Women Writers
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 49214
ROWLING, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (First Australian edition – a very fine copy)
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 (slightly canted, very slight bruising at foot of spine) in illustrated dust jacket (pristine); pp. 223, a very faint trace of foxing along the top edge, entirely clean and …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 47328
TURNER, Ethel S.
Seven little Australians
London : Ward Lock & Bowden, 1894. Second edition. Octavo (185 x 130 mm), gilt-illustrated cloth over bevelled boards (a little canted, edges slightly rubbed); early inscriptions to endpaper, verso of half-title and dedication leaf; pp. 240, (32 – illustrated publisher’s catalogue); illustrated with vignette line drawings and several full-page plates; text block a little …
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# 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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# 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 …