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Our new catalogue contains 230 items: Tom Ripley and Frank Bascombe sagas, both complete; Samuel Beckett on Imagination, signed; the Polish versions of New Guinea and Jane Campion’s The Piano; Joe Brainard’s I Remember, complete; The Songlines, signed by Bruce Chatwin; an inventory of forgeries from 400 BC onwards; three books of the offline world; Cloudstreet, first hardcover edition; Alan Davidson’s gift to mourners at his funeral; Andrew Sayers and Bill Henson, inscribed books to Betty Churcher; a little of the Magna Carta reprinted in 2015; Cat at the Window, instructions for play; two books of military slang, published 57 years apart; Winnie the Pooh in Latin; Joyce's biographers cross paths; Gravity’s Rainbow squared; Zeno Cosini’s first appearance in America; four spectacular copies of World War One novels; The Twyborn Affair signed by Patrick White; and three Golems.
Prague: Les Editions. First edition, 2006.
Exhibition catalogue from the Prague City Gallery, June to September 2006, English text. 217 reproductions, most colour; essays, biographies of the artists, history of this most idiosyncratic of styles; 1,500 copies, 700 in English, 800 in Czech.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Adventures in Poetry. First American edition thus, 2001.
Originally published in 'Adventures in Poetry' in 1970. Question 1: 'Thinking can help to solve a problem because? A) problems exist only in the mind B) problems must be taken seriously C) mind triumphs over matter D) not to think would be to avoid the problem E) no problem can be completely solved anyway [or] F) it is our duty to think our way out of problems'.
Patterned wrappers, sewn, with tipped-on label. Fine. 500 copies.
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[Warsaw]: Gruzinska Wytwornia, 1965.
Original poster by Liliana Baczewska for a Polish documentary about Australia. A modestly designed poster that, even allowing for the no. of Poles who emigrated here, does not visualise Australia beyond a title over a printed map.
Poster measures 52 x 53. Top right corner missing a slither, else fine. Rolled.
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North Blackburn, Victoria: Collins Dove. First Australian edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue surveying contemporary Aboriginal Art. Inscribed by Rosemary Crumlin to Roy Churcher in the year of publication.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Royal Academy of Arts, London. First English edition, 2013.
Exhibition catalogue. The most recent exhibition of Australian Art in England. Five sections: Country Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana and Franchesca Cubillo, Land and Landscape: the Colonial Encounter 1800-1880 by Ron Radford, Art Nation: Australian Landscape 1880-1920 by Anne Gray, Australian Landcape: Pathways into the Modern World 1920-1950, Elizabethan Post Colonial 1950-2013 by Daniel Thomas; Dead Heart / Live Heart by Thomas Keneally; artists' biographies, chronology, 205 reproductions, most full page and most colour.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: The Harvill Press. First English edition, 2001.
A hybrid English edition: 'The Seduction of My Sister' and 'Camouflage' of the Australian edition with 'The Drover's Wife', an earlier, much anthologised story, added.
Fine in dustwrapper
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New York: Milestone, 2015.
The two original American posters for Ross Lipman's 'kino-essay' documenting one of the not so unlikely collaborations in movie history. Or, the irresistible pull of Buster Keaton's screen persona on other 20th century art forms.
Each poster measures 99 x 68cms. Both rolled, both fine. The two posters
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Aarhus, Denmark: X Press. First Danish edition, 2001.
Forty poems by a Danish poet travelling in Australia, English text; signed by the author in 2005.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Warsaw]: Nordisk Films, 1957.
Original Polish poster for Jens Bjerre's Danish documentary, New Guinea - the Last Peoples (The Last Cannibals is the English title of his book of these years) made during his period living with the Kukukuku tribe in the mid 1950s. New Guinea society and flora and fauna would have been a test even for Polish graphic designers and Eryk Lipinski sticks with the outline of the country, turns it on its side, and makes it the background for a previously unseen face.
Poster measures 90 x 62cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Zurich: Scalo. First Swiss edition, 1994.
Edited by Simon Bischoff in collaboration with the Swiss Foundation for Photography. Landscapes, travels, portraits, social life, 100+ full page reproductions; transcripts of interviews with Bowles in Tangier, 1989-1991; English text.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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[Melbourne: the author]. First Australian edition, 1946.
