Books & Bookplates

  • The Australian book trade : a bookseller’s contribution to its history

    # 49244

    HOLROYD, John (1911 - 2000)

    The Australian book trade : a bookseller’s contribution to its history

    Melbourne : Braidwood Press, 2015. Introduction by Jeff Prentice. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, limited to 150 copies signed and numbered by Prentice. John Holroyd’s reflections on his career in the book trade, spanning several decades in Melbourne and Sydney, are presented for the first time in ‘The Australian Book Trade : A Bookseller’s Contribution to its …

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  • Murder in the bookshop

    # 48553

    WELLS, Carolyn

    Murder in the bookshop

    A Fleming Stone detective novel. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Octavo, lettered cloth in dustjacket (small chips to head and foot of spine, water stain to lower panel), previous owner’s name stickers to front free endpaper, pp. 308; tear with loss to upper corner of pp. 299-300, pages toned, else very good. Crime …

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  • T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land : some annotations. A Lecture delivered to the Adelaide Branch of the English Association on July 29, 1932

    # 48048

    JURY, C. R. (Charles Rischbieth)

    T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land : some annotations. A Lecture delivered to the Adelaide Branch of the English Association on July 29, 1932

    Adelaide : F. W. Preece & Sons (for the Adelaide Branch of the English Association), 1932. Series: ‘Pamphlet no. 1’. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), recent custom leather binding by John Turner (NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders); bound with the original printed grey wrappers (chipped, upper wrapper with a closed tear), pp. 24; edges uncut; …

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  • Geofroy Tory and his device of the pot casse (Signed copy)

    # 7493

    FOXCRAFT, A.B.

    Geofroy Tory and his device of the pot casse (Signed copy)

    Melbourne : Printing Industry Crafstmen of Australia [printed by John Gartner], 1937. Edition limited to 250 copies. Ovtavo, card covers with vignette of Tory’s device to the front (foxed across lower front), front endpaper with full signatures of John Gartner and A.B. Foxcraft, title page with vignette of Tory’s device, 21 pp, two small marks …

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  • [HAWTHORN PRESS] The world’s greatest invention : printing

    # 7004

    McMURTRIE, Douglas C.

    [HAWTHORN PRESS] The world’s greatest invention : printing

    Melbourne : Printing Industry Craftsmen [Secretary-Treasuer, John Gartner], 1940. Edition of 300 copies printed for members of the Victorian Division of P.I.C.A. Octavo, textured card wrappers with printed title to front (spine sunned), 13 pp, contents fine.

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  • [QUEEN'S BINDER A]. Advice to a friend

    # 48313

    PATRICK, Simon

    [QUEEN’S BINDER A]. Advice to a friend

    By Simon Patrick, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. London : printed for R. Royston, Book-seller to His Most Sacred Majesty, at the Angel in Amen-corner, MDCLXXIV [1674]. The second edition, corrected. Duodecimo, finely bound by Queen’s Binder A in distinctive tooling of eight petal flower and drawer handle design, edges a little …

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  • Australian children’s books : a bibliography

    # 49311

    MUIR, Marcie; WHITE, Kerry

    Australian children’s books : a bibliography

    Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press ; Portland, Or. : International Specialized Book Services, 1992-2004. Miegunyah Press series. Three volumes, quarto, cloth boards in dust jackets (light handling marks), v.1. 1774-1972 /​ Marcie Muir; v. 2. 1973-1988 /​ Kerry White; v. 3. 1989-2000 /​ Kerry White; xxi+547; xxii+477; xxiv+690pp; an as very good set of …

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  • De luxe publications (signed presentation copy)

    # 48741

    BARNETT, P. Neville, 1881-1953

    De luxe publications (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney: P. Neville Barnett, c. 1939. Octavo, printed wrappers, 28pp. lightly foxed, illustrated with images of Barnett’s bookplate and Japanese print books. Signed and inscribed by Barnett on endpaper to Fred Wymark, whose review of Barnett’s work is reproduced in the text.

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  • The bookplate in Australia : its inspiration and development

    # 48740

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    The bookplate in Australia : its inspiration and development

    Sydney : Tyrrrell’s Galleries : 1930. ‘Reprinted from the 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, Washington D.C.’ (colophon). Octavo, printed card covers, lightly marked, original silk ties and staples, frontispiece tipped-in reproduction of a bookplate by Adrian Feint for John Lane Mullins, 30 pp, head- and tail-pieces, tipped in …

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  • The bookplate in Australia : its inspiration and development (signed copy)

    # 48738

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    The bookplate in Australia : its inspiration and development (signed copy)

    Sydney : Tyrrrell’s Galleries : 1930. ‘Reprinted fromthe 1929 Year Book of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, Washington D.C.’ (colophon). Octavo, printed card covers, glassine wrapper, original silk ties and staples, frontispiece tipped-in reproduction of a bookplate by Adrian Feint for John Lane Mullins, 30 pp, head- and tail-pieces, tipped in bookplates, …

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  • P. Neville Barnett : Australian genius with books

    # 48721

    FERSON, Mark J. (editor)

    P. Neville Barnett : Australian genius with books

    A volume of essays issued on the 50th Anniversary of his death. Ryde, N.S.W. : Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, 2003. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. viii, 92, illustrated. Limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Includes bibliography. One corner bumped. Studies in Australian Bibliophily Number 6.

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  • Specimen pages of Korean movable types (Charles E. Tuttle's copy)

    # 17467

    McGOVERN, Melvin P.

    Specimen pages of Korean movable types (Charles E. Tuttle’s copy)

    Collected & described by Melvin P. McGovern. Los Angeles : Dawson’s Book Shop, 1966. Colophon: ‘Of this edition, three hundred copies have been printed for sale. Of these, ninety-five copies comprise the Primary Edition and are numbered from I to XCV. The remaining copies are numbered from 96 through 300. This copy is number [in …

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  • Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    # 48297

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2019. Quarto, gilt-lettered green buckram, pp. 194, illustrated. Limited to 135 copies signed by the author. New copy. “Thomas and William Boone, prominent booksellers of new, secondhand, and antiquarian books and manuscripts in mid- nineteenth-century London, were responsible for publishing the first-hand accounts of all the major figures from the …

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  • Australian Rare Books 1606 - 1787

    # 47859

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Australian Rare Books 1606 – 1787

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2025. Large octavo, 255 x 180 mm, 470 pages, 103 illustrations (17 in colour), twelve chapters, and two Checklists. Set in Adobe Garamond 11 / 13. Printed and bound in Australia on 100 gsm Sovereign Offset and bound in dark green buckram blocked in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrapper.  New …

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  • Bibliography of printed literature upon Victorian Aborigines.

    # 48271

    MASSOLA, Aldo

    Bibliography of printed literature upon Victorian Aborigines.

    / By Aldo Massola, Curator of Anthropology, National Museum of Victoria. Melbourne : National Museum of Victoria, 1959. Reprinted from the Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne, no. 24. Small quarto (240 x 175 mm), stapled printed grey wrappers (some paper loss along spine), pp. 103-156; a very good copy.

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  • A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole

    # 47364

    [WALPOLE, Horace]

    A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole

    London : Smith and Robins, Printers, 1842. Quarto, lithographed card wrappers (marked and creased), cloth spine with tile added by hand, bookplate to front wrapper of Julius Brenchley of Maidstone, museum stamp and Withdrawn note from the Maidstone Museum (where Brenchley sent much of his collection), lithographed portrait of Walpole and title page, pp. xxiv; …

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