Literature

# 41162

GAELIC SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

[SCOTTISH COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA] Letter copybook of the Gaelic Society of New South Wales (1875-77).

[Sydney : Gaelic Society of New South Wales, 3 Hunter Street, 1875-77]. Letter copybook. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards (boards rubbed, leather a little worn); spine stamped in gilt ‘Letter Book’; alphabetical tab dividers; contains numerous copies on onion-skin paper of outgoing local and overseas correspondence (some written in …

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# 41523

VOWLES, George (1844 - 1928)

Sunbeams in Queensland

Brisbane : printed by Rogers & Harley, 1870. Duodecimo, gilt-decorated green cloth (marked) with binder’s ticket of O’Hagen, Brisbane, yellow endpapers, pp. xi; [i]; 204, occasional foxing. The first published book of poetry by a Queensland born writer. Vowles was born in Ipswich in 1844.

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# 41226

BATTEN, George Henry (1819-1881)

[MELBOURNE] A small archive of original poetry by G. H. Batten, Master of Richmond Grammar School and Honorary Secretary to Governor Sir Henry Barkly. 1859-1880.

G. H. Batten (1819-1881) was a schoolmaster in Devon for many years before emigrating to Port Phillip in 1856, where he served for a brief time as Honorary Secretary to the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Barkly. In January 1857 Batten became the proprietor and master of the Richmond Grammar School, a school for young gentlemen in …

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# 41382

COTTIN, Marie (1770-1807)

Élisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie.

Par Mme. Cottin. Paris, et se trouve à Londres, chez Sharpe et Hailes, à Musée, Piccadilly, 1813. Duodecimo (133 x 85 mm), contemporary tree calf (rubbed, corners worn, outer front hinge weak), spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco title-pice lettered in gilt; pp. vii, [1 blank], 176; internally very clean, a good copy …

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# 41334

HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]

[QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.

San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on …

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# 41341

"Sydney PARTRIGE" [PARTRIDGE, Kate, a.k.a. Mrs Hal E. STONE, 1871-1953]

Life’s wallaby / by Sydney Partrige

Norwood, S.A. : Printed and published by Sydney Partrige, [1908]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, chips to head and foot of spine); [104] pp, headings printed in red; fore-edges uncut, contents excellent, with the contemporary ownership inscription of D[oris] Egerton Jones, Adelaide-born feminist novelist and playwright. This early …

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# 41018

DOBSON, Rosemary (1920-2012)

Poems (signed copy)

[Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with red title label to front, black cloth spine (the backstop perished); light foxing to preliminaries, signed by the author on the title page. This slim volume of poetry is the rare first book by the highly-regarded Australian poet Rosemary Dobson. It was published when Dobson was …

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# 41107

[PRICHARD, Katharine Susannah, 1883-1969]

[SOUND RECORDING] Anna Maria Josephina [and] The Cooboo / read by the author Katharine Susannah Prichard. (Signed)

Perth, W.A. : Australian Peace Committee. West Australian Branch, [1963]. WA-006. Mono 33 1/3 rpm analog sound recording on 7″ microgroove vinyl; the label with the full signature in fountain pen of Katharine Susannah Prichard; vinyl in near mint condition; in the original sleeve, but without the jacket. Australian writer Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) resided …

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# 40952

COTTON, William, 1880-1958 (illustrator)

[ART DECO] Vanity Fair. April, 1934.

New York : Condé Nast Publications, Inc., April, 1934. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers featuring a superb front cover illustration of actress Katharine Hepburn by American artist William Cotton, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black-and-white; front cover lightly marked and with original 35-cents price sticker, spine chipped, contents in fine …

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# 41089

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

A Comment. July 1943. No. 16

Malvern East, Vic. : A Comment Publication, 1943. Royal octavo, self buff wrappers with linocut image of dancers by Irvine Green, staple bound, pp. [32], light handling crease, printed in roneo and black ink on buff paper, illustrations; includes text contributions by Raymond Hughes, Sylvia Green, Mark Kronenberg, Muir Holborn, Joan Masters, Elizabeth Galloway, Raemonde …

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# 40608

MILLIGAN, Spike (1918-2002)

A Book of Bits, or, A Bit of A Book. (With a Milliganesque inscription by the author)

London : Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s navy cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in the pictorial dust jacket (chipped at corners and spine ends; spine sunned); with a typically absurdist and manic inscription by Milligan, original Goon, written in black pen on the front free-endpaper: ‘I Spike Milligan being of sound mind body, legs …

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# 40222

FRASER, Joseph

Melbourne and Mars : my mysterious life on two planets. Extracts from the diary of a Melbourne merchant

Melbourne : Pater & Knapton, 1889. Octavo, modern binding of quarter-calf over marbled papered boards, spine titled in gilt, bound without wrappers; title page (with old wet stamp of Menzies’ Book Exchange), pp. 104; [8 – catalogue]; internally clean, a very good copy. Melbourne and Mars is an early Australian work of utopian science fiction …

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# 40563

STEPHENS, A. G. (editor)

The Bookfellow : nos 1-5 (complete)

Sydney: The Bulletin, 7 January 1899 – 31 May 1899. Five issues, duodecimo, pictorial wrappers illustrated by A. J. Fischer; the first number stamped ‘Specimen copy’, occasional scattered foxing, numerous illustrations. Rare early ‘magazinelet’ on Australian books and art, which includes poems by ‘Australian authoresses’, an article on Tom Roberts, an article on Frank Mahoney, …

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# 40983

CAREY, Peter (1943 - )

The fat man in history. (Signed copy)

St. Lucia, Qld. : U.O.Q. Press, 1974. First edition. Signed in full by the author on the title-page. Octavo, brown cloth-covered boards in dust jacket (a little chipped at edges, spine a trifle sunned), reproducing Jeffrey Smart’s oil painting Cahill Expressway; pp. 141; pages slightly browned (as usual), small crease to inner corners of pp. 7-10 …

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# 40221

DURRELL, Gerald (1926-1995)

My family and other animals (rare proof copy of the first edition)

London : Rupert Hart-Davis. 1956. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition, first printing. Octavo, publisher’s pale blue card wrappers, light fading to spin, original title label pasted on upper wrapper (Probably publication date October 1956, Probably price 18/-), pale foxing and a couple of light creases, pp. 256; mild toning, the binding firm; a …

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# 40359

PONTISSALIENNE (PARIS)

[ABSINTHE] Catalogue Général … Distillerie Pontissalienne … Fabrique d’Absinthe Supérieure.

Pontarlier, Doubs: Distillerie Pontissalienne, [circa 1900]. Small octavo (150 x 105 mm), maroon faux crocodile-skin textured stiff card wrappers, gilt lettering to the front; 20 pp, chromolithographic pastedowns with Art Nouveau designs by the celebrated lithographers A. Waton of St. Etienne, title page and text in red and black, double-page halftone plate at centre; a superb …

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