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Our new catalogue: C.P.Cavafy Collected x 4; Wendy Cope standing up for the varieties, and the virtues, of being bored; Peter Beard’s crocodile and elephant books; alphabetical paper engineering for the electronic age; a contemporary account of the Gallipoli campaign; Federico Garcia Lorca x 7; Tomi Ungerer goes bestial; the Bounty in Central Europe; Kafka turns 130; Pacific Ocean cocktails; Jack McLaren, busy, mid-career; Paris by night, New Orleans by day; David Malouf, an association copy, at last; circling Frederick Rolfe; Ned Kelly in Tokyo; Penelope Fitzgerald x 5; Chips Rafferty in Copenhagen; a selection from the outposts of Surrealism; Balzac’s Human Comedy, complete with guides, in English; Maurice Guest uncensored; leaked files from The Circus; signed books by Dame Edna Everage, Tim Winton, TT.O., Susan Sontag, S.J. Perelman, Les Murray, the incomparable J.L.C. Booth, Cindy Sherman, Tobias Wolff, Rosemary Dobson, Philip Hodgins, Raymond Carver, Jeffrey Smart, Alan Hollinghurst, Inge Morath and Jonathan Franzen; Miss New Zealand 1927; and find out what a kangaroo was doing in Budapest early in the Cold War.
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Sixteen pages, colour illustrations throughout, accompanied by four lines of often strained rhymes, 'Q is for Queensland, in tropical climes, from which we get sugar, bananas and pine[apple]s.'
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Edgewear, crease to front panel, abrasion where price sticker has been removed. Very good.
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Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American illustrated edition, 2017.
Illustrations by Ann Arnold. Translation of 'Spørg Amagermoer' by Hans Christian Andersen, first printed by the British Library in connection with its 2005 Andersen exhibition. The bride and groom are carrots, the groom 'hard and knobbly' is a casualty of the proceedings.
Pictorial wrappers. New. Laid in 'Cassie & Terrence' by Ian Jackson, on the history and practice of 'libretti per nozze', with a decoration hand-coloured by the illustrator and signed by both illustrator and publisher. 400 copies, 150 distributed for friends of the bride and groom at a wedding Berkeley in 2017.
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[Melbourne]: [Bruno Leti], 1997.
The text of the poem, originally a gift from Chris Wallace-Crabbe to the Leti family, Christmas 1996, together with reproductions of 37 small acrylic sketches by Bruno Leti, these produced originally as part of his Clunes landscape series in 1995; #30/50 numbered copies signed by the author and artist.
Original cloth spine and grey boards with colour vignette. Fine.
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[Konigswinter]: Konemann. First English edition, 2005.
European representation of the people east of Venice and south of the Mediterranean from the Renaissance to the present: 300+ colour reproductions of works featuring orientalists, grand tourists, invading armies, the knights of Malta, markets, harems, interiors and by artists including Le Corbusier, Ingres, Delacroix. Matisse, Moreau, Picasso and Fromentin.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper with some tape marks on the reverse
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McMahons Point, NSW: Weldons Pty Ltd. First Australian edition, 1987.
The artist's illustrated journal of his travels in Arnhem Land; inscribed to Betty Churcher by Frank Hodgkinson.
Spots of foxing to prelims, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Paddington, NSW: Australian Galleries. Second Australian edition, 2008.
Garry Shead's turn at this most substantial of Australian literary figures. With a pen and ink drawing, signed by the artist on the half title.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
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Vienna: Theseus Temple. First Austrian edition, 2016.
The annual summer exhibition, of one artwork only, in the Theseus Temple, Vienna, curated by Jasper Sharp. Illustration of exhibition one side, documentation re the artist and work, German and English, on reverse.
Single sheet measuring 59 x 41.5cms. Folded four times, small ink annotation, else fine.
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New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 1977.
From "Whoroscope" (1930) onwards; parallel French English text for the poems written originally in French; 147pp.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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Menlo Park, CA: Occasional Works. First American edition, 2004.
Fleshing out details of Julia Margaret Cameron and Leonard Woolf's respective periods in Sri Lanka; #4 of the publisher's 'Of Interest' chapbooks.
Plain wrappers, with printed label. All fine. 100 copies.
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner and Co. First English edition, 1898.
