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A BACHELOR’S CHILDREN: Short Stories
Edition: First printing
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962. Octavo, maroon boards. Bumps to outer corners of covers, bit of yellowing to page edges, VG otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has rubbing, short tears, to spine tips; repaired corner tear to front panel; a bit yellowed; good.
Book ID: 32412More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
A BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN VERSE
Edition: First UK printing
London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Octavo, blue cloth. pp xvi, (267). Light yellowing to page edges, light foxing to top page edges, small bruise to one outer corner, VG+ otherwise. Jacket has some darkening to spine, light rubbing to spine and flap folds, VG, flap price intact.
Book ID: 36057More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A CITY SELECTION
Edition: First of this collection
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1984. Octavo, beige pictorial boards printed in red. p (xvi), 826, (6). A fine, jacketless copy, no owner names. 1.5 kg parcel, 0702217999
Book ID: 35935More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A COLLECTION OF SIXTEEN POEMS
Edition: First Edition
Auckland: Privately Printed, 1957. Octavo, card covers with flaps. Pp (32), printed in red & black, fore edges untrimmed. Small soft bruise to lower other corners, very light soiling and yellowing to covers, else fine. Printed at the Griffin Press, Panmure, New Zealand.
Book ID: 32282More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A DIFFICULT YOUNG MAN
Edition: First UK edition
London: Cresset Press, 1955. Octavo, green boards. Yellowing to page edges, spine gilt dull, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has moderate wear to spine tips; white spine lettering lightly yellowed, with slight rubbing to spine folds; VG otherwise, flap price intact. First issue binding. Second novel the Langton tetraology. This group of novels was his greatest achievement.
Book ID: 32614More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
A DIFFICULT YOUNG MAN
Edition: First UK edition
London: Cresset Press, 1955. Secondary binding of tan linen grain boards lettered in black Page edges lightly yellowed, small crease at foot of spine, else fine. Dust jacket has light spine yellowing; minor rubbing; VG+, flap price intact. Second novel the Langton tetraology. This group of novels was his greatest achievement.
Book ID: 42388More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER
Edition: First Australian Edition
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971. Octavo, black boards, red endpapers. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. 0207954232
Book ID: 32504More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A FAMILY MADNESS
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Octavo, brown cloth and reddish-brown boards. Advance review copy with dated slip laid in. Fine in fine jacket. 0886191025
Book ID: 32499More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A Family Madness
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Octavo, cloth & boards. Very nearly fine in like jacket, no owner names. 0886191025
Book ID: 29296More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A GATHERING OF EAGLES
Edition: First Edition
London: Collins, 1970. Octavo, 190 pp, light brown boards. Jacket has a bit of wear to spine ends and outer corners, soft creases, VG otherwise, flap price intact. A thriller / adventure novel set in the deserts of North Western Australia. 0002212943
Book ID: 42382More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A HOUSE IS BUILT
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1929). Second US printing, Nov., 1929 (first was Oct., 1929. Tan cloth stamped in black. pp (iv), 395. Small Sailor's Institute rubber stamps on front & rear endpapers; Ft. William, Ontario, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; yellowing and minor foxing to page edges; else fine. Dust jacket has shallow chips, closed tears, at tips of bit sunned spine; front panel has short tear to lower flap fold, creases across bottom margin; else a VG example. One of Geoffery Dutton's 100 greatest Australian books.; Octavo
Book ID: 29024More details Price: USD $36.75 USD $33.08 -
A HUMBLE ENTERPRISE. Illustrated by St. Clair Simmons
London: Ward, Lock, no date. Early printing ca. 190- (first was in 1896). Octavo, green fine ribbed cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers. pp 248, (8, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard and one other plate. Small bruise at lower inner corners of covers; light yellowing to page edges; small ink name on first blank page; 06 Aug., 1904, ink gift inscription on half-title leaf; minor rubbing at spine ends; partial crack to rear inner hinge; else a nice, bright & tight copy. A novel set in England by this prolific Australian author, considered to have been the first important female poet from that country. Miller & Macartney p 95. This was #24 in the publisher's Lily Series. The ads list 58 titles in the series.
Book ID: 39465More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A LITTLE AVERSION. With Coloured Illustrations by J.A. Symington
London: Religious Tract Society, no date, 1916. Octavo, 19.5 cm, blue pictorial cloth stamped in gren, black, and yellow, spine has author & title in gilt within a gilt frame. pp 256, (16, ads) + colour frontispiece with tissue guard + title leaf with colour decorative border, lettering in blue & red + 2 other colour plates. Yellowing to endpapers and page edges; Xmas, 1916, ink gift inscription at front; else a VG clean, bright, tight and unrubbed copy, very attractive. A volume in The Girl's Library series. First edition? First ed. was RTS [1910]. The pseudonym not identified by Libraries Australia. A story for girls set in Tasmania.
Book ID: 34066More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
A MAORI MAID
Edition: First of this edition
London: 1898. Macmillan's Colonial Library no. 351. pp viii, 400, 8, ads. Blue clotth gilt lettered, decorated in blind. Bit of wear to spine ends, with a short tear at foot repaired, short split to bottom of front joint, a few cover spots, slight wear to outer corners; book leaned, with some separations in gutters in text; lacking the front free endpaper; rear inner hinge cracked but firm; yellowing to page edges; else a good, sound copy, text clean and unworn, no owner names. A scarce New Zealand novel.
Book ID: 40067More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
A MINOR PORTRAIT
Edition: First Edition
London: Barrie Books, 1957. First edition of the Australian author’s second book. Octavo, maroon cloth. VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Story of an Australian schoolboy and his tragic attachment to a rich, sophisticated woman.
Book ID: 32237More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A MURDER IN SYDNEY
Edition: First Edition
London: Cape, 1937. Octavo, red cloth. Damp stain to lower front and rear covers, and slightly at foot of spine, else a VG+ copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks to spine tips, shallow chip at head of spine (no lettering affected), rubbing to spine folds, short tear to bit dusty blank rear panel, short tear to fore margin of front flap; a few other nicks; otherwise a VG example, flap price intact. Hubin II p. 278. Loder p. 370. His only crime novel, quite scarce in jacket. This is the London issue, printed in the UK, and is the correct first edition.
Book ID: 35103More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
A POCKETFUL OF YEARS. Another Mrs Kingi Book
Edition: First Edition
Auckland and London: Collins, 1975. Octavo, blue boards. pp (vi), 166. Fine in jacket, no owner names. New Zealand author's second novel about this Maori character.
Book ID: 34036More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A.R.D. FAIRBURN 1904-1957: a bibliography of his published work
Edition: First Edition
(Auckland, New Zealand): The University of Auckland, 1958. Octavo, tan cloth. pp 117, (3) + frontispiece portrait. Damp stain to front cover, else a VG clean and unworn copy.
Book ID: 36699More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A RIVER TOWN
Edition: First UK printing
London: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Inscribed by Author; Advance reading copy. Octavo, illustrated card covers. Reproduces hand changes on verso of title leaf, in including an amended ISBN number. Fine copy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in Toronto in 1995 to a Toronto author and impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's 1995 ink name at front. A novel based on his grandparents' life in NSW early in c20. ; Signed by Author
Book ID: 37596More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A RIVER TOWN
Edition: First UK printing
London: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Octavo, blue boards. Advance review copy for Canada with label of the Canadian distributor affixed to front free endpaper, three sheets of distributor's promo copy laid in. Fine in fine jacket, no owner names, flap price intact. A novel based on his grandparents' life in NSW early in c20. 034061093X
Book ID: 33162More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46