Women Writers
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# 44752
BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 - 1861)
The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A new edition, carefully corrected by the last London edition. With an introductory essay. New York : C. S. Francis & Co., 1857. Four volumes, octavo, half calf over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. xx; 21 – …
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# 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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# 44648
AUSTEN, Jane
The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1911 (and 1912). Twelve volumes, octavo (210 x 150 mm), bound in original uniform blue cloth (a few light marks, else very good), spines with gilt titles and decoration (a trifle rubbed); top edges gilt, other edges rough cut (as issued); engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. 1; internally very clean, with …
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# 44781
Female excellence; or, hint to daughters
Designed for their use from the time of leaving school till their settlement in life. By a mother. London : The Religious Tract Society, c. 1850. Duodecimo, lettered cloth (spine chipped and glued down), pp. viii; 224, light foxing. A guide to young women on how to serve their duties with excellence as a wife …
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# 44428
BENNETT, A. E.
Journalism for women : a practical guide.
London and New York : John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1898. Duodecimo (170 x 125 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards (bright and unrubbed), pp. 98, xii (advertisements); all edges untrimmed; light foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally excellent, a beautiful copy.
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# 44398
[THE BUSH BOOK CLUB]
[SYDNEY] Dame Margaret Davidson, President of the Bush Book Club, and the Committee, invite you to … the Thirteenth Annual Meeting to be held at Government House, Sydney on Thursday 3rd May 1923, at 3.30 pm.
R.S.V.P. to The Secretary, The Bush Book Club, 161 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Sydney, NSW : The Bush Book Club, 1923. Invitation card, 105 x 125 mm, printed recto only; very good condition; verso blank. The Bush Book Club was established in Sydney in 1909, and continued as an entity up into the 1950s. It was a …
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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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# 42495
ROWLING, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (First Australian edition)
London : Bloomsbury, 1997 [1998]. Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Maryborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition. Octavo, laminated boards (bump to head and foot of spine, slight wear to corners) in illustrated dust jacket (edge wear, a little crumpled at head and foot of spine, upper and lower …
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# 42619
BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878 - 1958)
Seahawk
London : Ward, Lock & Co., 1934. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth, illustrated dustjacket (price-clipped, edges chipped with small areas of loss to edges and spine, foxed), frontispiece and illustrations, pp. 256, a few spots of foxing.
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# 42868
BOOTHBY, Mabel F. (1870 - 1944)
An autobiography of a laughing jackass
Melbourne : P.T. Law & Co., [1916]. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), string bound, a few marks to the lower wrapper, gift inscription to title page, dated 1916, pp. 12, one colour and one folding black and white plate, light toning, a good example. A charming children’s book about the daily life …
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# 42362
STEWART, Meg (1948 - ); OLLEY, Margaret (1923 - 2011)
Margaret Olley: far from a still life (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)
NSW : Random House Australia, 2005. Octavo, cloth covered boards, illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks and a short tear), slightly canted, illustrated end papers, signed and inscribed by Margaret Olley the title page, pp. 568, first edition of this biography on Olley written by Meg Stewart, illustrated with several colour and black & white …
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# 41829
FRANKLIN, Miles (1879-1954)
Bring the monkey
Sydney : Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, black-lettered red cloth, dust jacket with illustration by Norman Lindsay (light edge wear, chip with loss to head of spine); pp. 246, line illustrations; a very good copy in the rare and substantially complete dust jacket, seldom found thus.
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# 41864
PRATT, Anne
The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain,
and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts and horsetails. London : Frederick Warne, [1883]. Six volumes, gilt-lettered green pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, corners bumped), all edges gilt, pp. viii, 288; viii, 355; ix, 410; viii, 328; viii, 368; viii, 319, very numerous chromolithograph plates, a couple of leaves loosening in the second volume, a couple …
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# 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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# 41925
WALLER, Christian (née Yandell)
The gates of dawn
a book made for the young by Christian Waller. Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1977. Quarto, boards bound in red cloth with gilt lettering (slightly bowed and flecked), an illustrated edition by Richard Griffin of the original edition by The Golden Arrow Press (1932), limited to 1000 copies, signed and numbered by Klytie Plate, art nouveau …
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# 42047
OPPEN, Monica
Tree Song
[Sydney] : Ant Press, 1991. Folding broadside with a designer binding of cloth bound boards with embossed design, 405 x 120 mm., letterpress with an original woodblock. Limited to 55 copies signed by the author-artist.