John Lionel Calvert Booth - war correspondent with Punch, author of Trouble in the Balkans (1908), illustrator of R.C. Lehmann's Sportsmen and Others (1912), one of the 'Gallant Thirty' at Robert Baden-Powell's first official Scout camp in 1908, emigrated to Australia, died of wounds after Gallipoli. Inscribed by the author, 'Drored for old pal Bertie [Fry, added in another hand] by Lionel Booth. Xmas 98' and decorated with seven original pen-and-ink vignettes by him.
Cloth-backed boards. Spine worn, corners worn, upper cover slightly creased, lower cover ring-marked with one corner rather crumpled, inner hinge cracked, tape repair to edge of half-title. Just good.
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Budapest: c.1936.
Original pen and ink drawing by Ibolya Nadory for the Hungarian poster of the Clark Gable and Charles Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty, premiered in Budapest on the 5 March, 1936. The design of the poster follows the tried and proved path of stressing and contrasting the stars' recognisable appearances and names over the setting and story.
Sheet measures 27 x 22cms. Fine.
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Prague: [c.1984].
Czech handbill for the latest version of the mutiny on the Bounty story. Bligh has vanished; the boat, its name and Mel Gibson in swashbuckling mufti is deemed sufficient for Czech viewers.
Single sheet measuring 21 x 15cms., cast and crew plus promotional piece, in Czech, on reverse. Fine.
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[Prague]: [c.1984].
Original Czech poster for The Bounty, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. The first that I've seen without mention of Fletcher Christian and William Bligh and with a storm introduced.
Poster measures 21 x 30cms. Fine.
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Sydney: Gregory's Guides and Maps, [1964].
Two versions of Brisbane: from Petrie to Beenleigh and, next to it, the detailed version of the then city, from Kedron to Rocklea; Gregory's Road Map #77.
Map measures 50 x 76cms., folded once vertically, separating the two versions of Brisbane. A couple of nicks at edges, else fine.
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Los Angeles: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1928.
A publicity shot on the set of MGM's The Bushranger (1928), their version of 19th century Australia; captioned on reverse, 'Edward A. Brady plays the fiddle and Tim McCoy sings between scenes in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Bushranger. The horses are so ignorant of music that they don't seem to mind at all.'
Print measures 25 x 18cms. MGM reference no. noted discreetly in bottom left corner, else fine.
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Paris: CIBY2000, 1993.
Original French poster for The Piano, premiered there May 19, four days after its screening at Cannes, a day after Italy and months before the rest of the world. The poster design is in its early stages, has not found its way to a piano or a New Zealand beach and is satisfied with close-ups of Ada and her daughter Flora.
Poster measures 157 x 117cms. Folded. Fine.
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Stockholm: 1993.
Original Swedish poster for The Piano, premiered there 27 August 1993. Three months after the French poster, the dominant design elements for the poster are falling into place: the mother and daughter, a New Zealand beach, the piano and, as usual for Swedish posters, a large amount of text.
Poster measures 100 x 70cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Folkestone, Kent: Dawson Archon. Revised edition, 1979.
Originally A Handbook of the Literature of the Rev. C.L. Dodgson by Sidney Herbert Williams and Falconer Madan (1931), revised and augmented by Roger Lancelyn Green (1962) and revised again by Crutch. The evolving bibliography of a polymath.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Santa Barbara: Neville Books. First American edition, 1995.
Memoir of Raymond Carver, a revisionist view to much that was written after his death; and the original version of The Old Game, the first appearance of Fang Mulheisen; #67/300 numbered copies (326 total edition), signed by the author.
Original blue cloth. Fine.
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New York: Abrams. First American edition, [1971].
History, examples from the 10th century onwards, then the form's heyday in cubism, futurism, expressionism, dada, surrealism, propaganda, constructivism, or up to World War Two, 40 tipped in colour plates and 396 reproductions.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel.
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Prague: [c.1981].
Original Czech poster for Smash Palace, the director's second feature, and then he was off to Los Angeles. The kinetic poster design concentrates on the action of the latter part of the movie.
Poster measures 83 x 58cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Paris: The Olympia Press. First edition, 1955.
Sebastian Dangerfield on the loose in Dublin. The Traveller's Companion #7 and source of much dispute between author and publisher.
Printed wrappers. First issue: no border on title page, 1,500 francs on rear cover. Spine a little darkened, light wear. Very good.
