Pp. [viii]+156(last blank); pictorial green paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled and worn, edges and backstrip faded to brown, the backstrip quite brittle and chipped; hinges cracking, a little light foxing and soiling; Duckworth, London, 1902. First edition, paper wrappers. The Greenback Library series. Miller & Macartney p. 55;...
Pp. [viii]+198(last blank); tiny bruise to bottom edge of lower board; dust wrapper; Viking Press, New York, 2005. First edition. *Author's first novel.
Or the story of Venus and Tannhauser, in which is set forth an exact account of the manner of state held by Madam Venus, goddess & meretrix, under the famous Horselberg, and containing the adventures of Tannhauser in that place, his journeying to Rome, and return to the loving mountain...
Contained in Encounter, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, October 1966, edited by Frank Kermode and Melvin J. Lasky. Pp. 96(printed double column)+[2](coloured central advertisement sheet), the Beardsley article comprising pages 3-16 and including 2 illustrations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers printed on both sides, slightly worn; several leaves faintly creased;...
Pp. [viii]+374; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; Fourth Estate, London, 2001.First edition. *A novel set in wartime Britain.
Pp. [x]+68, frontispiece; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Mulini Press, Canberra, 2002.First separate edition. Small Tales of Early Australia, No. 6. *Story about smuggling on the New South Wales coast near Port Macquarie, originally included in The Settlers of Karossa Creek and other Stories of Australian Bush Life(c. 1907).
Pp. 202+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, title page with decorative border, a couple of text decorations; cr. 12mo; light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and dark green, a trifle canted, slightly soiled and foxed, corners faintly bruised, the cloth occasionally slightly bubbled; t.e.g.; endpapers slightly offset, hinge tender at.....
Verses, 1975-1977. With an appreciation by Beatrice Faust. Pp. 48, text illustrations; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, corners a trifle creased; a few minor inked markings; [the author, Melbourne?], 1978. *From the collection of Australian poet Judith Rodriguez, with her ownership inscription on the title page, and the author's presentation inscription...
Edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse and decorated by The Dance of Death of Hans Holbein. In two volumes. Pp. [ii]+xxxvi+258(last blank)+590, frontispiece portrait (lightly offset), decorated title pages & headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. black buckram, printed label on spines (slightly discoloured, edges a trifle chipped), patterned papered.....
Five poems. Pp. [4](last blank); printed paper wrappers; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1975. Trade edition. *With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.
Pp. [vi]+52(last blank)+[6](notes)+[2](colophon, verso blank); demy 12mo; limp parchment secured with pigskin thongs, lettered and decorated in gilt; uncut and partly unopened; within plain card slipcase, which is slightly soiled; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928. Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies, printed on Van Gelder hand made paper. McKitterick 54...
Pp. viii+[8](including two pages of advertisements), title page printed in red & black, 48 half-tone plates hand-tipped onto brown card, 2 full page illustrations, small cr. 4to; pictorial dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards a trifle bowed, the fore-corners slightly bruised, spine cloth a trifle faded; the...
Or, an Oxford Love Story. With 80 illustrations by the author and an introduction by N. John Hall. Pp. [xxviii]+352, 18 coloured plates and numerous text illustrations, sepia pictorial endpapers; burgundy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Folio Society monogram at foot of spine; top edges grey (faded);...
Or, an Oxford Love Story. With illustrations by the author. Pp. 228, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, plus coloured pictorial endpapers; gilt lettered yellow cloth, decorated in brown, the spine slightly soiled and rubbed; top edges brown; within grey card slipcase, a trifle worn; inked ownership inscription at head of...
Bibliographical Notes. Pp. xiv+122(last blank), title page vignette, 10 full page illustrations, errata, index; med. 8vo; gilt lettered navy cloth, slightly flecked and marked, the top fore-corners bumped; dust wrapper, silverfished (very heavily on back panel) and slightly soiled, edges and backstrip faded; a little light foxing; Harvard University Press...
A memoir. Pp. [viii]+338, 26 illustrations, mostly full page, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper; inked initials on upper free endpaper; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972. First edition. *Includes memories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Bennett, Noel Coward, a.o.
Pp. 48, notes and references, bibliography; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, backstrip a trifle creased; small stain to top edge of several leaves; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1979. First edition. Australian Writers and their Work series. *'These three novelists - Ada Cambridge, "Tasma" (Jessie Catherine Couvreur) and Rosa Praed - were...
Pp. 78(last blank), 5 full page illustrations; boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges split; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1974. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Australian writer Thomas Shapcott), dated 1980, on upper free endpaper.
Pp. 30(including upper wrapper), title page and text illustrations; short demy 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled, with edges slightly rubbed; bottom edges of leaves and pp. 2-5 a trifle soiled; the author, Warracknabeal, 1989. First edition thus. *Mallee Region, Victoria.
Pp. [vi]+86+[2](blank, colophon); qr. blue & black patterned cloth, printed paper title label on spine, pale blue/grey papered boards, edges faintly faded, the spine with small circular faded patch below label; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, foxed and browned on reverse, slightly soiled, the edges and backstrip browned.....
Pp. 32(last advertisement, verso blank); stiff buff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper lettered and decorated with a clover device in red, corners lightly creased, edges and backstrip slightly browned, with the original stab holes to backstrip but lacking the stitching; top edges uncut; contents loose; The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1921...
Pp. viii+62; qr. canvas, printed label on spine, spare label at end, brown papered boards; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, price cut from backstrip, lightly chipped and split at edges; Methuen, London, 1929. First edition. *Inscribed by author on upper free endpaper.
Pp. [vi]+154(last blank); top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, short closed tear to front panel near backstrip; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Secker & Warburg, London, 1986. Reprinted. *Originally published by Martin Secker in 1977.
Pp. [iv]+104; dust wrapper; Viking, London, 1997. First U.K. edition. *Novella.
Pp. 336(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; text block slightly browned; Secker & Warburg/The Alison Press, London, 1987. First U.K. edition.
