London: John Murray, 1813-14. Octavo (22.5 x 14.2 cm) 108 pages, all edges gilt, the year 1813 printed at base of spine, gilt panel decorations between raised bands, blind tooled cover dentelles, gilt border patterns on front and back covers, inside gilt dentelles, rose endpapers, bookplate with arms of James... More
Zurich/Sydney: Scalo/Art Gallery NSW, 2005. First Edition. Pictorial cover. Quarto (30.2 x 25.7 cm), (text in English), 504 pages, pictorial dust jacket, massive catalogue to the first major Retrospective Exhibition; Forewords by Edmund Capon and the curator Judy Annear (pp. 8-12); works in nine groups, 1974-2004, with brief authoritative texts;... More
Milan: Skira, 2007. Two-volume set (29 x 25 x 7.3 cm), bilingual texts in Italian and English, No. 181 of 2,500 numbered copies in slipcase, pictorial illustrated boxed set, full image repeats on both sides of box. Vol. 1: 375 pages, Introduction, Foreword, essays by Giovanni Carandente, Gillo Dorfles, Arturo... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hard cover, 540 pages, octavo (23.4 x 16 cm). Contents, List of [23] b/w Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 8 chapters, Conclusion, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated dust jacket in dark green and black. Included at the rear of the volume is an article by the historian and... More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1976. Elizabeth Story Donno (Editor), An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls (London: Hakluyt Society, 1976), Second Series, Vol. 147, first edition, octavo 22.2 x 14.2 cm, hard cover, xvi, 365 pages, frontisp. from Madox’s Diary, 19 illustrations. List of Illustrations... More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1981. Cloth. Second Series, Vol. 148, first edition, octavo 22.2 x 14.2 cm, hard cover, xiv, 358 pages, 15 plates some folding, 3 maps, one frontisp., another previously unpublished. Preface, Plates and Maps, Abbreviations, Introduction, Documents (11), Appendixes (4), Bibliography, Index. Gilt lettering on spine & gilt... More
Hollywood: The Marcel Rodd Co., 1944. Cloth. With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Twelvemo, [8], 187pp, [3]. Red cloth covers with gilt title on top board and spine (a little dulled). Glassine wrapper in fine condition, corners sharp, slight lean, circular spot (1mm) on the top board. Small sticker on... More
Fontana, Gozo: Pig Ear Press, 2016. Small press chapbook,designed and hand bound by Pig Ear Press. Unpaginated (12pp) between textured green tissue and card wrappers. The cover image is produced from an ink drawing by Denander, the text is set in various sizes of Minion Pro and is digitally printed... More
San Predro: The Lummox Press, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, 127pp., paperback, glossy black and white illustrated covers. Signed at the title page. Henry Denander is a poet we discovered through handling the Billy Jones collection. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and on Hydra, Greece. For more than twenty years... More
Bottle of Smoke Press, 2007. Staplebound wraps. Small Press poetry chapbook. Unpaginated (12 pp), stapled, between card covers illustrated with one of Denander's own watercolours. Designed and printed in March 2007 by Bill Roberts. The text is in Times New Roman. The first English edition is limited to an edition... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29.8 x 26.3 cm), xxx, 115 pages, colour illustrated dust jacket with clear mylar separate cover. Preface; Introduction with notes; The Salon Album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky; The Salon Album: Translations and Annotations; Bibliography; Indexes: General Index, Index to written entries, Index to... More
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
n.d. Grace Hoy, May Hoy, A Kelf, Thompson, E Youll. Leather bound. Autograph album with read marbled endpapers and pages in cream, pink and blue. Unpaginated and with many blank leaves but several poems, illustrations and inscriptions throughout. The leather cover is very worn at the edges and joints, head... More
London: Faber and Faber, n.d. (1954). Saddle-stitched. Single poem saddle stitched pamphlet, one leaf inserted between the covers, illustrated title page, illustration, poem. Violet covers in light green envelope. Envelope torn where previously opened. One of the second Ariel series produced by Faber and Faber in 1956 that also included... More
London: Faber and Faber, n.d. (1954). Saddle-stitched. Single poem saddle stitched pamphlet, one leaf inserted between the covers, illustrated title page, illustration, poem. Peach covers in blue envelope. Envelope slight torn where previously sealed. One of the second Ariel series produced by Faber and Faber in 1956 that also included... More
London: Faber and Faber, n.d. (1954). Saddle-stitched. Single poem saddle stitched pamphlet, one leaf inserted between the covers, illustrated title page, illustration, poem. Yellow covers in pink envelope. Envelope slightly abraded where previously sealed. One of the second Ariel series produced by Faber and Faber in 1956 that also included... More
London: Virtue & Co. Ltd, 1949. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo, vol.1: x, 269pp; vol. 2: xi, 420pp. Illustrated green cloth covers, all edges speckled green, plain beige unprinted dust wrappers, original box. The dustwrappers are showing a little wear expecially along the top edges, small waterstain to the fore-edge of... More
Brisbane: The Queensland Author's and Artist's Association, 1954. Three quarter leather. Signed and limited edition. Octavo, [6], 7-105pp, [3], three quarter leather over tan boards, gilt title on top board and spine. Gilt on spine is dull. Head of spine and lower corners just a little tender, tan boards are... More
Santa Lucia, Brisbane: Hunter Publishing, 2016. First Edition. [14pp], 83pp, [15pp], illustrated soft covers. "Ferney proves himself to be the rightful heir to the great John Forbes by holding a mirror to power...This is an exhilirating, frequently hilarious, language-driven poetry that shows us precisely where we're at" - Judges comments... More
Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2011. Staplebound. Signed and limited edition. Staplebound A5 poetry chapbook, part of the Vagabond Rare Objects series (no.61). Unpaginated, 6 leaves folded into 12pp between a leaf of tissue inside the illustrated card cover. No.15 of 100. Liam Ferney is a Brisbane poet whose poems have appeared... More
n.d. Recently recased in full calf and with new linen joins, this charming album has seventeen thick card leaves, each with a window for a photograph. Original endpapers and brass hinge have been preserved, and eight of the leaves have delightful borders of flowers and butterflies. Minor scattered foxing and... More
1968. Single-colour screen print on brown paper, 6500 x 5000mm. A very clean copy, minor edgewear, two 2cm vertical tears at top edge along the folds, corners a little tender. From the small archive of 1968 ephemera we acquired from a local colletor. A handful of posters and around 30... More
Brisbane: Self-published, Unknown (late 1970s). Billy Jones. Print of one of Jones's many nature- and sunflower-themed illustrations, 6100 x 4000mm. One corner slightly bruised. In March 2018 Archives Fine Books acquired the better portion of the personal library of Queensland-based poet and artist Billy Jones (1935 – 2012). Upward of... More
Ontario: First Team Press Inc, 1988. Lithograph printed on acid free paper. Signed and numbered by José Luis Carcia Lopez, limited to 2500 prints featuring the special 50th Anniversary gold heat-embossed seal. Mounted and framed. A few barely perceptible chips to the frame. Original envelope tucked into the back of... More