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Haberfield, NSW: The author and Publish-Me! First Australian edition, 2014.
Coming out memoir by an Australian Lebanese Christian; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Sydney]: c.1952.
A small collection of material relating to the touring production of Rusty Bugles, Sumner Locke Elliott's popular and then controversial play, which had premiered at the Independent Theatre, Sydney in October 1948. The collection contains the program for the production, a modest 4pp., reproducing the author's introduction to the play, 'These boys were the ones who had to fight ANOTHER kind of enemy ... boredom. They groused and complained a lot, but they had reason. They used bad language, like all soldiers, and like all soldiers they sat and dreamed about LEAVE.' Seven b&w stills from the production, 16.5 x 22cms., (a couple numbered on reverse), 5 publicity prints of actors in the production, 24 x 19cms., (these labelled on reverse), one print of an an illustrated mock alphabet of soldiers forming the letters of the title, 14.5 x 22cms; and, separate to this production, four b&w stills from Kenn Brodziak touring production, c.1949, 21 x 25.5cms.
Program is a single sheet, 22.5 x 36cms., folded once to make 4pp. and printed both sides; the prints have pinholes in the corners, a couple have tears on the corners. Overall very good. The 18 items
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Wellington, New Zealand: Gecko Press. Reprint, 2016.
First published in Germany in 2007, Gecko Press in 2008, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for the author in 2017.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine
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Zurich: Edition Stemmle. First English edition, 1995.
Exhibition catalogue. Essays by George Bataille, Volkmar Sigusch, Hans-Jurgen Dopp, Claudia Gehrke, Isabelle Azoulay; 250+ reproductions, most colour: predominantly European, prints, paintings, watercolours, notable artists and anonymous contributors, diverse activities, the relationship of sexual practices to death, humour, voyeurism and as a reaction to societal structures.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Providence, RI: Brown University Library, 1962.
Catalogue from the first exhibition of books and manuscripts by 'these three important poets of the Beat movement'; 50 items described.
Two blue A4 sheets, stapled top left corner, printed both sides. All fine.
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Sydney: Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and George Allen and Unwin. First Australian edition, 1985.
Pictorial history of trade union banners; colour reproductions throughout, 85pp.
Printed wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Box Hill, Victoria: Whitehorse Artspace. First Australian edition, 2014.
Exhibition catalogue. Twenty-four reproductions, with explanatory captions, of life in and around Burren Burren Station, near Collarenebri, NSW in 1950. Originally published in Picture Post magazine during 1951.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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London: Westminster Press. Second English edition, [1933].
Thirty-eight poems by John Meade Falkner. The second edition, produced for his widow after Falkner's death in 1932.
Original green wrappers with printed label. Bookplate. Eric and Joan Stevens' compliments slip and a separate sheet by the bookseller with a short glossary both laid in. Lightly faded around perimeter, spots of foxing to extremities. Very good. 500 copies.
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London: W.H. Allen. First English edition, 1961.
The author's first novel and first book to be published in England; among the Withers family, mostly the children.
Owner signature and gift inscription. Extremities darkened. Very good in good dustwrapper marked on the rear panel.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1992.
Jonathan Franzen's second novel; signed by him.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Boston: New York Graphic Society. First American edition, 1985.
Seventy-one portraits including Jim Dine, Jean Genet, Walker Evans, Diane and Amy Arbus, King Curtis, Maria Friedlander, Sandra Fisher, Blaze Starr and the immortal Bruno Sammartino; 'Still in Praise of Still Photography' by R.B. Kitaj as foreword; dedicated to Garry Winogrand and including two portraits of him, taken twenty-seven years apart, on facing pages.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1992.
Ninety-four portraits of the city's lifeblood - brass bands, funerals, portraits at home, none in clubs, all taken during daylight; afterword by Whitney Balliett.
Spots of foxing to prelims, else fine in near fine dustwrapper nicked at the crown of the spine.
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London: Gaberbocchus Press. First English edition, 1960.
The actor and critic collaborate for a radio play parodying the contemporary jargon and language used to advertise and promote the Arts. Where are they now when we need them? Brilliantly illustrated by Franciszka Themerson in her own Polish combination of collage and drawing.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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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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London: Turret Books. First English edition, 1966.
Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme and issued here in an edition of 300 copies, the first 100 signed. #21/100 numbered copies signed by the author.
