Death's Directives
Sydney: New Poetry, 1978. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [6] 68 : white cover with red and black Maori blanket design : publisher's note to previous owner loosely inserted Corner of cover has faint fold crease at head. More
Sydney: New Poetry, 1978. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [6] 68 : white cover with red and black Maori blanket design : publisher's note to previous owner loosely inserted Corner of cover has faint fold crease at head. More
Princeton: The Department of Music Princeton University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vii] xiv [xx] [1] 163 [164] : 6 illustrations : black cloth covered boards : gilt lettering to spine : jacket design by C. Alvarez. Light foxing to top edge of block; very light marks to..... More
London ; New York ; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [x] 52 [2 blank] : dust jacket illustrated with the church of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. Foxing to covers and block edges. ''A sophisticated tough intelligence saturates the archetypal material. His technique dazzles, and through..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1956. First Edition. Octavo, pp (viii), 214, (ii). light blue boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated paper jacket. Corners are lightly bumped and with light foxing to the edges of the leaves. The jacket is price clipped, a little edgeworn and with a 1cm..... More
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-1878. First thus. Complete in six volumes, uniformly bound : Volume I pp. xvi [6] 349 [3]; nine illustrations : Volume II pp. xviii [2] 351 [1]; five illustrations : Volume III pp. xx [2] 362 [2]; four illustrations : Volume IV pp. ix [1] 435 [3]..... More
London: Thomas Davison, John Hunt, John and H.L. Hunt, 1822-1824. First Small Paper Edition. Six volumes bound in three : (2, blanks) (iv) 227; (iv) 222 (6, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) x, 184 (2, advertisements); 151 (3, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) 170; 130 (4, blanks) : marbled endpapers..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Krüger, 1999. First German Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : [416]pp. : original red boards : endpaper maps : black ribbon marker. A few minor spots to bottom edge. First German printing in superb dustwrapper. Translated from the English by Regina Rawlinson. More
Perth: The Western Australian Sculptors Association, 1979. Stapled softcover catalogue : 16pp. : SIGNED by exhibiting sculptor Cornish at the title page and also p.5 next to his entry. Small stain to lower cover; 4 pinprick spots to leading edge. More
Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2004. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [6] 136 [140] : white cover with image of in red by Megan Keating. Cover and block a little curled at head. More
Parkville, Victoria: University of Melbourne, 1981. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : [273-274] 275-408 : signed by Rodney Hall on page 312 : mauve illustrated cover. Faint marks to cover; edges a little rubbed. An interesting issue of Meanjin containing a 16 page interview with Rodney Hall signed by the..... More
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane: George Robertson & Company, 1893-1894. Hardcover : pp. frontis + 112; frontis +116 : the contents pages for both bound at the end : marbled papers at each end match the marbled edging, but the entire block has been rebound in three quarter leather..... More
Melbourne: Two-up Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [2] 197 [200] : limited edition of 40 signed copies, of which this is number 1 : maroon cloth boards : gilt to spine : dust wrapper illustrated with photography by Imogen Barragga Hall : silver endpapers. The first..... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975. Andrew Sibley [Jacket illustrator]. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : 21 cm : pp.[vi] 249 [250] : original blue cloth boards, orange endpapers : illustrated jacket, based on a painting by Andrew Sibley : signed by Hall on the title page. Head and tail..... More
Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited Inc., 1991. Hardcover : pp. xvi, 216 : lilac and purple paper matching original soft cover design laid over boards. A couple od spots to the top edge; tidemark to lower leading corner of text block. More
London: Trigram Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover : 64pp : two green leaves at front and back of block : black and white photo illustrated covers lettered in white. Top edge flecked; light edgewear. Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover : four separate books (volume three is printed in two parts) : each volume 350mm x 260mm : pp. [viii] xv [xvi] 247 [248] : [x] xiii [xiv] 274 : [x] xxi [xxii] 233 [234] : [viii] 235 - 669 [670] : 52 plates..... More
London ; New York: Routledge, 1994. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [v] xiv, 362 : tables and figures : illustrated cover. Light smudge marks to text block edges; cover corners gently pressed. "Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety..... More
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 252 : more than 200 colour plates : burnt orange cloth covered boards : dust jacket illustration, Sidney Nolan's First Class Marksman (1946) Faint smudge marks to text block edges; board edges a little rubbed and bumped; 3cm scratch..... More
London: TR Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover card pamphlet : pp. [16] : white cover with detail from Laura Maggi water colour (wrongly printed as 'Naggi'). Printed by Ithaca Press. Ithaca Press is an academic non-fiction imprint and maintains a special focus on a wide range of issues pertaining to..... More
Metuchen, N.J. ; London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [iv] viii, 592 [2 blank] : frontispiece by Allen Koszowski : some photo illustrations with-in text : inscribed by author : black cloth covered boards with red lettering : without jacket. Toned and lightly foxed..... More
Canberra: Recent Works Press, 2020. Softcover : pp. [viii] [2] 91 [94] : brown cover with skeleton images. "Penelope Layland is an award-winning poet and a former journalist, speechwriter and communications professional. Her 2018 collection Things I've thought to tell you since I saw you last was shortlisted for both..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 727 [728] : 32 pages of black and white photographic illustrations : black cloth covered boards : gilt lettering to spine : dust jacket front photo of Patrick White by Howard Coster and the back photo by William..... More
Mt Aukum: Mt Aukum Press, 2000. Small press stapled poetry chapbook; 38pp.; light grey endpapers; semi gloss white card covers lettered in black; PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on the verso of the title page to Queensland based American/Australian artist and poet Billy Jones. This is a near fine copy with two pinprick..... More
New York: Scribner, 2000. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [ii] [12] 351 [354] : title page signed by author : illustrated glossy wrappers : nylon paperback cover. Author's fifth novel that won the NSW Premier's Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. A lovely advance..... More