London: Dent, 1955. Two volumes (complete), original red cloth boards with gilt title to spine, dec endpapers, b&w frontisplate illustration both volumes, pp xxiii, 293; xiv, 350. Near-fine condition. 14th century Italian stories, structured as 100 tales told by young men and women as they seclude themselves in a villa.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 127. A rectangular area has been cut out from the top edge of the front free (blank) endpaper. Very good condition in like d.j. An absurdist and existentialist classic, first published in French as L'Etranger in 1942. This is the fourth.....
South Yarra: John Currey, 1982. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, pp 100. Previous owner's signature, slightly marked to top edge of text block, o/w very good condn.
New York: Dover Publications, 1965. Octavo, stiff illustrated wraps, b&w illus, pp (xviii), 96. Very good condition. This charming book is a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's early manuscript version of the story that became "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", exactly reproducing the story in the author's hand and with his own.....
Government Printer, 1962. Folio, original printed wraps, pp 66, library stamps, occasional annotation or mark in margin, some sunning and fraying to edges with some loss to spine. Contents clean. Good condition. Government report on the causes, treatment, and prevention of juvenile delinquency in Western Australia...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards with gilt flags decoration to upper cover, 2 colour folding maps (Australia and New Zealand), folding appendix plate, pp xx, 364. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition British Empire series, Volume IV. Essays on aspects of.....
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. 1st UK edition, octavo, illustrated wraps, b&w illus, pp 206. Some creasing to covers, marking/darkening to upper rear cover. Pages toned, otherwise clean. Good condition. Géza Csáth (1887 - 1919) was a Hungarian writer, physician, psychiatyist, and opium addict. In her introduction,. Angela Carter descibes the circumstances.....
London: Folio Society, 2007. illus. Lyndon Hayes. Octavo, original illustrated boards with shark, colour plates, ppxvi, 252. Near fine condition in like slipcase. "This is Ian Fleming's Second book, and for my money the best. It cast its spell over me, and millions more readers, with the very first sentence.....
Adelaide: Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2006. Limited edition, large paper edition, quarto, pp.xxxiv, 566, incl. Index, colour fronts. portrait, colour and b&w plates, text illustration, folding map in text and a large folding map 'General chart of Australia' in pocket at rear, bound in full leather.....
New York: Modern Library, 1949. Octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, dec endpapers, pp xxxi, 609. Lower corner bumped. Near-fine condition in very good condition. "The poems of Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, Juvenal, Martial and others in a variety of English translations." (Dustjacket). Modern Library 217...
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. 1st thus, octavo, half-leather with marbled sides, title and decorations in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp 287. Near-fine condition. A beautiful binding of one of the first translations into English of Goethe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Published here as.....
London: Folio Society, 2002. Illus. Grahame Baker. Two volumes, pictorial paper boards with quarter cloth and gilt lettering, b&w illus by Grahame Baker, endpaper maps, pp 700. A very light mark to slipcase. Near fine condition in near-fine, titled slipcase. [this is a heavy set - please inquire regarding postage.....
Annandale Galleries. Sm. quarto, wraps, colour illus, pp 40. crease to rear corner, very good condn. The art of Ambrym Island in Vanuatu, including many colour photographs of large sculptures and rare 'spirit figures'.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. 2nd ed., octavo, stiff pictorial wraps, pp xiii, 244 including bibliography and index. Near fine condition. Written by established and emerging Indigeneous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w frontis portrait, b&w plates, pp 389. Previous owner's bookplate. Preface by W. Somerset Maugham.
London: Folio Society, 2006. Quarto, original cloth boards with pictorial onlay, gilt spine, b&w and colour illus plates. pp 220. In original illustrated slipcase, Fine condition, (Very heavy, please inquire regarding postage.) Selection and introduction of great photographs, from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first...
Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2000. 4to, pictorial boards, b&w illus. throughout, endpaper maps, pp iv, 120. Fine condn. William (Jack) Mildenhall was the official government photographer for Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s. The author introduces 90 images that provide a rare pictorial record of Canberra's development...
London: Edward Moxon, 1866. illus. Geoge Scharf. Octavo, full leather binding with gilt lettering and decorations, many engraved b&w illustrations including frontis plate portrait of Keats, marbled endpapers, publisher's red tint all edges, pp xl, 375. Previous owner's signature, plus a separate gift inscription dated 1875. Edges of the spine.....
London: Quartet Books, 1984. 1st ed., quarto, original black cloth boards with leaf design blindstamped to the upper board, dustjacket, colour plates, unpaginated. Previous owner's neat bookplate front free endpaper, some edgewear to the dustjacket including a light bump to the jacket at top edge. Near-fine condition in like d.j......
New York: Pantheon/Rolling Stone, 1983. Quarto, cloth dustjacket, colour plates, unpag. Dustjacket lightly worn. Near fine condition in very good d.j. Photographs of celebrities by the acclaimed photographer, with an introduction by Tom Wolfe on the transcendence of Leobovitz's work.
London: Savannah Publications, n.d. ( 1993). 8vo, wraps, pp 106, xix. fine condn. The Home Guard was created in July 1940, and all Officers were listed in the Home Guard Lists which were issued at intervals throughout the war, each covering one of the UK Military Commands. These Command Lists.....
London: Murray, 1945. 4to., pp.(ii), (5)-96, col. and b/w plates, prev.owner's inscr., or.cl., spotted, good condn.
London: Folio Society, 1997. llus. Veronique Bour. Large octavo, illustrated boards, double-page colour plates, pp xx, 460. Near fine condition in marked good slipcase. An excellent edition of Pasternak's novel, set between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. The book was refused publication in the USSR and.....
London: Routledge, 1947. 1st ed., octavo, original black cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering to spine, dustjacket, pp 168. Small closed tears to edges of dustjacket, very small chip to top of spine of dustjacket, some minor marking to front. Small, light offsetting mark to inner edges of preliminary pages, remains.....
Mt Lawley: Pen and Paint Pty Ltd, 1990. 1st ed., oblong, papered pictorial boards, colour plates, illus endpapers, pp 116. Near-fine condition. Copious illustrations (paintings, etchings, silkscreens, collographs, collages, objects) of the fictitious Widjimorphup Shire. Includes a description of the Royal East Widjimorphup Art Society and the Royal Lake Widji.....