Single sheet measuring 20 x 44cms., folded twice and with a colour vignette tipped onto the front panel. All fine.
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[Melbourne]: Containers Limited, c.1950s.
Snakes and ladders game of the exploration around Australia beginning with Pedro de Quiros in 1605, ending with Matthew Flinders entering Port Jackson in 1803, and 98 stops in between.
Board map only. Heavy card measuring 42 x 48cms. Folded once vertically, fine.
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[Sydney]: John Sands, 1974.
A journey around Australia: landing on towns or landmarks, collecting information about them and also money for places visited, a $500.00 bonus to make it back and win the game; all well downstream from the songlines.
Board sheet measures 77 x102 cms. unfolded. Contained in the original box, 10.5 x 50 x.1.5 cms., with all chance and fact cards, money, markers and dice present. Box frayed and cracked at edges, good; cards and money; very good; sheet fine.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. First American edition, 1941.
Five plays, complete texts of "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife", "The Love of Don Perlimplin", "If Five Years Pass", "Yerma", and "Dona Rosita, the Spinster"; foreword by Stark Young, translations by James Graham L. and Richard O'Connell.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper a little rubbed on the rear panel.
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[Providence, RI]: Burning Deck. First American edition, 1967.
Translated by Keith Waldrop. Seven poems from Garcia Lorca's 'Poema del cante jondo', written c.1921 and published ten years later to coincide with a festival of this popular Andalusian music. Handset and printed in a small edition as a Christmas gift for friends; inscribed by the translator and Rosemarie, his wife, Christmas 1967.
Plain wrappers. Fine in integral dustwrapper darkened on spine, top of front panel, and with a couple of chips
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San Francisco: Momos Press. First American edition, 1979.
Thirty-seven poems, parallel text throughout; illustrations by Basil King, introduction by David H. Rosenthal, forward by George Economou.
Original grey cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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San Francisco: Cadmus Editions. First American edition, 1984.
The first appearance in English of García Lorca’s elegy to the city of Granada, written originally in 1933 as a lecture. Parallel text throughout, 74pp. Laid in are printed sheets containing the music and lyrics to “Las Tres Hojas” and “El Cafe De Chinitas”, both traditional, local songs and noted here as collected by García Lorca. Edited and translated by Christopher Maurer. #K/26 lettered copies signed by Maurer and Carolyn Cassady, the illustrator, from an edition of 650 trade copies and 100 numbered copies.
Fine in acetate dustwrapper as issued.
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Paris: Editions Rosbif. Second edition, 1995.
Seven linocuts by Michael Caine and A.L. Lloyd's translation, first published in 1937. Handset and printed on mouldmade paper, #34/80 numbered copies, signed by the artist. First published in an edition of five copies by the artist in 1982.
Plain wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1933.
Combination memoir and monograph of the sculptor, the 'Savage Messiah' of art history, killed in World War One at the age of twenty-three; and written by the Australian born artist (1885-1969) who lived in Melbourne until 1904. Sixty-nine reproductions. Ashley Montagu's copy, with his signature.
Prelims foxed. Very good in dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 2000.
Exhibition catalogue. The striking effects of turbulent historical periods on art, reproductions of work by John Heartfield, Herbert Bayer, Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henry van de Velde, many others; 253 reproductions, 152 colour.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: The Hogarth Press. First English edition, 1959.
The first book length critical study of the author adept at slipping out of others' categories and generalisations; inscribed by the author.
Offsetting to prelims, top edge dusty. Very good in dustwrapper sunned around spine.
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Stockholm: 1982.
Original Swedish poster for Dot and the Kangaroo. The poster design features all the Australian native animals with the heroine front and centre in the kangaroo's pouch.
Poster measures 100 x 70cms. Corners chipped and missing a small piece in the top left of the poster. Very good.
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Budapest: 1985.
Original Hungarian poster for Raw Deal, premiered there on 1 August 1985, eight years after Australia. A western, produced in 1977, deep in the period of the Australian movie revival and tax breaks, but which has slipped through the historical net. Familiar ingredients: Irish revolutionaries, mercenaries, a double cross and shootout. Eight years later the poster design concentrates on the last aspect, in odd muted blue tones and with no hint of the movie's setting.
Poster measures 59 x 42cms. One nick at crease; now rolled. Fine.
