Melbourne ; London ; Toronto: William Heinemann, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] 283 [1 blank] : inscribed by author at title page, ''For Sidney Elliot, with best wishes from Dudley'' : purple cloth boards : argent to spine : unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Head and tail of spine..... More
London: Cassell, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (4) 186 (2, blank) : INSCRIBED by the author on the title page : black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine : unclipped jacket designed by Michael Bell. Edges of block lightly flecked; top edge toned; jacket foxed. Dudley Raymond Barker..... More
![Item #9764 Gleanings, I. A Christmas Card for 1899 [and] Gleanings II. Thomas BRASSEY](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9764.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759907222)
[Melbourne]: Sands & McDougall Limited, 1899. First Edition. Soft cover. Crown octavo : pp. [8] 124 [4] 93 : original vellum style wrappers with gilt lettering : top edge gilt : fore edges unopened. Small piece missing at top of spine. The compiler Thomas Brassey, Earl [1836-1918], was Governor of..... More
Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First English Language Edition. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [3] 292 [296] : rich green endpapers : pale green cloth covered boards : gilt to spine : green illustrated jacket designed by Gerry Hoover. Block edges foxed; head of spine toned and gently pushed;..... More
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
London: Calder and Boyers, 1969. First Edition. Post 8vo : pp. [4] 5-[160] : olive boards with gold metallic lettering : dust jacket with photo montage by Carol Burns. Minor foxing to endpapers and edges of the block: jacket lightly creased along top edge, lower cover soiled. Burns' fourth work..... More
![Item #15613 Winter's Tales 25 [SIGNED]. Peter CAREY, Martin AMIS](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749018425)
London: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Post octavo : pp. [9] 10-159 : black boards lettered in gilt on the spine : green dust jacket lettered in white : SIGNED by Carey on the title page and Amis on p.9. First American appearance of Carey's story 'He Found Her..... More
London: Quartet Books Limited, 1991. First UK Edition. Demy octavo ; pp. [vi] [2]3 - 338 : black boards : lettered in silver to spine : illustrated dustjacket. Top edge foxed. STIG DAGERMAN (1923-1954), Swedish writer and journalist, broke onto the literary scene at twenty-two. He enjoyed phenomenal success publishing..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862 ; 1863 ; 1871. Hardcover : Confessions of an Opium Eater pp. 920 [iii] xv [xvi] [1] 290 : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordworth, and Southery pp. [v] vi [viii] [1] 244 : Last Days of Immanuel Kant and..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. Reprint. Crown octavo : pp. viii, 312 : printed endpapers : top edge gilt : brown silk bookmark : suede covers with yapp edges, letters and ornamentation blocked in dark brown : original box with half title design repeated on the lid. The lid to..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Octavo : pp. xvi [2] 238 : yellow endpapers : red top edge dye (slightly faded) : gilt lettered orange cloth over cream boards with floral pattern in blind : unclipped first state dust jacket with $4.95 retail price on..... More
London: Methuen, n.d. [1908]. First English Language Edition. F'cap octavo : pp. [viii] [222] : 6 colour plates including frontis : all edges gilt : polished green calf with double ruled gilt borders and floral ornaments in the corners : five raised bands : gilt lettering, rules and flower ornaments..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1994. Hardcover : pp. [4] 5-184 : e.p.s illustrated with a rat : dark green boards lettered in silver : Green dustwrapper illustrated in black & white. Top edge lightly toned. The sequel to Faldbakken's widely acclaimed "Twilight Country" More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press and Bruccoli Clark, 1975. Limited Edition. Tall quarto : 12 leaves (24pp.) printed from handset Palatino type on Rives Heavy, a French mould made paper : one tipped in illustration by John Thein based on a photograph of Fitzgerald taken during the time the preface..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (4) (2) 3-283 (1, blank) : original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine : LACKING dust jacket. Corners sharp but slightly rubbed; strip of cloth along tail of both boards is lighter (not sunned, maybe cleaned?); very small dint..... More
Guildford and London: Lutterworth, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 172 [4 blank] : map : illustrations with-in text : index of Maori words : green cloth boards : gilt to spine : olive green endpapers : price clipped illustrated dust jacket. Light foxing to head and tail..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Demy octavo : pp. [2] (List of titles by Hemingway) [8] 9-140 [2] (blanks) : Scribner's capital "A" and device to copyright page : bright blue boards with author's debossed signature on top board and silver lettering on spine : unclipped first..... More
Cambridge: Pepys Collection, Magdalene College, 1909. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. [18] : pages at head uncut : grey/brown paper boards : light brown cloth spine. Small mark to cloth spine at front; head and tail of spine gently pushed. Date of this, the earliest know edition, 1533. More
Cambridge: 1909. Facsimile. Hardcover : pp. 42 : pages uncut at head : grey/brown paper boards : light brown cloth spine : bookseller's sticker to front paste-down. Edge of pages 35-38 has fold crease and small closed tear; toning to endpapers. Reproduced in Facsimile in 1909, date of the earliest..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Hardcover : pp. [vi] 186 : tan boards : gilt lettering to spine : pink jacket design by Peter Bate. Head and tail of spine very gently pressed; light tanning to block edges; jacket edges creased, tide-mark to tail of spine on verso; sunned spine. First..... More
Brisbane: Makar Press, 1978. First Edition. Stapled chapbook : pp. (2) 32 (2) : f.f.e.p. is a full page illustration by Jones : Cream coloured card covers : bright canary yellow wraps. Corners lightly bruised; foot of spine bumped; single smudge to top wrap. From the Gargoyle Poets series (no. 31)..... More
Victoria, BC, Canada: Hairy Pothead Press, 2015. Chip Crumb. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [40] : colour illustrations throughout : illustrated, laminated boards : signed by author on the first leaf : no jacket as issued. Larsen was a founder of the Marijuana Party of Canada and in 2006 co-founded..... More
