Literature

  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 19/25)

    # 50363

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 19/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

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  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 18/25)

    # 50362

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 18/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

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  • [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 17/25)

    # 50361

    CHONG, Eileen; DISNEY, Dan; EDGAR, Stephen; GORTON, Lisa

    [POETRY] Notes on Tomb-Sweeping / Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery Inc. (a lustration) / From Midnight to Dawn / Mirror Landscape (number 17/25)

    Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2024. “Red-Letter Series” [number four]. Limited edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Four volumes, uniform octavo (210 x 120 mm), each title in chapbook format with original woodcut wrappers by Phil Day, comprising 1. Eileen Chong Notes on Tomb-Sweeping, 28 pp; 2. Dan Disney Thuggery, Buggery, Skullduggery …

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  • Camões em Macau.

    # 48927

    TEIXEIRA, P. Manuel

    Camões em Macau.

    Contribuições para o estudo do problema. Macau : Imprensa Nacional. Macau, 1940. One of 450 copies on “papel vulgar”. Small quarto (250 x 183 mm), later quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 68, with a photographic frontispiece plate; original upper wrapper bound in at rear; an excellent copy. This work is …

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  • Poems and letters

    # 50293

    GRAY, Thomas (1716 - 1771)

    Poems and letters

    London : Chiswick Press, 1867. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder’s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small marks, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Sondley Reference Library, …

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

    # 48769

    FRASER, Joseph

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

    Melbourne : Pater & Knapton, 1889. Octavo, lettered wrappers (fragile, edges conserved; title page, presentation inscription in pencil to p. 3, pp. 104; [8 – catalogue]; internally clean, a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label. Melbourne and Mars is an early Australian work of utopian science …

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  • The complete works of Oscar Wilde.

    # 49916

    WILDE, Oscar (1854 - 1900)

    The complete works of Oscar Wilde.

    Patrons’ Edition De Luxe. New York : Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923. Twelve volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary half crushed morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt with sunflower motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, pagination various, with introductions by W. B. Yeats …

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  • Le vagabond.

    # 49992

    MAUPASSANT, Guy de

    Le vagabond.

    Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …

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  • The novels of the sisters Bronte

    # 49926

    BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.

    The novels of the sisters Bronte

    Edinburgh : John Grant, 1907. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, contemporary blue half morocco over buckram (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt with decorations, top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographic plates of places associated with the Bronte sisters. Includes the …

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  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys. (Large paper issue, bound by Zaehnsdorf)

    # 49846

    WHEATLEY, Henry B. (editor)

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys. (Large paper issue, bound by Zaehnsdorf)

    Transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright. With Lord Braybrooke’s notes. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. London : George Bell & Sons, 1893-99. Number 230 of 250 special large paper copies. Ten volumes, octavo (235 x 175 mm), bound by Zaehnsdorf in handsome …

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  • The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare (Shakespeare)

    # 49887

    "PARLEY, Peter" [i.e. Samuel Griswold GOODRICH (1793-1860)]

    The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare (Shakespeare)

    London : Charles Tilt, circa 1840. Publisher’s fitted wooden cabinet, 145 x 170 mm, bound in straight grained morocco, lettered in gilt across upper pediment, a few scratches and scuffs, split to lower panel, glass-fronted door with clasp containing eight duodecimo volumes, each in publisher’s blind-embossed cloth, gilt titles and decorations to spines, each approximately …

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  • She stoops to conquer, or, the mistakes of a night. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

    # 49990

    GOLDSMITH, Oliver

    She stoops to conquer, or, the mistakes of a night. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

    London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Quarto, full cream vellum elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt (some mottling to spine), lacking the ribbon ties, top edge gilt, others uncut, offsetting to endpapers, presentation inscription to front free endpaper, pp. [iv]; 198, 24 tipped-in colour plates within captioned green borders and text illustrations by Thomson, limited …

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  • Those were the days. The day's play. The holiday round. Once a week. The sunny side

    # 50002

    MILNE, A. A.

    Those were the days. The day’s play. The holiday round. Once a week. The sunny side

    London : Methuen & Co., 1929. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (one corner slightly bumped), small tape marks to endpapers, edges slightly foxed, pp. xx; 887, printed on thin onionskin paper, limited to 250 copies signed by A. A. Milne, this is copy number 5.

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  • Puck's Yule Faggot. A selection from Puck's Post-bag for 1871 & 1872

    # 50000

    "PUCK"

    Puck’s Yule Faggot. A selection from Puck’s Post-bag for 1871 & 1872

    Winchester : James Pamplin, 1873. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pink endpapers, hand-coloured illustrated title page, letterpress title, illustrated contents leaf, pp. viii; hand coloured plates, scattered foxing. Uncommon collection of short stories, verse with charming illustrations, for enjoyment by a Victorian family at Christmastime.

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  • The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.

    # 50003

    POOLE, Joshua

    The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.

    Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second edition (first published in 1657). Octavo, finely bound in nineteenth century full vellum by Seton & Mackenzie, contrasting red morocco …

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  • Les opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard

    # 50027

    FRANCE, Anatole

    Les opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard

    Paris : Chez A. & G. Mornay, Editeurs, 1924. Number 220 of 900 copies on Rives (edition of 1107). Square octavo, later full crushed morocco, sine with raised bands, gilt ornament and lettering; gilt dentelles; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; original wrappers (including backstrip) bound in; pp. 215, [2]; with colour frontispiece and b/w illustrations …

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