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Sydney: News Ltd, 1986, 1990.
A small collection of 82 tabloid banners, issued 1986 (80 banners) and two from 1990. The familiar tabloid targets and subjects: marriage, divorce, illness, bankruptcies, crime, preferably involving a celebrity, an ex-celebrity can suffice, a sexual element is always welcome and all to be squeezed into 30 characters maximum; and, in the pre-internet world, the model for a print media empire.
Banners measure 61 x 41cms., all two colours, a couple with nicks but most fine.
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Sydney: John Fairfax and Sons, 1986-1994.
A small collection of 134 Financial Review headline banners issued between 1986 (1 banner), 1991 (6), 1992 (66) and 1994 (61). The world in a business suit working through economic and political puzzles: interest rates, court verdicts, superannuation, utilities, Government bodies, property, any money moving or market force features in the headlines.
Banners all measure 58 x 42cms., a couple with nicks, else all fine. Sorted chronologically, no duplicates. The 134 banners
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Prague: [1984].
Original Czech poster for Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Anthony I. Ginnane ozploitation. The poster design accentuates a detail from an American World War Two plane while setting out the plane's current location, its cargo and pursuers; the location of the action for Czech viewers is left vague.
Poster measures 86 x 62.5cms. A couple of short tears right edge, else fine. Rolled.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1998.
A comedy of our compulsions; signed by the author in the year of publication.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Picador. First English edition, 2011.
'The most originally and brilliantly structured novel I've read in a long time', Julian Barnes; dedicated to Mick Imlah; and signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Canberra, ACT: For W.S. Ramson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the Open Door Press. First Australian edition, 1977.
Poems by David Campbell, R.F. Brissenden, Judith Wright, Rosemary Dobson, Philip Martin, Evan Jones and Satenra Nanden; illustration by Jahna Knyvett.
Pictorial wrappers. Edgewear. Very good.
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Sydney: New Century Press Limited. First Australian edition, 1934.
'The object of the author is to awaken the complacently minded Australians to the deplorable condition of his ships and seamenclass ... and all the potent danger that goes with a state of extreme military insecurity.'
Printed wrappers. Very good in dustwrapper sunned on the spine. Extracts from printed reviews up to October 1935 tipped into front and rear inside covers.
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Melbourne: Cassell and Co. First Australian edition, 1948.
Organising power, influence, threats and security in the Pacific after World War Two.
Very good in good only dustwrapper chipped at edges and sunned on the spine.
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London: Thomas Nelson. Reprint, 1953.
'He talked quite freely about the great day when Japan, having quietly trained her hordes and China's, would take her rightful place as mistress of Asia, and then of the world.' Illustrated by John Turner, first published in 1931, reprinted twice doing World War Two, and back again here for the Cold War.
Extremities and prelims foxed. Owner's small stamp. Good in dustwrapper.
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Adelaide: Rigby. First Australian edition, 1979.
An enduring genre: a novel of an 'invasion' from our north. Alan Gould's copy with his signature.
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Paris: 1996.
Original French poster for Heavenly Creatures, Creatures Celestes, premiered there July 1996. The only poster design that I've seen which resists close-ups of the two protagonists as a demonic double in favour of an equally evocative moment of action and the tagline, 'La tendre histoire vraie d'un crime abominable.'
Poster measures 54.5 x 40cms. Folded. Fine.
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London: Peter Owen. New edition, 1994.
A family marooned in a country house; her first book, written as Helen Ferguson, and published in 1929.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Tallahassee, FL: Dreamspinner Press. First American edition, 2014.
The prolific West Australian author's first novel.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American edition, 1887.
Translations by Frederick Townsend, preface by G.B. Frothingham. An auspicious moment: Leopardi's first book, thirty-seven poems, to be published in the United States.
Brown cloth stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. Fine.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1956.
The poet's second collection under his own name; David Campbell's copy with his signature and ratings of eleven of the poems on the rear pastedown.
Very good in dustwrapper missing the bottom third of the inside rear flap.
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London: Harvill Press. First English edition, 1995.
Fifty-six full page b&w reproductions of travels through the African island in 1994; introduction by Michel Tournier who works his way towards the idea that life is in colour but black and white is more real.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with laminate beginning to peel at one corner of the front panel.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1997.
