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Well, not exactly Australian secrets, instead, less travelled paths, lost places, unlikely moments, supporting players taking over centre stage: Cape Denison; Australian Outsiders in Paris, and in Paraguay; Rowe Street, Sydney; Eileen Kramer’s first book (at 106); Quilts; Dr. John Power; the Phantom (in Australian Art); Ferretabilia; Anais Nin; POL and FNQ; the Dayaks step up; Don’o Kim; the French in Tasmania; Geraldine Halls (and Charlotte Jay); Australian troops at Lourdes; the Argonauts; le gang Kelly, Criena Rohan; the search for a white wallaby; Cliff Hardy and William Yang taking shape; the Blue Mountains’ mystery track; Nuclear Nazis; the Malaitamen; Sydney in 2075; the blonde ‘captive’ of our cover; in fact, all Australiana.
Cannes: L'Imprimerie à l'école. First French edition, 1951.
Bibliothèque de travail #163: an Aboriginal boy as protagonist, 24pp., illustrated with black and white photographs; French text.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Chipped and creased along the perimeter, missing small piece top right corner, and the remnants of a stain bottom right corner of p.1. Good.
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Canberra: Barton Books. First Australian edition, 2015.
'Anglicanism, Australian Society and the English Connection since 1788'; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Terrey Hills, NSW: Australian Geographic. First Australian edition, 1996.
A holiday of sorts: a year at Cape Denison on one of the windiest coasts of Antarctica; vividly illustrated; signed by Don and Margie McIntyre.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Canberra: Canberra Theatre Trust, 1979.
Program to accompany the Canberra season of Robyn Archer's one woman cabaret of 20th century women singers; season from 26 June to 1 July 1979.
Single sheet measuring 44 x 60cms., printed both sides, and folded three times. Fine.
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Rydalmere and Balmain, NSW: Hodder and Stoughton and Belladonna Books. First Australian edition, 1997.
ABC Radio between 5.30 and 6.30 where 'Fifty mighty Argonauts / Bending to the oars/ today we go adventuring / to yet uncharted shores'; illustrated history; foreword by Barry Humphries.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Melbourne: Thomas Nelson. First Australian edition, 1974.
Australian history told as literature and, in this case, well ahead of its time; the dustwrapper designs suggests the tensions involved.
Edgewear, top edge dusty, else very good in dustwrapper.
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McMahons Point, NSW: Hale and Iremonger. First Australian edition, 1999.
The biography of Sandy Gutman and Austen Tayshus, controversial stand-up comedian and provocative satirist; inscribed by the latter.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Hale and Iremonger. First Australian edition, 1983.
S.T. Gill and on through agencies, art studios, printers, publishers, regional design, through to film and television graphics: 'a [illustrated] history of Australian commercial art'.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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North Sydney, NSW: Random House Australia. First Australian edition, 1995.
Beginning in Kedron, Brisbane, early 1930s, and onwards to radio and film roles; foreword by Spike Milligan, illustrated; and inscribed by Peter Corris.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Avalon, NSW]: Cyclops Press. First Australian edition, 2012.
From South Head to the Royal National Park - history, inhabitants, environs, tribal groups; the space between the ocean and the land, and the pull of the former; 336pp., illustrated spectacularly throughout.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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West Maitland, NSW: Pender Bros. Pty. Ltd. Forty-eighth edition, 1940.
Illustrated catalogue for their Australasian distributors in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth and with prices for New South Wales. One hundred and nineteen items described, most illustrated, from labels to queen mailing cages; 32pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Rear cover frayed, staples aged. Very good
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London: Ealing Studios, 1950.