The poet's third collection; the fabulous cover is her design.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine.
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Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. First American edition, 1996.
Twenty-four essays and other prose pieces written between 1917 and 1923: Duchamp, De Chirico, Jarry, Apollinaire and Manifestos.
Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2008.
Signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A Knopf. First American edition, 1956.
The Cuban novelist's first book to appear in English.
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened on the spine and light wear at the edges.
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Birmingham and New York: Delos Press and William Drenttel. First edition, 1997.
Translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. Parallel German English text of the first publication of this long poem originally intended for 'The NoMans-Rose' (1963), and removed by Celan. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. The deluxe issue. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the translator.
Cloth and marbled boards, with printed label. Fine as issued. Prospectus laid in.
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Birmingham and New York: Delos Press and William Drenttel. First edition, 1997.
Translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. Parallel German English text of the first publication of this long poem originally intended for 'The NoMans-Rose' (1963), and removed by Celan. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. 250 numbered copies.
Printed letterpress on Zerkall mould-made paper. Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine in hand-marbled dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1938.
Celine in overdrive, the ...s run rampant; the first English translation by John Marks.
Near fine in very good dustwrapper chipped at edges and with the remnants of a stain on the reverse.
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New York: The Grolier Club. First American edition, 2014.
Exhibition catalgoue. From Orbis Sensualium Picts (1658) to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), 98 other books in between, all illustrated, in colour where applicable, bibliography and reference works; four essays on Children's Literature by Justin G. Schiller, his on the "gradual legitimacy of collecting rare children's books, Jill Shefrin, Brian W. Alderson and Nick Clark
Qto. Original blue cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Sydney Film Festival, 1954-2017.
A complete set of programs from The Sydney Film Festival, 1954-2019. From the first: June 11-14, 1954, held at four venues across Sydney University, 9 movies screened, to full houses, or 1,200 tickets sold at a guinea each, to 2017, held at eleven venues across Sydney and suburbs, 288 movies screening from 59 countries. In between the Festival has had twelve directors, David Stratton the longest serving from 1966-1983, Sylvia Lawson and Robert Connell were co-directors in 1959; numerous venues: the State, from 1974 and counting is the longest, various halls at the University of Sydney from 1954-1967, the Wintergarden at Rose Bay from 1968-1973, the Orpheum at Cremorne in 1967 and again in the last few years. The programs provide a mini-history of movies during the period of the Festival: censorship battles, notably from c.1966-1970, again with Ken Park in 2003; the inclusion of movies from countries outside Europe, America and Japan; the retrospectives of movies previously unseen in Australia; advertisements for Sydney cinemas now all closed or demolished as well as clubs, restaurants, movie companies, bookshops, film processors and travel agents, most as well long gone in the digital age. The programs contain similar information: credits, synopses, schedules for screenings, in various formats that mirror the changing status of the festival, the no. of movies screened, and the nature of the times. Or, modest pamphlets grew into glossy programs and into tabloid newspapers. Many contain loose sheets, often in the pre-digital age, detailing program changes, or other information about movies, meetings or other events.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Edges frayed in some of the early, fragile vols., the first is particularly frail, some with brief annotations; all very good or better. For the 66vols. plus anniversary editions and loose printed ephemera.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1991.
The long view - poetic, autobiographical, historical - on depression in 84pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2013.
A local printing of an Emily Dickinson poem written c.1861 and first published in book form thirty years later; hand-set and printed by Michael Richards on Fabriano Rosaspina; fifty numbered copies, the first publication of the Press. The Murrumbateman Dickinson.
Single sheet, 35 x 25cms., printed in two colours. Fine.
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Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press. First Australian edition, 2004.
A selection of Rosemary Dobson's poetry for schools, edited by Rob Riel. Laid in is an autograph note, signed from Rosemary Dobson to Betty Churcher, 11th August 2004, giving the background to, and her experience of, the publication; some chat and concluding, 'I am busy but, sadly, not very productive.'
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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South Melbourne: Macmillan. First Australian edition, 1977.
