Literature
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# 45541
UNDSET, Sigrid [LAPTHORN, Mabel Dickinson, Australian artist]
Jenny
/ Roman door Sigrid Undset. Geautoriseerde vertaling uit het Noorsch door H. J. Smeding. Amsterdam : J. M. Meulenhof, 1932. Third printing. Thick octavo (215 x 160 mm), publisher’s cream-coloured cloth over boards with illustration in green to upper board signed in the image by the artist, M. D. Lapthorn; in the original dust jacket …
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# 45460
BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.
The novels of the sisters Bronte
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1924. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth (a few corners slightly bumped, internally clean), top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, illustrated with numerous plates. A fine set of the collected works.
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# 45608
GLEESON-WHITE, Sarah
Ray Mathew : an Australian for life
Canberra : NLA, 2005. Square octavo (205 x 185 mm), pictorial French flaps, pp. 38, illustrated in b/w; includes interview with Mathew by Kate Jennings; an excellent copy. A homage to the Sydney-born poet, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter and critic Ray Mathew (1929-2002), who left Australia in 1960, near to return. He lived and worked in New …
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# 45569
J. C. WILLIAMSON THEATRES LTD.; AUSTRALIAN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST
[MELBOURNE; THEATRE] “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare. (Season commencing 23 July 1957, at the Comedy Theatre)
Melbourne : J C. Williamson Theatres Ltd., 1957. Theatre programme. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), stapled wrappers, pp. 26, b/w photographic illustrations of the leading cast members, advertisements; a very good copy. Melbourne actress Zoe Caldwell (1933-2020) was a rising local star when she played Ophelia in this production at the Comedy Theatre; she went …
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# 45568
MINERVA THEATRE
[SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For “French Without Tears”, season commencing 23 May 1940)
Sydney, NSW : Whitmarks Pty. Ltd. [for Minerva Centre Ltd.], 1940. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound; 20 pp, with photographic portraits of actors Aileen Britton, Don Nicol, Lloyd Lamble, Jane Conolly, and Charles Norman, and many fabulous advertisements for Kings Cross and Sydney businesses; a fine copy. Programme for …
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# 45576
"WULLA MERRII" (pseud.)
[QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer’s strike : a tale of Australian bush life.
[s.l.] : [s.n.], [1893]. Octavo, illustrated boards (minor rubbing), recent bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 223; a very good copy. A novel set against the 1891 Queensland Shearer’s Strike. This dispute between unionised and non-unionised shearers is regarded as a direct precursor to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The novel is written from …
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# 45575
JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)
Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)
Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …
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# 44919
KNIGHT, Charles
Half hours with the best authors
London : George Routledge, 1852. Four volumes bound in two, octavo, full polished calf, lightly marked, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling, contrasting Morocco title labels, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplates to pastedowns, engraved title pages, frontispieces, pp. [iv]; 312; 312; iv; 312; iv; 315, presenting inscription from the Library Committee of Charterhouse …
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# 44871
DICKENS, Charles
Master Humphrey’s Clock
With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London : Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Three volumes, octavo, full polished calf (corners bumped), spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt (a couple of volumes with joints repaired), gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, previous owner’s name on preliminary …
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# 45092
STEWART, Douglas; LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator)
[NORMAN LINDSAY] Fisher’s ghost : an historical comedy
by Douglas Stewart. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay. Sydney : The Wentworth Press, 1960. Limited edition of 200 copies (this copy number 123), signed in full on the colophon by Douglas Stewart, Norman Lindsay and Walter Stone. Royal octavo, fine blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to front ( a few light marks), in Norman …
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# 44752
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A new edition, carefully corrected by the last London edition. With an introductory essay. New York : C. S. Francis & Co., 1857. Four volumes, octavo, half calf over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt decoration, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. xx; 21 – 313; …
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# 44387
COWARD, Noel (1899 - 1973)
Operette
London : Heinemann, 1938. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (a little discoloured), in the original dustjacket foxing, short edge tears, large section missing to head of spine), pp. [xvi]; 135, black and white plates, scattered foxing, a good copy. ‘Operette is a musical in two acts composed, written and produced by Noël Coward. The show …
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# 44929
ROSENBERG, Aubrey
Tyssot de Patot and his work, 1655-1738
The Hague, [Netherlands] : Martinus Nijhoff, 1972. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, portrait frontispiece, pp. xii; 235. A detailed study of Tyssot de Patot, author of Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse, a famous imaginary voyage to Australia.
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# 44917
MOORE, Thomas
Irish melodies
London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838. Thirteenth edition. Octavo, full polished calf (edges rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, engraved title page, pp. xii; 300, a very good copy. An attractive copy of Moore’s Irish melodies.
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# 44832
HOPKINS, Ted (1949 - 2023)
[Teledex]
[Melbourne : Champion Books, 1980]. Artist’s book in the form of a teledex telephone director, folding box made of steel with alphabet index design, index cards with poems in alphabetical order. Many of the poems focus on Melbourne and Victoria.
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# 45059
WORTHLEY, Boyce (editor)
The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)
Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1939. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (minor edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and silver; pp 44, viii; illustrated with numerous reproductions of linocuts by student artists and photographic plates; this copy is that of Vin Mansell, General Secretary of the Students’ …