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Literature, Modern Firsts in all, Australian authors, 15, American authors 6, English authors 18, Other Countries 11, Children's books 5, Science Fiction 0, Poetry 0

Australian authors 15

128211
ALDRIDGE, JAMES.: A Captive in the Land.
First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 376; bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little worn on edges, good copy.
London; Hamish Hamilton Ltd.; 1962.
Australian writers novel riveting in its atmosphere of tension and wholly convincing in its choice of background and characters. In addition it offers a picture of post war Russia. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128106
ASTLEY, THEA.: Hunting The Wild Pineapple.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 175; bound in original green cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
West Melbourne; Hunting the Wild Pineapple; 1979. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128104
ASTLEY, THEA.: An Item From The Late News.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 200; original green cloth, title lettered in green on spine and front, dustjacket, very good copy.
St. Lucia; University of Queensland Press; 1982. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128105
ASTLEY, THEA.: Vanishing Points.
First Edition; 8vo; pp. 234; original black cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy.
(Port Melbourne), William Heinemann, (1992). Click here to Order

AUD$30

128027
BRENT OF BIN BIN.: Gentlemen At Gyang Gyang. A Tale Of The Jumback Pads On The Summer Runs.
First Edition; 8vo; pp. ii, (220); dustjacket a little chipped, endpapers and page edges flecked, a good copy.
Sydney, Angus And Robertson, (1956).
Scarce. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128207
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Billabong Gold.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1937.
Muir. 1159. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128203
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Billabong's Daughter.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with seven full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, previous owner's name on front endpaper, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1924.
Muir. 1111. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128205
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Circus Ring.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, light foxing throughout, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1936.
Muir. 1156. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128206
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Wings Above Billabong.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 252, (4); illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1935.
Muir. 1154. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128194
CLUNIES-ROSS, DAVID.: Springboard.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 271; bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, unclipped dustjacket showing price as £15.00, inscribed and signed by the author on front endpaper, good copy.
Sussex, England; The Book Guild ltd.; 1995. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128126
CROLL, ROBERT HENDERSON.: Along The Track.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp .158; frontispiece; 6 b/w plates, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in dark green on upper board, dustjacket, very good copy. (Most unusual to find with good dustjacket).
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens: n.d. (C-1930's). Click here to Order

AUD$45

128213
THE DRAMATISTS' CLUB.: Eight Plays By Australians. (One Act). "Travail" Marjorie McLeod: "Van Diemen's Land" John Ormiston Reid: "The Queen's Marie" Phyllis Dorrington Tweedie: "The Grotesque" Doris Hayball: "Love Song" George Duke Walton: "Shallow Cups" Dymphna Cusack: "On The Edge Of The Future" Lloyd Ross: "The Man From The Bush" Henriette Drake-Brockman.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. (vi), 125 (1); bound in original stiff wrapper, title label on upper wrappers, missing front free endpaper, good copy.
Melbourne; The Dramatists' Club; 1934. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128103
KRUK, ZOFIA.: The Tast of Hope.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [viii], 197; bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
Melbourne; Hutchinson;1977.
Story of a Jewish woman from Poland who migrates to Australia. First edition. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128187
LAWLER, RAY.: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 128; original cloth, chipped dustjacket, previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper, a good copy.
London; Angus and Robertson; 1957.
The play is about two sugar-cutters from Queensland, Roo and Barney who have for sixteen years spent their season's savings in Melbourne on a "lay off" holiday with two barmaids, each time they bring down a kewpie doll as a souvenir this is the summer of the seventeenth doll. Click here to Order

AUD$40

128130
WHITE, PATRICK.: The London Magazine - Volume 2 No. 6. September 1962. "Australia".
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 88; bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy.
London Magazine; 1962.
Patrick White's short story "A Cheery Soul," an anatomy of what one character calls "the sin of goodness," began as a short piece that appeared in this issue of the London Magazine in 1962. It was first published as a play in 1965 in the collection Four Plays by Patrick White. However, it was first staged in 1963 at the Union Theatre in Melbourne. Click here to Order

AUD$150

American Literature 6

128108
DAUGHERTY, TRACY.: Just One Catch A Biography of Joseph Heller.
First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 548; illustrated with 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, small remainder mark on edges, otherwise a very good copy.
New York; St Martin's Press; 2011. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128204
HAUSER, MARIANNE.: Prince Ishmael.
First UK Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 308; bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, price clipped dustjacket, very good copy.
London; Michael Joseph Ltd.; 1964. Click here to Order