Beginning at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932; inscribed by the author to [Geoff and Ninette] Dutton and family in 1978.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Stanningley, Leeds: Prospect Books. First English edition, 1983.
Two volumes of Proceedings. Food as well as people on the move across the centuries: twenty-four pieces including, local relevance, 'Australia's Food Culture Originated in England' by Lionel Stone and 'Australia's One Continuous Picnic' by Michael Symons and, a wider net, 'The Spread of Kebabs and Coffee: Two Isalmic Movements', 'Spaghetti - But Not on Toast: Italian Food in London', 'The Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan'; reports on activities of working groups, details of participants and contributors.
Pictorial wrappers. Both fine. The two vols.
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Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. First American edition, 1979.
History and origins of the parts of animals that we have to chosen to eat for protein, followed by recipes for their currently taboo regions, then a selection from the organs of the other animals who are waiting to find their way onto our plates. Organised by animal, each containing recipes for the taboo regions, - 'Calf Lung Stew', 'Pig's Stomach and Abalone', 'Sheep's Feet with Yoghurt', 'Swabian Snails', 'Red-Ant Chutney', 'Crisp Roasted Termites', 'Mountain Oysters' (pigs' testicles) - from around the world; general as well as regional index, Australia contributes 'Shark Ball Soup' and, thankfully, no illustrations; inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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South Melbourne: Macmillan. First Australian edition, 1994.
Not pirates, gypsies or thieves but a cookbook as the villain. Illustrations by Geoffrey Tate.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: George Braziller. First American edition, 1967.
The novelist's one collection of poems published during her lifetime. Inscribed by her to Bill Brown and Paul Wonner - 'My two [American] friends ... are trying to work out something for me so that I’ll be able to leave here and live with them. We get on very well together and love one another and the ‘permissive society’ is greatly to be commended” (9 July 1970)', Janet Frame to May Sarton' - who remained friends with the author, though not without some twists and turns, until her death in 2004.
Edgewear. Near fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Villiers Publications, 1954.
French issue, #7, of this quarterly containing poetry by Rene Char, Jean Genet, Pierre Reverdy, Robert Desnos, Antoine Tudal, Francis Ponge, Jules Supervielle and others in translations by David Gascoyne, Michael Hamburger, James Kirkup and the editor.
Printed wrappers. Darkened around perimeter. Very good.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1989.
One hundred plus folktales, divided into loose subject categories – including 'The Devil', 'Around the Village', 'The Mad and the Wise'; illustrated; translated and introduction by Royall Tyler; selected from the collection of Henri Pourrat.
Review copy with press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Graz: Scalo. First Austrian edition, 2003.
Exhibition catalogue. Twenty-five illustrated essays working through all of the photographer's film and video work, from Pull My Daisy (1959) to Paper Route (2002); biography, bibliography, list of illustrations and stills. Parallel German and English text throughout.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Gottingen: Steidl. First German edition, 2007.
Facsimile of the screenplay of Robert Frank's 1969 movie about Julius Orlovsky, 52pp., illustrated. Screenplay credited to Sam Shepard, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Robert Frank. English text.
Printed wrappers with transparent dustwrapper and dvd of the movie tipped in inside rear cover. All fine.
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Florence: Scala Group. First edition, 2010.
Surveys from 1890s to the 1980s: designs for manifestos, advertising, publishing, movies, travel, 597pp., colour illustrations on every page; parallel English, German, Dutch, Spanish text.
Owner stamp and slight abrasion at base of spine, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Coward McCann, Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Lippincott and Crowell. All first American editions, 1955-1992.
