Literature
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# 45349
GELLERT, Leon
Songs of a campaign
Sydney : Angus & Robertson 1917. Third, enlarged edition. Octavo, decorated cloth, dustjacket illustrated by Norman Lindsay (small chips, loss to head of spine), with a portion of the rare second dustjacket (lower panel and inner flap) containing reviews of the book), illustrated endpapers, pp. 124, illustrated by Norman Lindsay. First edition to be illustrated …
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# 45011
"MALLEY, Ern" (STEWART, Harold and McAULEY, James)
Angry Penguins. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley
Edited by Max Harris and John Reed. Melbourne: Reed & Harris, 1944. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Sidney Nolan (upper wrapper silverfished with a little loss, stained, lower wrapper water stained), pp. 108, water stain to the margins, a good copy of a rare publication. Issue 6. The famous Ern Malley issue, of which 900 copies …
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# 44821
MAGUIRE, H. J.
Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, circa 1885.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘Maguire / Photographer, 195 George Street, Sydney’; verso blank; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. Although these two gentlemen are unidentified, there can be no doubt as to their professional roles. Public reciting was something of a …
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# 44944
MANSELL, Chris.
Stalking the Rainbow.
Sydney: Presspress, 2002. Duodecimo, wrappers in dustjacket, cover illustration by Robert Dickerson (corner creased), pp. 28, signed by Robert Dickerson inside upper wrapper. A book of poems.
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# 44892
AUDEN, W. H. (1907 - 1973)
The platonic blow
New York : the Fuck You Press, 1965. First separate edition. Quarto, printed wrappers, pp. 12. Limited to 300 copies, 10 additional deluxe editons in three variations also printed. The platonic blow, sometimes known as The gobble poem, is an gay erotic poem which graphically describes an act of oral sex between two young men. Originally composed in 1948, …
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# 44806
HARRINGTON, Edward
Sonnet addressed to Ian Mudie, 1943 : from Liebestag by John T. Kirtley
Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John T. Kirtley, c. 1943 . Folio, half-calf over gilt-lettered cloth, pp. [6] plus six blanks, printed letterpress. One of only nine hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author and publisher. John Kirtley (1897-1967) is an important figure in Australian printing having produced the first Australian hand-printed books. Introduced …
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# 44772
LOWENSTEIN, Wendy
Shocking, shocking, shocking. The improper play rhymes of Australian children (signed copy)
Prahran, Melbourne : Fish and Chip Press, 1974. Foolscap folio, hand-painted and stencilled wrappers, pp. 48 printed roneo, signed by the author inside upper wrapper. Australian Folklore Occasional Paper No. 5. Colophon and illustration by Ron Edwards. A fascinating insight into colloquial Australian playground nursery rhymes in the twentieth century. Scarce. Shocking, shocking, shocking. A …
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# 44582
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564 - 1616)
The complete works of William Shakespeare
Including the whole of the plays and poems, with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall. London : Ward, Lock and Co., c. 1880. Octavo, full call (edges rubbed), spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting Morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers (prize …
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# 44648
AUSTEN, Jane
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1911 (and 1912). Twelve volumes, octavo (210 x 150 mm), bound in original uniform blue cloth (a few light marks, else very good), spines with gilt titles and decoration (a trifle rubbed); top edges gilt, other edges rough cut (as issued); engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. 1; internally very clean, with …
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# 44588
GIDE, André; MASON, Stuart (translator)
Oscar Wilde : a study
/ from the French of André Gide, with introduction, notes and bibliography by Stuart Mason. Oxford : The Holywell Press, 1905. Edition limited to 500 copies. Octavo (205 x 150 mm), publisher’s grey papered boards (bottom edges chipped) with printed title-pieces to upper board and spine (sunned); pp. [12], 110, [2]; illustrated with a frontispiece plate …
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# 44511
MICHELET, Madame [Athanaïs Mialaret]
Nature; or, the poetry of earth and sea
With two hundred designs by Giacomelli. London : T. Nelson and Sons, 1900. Octavo, prize binding from Scotch College, Melbourne of full maroon calf (boards a little sunned), spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, edges slightly rubbed, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label from Scotch College to front …
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# 44689
RUSKIN, John (1819-1900)
Sesame and lilies.
Three lectures by John Ruskin. Sunnyside, Orpington and London : George Allen, [1898]. Thirteenth complete edition. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), in a prize binding of the Caulfield Grammar School (Melbourne) of full blue calf, boards with ornament gilt border and school crest in gilt to upper board, spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …
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# 44690
SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832) [J. M. W. TURNER, Myles BIRKET FOSTER, John GILBERT, illustrators]
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Complete in one volume.
With all his introductions, notes, various readings, and notes by J. G. Lockhart, Esq. Illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood, after J. M. W. Turner, Birket Foster, & John Gilbert. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, 1857. Thick royal octavo (250 x 175 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (fine); all …
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# 44581
DENNIS, C.J.; GYE, Hal (ill.)
The moods of Ginger Mick
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1916. First edition. Octavo, illustrated cloth boards (corners rubbed); pp 143; (1); 24 (publisher’s catalogue); illustrations by Hal Gye, printed publisher’s slip in red ink, preliminaries foxed, old news clipping loosely enclosed, a very good copy of the scarce first issue. The first issue of the first edition containing the …
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# 18429
[McAULEY, James and STEWART, Harold]. “MALLEY, Ern”.
The darkening ecliptic
Melbourne and Adelaide : Reed and Harris, 1944. Small quarto, original printed grey wrappers (lightly creased, lower wrapper a little sunned), Sidney Nolan painting reproduced as black and white frontispiece, featuring an image of ‘The Arabian Tree’ from the ‘Malley’ poem Petit Testament, bookplate to half-title, pp 46; a very good copy. The variant first …
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# 44572
JOHNSON, Samuel
The beauties of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
Consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous : to which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the Doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi; – His Life recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies, also, his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late doctor Dodd. London : printed …