Literature

# 42192

SWINBURNE, Algernon

Songs before sunrise

London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. New edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated blue cloth, lightly rubbed, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. viii; 287; (blank), 40 (publisher’s catalogue dated December 1874).

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# 42191

SWINBURNE, Algernon

Atalanta in Calydon : A Tragedy

London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. New edition. Octavo, gilt-ruled blue cloth, lightly rubbed (crease to lower board), previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. xvi; 98; (2, blanks), 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated November 1877).

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# 42190

SWINBURNE, Algernon

Songs of two nations

London : Chatto & Windus, 1875. First edition. Octavo, gilt-ruled blue cloth, lightly rubbed, previous owner’s name to half-title, pp. viii; 78; (2, blanks), 32 (publisher’s catalogue dated November 1875).

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# 41884

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 Sydney bookseller Louella Kerr and her husband Australian author Gerard Windsor and their family, inscribed ‘For Louella et famille, Merry Christmas ’88, Rudi ’88’.

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# 41628

[MAX HARRIS; JOHN REED]

[ANGRY PENGUINS] Ern Malley’s Journal (complete set)

Volume 1, nos. 1-4. Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, November 1952 – October, 1953; Volume 2, nos 1 – 2, Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, May – November 1955 . Six issues, octavo, original wrappers (cover to Vol. 2, No. 1 by Charles Blackman; cover to Vol. …

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# 41389

GRANVILLE, Austyn (1854-1922)

The fallen race

/ With an introduction by Opie Read. New York : F. T. Neely, 1892. Octavo, gilt-titled two-tone cloth (edges worn, spine chipped at head and foot, hinges with glue repairs), patterned endpapers (contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper), pp 352 (text block cracked, a few wet stamps from Prospect Point Manor, Michigan), illustrated with five …

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# 41555

LEJEUNE, Augustin-Laurent

[IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early …

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# 41663

HAGGARD, H. Rider (1856-1925)

H. Rider Haggard, novelist : presentation autograph signature, dated 1888.

Manuscript in ink on card, 110 x 90 mm; verso with some paper adhesions from where the piece was once mounted in an album. H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English writer of adventure fiction, was the author of King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887), among many other popular works. Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) …

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# 41725

SMITH, Edward Herbert; [BRUGUIÈRE, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum, 1773-1823]

[LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / “Sweet heart-soothing poesie!”

Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author’s own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index …

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# 41700

ROWLING, J. K.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)

London : Bloomsbury, 1998 (but possibly 1999). Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Marlborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition, with number line 10 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 1. Octavo, laminated boards (slight bump to corners and head and foot of spine) in illustrated dustjacket (lightly edge …

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# 41560

BALZAC, Honoré de (1799 - 1850); CONDER, Charles (1868 - 1909)

[CONDER]. La Fille aux Yeux d’Or

By Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Ernest Dowson. With six illustrations engraved on wood by Charles Conder. London : Leonard Smithers, 1896. Octavo, purple lettered yellow cloth (a few stains), title page in red and black, pp. vii; 107, six illustrations after Conder engravings; a very good copy. With a sweet gift inscription with arrow-pierced heart …

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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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# 25753

LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

The cautious amorist

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Octavo, illustrated orange cloth in illustrated dustjacket (chipped to head and foot of spine, a few stains), pp. 300, black and white illustrations by Lindsay. The first edition was published by Farrar & Rinehart the same year, it appears this edition was issued …

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# 41665

FRANKLIN, Miles (1879 - 1954)

Bring the monkey

Sydney : Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, black lettered red cloth, dustjacket with illustration by Norman Lindsay (chipped with loosening to head and foot of spine and corners of dustjacket), pp. 246, line illustrations, a good copy in the rare dustjacket.

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# 39382

STONE, Louis (1871-1935)

Jonah

Sydney : The Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, edges lightly rubbed, in the rare Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (chips, edge tears and general wear), upper hinge misaligned, Douglas Annand designed bookplate for Fred Smith to front pastedown, pp. 296, a good copy of a rarity.

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# 41193

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybooks of the Highland Society of New South Wales (1881-86).

[Sydney : Highland Society of New South Wales, Bell’s Chambers, Pitt Street, 1881-86]. Three letter copybooks produced by Sydney stationery firm John Sands. Uniform quarto (270 x 220 mm), half leather over cloth or marbled papered boards (mild rubbing and some wear to extremities), spines stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; containing a …

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