Tom Ripley – a likeable sociopath, heroic and demonic, energetic and amoral, overcivilised and undersensitised, – was a not untypical protagonist for the second half of the twentieth century and a likely candidate for elected office two generations into the twenty-first. Patricia Highsmith constructed him so exactly that “Reading the book[s] becomes exquisitely uncomfortable. [They are] perfectly engineered to make us give our sympathies to the wrong man. To rejoice, even, when luck is on his side ... we get so deep inside his head”. Tom Ripley is a kindred spirit to Rick Pym, Magnus' father, in John Le Carre's A Perfect Spy, albeit without that character’s reluctance to kill. Twenty-seven years after the last Ripley and twenty-three years after his creator’s death, his appeal shows no signs of fading. He has been played in movies, television and radio, to date, by Alain Delon, Jonathan Kent, Matt Damon, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich, Barry Pepper, Ian Hart and, I suspect, more to follow. Ripley’s Game is inscribed by the author in 1976; laid in are three aerogrammes from Patricia Highsmith to the same recipient, all typed, letters signed, 1976-1977, literary news, her work, plans to meet, “Yes, I no sooner struck ------ with a little buckshot, than I was whammed in the Observer 20 Nov. With an awful photo and a not very sympathetic article. So much for 8 hours of my time.”
The Talented Mr. Ripley has some edgewear, label of the Jaffe Literary Agency, otherwise fine in first issue dustwrapper evenly faded on the spine. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is a review copy with promotional material, including a photograph of the author, laid in. Ripley's Game is near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Ripley Under Water is fine in dustwrapper. The five vols. and three aerogrammes
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London: Macmillan. First English edition, 1969.
Mid career in Russell Hoban's first period as a children's book writer; illustrations by Lillian Hoban, the author's wife.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
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Newcastle, NSW: 1980-1990s.
A small collection of newspaper banners from The Newcastle Herald from the 1980s and, mostly, the 1990s. The Newcastle Herald is a Fairfax owned tabloid for Newcastle, the largest non-capital city in Australia, the Hunter region and the Central Coast. The collection contains 134 banners: 1980 (1 banner), 1986 (4 banners), 1992 (75 banners) and 1994 (54 banners). The banners run to between 25 and 35 characters each (Twitter allows 140). Allowing for the restricted format, the banners possess a degree of variety within a strict hierarchy where any news item relevant to the Newcastle region – abbreviated to“Hunter”, “Valley” or “HV” here – takes precedence over state, national and international news. For example: “Valley Boy Missing”, “Threat to Hunter Mine”, “HV Murder: Creek Body Identified”, “Education: New Move in Hunter” and “Strangled: HV Woman Found Nude”. Once the Newcastle region is established, the general tabloid preference for deaths, sudden preferred; dismissal, deposed, or resigning, without notice or unexpectedly preferred; murders or convictions of public figures; confessions involving secrets or revelations, containing a scandalous element; all kick in. If none of these are present, then the headlines become more vague, keywords come into play: “interest rates”, “unemployment”, “price rises” and are presented in a manner invoking anxiety, fear, panic, falling short of hysteria, but carrying the promise of explanation once a copy has been purchased.
All two colour banners on newsprint, all 60 x 40cms., no duplicates, sorted chronologically. A couple with edges frayed, overall all very good or better. The collection, 134 banners
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Melbourne: Episodic Press. First Australian edition, 2016.
The other world inside this one; illustrated by the author, designed by Stephen Horsley. 150 numbered copies, signed by the author; the first title in a proposed series.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine in cardboard record single sleeve in plastic sleeve as issued.
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New York: The Orion Press. First American edition, 1959.
Fifty-three stories, from all the regions, the first selection of Calvino's retelling of Italian folktales to appear in English; translated by Louis Brigante, illustrated by Michael Train.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Hanover: University Press of New England. First American edition, 1982.
A long post-war legacy was expected from Humphrey Jennings had he not died accidentally in 1950, while at work, on location. Poet, artist, filmmaker, author of the collage history, 'Pandaemonium 1660-1886: the Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers', and co-founder of the Mass Observation movement, 60 years before Google – Jennings has been referred to as the poet of English cinema for his evocative films of the Second World War.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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West End, Qld: Citizens Intelligence Agency. First Australian edition, 1985.
Rehearsals for the Apocalypse Part 3, published by the author; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Farrar and Rinehart. First American edition, 1939.
The prolific author’s second biography of Joyce (the first was James Joyce – His First Forty Years, published 1925), completed 15 November 1939, fourteen months before its subject's death; illustrated, 351pp. plus index.
Fine in very good dustwrapper a little darkened around the perimeter of the rear panel.
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New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1950.