Original English pressbook produced to promote the movie’s London release on 6 July 1950. 'Bitter Springs' was shot in the Flinders Ranges SA between May and November 1949 and is concerned with the tensions that arise after the King family purchase 600 acres of Aboriginal tribal land from the South Australian Government to establish a sheep station. The movie was the first serious treatment of Aboriginal Land Rights in an Australian feature with Ransom, a trooper (Michael Pate) setting out his options to Wally King (Chips Rafferty), see above. The resolution of the movie is well removed from the climate of the time – “But in the end the white man’s magic prevails: not the magic of the gun, but that other magic, the magic of compromise, of finding a way to give both sides a chance of living side by side without violence”, according to the pressbook– and carries the deep racism and assumed superiority of white Australians towards Aboriginal people. The booklet contains examples of posters and advertisements to be used overseas, synopses in French and German, “the story in ten pictures” or images plus summary, biographies of the actors, director and producer, and anecdotes from the shooting.
Large oblong qto., 31 x 36cms., 8pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. One vertical crease centre of cover, else fine. PIKE AND COOPER #329
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London: Abelard-Schuman. First English edition, 1962.
The final volume in the Langton saga and the author's last novel; an Australian serving in the British Army; the devastation of war; return to Australia.
Owner signature. Foxing to foredge, else very good in dustwrapper.
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Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. First American edition, [1981].
'Boomerang', translated, introduction and afterward by Michael Spencer; reflections after a writer in residence stint in Australia by the French writer.
Top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper.
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St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. First Australian edition, 1994.
Peter Carey moves to, and invents, Voorstand and Efica; circus and theatre in these mythical nations; signed by the author.
Some foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper.
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Paris: Plon. First French edition, 2003.
Preparing the French reader for the arrival of Peter Carey's Ned Kelly; sample chapter giveaway, introduction by Ivan Nabokov; translation by Elisabeth Peellaert; publication date noted as 16 January 2003.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine
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Sydney: Malian Press. First Australian edition, [c.1960].
Contains 'Dwellers in Silence' by Ray Bradbury, 'Flaw' by John D. Macdonald, and the title piece with the by-line, 'These Easter eggs weren't brought by the bunnies'.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled, by Stanley Pitt. Frail. Very good.
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London: Raphael Tuck and Sons., [1937].
Bundaburra Station: Shelagh and Conal are on six weeks holiday in Australia (or the first 30-40pp.), there were too many cars in Sydney, and now they're off in search of a white wallaby; illustrated.
Original cloth and pictorial boards. Contemporary gift inscription. Edgewear, corners scuffed, prelims and extremities foxed. Internally clean. Just good. Muir 5001.
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Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press. First Australian edition, 2005.
The history of, and response to, the Australian art world to, the exhibition of 200 works of Modern Art and the fate of works as World War Two intervened; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Doncaster, Vic: Bayda Books. First Australian edition, 1980.
Sub-titled 'The Adventures of a Ukrainian Migrant in Australia', or from his arrival in 1949; short biography of the author by the publisher.
Pictorial wrappers. Review copy with newspaper's stamp and publisher's slip laid in. Fine.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1998.
'Reflections on Autobiography', following the narrative patterns of autobiography from the classical Greeks onwards; inscribed by the author.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Broken Hill, NSW: Broken Hill City Art Gallery. First Australian edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Essays by Bernard Smith, Robert Smith, Vane Lindsay; thirty-four colour and black and white reproductions, chronology, bibliography.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1941.
Transcripts of eight talks by the author, raising money for the Red Cross, originally broadcast after his visit to Australia; 60pp. "It was a strange experience and a very moving one."
Priinted wrappers. Very good.
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Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 2002.
A modest, pictorial history of Australian Dance assembled from the NLA's ephemera, oral history, pictures and and manuscripts sections; signed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Melbourne: Cassell. First Australian edition, 1966.
The mechanism behind the scenes of a deadlined newspaper column; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Top edge darkened, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 2011.
Ephemera steps up: a single playbill, currently the earliest Australian printed document, generates a book length study; a glimpse into the cultural life of the early colony and history of Georgian theatre; included in the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2011.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Townsville, Qld: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. First Australian edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Surveys two hundred years of art produced in FNQ; 58pp., illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press. First Australian edition, 1962.
