Literature
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# 45472
HAILES, Nathaniel (1802-1879)
The Soul’s Journey : a metrical fantasy
/ by Nathaniel Hailes. Adelaide : Printed by Hussey, Shawyer, and Gall, King William Street, 1856. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), later half cloth over moire silk (upper board with a few small marks), publisher’s printed blue wrappers bound in, pp. [4], 31; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement: ‘Shortly will be published (or as soon as …
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# 42344
Van Gulik, Robert (1910-1967)
New Year’s Eve in Lan-Fang : a Judge Dee story.
Beirut : [Imprimerie Catholique], 1958. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Inscribed by the author, in Dutch, on the half-title: ‘Met beste wenschen voor 1959! R. H. en F. van Gulik, Beyrouth, Dec. ’58.’ Small octavo (175 x 115 mm), original printed wrappers (upper wrapper sunned at top edge); 32 pp., with a frontispiece illustration, …
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# 45915
CUNNINGHAM, Peter (editor)
The letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
Edited by Peter Cunningham,. Now first chronologically arranged. London : Richard Bentley, 1891. Nine volumes, octavo, finely bound by Riviere & Son in full polished tan calf, their binder’s stamps to versos of front free endpapers, decorative gilt borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, glued and decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered …
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# 46013
TWINEM, Paul DeWitt (1894-1923)
[SHANGHAI MISSION IMPRINT] Selected poems of Paul DeWitt Twinem : special days, student days, soldier days, missionary days, courtship days.
Cover title: Poems by Paul DeWitt Twinem : Printed in Memoriam. Shanghai : printed by The Presbyterian Mission Press [for Mary Dorothy Fine Twinem], 1929. Octavo (20 x 135 mm), original purple silk over boards, upper board with title in English and Chinese in gilt; frontispiece half-tone photographic portrait of poet and missionary Paul deWitt …
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# 45839
SPENDER, Stephen (1909-1995)
Ruins and visions : poems by Stephen Spender. (Geoffrey Dutton’s copy)
London : Faber and Faber, 1942. First edition, first impression. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (tiny ink mark to upper board, else fine); front pastedown with ticket of Adelaide bookseller F. W. Preece, front free-endpaper with dated ownership inscription of Australian literary giant Geoffrey Dutton ‘G. H. Dutton 1942’; pp. 84; contents very …
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# 45840
MACNEICE, Louis (1907-1963)
Plant and phantom : poems by Louis MacNeice. (Geoffrey Dutton’s copy)
London : Faber and Faber, April 1941. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (fine); front pastedown with ticket of Adelaide bookseller F. W. Preece; pp. 86; contents very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Provenance: Geoffrey Dutton AO (1922-1998), Australian author and historian; by inheritance to Robin Lucas, formerly Robin Dutton, wife of …
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# 45638
CERVANTES, Miguel de (1547 - 1616)
The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Done into English by Henry Edward Watts. A new edition, with notes, original and selected. In four volumes. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1894. Four volumes, octavo, finely bound by Denny of London in half-calf over cloth, the spines in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, attractive air nouveau ornamentation, marbled …
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# 42630
SWAN, Bob and Marie
Xmas Ballad for John Kinmont Moir
Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John T. Kirtley, 1951 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress. One of only eight hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author and printer. Inscribed on preliminary blank ‘Keith. From John. Felicitations 1951 / 1952. No 5 / 8’. John Kirtley (1897-1967) is …
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# 45030
SYMONS, Arthur (editor)
The Savoy : an illustrated monthly. No. 3, July 1896
London : Leonard Smithers, 1896. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Aubrey Beardsley (light foxing, spine chipped), pp. 110, occasional light foxing, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Charles Shannon, William Blake, literary contributions by W. B. Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Symons, Havelock Ellis and others, a very good copy. One of the most famous art and …
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# 45837
YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny (1932-2017)
Don’t die before your death : an almost documentary novel. (Inscribed and signed by Yevtushenko)
Port Melbourne, Vic. : William Heinemann, 1994. First Australian edition. Trade paperback (235 x 153 mm), pictorial wrappers; a presentation copy inscribed on the title page by the author in black ballpoint ‘To Geoffrey Dutton – to the outstanding midwife and nanny of this book. Thank you for your midwife’s decisiveness & tenderness. Yevtushenko’; pp 454; …
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# 45836
VOZNESENSKY, Andrei (1933-2010)
Dogalypse : San Francisco poetry reading. (Inscribed and signed by Voznesensky, with an original photograph of the poet)
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 1972. The Pocket Poets Series: Number Twenty-Nine. Square duodecimo (158 x 123 mm), pictorial wrappers (spine a little sunned, lower wrapper with small tear at bottom edge); a presentation copy inscribed on the half title by the poet in blue ballpoint ‘With admiration for Nin & Geoffrey – …
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# 43631
GASKIN, Claire; HOLT, LK; MEAD, Philip; ROSE, Peter
[POETRY] Weather Event / Merry War (of Never Meeting and Never Ending) / Clouded / Catullan Rag LXV-LXXXI
Melbourne : Life Before Man (Gazebo Books), December 2023. “Red-Letter Series”. 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. Claire Gaskin Weather Event, 24 pp.; 2. LK Holt Merry War (of Never Meeting …
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# 44898
VAN GULIK, Robert
The Lacquer Screen. A Chinese detective story.
Kuala Lumpur : Art Printing Works, 1962. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (spine a little sunned, toning to edges of lower wrapper), pp. [viii]; 185, illustrated, a very good copy.
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# 45639
STUART, Douglas
Young Mungo (signed limited edition first edition)
London : Picador, 2022. First U.K. edition. Octavo, lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling wear), pp. [viii]; 390; (1), a fine copy. The limited edition of the first U.K. edition of the author’s second novel, with publisher’s blind stamped limitation statement, numbered 243 of 250 copies, signed by the author. ‘From Booker-prize winner …
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# 45793
[TUCKER]. KERSHAW, Alister
Excellent stranger (signed copy)
Melbourne & Adelaide : Reed & Harris, 1944. Octavo, papered boards, lacking the dustjacket, portrait frontispiece of the author, a very good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. (COWLEY, Des, A checklist of Reed & Harris Publications, in The La Trobe Journal no. 64, Spring 1999, p. 45).
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# 45709
[NOLAN]. STOW, Randolph
Outrider. Poems 1956 – 1962. Paintings by Sidney Nolan.
London: Macdonald, 1962. Large octavo, hardcover in dustjacket (laminate lifting slightly), 44 pp., numerous full page colour Nolan plates, largely of landscapes. The author’s second book.