London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910. First Edition. Printed in Edinburgh, first edition, octavo 22.5 x 17 cm, hard cover, 220 pages, plus 75 full-colour plates facing text pages (total 295 pages, plus four pagers of book advertisements at rear). Contents, List of Illustrations, 15 Chapters, folding map before Index... More
Sydney and London: Angus and Robsertson, 1939. First Edition. Original cloth. With a Foreword by A. N. Graham, Under Secretary for Mines, N.S.W. Octavo, 22 x 14cm, pp. xii, 270, (2) Blanks, one folding plate and two folding tables, original cloth covers with lettering in black to top board and... More
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1969. Australian Facsimile Editions No. 33, in two volumes. Octavo, Vol. I: xii 521 pages, engraved Frontispiece, List of Charts, List of b&w Illustrations, Errata to Vols. I and II, three foldout maps, one two-colour, at end; Vol. II: viii 543 pages, engraved Frontispiece... More
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1937. First thus. Quarto (182 x 125 mm). [4], 12, [4] pp. Wood engraved portrait by James Johnson on title page. Paper covered cloth. Corners bruised; light insect damage to covers including paper label bearing title; small insect mark above label; light pencil marks on covers;... More
Sydney: New Century Press, 1940. First Edition. Pp 122, 10 full page part coloured illustrations, illustrated paper covered boards, decorated endpapers, illustrated paper dust wrapper. Dust wrapper with a small (5mm) tear at bottom of front cover, a little edgeworn along the top, a few foxmarks (10) scattered across top... More
Sydney: 1951. First Edition. No publisher named but printed by Winn & Co., Sydney. Paper covered boards with illustration pasted on top board, 26pp.,6 colour plates, 2 full page black and white illustrations and several in text illustrations. Head of spine chipped and foot of spine abraded, corners tender, plate... More
New York: Cheval Books, Distributed by Random House, 1969. Stated first printing. Hardcover (22 x 14cm), pp. [10] (1-3) 4 – 107 [7]; yellow boards with poet’s initial blind embossed on top board, blue cloth spine with gilt lettering, dark red endpapers, top edge dye (red), illustrated dust wrapper. Dustwrapper a.... More
Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978. Cloth. Quarto, 192 pp. With 161 illustrations including 16 in colour. Original brown cloth, colourful illustrated dustjacket. First edition, nicely printed and illustrated. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, page 182 issue A. More
Katoomba: Phillips, n.d. Staplebound wraps. Oblong format, 23cm x 57cm, dun paper covers with blue illustration and title, stapled, 24pp, 90 black and white photographs. Covers are a little bent and bruised along the edges with a chip out of the head of the back cover at the fore-edge, soft... More
London and New York: John Lane, 1901. Reprint. Flowers of Parnassus Series VIII, Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Small hardcover (14.2 x 11.5cm), pp. 39, 5 (1 blank, 2 Adverts, 1 tailpiece, I blank), black and white illustrations; leather, gilt stamped oval device on top board enclosing title in gilt, t.e.g. Re-backed... More
London: Macdonald & Co., 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (2050x1300mm), 224pp, burnt orange buckram boards, unclipped dust jacket (design by Sydney Nolan). Ownership signature in ball point pen on ffep. Minor foxing to edges of the textblock, and faint foxing to the first few leaves including the title page. The... More
London: James Fraser, 1833. First Edition. Half calf. 12mo., later(?) half calf, marbled eps, iv, 171, (1) advertisement. Binder’s sticker (?) “H.& C. Treacher, Royal Library, Brighton.” Light foxing to first and last leaves. “Linfield Borrer” in ink to verso of ffep. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force..... More
London: Printed by Unwin Brothers for Private Circulation, 1873. First Edition. Quarto (22 x 17.5cm); [6], x, 11-284pp; portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue guard; brown boards with bevelled edges, black embossed borders and floral detail, gilt lettering, bands and floral detail, black endpapers. Repaired horizontal tear to spine joining... More
London Toronto Bombay Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 327pp., tan cloth covers, blue lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. A very good copy of White's first novel. Hubber and Smith C1a. Happy Valley is the first published novel by Australia's only Nobel Laureate... More
London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. First Typographical Edition. Small octavo, xxi, (3), 74pp. Original plum cloth, blind stamped boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, a very good copy in the original binding, slightly faded around the edges (and more so on... More