A stranger arrives in Brisbane to begin work in a bank and ...; signed by the author in the year of publication.
Extremities darkened. Very good in dustwrapper, designed by Alex Stitt, marked on rear panel and worn at edges.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1959.
A grand tour of international modernism in interior design by the self-proclaimed Australian 'furnisher'; ten introductory essays by authors including Sir Ernest Goodale, Paul Reilly, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Jean M.Leleu and Phyllis S. Shillito; illustrated throughout.
Very good in good only dustwwrapper chipped and worn along edges and folds.
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Nedlands, WA: Department of Music, University of Western Australia. First Australian edition, 1982.
Nine pieces by the composer, five about him and aspects of his work, and the transcript of an interview with Burnett Cross.
Printed wrappers. Sunned around perimeter. Very good.
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Port Melbourne, Victoria: D.W. Thorpe and the National Centre for Australian Studies. First Australian edition, 1996.
A guide to the best books on Australia; organised into ten subjects: 'History and Heritage', 'Arts and Culture', 'Science and Technology' etc; 450+pp., indexed; inscribed by John Arnold in the year of publication.
Pictorial boards. Fine, without dustwrapper, as issued.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1967.
The itinerant author's ninth novel and first under her own name; East meets West, feline chaos, a marriage in its dying meow.
Extremities darkened. Good in dustwrapper.
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London: Constable. First English edition, 1974.
On the island of Kipi off the coast of Papua New Guinea, things get frightening for a handful of whites; no surprise coming from an author, who as a child 'adored being frightened by books....I thought that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to frighten people.'
Faint foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press. First Australian edition, 1995.
Sophie Conway and Lizzie Grey, Adelaide to London, 1920s to the 1960s; the author's last book before she died in 1996, and reflecting her own affluent and privileged childhood.
Plain wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: T.Werner Laurie. First English edition, 1962.
Beginning in Melbourne in 1893, first printed in secrecy in 1950, making an enormous splash at the height of the Cold War when no publisher would touch it; inscribed by the author in 1976, no longer deemed an 'enemy of the state'.
Original red cloth. Edgwear, extremities darkened. About very good. No dustwrapper.
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Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. First Australian edition, 2017.
A dual narrative by two women living in the same Brisbane house, decades apart; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Ringwood, Vic: Penguin. First Australian edition, 1996.
Pianist David Helfgott's life from childhood prodigy, through mental breakdown, to triumphant recovery; inscribed by Alissa Tanskaya.
Pictorial wrappers. Extremities evenly tanned, else fine.
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Melbourne: Thomas Nelson. Second Australian edition with corrections, 1973.
Collects almost three hundred cartoons from the nineteenth century onwards.
Fine in very good dustwrapper faded on the spine.
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Melbourne: International Bookshop. Reprint, 1965.
Sub titled 'The Story of General Motors in Australia'
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Owner signature, else fine.
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Ringwood, Vic: Penguin. First Australian edition, 1999.
Produce, menus, preparation and eating in seven parts of Australia; photographs by Simon Griffiths; inscribed by the author.
Edgewear. Very good in dustwrapper.
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Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins. First Australian edition, 1997.
Australian political thought as theme park - the chamber of racist horrors, garden of mateship, memorial for lost optimism ...; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. First Australian edition, 1985.
Twelve autobiographical pieces, written 1942-1951, and 9pp. of photographs; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Printed wrappers. Review copy with publisher's embargo slip and promotional material laid in. One corner bumped, else fine dustwrapper.
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Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Crime Classics. Reissue, 1992.
Charlotte Jay #7, and last, an eerie and chilling study of obsession, 'I am not going to give explanations and make excuses. I'll tell you what happened and you can draw your own conclusions'; afterword by Peter Moss and Michael J. Tolley.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Collins. First English edition, 1964.
The David Meredith trilogy gets going.
