Literature

  • [PETER CAREY] Then he crept up the stairs. (Signed broadside)

    # 2597

    [Burke's Book Store; Terry Chouinard, designer]

    [PETER CAREY] Then he crept up the stairs. (Signed broadside)

    and, on the upper landing, drew his long arms around his chest. … Memphis, TN : Handprinted by Terry Choinard of the Wing & the Wheel Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama [for Burke’s Book Store], 1998. ONE OF ONLY 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (number 68). Broadside, 480 x 155 mm, featuring an extract from Carey’s ‘Jack Maggs‘ …

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  • The collected works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 volumes)

    # 34607

    CHURCHILL, Winston (1874 - 1965)

    The collected works of Sir Winston Churchill (34 volumes)

    London : The Library of Imperial History, 1973 – 1976. Centenary Limited Edition. Thirty-four volumes (complete, not including the Essays, which were published separately), bound in uniform vellum, lettered in gilt with armorial Churchill crests, housed in matching green leather slipcases (a few small dents and scuff marks), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, internally clean, printed …

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  • Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    # 34457

    [Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko]

    Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    Editors: Max Harris, nos. 1-10; James McGuire, nos. 1-9; Sidney Nolan, nos. 2-9; Harry Roskolenko, no. 10. [Melbourne : Reed &​ Harris, 1946]. Ten issues, no. 1 (Jan. 1946) – no. 10 (Dec. 1946), large octavo, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, illustrated; a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was an offshoot of Max Harris’ …

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  • Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

    # 33706

    THOMPSON, D. (Duncan) Lindsay

    Blue Brander : a story of adventure and Australian school life

    London and Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co., 1927. First edition. Thick octavo (190 x 130 mm), pictorial cloth (some flecking to to both boards, but otherwise bright and unmarked), front free-endpaper with school prize certificate dated 1946, pp 313, [6 publisher’s advertisements], illustrated with numerous b/w plates; light foxing to half title, else very …

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  • Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens designed & etched by Christopher Coveny

    # 34199

    COVENY, Christopher

    Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens designed & etched by Christopher Coveny

    Sydney : Thomas H. Feilding, 1883. Quarto, quarter morocco over gilt-lettered cloth (stained and worn), endpapers replaced, etched title page, twenty detailed etchings with accompanying letterpress, the seventh plate presented in two versions, scattered foxing and light offsetting, the third plate with water stains to the edges. Ferguson 9140A. Scarce Australian illustrated presentation of Dickens’ …

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  • [LOST RACE FICTION] The crystal sceptre : a story of adventure.

    # 34265

    MIGHELS, Philip Verrill

    [LOST RACE FICTION] The crystal sceptre : a story of adventure.

    New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1906. Second edition, revised. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial blue cloth (rubbed, spine lightly marked), owner’s inscription to title page, 346 pp (contents clean and sound). A Lost Race fantasy set in the fictitious ‘Banyac Islands’ in the Malay archipelago. The plot involves warring tribes of Black Missing Links …

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  • Gibbeted: Execution of a youthful murderer. Shocking tragedy at Dayton. A broken rope and a double hanging. Sickening scenes behind the scaffold-screen

    # 33891

    HEARN, Patrick Lafcadio (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉 八雲); (1850 - 1904)

    Gibbeted: Execution of a youthful murderer. Shocking tragedy at Dayton. A broken rope and a double hanging. Sickening scenes behind the scaffold-screen

    By Lafcadio Hearn, and with a foreword by P. D. Perkins. Los Angeles: John Murray, 1933. Octavo, binding by Eunice Murray of black cloth, printed label to spine, pp. 32. Limited to 200 numbered copies. A gruesome story written by Hearn while a reporter at the Cincinnati “Commercial” in 1876. ‘Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a British …

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  • The works of William Shakespeare

    # 33871

    SHAKESPEARE, William (1564 - 1616)

    The works of William Shakespeare

    Edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright. Cambridge and London : Macmillan and Co., 1866. The Globe edition. Octavo, presentation binding of full polished calf from Bathurst College & Grammar School, the school’s seal in gilt on upper board, spine in compartments with blind ornamentation and contrasting black morocco title label, lettered in …

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  • Fifty "Bab" ballads. Much sound and little sense

    # 33824

    GILBERT, W. S. (1836 - 1911)

    Fifty “Bab” ballads. Much sound and little sense

    Melbourne : E. W. Cole, circa 1890. Octavo, early plan green cloth (remanants of old paper label), pp. [viii] (but paginated xii); 255, illustrated, the final leaf partly pasted down, the binding with a few splits to the text block, general wear. Printed by Dalziel Brothers, London. Melbourne E. W. Cole imprint W. S. Gilbert’s …

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  • Gray's hollow

    # 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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  • The trader : a venture in New Guinea

    # 34013

    ROSS-JOHNSON, Cecil

    The trader : a venture in New Guinea

    London : Duckworth & Co, 1909. First edition. Crown octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s red cloth (very lightly marked) with lettering and pictorial device in black, spine lettered in gilt (sunned), pp 301, 2 maps; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Scarce …

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  • [WESTERN AMERICANA] Lord of Lonely Valley.

    # 34202

    KYNE, Peter B.

    [WESTERN AMERICANA] Lord of Lonely Valley.

    By Peter B. Kyne. Complete book-length novel. Supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly. Issue June 6, 1936. [Sydney : Consolidated Press], 1936. Folio newspaper (300 x 225 mm), cover illustration by Wynne W. Davies, pp 32, text printed in three columns; a fine example. Very scarce. The only copy of this edition of Kyne’s story located on …

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  • Alpha : the mutabilities

    # 34434

    McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)

    Alpha : the mutabilities

    Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …

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  • My army, o, my army!

    # 34431

    LAWSON, Henry; LINDSAY, Norman

    My army, o, my army!

    Sydney : Tyrrell’s Limited, 1915. Quarto, illustrated cloth by Norman Lindsay (front board a little marked, spine slightly discoloured), pp. 127, preliminaries and edges lightly foxed, portrait frontispiece loose. First edition, published in 1915 in paperback and hardback formats. The hardback edition, limited to 250 copies (this out of series).

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  • The whispering gallery : art into poetry

    # 34109

    STEELE, Peter

    The whispering gallery : art into poetry

    By Peter Steele ; with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2006.Quarto, silver lettered boards in dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Contains 55 poems, inspired by art works in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated alongside. Inspiration is drawn from the works of …

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  • Pictures of the gone world. (Inscribed, with a drawing, by Ferlinghetti for Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton)

    # 33411

    FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence (1919-2021)

    Pictures of the gone world. (Inscribed, with a drawing, by Ferlinghetti for Geoffrey and Ninette Dutton)

    San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1969. Fifteenth printing. Series: The Pocket Poets Series, Number one. Square duodecimo (160 x 125 mm), printed yellow and black wrappers, a presentation copy inscribed on the front free-endpaper by the poet in black texta ‘To Nin + Geoffrey at Old Anlaby, March 1972’, with a sketch of a …

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