Women Writers

  • Poems

    # 3070

    DOBSON, Rosemary (1920 - 2012)

    Poems

    [Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with black cloth spine and red title label (lightly rubbed, but a very good copy), 27 pp (edges with very mild foxing), the personal copy of the journalist and author Rohan Rivett (1917-1977), inscribed on the title ‘Rohan Rivett from RD, Orontes Sept-Oct 1939‘. The rare …

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  • [BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

    # 16360

    WOOD, Mrs Susan Nugent

    [BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

    London : James Nisbet, 1867. First edition. Small quarto, original green cloth with gilt title and decoration (front and rear boards marked, rebacked, endpapers replaced), nineteenth century owner’s inscription, hand-coloured frontispiece, pp viii, 152 (occasional foxing and few ink marks). A collection of poems and short essays by Susan Nugent Wood (1836-1880), who lived much …

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  • A southern garland

    # 32020

    MACK, Louise et al.

    A southern garland

    Sydney : The Bulletin, 1904. Octavo, green cloth, printed title label to spine (stained – a fine replacement title label tipped-in by the publisher at rear), previous owner’s name to endpaper, pagination various, a very good copy. Collected edition of the Bulletin booklets issued between 1899 – 1903, written by Roderick Quinn, James Hebblethwaite, Louise Mack, …

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  • Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    # 47058

    CORELLI, Marie [pseud. of Mary MACKAY, 1855-1924]

    Marie Corelli, novelist : autograph letter, signed, dated 5 July 1888.

    Manuscript in ink, 3 pp., on bifolium of octavo notepaper (180 x 113 mm); headed ’47 Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.’, the letter is addressed to a Mrs. Bateman, to whom Corelli apologises for being unable to attend a theatrical performance by Mrs. Bateman’s daughter, May (possibly the young writer, May Bateman); the letter is …

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  • [OCCULT] Applied magic

    # 46410

    FORTUNE, Dion (pseud. of Violet Mary FIRTH)

    [OCCULT] Applied magic

    London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy. A posthumous collection of …

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  • All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

    # 46019

    FRANKLIN, (Stella Maria Sarah) Miles (1879-1954)

    All that swagger. (First Australian edition, signed)

    Sydney : The Bulletin, 1936. First Australian edition. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original red cloth with black lettering to spine, in the publisher’s orange dust jacket with black type (fine and bright); front free-endpaper with early ownership signature, title page signed in black ink by the author Miles Franklin, pp. 500;  spotting to edges, …

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  • The Australian ladies' annual

    # 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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  • "Thanks Girls and Goodbye" (working title only). Written by Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin. [Draft script for the 1988 documentary film about the Australian Women’s Land Army in World War Two].

    # 46305

    HARDISTY, Sue & MASLIN, Sue

    “Thanks Girls and Goodbye” (working title only). Written by Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin. [Draft script for the 1988 documentary film about the Australian Women’s Land Army in World War Two].

    [Melbourne] : Sue Hardisty and Sue Maslin, 1986. Foolscap folio, spiral-bound stiff wrappers; 45 pp, roneo-printed typescript with b/w photographic illustrations; fine. ‘Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film …

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  • Rainbow

    # 40913

    SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)

    Rainbow

    Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …

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  • Gertrude's poems

    # 45544

    HOPKINS, Gertrude (1869-1894)

    Gertrude’s poems

    Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder’s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page …

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  • 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?].

    # 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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  • All that swagger

    # 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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