Very good in good dustwrapper, illustrated by Sidney Nolan, chipped and rubbed along edges and folds, missing a small piece from the fold at the top of the front panel, and with an ink price on the inside front fold of the dustwrapper.
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[Sydney]: Cinesound, [1936].
Four tinted promotional stills from the movie featuring Chut, the orphaned boxing kangaroo, sitting inside an 'outdoor romance' and the familiar struggle of good and evil; directed by Ken G. Hall after his return from Hollywood.
Stills measure 28 x 35cms., pinholes at corners, edges frayed, and a couple of short tears. Overall very good. The four stills
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Harbord, NSW: L.G. Pimblett, [c.1940].
Eight blocks (9cms. square, 7cms. deep), each containing a metal bell, and illustrated with colour images on each surface of animals playing different notes, eg a cow on violin, a dog on trumpet, an elephant on double bass etc., to be arranged according to the layout of the piano keyboard, and all conducted by a kangaroo in tails. In the original box, 190 x 370cms., with accompanying booklet setting out instructions for layout of blocks and illustrated sequences to play ten songs (8pp., the same dimensions as the box) Colour illustrated lid replicating booklet cover and showing all nine animals performing, the kangaroo raised on a tree stump.
Cover and box evenly darkened with age, one flap of lid missing, corners of lid cracked, tape repairs internally sound, ready to play. Very good.
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London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1990.
The poet's second volume of memoirs, written in the aftermath of the death of his wife, recounts a journey to the south-west wilderness of Tasmania and onto New Zealand in the footsteps of his great-grandfather Patrick from County Carlow; inscribed by the author to Lord and Lady Milford, 'Love to Wogan & Tamara from Patrick 1990', and signed by him on the title page.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1971.
A contemporary Australian parent-child fable, part reality, part Gothic myth, set on a remote farm with alarming secrets; the author's sixth novel; inscribed by him 'To a good off-spinner'.
Edgewear. Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1968.
The first book by the Korean born Australian novelist set in the period immediately before Dien Bien Phu and until the arrival of the American troops; inscribed by the author with the inscription in Korean.
Top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper.
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Elizabeth Bay, NSW: Basic Shapes Publishing. First Australian edition, 2021.
Thirty-two illustrated, autobiographical stories by the Australian dancer and artist; plus an illustrated chronology of her life from her birth in Cremorne in 1914, dancing with the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, sixty years overseas, film-making, choreography, performance, book publishing, to dancing on the cliffs at Clovelly Beach, then 99, and spinning memories into imaginative tales at 106; foreword by Sue Healey; signed by the author.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Reprint, 1923.
'The First Series' containing twenty stories with 'Steelman' (the last story), omitted from the table of contents and tacked on to the end of the list of illustrations; the first of three parts issued that year. Cover illustration by Percy Lindsay and four of Frank Mahony's illustrations.
Pictorial wrappers. Nick at crown of spine, extremities evenly tanned, about very good.
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St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin. First Australian edition, 1994.
'The Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1994'; CD containing a recording of a speech by Sir Robert Menzies, 9 October 1953, at the Trocadero, Sydney in a pocket at the rear; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Winmalee, NSW: Three Sisters. First Australian edition, 1990.
Six kilometres between Wentworth Falls and Leura; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Gordon and Gotch, 1871.
Catalogue of exhibits from New South Wales for the London exhibition of 1871.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Covers and sections detached, complete, 36pp. Fair.
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Potts Point, NSW: Duffy and Snellgrove. First Australian edition, 2003.
From Arthur Phillip to John Howard, indexed; inscribed by the author in the year of publication, 'To ____ bleak times in bleak city'.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: MacGibbon and Kee. First English edition, 1952.
Beginning with the rare sighting of a spotted duck-billed platypus – rumoured to bring good luck; the author's second novel and reputed to be his favourite despite being better known for his London trilogy about urban squalor, racial tension, drugs and vice. A self-proclaimed 'anarchist sympathiser', who 'lived decadence and wrote decadence', the author opts for youthful innocence, setting June's love affair against 1950s outback Australia...but will a native mammal as her mascot really help June to survive what lies ahead?
