IN THE KINGDOM OF AIR.
Pp. [vi]+374; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, the back panel faintly scuffed, with tiny split to bottom edge; Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Pp. [vi]+374; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, the back panel faintly scuffed, with tiny split to bottom edge; Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Drawings by Barnett Freedman. Pp. [4], full page coloured illustration; small cr. 8vo; pictorial mauve paper wrappers with narrow flap folds, stabbed & tied; lightly foxed, edges slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, a little light foxing; Faber & Gwyer, London, n.d.[1927]. First..... More
Pp. [x]+334(last blank), bibliography; post 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, faintly soiled, fore-corners a trifle rubbed; text block slightly browned; Vintage/Random House Australia, Sydney, 1998. First edition. *Author's fifth novel; short listed for the Miles Franklin award. More
Pp. [x]+308; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased and split, the laminate lifting slightly around the backstrip; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, top fore-corner of a couple of leaves slightly creased; Longmans, Green, London, 1967. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. [ii]+lxii+242(last blank), frontispiece, plus 8 plates, pictorial section divisions, index; med. 8vo; yellow papered boards, spine lettered in green; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2011. First edition. *Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) published most of her poems in The New Yorker. 'During forty years of correspondence..... More
A poem for several voices. Pp. 80(last colophon, blank); cream papered boards, edges a trifle discoloured; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and browned; free endpapers offset; Meanjin Press, Melbourne, 1953. Edition limited to 500 copies. *Signed by the author on upper pastedown. More
The fourth volume, edited by Blair and containing stories by J. D. Beresford, Blair, Horace Horsnell, Storm Jameson, Robert Keable, D. H. Lawrence, Edgell Rickword, Michael Sadleir, L. A. G. Strong. Pp. 270(last blank)+[2](advertisements); qr. khaki cloth with printed title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards, edges lightly worn; uncut;..... More
Pp. [vi]+152; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Chatto& Windus, London, 2003. First edition. *Author's first novel, signed by her on the title page. More
Pp. x+334(last blank); price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly faded; Secker & Warburg, London, 1972. First edition. *From the library of Australian journalist and critic Neil Jillett, with his inked signature (dated 1973) on the upper free endpaper. More
Pp. [x]+254; top fore-corner of lower board bruised; dust wrapper; price in ink on upper free endpaper, the pages browned; Secker & Warburg, London, 1975. First U.K. edition. More
Poems. Pp. 52; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, edges slightly silverfished, the backstrip faintly discoloured; Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart, 1978. *Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page to Literary Editor Thomas Shapcott. More
Pp. viii+52(last colophon); demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, backstrip rubbed and browned, edges a trifle creased and split, the front flap stamped Macmillan's Overseas Library; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the lower endpapers..... More
A novel of unknown seas and a fabled shore passaged with coral reefs and magnetical islands, or shipwreck and a lonely haven - the true story of the last of the great navigators, his bark and the men in her. Pp. 402(last blank), endpaper map; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled;..... More
Pp. [iv]+220; pictorial glazed papered boards, bottom fore-corner of lower board bumped; dust wrapper; Severn House, London, 2006.First edition. *A murder mystery set in Ancient Rome, introducing Septimus Severus Quistus. More
The illustrations cut on the wood by Stephen Bone. Pp. 296(last colophon), frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (several full page); green buckram, with printed paper title label on spine; fore and bottom edges uncut, partly unopened; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, with a couple of tiny chips..... More
Illustration by Margaret Steward. Single leaf, folded, printed on one side only, featuring the text of a poem, plus coloured [linocut?] illustration; within printed paper wrappers, stitched, the title within decorative border; Mandeville Press, Hitchin, Herts., 1975. More
Pp. [viii]+424; dust wrapper; text block browned, edges of leaves lightly foxed; HarperCollins, London, 2002. First edition. *The third novel featuring DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper; signed by the author on the title page. Nominated for both the Bloody Dagger Award for Best Mystery Novel, and the 2003..... More
Pp. [vi]+488(last blank); dust wrapper, with original U.K price and 'signed copy' stickers on front panel; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; HarperCollins, London, 2004. First edition. *The fifth novel featuring Derbyshire detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Translated and edited by L. Clark Keating and Robert O. Evans. Pp. [x]+78, brief bibliography, notes; plain white stiff paper wrappers, lightly foxed; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, slightly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Robson Books, London, 1974. First U.K. edition..... More
A comedy in three acts. Pp. 80; printed stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, a trifle marked, corners faintly bruised; outer leaves and edges foxed, the free endpapers faintly offset, a few leaves lightly creased; Constable, London, 1945. First edition. *The poet Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948) was best known for his..... More
Pp. [x]+196(last blank); narrow cr. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip lightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text block slightly browned; Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1995. First edition. *Boyd's second collection of short stories. More
Pp. 256(last blank); demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, flaps slightly foxed and browned, backstrip faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, text block browned, the endpapers lightly offset, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Hamish Hamilton, London..... More
Pp. 428; med. 8vo; small bruise to fore-edge of upper board; dust wrapper; Doubleday & Company, London, 2009.First edition. *An octogenarian recalls his past as a bodyguard to the Russian Imperial Family. More
Pp. viii+344; med. 8vo; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards, a trifle canted; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; Viking, New York, 1992. First U.S. edition. More