Literature
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# 46382
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1901. Octavo, finely bound in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, lightly rubbed at edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait frontispiece and title page, pp. xliii; [blank]; 651, internally …
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# 46019
FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)
All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)
Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher’s orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500; spotting to edges, …
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# 41019
HOPKINS, F. R. C. (editor)
The Australian ladies’ annual
Contributions by ‘Tasma,’ H.N.B., Mrs. J.A. Bode, Mrs. Dampier, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Meredith, ‘Sylvia,’ Mrs. T. P. Hill, ‘Little Rosebud, Miss Donnelly, Miss Cheeseman, ‘Constance Craig’, Miss Card, and others. Melbourne : M’Carron, Bird & Co., 1878. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth over bevelled boards, corners rubbed, lightly flecked, upper hinge cracked, title page printed in red …
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# 45544
HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)
Gertrude’s poems
Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …
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# 41670
WATSON, Kathleen
[QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.
Cut signature, manuscript in ink on paper, 60 x 100 mm; identified in another hand below as ‘Writer’; light toning, otherwise fine. Bold autograph signature of Kathleen Watson Dearden, a significant figure on the Australian literary scene – particularly in Melbourne and Brisbane – in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Provenance: Autograph album …
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# 46399
MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)
Gamle Ny-Zeeland
[=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, original cloth-backed papered boards (rubbed), upper board with nineteenth century Danish school library’s ownership inscription, mild foxing to paste-downs outer leaves, 66 pp, contents clean and sound, a good copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in …
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# 46395
MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)
Gamle Ny-Zeeland
[=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, contemporary blind-blocked green cloth boards, 66 pp, a fine copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in New Zealand between 1864 and 1869, where he settled in Palmerston North and played an important role in promoting Scandinavian …
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# 46172
LANDON, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist: autograph note, signed, to Miss Dutton, who is known to have painted a portrait miniature of the writer. London, [1837?].
Manuscript in ink on white notepaper, 105 x 115 mm; written entirely in the hand of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and signed by her at the foot ‘Yours in great haste but most truly, L. E. Landon’, the note is addressed to ‘My dear Miss Dutton’, and is simply headed ‘Friday’, without any further date; laid down on …
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# 45778
PARIS, Gaston; WAHLUND, Carl (trans.); LARSSON, Carl (illustrator)
Sagan om Rosen
/ efter den af prof. Gaston Paris i Paris den 24 November 1893 till prof. Adolf Tobler’s i Berlin Silfverbröllop utgifna fornfranska dikten “le Conte de la Rose”, i originalets versmått öfversatt af Carl Wahlund. Illustrerad af Carl Larsson. Stockholm : Kung. Hofboktryckeriet, Iduns Tryckeri, 1899. Quarto (260 x 220 mm), in a contemporary deluxe binding by …
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# 45861
GORDON, Adam Lindsay (1833-1870)
Poems / by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Sea Spray and Smoke Drift. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. Miscellaneous Poems. Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric. The Roll of the Kettledrum (illustrated). London : Robt. A. Thompson & Co., Ltd. ; Melbourne : A. H. Massina & Co., Proprietors of Copyright, 1905. Small octavo, handsome contemporary binding by J. & E. Bumpus of Oxford Street, …
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# 46018
FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)
All that swagger
Sydney : The Bulletin, 1937. Third Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine (fine and bright – no rubbing or sun-fading); front free-endpaper with early ownership stamp and signature crossed out, pp. 500, [2 press reviews]; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, …
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# 46099
AUSTEN, Jane
Jane Austen : the novels (Pride and Prejudice • Sense and Sensibility• Persuasion • Mansfield Park • Emma • Northanger Abbey)
Illustrated by C. E. Brock. Connecticut : Easton Press, 2020. Six volumes, octavo, boards in dustjackets, pagination various. A mint set, still in the publisher’s shrink-wrap. Note : the price for a new set from the publisher is USD $660.
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# 46268
ROBINSON, Roland E.
Language of the sand
Sydney : Lyre-Bird Writers, 1949. Octavo, card wrappers, dustjacket (sunned, a couple of creases and tears), pp. 17. Poetry inspired by the Australian natural environment, including references to Aboriginal culture.
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# 45905
LEAR, Edward; LOCK, Margaret
The Pobble who has no toes
Brisbane : Locks’ Press, 1979. Quarto, linen with engraved illustration by Margaret Lock on upper board, unpaginated, pp. [16]; illustrated with eight original etchings, printed on veil Arches white, 250 gsm, by Margaret Lock, a fine copy. Printed in an edition limited to 60 signed and numbered copies, a couple of very small spots of foxing, …
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# 44524
BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)
The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.
[Edinburgh?] : s.n., 1832. Small octavo (177 x 110 mm), later black morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; woodcut frontispiece portrait of the poet from Taylor’s Authenticated Picture, title-page with vignette woodcut of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny captioned His ancient trusty drouthy crony, pp. ix, [1 blank], xiv, 284, 23 (glossary); front free-endpaper with original …
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# 43243
BALCOMBE, Emma Juana (1823-1907)
Commonplace album of Emma Juana Balcombe (Reid), of “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 240 mm), lacking the upper board, but retaining the original elaborately tooled leather lower board and backstrip; approximately [70] leaves of paper in a variety of colours, containing more than 30 original pencil sketches and watercolour drawings by amateur artist Emma Juana Balcombe (Mrs Alexander Beatson Balcombe), including studies of native flowers, …