Literature

# 47676

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (1805-1875)

H. C. Andersen’s Ausgewählte Märchen.

Deutsch von Julius Keuscher. Illustriert von Ludwig Richter. Paul Thurman, Oscar Herrfurth, Theodor Hosemann, Graf Bocci und Oscar Pletsch. Mit 60 in den Text gedruckten Holzschnitt-Illustrationen, 8 Tonbildern und 1 Buntbild. Dreunddreissigste Auflage. Leipzig : Verlag von Abel & Müller, [c.1904]. Octavo, prize binding from Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne by Relfe Bothers of London, with their …

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# 46212

GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)

The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.

London : Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row ; Bath-street, Bristol ; and Queen-square, Liverpool, 1825. Octavo (204 x 130 mm), contemporary marbled calf, boards with ornamental gilt borders (boards a little scuffed, front joint superficially cracked, minor cracking at head of rear joint, corners a trifle worn), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …

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# 47496

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

Redheap

London : Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, in the rare illustrated dust jacket by L. Lapthorn (not price-clipped, chips with loss to head and foot of spine, tears with old tape repairs verso ); pp. 318; related newspaper clippings loosely enclosed; a good copy of the true first edition (not …

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# 47297

DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt (1868-1963)

The souls of black folk : essays and sketches.

London : Archibald Constable, 1905. First UK edition. Octavo (215 x 145 mm), publisher’s black cloth boards with triple border in blind, upper board and spine stamped in gilt (both boards with scattered light stains, upper board sunned at top edge; spine sunned, frayed at both ends, and slightly rolled); front free-endpaper with early ownership …

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# 45529

NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

Hathor, and other poems. (With an original watercolour by the author)

London : Greening & Co., Ltd., 1905. Large paper issue of the “Author’s Edition”, limited to 25 numbered and signed copies containing an original watercolour drawing by the author. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher’s gilt-ruled quarter morocco over cloth with ‘Hume Nisbet’ stamped in gilt on upper board (boards with moderate staining and a …

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# 47328

TURNER, Ethel S.

Seven little Australians

London : Ward Lock & Bowden, 1894. Second edition. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), gilt-illustrated cloth over bevelled boards (a little canted, edges slightly rubbed); early inscriptions to endpaper, verso of half-title and dedication leaf; pp. 240, (32 – illustrated publisher’s catalogue); illustrated with vignette line drawings and several full-page plates; text block a little …

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# 47349

BOSBOOM, J. & BRINK, Jan ten (eds.)

Holland-Krakatau

Uitgegeven ten voordeele der slachtoffers van de ramp op Java. Met medewerking van onze eerste schilders en letterkundigen. ‘s-Gravenhage : Joh. Ykema, 1883. Folio, self-wrappers, upper wrapper with stamp of the original bookseller W. Eekhoff and Zoon, Leeuwarden (tiny paper adhesion to left margin, light foxing); pp. 24, illustrations, music notation; lacking the colour plate …

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# 47510

CROZIER, Cecily (editor); GLEESON, James, et al.

A Comment. October 1942. No. 13

Malvern East, Vic. : A Comment Publication, 1942. Royal octavo, self buff wrappers with linocut image by Irvine Green, staple bound, pp. [24], printed in black ink on buff paper, illustrations; including a tipped-in surrealist work by James Gleeson, includes text contributions by Brian Crozier, Geoffrey Dutton, James Gleeson, Elizabeth Galloway, Max Harris and others, …

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# 47641

[NOLAN]. DUTTON, Geoffrey.

Night flight and sunrise

Melbourne and Adelaide : Reed and Harris, 1944. Octavo, original pink papered boards with printed title to spine, in Sidney Nolan illustrated dust jacket (lightly rubbed, slightly chipped at corners and along spine), pink endpapers, frontispiece portrait of the author, pp 40; a few toning spots, a fine, crisp copy. The first published volume of …

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# 47447

KRAUSMANN, Rudi; SIBLEY, Andrew

Maps. Drawings by Andrew Sibley (signed presentation copy, with original overpainting by the artist)

Sydney : Wild and Woolley, 2002. Folio, illustrated wrappers with original overpainting by Andrew Sibley, 54pp. of poetry with illustrations by Sibley. Limited to 200 copies signed by poet and artist. This copy with a warm personal inscription to art historian, author and publisher Jenny Zimmer.

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# 47335

STEELE, Peter

The whispering gallery : art into poetry

By Peter Steele ; with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2006.Quarto, silver lettered boards in dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Contains 55 poems, inspired by art works in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated alongside. Inspiration is drawn from the works of …

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# 47201

CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

[POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape

Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

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# 31721

TURNER, Ethel (1870 - 1958)

Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner’s published works, a few spaces filled in …

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# 47133

BROWNING, Robert; LOGSDAIL, William; PASSINI, Ludwig; FILDES, Luke; BLAAS, Eugène de; RUBEN, Franz Leo

Autograph signatures of poet Robert Browning, and artists William Logsdail, Ludwig Passini, Luke Fildes, Eugene de Blaas, and Franz Leo Ruben.

Piece of notepaper mounted on section of an album leaf, 125 x 110 mm, bearing the original autograph signatures (in ink) of six notable writers and artists of the late nineteenth century: Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet and playwright; William Logsdail (1859-1944), British artist; Ludwig Johann Passini (1832–1903), Austrian artist; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927), British …

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# 2766

ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love, 1793-1866

[UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

THE FIRST WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN IN SWEDISH TO HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN SETTING. Stockholm : Gadelius, 1817. First edition. Duodecimo, modern half green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (sunned), modern marbled endpapers, original printed upper wrapper bound in (but lacking the lower wrapper), 98 pp; a crisp, clean copy …

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# 47236

BJELKE PETERSEN, Marie (1874-1969)

Jewelled nights

London : Hutchinson, [1923]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth (spine ends a little softened); early ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; pp, 317; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Tasmanian novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled nights tells the story of a runaway bride who seeks her fortune in the osmiridium fields on …

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