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... More
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..... More
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... More
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;... More
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... More
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. More
From the French of L'Abbe Prevost. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. With decorations by John Austen. Pp. [vi]+x+144(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette and pictorial head and tailpieces, the title, all text and colophon within decorative blue border; roy..... More
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... More
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. More
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. More
Pp. 120, dual language text (English and an unidentified Slavic dialect); pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 1989. More
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 Compliments slip loosely inserted. More
Pp. [viii]+248; dust wrapper; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. First edition. *The fourth Tony Lowell mystery. More
Pp. [vi]+214; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition. More
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. More
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. More
Pp. [viii]+408, 4 full page maps; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of boards bumped; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Little, Brown & Company, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's third novel; signed by him on the title page. More
Pp. [viii]+232(last colophon); med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, red papered boards, bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005. First edition. *Signed by both authors on the title page. More
Or man as he is not. Drawings by Cecil Keeling. Pp. x+262, frontispiece and 9 plates printed in lilac & black, pictorial endpapers; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges lilac (faded); tiny chip to bottom edge pp. 259/260... More
Pp. [vi]+256(last blank); two-tone cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board in blind; dust wrapper; text block browned, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998. First edition. *Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 1999. More
Pp. 318(last blank); corners of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, National Book Council award winner sticker on front panel; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980. First Australian edition. *Author's first novel; joint winner of The AgeBook of the Year for 1980. More
Pp. x+50; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle marked; Visionvox Titles, 1993. More
Pp. 222(last blank); dust wrapper, bottom edge slightly rubbed; production (trimming) fault pp. 93-6; Macmillan, London, 1974. First U.K. edition. Loder, p. 10. *With publisher's review slip tipped-in at front. More
Pp. 288; boards slightly soiled, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, several corners lightly creased, occasional slight soiling; Hutchinson, London, 1968. First edition. *The author's second novel, signed by her on the title page. More
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel. More