Literature

  • From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)

    # 50858

    KRAUSMANN, Rudi; WHITELEY, Brett

    From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, pp. 78, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brett Whiteley. Signed presentation copy to Australian art academic and author Jenny Zimmer from the author.

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  • Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic

    # 50750

    SHEAD, Garry (1942- )

    Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic

    Darwin : Basil Hall Editions, 2003. Nine etchings, each 150 x 220 mm, hand-printed by Natasha Rowell. Edition of 50; housed in a purpose-built ceramic box (290 x 215 x 60 mm); the etchings join up in the fashion of a puzzle to complete Shead’s image, Petit Testament; each of the nine etchings is signed verso, …

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  • Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    # 49803

    EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta

    Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).

    An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …

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  • The Mystery of a hansom cab

    # 50616

    HUME, Fergus (1859-1932)

    The Mystery of a hansom cab

    A sensational novel … A startling and realistic story of Melbourne social life. London : The Hansom Cab Publishing Coy., 60 Ludgate Hill, [1887-1888]. “Two Hundredth Thousand” (t.p.). Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring an illustration of the hansom cab in a Melbourne street, lower wrapper with advertisement …

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  • When the sleeper wakes : a story of the years to come. (Presentation copy inscribed by H. G. Wells for Hubert Bland)

    # 50152

    WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946)

    When the sleeper wakes : a story of the years to come. (Presentation copy inscribed by H. G. Wells for Hubert Bland)

    London and New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First edition. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth (boards heavily waterstained, spine darkened and frayed at ends); half-title with a presentation inscription in ink signed by the author: ‘To Mr. Hubert Bland / a present from Sandgate. H. G. Wells’; pp. [8], …

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  • The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

    # 50489

    BUTCHER, S. H. and LAND, A. (translators)

    The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English prose

    London : Macmillan, 1919. Octavo, presentation prize binding of full vellum, lettered in gilt, from Chigwell School, lightly marked, top edge gilt, others uncut, presentation inscription from the Headmaster to the front free endpaper, pp. xxiv; 428, a very good copy of this classical work in Greek literature.

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  • Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    # 50473

    PORTER Dorothy (1954 - 2018); COLVIN, Robert (1942 - )

    Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    [Euroa, Vic.] : Robert Colvin, 2018. Folio, lettered buckram, screen printed endpapers, pp. [48], poems by Dorothy Porter illustrated with original screen prints by Robert Colvin, a fine copy. Limited to 8 copies plus 4 artist’s proofs, this is copy number 1, signed by Robert Colvin and Andrea Goldsmith, the partner of Dorothy Porter who …

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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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  • A woman's hand

    # 50430

    WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)

    A woman’s hand

    contained within Australian Letters. Vol. 7, No. 3, August 1966. Kapunda : Sun Books, 1966. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Jacqueline Hick, lightly marked, pp. 82, illustrated by Jacqueline Hick. The first appearance in print of Patrick White’s novella A woman’s hand, published the same year as The solid mandala, and later collected in White’s 1974 …

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  • The romaunt of the rose

    # 50226

    CHAUCER, Geoffrey

    The romaunt of the rose

    Rendered out of the French into English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Illustrated by Keith Henderson and Norman Wilkinson. London : published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus, 1908. Quarto, finely bound by Bumpus of Oxford, full crushed levant morocco, upper and lower boards with gilt edge rule and elaborately floriated corner decorations with inlaid …

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  • The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    # 50328

    KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.

    The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …

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  • Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

    # 50276

    STERNE, Laurence

    Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.

    Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …

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  • The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

    # 50135

    CUMBERLAND, C. (Charles) [WELLS, H. G., 1866-1946]

    The guinea pig, or domestic cavy for food, fur, and fancy. Illustrated. (With a gift inscription and pen sketches by H. G. Wells)

    London : L. Upcott Gill, [1886]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s decorated green cloth over boards, the upper board with gilt lettering and guinea pig device (both boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners a little worn), spine with gilt lettering and device (very heavily faded and frayed at ends); front pastedown with …

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  • The writings of Lafcadio Hearn (large paper edition)

    # 50215

    HEARN, Patrick Lafcadio (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉 八雲); (1850 - 1904)

    The writings of Lafcadio Hearn (large paper edition)

    In sixteen volumes. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge. Sixteen volumes, octavo, half crushed morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, each volumes approximately 300 pp., colour frontispieces with tissue guards, photogravure illustrations, a fine set. Limited to …

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  • The quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapour

    # 50277

    POGANY, Willy (illustrator); FITZGERALD, Edward (translator)

    The quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapour

    Now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, with a biographical and critical Introduction, by John Payne. London : printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1898. Quarto, half crushed levant morocco by C. J. Sawyer, ruled in gilt, spine in …

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  • Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

    # 50356

    VOLTAIRE

    Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.

    Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …

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