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About this catalogue
Welcome to our last catalogue of the year. A selection of books, posters, comics and photographs, most bought this year, that could not find their way into this year’s catalogues, and are now in an end of year pickup team; including: monographs on Walker Evans, Simeon Solomon, Felix Vallotton, and Childe Hassam; omnibuses by Elmore Leonard, Alex Gurney and Ian Rankin; books about 1492, 1660-1688, and 1968; new illustrated versions of Heidi and Alice’s enduring adventures; books signed by Cecil Holmes, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Porter, Omar Pound, Laura Riding, Simon Schama, Erich Segal and Louise Gluck; and an atlas of European buildings that we may not be able to see for some time.
Best wishes for Christmas and good health for the New Year from all of us here underneath the tennis court at Badger Books. And many thanks to our customers and colleagues for their business and support during the year.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
New York: Museum of Modern Art. First American edition, 1997.
Exhibition catalogue. Emblematic images of Mexico between the 1920s and 1940s: portraits, landscapes, religious ceremonies and artefacts, architecture, and death, see adjacent image; 170 doutone reproductions, 5 colour, and 23 illustrations.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London Fields
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1989.
Samson Young narrates the story of Keith Talent and others; signed by the author
Faint edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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And the Stars Were Shining
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1994.
The poet's sixteenth collection, concluding with 'And the Stars Were Shining', running to 23pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Moon Palace
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1989.
American family saga, Paul Auster style; inscribed by the author.
Extremities darkened, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Hand to Mouth
New York: Henry Holt. First American edition, 1997.
The author's autobiography, beginning, 'In my late twenties and early thirties, I went through a period of several years where everything that I touched turned to failure.'
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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Filmstruck - a Life in the Movies
Paris: The author. First edition, 2020.
Following the movies and moviemakers from Coogee to Junee and on to London, Virginia, Sydney, Los Angeles and, at home, in Paris; illustrated; 1/100 numbered copies signed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Blues - a Musical Journey
New York: Amistad. First American edition, 2003.
Anthology to accompany the PBS series of seven episodes directed by Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce, Charles Burnett, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis and Clint Eastwood; texts divided to correspond to each of the episodes, combination of contemporary and primary sources, authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Luc Sante, Bob Dylan, William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A History of Civilizations
London: Allen Lane. The Penguin Press. First English edition, 1994.
Sections on Islam and the Muslim World, Africa, The Far East, Europe and America by the eminent French historian or, according to Seamus Heaney, 'history is about as instructive as an abattoir, Tacitus was right and the peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power'; 600pp., indexed.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
London: Victor Gollancz. First English editions with these illustrations, 1984.
Two volumes. The complete texts and forty-four full page colour illustrations by Justin Todd of these enduring worlds.
Edgewear and spots of foxing to Through the Looking Glass, else both volumes very good in fine dustwrappers. The two volumes
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Themes Out of Control - Effects and Causes
San Francisco: North Point Press. First American edition, 1984.
Twelve long essays: movies, television, literature, all under the umbrella of American culture.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Scarlet Man
London: Thomas Nelson, 1959.
'... his curiosity got the better of him and he managed to slip down unobserved and hide when the passenger was having a meal. You can imagine his astonishment when he saw the extraordinary features of the Scarlet Man. He was so astonished, in fact, that he gave himself away and the Scarlet Man ...; cold war paranoia, illustrated by George Lane.
Good in dustwrapper
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Le Corbusier - Ideas and Forms
London: Phaidon. Second edition, 2015.
The second edition of this monograph, first published in 1986; four sections: the formative years 1887-1922, architectural ideals and social realities 1922-1944, the ancient sense: late works 1945-1965 and principles and transformations; illustrated throughout, 500+pp., indexed.
Original printed boards. Fine in printed transparent dustwrapper.
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Bordersnakes
New York: Mysterious Press. First American edition, 1996.
