Broadside calendar, headed 'With the Compliments of Guinea Gold' above a photographic view of 'Moresby Harbour in Peace Time'; demy 4to; lightly creased, inscribed in ink above title 'Good Luck Mum & Dad - Love Gordon; mounted, glazed and framed; [Port Moresby], 1944. *Guinea Gold was the official newspaper of..... More
Pp. 48(including outer blanks), 17 hand-tipped bookplates (some of which are reproductions, as issued), 2 decorative initials printed in red, list of members; med. 8vo; printed textured light brown paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, with printed paper title label on upper wrapper, edges a trifle creased, the upper wrapper slightly..... More
Pp. 52; bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed and faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip faded; text block faintly browned, a little pale foxing; The Australian Society of Authors, Sydney, 1973. Revised edition. More
American Children and Their Books 1621-1922. Pp. xiv+226, frontispiece, text illustrations (several full page), select bibliography, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. First edition. More
A study of the heroes and heroines of children's fiction, 1770-1950. Pp. 256, frontispiece, numerous text illustrations (several full page), book sources, index; med. 8vo; edges of boards faintly faded, spine a trifle creased; top edges green; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly..... More
Introduction by John Simpson. Pp. xxviii+196, facsimile title page of the original edition; post 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; ownership label (David Levine, Sydney) on upper pastedown; last few leaves lightly browned; Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2010. *First published in 1699 by W. Hawes, P. Gilbourne, and..... More
A handbook of bookshop practice. Foreword by Sir Basil Blackwell. Pp. 96, suggestions for further reading, index; boards slightly scuffed; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled; free endpapers faintly offset, a little foxing; Andre Deutsch, London, 1965. First edition. More
Pp. [viii]+616(last blank), mostly printed double column, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, notes, bibliography, index; post 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners a trifle bruised, the spine cloth faintly creased; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly spilt, small surface graze to front panel; top..... More
Pp. 176, illustrated in colour throughout, index; demy 4to; spine extremities and bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; inked gift inscription at head of upper free endpaper; Child & Henry, Sydney, 1980. First edition. *With loosely inserted ephemera. More
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Pp. 24, illustrated, central double page building plans on coloured paper; med. 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1959. *Brochure issued at the opening of the library of Australian Prime Minister R. G. Menzies on 21st March 1959. The material substantially reprinted from articles which appeared..... More
The story of Rosy Dock. Works by Jeannie Baker. A Wollongong City Gallery Touring Exhibition. Foreword by Peter O'Neill. With essays by Eric Rolls and Naomi Horridge and an Artist's Statement by Jeannie Baker. Pp. [12], black & white portrait; square 4to; pictorial paper wrappers with flap folds, stapled, edges..... More
Catalogo della mostra Firenze, Spedale degli Innocenti, Settembre - Dicembre 1981. Pp. 154(last colophon), illustrated in colour and black & white (some double page illustrations); pictorial stiff paper wrappers, lightly rubbed, foxed and soiled, with some light gray spots on upper wrapper several inscriptions in Italian on Italian and calling..... More
Pp. 24, numerous examples, index; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, lightly foxed, the lower wrapper slightly browned; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Park Works, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, n.d.[195-?]. More
Pp. [12]; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Park Works, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, n.d.[195-?]. More
From the Library of Ruth M. Baldwin. Pp. xii+296, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; demy 4to; blue/grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in black, corners a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges slightly rubbed and split; Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1972. First..... More
Contained in three issues of The Book Collector. Volume 31, No. 4, Winter 1982. Pp. 405-544(including advertisements), text illustrations; Volume 32, No. 1, Spring 1983. Pp. 128(including advertisements), text illustrations; Volume 32, No. 2, Summer 1983. Pp. 129-256(including advertisements), text illustrations; each demy 8vo; different coloured printed stiff paper wrappers..... More
Fifty years of The Book Collector. An anthology. Pp. x+310, text illustrations; roy. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2003. First edition. *Articles chosen from the first fifty years of The Book Collector to convey 'the multifarious forms..... More
Contained in Transactions, XIVth Congress, International Association of Bibliophiles, Los Angeles & San Francisco, 30 September-11 October 1985. Edited by Stephen Tabor. Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. Pp. [vi]+92, plus 28 pages of plates at end (3 coloured, last blank), a few text figures and facsimiles; tall demy 8vo; stiff..... More
by John Carter and Graham Pollard. The forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise re-examined. Pp. 394, frontispiece, illustrations, appendices, concise list of sources, index; dust wrapper; Scolar Press/Oak Knoll Books, Aldershot & New Castle, 1992. Second edition. *Published in 1934, John Carter and Graham Pollard's An Enquiry..... More
The forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise re-examined. Pp. 394, frontispiece, illustrations, appendices, concise list of sources, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; dust wrapper, edges slightly worn; Scolar Press/Oak Knoll Books, London/New Castle, DE., 1992. Second edition. Fleck 39. *First published..... More
The forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise re-examined. Pp. 394, frontispiece, text illustrations, appendices, concise list of sources, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners and bottom edge of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; Scolar Press, London, 1983. First edition. *Published in 1934..... More
A List of his Publications to Mark his 80th Birthday. Pp. 96, full page illustrations, appendix; printed paper wrappers; Bernard Quaritch/Oak Knoll Press, London, 2013. First edition, limited to 500 copies. *British bibliophile Nicolas Barker, long-time editor of The Book Collector, sometime publisher, and first head of conservation at the..... More
Pp. 156(last blank), appendix; printed paper wrappers, a trifle creased; UNESCO/Harrap, London, 1973. First edition in English. *Chapters on book production, distribution, copyright, and reading habits. More
The quest for an Anglo-American copyright agreement, 1815-1854. Pp. xvi+312(last blank), notes, index; dust wrapper; Routledge & Kegan Paul,London, 1974. More
A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800. Pp. xiv+198+[2](colophon, verso blank), appendices, index; demy 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges lightly flecked and worn; price-clipped dust wrapper, soiled and browned, edges lightly worn and split, the backstrip browned; ownership label (David Levine, Sydney) on upper pastedown..... More