Fifty-five stories about Jewish immigrant life, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of the novels 'The Natural' and 'The Fixer'.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Dublin: Tuskar Rock Press and Chatto and Windus. First edition, 2006.
A story collected in Every Move You Make; one of the full cloth copies, this one unnumbered (total edition 75), signed and dated by the author, 20 September 2006.
Original brown cloth. Fine in slipcase as issued.
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Prague: 1971.
Original Czech poster for Karel Kachyna's adaptation of Australian author's Alan Marshall fictionalised autobiography. A seemingly unlikely movie for a prolific Czech director though ADB notes the book's popularity in translation in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Poster measures 43 x 30.5cms. Rolled. Fine.
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[Melbourne]: pre1956].
Generic small poster for Les E. Rohmer's touring variety show to support the Victorian School for Deaf Children, St. Kilda Road. Two colours, vague as to performers, promising stars of 'radio and stageland', or before television.
Heavy card measuring 25.5 x 31.5cms. Fine.
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Prague: 1987.
Original Czech poster for The Witches of Eastwick; it is not clear which of the three witches is represented in the poster, or if there is more than one witch ...
Poster measures 21 x 29cms. Fine.
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Prague: 1987.
Variant Czech poster for George Miller's The Witches of Eastwick. The poster design, like others for the movie, points to the relationship of the witches and their diabolical visitor.
Poster measures 82 x 58cms. Rolled. Fine.
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London: Hamish Hamilton. First English edition, 1986.
Fifteen stories, the author's second collection; inscribed to Morris Lurie by Mary Morris, 'at the melon' in October 1987.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Andre Deutsch. First English edition, 1962.
Short history of the Cannes festival; notes for visiting, characteristics of starlets; then c.100 b&w "glamour" photographs of the festival.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris: Hazan and Musees de Marseilles. First French exhibition, 1989.
Exhibition catalogue. Another attempt to upgrade the status of movies to parity with the other arts, or drawing out the connective tissue between twentieth century artworks, artists and art movements, and the movies contemporary with them. Nineteen essays, subjects include "Futurism and Cinema", "Malevich's Thoughts on Cinema", Joseph Cornell, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Magritte, Francis Bacon, all separately, on the cinema; 100+ reproductions, colour and b&w; chronology, bibliography; French text.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1983.
Laid in is a photocopy of a fair copy of 'The Emerald Dove' inscribed by Les Murray to Richard Hall for his fiftieth birthday and a note from Murray to Hall apologising for not being at his party and sending the items here as a gift.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1997.
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for 1996; inscribed by the author at Bunyah on 1 February 1998.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Los Angeles: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1928.
Promotional sepia print of Dale Austen in costume for her role in The Bushranger, a Tim McCoy vehicle from 1928. Typed on reverse, 'Dale Austen Miss New Zealand in her role in Tim McCoy's new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture 'The Bushranger'' Ms. Austen had won the second Miss New Zealand contest in 1927. The prize for that year included two first class fares for self and chaperone from New Zealand to Los Angeles and return: (£225), studio engagement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated, for the duration of a feature film, at £25 a week (£275), pocket money (£100), wardrobe (£150) and chaperone’s allowance (£150), total £900. IMDB lists The Bushranger and The Bush Cinderella, both 1928, as Ms Austen's two movies ... but from Otago to Hollywood in 1928, imagine. And, her chaperone?
Print measures 25 x 18cms. MGM reference no. noted discreetly in bottom left corner, else fine.
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Melbourne: Director General of Recruiting, 1941.
War as a change of clothes. The Australian War Memorial catalogue notes, 'Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. Released in 1941 before Japan had entered the war, at a time when many Australians were reluctant to enlist to fight on the other side of the world.'
Poster measures 71 x 47.5cms. Short closed tear top middle of front panel, a couple of repairs to reverse. Very good.
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[Prague]: 1989.
Variant Czech poster for Dead Calm, Phillip Noyce's horror movie. More traditional than the previous item - the stars are easily identified - though carrying a threatening charge.
Poster measures 21 x 30cms. Fine.
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London: Neville Spearman. First English edition, 1961.
Performances, backstage, reminiscences, among the celebrities in the audience; glamour, sophistication and all things continental for Anglo-Saxon readers across the Channel; illustrated throughout.
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed and creased along bottom edge of rear panel.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 1967.
