Rare Books

  • Sixteen beautiful photogravure views representing Australian country life

    # 45043

    JAMES, H. R. (publisher)

    Sixteen beautiful photogravure views representing Australian country life

    Adelaide : H.R. James, c. 1935. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers (stained), title sheet, sixteen photogravure plates of Australian iconic picturesque scenery of sheep, cattle and wheat farming.

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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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  • [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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  • Men of Queensland : representative of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of Queensland as existant in the year 1928 A.D. Private edition.

    # 44870

    MILLAR, Will. H.

    Men of Queensland : representative of the public, professional, ecclesiatical and business life of Queensland as existant in the year 1928 A.D. Private edition.

    Brisbane : Read Press Ltd., 1929. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), original red diced morocco lettered and ruled in gilt (chips to spine expertly repaired); colour frontispiece, [211] leaves of plates with accompanying text; a very good example of this scarce private printing, which provides a snapshot of Queensland’s rich and powerful on the eve …

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  • Piccaninnies (signed copy)

    # 44854

    DURACK, Mary (1913 - 1994; DURACK, Elizabeth (1915 - 2000)

    Piccaninnies (signed copy)

    [Perth?] : [Mary & Elizabeth Durack], [1940]. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light stains, small chip to corner, torn along spine and nearly detached), pp. [10], illustrated, light handling wear, signed by Mary Durack on the title page. Muir 2182

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  • How to ice a cake : let Anne Anson show you

    # 45089

    ANSON, Anne

    How to ice a cake : let Anne Anson show you

    Stourbridge, U.K. : Taylor, Law & Co., [1948]. “”Tala” icing book. Fifteenth edition.” Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, light marks and stains, 32 pp, illustrated.

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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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  • Jeffrey Smart (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    # 45252

    QUARTERMAINE, Peter

    Jeffrey Smart (deluxe edition with original signed etching)

    By Peter Quartermaine; foreword by Germaine Greer. On the half title: A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal. South Yarra : Gryphon Books, 1983. Quarto, gilt-titled quarter morocco over grey linen, black buckram slipcase, pp 131; the deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the artist on colophon at rear, …

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  • Norman Lindsay’s Ship Models (deluxe edition)

    # 45164

    LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)

    Norman Lindsay’s Ship Models (deluxe edition)

    Preface and commentary by Norman Lindsay, foreword by Douglas Stewart, photographed by Quinton F. Davis. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1966. Quarto, gilt-decorated canvas and green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (spine slightly sunned, in matching slipcase (a little marked), 98pp illustrated with numerous photographs, a couple of spots to preliminaries, a very good copy. The …

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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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  • Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    # 45184

    BROWN, Tony and KOLENBERG, Hendrik

    Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-1848

    Hobart : The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. One corner bumped, else a  fine copy. Prout’s works in Australia, including studies of indigenous Australians.

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  • William Buelow Gould : convict artist of Van Diemen's Land

    # 45125

    DARBY, Garry

    William Buelow Gould : convict artist of Van Diemen’s Land

    Sydney : Copperfield, 1980. Quarto, gilt-lettered boards in dustjacket, pp. 136, illustrated.

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  • Bas Meeuws : flower pieces : a photographic journey around the world (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 45120

    MEEUWS, Bas et al.

    Bas Meeuws : flower pieces : a photographic journey around the world (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Belgium : Lannoo, 2019. Quarto, flushcut illustrated boards, edges stained black, pp. 351, illustrated. ‘Bas Meeuws’ photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws’ monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They nod to the …

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  • Gathered in their prime : home grown flowers for inside (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 45119

    McDONALD, Katherine

    Gathered in their prime : home grown flowers for inside (from the library of Criss Canning)

    [Hamilton : Crathie, c. 2020]. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, unpaginated (approx. 100 pp. ) extensively illustrated. Documents the gardens of the historic house ‘Crathie’ in Hamilton, Victoria. No copies traced on Trove. Signed by Australian artist Criss Canning in ink on the half-title page. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023

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  • [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    # 45096

    PITT, C.A.

    [NORTHERN TERRITORY] Magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway

    Cover title: Series of magnificent views illustrating scenes along the North South Highway, Northern Territory, Australia. Payneham, South Australia : C. A. Pitt, [c.1950]. Oblong quarto, pictorial limp wrappers (grey variant, other examples printed on yellow and red paper stocks), 16 pp, black and white photographic plates of Alice Springs, Aileron, Barrow Creek, the Devil’s Marbles, …

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