Literature

  • Emma

    # 46384

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    Emma

    With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1904. Octavo, decorated cloth, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, pp. xviii; 437; [blank]; (6 – catalogue), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean internally, a very good copy. A …

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  • A history of England

    # 46550

    KNIGHT, Charles

    A history of England

    London : Bradbury, Evans & Co., circa 1860. Eight volumes, octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled papered boards (edges a little rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels with gilt lettering (spines a little scuffed at heads); marbled edges and endpapers; various paginations, with numerous engraved plates …

    $275.00 AUD Read more
  • Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    # 41732

    WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS

    Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.

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  • The complete poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    # 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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  • All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

    # 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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  • The Australian ladies' annual

    # 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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  • Gertrude's poems

    # 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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  • [QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.

    # 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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  • Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    # 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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  • Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    # 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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  • 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?].

    # 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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  • Sagan om Rosen

    # 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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  • Poems / by Adam Lindsay Gordon

    # 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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  • All that swagger

    # 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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  • Jane Austen : the novels (Pride and Prejudice • Sense and Sensibility• Persuasion • Mansfield Park • Emma • Northanger Abbey)

    # 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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  • Language of the sand

    # 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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