Thirty-three pieces, most from 'The New Yorker'; inscribed by the author contemporaneously to Morris Lurie, 'with no apologies for our opinions on Bonnie and Clyde'.
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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London: Bridgewater Press. First English edition, 1999.
A celebration for Peter Porter - an expatriate generation of one, correspondent and host to successive generations of Australian writers - on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D.J. Enright, U.A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David Malouf, Les Murray, Sean O’Brien, C.K. Stead, George Szirtes, Ann Thwaite, Anthony Thwaite, William Trevor, Kit Wright - a harmonious blend of local and Australian contributors - who have all signed this state. One hundred and thirteen copies printed, this is one of the 26 in quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, not numbered and marked as a contributor's copy.
Quarter cloth and marbled boards. Fine.
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London: Brentano's. First English edition, 1929.
Late career writing from the prolific author: six stories, published as 'The Bradmoor Murder' in America, and featuring Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard and Robert Harmscourt. 'Come to the land where men grind their wheat in the sky'... the first story begins.
Original pictorial cloth. Foxing to prelims. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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Prague: 2016.
Original Czech poster for the second movie in the Trabantem series - the team travel around Australia and on to Bangkok, indulging in quaint local customs and encounters with species not seen in the Czech Republic. The new study of the noble savages inhabiting the South Pacific; the design of the poster offers a clue to the depth of the movie's analysis and humour.
Poster measures 84 x 60cms. Rolled. Fine.
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London: Hamish Hamilton. First English edition, 1986.
Sub-titled, 'A Study of the Oddities of the English Public School System' and with the author's disclaimer, his literary reputation notwithstanding, 'Everything which follows is fact. But from love of the quick and fear of the dead I have redeployed some facts and draped others in the camouflage of discretion.' Illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Canberra, ACT: Molonglo Press. First Australian edition, 1984.
Collected from mostly earlier publications in journals; illustrations by Romola Templeman; #27/500 numbered copies signed by the author
Printed wrappers. Fine. In original folding envelope.
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Portsmouth: Callum James. First English edition, 2006.
Raven #2, #10/12 numbered copies (total edition 82), signed by the author.
Printed boards. Fine.
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Prague: 1987.
Original Czech poster for "Raging Bull", copyright 1987 and premiered there in February 1988. A striking reworking of the original American poster: the close-up of Robert de Niro has fragmented and is made up of the other Jake La Mottas: his fights, wife, a knockout, or his emotional state through the movie. Poster designed by Zdinek Ziegler.
Poster measures 85 x 59cms. Rolled. Fine.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English editions, 1988-1992.
Fifteen years in the making – five volumes, the complete set reveal every aspect of Bernard Shaw as playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and more. Three volumes of biography, 'The Last Laugh' (vol.4) Shaw's descendants legal wranglings after his death and the 'Complete Notes and Cumulative Index' (vol. 5).
The five volumes all near fine or better in dustwrappers. The five volumes
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East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. First American edition, 2000.
First exhibition of these two series of early work produced in 1976: 'Bus riders' (fifteen prints) and 'Murder Mystery People' (seventeen); cd by The Glove Compartment, laid in at rear, designed to be played while reading the catalogue; signed by Cindy Sherman on the title page.
Pictorial boards. All fine, as issued without dustwrapper. 1,000 copies.
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[Sydney]: Australian Art Exhibitions Corporation Limited, 1978.
A complete set of the four large posters for one of the first international blockbuster exhibitions - ancient gold objects from the Museo del Oro in Bogota, Columbia. The posters are a combination of monumental close-ups and small groups of pieces, the two photographers are credited on each poster.
Posters each measure 102 x 75cms. All rolled and fine. The four posters
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London: Cecil Woolf. First English edition, 1985.
Scottish poet (1895-1915), killed in World War One: every extant poem, some previously unpublished; arranged chronologically and edited, with a long introduction, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1953.
Selected by the author; apart from the Fortune Press edition, his first book to appear in England.
Offsetting to prelims. Harold Oliver's signature on the front pastedown and also his bookplate designed by Norman Lindsay. Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Philadelphia: Running Press. First American edition, 2013.
Sixty-seven years: divided into first studios, other categories include "war years", "photographer as 'star'", 400+ reproductions, colour and black and white, of Hollywood's versions of glamour and style; assembled from the collections of Michael H. Epstein, Scott E. Schwimmer and Ben S. Carbonetto.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Wellingborough, Northamaptonshire: The Aquarian Press. Second English edition, revised, 1983.
