London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First Edition in book form. Full calf. Octavo (21 x 13.5cm), pp. (2) blank, xiv, 625, (2) blank, 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne including the vignette title page and eight dark plates. All internal flaws present as called for by Smith. Handsomely bound in full... More about Little Dorrit
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1978. Limited Edition. Folio, 91pp + (1) blank, loosely inserted a signed print of the Blue ring Angel-fish. Half navy morocco over blue-rey felt covered boards, gilt ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine. Limited to 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. No. 45/350... More about Pisces Tropicani; An artist's collection of portraits of twenty-six species of coral reef fishes,...
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1950. First Thus. Octavo, uniformly bound by Karen McGuire in half leather over blue boards, blind tooled borders, gilt devices on the spines and lettering in gilt on red leather title and author panels, new cream endpapers. Pride and Prejudice, pp. v, (1), 337, 16... More about The Works of Jane Austen; Illustrated by Charles E. Brock
Sydney: Cassell and Co., 1948-1956. First Australian Edition. Half leather. [Fine binding] Octavo, uniformly bound by Karen McGuire in half leather over cloth covered boards. Complete in six volumes. Volume One (1948): The Gathering Storm. Original endpapers, pp xv, (1) blank, 640, all maps and diagrams as called for. Volume Two... More about The Second World War
Hinged wooden box with two latches and a tin handle containing a Collection of Papers pertaining to Frederick Waymouth Gibbs,C.B., Q.C. and tutor to the Prince of Wales for six years (1852-1858). The Papers include six leaves removed from Gibbs’s Diary for the years 1857 and 1858, recording mostly his activities..... More about Frederick Waymouth Gibbs (1821-1898) Collection of Papers ; A small archive
London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, St Martin’s Lane, 1870. Reprinted by the Southwold Press Lts, 1969. Blue stapled wraps, 20pp. Staples rusted and spine tanned. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into the State Paper Office and the permit wrung from..... More about The Royal Christian Martyr; St. Edmund, The Last King of East Anglia
London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, St Martin’s Lane, 1870. Pamphlet. Reprinted by the Southwold Press Lts, 1969. Blue stapled wraps, 20pp. Dark tan stains along foreedges of cover and internal leaves, light tanning along foot of front cover. Spine slightly faded. “Miss Strickland was the..... More about The Royal Christian Martyr; St. Edmund, The Last King of East Anglia
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Red cloth and gilt. Octavo, xv, 392pp., 24pp. publisher’s catalogue.An externally bright copy, some foxing to first and last gatherings. Affectionately inscribed to Charlotte Foster with the editor’s love on the half title. Loosely inserted an advertisement from the Eastern Daily..... More about Life of Agnes Strickland
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Red cloth and gilt. Octavo, xv, 392pp., 24pp. publisher’s catalogue. Spine faded, head and foot pushed and slightly abraded, some marks to the boards, very good interior if a little age toned to edges of leaves. A review from The Times..... More about Life of Agnes Strickland
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. Cloth. Revised edition. Presentation copy from the editor to her dear friend Mrs Charles Foster. Octavo, xxviii, 496pp., 24pp. Catalogue of Bohn’s Libraries. Blindstamped red cloth, gilt title on spine, black eps. Spine faded, a couple of marks on top board, light foxing to..... More about Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses
London: Henry Colburn, 1850. First Edition. Cloth. Inscribed by the author at the half title. Green cloth and gilt. Octavo, xii, 400pp., 4pp. advertisements. Crest book plate of Christie of Cowden and Glenfarq on front pastedown. Spine a little faded, head and foot pushed, very slight lean, top edge dust... More about Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies
London: Henry Colburn, 1850. First Edition. Three quarter leather. Copy presented to Alderman Miss G.F.J. Foster J.P. with the Town Clerk’s Compliments (on Southwold Town Hall slip of paper loosely inserted). Octavo, xii, 400pp., three quarter black leather over black boards, all edges marbled, matching marbled endpapers, the name Lindfield..... More about Historic Scenes and Poetic Fancies
London: Bell and Daldy, 1874. Cloth. Inscribed to Charlotte Foster from Jane Margaret Strickland. Octavo, xxviii, (2), 377pp. Purple boards with gilt title on spine. Spine faded, a little shaken, corners bumped. Bookplate of Georgina Gertrude Foster by T. Rough, minor foxing to half title, frontis portrait and illustrated title... More about Lives of the Last Four Princesses of the Royal House of Stuart