AUD$75

128007
HELLER, JOSEPH.: Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings.
First US Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xviii, 333; bound in quarter blue cloth with white papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
New York; Simon & Schuster; 2003.
Includes five previously unpublished stories. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128326
NICHOLS, DR. THOMAS L.: Forty Years of American Life. Two Volumes.
First Edition; Med. 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xii, 408; Vol. II. pp. xii, 368; original purple cloth, title lettered in gilt on spines, Melbourne institutional bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume, no other markings, very good set. Scarce.
London; John Maxwell And Company 122, Fleet Street; 1864.
Thomas Low Nichols (1815-19010 was a prominent journalist and reformer in New Hampshire. This is a work of an American writing for an English public, while the author is a typical American of a certain class, and his book, though seasoned with plenty of abuse for the British palate, embodies the generally received notions of that class. Click here to Order

AUD$550

128110
PLAGEMANN, BENTZ.: My Son Goggle.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 248; bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, price clipped dustjacket, good copy.
London; Gollancz; 1955. Click here to Order

AUD$40

128116
STEGNER, WALLACE.: Angle of Repose.
First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 569; bound in original purple cloth, title lettered on spine in gilt, unclipped dustjacket showing price as £3.25, dustjacket with minor marks, very good copy.
London; Heinemann; 1971. Click here to Order

AUD$40

British Literature 18

128195
BECKER, ALIDA; Editor.: A Tolkien Treasury: Stories, Poems, and illustrations celebrating the author and his world. With essays by W.H. Auden, Colin Wilson, Edmund Wilson, and others. Illustrations by Michael Green and Tim Kirk.
First Australian Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 192; illustrated frontispiece, double page map of Middle-earth, 8 pages of coloured plates, numerous b/w. text drawings and illustrations, reading list, Tolkien bibliography, puzzles, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, good copy.
Sydney; Mallard Press; 1990. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128171
BEETON, SAMUEL, et al.: "Edward The Seventh, A Play on the Past and Present Times with a View to the Future": Bound with "Jon Duan" and "Beeton's Christmas Annual Fourteenth Season" [Three Works Bound Into 1].
First Editions; Roy. 8vo; pp. xiv, 90, iv; 94, xxxii, 98, xxxii; each illustrated with numerous double-page and whole-page cartoons of suggestive scenes numerous advertisements, each bound with their original stiff coloured illustrated wrappers bound in, bound in later quarter maroon leather with red cloth boards, raised bands, title label on spine, title lettered in gilt on label, very good copy.
London; Weldon & Co./ Ward, Lock and Tyler; 1875, 1874, 1875. Click here to Order

AUD$125

128309
JOHNS, CAPTAIN W. E.: The Edge Of Beyond.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 192; coloured frontispiece, text with 5 pages of colour plates, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in black spine and upper board, decoration in black on upper board, dustjacket chipped and worn and damaged, occasional light spotting, small booksellers stamp on front endpaper, good copy.
London; Hodder and Stoughton; 1958. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128323
OVID.: The Art of Love. (Ars Amatoria). Translated by J. A. Meagher.
Limited Edition; Post 4to; pp. [ii],16, 25, 23, 26,25;marbled endpapers, bound in scarlet half-morocco by Bayntum Riviere of Bath, title label on spine, title lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, Harry Chaplin's copy with his Lindsay bookplate on the front fixed endpaper, inscribed and signed by Meagher on the title page, tipped in is an a.l.s from Meagher to Chaplin, a copy of Chaplin's two page letter approaching Lindsay to illustrate the verses, and a typescript copy of Lindsay's letter declining, loosely inserted is a Christmas card from Meagher 1956 (printed and signed by Walter Stone), the book was later in the collection of Dr. Geoffrey Cains, then Charles Stitz, together with the September 2020 issue of Biblionews that features Charles Stitz article titled " James Maegher and his remarkable translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria", and a description of this copy of the work, Fine copy.
Sydney; James A. Meagher; 1953.
Never commercially published after Lindsay refused to do the illustrations Meagher settled for producing a few copies for his friends. Click here to Order

AUD$750

128196
SIBLEY, BRIAN.: The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy. [Collector's Hardback Edition]. Foreword by Sir Ian McKellen.
First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 192; map endpapers, illustrated frontispiece and title page, text with numerous coloured illustrations and photographs, bound in original slick illustrated boards, dustjacket, very good copy.
London; HarperCollins Publishers; 2002. Click here to Order