Svevo's speech delivered in Milan in 1927, translated here by Stanislaus Joyce, and issued as a Christmas keepsake by James Laughlin for the friends of New Directions; #593/1500 numbered copies, total edition 1,600 copies.
Printed wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper creased a little at edges; book measures 10 x 7.75cms.
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New York: W.W. Norton. First American edition, 1997.
The biography of the outstanding figure in the study of human sexuality during the 20th century; 930+pp including index.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Copenhagen: 1957.
Original Danish poster for Jack Lee's adaptation of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, released in Denmark on 27 February 1957. The movie had various titles worldwide. All removed the local reference to Alice Springs in favour of mostly references to Malaya or 'returns', the Danes went for 'The Indomitable'.
Poster measures 85 x 62cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Dublin: The Lilliput Press. First Irish edition, 2009.
Revisionist biography for this most cosmopolitan of individuals; illustrated, 50 letters and extracts of other writing by Leslie, family tree and chronology.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Boston: New York Graphic Society. First American edition, 1975.
Fifty-six tipped in colour plates, 115 b&w reproductions, catalogue raisonne 1968-1974, chronology, bibliography, text by Kramer, covering Lindner's career from his arrival in the USA in 1941 and concentrating on the overlap of his work and the Pop Art movement.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Florence: Scala Group. First edition, 2010.
An overview of the 15th and 16th century art, then Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, landscapes, Caravaggio's influence, Vermeer and still lifes; 150+ colour plates and details; English, Spanish, Dutch and German text.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press., 2015.
'A broadside printed for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta that comments on its exclusion of coverage to women, villeins (peasants or tenant farmers) and Jews. Printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper, with the larger letters from wood type, the M and C of Magna Carta in Goudy Cloister decorative capitals, and the 'for women' phrase (a partially hidden alternative reading, intended to follow the words in large type) blind embossed in a small black letter font. The lack of visibility of these words symbolises the invisibility of the people it describes in Magna Carta' - publisher's note.
Single sheet measuring 29.5 x 35.5cms. Fine. 26 unnumbered copies.
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St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press. First Australian paperback edition, 1974.
The author's second collection; inscribed by him to Geoff and Ninette Dutton in the year of publication.
Pictorial wrappers. Near fine.
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Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press and the State Library of Victoria. First Australian edition, 2010.
Maps from the State Library of Victoria chip away at the Eurocentric view of the world; 100+ reproductions from the collection; inscribed by the author to Betty Churcher.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1985.
Appreciation by Maurice Sendak, introduction by Waldo H. Hunt; monograph on the 19th century German cartoonist renowned for his pop-up books; six full page colour moving images with accompanying verse, the last image with the mechanism revealed on the verso.
Pictorial boards. Spots of foxing, else fine in slipcase as issued. Qto.
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London: Eric Partridge, the Scholartis Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1930.
The first of the New Zealand born lexicographer's dictionaries of slang and unconventional English: songs, chants and sayings, extensive glossary, appendixes of, eg, 'songs accompanying bugle calls'; lyrics to some songs expurgated, generally when the anatomy or intimate activities are involved - 'We are the heroes of the night / And we'd sooner _____ than fight / We're the heroes of the Stand-Back Fusiliers' - and become the more explicit for it.
Edgewear, two pages opened roughly. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges. 1,000 copies.
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Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2017.
The protagonists are a mosquito and virus. And they're looking for a host. Sound familiar? There are precedents for the pair: peek into Dr. Seuss and Munro Leaf's World War Two booklet and you're getting warm; illustrations by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. With the two flyers issued by the publisher explaining more of the background and the exclusive genre to which Addie and Zika belong.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 2013.
The business relationship between the Hollywood studios and the Nazi party through the 1930s, a different take on "the genius of the system"; inscribed by the author to Joel Greenberg.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Viking. First American edition, 1996.
The author's epic concerned with two angels' celestial project and the friendship between Max, Onno and Ada, the project's earthly agents.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Cremorne, NSW: Angus and Robertson. First Australian paperback edition, 1974.
The poet's third solo collection; inscribed by him in the year of publication to ' _____ with affection and thanks (next time I'll write a letter, too!)'.
