Women Writers

  • [PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.

    # 47214

    FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845)

    [PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.

    Manuscript in ink, 1 1/2 pp., written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium of wove notepaper (180 x 110 mm); headed ‘Upton, 7/18 1838’, and addressed simply ‘My dear Friend’, the note is written entirely in the hand of Elizabeth Fry and is signed by her at the foot ‘Affectionately & gratefully …

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  • Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

    # 31721

    TURNER, Ethel (1870 - 1958)

    Ethel Turner birthday book : a selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis)

    Arranged by L.T.T. With foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London, Melbourne and Toronto : Ward, Lock, & Co., 1910. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered crushed green morocco, edges lightly rubbed, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, presentation inscription dated November 1910 to preliminary blank, portrait frontispiece, pp. [190], calendar with quotes from Ethel Turner’s published works, a few spaces filled in …

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  • Jewelled nights

    # 47236

    BJELKE PETERSEN, Marie (1874-1969)

    Jewelled nights

    London : Hutchinson, [1923]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth (spine ends a little softened); early ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; pp, 317; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Tasmanian novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled nights tells the story of a runaway bride who seeks her fortune in the osmiridium fields on …

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  • A book about Australian women

    # 47014

    JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)

    A book about Australian women

    Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …

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  • Poems

    # 3070

    DOBSON, Rosemary (1920 - 2012)

    Poems

    [Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with black cloth spine and red title label (lightly rubbed, but a very good copy), 27 pp (edges with very mild foxing), the personal copy of the journalist and author Rohan Rivett (1917-1977), inscribed on the title ‘Rohan Rivett from RD, Orontes Sept-Oct 1939‘. The rare …

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  • [BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

    # 16360

    WOOD, Mrs Susan Nugent

    [BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

    London : James Nisbet, 1867. First edition. Small quarto, original green cloth with gilt title and decoration (front and rear boards marked, rebacked, endpapers replaced), nineteenth century owner’s inscription, hand-coloured frontispiece, pp viii, 152 (occasional foxing and few ink marks). A collection of poems and short essays by Susan Nugent Wood (1836-1880), who lived much …

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  • A southern garland

    # 32020

    MACK, Louise et al.

    A southern garland

    Sydney : The Bulletin, 1904. Octavo, green cloth, printed title label to spine (stained – a fine replacement title label tipped-in by the publisher at rear), previous owner’s name to endpaper, pagination various, a very good copy. Collected edition of the Bulletin booklets issued between 1899 – 1903, written by Roderick Quinn, James Hebblethwaite, Louise Mack, …

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  • World without strangers?

    # 16810

    PALMER, Aileen (1915-1988)

    World without strangers?

    Melbourne : Overland, 1964. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth binding in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 50; a very good copy; accompanied by a manuscript letter by Aileen Palmer explaining that this is one of several review copies. A volume of original poems and translations by writer and political activist Aileen Palmer, elder daughter of Vance and Nettie …

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  • Gray's hollow

    # 33707

    BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)

    Gray’s hollow

    London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1920]. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), green textured cloth with pictorial onlay to front (boards only lightly rubbed, spine ends a little softened), front free-endpaper with gift inscription dated 1942, pp [1 publisher’s advertisement], 304 + [16 advertisements], illustrated with a b/w frontispiece (loss at top …

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  • Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    # 47058

    CORELLI, Marie [pseud. of Mary MACKAY, 1855-1924]

    Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    Manuscript in ink, 3 pp., on bifolium of octavo notepaper (180 x 113 mm); headed ’47 Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.’, the letter is addressed to a Mrs. Bateman, to whom Corelli apologises for being unable to attend a theatrical performance by Mrs. Bateman’s daughter, May (possibly the young writer, May Bateman); the letter is …

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  • Mansfield Park

    # 46386

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    Mansfield Park

    With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1929. Octavo, decorated leather, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. xviii; 429, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, clean internally, a very good copy. A desirable Thomson illustrated edition of one of Jane Austen’s most …

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  • Outback

    # 46703

    NOLAN, Cynthia (1908-1976); NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992) (illustrator)

    Outback

    London : Methuen, 1962. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards in Sidney Nolan dust jacket (worn at head of spine), pp 222, with illustrations by Sidney Nolan and numerous photographic plates; a free handling marks, a good copy. Memoir of the Nolans’ journey through outback New South Wales, Central Australia, South Australia and Western Australia.

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  • The Novels of Jane Austen (in ten volumes)

    # 46379

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    The Novels of Jane Austen (in ten volumes)

    Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. London : J. M. Dent, 1893. Third edition (of this collected set of Austen’s novels). Ten volumes, octavo, attractively bound in the publisher’s original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, photogravure frontispieces, ornamental decorated title pages, pagination various, some light and minimal handling …

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  • [OCCULT] Applied magic

    # 46410

    FORTUNE, Dion (pseud. of Violet Mary FIRTH)

    [OCCULT] Applied magic

    London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy. A posthumous collection of …

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  • The artist's lunch : at home with Australia's most celebrated artists

    # 46498

    McCORMICK, Alice; RHODES, Sarah

    The artist’s lunch : at home with Australia’s most celebrated artists

    Text : Alice McCormick; photography : Sarah Rhodes. Foreword by Margaret Olley. Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 231, illustrated. A fine copy. “Join photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they meet up for lunch with 18 of Australias most lauded artists. From beans on toast with …

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  • All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

    # 46019

    FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)

    All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

    Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher’s orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500;  spotting to edges, …

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