AUD$45

128111
SNOW, C. P.: Strangers And Brothers Omnibus Edition Three Volume Set.
Omnibus Edition; Demy 8vo; Vol. 1. pp. xvi, 1072; Vol. 2. pp. [iv], 1034; Vol. 3. pp. [vi], 920; bound in original publishers cloth, dustjackets worn on edges, name whited out on front endpaper of volume 1, good set.
London; Macmillan; 1972. Click here to Order

AUD$90

128020
WHITE, MICHAEL.: Tolkien: A Biography.
First UK Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. [xii], 290; illustrated with 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, chapter notes. a chronology, selective bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
London; Little Brown and Company; 2001. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128004
YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.: Jim Redlake.
First Edition, First Impression; Post 8vo; pp. [x], 787; bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration on upper board, dustjacket browned and chipped on edges, neat previous owner's name on front endpaper, good copy.
London; William Heinemann; 1930. Click here to Order

AUD$40

Other Literature 11

128078
BATES, BRIAN.: The Real Middle Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages.
First Edition, First Printing (£18..99 on jacket); Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 292; 2 text maps, 12 pages of photographic plates most in colour, notes, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
Click here to Order

AUD$45

128082
DAY, DAVID.: A-Z of Tolkien.
Second Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 272; illustrated title page, text illustrated with numerous b/w. drawings, bound in original slick illustrated boards, dustjacket a little worn on edges, pages a little browned, very good copy.
London; Chancellor Press; 1996.
Indispensable guide to the rich mythical world of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands. Click here to Order

AUD$30

128080
GREENBERG, MARTIN H; Editor.: After The King Stories in Honour of J.R.R. Tolkien.
First UK Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. [vi], 534; bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, pages edges a little browned, good copy.
London; Pan Books; 1992. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128003
SHIRER, WILLIAM L.: Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy.
First US Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 400; illustrated with 16 pages of b/w. photographs, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original quarter black cloth with grey papered boards, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, very good copy.
London; Aurum Press Limited; 1994. Click here to Order

AUD$35

128026
SPENCE, LEWIS.: Legends & Romances of Brittany.
First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. 423; coloured frontispiece, 31 further full page illustrations within text some in colour, glossary and index, bound in original pictorial cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, bottom edge of spine starting to split, previous owner's book plate on front endpaper, good copy.
London; George G. Harrap & Company; 1917. Click here to Order

AUD$125

128002
TAGAMI, YOSHIHISA.: Grey. Volume 1 and Grey. Volume 2.
Demy 8vo; pp. 292, (5); 293, (5); numerous comic art by Tagami throughout, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, with illustrated card dustjackets, very good copies.
San Francisco, CA; Viz Comics; 1989. Click here to Order

AUD$70

128324
WARNER, SYLVIA TOWNSEND.: Elinor Barley. With illustrations in dry point by I. R. Hadkins.
First Limited Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. viii, 107, with additional 7 loose illustrations in folder on back cover; frontispiece, title vignette plus four full page text illustrations, original full pictorial vellum (slightly bowed), title lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, signed by Warner , number 11 of 30 copies, With the extra 7 plates each signed by Hodgkins; a very good copy.
London; The Cresset Press Limited; 1930. Click here to Order

AUD$1250

128210
ZILAHY, LAJOS.: Century in Scarlet.
First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. vii, 439; bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, price clipped dustjacket a little worn, good copy.
London; William Heinemann Ltd.; 1966.
Hungary's foremost novelists, this is a historical novel on the grand scale, opens with the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and continues through that brilliant period of European history which closed with the outbreak of the First World War. Click here to Order

AUD$75

Children's Literature 5

128207
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Billabong Gold.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1937.
Muir. 1159. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128203
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Billabong's Daughter.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with seven full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, previous owner's name on front endpaper, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1924.
Muir. 1111. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128205
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Circus Ring.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 256; illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, light foxing throughout, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1936.
Muir. 1156. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128206
BRUCE, MARY GRANT.: Wings Above Billabong.
First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 252, (4); illustrated frontispiece, text with three full page illustrations, bound in original pictorial cloth, good copy.
London and Melbourne; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; 1935.
Muir. 1154. Click here to Order

AUD$50

128309
JOHNS, CAPTAIN W. E.: The Edge Of Beyond.
First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 192; coloured frontispiece, text with 5 pages of colour plates, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in black spine and upper board, decoration in black on upper board, dustjacket chipped and worn and damaged, occasional light spotting, small booksellers stamp on front endpaper, good copy.
London; Hodder and Stoughton; 1958. Click here to Order

AUD$50