Spots of foxing to prelims and extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper designed by Ruth Sheradski.
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London: MacGibbon and Kee. First English edition, 1966.
Cootamundra in the 1920s: A stranger comes to play tennis – lives are changed forever.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with light wear along edges.
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Richmond, Vic: Niagra Publishing. First Australian edition, 2005.
Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Anne Ryan, fourteen full page colour reproductions.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: The artist. First Australian edition, 2021.
After a visit to the J.D.Salinger centenary exhibition at the New York Public Library in 2019; five hundred numbered copies, signed by the artist.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine
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Richmond, Vic: Niagra. First Australian edition, 2021.
Exhibition catalogue. The artist's latest exhibition, going ahead digitally during lockdown; introductory note on the rigor required to be idle by Noel McKenna, followed by nineteen full page colour reproductions of the works, many with background text on facing pages.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Sydney: Thinking Fisherman. First Australian edition, 1993.
Illustrations by Noel McKenna. One of seven proof copies produced on blue paper with a pictorial dustwrapper before the artist was persuaded to change to a typographical cover; signed by the artist.
Plain wrappers. Fine in pictorial dustwrapper.
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Hornsby, NSW: Hedley and Del Somerville. Reprint, 2003.
Hornsby, New South Wales, early twentieth century: businesses, individuals, institutions and the reach of the creations there; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1960.
Australian prosperity at the beginning of the sixties; 120+ cartoons, most originally published in 'The Sun', Sydney.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. First Australian edition, 1993.
One hundred and eighty short, illustrated biographies of Australian sporting people culled from the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'; organised alphabetically: George Adams to William Cross Yuille.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press. First Australian edition, 1993.
Extracts from, and history of, the Australian newspaper of the 1970s: when Sam Orr, John Hepworth, Mungo MacCallum, Michael Leunig, Bob Ellis were all new; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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North Sydney, NSW: Richmond Ventures. First Australian edition, 2002.
Unattributed 'tidbits in papers and mags are circled and stored. Stray comments at corporate conventions are captured, then twisted to my purpose' to become a 'Handbook for the Third Millennium' by the self-described 'travel-worn author, stirrer, futurist and windbag' and presented in the limbo form of info graphics pointing towards artist's book; signed by the author in 2007.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Melbourne: Nosukumo. First Australian edition, 1992.
Introduction by David N. Pepperell, followed by thirty letters from Anais Nin to him, 1968-1974, one more from James Leo Herlihy, 19 December 1976, explaining that she is now too weak to write; inscribed by David Pepperell in 1993.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Adelaide: Rigby. First Australian edition, 1983.
Arriving in Perth in 1920, aged sixteen, and on through the creation of her world of fantasy children's literature; the first of two volumes of autobiography; illustrated; foreword by Walter McVitty.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Brisbane: W.R. Smith and Paterson. Reprint, 1942.
The eleventh impression, first published December 1940; sixty photographs for this impression; beginning on 17 February 1937.
Boards with paper covers tipped on, with the Green Mountains bookmark laid in. Spine creased. Very good.
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Brisbane: Jacaranda. First Australian edition, 1961.
Sydney Sparkes Orr as the victim; signed by the author.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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Paris: Halle Saint Pierre, 2006.
Invitation to the opening for an exhibition of twenty-two Australian outsider artists in Paris: list of artists, dates of exhibition and details of curators.
Single card measuring 21x30cms., printed in colour both sides, and folded once. Fine.
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Parramatta, NSW: Roxy Theatres Ltd, [1930].
#15 containing details of the movies showing from 17-23 May, prices, bookings, a plug for the Kogarah Victory, a dense page of news from Eddie, the Roxy's master organist; many local advertisements, notably The Rex Cabaret where Frank Speerin was midway through an attempt on the Depression marathon dancing world record.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Only good. Frail.