Bibliography of the author, clergyman, and expert in an unlikely combination of subjects; first published in 1964; with a note by the author tipped in re the scarcity of his Fortune Press bibliography.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. First American edition, 2001.
Memoirs, poems, prose, automatic writing, anonymous texts, all sitting under the Surrealist banner, contributors include Hans Arp, Fernando Arrabal, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Paul Eluard, Frida Kahlo, Giorgio di Chirico, Mina Loy, Rene Crevel; illustrated throughout, 500+pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Tate Publishing. First English edition, 2001.
Another vein of this much picked over movement: twenty-four contributors including Andre Breton, Leon Damas, Dora Maar, Joyce Mansour, Picasso, and Paul Eluard; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 2001.
Exhibition catalogue. Thirteen essays; 295 reproductions, all illustrating varieties, intensities and the mysteries associated with our desires.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: International Labour Defence, 1936.
Local edition of the Tom Mooney story, then a prisoner in San Quentin for 20 years; and an advertisement for the local 'Mooney's Club' at 727 George Street, Sydney.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Front and rear covers present but almost detached, otherwise fine.
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Sydney: Primavera Press. First Australian edition, 1992.
Thirty-eight poems to celebrate the city's 150th anniversary; contributors include Henry Kendall, Peter Porter, Kenneth Slessor, Patrick White, Elizabeth Riddell and John Forbes; signed by the editors.
Quarter leather and marbled paper boards. Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine.
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Alexandria, NSW: Hale and Iremonger and South Sydney Council. First Australian paperback edition, 2000.
Illustrated and oral history, from Waterloo to Woolloomooloo, 240pp., indexed; inscribed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Collins. First English edition, 1979.
From his childhood in the then Abyssinia, the Empty Quarter desert years, Persia and Kurdistan, the marshes of Iraq and Yemen: Thesiger's pictorial record of his life and travels.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Sydney]: [John Tranter]. First Australian edition, 2008.
Published with 'John Tranter's New Form (alism): The Terminal' by Brian Henry. Prepared for the Poetry and the Trace Conference under the auspices of Monash University held at the State Library of Victoria, 13 to 16 July, 2008. Signed by John Tranter.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1970.
Illustrations by Frank Bozzo. The author's first book to be translated into English; and his best known: a childhood on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Donald Yates', Latin American translator and critic, copy with his stamp. Fine in dustwrapper minutely sunned on the spine.
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Copenhagen: 1948.
Original Danish program published to coincide with the release there of "The Overlanders", charmingly "Under the Australian Sky" for the Danes, on 2nd February 1948 at the World Cinema, Copenhagen. Seven sepia reproductions from the movie; synopsis, cast and crew listings.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Two small annotations on title page, short closed tear top of front panel, else fine.
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Sydney: Belvoir, 1985.
Promotional handbill for the first Sydney production of Signal Driver; cast, crew, extract from Flaws in the Glass on one side, Martin Sharp poster for the production on reverse.
Single sheet measuring 29 x 42cms., folded three times; printed both sides in colour, two ticket stubs for the first preview laid in.
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Leichhardt, NSW: Primavera Press. First Australian edition, 1989.
Thirty-two short non-fiction pieces, written between 1958 and 1988, edited by Christine Flynn and Paul Brennan; annotated by Patrick White on the title page and with the ownership signature of David Malouf.
Printed wrappers. Crease to top right corner of front panel, else fine.
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Camberwell, Vic: Penguin and Hamish Hamilton. First Australian edition, 2008.
Coming of age near the author's preferred town of Angelus; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harper and Brothers. First American edition, [1961].
The surviving notebooks from the period Wittgenstein was writing the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; edited by G.H. von Wright and G.E.M. Anscombe, translation by the latter.
Very faint foxing to prelims., else fine in dustwrapper.
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Derry, NH and Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock and Koontz. First American edition, 1986.
A story, originally published in 'The Atlantic Monthly' earlier that year; title page illustration by Gaylord Schanilec; #45/200 numbered copies (total edition 240); signed by the author.
Original grey cloth with printed label. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Basic Books. First American edition, 1975.
The life of the artist and poet killed on the Western Front in April 1918; inscribed by the author.
Small bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in dustwrapper.
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