Women Writers
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 42047
OPPEN, Monica
Tree Song
[Sydney] : Ant Press, 1991. Folding broadside with a designer binding of cloth bound boards with embossed design, 405 x 120 mm., letterpress with an original woodblock. Limited to 55 copies signed by the author-artist.
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# 41700
ROWLING, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First Australian edition)
London : Bloomsbury, 1998 (but possibly 1999). Printed and bound in Australia by Australian Print Group, Marlborough, Vic. First issue of the first Australian edition, with number line 10 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 1. Octavo, laminated boards (slight bump to corners and head and foot of spine) in illustrated dustjacket (lightly edge …
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# 41261
[SPENCE, Catherine Helen]
An agnostic’s progress from the known to the unknown
London and Edinburgh : Williams and Norgte, 1884. Octavo, gilt-lettered brown cloth (lightly flecked and rubbed), small owner’s stamp to front pastedown, small stain to lower margin of pastedowns, pp. [ii]; 266, 8 (catalogue), a very good copy. A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, …
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# 31673
PEDLEY, Ethel C. (1859 - 1898)
Dot and the Kangaroo. (First Australian edition)
With six illustrations by Frank P. Mahoney. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1906. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth (edges lightly rubbed), small booksellers labels to pastedowns, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, frontispiece illustration and five black and white plates by Frank Mahoney, pp. [vi]; 204; (2); (32 – publisher’s advertisements dated June 1906), occasional …
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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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# 41665
FRANKLIN, Miles (1879 - 1954)
Bring the monkey
Sydney : Endeavour Press, 1933. Octavo, black lettered red cloth, dustjacket with illustration by Norman Lindsay (chipped with loosening to head and foot of spine and corners of dustjacket), pp. 246, line illustrations, a good copy in the rare dustjacket.
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# 41382
COTTIN, Marie (1770-1807)
Élisabeth, ou Les exilés de Sibérie.
Par Mme. Cottin. Paris, et se trouve à Londres, chez Sharpe et Hailes, à Musée, Piccadilly, 1813. Duodecimo (133 x 85 mm), contemporary tree calf (rubbed, corners worn, outer front hinge weak), spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco title-pice lettered in gilt; pp. vii, [1 blank], 176; internally very clean, a good copy …
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# 41341
"Sydney PARTRIGE" [PARTRIDGE, Kate, a.k.a. Mrs Hal E. STONE, 1871-1953]
Life’s wallaby / by Sydney Partrige
Norwood, S.A. : Printed and published by Sydney Partrige, [1908]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), original pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, chips to head and foot of spine); [104] pp, headings printed in red; fore-edges uncut, contents excellent, with the contemporary ownership inscription of D[oris] Egerton Jones, Adelaide-born feminist novelist and playwright. This early …
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# 41018
DOBSON, Rosemary (1920-2012)
Poems (signed copy)
[Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with red title label to front, black cloth spine (the backstop perished); light foxing to preliminaries, signed by the author on the title page. This slim volume of poetry is the rare first book by the highly-regarded Australian poet Rosemary Dobson. It was published when Dobson was …
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# 40941
FIFE, Kirsty
Move under yr own power. Interviews with women and queers making DIY music
[Leeds] : Kirsty Fife, 2016. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. ‘Move Under Yr Own Power, a zine about women and queers making DIY music in the UK. The zine is 72pp, black and white riso printed, A5 with a rad centrefold illustration. It’s mainly interviews and an introduction. The zine comes with a link …
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# 40819
LAMBERT, Amy
Thirty years of an artist’s life. The career of G. W. Lambert, A.R.A. (With a portrait photograph and autograph letter by Amy Lambert)
Sydney: Society of Artists, 1938. Octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher’s cloth over boards with gilt-titled morocco label to spine, in the black-lettered dust jacket; 229 pp., illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this is no. 51). A fine example. [TOGETHER WITH] (1). Original studio portrait photograph of the author, Amy Absell (Lambert) by The …
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# 37024
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
William the wizard who wasn’t
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1986. ‘The first edition … is limited to six copies only (and two Artist proofs). This edition is hand written on hand made paper and hand bound. The book is illustrated with forty-three original Lino prints, that are hand-coloured by the artist. This book is copy No. 5’. …
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# 37188
KEESING, Nancy; LINDSAY, Norman
Imminent summer (signed copy)
Sydney : Lyre-Bird Writers, 1951. Octavo, printed wrappers over cards (split along spine) : pp. [vi]; 28; [1]; frontispiece illustration by Norman Lindsay, signed by author on the title page; internally very good. Nancy Keesing (1923-1993) was an Australian poet, critic and reviewer. Imminent summer is her first published collection of poems. Provenance: Queensland poet Robert …