Literature
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# 44516
HORNADGE, Bill
Ern Malley and the “Angry Penguins”
Being a review of the greatest hoax in Australia’s literary history, and the subsequent ‘Indecency Trial’. Lismore: W. Hornage, [1945]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated with a sour-faced penguin (light marks), 20pp. A scarce contemporary pamphlet reviewing the literary hoax. A fine copy, with ownership inscription of author and academic John Tregenza to first leaf.
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# 44455
CASSIDY, C. T. (Clarence Thomas)
Random thoughts at Wyndham, W.A.
Wyndham, W.A. : C.T. Cassidy, [1977]. Quarto (260 x 205 mm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers (scattered stains and small amount of insect damage), 34 leaves roneo-printed on rectos only; internally very clean. Scarce self-published collection of poetry by Wyndham resident Clarence Cassidy, with themes including Aboriginal-settler relations, town characters, cattle droving, and the landscape of the …
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# 44500
DICKENS, Barry et al.
Janus
[Bundoora, Vic.] : [Preston Institute of Technology], [1972]. Quarto, original silk-screened wrappers by ‘Squeegee’, pp. [32], poetry and illustrations. Scarce literary publication with contributors by thirteen writers (including Frank Kellaway, Barry Dickens and others), illustrations by Joe de Lutes and Ron Peterbudge. Scarce.
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# 43914
[Madame GUYOT, attributed]
Julie, ou J’ai sauvé ma rose / par Madame de C***.
“La mère en défendra la lecture à sa fille”. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. Hambourg ; Paris : Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807 [but 1821]. Second edition. Two volumes, duodecimo (180 x 110 mm), uniform half linen over marbled papered boards, spines with morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt; pp. [4], 252 + [4], 287; wide …
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# 37054
HUME, Fergus (1859-1932)
The Mystery of a hansom cab
A sensational novel … A startling and realistic story of Melbourne social life. London : The Hansom Cab Publishing Coy., 60 Ludgate Hill, [1888]. “One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand” (t.p.). Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring an illustration of the hansom cab in a Melbourne street, lower wrapper …
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# 41477
MARSHALL-HALL, G. W. L. (George William Louis) (1862-1915)
Hymns Ancient and Modern
Melbourne : The Atlas Press (W. H. Newlands), Block Place, 1898. First and only edition. Small octavo (190 x 125 mm), original stiff green wrappers printed in black and red (spine expertly repaired); title-page stamped ‘With the author’s compliments’, pp. [1-6], 7-70; scattered foxing, mostly marginal but more pronounced on the preliminary and last few …
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# 41475
WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)
The Ploughman and other poems. (The extraordinarily rare publisher’s edition – one of only three known copies)
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935. Octavo, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edges chipped, the spine perished and replaced with plain brown paper, paper reinforcements to the folds), [76] pp., illustrations by L. Roy Davies, light offsetting to endpapers, a remarkably crisp and clean copy. Limited to 300 copies and 6 numbered Publisher’s Copies. This is Publisher’s …
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# 44153
[LINDSAY, Ruby]; DYSON, Will (1880-1938)
Poems in memory of a wife (signed copy)
[London : Cecil Palmer, 1919]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers over cards (spine reinforced with binder’s tape), pp. 39, sparse foxing, with a Ruby Lindsay reproduction on the front wrapper and title page (no further illustrations). Signed and inscribed by Will Dyson, Ruby Lindsay’s husband, on the title page.
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# 42974
LANG, John (1816-1864)
My friend’s wife; or, York, you’re wanted.
/ By John Lang, Esq., author of “Too clever by half,” “Forger’s wife,” &c. &c. London : Ward & Lock, [1860]. Third Edition. “Railway Series. One Shilling Volumes.” Octavo (180 x 120 mm), original pictorial chromolithographed wrappers (some minor staining, lacking most of the paper along the spine – although the author’s name remains at …
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# 42610
WHITE, Patrick (1912-1990)
The living and the dead (1st U.K. edition)
London : George Routledge & Sons, 1941. First U.K. edition. Octavo, black cloth, lettered in green on spine, in clipped dustjacket (a few short tears and chips to edges, spine a little sunned with a chip with loss at foot), wet stamp of Tyrrells Book Shop, Sydney to front pastedown, previous owner’s name to pastedown, …
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# 41498
WHITE, Patrick (1912 - 1990)
Happy Valley : a novel
London : George C. Harrap, 1939. First edition. Octavo, original blue-lettered tan cloth in full dust jacket (edges worn, spine chipped with loss to head and foot, tape repairs to tears verso), internally clean. Happy Valley, the first novel by arguably Australia’s greatest author, was published in London in 1939 when White was just 26 …
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# 41499
WHITE, Patrick
The Aunt’s Story
New York : The Viking Press 1948. First edition. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (spine faded, edges chipped with small losses, tape repairs to folds verso), pp. 281, a few minor spots to edges and a few leaves, internally fine. Hubber & Smith E1a.
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# 41664
HADFIELD, James (1771/2 - 1841)
Epitaph of my poor Jack, SQUIRREL. … Died Sunday Morning, July 23rd, 1826.
[Bethlem Hospital, London, before 1841]. Manuscript in brown ink with calligraphic title in blue and decoration in black, yellow and magenta inks, 230 x 185 mm (sheet); written entirely in the hand of criminally insane inmate James Hadfield, and signed by him in full at the foot, followed by ‘Bethlem Hospital’ in sanguine ink; mounted …
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# 43640
[LINDSAY] McCRAE, Hugh
Satyrs & Sunlight : Silvarum Libri (Augusta Helen McCrae’s copy)
With pictures and decorations by Norman Lindsay. Sydney: John Sands Ltd, 1909. Folio, quarter-vellum and decorated papered boards (edges rubbed, spine dulled, loss to some lettering to upper panel), 149 pp., includes twenty-one full-page plates and numerous vignette illustrations; text pages with foxing. Limited to 130 copies, signed and numbered by McCrae (this copy is …
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# 43904
BELL, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856-1930)
Mackenzie Bell, poet : signed autograph manuscript of his poem “The Philosophy of Frequent Failure”.
Manuscript in ink on the recto of a quarto sheet (225 x 175 mm), written in the poet’s flamboyant, idiosyncratic hand, comprising the full text of his poem The Philosophy of Frequent Failure, signed at the foot Mackenzie Bell, and with the word ‘Poet’ written in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below); laid …
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# 44059
RANKIN, Jennifer and OLSEN, John
[OLSEN, John]. Earth Hold (signed presentation copy with original drawing)
London : Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1978. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly bowed), illustrated dustjacket (a few marks and stains), 56 pp., illustrated with full page plates by Olsen. The standard edition. Signed and inscribed ‘For Andrew, with love & appreciation’ by both Jennifer Rankin and also John Olsen, who has executed a pen drawing …