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There has been a library on the Footscray Park campus site since a Mechanics Institute was established there in 1916. Certain rare and valuable items have been acquired or donated to the library during this time. These items form the basis of this collection. Of particular significance in the development of the Special Collection was the purchase in 1988 of the personal collection of author and historian, Mr John White.
Themes explored this month are Australian Literature, Western Suburbs History, Transport, History - books to preserve, and All things Australian - art, sport, story and song.
The Special Collection is also known as the 'Rare and Valuable Books' collection at VU Library.
Note: Please be advised that some titles displayed in this exhibition contain content that is culturally sensitive. Some material contains terms that reflect authors’ views, or those of the period in which the item was written or recorded, but may not be considered appropriate today. These views are not necessarily the views of VU Library. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Author: Barry Humphries
Publisher: Sun Books
Year: 1968
Author: Philip Salom
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year: 1989
Author: Norma Bloom
Publisher: Cat & Fiddle Press
Year 1978
Author: Michael Dransfield
Publisher: Queensland University Press
Year: 1978
Author: Michael Dransfield
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year: 1972
Editor: Geoffrey Dutton
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Year: 1985
Editor: David Brooks
Publisher: McPhee Gribble
Year: 1993
Authhor: Judah Waten
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Year: 1982
Author: Michael Duncan
Publisher: Sweeney Reed
Year: 1970
Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher: Lansdowne
Year: 1965
Editor: Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: John Leonard Press
Year: 2009
Author: Amy Witting
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Year: 1991
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1988
Author: A.B. Palma
Publisher: Hale & Iremonger
Year: 1981
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Year: 1978
Author: Wilson P. Evans, illustrated by Pauline Grayling
Publisher: Quest
Date: 1990
Author: Olwen Ford
Publisher: Sunshine & District Historical Society Incorporated
Date: 2012
Author: Williamstown Historical Society
Publisher: Williamstown Historical Society
Date: 1982
Editor: K.N. James
Publisher: Werribee District Historical Society
Date: 1985
Author: Olwen Ford
Publisher: Sunshine and District Historical Society
Date: 2001
Author: Prue McGoldrick
Publisher: Gippsland Printers
Date: 1989
Author: Angela Evans and the Keilor Pioneer Research Collective
Publisher: St. Albans History Society
Date: 1994
Authors: Researched and written by Joan Carstairs & Maureen Lane
Publisher: St. Albans History Society
Date: 1988
Authors: Design, editing and photograph restoration by Roger Mitchell & Debra Frey
Publisher: Footscray Historical Society
Date: 2005
Author: Susan Priestley
Publisher: Hargreen Publishing in conjunction with the City of Altona
Date: 1988
Author: Gary Vines
Publisher: Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
Date: 1993
Author: John Lack
Publisher: Hargreen Publishing
Date: 1991
Author: Kerrie Gordon and Alan Dalton
Publisher: Footscray Football Club
Date: 1990
Author: Susan Jennison
Publisher: Keilor Historical Society Inc.
