Literature

  • [Teledex]

    # 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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  • The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers' College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)

    # 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’ …

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  • Songs of a campaign

    # 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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  • Angry Penguins. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley

    # 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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  • Studio portrait of a professional reciter and his prompter. Sydney, circa 1885.

    # 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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  •  Stalking the Rainbow.

    # 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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  • The platonic blow

    # 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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  • Sonnet addressed to Ian Mudie, 1943 : from Liebestag by John T. Kirtley

    # 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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  • Shocking, shocking, shocking. The improper play rhymes of Australian children (signed copy)

    # 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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  • The complete works of William Shakespeare

    # 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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  • The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.

    # 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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  • Oscar Wilde : a study

    # 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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  • Nature; or, the poetry of earth and sea

    # 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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  • Sesame and lilies.

    # 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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  • The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Complete in one volume.

    # 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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  • The moods of Ginger Mick

    # 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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