C.W. Sughrue and Milo Milodragovitch, protagonists of the author's earlier mysteries, team up, if that's the word, for the first time, along the Mexican and US border; signed by the author
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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[Winter of Our Dreams]
[Sydney]: [c.1981].
Original print by Robert McFarlane of Judy Davis, adjacent to an Allen Jones' erotic coffee table, from John Duigan's 'Winter of Our Dreams'.
Print measures 18.5 x 26.5cms., the photographer's studio label stamp on reverse. Fine.
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Beyond Bedlam
London: Anvil Press Poetry. First English edition, 1997.
'Poems Written Out of Mental Distress', selected from the Bethlem and Maudsley National Benefit Poetry Project and published here among work, written from a similar place, by, among many, Fernando Pessoa, John Bunyan, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Weldon Kees; illustrations from the Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital Archive of patients' work; and inscribed by Imma Maddox, one of the contributors, to Sister Dorothy Bell.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Atlas of European Architecture
Salenstein, Switzerland: Braun Publishing. First edition, 2015.
Building by building through thirty-two countries, from Iceland to Turkey; interiors, exteriors, plans, colour reproductions throughout; 500+pp., indexed.
Original pictorial boards. Fine, without dustwrapper, and in slipcase as issued.
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Torch Song Trilogy
New York: The Gay Presses of New York. Second edition, [1981].
'The International Stud', 'Fugue in a Nursery' and 'Widows and Children First!', complete; signed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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The First Winter of My Married Life
Northbridge, CA: Lord John Press. First American edition, 1979.
'I carried certain glorious credentials, and we were both ready to make a start in life, as the saying was then. It proved a bitter winter in every respect.' #57/275 numbered copies (total edition 301), signed by the author.
Original blue cloth and boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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RBG
Storyville Films, 2018.
Original American poster for the directors' documentary on the life and career of the American High Court judge.
Poster measures 101 x 68cms. Rolled. Fine.
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The First Four Books of Poems
New York: The Ecco Press. First collected edition, 1995.
'Firstborn', 'The House of Marshland', 'Descending Figure' and 'The Triumph of Achiiles', all complete; inscribed by the author
Remainder dot bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Modern Greek Poetry
New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1973.
A generous selection of the work of thirty poets, see adjacent image for poets; translation, introduction, notes, and thoughts on translation by Kimon Friar.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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... one November day in 1980 the other Graham Greene burst through his shadow ...
London: The Bodley Head. First English edition, 1982.
An extract from 'The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene', published the following year by Bodley Head, issued here for private distribution in an edition of 225 copies, printed at the Stellar Press; inscribed by Max Reinhardt, the publisher.
Plain wrappers. Fine in printed dustwrapper with a small mark at the bottom of the rear panel.
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Ben Bowyang
[Melbourne]: [Melbourne Herald]. First Australian edition, c.1937.
The inhabitants of Gunn's Gully, previously encountered only in The Melbourne Herald, find their way into a book; 56pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A little edgewear. Very good.
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Ben Bowyang: 1938
Melbourne: The Herald and Weekly Times. First Australian edition, 1938.
'Domestic, social, national, sometimes even, international problems' encountered in Gunn's Gully, along with the protagonists to tackle them; 48pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Staples rusted, edgewear. Good, frail.
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Chapter the Last
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1929.
A sanitarium novel; a genre created by World War One
Extremities and prelims foxed. Very good in fine dustwrapper
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One Man's Way
Ringwood, Vic: Penguin. First Australian edition, 1986.
'With the death of Cecil Holmes, this country has lost one of its most unrecognised, unrewarded and yet unforgettable characters — film-maker, writer, polemicist, passionate protagonist of the people against the establishment, unforgiving opponent of big business and bad government', Robert Raymond, 1994; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Review copy with publisher's embargo slip tipped-in. Fine.
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The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Oxford: Oxfod University Press. First English edition, 1992.
