Jean Devanny from Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller
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Old Savage
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1927
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€205.06
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Octavo, very good in original burnt orange cloth lettered & ruled in blue (sunned on spine).
First edition.
Rare early collection of Devanny's short stories ‒ published after her banned novel The Butcher Shop (1926). A reviewer claimed that 'I had to stop reading them in sheer disgust. What do the publishers mean by boosting this slimy sex stuff…?
Nice copy. Item Price
€205.06
Roll Back the Night
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1945
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€136.71
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Slender octavo, original black cloth lettered & decorated in silver.
First edition. Novel set in North Queensland during WWII. Wartime edition, out of print and very hard to find. Item Price
€136.71
Bushman Burke
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1930
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€205.06
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Octavo, spotting on edges, original blue cloth (bit faded on spine) lettered in gilt.
First edition. Very scarce. Item Price
€205.06
Sugar Heaven
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1936
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€108.74
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Octavo, some foxing but very good in original coffee cloth, the poet Ian Mudie's copy with his signature, related newpaper clipping tipped-in, and his marginalia in pencil.
First edition – first issue. One of 3000 (but much scarcer than this) 5/- cloth bound copies, preceeding the paperback issue. Includes glossary. Item Price
€108.74
Taipo
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- circa 1946
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€46.60
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Octavo, diffuse foxing, original typographical wrappers (bookseller's stamp on front cover).
Abridged edition of Bushman Burke (Taipo Burke is the eponymous hero of the novel).
Magpie Books, first series, no. 38: 'A Gripping Story of the Triumph of Love'.
Scarce. Item Price
€46.60
The Butcher Shop
by Devanny, Jean
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Fourth impression
- Published
- 1928
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€77.68
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Octavo, [5]pp. publisher's advertisements, bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in black on spine with publisher's device on lower board.
Fourth impression. Banned in Australia in 1929. Scarce contemporary printing. Item Price
€77.68
The Butcher Shop
by Devanny, Jean.
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third impression
- Published
- 1926
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€341.77
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Octavo, diffuse foxing, original blue cloth lettered in gilt with chipped pictorial dustwrapper (bit oxidised on spine).
Third impression in year of first publication. Early printing in exceptionally scarce 1920s dustwrapper reproducing the fabulous John Nicolson ('Nick') artwork from the first impression but not priced on spine. Banned in New Zealand in 1926 and in Australian from 1929 until 1958. Item Price
€341.77
Sugar Heaven
by Devanny, Jean.
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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€46.60
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Octavo, original typographical wrappers priced at 1/-, foxing and a few blemishes but still a crisp copy.
Abridged edition. Magpie Books, first series, no. 14. 'Pulsating Drama of the Canefields'. Item Price
€46.60