Literature

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First Australian edition)

    # 50596

    ROWLING, J. K.

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (First Australian edition)

    London : Bloomsbury, 1997 [1998]. Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Maryborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition. Octavo, laminated boards (corners slightly bumped, slight bruising at head and foot of spine) in illustrated dust jacket ((light edge wear, very light stain at head and foot of spine, only visible …

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  • [BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.

    # 50823

    [Anon.]

    [BROADSIDE BALLAD] Chapter of Cheats. Or, the Roguery of all Trades.

    Clerkenwell [London] : Printed and sold by J. V. Quick, 42 Bowling Green Lane, [c.1835]. Broadside, sheet size 245 x 200 mm, lithograph-printed on cheap paper; the text of the ballad is printed in two columns separated by a decorative border, with the title in bold, two woodcut illustrations, and publisher’s imprint above; verso blank; …

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  • As it was in the beginning (presentation copy signed by Dulcie Deamer and Norman Lindsay)

    # 50955

    [LINDSAY]. DEAMER, Dulcie

    As it was in the beginning (presentation copy signed by Dulcie Deamer and Norman Lindsay)

    Melbourne : Frank Wilmot, 1929. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards (slightly foxed), dustjacket (a little marked), 64 pp. with tipped-in illustrations by Norman Lindsay. With the tipped-in limitation slip, numbered and stating the edition is limited to 500 copies of which 450 are for sale. With a signed presentation inscription from the author Dulcie …

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  • Shipwreck. A poetic Drama (deluxe edition)

    # 50952

    [LINDSAY]. STEWART, Douglas.

    Shipwreck. A poetic Drama (deluxe edition)

    With 23 black and white drawings and 5 colour plates by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: The Shepherd Press, 1948. Quarto, gilt-lettered imitation leather, Lindsay illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition, printed in much larger format to the standard edition, limited to 100 copies, signed by Stewart and Lindsay. An excellent copy, the finest we have handled.

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  • As it was in the beginning (presentation copy for Margaret Coen signed by Norman Lindsay)

    # 50956

    [LINDSAY]. DEAMER, Dulcie

    As it was in the beginning (presentation copy for Margaret Coen signed by Norman Lindsay)

    Melbourne : Frank Wilmot, 1929. Octavo, lettered cards (a little marked), 64 pp. with tipped-in illustrations by Norman Lindsay. With a signed presentation inscription from Norman Lindsay to Margaret Coen.

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  • An Easter greeting to every child who loves "Alice" (first edition, first issue)

    # 50731

    CARROLL, Lewis, (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898

    An Easter greeting to every child who loves “Alice” (first edition, first issue)

    Oxford : the author, 1876. Folded sheet printed on Towgood watermarked paper (135 x 90 mm), pp. [4], pale foxing, with (fittingly) juvenile arithmetic in pencil to the lower panel. First printing, with the word ‘My’ in Roman type face, instead of italics, at line twelve of the third page (altered in the second printing). …

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  • Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, first issue)

    # 50729

    CARROLL, Lewis, (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898

    Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there (first edition, first issue)

    With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. London : Macmillan and Co., 1872 (actually printed December 1871). First edition, first issue. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth with gilt rule and image of the Queen of Hearts to upper and lower boards (edges rubbed, stained), all edges gilt, hinges cracked, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper dated 1876, pp. …

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  • Tales from Shakespeare

    # 50617

    LAMB, Charles and Mary

    Tales from Shakespeare

    London : Bickers and Son, 1903. Octavo, finely bound by Bickers in full polished calf, ruled in gilt with armorial crest to upper board, spine in compartments lettered in gilt with gilt ornamentation, marbled edges and endpapers, owner’s name of John Baker Cresswell, pp. [viii]; 386, photographic frontispiece illustration and five further plates after paintings …

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  • La dame aux camélias

    # 50588

    DUMAS, Alexandre, fils; BÉCAT, Paul (illustrator)

    La dame aux camélias

    / Illustrations en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat. Paris : L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, 19 rue Bonaparte, [1935]. One of 2400 examples on vélin chiffon numbered 601 to 3000 (this copy is no. 1678). Octavo (200 x 145 mm), near-contemporary deluxe binding of half red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration …

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  • Australian stages. A play in verse for radio.

    # 51029

    TURNER, Alexander

    Australian stages. A play in verse for radio.

    Illustrated by Justin O’Brien. With a preface by George Landed Dann. Sydney : Mulga Publications, 1944. Octavo, papered boards with Justin O’Brien cover design, yapp edges with a couple of short tears, pp. x; 22, with illustrations by Justin O’Brien. The first book illustrated by Justin O’Brien, in this wartime radio play about a soldier’s …

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  • The plains

    # 51156

    MURNANE, Gerald (1939 - )

    The plains

    Melbourne : Norstrilia Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, fine blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, in near-fine dust jacket (very slight edge wear); 126 pp.; an excellent copy of the scarce first edition of Murnane’s third novel, in the second state dust jacket designed by Marius Foley.

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  • All this and Bevin too

    # 50607

    CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)

    All this and Bevin too

    With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …

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  • Adolphe

    # 50590

    CONSTANT, Benjamin; BÉCAT, Paul (illustrator)

    Adolphe

    / Introduction d’Edmond Pilon. Illustrations en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat. Paris : L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza, 1936. One of 3000 examples on vélin des Papeteries Prioux numbered 326 to 3325 (this copy is no. 941). Octavo (190 x 135 mm), near-contemporary deluxe binding of blind-embossed tan morocco, spine with gilt lettering (small scratch to one of …

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  • True confessions of the last cannibal. New poems (signed presentation copy)

    # 50866

    JOHNSON, Louis

    True confessions of the last cannibal. New poems (signed presentation copy)

    Plimmerton (N.Z.) : Antipodes Press, 1986. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, with a warm presentation inscription to Australian art academic and author Jenny Zimmer from the poet to the half-title.

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  • A Dictionary of the English Language :

    # 50228

    JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784)

    A Dictionary of the English Language :

    in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. In two volumes. London : Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton ; T. …

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  • À Madame L. de Freycinet.

    # 49674

    [FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques

    À Madame L. de Freycinet.

    Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …

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