Four thousand plus articles and entries: from 'A' all the way to 'Zummerzet' with pieces on history, varieties, usage, names and jargon, language and technology, and literature; 1,184pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Complete Western Stories
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First English edition, 2006.
Thirty stories collected from the Western pulps and slightly more august journals; the author's first assault on an established genre, though not quite as radical as his subsequent work on the crime novel; 500+pp.
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Fortress of Solitude
New York: Doubleday. First American edition, 2003.
A coming of age novel: looking out from Brooklyn at the end of the 20th century; inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Lives of the Bohemians
[Santa Monica, CA]: Danger! Books. First American edition, 2007.
The long autobiographical piece, 'Growing Up with My Father's Painting', which begins 'I learned to think watching my father paint', followed by 25 full page colour reproductions of his father's paintings. Designed by Jason Davis and printed by Joel Benson at Dependable Letterpress; 14/124 numbered copies (total edition 196 copies), signed by the author and Richard Lethem, his father.
Original grey flecked cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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The Waters of Thirst
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1993.
The author's first novel, a monologue by a voice-over actor.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Look at the Harlequins!
New York: McGraw-Hill. First American edition, 1974.
Vadim Vladimovich's fictional autobiography, 'I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances ...'; the author's last novel.
Fine in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine. Juliar A46.1
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King, Queen, Knave
[Canberra]: [1976].
From the borderlands of Nabokov studies, the original Australian poster for the Polish expatriate director's adaptation of the Russian expatriate writer's early novel; a not so unlikely combination of director and novelist who are both at home with moments that are 'simultaneously funny and cruel'.
Poster measures 42 x 34cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Memoirs of a Public Baby
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1958.
The first of the author's four volumes of autobiography, beginning with 'Prematurity', London during the 1930s; introduction by Stephen Spender.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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Circa 1492 - Art in the Age of Exploration
Washington and New Haven: National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press. First American edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Twenty-eight essays, 500+ colour reproductions: a survey of the World's Art around the end of the 15th century and before the Europe colonised and appropriated it.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Avant-Garde
New York: The Macmillan Company. First American edition, 1968.
Art News Annual XXXIV; thirteen illustrated essays tracing the history of the avant-garde from France in the 19th century to Pop Art; contributors include: Linda Nochlin, Michel Butor, Meyer Schapiro, Harold Rosenberg, John Ashbery and Ron Padgett; index of illustrators and period advertisements of galleries, publishers and bookstores (16pp.) at rear; front and rear covers a series of 'Nancy' collages by Joe Brainard.
Orignal pictorial boards. Fine.
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The Voice of Things
New York: McGraw-Hill. First American edition, 1972.
'Taking the side of Things'; introduction and translation by Beth Brombert.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Monkey's Mask
Sydney: Picador. Reprint, 2001.
The author's thriller verse novel: Jill Fitzpatrick on the trail of a missing woman; dedicated to Gwen Harwood; and inscribed ' for ______ soul brother - all the best' by the author in 2002.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Renaissance Portraits - European Portrait-Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. First American edition, 1990.
Artists, subjects, versions and varieties, through the Renaissance; artists include Titian, Durer, Holbein, Cranach; 267 reproductions, many colour.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Arabic and Persian Poems
London: Fulcrum Press. First English paperback edition, 1970.
Introductory pieces on Arabic Poetry (500-1200 A.D.) and Persian Poetry (850-1400 A.D.), followed by thirty-three poems by twenty-seven poets, bibliography and biographical details re the poets, preface by Basil Bunting; inscribed by Omar Pound.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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The Jack Harvey Novels
London: Orion. First English omnibus edition, 2000.
The author's three novels written pseudonymously as Jack Harvey: 'Witch Hunt' (1993), 'Bleeding Hearts' (1994) and 'Blood Hunt' (1995), all complete; new introduction by Ian Rankin and signed by him on the title page.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Earth Hold
London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1978.
The poet's second collection; illustrations by John Olsen and inscribed by him, with a drawing, to Betty Churcher in 1979.
