Illustrations by Gregory Rogers. Pp. 72,illustrated throughout; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1996. First edition thus. Masterpiece series. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 1996) on verso of upper wrapper. Short story, originally published in Women's Day..... More
Pp. [x]+230; tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; Delacorte Press, New York, 1997. First edition. *Robert Cormier (1925-2000) was an American author, columnist and reporter, whose books explored themes such as abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal and conspiracy. Tenderness was the basis for..... More
Printed in Venice by Vindelinus de Spira in 1476, with a translation, 'The Story of Lionbruno', by Beatrice Corrigan. Pp. 40, 2 illustrations; pale blue cloth, lettered in silver and decorated in pink, edges and spine faintly faded; Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections/Toronto Public Library, Toronto..... More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial papered boards, with U.K. price sticker on lower board; Bodley Head, London, 1984. First edition. White (Volume 2) 1948. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3074. *Inscribed and signed by the author/artist (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 17.10.90) on verso of upper free endpaper. The date is when th book was officially launched in..... More
Preface by Bryan Holme. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour, red & black and black & white, pictorial endpapers printed in green; wide post 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly scuffed, the bottom fore-corners lightly worn; Thames & Hudson, London, 1981. First U.K. edition. thus. *Both alphabets were originally published separately..... More
A book of old rhymes with new dresses by Walter Crane. The music by the earliest masters. Engraved & printed in colour by Edmund Evans. Pp. 56, printed and illustrated in colour throughout (11 full page, including the frontispiece), with music scores to 36 nursery rhymes; small square 4to; red..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; tall demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Benchmark/Cygnet Books, in association with University of Western Australia Press, Melbourne, 1999. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3234. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page and the upper free..... More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+186(last blank), 2 text illustrations; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, a little light foxing; William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3242. *Inscribed and signed by the author (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page..... More
A novel. Pp. [vi]+186(last blank), 2 text illustrations; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1990. First edition. *Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers, 1991. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Lothian, Melbourne, 1993. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3266. *Inscribed and signed by author and illustrator (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the title page. Peter Gouldthorpe has added a small sketch of a sunrise above his signature..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, top fore-corners slightly bruised; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2006. First edition. *'Following the invention of the light bulb and recorded sound, Thomas Edison turned his genius to the invention of a doll which could both speak and walk. Thousands..... More
Pp. [28](including the free endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2004. First edition. *Robert Ingpen is the only Australian to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. Paperback edition. White (Volume 3) 3298. *With publisher's publicity sheet for this edition loosely inserted. First published in 1999; winner of the Australian Publishers Association Design Award in 2000, and a Children's Book Council..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards with Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book sticker near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the upper board featuring several die-cuts in the style of a kaleidoscope viewer which reveal the title on the page beneath; Lothian, Melbourne..... More
Pp. 48, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered board, the top fore-corners bumped, and with a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edges; top fore-corners of leaves faintly creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2000. First edition. White (Volume 3) 3303. More
A boy's adventure. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Lothian, Melbourne, 2005. First edition. *The true story of fifteen-year-old John Murphy, who was one of the survivors of Ludwig Leichhardt's ill-fated Northern Territory expedition in 1844. With publisher's publicity sheet loosely inserted. More
Pp. [iv]+172(last blank); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994. First edition. More
Pictures by Peter Melnyczuk. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Orchard Books, London, 1989. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Illustrated by Alan Marks. Pp. [ii]+42, illustrated in colour throughout; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; Heinemann, London, 1985. First edition. Banana Books series. *Novella; winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1985. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007, Storm was named one of the top ten winning..... More
Pp. [49](including recto of the lower free endpaper), illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial papered boards; Tate Gallery, London, 2015. First U.K. edition. *With the author/artist's signed inscription [to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin] in red pencil on the upper free endpaper. Beneath her inscription, Kitty Crowther has sketched in coloured pencil..... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial papered boards; Tate Gallery, London, 2014. First U.K. edition. *With the author/artist's signed inscription [to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin] in red pencil on the upper free endpaper. Beneath her inscription, Kitty Crowther has drawn in coloured pencil a sketch of Mia reading a...... More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, the fore-corners a trifle creased; Lothian Books, Melbourne, 2003. More
