Women Writers

  • Edith Sitwell : fire of the mind : an anthology [Presentation proof copy]

    # 19217

    SALTER, Elizabeth; HARPER, Allanah

    Edith Sitwell : fire of the mind : an anthology [Presentation proof copy]

    London : Michael Joseph, [1976]. Octavo, brown wrappers (somewhat dog-eared) with pen correction to printed title ‘Fire on the mind’, the same correction made on the half title and title pages, presentation copy inscribed on the half title by one of the co-editors, Adelaide-born writer Elizabeth Salter (who had been Sitwell’s secretary in her later …

  • World without strangers?

    # 16810

    PALMER, Aileen (1915-1988)

    World without strangers?

    Melbourne : Overland, 1964. Octavo, publisher’s black cloth binding in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 50; a very good copy; accompanied by a manuscript letter by Aileen Palmer explaining that this is one of several review copies. A volume of original poems and translations by writer and political activist Aileen Palmer, elder daughter of Vance and Nettie …

  • Gumnut babies.

    # 16473

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Gumnut babies.

    At head of title: ‘Words and pictures by May Gibbs’. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd, [between 1917 and 1919]. Tall octavo (220 x 142 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers with pictorial onlay to front (some silverfishing), original ties; inside front wrapper with later ex libris, pp [28], first page with early gift inscription dated …

  • New Zealand, and other poems

    # 10904

    WILSON, Mrs. Robert

    New Zealand, and other poems

    London : Joseph Masters, 1851. Octavo, pebbled cloth (edges worn), gilt-lettered to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 172. The lead poem on New Zealand is accompanied by extensive notes and also an appendix which relates to the Canterbury Settlement.