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The Birds
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTarjei Vesaas
London: Peter Owen, 1968.Translated from the Norwegian, Fuglane, by Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes
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L’Homme qui a perdu son Ombre
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAdelbert de Chamisso; Bernard Naudin
Paris: A. M. Peignot, 1913.French translation from the original German of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (English: The Man with No Shadow) by the exiled French aristocrat, poet, and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838). The story follows Peter Schlemihl who sells his shadow to the Devil for infinite money. The first edition with 15 engravings by French artist Bernard Naudin (1876-1946) limited to 100 numbered copies, this being one of 75 copies on Van Gelder paper, in a signed fine binding by Bernasconi with the original wrappers bound in. Peter Schlemihl was Naudin’s first major project after giving up painting to devote himself exclusively to printmaking.
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To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVirginia Woolf; Susan Dick
London: The Hogarth Press, 1983.Woolf’s original draft with all of the edits and annotations transcribed and edited by Susan Dick.
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Place of the Stinging Nettles
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhyllis Shatte
Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1970.A novel of Gympie, Queensland. This copy signed by the author.
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Stamp Help Out! And Other Short Stories: The Pot Smokers
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLenny Bruce
[New York]: [Lenny Bruce], No date.The 1962 self published zine of American comic Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). See… Actual photos of tortured Marijuanaites. See… Hookers Resort to Prostitution. See… Shame. See… Shame Sell. See… Shame Sell Sea Shells at the Shim Sham! The second issue, with the rude words typed over out of fear of persecution.
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Les Freres Zemganno
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Auguste Brouet
Paris: Edite par F. Gregoire, 1921.Goncourt’s Naturalist exploration of the evolution of French literature through the acrobatic artistry of two circus brothers, also echoing and exploring his own love and loss of his inseparable brother (and literary partner) who passed some years prior. Originally published in 1879, here for the first time with numerous illustrations by Auguste Brouet. The illustrations include 15 full page etchings, a half-page etching on the half-title, and a vignette on the title, all signed in the plate, together with a further 51 illustrations in the text. This copy extra illustrated with 4 original signed drawings by Brouet mounted at the beginning, and finely bound in a signed full leather binding by Ganape, RD, dated 1925, and with the bookplates of Yvan Lamberty and B. Le Dosseur.
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Equality; or A History of Lithconia
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[James Reynolds]
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947.A utopian fantasy novel credited with being the first American utopian novel. Unattributed but credited to Dr. James Reynolds. Originally published serially in the weekly newspaper, The Temple of Reason, in 1802 and first published in book form by The Liberal Union in 1837. This is the second book edition published in a limited edition of 500 copies by The Prime Press.
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Doctor Zhivago
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBoris Pasternak
New York: Pantheon, 1958.First printing of the first US edition with the book club edition square to lower board of this classic of Russian literature.
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False Colours
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorgette Heyer
London: The Bodley Head, 1963.Regency romance. In the Australian issue jacket.
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Stir
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Jewson
Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.Novelisation of the 1980 prison film based on the 1974 prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex and the subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
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The Poison of Asps
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. Orton Prowse
London: Methuen, 1893.The first novel of Richard Orton Prowse (1862-1949). A Victorian novel of life in a small country town.
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Biff
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles S. Gould
Sydney: Jons Productions, [1945].Australian juvenile fiction. Adventure story about a boy from the Queensland bush. MUIR 2904.
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Nicholas Nickleby
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Dickens
London: The Folio Society, 2005.With the original illustrations by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne], introduction by Simon Callow. FORD-SMITH 1275.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Twain
London: The Folio Society, 2013.Introduced by Frank Kaplan, illustrated by David Hughes. FORD-SMITH 1834.
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The Best After-Dinner Stories
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTim Heald
London: The Folio Society, 2008.Introduction by Craig Brown. Illustrations by Paul Cox. FORD-SMITH 1140.
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The Timeless Land
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEleanor Dark
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1980.A specially bound limited edition signed and dated on a mounted plate by Eleanor Dark.
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A Horse Of Air
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDal Stivens
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970.Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for best Australian novel in 1970. “the story of Harry Craddock — millionaire, ornithologist, idealist and buffoon — written mostly by himself in a mental hospital after a wild expedition to central Australia in search of the rare night parrot. His self-portrait is filled out and balanced with extracts from his wife’s diary and comments by the psychiatrist who treated him. The result is a many-layered narrative whose ultimate meaning, or meanings, each reader must decide for themselves. One thing is beyond doubt: it is a strange and compelling story. The character and life of Harry Craddock include many contrasting elements, but they all converge in his quest for the night parrot.” (from jacket blurb)
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Lives of Girls & Women
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlice Munro
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971.Female coming of age story by the Nobel Prize winning author based in Munro’s native Ontario. The Canadian First, inscribed by Munro, For Bill.
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The Epicurean, A Tale
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Moore
Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1827.The Paris Edition published the same year as the UK first. This copy in the armorial binding of Lord Henry Seymour (1805-1859) signed Rel. Hering.
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGiovanni Boccaccio; Richard Aldington; Buckland Wright
Westminster: The Folio Society, 2007.Translated by Richard Aldington with aquatints by Buckland Wright. The Deluxe Folio Society Edition, limited to 1,750 numbered copies in Wassa goatskin designed by Jeff Clements. This is number 1,524. Includes the booklet: The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron