Women Writers

  • Brittany

    # 50545

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Brittany

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (lightly marked, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut, endpapers lightly foxed, pp. x; 254, illustrated with 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional scattered foxing, a very good copy. The edition de luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies …

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  • A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    # 50482

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick …

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  • Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    # 50473

    PORTER Dorothy (1954 - 2018); COLVIN, Robert (1942 - )

    Foreign forests (copy number 1)

    [Euroa, Vic.] : Robert Colvin, 2018. Folio, lettered buckram, screen printed endpapers, pp. [48], poems by Dorothy Porter illustrated with original screen prints by Robert Colvin, a fine copy. Limited to 8 copies plus 4 artist’s proofs, this is copy number 1, signed by Robert Colvin and Andrea Goldsmith, the partner of Dorothy Porter who …

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  • A book about Australian women

    # 50431

    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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  • Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.

    # 50338

    THORNE (WATKINS), Rosalie Ann (1850-1927)

    Rosalie Ann Thorne (later Watkins), of Rose Bay and Parramatta : a substantial archive of unique manuscript ephemera, 1850s-1890s, including family correspondence and material relating to the homeschooling of the Thorne and Watkins children.

    Provenance: Rosalie Ann Thorne (1850-1927); Elizabeth Cecilia McNally, aka “The Duchess of Spring Hill” (1909-1996), legendary Brisbane antiques dealer and collector; private collection, Queensland. As the archive is so large, we have arranged it into four main sections catalogued under alphabetical headings, A – D (see below). ROSALIE ANN THORNE AND HER FAMILY Rosalie (“Rose”) Ann …

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  • The novels of the sisters Bronte

    # 49926

    BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.

    The novels of the sisters Bronte

    Edinburgh : John Grant, 1907. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, contemporary blue half morocco over buckram (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt with decorations, top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographic plates of places associated with the Bronte sisters. Includes the …

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  • Three years in Cachar. With a short account of the Manipur Massacre

    # 49231

    WRIGHT, M. J.

    Three years in Cachar. With a short account of the Manipur Massacre

    Edited by James H. Hartley. London : S. W. Partridge & Co., [1895]. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (lightly stained), pp. xiv, 15-188, black and white illustrations Missionary life in Assam province, on the Indian-Burmese border, written by a female writer, describing the local population and wildlife. It also contains an account of the Anglo-Manipur War, …

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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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  • An Australian birthday book / compiled by M.F. and J.B.S. Printed for private circulation only. (Presented by Mabel Fairfax Barr Smith and Jean Balfour St Clare Barr Smith to their younger sister, Joanna Fitzgerald Barr Smith)

    # 47367

    M. F. (Mabel Fitzgerald) & J. (Jean) B. S. (BARR SMITH); SWEET, Samuel White (photographer)

    An Australian birthday book / compiled by M.F. and J.B.S. Printed for private circulation only. (Presented by Mabel Fairfax Barr Smith and Jean Balfour St Clare Barr Smith to their younger sister, Joanna Fitzgerald Barr Smith)

    Adelaide : George Robertson, 1883. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), original brown calf, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt (re-backed, boards scuffed and lightly marked); all edges gilt; original floral endpapers; title-page with presentation inscription by the compilers ‘With Mabel & Jean Barr Smith’s Kind regards / March 2nd 1884’; dedication with ownership signature …

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  • Magic Casements (deluxe edition, signed by the author and artist)

    # 48693

    WALLACE, Helen E.

    Magic Casements (deluxe edition, signed by the author and artist)

    With three plates from watercolours by Blamire Young. Melbourne: Brown, Prior & Co., 1926. Quarto, gilt-titled ivory buckram in dustjacket (both very fine), 104pp., the plates tipped-in. The deluxe edition of one thousand copies, this one of the first 150 signed by the author and artist. An exceptional copy.

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  • Flowers of thought culled from nature's garden. (Presentation copy)

    # 48341

    TOPP, Leila L.; GREGORY, Ina

    Flowers of thought culled from nature’s garden. (Presentation copy)

    [Sydney] : Tyrrell’s Book Shop, circa 1918. Small folio, card wrappers with pasted on title label in the shape of a leaf, printed image of a butterfly on lower wrapper, edges chipped with some loss, presentation inscription to the preliminary blank from the author in ink, pp. 52 occasional light foxing, stain to lower margin …

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  • Palmetum (the author's copy with proof set)

    # 47588

    ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny et alia

    Palmetum (the author’s copy with proof set)

    “Depicted by” Juli Haas, Ray Crooke, Jan Senbergs, Anneke Silver, Cheryl Wildon, Danny Moynihan, Margaret Wilson, Normana Wight, Jorg Schmeisser, David Paulson, Ron McBurnie, Tate Adams, Anne Lord. With text by Jenny Zimmer. Introduction by John L. Dowe, Palm Biologist, James Cook University. Townsville : Lyrebird Press, 2002. Folio (470 x 395 mm), screen printed …

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  • Virginia Fraser, feminist, artist, writer : six self-portraits in photo booth strip format.

    # 46884

    FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)

    Virginia Fraser, feminist, artist, writer : six self-portraits in photo booth strip format.

    [Melbourne? c.1985]. Six gelatin prints, each 65 x 53 mm, in two strips of three; unmounted; fine condition. Provenance: Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), Australian feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Dawn maiden and other small songs

    # 47805

    HARRIS, Mabel; WILSON, Dora L. (illustrator)

    Dawn maiden and other small songs

    Illustrated by Dora L. Wilson. Melbourne : McCarron, Bird & Co., b.d. [c. 1920]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, stitch bound, pp. 12, being sheet music with lyrics illustrated with Dora Wilson’s whimsical and charming pen and ink vignettes. Each of the songs is dedicated to a young Miss; To Miss Margaret Fulford; To Miss Joan Russell; …

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  • The Lip anthology : an Australian feminist arts journal 1976 - 1984

    # 47797

    ZIHERI, Vivian

    The Lip anthology : an Australian feminist arts journal 1976 – 1984

    Edited by Vivian Ziherl. Amsterdam : Kunstverein Publishing and Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, in association with Grazer Kunstverein (Austria), 2013. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy. Lip Magazine was self-published by women in Melbourne from 1976 to 1984 and stood as a lightning rod for Australian feminist artistic practice throughout the Women’s Liberation …

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  • The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.

    # 46212

    GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)

    The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.

    London : Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row ; Bath-street, Bristol ; and Queen-square, Liverpool, 1825. Octavo (204 x 130 mm), contemporary marbled calf, boards with ornamental gilt borders (boards a little scuffed, front joint superficially cracked, minor cracking at head of rear joint, corners a trifle worn), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …

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