Literature

  • Young Mungo (signed limited edition first edition)

    # 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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  • Excellent stranger (signed copy)

    # 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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  • Outrider. Poems 1956 – 1962. Paintings by Sidney Nolan.

    # 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.

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  • Jenny

    # 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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  • The novels of the sisters Bronte

    # 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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  • Ray Mathew : an Australian for life

    # 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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  • [MELBOURNE; THEATRE] "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare. (Season commencing 23 July 1957, at the Comedy Theatre)

    # 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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  • [SYDNEY; THEATRE] Minerva Theatre magazine programme. (For "French Without Tears", season commencing 23 May 1940)

    # 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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  • [QUEENSLAND] The Fire Stick : incidents in the shearer's strike : a tale of Australian bush life.

    # 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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  • Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    # 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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  • Half hours with the best authors

    # 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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  • Master Humphrey's Clock

    # 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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  • [NORMAN LINDSAY] Fisher’s ghost : an historical comedy

    # 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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  • The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    # 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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  • Tyssot de Patot and his work, 1655-1738

    # 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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  • Irish melodies

    # 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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