Women Writers
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# 36643
PARKER, K. Langloh (Katie Parker), [Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow], 1856-1940
More Australian legendary tales, collected from various tribes by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker.
London : David Nutt, and Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1898. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and spine with gilt device and lettering (mild flecking), all edges gilt, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. xxiii, [1]; 104, [16 advertisements]; vignette line illustrations ‘by a native artist’ [the Victorian Indigenous artist Tommy …
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# 35929
SIBLEY, Irena (1944 - 2009)
Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1980. First edition. Folio (545 x 380 mm), quarter-morocco over silver-lettered buckram, title label to spine, 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts (each signed and numbered), additional lino-cut title page, three additional proof linocuts loosely enclose. Limited to 67 signed copies of which 60 were for sale, this is copy number 4. …
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# 19720
"Author of Little Jessie" [pseud. of Sarah Maria FOY]
The Australian babes in the wood : a true story told in rhyme for the young
/ by the author of ‘Little Jessie,’ etc. ; illustrated by Hugh Cameron, J. M’Whirter, G. Hay, J. Lawson, etc., and engraved by R. Paterson. London : Griffith and Farran, 1866. Small octavo, original blind blocked blue cloth boards, upper board with lettering and pictorial device stamped in gilt (boards lightly marked, spine sunned), hinges cracked, …
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# 35984
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009); SIBLEY, Andrew (1933- )
The calming of Harry
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ONE OF ONLY TWELVE. ‘The first edition of “The calming of Harry” is limited to ten numbered copies and two artist’s proof copies. This edition is handwritten on French “lana” paper and the illustrations which are hand printed on Japanese mulberry paper are each individually coloured by …
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# 35983
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
When the sun took the colour away. (Richard Griffin’s copy)
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ‘The first edition … is limited to fifteen numbered copies. The text and illustrations were cut and hand-coloured by Irena Sibley and printed by Benedict Sibley. This book is copy No. fourteen [signed in pen] Irena Sibley, 1987.’ Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and …
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# 33707
BRUCE, Mary Grant (1878-1958)
Gray’s hollow
London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1920]. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), green textured cloth with pictorial onlay to front (boards only lightly rubbed, spine ends a little softened), front free-endpaper with gift inscription dated 1942, pp [1 publisher’s advertisement], 304 + [16 advertisements], illustrated with a b/w frontispiece (loss at top …
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# 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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# 33819
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 ‘To Blanch and George, with best Xmas wishes from Gladys. 166, The Peak, Hong Kong. Dec. 1926.’ pp. [iv]; iv; [ii]; 114, light foxing to preliminaries else very good. Includes a number …
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# 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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# 29296
CHESTER, Gail et al.
Feminist practice. Notes from the tenth year! (Theoretically speaking)
London : In Theory Press, 1979. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 38, folding table (Tendencies in the Women’s Liberation Movement). ‘These papers were produced by the organising collective for the one-day Radical Feminist meeting held at White Lion Free School, London N1 on April 8th, 1979’.
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# 29291
HESS, Katharine; LANGFORD, Jean and ROSS, Kathy
Feminismo primero : un ensayo sobre separatismo lesbiano = Feminism first : an essay on lesbian separatism
Seattle, WA : Tsunami Press, 1981. Octavo, lettered wrappers, staple bound, pp. 112, text in Spanish and English. Translated by Helen Weber & Fabiola Rodriguez. ‘Lesbian separatism is most importantly a tactic rather than a goal. It is a way of building a strong feminist movement to work for feminist revolution. It is not an …
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# 27638
DICKERSON, Jennifer (1935 - ); DICKERSON, Robert (1924 - 2015)
Chiaroscuro
Sydney : Queen Street Fine Art, 2006 (revised edition). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 79 pages, black and white illustrations by Robert Dickerson. As new copy. The first edition of 2001 had a purple dustjacket, the revised edition is in a blue dustjacket.
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# 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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# 23933
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Omnibuses. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1836)
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1836. Four pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 335-38), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These were her second and third novels, Louisa …
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# 23932
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Merchant sailors. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1835).
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1835. Two pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 451-52), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These were her second and third novels, Louisa …
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# 23930
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Men and women. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1834).
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1834. Two pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 101-2), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text, with contemporary pencilled annotation ‘Mrs. Leman Grimstone’; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These …