Foreword by Karen Joy Fowler. Translated from the German by Christine Shuttleworth. Pp. 156, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page); small square 4to; pictorial papered boards; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on recto of lower free endpaper; Abbeville Press Publishers, New York..... More
Their history from the beginnings to the present day. Pp. viii+222(last blank), coloured frontispiece, black & white text illustrations, bibliography, indices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, front panel a trifle scuffed, back panel slightly browned at edges; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper..... More
Hotel Metropole, Sydney, Wednesday, 18th June, 1958. Pp. [8], 3 text illustrations; printed textured paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, slightly soiled and worn; Book Collectors' Society of Australia, Sydney, 1958. *The text illustrations (sketches of Australian literary figures including George Robertson), are by Gurney, Prior, and Low. More
Pp. xii+[362], text figure, numerous music scores, tables, indices; 8vo; dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a couple of tiny spots of foxing; Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, 2005. Variorum Collected Studies Series. *Collected papers previously presented at conferences, etc. 'The articles in..... More
Pp. 192, 8 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index; tall cr. 4to; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards flecked and slightly canted; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Country Life..... More
A guide to printed sources of information. Pp. [viii]+72, illustrations, list of works referred to, index; printed papered boards, lightly rubbed, spine a trifle faded; text block faintly faded, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1963. First edition. More
A guide to printed sources of information. Pp. xvi+270, illustrations, references, index; printed stiff paper wrappers, faintly foxed, edges lightly rubbed; a little light foxing; Pergamon Press, Sydney, 1976. New edition, enlarged, with corrections. *With loosely inserted ephemera. Originally published in 1963. More
A guide to printed sources of information. Pp. [viii]+96, illustrations, list of works referred to, index; printed papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed and bumped; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1966. Second edition, revised and enlarged. More
Essays in Honour of Dietrich Borchardt. Pp. xvi+332(last blank), tables, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, with signs of sticker removal from front panel; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1984. First edition. More
Translated from the Russian by George Borrow. Pp. 24(last colophon), frontispiece facsimile; f'cap. 4to; printed stiff green paper wrappers, stabbed and tied, edges faintly creased and browned; uncut; housed within a later custom made green cloth four-fold portfolio which has the bookplate of A. T. Copsey on reverse of the..... More
From the Danish of Johannes Ewald (1773). Translated by George Borrow. Pp. [viii]+78(last blank); cr. 8vo; purple cloth, printed paper title label on spine, edges of boards lightly rubbed and fore-corners faintly bruised, the spine and top edge of upper board faded, title label slightly browned and a trifle chipped..... More
Photographs by Guillaume de Laubier. Translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch. Pp. 248, profusely illustrated in colour (several double page or folding, many full page), bibliography; square 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind at centre of upper board, top fore-corner of upper board a...... More
A Bodley Head Monograph. Pp. 72(last blank), frontispiece portrait, book list; small 8vo; printed blue papered boards, slightly marked and worn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1965. First edition. More
Biographers' Tales. Pp. xvi+220, frontispiece; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the back flap slightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Continuum, London, 2004. First edition. *Essays by biographers including Robert Skidelsky, Michael Holroyd, Hilary Spurling, Claire..... More
Compiled by Kay Craddock. Pp. 48(last colophon), text printed in green, 4 plates (printed in green), index; small med. 8vo; printed textured paper wrappers; printed by Marsh Walsh Publishing, 1975. *Catalogue issued in conjunction with the Third Australian Antiquarian Booksellers' Fair, Age Gallery, Melbourne, August 26-30, 1975. Includes library furniture..... More
Compiled by Kay Craddock. Pp. 48(last colophon), text printed in green, 4 plates (printed in green), index; small med. 8vo; printed textured paper wrappers; printed by Marsh Walsh Publishing, 1975. *Catalogue issued in conjunction with the Third Australian Antiquarian Booksellers' Fair, Age Gallery, Melbourne, August 26-30, 1975. Includes library furniture..... More
Pp. 62+[2](blank, for notes); f'cap. 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges chipped and split, the backstrip faded, bookseller's sticker on front panel, endpapers lightly offset, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1929. Third printing. *Includes English and American publishing houses..... More
... [cover title]. Pp. 50, illustrated in colour and black & white; demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers over spiral bound booklet, edges of wrappers lightly worn; n.d.[1960s]. *'This book not only illustrates the wide scope of Bowater operations. It shows how closely they are integrated in an international strategy, how..... More
With a supplement to The Bowyer Ornament Stock (1973), an appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson partnership, and 'Bowyer's Paper Stock Ledger', by Herbert Davis. Pp. x+256, text illustrations, appendix, index; narrow cr. 4to; Bibliographical Society of America, New York, 1993. *Contains twenty-nine studies in the eighteenth-century London book trade, centering on..... More
Pp. xiv+138(last blank), index; printed stiff paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves and p. 138 slightly soiled; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1977. First edition. Australian Bibliographies series. *Bibliography of the published and unpublished work of Australian writer Martin Boyd. More
Proceedings of the 1989 Houston Conference. Organized by the University of Houston Libraries. Edited by Pat Bozeman. Pp. xvi+162, illustrations, appendices; med. 8vo; red art. leather, lettered and ruled in gilt; Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, DE., 1990. First edition. Fleck 23. *Collection of papers on various aspects of forgery..... More
(Crowned by the French Academy). Translated by G. W. Kitchin. Pp. xii+cxxviii(Introduction)+408(printed double column, last blank)+[8](advertisements); cr. 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards ruled in blind, the upper board a trifle rubbed, bottom fore-corner lightly bruised; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, the free endpapers..... More
An oral history. Pp. xxiv+328, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading, index; roy. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown; The British Library, London, 2008. First edition. *"This volume charts key developments..... More
Volume 1 [of 3]. Pp. xvi+334(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece printed in red & black, the title page vignette, pictorial headpieces and colophon decoration all printed in red, full page black & white text illustrations and 1 map, endpaper maps; super roy. 8vo; light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt..... More
RECENTLY IMPORTED. On sale by Waugh and Cox, 111, George Street. Pp. [4]; Brandywine Press & Archive, Beecroft, 1987. One of 200 copies. *Reprinted from The University of Sydney Magazine, No. 3 (July 1855). Early Australian bookseller's list. More