Pictorial wrappers. Covers rubbed. Very good.
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London: The Economist Books. First English edition, 2016.
A selection from Intelligent Life, the publisher's magazine. Twenty-five contributors including Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, William Boyd, Roddy Doyle and Tim Winton, a B item, at the National Gallery of Victoria; signed by the editor.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Editions Poetry. First English edition, 1945.
'This is the real life of Sebastian Knight, the inside story. There is, to be sure, the official biography of Knight, but that, to put it very charitably, is a mass of misinformation ... '; the dustwrapper blurb. Dustwrapper designed by Tambimuttu, 'in the manner of Ben Nicholson'.
Fine in good dustwrapper faded on the spine and missing a small piece from the crown of the spine. Juliar A21.2, issue a.
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New York: McGraw-Hill. First American edition, 1977.
Six contributors: John Updike, Alfred Appel Jr., Alfred Kazin, Julian Moynahan, the publisher and Dmitiri Nabokov.
Blue cloth, stamped in gold. Spine very lightly sunned, else fine in transparent dustwrapper as issued; c.500 copies.
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New York: Norton. First American edition, 2006.
Stories of a very task specific superhero and containing 'The Golem or the Miraculous Deeds of Rabbi Leyb' by Yudl Rosenberg (1904), selections from 'Yiddish Folktales' and 'Legends of Old Prague' by S. Bastomski (1923), 'The Golem' by Dovid Frishman (1922) and 'The Golem' by H.Leivick (1920).
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New Rochelle, NY: The Elizabeth Press. First American edition, 1976.
Tidying up after the poet's death – fragments, unpublished and others – edited and introduced by Cid Corman; up to the poet's last recorded words, 'I think lines of poetry that I might use – all day long and even in the night' (15 November 1970).
Original green cloth stampled in blue. A little sunned on the spine, else fine in cardboard slipcase as issued. 400 copies.
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London: Macmillan. First English edition, 1967.
Sixty-nine reproductions, 14 colour, beginning in 1937, including the collages from the early 1940s, and on through Ned Kelly, Burke and Wills, a portrait of Rimbaud, and travels in Africa; index runs from African paintings to Judith Wright; signed by Elwyn Lynn and Sidney Nolan.
Fine in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks.
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San Francisco: The author. Third edition, [1915].
Sub-titled, 'Selling American goods in Australia, S.Africa, England, France, Canada and USA'; travels, tips, anecdotes, theories of selling, 95pp; an early invaders and well downstream from online shopping.
Pictorial wrappers, featuring an image of what looks like the South African leg, stapled rusted, else fine.
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Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. First American edition, 2012.
The Noble Order of the Garter, from its foundation by Edward III in 1348; introduced by a quotation from the Duke of Edinburgh, "... Rationally it's lunatic but in practice everyone enjoys it I think". Signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Gallery Five. First English edition, 1983.
Our oxygen: six spectacular pop-ups of animals' mouths working; and, if the Czechs are the foremost pop-up book artists, this expatriate Pole is a close second.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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South Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Editions. Second edition, 2016.
Illustrations in colour by Ann Arnold. First published with the illustrations in black and white in 2002. A raunchy parody of the Peter Rabbit books, replicating the format, and beginning, 'There was a mouse; she had a twin: / One mouse was Virtue; one was Sin;' the activities of both twins are vigorously described and illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris, London, New York: Olympia Press, Harper and Brothers, The Bodley Head, Bantam, Corgi, John Calder. Combination of first editions and reprints., 1959-1982.
Six English editions of Zazie dans le metro, first published in France in 1959 and the author's first commercially popular novel. Two translations here: the first English language by Akbar del Piombo [possibly Norman Rubington] and Eric Kahane, published in France, with illustrations by Jacqueline Duheme; the five other editions are all Barbara Wright's translation. All are titled Zazie, except for the later Calder reprint which returns to the original title and reproduces an image of Catherine Demongeot from the movie version for the cover. The other five editions struggle with the image of Zazie, the existence of the movie version notwithstanding, and move between pen and ink, watercolour and photographs to capture something of her sexuality, Frenchness, age and precociousness; their taglines all agree that she is French, 'A burlesque stream of Parisian perversion, our era's Alice in Wonderland', 'Exactly what foreigners think French novels ought to be'. Queneau is concerned with some of these issues but also with the combination of styles, register and classes of language, or “Doukipudonktan”, which begins the novel in French is translated here as “Holifart watastink” and “Howcanaystinksotho”.
