Collected by Thomas J. Wise. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thurman L. Hood. Pp. xx+390(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, notes, index; med. 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, scattered foxing; John Murray, London, 1933. First U.K. edition. Todd 102i..... More
Single sheet (approximately A4), written on both sides, on the letterhead of Charles Scribner's Sons, London, dated by hand Sept 13. 34. The letter, which is creased vertically and horizontally from folding, is within the original small stamped and postmarked envelope, addressed by hand to Firuski at his bookshop, in..... More
Pp. xii+400, 4 plates, appendices, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the spine a trifle faded and slightly creased at extremities, joints tender; t.e.g., bottom edges uncut; lacking the dust wrapper; upper hinge starting, text block slightly browned; Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1934. First edition. *The..... More
Pp. 56; printed paper wrappers, edges slightly silverfished, corners a trifle creased; The Shovel and Bull Press, Hyde Park, South Australia, 1977. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. *Review copy, from the collection of Literary Editor Thomas Shapcott, with author's ALs to him loosely inserted. More
Pp. [vi](of viii)+304+[32](advertisements); cr. 8vo; grey cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle canted and slightly rubbed, edges lightly worn and corners slightly bruised, spine slightly frayed at extremities; fore and bottom edges uncut; unidentified armorial bookplate on upper endpaper, hinges starting at a couple of points..... More
Pp. xvi+110(last colophon)+[2](Ashley Library device, verso blank), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus several full page facsimiles; f'cap. 4to; terracotta papered boards, lettered in black, slightly soiled and rubbed, fore-corners lightly worn, the lower joint quite chipped and split; uncut and partly unopened; hinges cracking, the text block slightly browned;..... More
from the library of the late H. B. Muir. More than 40 items, dating from 1940 to the early 1950s, mainly printed in numbers ranging from 5 to 100 copies by the Diamonds at their two small private presses endash The Diapure Press and The Hyacinth Press endash operated from..... More
Pp. 16 (single sheet, folded to form sixteen cr. 8vo pages); no wrappers, as issued; housed in a red cloth portfolio with ribbon pull tab, within a qr. red morocco slipcase, spine lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands, slipcase a trifle rubbed at fore-corners and darkened at spine;..... More
Or news from early Australia, as told in a collection of broadsides, garnered & decorated by Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton. Pp. viii+280, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece, black & white title and text decorations, numerous full page facsimiles; demy 4to; cloth backed pictorial papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom edge of boards..... More
Presentation Issue. With an Introduction by Salec Minc. Pp. [8], plus 44 plates hand-tipped onto stiff black art paper, each plate accompanied by a caption and brief text (mostly unattributed verse, perhaps also by Jones, usually also on hand-tipped sheets); impl. 4to; white art. leather, upper board lettered and ruled..... More
Pp. 208(last blank); black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled and foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly browned; text block browned; Wingate, London, 1949. First edition. *Covers many aspects of publishing including the publisher's relations with literary agents. Loosely inserted in this copy..... More
Pp. [ii]+446, frontispiece portrait, plus 15 plates, the title page and folding map at end printed in red & black, index; f'cap. 4to; light brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind at centre of lower board, the spine and edges of boards slightly faded, lower board a...... More
written on the Steamship 'Mariposa', 'off Honolulu, June 25, 1890.' Six page letter (2 closely written sheets, one of which is folded to form 4 pages) from American Thomas B. Merry to Colonel J. D. McCutcheon, written near the start of Merry's return trip from Australia to San Francisco. *The..... More
2 page letter in ink, with conjugate address leaf, folded to envelope size (small 4to); from the publisher, Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842), to the ballad forger, John Pinkerton (1758-1826); n.d.[c. 1816]. *The letter is undated, on paper watermarked 1809, with a lightly pencilled note 'about 1816' at head of first..... More
The true story of the upward progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine gilt occasionally slightly dulled; top..... More
T he letters (3 of which are aerogrammes) are from Mervyn Peake's widow, Maeve, to Australian author and book collector Robert Holden, and were written between September 1971 and March 1974. There are several references to Mervyn Peake's work: 'It is always a source of great joy to me when..... More
Four sides of a folded small octavo sheet, dated 'Dec. 18, 1873'. The letter is an application for charity on behalf of a Mrs. Coles, who apparently delivered the note in person to [Dr. Cradock?] the Principal of Brazenose College, Oxford. 'The Bearer, Mrs. Coles has asked me to give..... More
Edited in a Series and privately printed by Thomas J. Wise. A complete set of the eight titles in ten volumes, each limited to only a few copies [allegedly 30 or 33, but more likely 55], printed on Whatman handmade paper; all post 8vo; various coloured cloth over bevelled boards..... More
Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pp. 80(last colophon), frontispiece with tissue guard; cr. 8vo; light blue/grey papered boards, lettered in black, lightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, spine browned and slightly creased; uncut and partly unopened; within later grey cloth slipcase; free endpapers lightly offset; printed for private circulation, London..... More
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Single sheet, folded to form four small pages (two text and two integral blanks), the first page with a heavy black border; slightly soiled, with vertical and horizontal creases from folding for envelope; London, n.d. *Headed 'Haste' and with Tenniel's address by hand '3 Portsdown Road/Maida Hill West', the letter..... More
being a Short Record of the Services of the Regiment. Foreword to original issue by Colonel Ian Hamilton, short preface by Colonel Commandant S. G. Craufurd. Pp. [viii]+172+[12](appendices, last colophon), printed in green, 7 colour plates; demy 16mo; white cloth, upper board with insignia and lettering within a tartan border..... More
Presentation Album to Col. Du Plat Taylor C.B. [founder of the Army Post Office Corps and the Post Office Rifles] on his retirement. Album from Col. Raffles Thompson and The Officers. Illustrated by Henry Barnes, .... A large album containing 40 sheets, including title, with illustrated portraits in sepia, printed..... More
From King Henry VIII to the present day. Pp. xxii+374, frontispiece and 18 plates, with lettered guards, 3 text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; jade green glazed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth faded; parts of dust wrapper laid on upper pastedown and tipped-in on upper free endpaper, some heavy..... More
Seven page (4to) letter [stencil, rectos only, with autograph notations] from 'Geoff' to his 'Family' describing events in the trenches during WWI, dated 'Tuesday Sept. 28'. The letter, possibly from an A.I.F. soldier, describes the difficulties of trench life, the delight of food parcels and the frustration of not knowing..... More
Incorporating a narrative of the 1st Light Horse Regiment, A.I.F. 1914-1919. Pp. xiv+446, frontispiece (Unit Colours) and 52 plates (3 coloured and some full page), text illustrations including full and endpaper maps, appendices, glossary, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine and upper board decorated and lettered in gilt, a little..... More