Sir Ninian Stephen (3 results)

Super octavo, soft glossy card covers, frontispiece, 336pp, illus, VG+ (mild bruising/creasing to spine + extrems w/ 3mm closed tear to foot of spine, mild adhesive residue, very mild soling to eps).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2003. Octavo; papered boards; corners a lilttle bumped; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed and slightly torn. Warmly inscribed in ink to Alan Brissenden ('amico mio'), dated (July 2016) and signed by the author on the title page, and again beneath the author's printed name. Brissenden's pencilled ownership signature and details are inscribed on the front flyleaf. 'One life, many roles: soldier, brilliant barrister, High Court judge, Governor-General, Australian diplomat, mediator in Northern Ireland, member of the first war crimes tribunal since Nuremburg and Tokyo, head of UN and Commonwealth missions to crisis zones from Cambodia to Burma to Bangladesh, Sir Ninian Stephen is the recipient of five knighthoods and one of the most honoured Australians in history' (dustwrapper). In the general series of the Miegunyah Volumes. Signed. …

ISBN-13: 9781575882840; ISBN-10: 1575882841. Dixon, Sir Owen. Jesting Pilate and Other Papers and Addresses. Second edition. Buffalo: W.S. Hein, 1997. xii, 304 pp. ISBN-13: 9781575882840; ISBN-10: 1575882841. Hardcover. New. $125. * The second edition of this 1965 classic includes a speech given by Sir Ninian Stephen on the 100th anniversary of Sir Owen Dixon's birth. Endnotes have been added to the second edition to enhance several of the papers by Sir Owen Dixon further enhancing the writings of one of Australia's most respected chief justices. Includes a commemorative speech delivered by Sir Ninian Stephen to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sir Owen's birth.…