London: New Holland, 1993. Pp. [2] blank, i-viii, Preface to the 1983 edition, ix-xlvi, [2], 669, illustrated endpapers, red cloth boards, illustrated dustjacket based on a world map in the 1593 edition of De Jode’s Speculum. A little shaken, previous owner name on ffep. First printed in 1984 and with correction... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1899-1902. Nine (of twelve, incomplete) uniformly bound hard cover illustrated volumes totalling 6,133 pages. Octavo, 21.5 x 14.8 cm, initial decorated title page in each volume in three colours, top page edges gilt, front deckle edges, tissue guards to illustrations and main titles. The... More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985. Reprinted in year of First Edition. Octavo, 22.5 x 14.8 cm, 600 pages, hard cover, illustrated book jacket. Weight 0.52 kg. Book and dust jacket both fine, pages tanning as usual. Illywhacker’s back jacket cover quotes G.A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, on... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1937. Norman Lindsay. Folio, 32cm x 24.5cm, quarter cloth over gilt lettered textured boards, 60pp., tipped in illustrations and vignettes by Lindsay. Mark on top board where previous seller's price sticker was affixed, top corner gently pushed, a slight darkening of the linen toward the foot of... More
Sydney: Collins, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. 1,466 pages including two-page Glossary of Aboriginal Terms. Octavo, 26 x 18 cm, hard cover, cloth bound with red and gilt spine titling, jacket painting by Ray Crooke. Weight: 2 kg. Minor edge wear to top of dust jacket spine, original owner’s name in... More
First U.K. Edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1980. Pp. 186, unclipped dust-jacket. Occasional mark to interior, unobtrusive tape repairs to head and foot of spine and the fore-corners of the dust jacket. The Fat Man in History is Peter Carey’s first book and a landmark in Australian literature. It was first... More
London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2002. Six crown octavo volumes, each 20.5 x 13.8 cm, in box, hardcover, bound in black cloth with gilt titles on spine, colour illustrated dust jackets with spine portrait of Proust on all volumes. General Editor Christopher Prendergast, Professor of French at the University of... More
Sydney: Shepherd Press, 1945. Boards. Hardcover in original slipcase and dust-jacket. Tall octavo, 33.5 x 25cm, 81 un-paginated leaves including captioned guards, 14 tipped in colour plates, 16 half tone plates reproduced in black and white; with essays by Douglas Stewart and Norman Lindsay. Textured brown boards with gilt device... More
London: Gale & Polden, 1915. 1/2 cloth. Revised and englarged edition. Small 12.5 x 9cm, [2 blank], x, 180pp, fold out diagrams. Recased, half red buckram with decorative paper boards, with disbound original boards loosely inserted. Minor lean to spine, a shade off sharp corners, some soiling to edges of text... More
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2006. Small quarto, half cloth over textured paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, pp. 122, illustrated by Shead. This deluxe edition, one of sixty, with an original signed etching by Garry Shead from his Ern Malley series loosely inserted. Krausmann's 70 biligual poems (English and German) sketch identities... More
Sydney: ETT Imprint, 1988. Quarto, cloth bound boards, 80pp, illustrated by Shead. With 'News from Brindabella' (September 1996) loosely inserted and an inscription to "For Alec" from the binder Robin Tait. Corners sharp, clean throughout, some barely discernable scuff marks to top board. Limited to 100 copies signed by the... More
Sydney: The Beacon Press, 1932. Cloth. Signed, limited edition de luxe, 106 of 120. Untrimmed, pp 196 including colophon, lavishly illustrated including 34 tipped in book-plates, three of which are signed by the artist (two by John Barclay Godson and one by Ella Dwyer). Quarto, crocodile textured black cloth boards... More
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing; Lyre Bird Press, 2004. Cloth. Deluxe limited edition 18/100. Folio, unpaginated, illustrated throughout, with original signed serigraph bound in. Black cloth binding with embossed lyrebird on top board together with original paper design by the artist, lettering on spine in argent. Housed in a fine red... More
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Cloth. Special presentation limited to sixteen copies of which this is number eleven, pp. 391, colophon. Each copy is slip cased by book-binder David Poole and contains a serigraph initialled by Inge King in 2014. The serigraph was printed by Larry Rawling from Inge King’s... More
Sydney: Ant Press, 1991. Boards. Concertina folding broadside with a designer binding of board covers with paper design. Letterpress with original print. Limited edition 35/55, signed by the author/artist. Made in collaboration with Catnip Press. Near Fine. Slight bow to the boards. "This small book celebrates the importance of trees... More
Sydney: Ant Press, 1991. Cloth. Concertina folding broadside with a designer binding of cloth bound boards, embossed title and cut out paper design. Letterpress with original woodblock print. Limited edition 37/55, signed by the author/artist. Made in collaboration with Catnip Press. "This short poem celebrates the importance of trees." Monica Oppen. Monica... More
Wiarua Martinborough NZ: Alister Taylor, 1981. First Edition. Quarter calf. Limited 2665/3500. Octavo, oblong format, 30.5 x 40cm, pp. (4) 318, 52 tipped-in colour plates (including frontis) taken from original paintings, numerous b&w intext illustrations, chevron eps. Navy blue quarter leather and matching cloth boards with gilt title on spine... More
Privately published by Percy Grainger, n.d. First Edition. Published some time during or after April 1923, the date at the end Percy's introduction. First edition. Oblong, octavo, 22 x 30cm, 92pp printed one side only, numerous photographs of Rose and Percy Grainger including two in memoriam photographs after Rose's tragic... More
Altadena, Ca: Twelvetree Press, 1990. First Edition. Tall octavo, 30.5 x 23cm, black eps, 140pp (unpaginated), 76 examples of mourning protraiture in nineteenth century America. Tiny nick to top edge of front board, very slight lean. Black cloth boards with title in argent on top board and spine. In a very... More
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, 1828. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1828 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, Sarah Smith, v. the defendants Sir John Owen and... More
Hobart: Supreme Court of Van Dieman's Land, 1834. Original manuscript Record in ink dated 1834 of a Supreme Court of Van Diemen’s Land case before the Chief Justice, signed by the solicitor and attorney Thomas Wood Rowlands acting for the Plaintiff, David Barclay, v. the defendant John Bodry, unfolded size... More
Launceston: Albernian Press, 2003. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo 25 x 18 cm, xiv 575 pages, 33 chapters in four Parts; 36 colour Plates (some full page) in text and many scores of b/w photographs, maps and illustrations. Hard cover, black cloth over boards, gilt decoration on front cover and gilt... More
Sydney: Office of W.W. Billyard, Sol, 18th March, 1880. A five page hand-written attested copy of William Alexander Dumaresq granting Power of Attorney to his brother-in-law The Honouroble Sir Louis Hope. Five large mould-made leaves (41 x 33cm) bear the watermark “R. Barnard 1876” and the number “36”. The copy... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1973, 1975. First English Language Edition. Volume 1: The Complete Albums (London, Thames and Hudson, 1973), First English Edition translated from the French by Robert Allen and James Emmons, 656 pages, 482 b/w illustrations, quarto, 30 x 22 cm, hard cover, colour dust jacket with Goya... More
London: T. W. Boone, 1847. First Edition. Octavo, pp. xx, 544. Frontispiece and six plates. 10 pages book advertisements bound in at front and 12 pages at back. Ferguson 4571. Recased in leather with title on spine, boards double gilt ruled, foredge and base speckled, new endpapers, light foxing throughout -... More