Maryborough: Banner Books, 1999. First Edition. 16mo (255 x 180mm). x, 318pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in an unclipped dustjacket. Bottom corners and head and tail of spine very gently bruised; internally bright and clean. More
Sydney: Royal Sydney Golf Club, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (223 x 143mm). (56), [2, blank]pp + black and white plates. Green cloth with embossed black lettering and black and red stripe detailing. Corners bruised and top corners worn; very light patches of wear to covers and spine, no more than... More
Sydney: Printed by Simmons Limited, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (242 x 155mm). [8], 63, [1]pp + black and white frontispiece, 13 black and white plates and folding colour map. Black cloth with gilt lettering and blind borders. Original publication letter from club president, R.S. Harris loosely inserted. Corners lightly bumped; a.... More
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson Limited, 1936. Reprint of the original 1924 edition. Octavo (185 x 124mm). xx [pagination is not continuous but all contents are present as called for], 13-189pp includes frontispiece, illustrations and diagrams, mostly black and white, three full pages in colour + 1 page of advertising... More
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. First Richard Griffin and Company Edition. Octavo (220 x 170 mm). (xii), 8, 660pp. Later binding of vellum with gilt detailing; black morocco label with gilt lettering on spine; gilt detailing to borders on internal edges; top edge gilt; in a later white card... More
Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Compiled, Translated and Annotated by Victor Sogen Hori. Royal octavo, 24 x 16.7 cm, 764 pages. Preface, Introduction (six sections: Nature, Steps and Literary Study in Koan Practice; Koan and the Chinese Literary Game, History of Zen... More
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New York: Ace Books, 1953. The Ace Double First Edition (D-15). First edition of Burroughs' first novel. Trade paperback, 16.3 x 10.6cm, pp.149 (Junkie) 4 (Ads) 169 Narcotic Agent. A clean, bright copy. Now considered a classic of the Beat generation, Junkie was first published as a trade paperback intended... More
London Toronto Bombay Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 327pp., tan cloth covers, blue lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. A very good copy of White's first novel. Hubber and Smith C1a. Happy Valley is the first published novel by Australia's only Nobel Laureate... More
London: The Bodley Head. Various bindings. Thirty-five facsimile volumes in twenty-eight slipcases designed by Mitsumasa Anno. The facsimiles were produced by the Japanese specialists, Holp Shuppan, matching the paper, colour printing, and binding of the original editions produced in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. This set is fine... More
Paris: Contrejour, 1991. First French Edition. 350 x 255 mm. Unpaginated with gold foil and bright orange endpapers, die-cut title page, 106 colour plates, three acetate pages, black and white index of plates. Black and gold paper wraps with decorated acetate dust jacket. Corners and edges very gently bruised with no... More
Frenchs Forest: The Craftsman’s Press, 1984. First Edition : [number 27 of 200 copies]. 290 x 360mm. 144pp. Numbered and signed by Brian Dunlop. 35 colour plates and 41 black and white figures. Red cloth in slipcase with 40 x 35mm reproduction of Sleeping Dog [1974] inlaid. Slipcase faded, significantly more... More
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Publications, 2004. First Edition: American issue. Octavo (330 x 275 mm). 416pp. Essay and texts on the sites by Umberto Pappalardo. Includes 350 colour illustrations photographed by Luciano Romano. Decorated endpapers. Light brown cloth in original, unclipped dust-jacket. 15 x 15 mm mark... More
Covent Garden, London: Duckworth & Co, n.d. [1915]. Octavo (248 x 182mm). (xiv), (2), 240pp + frontispiece and 11 plates. Recent binding by Karen McGuire; gilt decorated black calf; internal edge gilt borders. Gilt to top edge of text block. Later marbled endpapers. A handsome hand binding free from defects; edges... More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, n.d. [1916]. First thus. Octavo (215 x 155mm). (xvi), 19-332pp. Endpapers, frontispiece plus 43 coloured plates as called for illustrated by Margaret W. Tarrant. Recent binding by Karen McGuire; gilt decoration including heart, club and rose detailing in homage to the subject... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1881. Fourth Edition. Octavo (168 x 113 mm). (x), 134pp + 112pp advertising. Illustrated frontispiece and folding map. Green boards. Wear to edges; covers marked and scuffed with some light patches of wear; one centimetre closed tear to bottom of back cover; worn at top, bottom... More
San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1937. First thus. Quarto (182 x 125 mm). [4], 12, [4] pp. Wood engraved portrait by James Johnson on title page. Paper covered cloth. Corners bruised; light insect damage to covers including paper label bearing title; small insect mark above label; light pencil marks on covers;... More
London: 1865. (weekly issues from July-December 1865). Imperial octavo, 28.5 x 22.5 cm, Preface, dated December 30 1865, followed by issues from second half of 1865 in date order, beginning July 8, 1865 (pp. 1-262, ending December 30, including Index), followed by 11 pages titled “Punch’s Almanack for 1866”), full... More
Sydney: New Century Press, 1940. First Edition. Pp 122, 10 full page part coloured illustrations, illustrated paper covered boards, decorated endpapers, illustrated paper dust wrapper. Dust wrapper with a small (5mm) tear at bottom of front cover, a little edgeworn along the top, a few foxmarks (10) scattered across top... More
Sydney: 1951. First Edition. No publisher named but printed by Winn & Co., Sydney. Paper covered boards with illustration pasted on top board, 26pp.,6 colour plates, 2 full page black and white illustrations and several in text illustrations. Head of spine chipped and foot of spine abraded, corners tender, plate... More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1916. First Edition. [Signed] [Publisher's presentation copy] Original front wrapper bound in after the half title. Pp [1] Half title [1] original front wrapper [1] coloured frontis [i-vi] vii-xii [13-15] 16-143, [1] colophon, 24pp Advertisements. Original green cloth illustrated and lettered on the top board and... More
Melbourne: The 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, 1953. First Edition. [1] half title, [i-vi] vii- xiii, [1] list of maps, [1] Author's Note, 288pp, illustrated endpapers, original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, illustrated unclipped dust wrapper. Corners lightly bumped and head and foot of spine are gently pushed. Slight... More
Gryphon Books, 1977. First Edition. [1-5] 6-60pp, [1] Colophon, burgandy endpapers. Oatmeal cloth with paper label pasted on top board, lettered in burgundy, illustrated dust wrapper, oatmeal slipcase with paper label pasted to front. Signed by Hibberd and Fitts at the colophon. Slipcase is soiled and foxed, dust wrapper has chips... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858. Green textured cloth with gilt. Octavo (30.5 x 21 cm). (vii), [1, blank], 352 pp. Musical notation. Green textured cloth decorated with gilt. Corners bumped and worn; covers very faintly rubbed with light scratches and marks; hinges rubbed and torn with a.... More
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1812. Light brown half calf; calf corners; banded with contrasting dark brown labels and gilt; marbled covers. Complete in three volumes, octavo (21.5 x 14cm). Light brown half calf; calf corners; banded with contrasting dark brown labels and gilt; marbled covers, edges and endpapers. Volume one: [2... More
Deakin: Brindabella Press, 1984. First Edition. Custom. [Signed by the Artist]. 52pp comprising: [4] blanks, [1] half title, [1] frontis ('The Green Singer'), [1] title page, [1] copyright page, [1] list of poems, [1] acknowledgements, [1] Foreword, [34] poems and illustrations, [1] blank, [1] colophon, [5] blanks, altogether 13 wood... More