All six copies have some edgewear and are tanned around the extremities, the American first hardcover has a piece missing from the top of the front panel and is a review copy with a b&w photograph of the cover image of Zazie laid in; overall all about very good. The six copies
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Iowa City: Empyrean Press. First American edition, 2016.
An extract from 'Housekeeping' published to celebrate the author's twenty-five years' teaching and service at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. #171/225 numbered copies signed by Marilynne Robinson; illustration 'Lake Coeur d'Alene' by Viza Arlington; printed from Rialto types on Rives paper by Shari DeGraw.
Single sheet, measures 24 x 34cms. Fine.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 2001.
The life of the most eccentric of French, or any country's, writers, illustrated; translated by Ian Monk; author and translator both members of OULIPO.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Boston, MA: MIT Press. First American edition, 1983.
October #25, the complete issue. The significance of the representation, and obscuring, of Christ's genitals in European Art from the Renaissance onwards; two hundred and forty-six reproductions; first publication of the author's groundbreaking study: a new course through European Art museums and churches.
Printed wrappers. Perimeter a little darkened, else fine.
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Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2016.
Linocut by Morgyn Phillips, printed by her and Michael Richards at the Vagantes Press. In January 2016, the Bodleian Library made an appeal to hand-press printers worldwide for newly printed copies of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. “Printers took up the challenge with great enthusiasm,” the library reported in November, “and the Bodleian has now received sonnets from more than a dozen countries in languages ranging from Armenian and Polish to Scots and Welsh.” And The Vagantes Press’ setting of Sonnet 30, set in Koch Antiqua.
Single sheet measuring 33 x 48cms. Fine. 30 copies.
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. First American edition, 1942.
Death of a Harbour-Master (a Maigret, first published in 1932) and The Man from Everywhere (first published in 1931, the same year that he published eleven Maigrets in French), featuring Superintendent Labbe and not Maigret.
Review copy with publisher's stamp and date of publication on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some creasing at the crown and base of the spine.
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New York: New York State Committee Communist Party, [1942].
Reprinted from The Daily Worker of 17 February 1942 (two days after the fall of Singapore) and calling for a united mobilisation, 'To answer the ruthless violence of the enemy, America needs a greater machinery for war violence. Army and Navy, ready to strike anywhere in the world where the enemy ravages his victims'.
Broadside measuring 35 x 21cms., printed on newsprint, recto only, evenly tanned, a couple of chips. Near fine.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1982.
Trouble in Prague. Illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. #393/450 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator.
Original brown cloth. Fine without dustwrapper as issued, in matching slipcase.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1993.
From the publisher's Fairy Tale and Folktale Library; 150 tales, collected from all parts of Sweden, divided into subject categories – including Metamorphoses, Trolls, Giants, Ghost, and Other Beings, True Dummies and Clever Folk – a precursor of Nordic Noir; illustrated.
Review copy with press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2014.
First published in 'By the Harbour Wall'(1990) and here hand-set and printed on Magnani Vergata hand-made paper; 50 numbered copies.
Single sheet measuring 48 x 29.5cms. Fine.
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New York: Harcoourt, Brace and World. First American edition, 1967.
The novelist's first and only book for children; illustrations by Laszlo Acs.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1991.
The author's first book for children; inscribed by the author to Morris Lurie and with a short autograph note from Trevor to Lurie thanking him for a book and inviting him to stay if he is in England.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf. First Canadian edition, 1993.
Twenty-nine autobiographical sketches begin with 'Places do not die as people do, but they often change so fundamentally that little is left of what they once were'.
The fragments that make up this memoir – William Trevor's childhood, parent's marriage, Dublin education, rural, small-town life – are vintage Trevor.
There are also short essays on his travels in Venice and Iran and illustrations by Lucy Willis.
Signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Norton. First American edition, 1978.
