Melbourne: Andersn, Gowan Pty Ltd., n.d. With Compliments | The British Imperial Oil Company Limited | Throughout Australia and New Zealand. Anderson, Gowan Pty. Ltd. 532-4 Lonsdale St., Melbourne. No date. Quarto, 16pp., illustrated, 4 colour (blue and grey). Illustrated paper wraps (grey with orange title), stapled. Advertising booklet aimed..... More
London: G. Routledge and Co., 1851, 1852. Volume bound in ¼ brown leather, binding tight, leather corners, lozenge pattern on spine with gilt rules and raised bands, gilt on black leather titles, marbled (combed) paper boards slightly abraded, a little fraying at edges, faded marbled edges of text pages, 616..... More
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. Royal octavo+, 25.8 x 18.2 cm, 608 pp., hard cover in red cloth, gilt titling on spine, colour dust wrapper with a front cover photo of Joan Sutherland in the title role of Donizetti’s Lucretia Borgia, buff-coloured printed music notation endpapers. Contents: Preface, Acknowledgments, Directory..... More
Sydney: Juss Publishing Company, n.d. Paperback, (sewn sheets in paper covered card covers) (18.5 x 12.5cm), pp. viii, 10-406; illustrated card covers. Spine is age toned and creased and paper is lifting along the front joint; internally the leaves are just a little toned. This is the sequel to Looking Backward..... More
Cloth. Apple green cloth, paper label on top board, original glassine wrapper in good condition, tan eps, unpaginated (October 1974 – September 1975). Underlining, parentheses and marginalia by Billy Jones. Very Good. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. xv, [1, blank], 203, [1, blank] + 8 double sided black and white plates; red cloth covered boards, lettering in gilt on the spine; illustrated dust wrapper; blue and white illustrated endpapers; inscribed by the author. Head of spine..... More
London: Éditions Aubrey Walter, 1994. 1994. Softcover, 25.5 x 23cm, 70pp. With an introduction by Mark Thompson. The spine is sunned to a much paler shade of yellow than the covers, the title on the spine has not faded, corners sharp, two or three flecks of rust on top edge, otherwise..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Fourth Folio printing of second revised edition. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. xxii (Preface by Julian Barnes), 265; decorations by John Minton, watercolours by Sophie MacCarthy : Cloth spine lettered in gilt over illustrated paper covered boards; forest green endpapers; stitched headband in alternating green..... More
Sydney: Tuesday, February 25, 1845. No.2429. One broadsheet folded into four pages. Centre fold has been repaired with paper tape, corners creased, occasional stain and spot of foxing. A full but generally unremarkable day in colonial news but for the mention of the dalight robbery of the mail coach at..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2004. George Cruikshank. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. [i-iv] v-xxvii [xxviii-xxx] 1-418 [419-420] [24 'plates'] : Introduction by Peter Ackroyd : Dark red endpapers : top edge gilt : silk bookmark : (series binding) quarter dark red morrocco over dark red boards with single gilt lines..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2006. Second Folio edition. Qarter morocco. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. [2, Half title] [i-iv] v-xxxiv [xxxv-xxxvi], 1- 685 [686-692] : Introduction by Patrick McGrath : Dark red endpapers : top edge gilt : silk bookmark : (series binding) quarter drak red morrocco over dark red..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Hablot K. Browne (PHIZ). Second Folio edition. Quarter morocco. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. [2, Half title] [i-iv] v-xxiv [xxv-xxvi], [1-2] 3-852 [853-856] : [39 'plates'] : Introduction by Stephen Wall : dark red endpapers : top edge gilt : silk bookmark : (series binding)..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2004. Hablot K. Browne (PHIZ). Second Folio edition. Quarter morocco. Hardcover in slipcase : pp. [2 Half title] [i-iv] v-xv [xvi] xvii [xviii] xix [xx] xxi [xxii], [2, Half title repeated] 1-871 [872-874] : [39 'plates'] : Introduction by Kathryn Hughes : Dark red endpapers... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First Edition in book form. Octavo, pp. xvi, 609, 43 illustrations by Seymour and "Phiz" plus frontis and vignette title in first states, with 32 further illustrations by Thomas Onwyn (75 illustrations in total). Lacks half-title and Buss plates, the Seymour plates are a mix..... More
Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., 1908. First Edition. Tall hardcover (28 x 21 cm), pp. 2lanks, frontis, 178, 8 [advertisments], 15 full page colour illustrations by R.K. Culver; grey paper covered boards, embossed white lettering, colour illustrations pasted onto topboard, grey cloth spine lettered in white. Corners quite bumped and..... More
South Brisbane: Watson Ferguson and Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (22 x 14cm); pp. [8], 178, [2] + 16 pages of black and white plates; grey cloth covered boards; lettering in black on the spine; inscribed by author; black, orange and white illustrated dust wrapper and further black and white..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), 192 pp., cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Very good in fair dustjacket, foxing on edges and on pages close to boards, name has been erased and whited out on title page with resultant tiny hole, bookseller's stamp on front..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Occasional marginalia (Jones’s signature spiral). Original glassine wrapper a little tender at the head of the spine. Cloth spine with slightly chipped paper label (no loss), paper covered boards show evidence of insect damage..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 500 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper a little creased, top board a little abraded at the foot. Cloth spine with paper label. Lime green eps, 266pp. Top edge of lower board gently nibbled, bottom edge of both..... More
Toronto: The Magenta Foundation, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (oblong format, 26 x 31cm); pp. 221 (224); off-white linen boards; illustrated dust wrapper. Top corner of top board bumped, a few light rust spots to the boards; slight edgewear to the head of the dust wrapper's spine; slightly shaken. With a Preface..... More
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. First Nonesuch edition. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Alexander Pope, two royal octavo volumes, The Iliad 927 pages, The Odyssey 757 pages, with parallel texts in English and Greek. Both volumes are handsomely and fully bound in niger morocco, illustrated with decorative..... More
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1995. Large octavo, 28.5 x 22cm, black linen boards with white title on spine, green dust jacket with glass plate negative circa 1891 of a man and woman in formal attire, xxii, 594pp, 272 illustrations (photography). Dust jacket has a 2cm vertical tear along the joint..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1926. Cloth. 31.5 x 24cm, pp.: x, 1 blank, 119 plates of 120 called for [LACKS plate 64]. Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked border and title, top edge dye (yellow), scarce textured dustjacket protected in plastic, small square bookseller sticker on front of jacket under..... More
Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd, 1958. Reissue. Tall hardcover; unpaginated [14 leaves including free endpapers]; illustrated; illustrated paper covered boards lettered in white on the top; white spine lettered in brown and black; illustrated dustwrapper. This is an internally fine copy with some very slight wear to the boards and..... More
London: London College of Printing and Goldsmith's College, 1978. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Translated by Ronald Knox. [3] blank, [36]pp, [3] blank, mustard coloured paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper label on spine, speckled endpapers. Printed in 18pt Bembo type with 60pt. initials. Sixteen lithograph illustrations printed at Goldsmith's College..... More