Women Writers

  • Jenny

    # 45541

    UNDSET, Sigrid [LAPTHORN, Mabel Dickinson, Australian artist]

    Jenny

    / Roman door Sigrid Undset. Geautoriseerde vertaling uit het Noorsch door H. J. Smeding. Amsterdam : J. M. Meulenhof, 1932. Third printing. Thick octavo (215 x 160 mm), publisher’s cream-coloured cloth over boards with illustration in green to upper board signed in the image by the artist, M. D. Lapthorn; in the original dust jacket …

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  • Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

    # 45613

    MABEL COLLECTIVE [FIGNER, Vera, ed.]

    Mabel : Australian feminist newspaper. No. 1 December 1975.

    Sydney, N.S.W. : Mabel Collective, 1975. Folio newspaper, 24 pp, illustrated; original central horizontal fold, front page foxed, otherwise very good. Eight issues of Mabel were published between Dec. 1975 and Sept. 1977. A history of the newspaper by Paula J. Byrne, Mabelled, appeared in Hecate, v.22, no.2, 1996, p.87-100.

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  • The novels of the sisters Bronte

    # 45460

    BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.

    The novels of the sisters Bronte

    Edinburgh : John Grant, 1924. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth (a few corners slightly bumped, internally clean), top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, illustrated with numerous plates. A fine set of the collected works.

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  • Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World's Globe Circler

    # 41839

    McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS

    Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World’s Globe Circler

    A novel and fascinating game with plenty of excitement by land and sea. New York : McLoughlin Brothers, [c.1890]. Chromolithograph game board, 415 x 400 mm, in two sheets, folding, with vignettes of Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a steam train; in fine condition, housed in a modern box in period style with …

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  • Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    # 45575

    JACKSON, Gladys (1881 - ?)

    Under the banyan. (Signed presentation copy)

    Hong Kong : privately printed, 1925. Octavo, lettered flushcut cloth wrappers (lightly stained and edge worn), presentation inscription to the front free endpaper ‘With love and best wishes, Gladys Jackson. Hong Kong, Feb. 1929’. pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number of poems relating to the Great …

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  • The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    # 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 decoration, contrasting morocco title-pieces lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, pp. xx; 21 – 313; …

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  • Piccaninnies (signed copy)

    # 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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  • The Novels of Jane Austen. The Winchester Edition. Complete in twelve volumes.

    # 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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  • Female excellence; or, hint to daughters

    # 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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  • [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.

    # 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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  • Julie, ou J'ai sauvé ma rose / par Madame de C***.

    # 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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  • Seahawk

    # 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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  • An autobiography of a laughing jackass

    # 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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  • Margaret Olley: far from a still life (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)

    # 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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  • Bring the monkey

    # 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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  • The gates of dawn

    # 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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