Women Writers
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# 41670
WATSON, Kathleen
[QUEENSLAND] Autograph signature of Anglo-Australian novelist, short-story writer and poet Kathleen Watson.
Cut signature, manuscript in ink on paper, 60 x 100 mm; identified in another hand below as ‘Writer’; light toning, otherwise fine. Bold autograph signature of Kathleen Watson Dearden, a significant figure on the Australian literary scene – particularly in Melbourne and Brisbane – in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Provenance: Autograph album …
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# 46014
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, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol Jerrems. Includes portraits of Ann Summers, …
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# 46172
LANDON, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet and novelist: autograph note, signed, to Miss Dutton, who is known to have painted a portrait miniature of the writer. London, [1837?].
Manuscript in ink on white notepaper, 105 x 115 mm; written entirely in the hand of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and signed by her at the foot ‘Yours in great haste but most truly, L. E. Landon’, the note is addressed to ‘My dear Miss Dutton’, and is simply headed ‘Friday’, without any further date; laid down on …
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# 46018
FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)
All that swagger
Sydney : The Bulletin, 1937. Third Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine (fine and bright – no rubbing or sun-fading); front free-endpaper with early ownership stamp and signature crossed out, pp. 500, [2 press reviews]; spotting to edges, moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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.