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Sydney: Power Publications and Department of Performance Studies. First Australian edition, 2002.
Essays on six performances – 'The Machine, oiled again', 'Inflorescent', 'Secateur' 'Remanence', 'The Midday Movie and the History of Australian Painting', and 'Cloche' – 1997-2001; illustrated, artist's biography, contributors' biographies.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Mosman, NSW: Mosman Art Gallery. First Australian edition, 2009.
Exhibition catalogue. Essays by Tony Geddes, Albie Thoms, Keith Looby, Danni Zuvela, 'How I Have Looked on My Photographs' by David Perry; biography, bibliography, illustrated throughout.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Sydney: Sydney University Press. First Australian edition, 1978.
Definitions, origins, appearances -'dingbat', 'frenchy', 'jack up', 'happy as Larry' - exhaustive, except for 'Chicka'; inscribed by the author.
A little edgewear, very good in dustwrapper.
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North Sydney, NSW: The Aboriginal Arts Board. First Australian edition, 1975.
All over a large block of the overlap of Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia; illustrated, 72pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Canberra, ACT: National Portrait Gallery. First Australian edition, 2003.
Exhibition catalogue. 'POL' (1968-1985) makes it on to the museum walls; introduced by Don Dunstan's manifesto, 'We chronicle Australia's maturity. We pursue the causes of the good. Australians of the world unite and read POL - you have nothing to lose but your cultural cringe'; colour and black and white reproductions, 56pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Scripts. First Australian edition, 1968.
High in the Andes, a secret organisation, the sensuous Virginia Long ... an excellent example of book or movie where the title, I'm thinking 'Snakes on a Plane', or, in this case, the cover, renders the contents redundant; John Baxter, a freelance-editor working at Horwitz at the time, has tipped in a printed note about his involvement in its production and signed this copy.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 2016.
Thirteen stories, published as pulps between 1946 and 1954; period layout and reproductions of original covers.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press. First Australian edition, 1981.
Sydney during the second half of the nineteenth century and one prominent character: 'The Life and Times of Quong Tart'.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. First Australian edition, 2007.
Essays on fifty Australian books - fiction, non-fiction, poetry – interwoven with forty-three contemporaries' choices of their favourite Australian books, including Helen Garner, Les Murray and Tim Winton; long inscription by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Macmillan. First Australian edition, 1997.
Three long pieces: 'Ripe To Tell' (Modjeska), 'The Clear Voice Suddenly Singing' (Lohrey), 'At Last the Secret' (Dessaix); signed by the three authors.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else very good in dustwrapper.
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[Surry Hills, NSW]: Nimrod, 1978.
Program for The Australian production of one of the author's 'family plays', this one set on a farm in Southern California; set design and program illustration by Martin Sharp.
Single sheet measuring 29 x 44cms., folded twice, printed both sides in colour. Fine.
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press. First Australian edition, 1980.
Malaita, Solomon Islands, 1927: William Bell, colonial government representative, murdered, followed by the revenge on the 'Malaitamen'; illustrated; inscribed by Peter Corris in 1987.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. First Australian edition, 1989.
The author's first book, a summer in the country for an eleven-year-old girl; inscribed by the author.
Original pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Sydney: The State Theatre, [1929].
Volume1, Number 13, August 13 [1929]. Weekly magazine published by the ninety-two year old cinema and theatre: movies, performers, and, through 58pp. of mostly advertisements, a wonderful picture of Sydney life a couple of months before the Great Depression.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled, featuring Clara Bow in 'Dangerous Curves'. Covers detached but complete, internally very good.
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Dee Why, NSW: Paul Hamlyn. First Australian edition, 1969.
One hundred and eighty+ photographs, most full page, all over Sydney, Opera House almost finished: architecture, inhabitants, gatherings, fashion, social classes and customs; portraits of Len Evans, Robert Klippel, Charles Blackman, Janet Dawson; text in English, German and French, introduction by Sir Robert Helpmann; inscribed by the author.
