION NEWSPAPER - POLICE STRIKE: Stone Age People, [London : Macmillan & Co., 1927 1st ed.] 2 The Argus / Sunday 2am / RIOTS IN THE CITY /vols., pp. 646 (total), grey cloth with gilt titles to spines.UNPRECEDENTED SCENES / Window Smashing & Looting /$150250 APPEAL BY THE MINISTRY / No Trains or Trams To-Night .,single sided special edition, 126468 x 15cm, framed and glazed 85 x 30cm overall.The 1923 Victorian Police strike occurred on the eve of the[ABORIGINAL INTEREST] A group of books including The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in November 1923, whenAustralian Aboriginal by Basedow [1929], The Passing of the half the police force in Melbourne went on strike over theAborigines by Bates [1947], Adam in Ochre by Simpson operation of a supervisory system using labour spies. Riots[1952]; I, The Aboriginal by Lockwood [1962, signed by the and looting followed as crowds poured forth from Flindersauthor], and three others; all hardcover. (7).Street railway station on the Friday and Saturday nights and$100200 made their way up Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, smashing shop windows, looting, and overturning trams. The response1265to the crisis saw a legal prerogative first established inThe History of St.Kilda.1840 to 1930 Volume II by John Melbourne in 1842 invoked. The Riot Act had been invokedButler Cooper (1931) with a dedication from Frank Dawkins on several previous occasions by the State Government,in 1932; together with several other books of Melbourne or enabling volunteers to be sworn in as Special Constables inBritish interest. Mixed condition. (9 items).times of crisis. This single column of newsprint was the entire$100150 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.$6001,0001258Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania by Hardy Wilson [Sydney, 1924], signed by the author and numbered 367/1000, with 50 tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards intact.$500750 1259[SHEET MUSIC]Australian Songs for Young and Old,RENTOUL, Annie R.; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (Ill.)Melbourne: Allan & Co., [1924]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (the cover illustration the light brown and red version), staple bound, inscription inside front wrapper, 28 pp., illustrated. Imperial edition 335.$80120 1260[AUSTRALIAN INTEREST] various booklets and pamphlets, including Grand Opera Season, Melbourne 1924 (featuring Nellie Melba), The National War Memorial of Victoria (1934), The Wonderland Australia Centenary Souvenir by E.M. Waddy (1936), Australian Wines (1938), etc. (6 items).$100150 1261IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE (1888-1960),The Crystal Gazer book plate mounted together with full original signature in a display which measures 65 x 57 overall.$200300 1262The Victorian Railways Magazine: Six complete editions between September 1926 and June 1930, with cover artwork by Angus Mac, Percy Trompf, H. Jack, etc.$100150 '