Pp. 400; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse, lower edge of front panel slightly worn; outer leaves lightly foxed, lower edges lightly shelf-soiled; Bodley Head, London, 1954. First edition. O'Brien (Lawrence bibliography) F0014a. *The empty view of the title is 'the desert of the Arab nomad; the desert of revolt.'... More
Pp. 264; dust wrapper, faintly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Bodley Head, London, 1950. First edition. More
Pp. [vi]+182; dust wrapper; Hyland House, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. More
Pp. x+278, 8 coloured or part-coloured plates; dust wrapper; Duck Editions, London, 2000. First edition. *Author's first novel. More
Pp. [viii]+344(last blank), dark green endpapers; beige cloth, spine lettered and decorated in red & green, faintly soiled, the cloth a trifle bubbled near top edge of upper board; top edges green, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, worn and torn, soiled, with several tape repairs on reverse; text block faintly browned..... More
Pp. [viii]+344; ribbon marker; dust wrapper; Bloomsbury, London, 2006. First edition. *The author's first novel, signed by her on the title page. More
With an Introduction by Kenneth Hopkins. Pp. 12; printed paper wrappers, stapled; Warren House Press, Southrepps, Norfolk, 1969. First separate edition. *A Scottish ballad of the American Civil War; first published in 1899 in Northern Lights, William Allan's ninth collection of verse. More
Reminiscences of excursions round the base of Helicon, undertaken for the most part in early manhood. Pp. viii+80(last colophon)+[16](publisher's catalogue), decorative title and half-title pages; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the lower board a trifle marked, spine cloth faintly faded; uncut, a couple of leaves carelessly opened; upper..... More
With a new Introduction by the author, and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. In three volumes. Title page vignettes, 9 lithographic plates, numerous text illustrations; med. 8vo; full rust coloured linen, stamped in colours and gilt; top edges green; within slipcase, edges lightly worn, printed title label on spine; Limited... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner pp. 31/2; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1983. First edition. White (Volume 2) 149. *Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award, in 1984. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, edges slightly split, the backstrip faintly faded; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. White (Volume 2) 158. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 13/19/85) on the upper free endpaper. Pamela... More
Memoirs of a writing life. Pp. [vi]+278(last blank), text decorations, index; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; fore-edges of leaves a trifle marked; Heinemann, London, 1981. First edition. *Memoirs of various writers, including W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Henry Green, Desmond MacCarthy, Wyndham Lewis, Joyce Cary, a.o. More
A novel. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Pp.x+382; med. 8vo; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, khaki papered boards, the upper board decorated in gilt, bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, the back panel faintly creased; HarperCollins Publishers, New York..... More
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Pp. viii+228(last blank); dust wrapper, front panel faintly scratched; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1991. First U.K. edition. More
Introduced by Alexander McCall Smith. Illustrated by Finn Campbell-Notman. Pp. xvi+254, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates (one double page); pictorial papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; within brown card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2013. First edition thus. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Folio Society... More
Pp. [iv]+36(last blank), the colophon printed in red; qr. natural linen with printed paper title label on spine, light blue/grey papered boards, faintly soiled, with small damp stain near centre of spine, fore-corners of boards slightly worn; uncut; bookplate of Leonard James Shrubsall on upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly..... More
Pp. vi+250(last blank); top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Hodder Children's Books, London, 2003. First edition. *David Almond's first novel for children, Skellig, won both the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal. More
Pp. 24(last blank); narrow 8vo; printed paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, edges and backstrip faded, corners a trifle rubbed; text block faintly browned; Sydney J. Endacott, Melbourne, n.d.[192-]. *Collection of apothegms, presumably written under a pseudonym, dedicated to "Elzevir" of The Argus [i.e., Walter Murdoch]. More
Pp. [vi]+344; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned, edges foxed; Macmillan, London, 1995. First edition. More
Pp. [24], illustrated in colour throughout; cr. 4to; plain paper wrappers, stapled; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, corners a trifle creased; William Morrow, New York, 1982. First U.S. edition, proof copy? *Victor Ambrus has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, once in 1965 for The Three Poor Tailors, and again in... More
Pp. 24, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards, edges faintly rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle marked; Oxford University Press, London, 1975. First edition. *Victor Ambrus has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, once in 1965 for The Three Poor Tailors, and again in 1975 for two... More
16 page pamphlet, staples rusting; some browning and offsetting, paperclip impression at centre of leaves; Washington, D.C., 1945. *Contained in original printed paper envelope, stamped and addressed to Australian bookplate collector H. B. Muir. More
Pp. 208; bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges green; price-clipped dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Jonathan Cape, London, 1976. First edition. *'Due to a slight alteration in history involving Catherine of Aragon, Martin Luther, Thomas More and others, a Holy Victory was... More
A novel. Pp. 352; boards a trifle marked and worn; dust wrapper, damp stained on reverse, edges rubbed, with closed tear from head of backstrip into back panel near backstrip; the free endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1966. First edition. More