One annotation, 'our first home', in text, else very good in good only dustwrapper nicked and torn along edges.
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Sydney: James Fraser. First Australian edition, 1984.
Portraits, landscapes, groups, journeys, accompanying text; the seeds of the author's later slideshows and, as the title asserts, a specific time version of Sydney, mostly inner city and heading east; the author's first book; introduction by Jim Sharman, '[it is] a solitary journey through the land of the dispossessed'.
Spots of foxing to foredge, short closed tear to rear crown of dustwrapper, very good in dustwrapper.
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Lane Cove, NSW: Doubleday. First Australian edition, 1986.
'Rona', Bellevue Hill: building, position, occupants, history; illustrated.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: The University of Sydney and Hale and Iremonger. First Australian editions, 1991, 1995.
Two volumes: 1850-1939, 1940-1990; the official history, describing the strains and scarcities of the war years, the university's contribution to the war in military intelligence and radar, post-war stress, and how the university coped with the influx of returned soldiers; 1,200+pp., illustrated, indexed.
Vol.2 has a brief gift inscription, else both fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes
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Ringwood, Vic: McPhee Gribble. First Australian paperback edition, 1991.
Sando and Hedda escape from Sydney, a walled city, in 2075; inscribed by the author in 1993, and with her annotation underlining '... and lives in the beachside Sydney suburb of Darling Point' and noting 'silly Victorian person'; laid in is an autograph note, signed to John Baxter sending an early draft of this novel and remarking, 'I didn't realise when I set it in the future that I'd actually be treading on some science fiction writers' toes ...'
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Rocks, NSW: Sydney Cove Authority. First Australian edition, 1997.
A pictorial trawl through the personalities, minutiae, buildings and history of The Rocks.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Sydney: UNSW Press. First Australian edition, 2011.
An illustrated history of this singular space; list of performances 1955-2010, period ephemera illustrations; foreword by Peter Sculthorpe.
Pictorial wrappers. Review copy with promotional bumpf laid in. Fine.
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Broadway, NSW: John Fairfax and Sons. First Australian edition, 1985.
The Herald's version of Australia from Federation to the beginning of World War Two; c.150+ reproductions, both colour and black and white.
Fine in dustwrapper a little sunned around the perimeter.
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Hobart: J Walch and Sons. First Australian edition, [c.1914].
A journey through the 'Right Little Tight Little Island'; illustrated by Hal Gye.
Pictorial wrappers. Foxing to extremities and prelims. Very good.
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Mentone, Vic: Nucolorvue Productions. First Australian edition, [1950].
Fifty-six colour reproductions, a general puff piece, 'Nature has been lavish in her assortment of majestic mountain peaks ...the early pioneers found here a close resemblance to their beloved England, Scotland ...', in praise of Tasmania.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A little darkened around perimeter, else fine.
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Hobart: [University of Tasmania], [1957].
'With Special Reference to Tasmania'; translation of the French extracts from the authors' earlier work; maps, illustrations and foreword by the French ambassador, '... Hobart is, among all the Australian capital cities, the one where we feel ourselves to be nearest to Europe and, I would say, to France. And yet, geographically, it is the most distant.' Signed by both authors.
Fine in good dustwrapper chipped at edges and sunned on the rear panel.
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Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, [c.1961].
'... a brief illustrated survey of some points of interest in the history of Tasmania'; 22pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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Sydney: Cassell. First Australian edition, 1968.
'The Story of a Doomed Race'; European settlement and an indigenous population, decimated but not extinct, surviving through resilience.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Text. First Australian edition, 2012.
Twenty-four stories, nineteenth century onwards; introductory essay, short biographies of authors; and claimed, on the dust wrapper, as the first collection of Tasmanian short fiction.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Landsdowne Press. First Australian edition, 1971.
Across the country, colour photographs by Jutta Hosel, glossary, indexes of scientific and common names; inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Original black cloth stamped in green. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: University Gallery, University of Melbourne. First Australian edition, 1983.
