Private Press
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# 50328
KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.
The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton
Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …
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# 50276
STERNE, Laurence
Voyage sentimental en France et en Italie.
Traduction de Emile Blemont. Illustrations de Maurice Leloir. Paris : Librairie Artistique, 1884. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue morocco by Canape R.D., filed in gilt with ornamental gilt corner pieces, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at edges, ruled gilt dentelles with ornamental detail, marbled endpapers, …
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# 50277
POGANY, Willy (illustrator); FITZGERALD, Edward (translator)
The quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapour
Now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, with a biographical and critical Introduction, by John Payne. London : printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1898. Quarto, half crushed levant morocco by C. J. Sawyer, ruled in gilt, spine in …
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# 50356
VOLTAIRE
Contes en vers et Premiers Contes en Vers.
Préface d’Eugène Marsan. Édition illustrée de six Eaux-Fortes originates à l’aquatinte par d’Henri Lafarge. Paris : Éditions Léo Delteil, 1925. Quarto, finely bound by Riviere in half crushed Morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation and contrasting morocco title labels, some silver fishing and retouching to …
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![[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_2011-300x300.jpg)
# 49953
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale
London (Hammersmith) : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Small quarto, publisher’s Holland-backed boards, the linen spine with edge wear and traces of handwritten title, printed blue papered boards (a few small spots), bookplate for Harry Mansfield to from pastedown, printed in black and red, one of 300 copies printed on paper (an additional 10 copies were printed …
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# 49992
MAUPASSANT, Guy de
Le vagabond.
Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …
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# 49991
GUYOT, Charles; RACKHAM, Arthur
Le printemps sur la neige, et d’autres contes du bon vieux temps
Illustrations de A. Rackham. Paris : l’Editions d’Art, 1922. Quarto, finely bound in half crushed levant morocco over marbled papered boards, ruled in gilt, the spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered in gilt with ornamentation and contrasting morocco leather inlays, small chips to head and food of spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, …
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# 49790
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species (First ‘Australian’ edition)
by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. With a new preface by Charles G. Darwin. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landcare. [New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1963. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at The Griffin Press, Adelaide, South Australia. Quarto, quarter wallaby over …
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# 48242
Barnett, P. Neville
Figure prints of Japan
Sydney : Beacon Press, 1948. Large quarto (450 mm tall), white vellum over floral decorated silk covered boards, decorated endpapers, 54pp. On hand-made paper with numerous tipped-in Japanese woodcuts, offsetting from glue as usual, bookplate to preliminary blank. Limited to 100 copies, this one of the 47 Special De-Luxe Editions, signed by the author, this …
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# 45657
FREEMANTLE, James
An Albion in the Antarctic (facsimile edition)
[London] : St James Park Press, 2019 (2022). Quarto (320 x 245 mm), quarter cloth over papered boards (reproducing the emblem of The Sign of the Penguin, the imprint of Aurora Australis), title label to spine, endpapers referencing the stamped boards of Aurora Australis, pp. [64], illustrated. Limited to 92 numbered copies. The facsimile edition …
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# 48244
FITZGERALD, Robert D.
Heemskerck Shoals (Ingleton copy)
written by Robert D. FitzGerald ; and decorated by a map and fifteen designs after drawings done by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Fern Tree Gully Lower, Vic. : Mountainside Press [hand-printed by John T. Kirtley], [1949]. Edition limited to 85 copies, this being no. 33, one of the 75 standard copies printed on Georgian semi-rag paper, …
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# 46589
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …
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# 15889
SHAPCOTT, Thomas W.
[POETRY] Fingers at air : experimental poems 1969
Ipswich, Qld : [printed privately], 1969. Edition limited to 200 signed copies (no. 169). Octavo, printed brown wrappers, previous owner’s name on half-title, unpaginated [48 pp]. An excellent copy. Scarce edition of poems by Queensland poet Thomas Shapcott AO.
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# 40913
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
Rainbow
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …
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# 42630
SWAN, Bob and Marie
Xmas Ballad for John Kinmont Moir
Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic. : John T. Kirtley, 1951 . Folio, unbound sheets as issued, pp. [4] plus four blanks, printed letterpress. One of only eight hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author and printer. Inscribed on preliminary blank ‘Keith. From John. Felicitations 1951 / 1952. No 5 / 8’. John Kirtley (1897-1967) is …
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# 42543
CELAN, Paul
Paul Celan : a reading for Group 47
Translated by John Felstiner. Print after a woodcut by Dirk Hagner. Cambridge MA : The Shackman Press, 2009. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. [20], stitch bound, printed letterpress. Printed in an edition of 50 copies signed by Felstiner and Hagner.