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 about In Someone’s Shadow
Hardcover MS Diary (17.5 x 10.5cm), “My Trip” gilt lettered on top board which is diamond patterned in green on speckled cream with a gilt-ruled border, un-paginated line ruled pages. Typed itinerary for first trip tipped in near the front on page titled ‘Itinerary’. Three overseas trips recorded: 34pp 1973..... More about My Trip
London, New York, Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948, 1949, 1952. Reprint. Complete in three volumes protected in custom made box. Three quarter polished calf over matching boards (18.5 x 12cm), five raised bands with gilt lettering in title panel and decorations to the other panels, t.e.g., marbled endpapers... More about The Tragedies of Shakespeare; The Histories & Poems of Shakespeare; The Comedies of...
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London: Air Ministry, April 1945 - March 1946. First Edition. Twelve consecutive staple-bound paper covered pamphlets in the Tee Emm series, 316pp in all. No. 1: pp. 1 - 32; No. 2: pp. 33 – 56; No. 3: pp. 57 – 80; No. 4: pp. 81 – 104; No. 5... More about Tee Emm [Air Ministry Training Magazine]; Vol. 5 No. 1-12; for official use only
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 about Reminiscences of Our Mother
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, n.d. New Edition. Hardcover 16mo (22 x 15cm), pp. xvi, 1680 + 12 pages of advertising (6 at the front and 6 at the back), 32 colour plates and nearly 700 illustrations; later rebinding by Karen McGuire, green cloth with quarter red... More about Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management; A Complete Cookery Book
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1875. First British Edition. Hardcover octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. vii, 310, [2, blank] + 40 pages of advertising with illustrated frontispiece and plates; 50 illustrations; later binding, red morocco with gilt spine. Spine darkened and brittle with use; head and tail faintly rubbed... More about The Mysterious Island: Dropped from the Clouds
Millers Point: Murdoch Books, 2009. Revised Reprint of the 1981 Edition. Hardcover, large format (32 x 25.5cm), pp 280, richly illustrated with colour reproductions of Fairweather’s work including fold out plates; brown cloth with cream lettering, grey enpapers in dust wrapper. Tail has a shallow dimple; bottom corners a little tender;... More about Fairweather
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover 4mo (39 x 26.5cm), pp. (vi), 34; quarter red cloth with cream boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt signature on front cover, cream endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. Head, tail and corners gently abraded; top and bottom edges a little scuffed with a.... More about Prose-Verse-Poster-Algerbraic-Sym-Bolico-Riddle Musicopoematographoscope & Pocket...
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, 1923. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo (220 x 140 mm). (xxiv), 418 + 4 black and white plates, [2]. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and worn; edges worn; covers scuffed with small patches of wear; back cover bumped near spine with faint... More about Contraception; (Birth Control) Its Theory, History and Practice A Manual for the Medical and...
Brisbane: The Meanjin Press, 1942. Staplebound pamphlet, soft card covers, 40pp. Cover design by P. Stanhope Hobday. Covers foxed and edgeworn with rust marks around the staples and three small horizontal tears (1mm - 5mm) along the fore edge of the top cover. Interior mostly clean, an occasional fox mark... More about Meanjin Papers; Contemporary Verse and Prose
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 about Time for a Tiger
London: George G. Harrap, 1969. Quarto (313 x 255 mm.), xvi [96], ill.(91 photographs), pictorial index on endpapers, blue cloth with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine, in poor Dustjacket; internally clean and bright, binding lightly bumped on the corners and top and bottom edges including spine, cloth... More about Young London; Permissive Paradise
Silver gelatin print Print size 30.6 x 38cm. Images size 22.8 x 29.8cm, signed Angus Macbean at the lower left under the image. Mounted on card 50 x 40cm. The mount is also signed by McBean at the left under the image. On the verso of the mount is written... More about Portrait of Quentin Crisp, 1940
Munich Berlin London New York: Prestel, 2003. Hardcover, large format (32 x 39cm), pp. [6] 11- 181 [1], richly illustrated with 131 full colour illustrations; blue cloth covered boards with lettering in gilt on the spine, illustrated endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. Small (2mm) nibble mark on top edge of top... More about Gardens of Pleasure ; Eroticism and Art in China
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover (31 x 22cm), pp. [22] + 364 + [1], richly illustrated with colour and black and white images, text in English and Chinese; midnight blue ribbed cloth covered boards lettered in gilt and red on top board and spine, bright... More about A Catalogue of the Tusk, Bone, Bamboo and Wood Carvings Donated to the National Palace Museum...
London: Academy Editions, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover, square format (28.5 x 28.5cm), 216pp., richly illustrated with recorded works and related documents; black cloth covered boards, lettering in argent to top board and spine, white endpapers, illustrated dust wrapper. Edges of text block are dust toned, small (1cm) pen mark to top... More about Ivan Leonidov; The Complete Works
Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (31.5 x 25cm), pp. 239 [240, Sources of illustrations], Introduction, 50 full page Plates, Catalogue, Bibliography, Exhibitions, Index of Works, General Index; green cloth covered boards with lettering in white on spine, embossed statue on top board, photo illustrated endpapers (part of... More about The Sculpture of Epstein; with a complete catalogue
London: Quiller Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (30 x 21.5cm), pp. x + 193 [194, one page advert for Marshall products], maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, richly illustrated throughout (more than 320 illustrations), illustrated unclipped dust wrapper. Corners ever so slightly bumped, top edge with... More about The Story of the Britannia Iron Works ; William Marshall Sons & Co., Gainsborough 1842 - 1992
London: Printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-row, 1712. Reissue of 1709 Edition. Octavo (198 x 125mm). [12], 1-174, 179-235, 238-482pp (text is continuous even though pagination is not), six plates including frontispiece (lacking one plate). Bound in brown calf, banded with contrasting... More about Ovid’s Art of Love; In Three Books. Translated by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Congreve, &c. Together...
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1976. Deluxe Limited Edition. Octavo, 200 x 153mm. [8], 35, [5] pp. Bound in maroon calf, banded spine with gilt lettering, gilt decoration to front board, gilt internal borders in a matching maroon cloth slipcase. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and deckled edges. Numbered and signed... More about The Happy Dream ; An Essay
London & Australasia: Angus & Robertson Pty Ltd in Association with Rex Collings Ltd., 1974. First Australian Edition. Hardcover (222 x 140mm), pp viii, 413, [1] + folding map. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front cover in dust-jacket, top edge dyed. Head and tail of... More about Watership Down
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Octavo (192 x 130). (xvi), 2, 2-264 (i.e. first and second page are both numbered ‘2,’ all text as called for is present), 39 pages of advertising, [1] + frontispiece. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and stamp, top edge gilt. Signed by John Burns followed... More about Random Roaming ; And Other Papers
Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976. First Edition thus. Three volumes (Who`s Master? Who`s Man? / Life in the Country / Life in the Cities) in full-colour illustrated Box. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Vol. 1: 304 pages, Vol. 2: 320 pages, Vol. 3: 320 pages. Each volume: 27 x 19.5. cm; Box... More about Australia in the Victorian Age
Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Super octavo ( 26 x 17.7 cm), pp., xxii + 1,433 pages, black and white photographs, black and white line and tone illustrations throughout text, Part 1: Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory; The History... More about The Structure of Evolutionary Theory