Exhibition catalogue. A survey exhibition of paintings, works on paper, ceramics and assemblages, 24pp., illustrated; inscribed to Betty Churcher by the artist, 'an advance copy a few errors to correct my thanks for your support. Keep under wraps until Tuesday'.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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Paris: Arlea. First French edition, 1994.
'Three Uneasy Pieces', translated by Jacqueline Delia.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Sydney: Hodder. First Australian edition, 2002.
Eco-thriller by the ABC journalist: Aghast at climate change, corporate greed and government bungling, animals take matters into their own hands; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Adelaide: Rigby. First Australian edition, 1976.
Short illustrated biographies of sixty-seven Australian women, a wide net – Anne Deveson, Pat Lovell, Lilian Horler, Molly Cowboy, Marea Gazzard – published after the feminist year of 1975 and with a title from somewhere before that.
Fine in very good dustwrapper lightly worn along edges.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1916.
A contemporary history of the Gallipoli campaign by the English poet and novelist; illustrations and foldout map.
Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good in dustwrapper darkened around the spine and perimeter and missing a small piece from the crown of the spine.
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Melbourne: Ross's Book Service. Second Australian edition, 1919.
The author's experience of prison after being arrested for '... a breach of the War Precautions Act; to wit, the having given utterance upon a public platform to words apt to cause disaffection to His Majesty the King'; first printing the previous year.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. First American edition, 1930.
The Gallipoli campaign as 'a novel of fact' by the second in command of British espionage.
Bookplate of Dean and Helen Wittier laid in. Fine in dustwrapper by C.Leroy Baldbridge.
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Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. First annotated edition, 1987.
'A Personal Record of the 1914-1918 War' by the lexicographer, introduced and annotated by Geoffrey Serle; first published in 1929.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Viking. First Australian edition, 2013.
Six sections: 'The Great Adventure', 'Gallipoli', 'The Middle East', 'With the British', 'The Western Front' and 'In Memory'; combination fiction, memoir and non-fiction from those on the frontline as well as behind the scenes: 'The Best Anzac Writing of World War One'; 400+pp.
Edgwear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Canberra: NLA Publishing. First Australian edition, 2017.
Pictorial history of the action away from the military battles of World War One; the bitter war at home for or against conscription and the 1916/1917 conscription plebiscites, severe food and money shortages, the effects of permanent mourning on a society.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1944.
'We arrived in Brisbane in August 1942 - two more Army wives'; volunteer drivers for the American military in Queensland; '... as perhaps the first detailed account of war work done by Australian girls ...' claims the dustwrapper.
Canted. Good in dustwrapper cracked along folds, chipped and worn.
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Sydney: Consolidated Press. First Australian edition, 1944.
Collects letters from members of the Australian military during World War Two; foreword by General Blamey.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner signature. Very good in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Oxford University Press. First Aust edition, 1946.
Three years and seven months as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War Two; told in verse through thirty-one cantos and illustrations; see adjacent image for a reproduction of a page of the manuscript.
Owner's signature on front pastedown. Good in dustwrapper.
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Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia. First Australian edition, 1992.
Three months in New Guinea during World War Two, immediately after the Battle of the Kokoda Trail.
Extremities dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Port Melbourne, Vic: Thomas Lothian. First Australian edition, 1994.
Biography, monograph on the life and work of Damien Parer, the war cameraman in general, and the uses and potency of wartime images; inscribed by the author, 'For John [Baxter], with much gratitude for all the help at the outset. June 1994'
Pictorial wrappers. Fine
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Port Melbourne, Vic: William Heinemann. First Australian edition, 1989.
'A Time in the Life of William Yang', nine equivalent mini slideshows, titles: 'Starting Again', 'My Family', 'Journey to the Centre', 'Home Births', 'Some Facts of Life', 'The Adoption', 'The Folly of Patrick White', 'Portraits of Writers' and 'Phoenix'.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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