Women Writers

  • Pride and Prejudice.

    # 46394

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)

    Pride and Prejudice.

    With a Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London : George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Octavo, elaborately gilt-illustrated cloth by illustrator Hugh Thomson (very slightest impressions to head and foot of spine, barely visible marks to lower board, the gilt to the cover and spine uniformly crisp and bright, all edges …

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  • Night fall in the ti-tree

    # 47128

    TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine

    Night fall in the ti-tree

    Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …

    $24,000.00 AUD Read more
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 …

    $300.00 AUD Read more
  • Women as sex vendors, or, Why women are conservative (being a view of the economic status of women).

    # 46389

    TOBIAS, R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) and MARCY, Mary E.

    Women as sex vendors, or, Why women are conservative (being a view of the economic status of women).

    Chicago : Charles H. Kerr & Company Co-operative, 1918. Small octavo (170 x 130 mm), publisher’s olive green papered boards with black lettering to front (boards heavily rubbed and marked; corners, edges and spine worn); half-title with early gift inscription ‘Violet Wilson from Otto Elsner’; pp. 59; front hinge cracked, occasional pencilled marginalia (presumably by Violet …

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  • Emma

    # 46384

    AUSTEN, Jane (1775 - 1817)

    Emma

    With an introduction by Austin Dobson. London : Macmillan and Co., 1904. Octavo, decorated cloth, lettered in gilt light wear to head and foot of spine, all edges gilt, pp. xviii; 437; [blank]; (6 – catalogue), illustrated by Hugh Thomson, a few spots of foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean internally, a very good copy. A …

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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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  • The Australian ladies' annual

    # 41019

    HOPKINS, F. R. C. (editor)

    The Australian ladies’ annual

    Contributions by ‘Tasma,’ H.N.B., Mrs. J.A. Bode, Mrs. Dampier, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Meredith, ‘Sylvia,’ Mrs. T. P. Hill, ‘Little Rosebud, Miss Donnelly, Miss Cheeseman, ‘Constance Craig’, Miss Card, and others. Melbourne : M’Carron, Bird & Co., 1878. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth over bevelled boards, corners rubbed, lightly flecked, upper hinge cracked, title page printed in red …

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  • "Thanks Girls and Goodbye" (working title only). Written by Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin. [Draft script for the 1988 documentary film about the Australian Women’s Land Army in World War Two].

    # 46305

    HARDISTY, Sue & MASLIN, Sue

    “Thanks Girls and Goodbye” (working title only). Written by Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin. [Draft script for the 1988 documentary film about the Australian Women’s Land Army in World War Two].

    [Melbourne] : Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin, 1986. Foolscap folio, spiral-bound stiff wrappers; 45 pp, roneo-printed typescript with b/w photographic illustrations; fine. ‘Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film …

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  • Rainbow

    # 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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  • Gertrude's poems

    # 45544

    HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)

    Gertrude’s poems

    Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …

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  • Catherine Helen Spence : an autobiography

    # 41310

    [SPENCE, Catherine Helen]

    Catherine Helen Spence : an autobiography

    Reprinted from The Register. Adelaide : W. K. Thomas & Co., 1910. Octavo, lettered purple wrappers (lightly sunned at spine, small stain), pp. 101, small stain to fore edge, a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, and the first Australian woman to …

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