Near fine in very good dustwrapper.
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A Player's Guide to Poker Machines
Clempton Park, NSW: Clubman Books. First Australian edition, 1981.
An illustrated guide to the machines for those grappling with time and illness towards the end of the 20th century; 96pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned, perimeter of covers sunned. Very good.
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Drama in Silent Rooms
Fish Creek, Victoria: Eureka Media Communications. First Australian edition, 2016.
'A History of Radio Drama in Australia from 1920s to 1970s', or, 'The Girl from Texas', 'When a Girl Marries', 'Dad and Dave', 'Larry Kent', 'Blue Hills', and many others; 644pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Writings 1961-2007
New York: D.A.P. First American edition, 2009.
One hundred and twelve pieces - interviews, notes, statements, introductions to exhibition catalogues; 115 reproductions; edited by Dietmar Elger and Hans Ulrich Obrist; 600pp., indexed.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Twenty Poems Less
Paris: Hours Press. First edition, 1930.
A collection of 21 poems from the author's and Robert Graves' press; 200 copies, this one unnumbered, signed by the author; front and rear boards illustrated by Len Lye.
Leather spine and pictorial boards. Wear to crown and base of spine, a small abrasion to rear board, else fine, without the original glassine dustwrapper.
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Landscape and Memory
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1995.
How nature has made us and the uses that we in turn have made of the natural world; signed by the author.
Bookplate, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Roman Laughter - the Comedy of Plautus
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 1968.
America's leading authority on the subject at the time (and still held by some to be so), he inscribed this copy to a Yale colleague, Thomas Greene, in his own right a very distinguished Renaissance scholar. Segal went on to write 'Love Story', which was hugely successful but put his professional life under a cloud thereafter. The author's first book.
Original brown cloth. Sunned a little on the spine, else fine. No dustwrapper.
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Charles II - Art and Power
London: Royal Collections Trust. First English edition, 2017.
Two hundred and fourteen items described and with a facing colour reproduction: paintings, books, documents, jewellery, sculptures, medals ..., c.1660-1688; 400+ colour illustrations.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Heidi
Boulder, CO: Roberts, Rinehart. First American edition with these illustrations, 1997.
Complete: 'Heidi's Years of Learning and Travel' and 'Heidi Makes Use of What She Has Learned', illustrations by Tomi Ungerer in his subdued, traditional mode.
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Kaliyuga
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1965.
'A Quarrel with the Gods', the story of Siva and Kali retold via Charlie and Denise, an American couple in Switzerland; the final volume of 'The Sexes trilogy'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Merry-go-round in the Sea
New York: William Morrow. First American edition, 1966.
Coming of age in Geraldton during World War Two.
Top edge dusty, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Wild Tea Cosies
Pymble, NSW: Simon and Schuster Australia. Reprint, 2008.
A key element of the Queensland Tea Ceremony; twenty-four step by step patterns, illustrated throughout.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Titian Tintoretto Veronese - Rivals in Renaissance Venice
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. First American edition, 2009.
Exhibition catalogue. Four essays, three artists, four decades, Venice, sixteenth century, oil painting, the use of easels; 177 colour and 22 b&w reproductions of religious and classical scenes, allegories and narrative paintings.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Little Nugget
New York: W J Watt. First American edition, 1914.
Illustrations by Will Grefé. The adventures of Ogden Ford, the rude child of separated parents and, because his parents’ wealth makes him attractive to kidnappers, the “little nugget” of the title.
Original pictorial cloth. Ownership stamp, else fine. MCILVAINE A16b
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William Wordsworth - a Life
London: Oxford University Press. First English edition, 1989.
The Romantic age in Victorian Literature; signed by the author.
Erasure mark on front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper.
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A Higher Form of Killing
London: Bloomsbury. First English paperback edition, 2016.
'Six Weeks in the First World War that Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare': 22 April poison gas at Ypres, 7 May Lusitania torpedoed, and 31 May zeppelin bombs London; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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