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... More about LE VIOLIN MAGIQUE et autres legendes du Canada Francais
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. More about PROBLEMS OF NINETEENTH CENTURY BIOGRAPHY:
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 about ON THE FRONTIER
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 about PATCHWORK QUILT
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 about THE NOVELS AND LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
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 about THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
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 about THE NOVELS
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 about JANE AUSTEN
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 about ALFRED AUSTIN VICTORIAN
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 about YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME, AVALON
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 about HOME REMEDIES
Pp. 120, dual language text (English and an unidentified Slavic dialect); pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 1989. More about RESURRECTIONS
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 about THE MAN IN THE MIRROR
Pp. [viii]+248; dust wrapper; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. First edition. *The fourth Tony Lowell mystery. More about LAIR OF THE LIZARD
Pp. [vi]+214; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition. More about THE MIDAS CONSEQUENCE
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 about THE HIDING PLACE
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 about ANGEL OF HONOUR
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 about THE SECRET PURPOSES
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 about REMAINS SILENT
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 about HERMSPRONG
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 about EUCALYPTUS
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 about HOMESICKNESS
Pp. x+50; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle marked; Visionvox Titles, 1993. More about RHYMING DOODLES
Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. Pp. xxiv+270(last blank), frontispiece plus 16 plates, 2 full page maps, appendices, index; med. 8vo; qr. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial glazed papered boards; within maroon card slipcase; a few leaves slightly creased; The Folio Society, London, 2000. Second printing. *Originally published... More about MISSION TO TASHKENT
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 about THE MASK MAKER