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1861. First Edition. Three quarter calf. Presentation Copy. Octavo, uniformly bound with The Lives of the Queens of England in tan three quarter calf over yellow marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers, five raised ridges to spine, red panel with gilt title, black panel with author’s..... More about Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England
London: John W. Parker, 1842. Fourth Edition. Cloth. In two volumes. Original cloth, blind embossed borders, gilt stamped illustrations to top boards, gilt design and title on spines, a.e.g. Vol 1: viii, 260pp, 6pp [adverts]. Vol 2: vi, 252pp, 8pp [adverts]. Corners turned in, spines slightly faded, otherwise very good... More about Tales and Stories from History
London: Joseph Rickerby, 1841. First Edition. Cloth. (6), 251pp., cloth and gilt, a.e.g. Lean to spine, worn, contents foxed. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into the State Paper Office and the permit wrung from Lord Normanby after Lord John Russell had dismissed her application is..... More about Alda the British Captive
London: Jarrold and Sons, n.d. Cloth. New edition. Green cloth and gilt with black border, a.e.g., floral eps, Stacy Norwich binder’s sticker, colour frontis, (8), 257pp, (4) publisher’s advertisements. Head and food of spine a little tender. Otherwise fine. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into..... More about Historical Tales of Illustrious British Children
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, and Webb, Millington and Co, 1853-1862. 12mo., Cloth, gilt, a.e.g., pp. vi, 10145, coloured frontis and vignette title plus six more colour plates. Head of spine chipped, corners bumped. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into the State Paper Office and..... More about Floral Sketches, Fables and other Poems
London: James Fraser, 1833. First Edition. Half calf. 12mo., later(?) half calf, marbled eps, iv, 171, (1) advertisement. Binder’s sticker (?) “H.& C. Treacher, Royal Library, Brighton.” Light foxing to first and last leaves. “Linfield Borrer” in ink to verso of ffep. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force..... More about Demetrius: A Tale of Modern Greece. In three cantos with other poems
Cape Town and Johannesburg: Juta and Co., Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5cm), pp. (12), 54pp, (22) full page photographic illustrations. Original pale green cloth boards with cream cloth spine, lettering in pale green on the spine, unclipped photographic dustjacket (depicting Helen Keller at Home, reading a braille... More about Helen Keller under the Southern Cross
London: Henry S. King and Co., 1873. Small octavo (16,3 x 10.2cm), viii + 244pp. Lacks original advertisements and green boards, recased in three quarter calf over marbled boards, all edges red. Boards are scuffed, leather rubbed and abraded, joints starting, lacks f.f.e.p., ex-library (library mark crudely removed at foot... More about Narcissus; and other poems
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books, May 2012. First thus. Octavo (27.5 x 21cm), 292pp., ill. (comic), blue illustrated endpapers, black boards with author's name embossed on top board, lettered in grey on spine, illustrated dustjacket. Corners very slightly bumped, and a small 5mm dint (repeated on jacket) at the fore edge... More about Manara Erotica; Volume One
Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane: 9 RAR Association, 1992. First Edition. Original cloth. Octavo (30 x 20.5cm), xv, (1), 294pp, (2) blank, ill., brown cloth covered boards with letterin in gilt on the spine, glossy pictorial dustjacket. A little edgewear at the head and foot of the spine and along the base... More about 9th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment; Vietnam Tour of Duty / 1968-1969 / On Active Service
Melbourne: Grayflower Productions, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover 256pp, ill., map endpapers, photogrpahically illustrated tan cloth covered boards, illustration repeated on the dust jacket on a white background, lettered in red. Errata (printed 1971) loosely inserted (one large sheet folded into four pages) . Also loosely inserted a presentation slip signed... More about The Rats Remain; The Siege of Tobruk, 1941
John Burridge, n.d. [1990s?]. Limited Edition. Facsimile edtion of the 1919 first edition printed and published by Eric N. Birks, proprietor, Radcliffe Press, Sydney. This edition limited to 200 copies. Octavo (25.8 x 17.8cm), 122pp. ill., red cloth covered boards with the colour patch of the regiment on the top... More about The History of the 7th Light Horse Regiment A.I.F