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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971. Octavo, black boards, red endpapers. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Octavo, brown cloth and reddish-brown boards. Advance review copy with dated slip laid in. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. Octavo, cloth & boards. Very nearly fine in like jacket, no owner names.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

London: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. 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.

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.