Date: 2001
Author: Carmel Taig
Publisher: Carmel Taig
Date: 2001
Author: St. Albans Railway Centenary Committee
Publisher: St. Albans Railway Centenary Committee
Date: 1986
Author: Edith Popp
Publisher: Sunshine & District Historical Society
Date: 1979
Author: Compiled by William H. Elsum; revised index and preface prepared by the Williamstown Historical Society
Publisher: Williamstown City Council
Date: 1985
Author: Gary Vines
Publisher: Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
Date: 1993
Author: Colin Jones
Publisher: Greenhouse
Date: 1981
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Ian Allan
Date: 1965
Author: A. Winstan Bond
Publisher: Tramway & Light Railway Society with the co-operation of The Tramway Museum Society
Date: 1980
Author: Bernard Cronin
Publisher: Acacia Press
Date: 1948
Author: William F. Scott
Publisher: Full Parallel Productions
Date: 2008
Author: Joan Edith Lorraine Rutherford
Publisher: J.E.L. Rutherford
Date: 1971
Author: Wilfrid F. Simms
Publisher: W.F. Simms
Date: 1998
Author: Samuel Brimson
Publisher: Dreamweaver Books
Date: 1983
Editors: Harold H. Paynting and Malcolm Grant
Publisher: Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Date: 1988
Author: Juanita Kennedy Browne
Publisher: Nevada County Historical Society
Date: 1987
Author: John D. Keating
Publisher: Transit Australia Publishing
Date: 1996
Author: Robert Green
Publisher: John Mason Press
Date: 1989
Author: Arthur E. Woodley
Publisher: Hill of Content
Date: 1973
Author: R. J. Buckley
Publisher: David & Charles
Date: 1975
Author: Geoff Lumb
Publisher: Ian Allan
Date: 1998
Author: Julian Thompson
Publisher: Ian Allan
Date: 1978
Author: Walter Douglas Denham
Publisher: South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society
Date: 1973
Author: Vincent Adams Winter
Publisher: V.A. Winter
Date: 1990
Author: Brian Webber
Publisher: Australian Railway Historical Society, Queensland Division
Date: 1994
Authors: B.R. King and J.H. Price
Publisher: Light Rail Transit Association
Date: 1983
Author: T. K. Fitchett
Publisher: Rigby
Date: 1973
Author: Atha Westbury, illustrated by A.J. Johnson
Publisher: Ward, Lock
Year: 1897
Author: Clyde Fenton
Publisher: Georgian House
Year: 1949
Author: J. Alex. Allan
Publisher: Cheshire
Year: 1945
Author: David Blair
Publisher: Thomson & Niven
Year: 1879
Author: G. Arnold Wood
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1944
Author: Geoffrey Tebbutt
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Year: 1930
Author: John O'Brien
Publisher: Angus and Robertson
Year: 1921
Author: Ethel Turner
Publisher: Ward Lock
Year: 1894
Author: Michael Joseph Watson
Publisher: W.P. Lineham
Year: 1911
Author: James Collier
Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs
Year: 1911
Authro: Edward Jenks
Publisher: University Press
Year: 1895
Author: John Owen
Publisher: Printed for R. Boulter
Year: 1677
Author: Count Leo Tolstoi, Translated from the French
Publisher: Walter Scott
Year: 1889
Author: Church of England
By assignment from the executors of E. Wicksteed, printed for W. Bent
Year: [1808]
Author: Sir William Hill Irvin & David Sydney Wanliss
Publisher: Charles F. Maxwell
Year: 1899
Author: Charles Lyne
Publisher: Thomas Richards, Government Printer
Year: 1882
Author: Francois de Castella
Publisher: Govt. Printer
Year: 1891
Author: Archibald Meston
Publisher: Edmund Gregory, Govt. Printer
Year: 1895
Author: Alexander Sutherland
Publisher: McCarron, Bird
Year: 1888
Author: George Finey
Publisher: Kangaroo Press
Date: 1981
Author: Don Dunstan; drawings by Robert Ingpen
Publisher: Rigby
Date: 1976
Author: Dave Nadel, Graeme Ryan (eds)
Publisher: Ryan Publishing
Date: 2015
Author: Richard Ogle Moore
Publisher: Shoestring Press
Date: 1975
Author: Les Murray
Publisher: Duffy and Snellgrove
Date: 1996
Author: E.J Banfield
Publisher: Lloyd O'Neil for Currey O'Neil
Date: 1982
Author: Harry Hastings Pearce
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Date: 1971
Author: Stephany Steggall
Publisher: Keesing Press
Date: 2013
Author: Daniel Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan
Date: 1973
Author: Geoffrey Dutton
Publisher: Angus and Robertson
Date: 1985
Author: Ron Edwards
Publisher: Rams Skull Press
DAte: 1985
Author: Thomas Keneally
Publisher: Wildcat Press
Date: 1980
Author: Wendy Lowenstein
Publisher: Fish and Chips Press
Date: 1974
Author: Rob Hess
Publisher: Penguin
Date: 2008
Author: Eugene von Guérard
Publisher: Currey O'Neil
Date: 1982
Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher: Macmillan
Date: 1972