The first (and only?) Australian Uranian novel. Published the same year in England without 'Modification' in the title.
Fine in dustwrapper with a tiny mark on the rear panel.
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. First American edition, 1983.
Illustrated by the author; published before Polar Express, and concerned with events leading up to a shipwreck.
Fine in dustwrapper creased on the bottom edge of the rear panel.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. First American edition, 1990.
Walter learns the importance of the environment; illustrated by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Riverhead Books. First American edition, 2016.
A visitor from the protagonist's past and a Barbara Vine like unravelling; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Phaidon Press. First English edition, 1997.
Interiors, exteriors, architectural plans, artworks representing the city, illustrated; and a history from the wooden piles up of the 118 islands, aka Venice.
A couple of marks to prelims. Near fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 2005.
From Savannah, Georgia to Venice, Italy; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 2009.
Ackroyd takes his turn on history of this most written about city; illustrated.
Owner signature, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Verso. First English edition, 2011.
Exploring the Situationist International; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper which folds out for a collaborative graphic essay between the author and Kevin C. Pyle on the reverse.
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London: Verso. First English edition, 2013.
And the Situationist team members; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper which folds out for a collaborative graphic essay between the author and Kevin C. Pyle on the reverse.
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London: Virago. First English edition, 2006.
“I’ve been to a cinema, she answered quickly.
He nodded, as if sagely. A cinema, yes. Such curious places, I always think. Such instructive places … Next time you go to a cinema, Miss Langrish, you ought to just try something. Just turn your head and look over your shoulder. What will you find? So many faces, all lit by the restless, flickering light of impermanent things. Eyes fixed, and wide, with awe, with terror or with lust. Just so, you see, is the unevolved spirit held in thrall by material sense; by fictions and by dreams …
Four Londoners during World War Two, more than enough for a plot by this author; signed by Sarah Waters.
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed at folds.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English editions, 1991, 1996.
Two vols: 'The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh', edited by Charlotte Mosley and 'Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch - the Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper', edited by Artemis Cooper; both sides of both correspondences, illustrations, both indexed, 860+pp.
Both volumes fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First English edition, 1996.
The book of the PBS documentary of the same title. An illustrated history of a mythology with a number of conflicting versions. Eight chapters covering people, movements and places including: Hispanic people, Wilderness, Pioneers, Monument Valley; 150+ 19th century reproductions.
Review copy with local publisher's embargo slip tipped in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Julia MacRae Books. First English edition, 1985.
Illustrations by Linda Birch. Can a rat, and a Romany rat at that, ever prove his innocence? Inscribed by the author.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Scholastic Book Services. Reprint, 1985.
A giant's cheesemakers are made redundant with surprising consequences; inscribed by the author to Morris Lurie.
Pictorial wrappers. Original owner's name partly whiteouted, author's inscription over it, else fine.
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London: Picador. First English edition, 2002.
Miles Franklin winner; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1935.
The first of the author’s two novels, adapted for the stage in the same year as publication, and twenty-two years later for the cinema by Stanley Kubrick.
Shadow where bookplate has been removed from front pastedown, small mark rear endpaper, very good in lightly rubbed. creased, first issue, dustwrapper.
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Rome: 1982.
Eight original lobby cards for the Italian release of Gallipoli, premiered there on 7 May 1982. The familiar scenes - preparation, protagonists, Egyptian R&R - with the climax of the movie in different form at the left of each card.
Eight lobby cards, each measuring 33.5 x 47cms., all colour, rolled and fine. The set
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. First American edition, 1952.
The second novel by the German born Australian author who arrived here in 1965 by way of China, India, the United States and Argentina.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Warsaw: 1974.
Original Polish poster for A Girl in Australia [original title: Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata]. Filmed in Australia in February and March 1971 and concerned with the complications produced by an Italian migrant advertising for an Italian wife and a reply from a Roman prostitute seeking a new life. The design’s illustration is concerned with images of Italianess - admittedly Alberto Sordi’s, the male lead - and brides, with the lorikeet on Sordi’s head and some greenery the only possible references to the movie’s setting.
Poster measures 86 x 59cms. Rolled. Fine. Pike and Cooper #396.
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