An enquiry into the social views of Elizabeth Bowen, L. P. Hartley, Rosamund Lehmann, Christopher Isherwood, Nancy Mitford, C. P. Snow. Pp. 284, index; dust wrapper, corners a trifle rubbed, the backstrip faintly faded; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Calder, London, 1977. First edition. *A study of...
Research and background by Phillip Knightley. Pp. [iv]+442; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; Cassell, London, 1967. *Novel with an Olympic Games setting.
The veteran's grant. Edited by Elizabeth Lawson. Pp. xvi+112(last blank)+[12](advertisements), frontispiece; narrow cr. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, a trifle creased and rubbed; top fore-corner of last few leaves slightly creased, small stain at foot of last page; Mulini Press, Canberra, 1995. Australian Books on Demand No. 11. *Louisa Atkinson's...
Foreword by Janet Cosh. Pp. 40(last colophon), frontispiece, title page vignette, text decorations; small cr. 4to; pictorial textured paper wrappers with flap folds, stapled, faintly soiled, corners a trifle creased, bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper; corners of a few leaves slightly creased; Mulini Press, Canberra, 1980. Edition limited...
Pp. xii+64(last blank), half-title and title page vignettes, head & tailpiece decorations; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Mulini Press, Canberra, 1988. First edition in book form. *Originally published as a serial in the Sydney Mail, in 1864. Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson (1834-1872), naturalist, journalist and fiction writer, is regarded as the...
Introduction by Victor Crittenden. Pp. 32(last blank), frontispiece, title page decoration, decorative tailpieces; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, stapled, slightly soiled, backstrip faded; Mulini Press, Canberra, 1978. First edition thus. *Selections from Atkinson's writings, 'all related to the beautiful well-watered areas of coastal and tableland...
Pp.20, illustrated; small cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled, backstrip faded; inked ownership inscription (dated 1979) on half-title page; occasional slight creasing; The Kurrajong Heights Garden Club, Sydney, 1979. First edition. *Caroline Louisa Waring Atkinson (1834-1872), botanist, journalist and fiction writer, is regarded as the first...
Texte de Claude Aubry. Gravures de Saul Field. [Text in French]. Pp. 102, 10 full page coloured illustrations, patterned endpapers; med. 4to; pictorial beige cloth, lettered and decorated in maroon, the boards slightly foxed; text block faintly browned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Les Editions des Deux Rives, Ottawa...
Wyse-Acton-Lecky. The annual lecture delivered to the Australian Humanities Research Council at its eighth annual general meeting at Canberra on 4 November 1953. Pp. [ii]+33-44(last blank); small cr. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; The Australian Humanities Research Council, Melbourne, 1964.
A melodrama in three acts. Pp. 124(last blank); fore and bottom edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly silverfished, the backstrip lightly soiled, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the upper free endpaper lightly creased, top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1938. First edition. *With...
Poems. Done into English by Jack Lindsay. With decorations by Edward Bawden. Pp. [72](last blank), pictorial title page, text illustrations (one full page); blue buckram, decorated in blind in a patchwork design, edges a trifle rubbed, spine faded; t.e.g., others uncut; bookplate of [Robert] Foster Kennedy on upper pastedown, plus.....
Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. With an Introduction by William Lyon Phelps. With coloured illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock. Complete in twelve volumes, totalling approximately 4,000 pages. All volumes with coloured frontispiece, each of the major novels also with 5 coloured plates, Volume XI [juvenilia] with 3...
In twelve volumes, totalling approximately 4,000 pages; frontispiece portrait and tissue guard Volume I, all title pages printed in red & black, appendices Volume XII; rebound in half navy morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title labels, blue cloth boards;...
Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice. Six volumes in five, totalling approximately 2,000 pages, with engraved frontispiece (dated 1833) and vignette title page to each volume; f'cap. 8vo; early half black calf, spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered...
A life. Pp. xiv+578, 8 plates, endpaper genealogical chart, notes, index; thick med. 8vo; a couple of faint indentations to upper board; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; ribbon marker; slight damp stain to fore-edge of a couple of leaves; Fourth Estate, London, 1997. First edition.
Pp. x+296, frontispiece, bibliography, index; bottom fore-corner of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, back panel lightly foxed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1955. First edition. *Alfred Austin is remembered as the writer of some of the worst verse...
Foreword by Dulcie Meddows. Pp. 64; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, two small surface grazes to verso of upper wrapper; Galley Press, Sydney, 1994. Edition limited to 500 copies.
Poems. Pp. [vi]+30; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle silverfished, ink stamp on lower wrapper; Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 1984. *The author was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1953, and moved to Perth in 1979.
New and Selected Poems, 1961-1981. Foreword by X. J. Kennedy. Designed and illustrated by Bebe Barkan. Pp. 174(last blank), full page illustrations; pictorial stiff paper wrappers;Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 1982. First edition.
Pp. 120, dual language text (English and an unidentified Slavic dialect); pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 1989.
A novel of espionage. Pp. 224; printed paper wrappers; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed; Gollancz, London, 1965. Proof copy. *Publisher's With Complimentsslip loosely inserted.
Pp. [viii]+248; dust wrapper; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. First edition. *The fourth Tony Lowell mystery.
Pp. [vi]+214; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition.
Pp. [vi]+282; dust wrapper; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Picador, London, 2000. First edition. *Author's first novel, winner of The Guardian First Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize.
Pp. [vi]+360; med. 8vo; edges of boards slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; small tape mark near top edge of first page, name in ink on verso of title page, a couple of corners slightly creased; MacMillan Australia, Sydney, 1991. First edition.
