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Macmillan, 1928. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent. Two important works & presentation copies from renowned anthropologist W. Baldwin Spencer to Mr & Mrs Robert Stott. "Across Australia" by Baldwin Spencer & F.J. Gillen [Macmillan, September 1912] - 2nd Edition [1st ed printed June 1912] in 2 volumes with gift inscription to vol 1 "To Robert Stott / with the kindest regards of / W. Baldwin Spencer / June 1923" [together with] "Wanderings in Wild Australia" by Baldwin Spencer [Macmillan, 1928] - 1st edition in 2 volumes with gift inscription to vol 1 "To Mrs Robert Stott / with the regards & thanks of / W. Baldwin Spencer". Two important works, both presentation copies from renowned anthropologist W. Baldwin Spencer to police officer Robert Stott and family. As detailed in "Wanderings In Wild Australia", Sergeant Robert Stott was a senior police officer in the Northern Territory who accommodated both Spencer and Gillen… Read More

First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. An exquisite set of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon. Collector's Edition [The Easton Press, Connecticut, 1981]; complete in 3 volumes; full leather, gold titling & decorations, all edges gilt, silk ribbon markers, moire endpapers; a fine set. "Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"; "Later Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"; "Final Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes". The definitive text of all short stories & novels featuring the famous Baker St detective. With a selection of the original illustrations, most notably by Frederic Dorr Steele.

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Schille, Alice. Immaculate copy of this comprehensive & beautiful monograph. First Printing [Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2001]; rust coloured cloth with gold embossed titling to spine, artist name embossed on front board, a fine copy; in the like illustrated dustjacket. Alice Schille was one of the foremost watercolourists produced in America & winner of numerous prizes. Professor William H. Gerdts is a leading Art Historian. 181 colour plates plus 33 b&w illustrations. ISBN: 1-55595-181-3 / 1555951813.

First Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Wonderfully illustrated promotional booklet for Guinness Brewing using Alice in Wonderland imagery. Promotional Booklet [Guinness, London, c1952]; staple-bound, illustrated card wrap, 16 pages [including covers]; some minimal spotting, torn bottom corner of front wrap; a very good copy. Illustrated by Antony Groves-Raines. Designed by British advertising agency S.H. Benson. Uncommon promotional booklet adapting the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland to spruik the famous Irish beer.

Sydney: AH & AW Reed Pty Ltd, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blackman, Charles. First Printing [AH & AW Reed, Sydney, 1982]; 128 pages; plain orange boards, white titling to spine, marked & rubbed, illustrated endpapers, owner's name to front endpaper, water damage from base causing gentle rippling to bottom 4cm of pages [illustrations unaffected], a good copy only. Australian artist Charles Blackman's wonderful "Alice Series" of paintings are used to illustrate this famous children's story. ISBN: 0 589 50350 2 / 0589503502

London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full title: "All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. With which is incorporated Household Words". Volume 1: April 30 - October 22, 1859  through to Volume 20: June 13 - November 28, 1868; 26 weekly issues in each volume. Represents all of series 1. Includes serialised first printings of Dickens' classics "A Tale of Two Cities" [first item in Volume 1] and "Great Expectations". Also serialised first printings of Wilkie Collins' mysteries "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" . Initially published by Dickens out of Wellington St with later issues also published through Chapman and Hall. Volumes 2, 3, 7, 12, 14 contains ownership signature of GW [George Woodroffe] Goyder [esteemed South Australian surveyor; 1826-1898]. Some inscriptions include "Warrakilla" [Goyder's… Read More

London: Pan Books Ltd, 1994. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Specially printed to accompany July/August [1994] issue of Esquire magazine [Pan Books Ltd, London, 1994]; small paperback, illustrated card covers, a few bumps & marks consistent with having been read; a very good copy of an interesting piece of Cormacopia

London: The Folio Society, 2005. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. An extraordinary 17C work in a beautiful Folio edition. First Thus [The Folio Society, London, 2005]; three volumes, brown leather spines, gilt titling & decorations, over marbled boards; housed in brown slipcase with gold titling on one face; a fine set. First published in 1621, this unique work is part satire, part serious reflection on the causes, cures & general theories behind the melancholic personality. Introduction by Philip Pullman. To give its full title: "The Anatomy of Melancholy: what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it. In three maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut vp, by Democritus Iunior".

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First Cheap Edition Early Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Excellent. Beautiful early printing of Orwell's classic satire. First Cheap Edition [Secker & Warburg, London, June 1949]; printer's code w217; 92pp; plain green boards, black titling to spine, slight discolouration at top & bottom edges, else fine; in excellent, unclipped [3s. 6d. NET] dustjacket, a little rubbed & chipped at extremities. Handsome & very well-preserved copy of Orwell's satirical novella. With Press opinions on jacket rear.

Adelaide, 1905. First Edition . Card covers. Very Good/Very Good. Rare copies of original 1905 publications. Thistle Anderson caused an uproar by publishing "Arcadian Adelaide", lampooning Adelaide and its inhabitants. It was reprinted at least ten times and inspired several attempts at response, most notably from Mrs F. Ellis in "A Scratch From An Adelaide 'Cat'" [which solicited a 4-page rebuttal by Anderson within "The Arcadians". Three booklets: "Arcadian Adelaide" [Wakefield Press, 1985] facsimile+introductory essay by Derek Whitelock; "A Scratch From An Adelaide 'Cat'" [G. Hassell & Son, 1905] first & only printing; excellent copy and rare; "The Arcadians" [Modern Printing Company, 1905], Fourth Edition, some toning & tidemarks to front; a very good copy

Sydney: Lothian, 2008. Hardcover. Excellent. Tan, Shaun. Signed [& with stamp] by this multi-award-winning illustrator. Excellent early reprint [Lothian, Sydney, 2008]; illustrated boards, ffep creased, verso ffep bookseller stamp, excellent condition. Signed and stamped by multi-award-winning Australian illustrator Shaun Tan. "This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to all those who have made the journey" [from blurb]. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia [CBCA] Picture Book Of The Year, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-7344-0694-1 / 9780734406941.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition [B.T. Batsford, London, 1900]; xxii, 262 pages + 12 pages of publisher's ads; yellow cloth, blue titling & design to front board & spine, spine a little faded, rubbed, bumped extremities, a little, slight lean, dark spot top block, hinges split, a good only copy. With a descriptive list of 94 illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Lewis Foreman Day was a contemporary of William Morris & Walter Crane & authored numerous decorative texts.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1920. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent. Scarce First Australian Printing of this account by this extraordinary military commander. First Edition [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1920]; viii, 352 pages; navy cloth boards, gold titling to spine, minor rubbing, front hinge split at title page [binding remains firm], photographic plate between 274-5pp evidently loose for substantial period & edges damaged but has been re-glued in correct position. An excellent copy of a scarce first printing. Published in Australasia by Gordon & Gotch. Numerous b&w photographic plates & colour fold-out battle maps. With an appendix describing 29 individual deeds of gallantry by soldiers awarded Victoria Cross medals. Sir John Monash was Australia's most outstanding WW1 military commander.

First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent/Excellent. Highly regarded collection of social anthropological studies. First Edition [University Of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, 1970]; xiv, 341pp; numerous illustrations + 2 maps; light brown boards, gold titling, bumped at corners, name on ffep, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket. Published for the Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies from a symposium held at their general meeting. With contributions by Dr Catherine & Ronald Berndt, Prof T.G.H. Strehlow, A.P. Elkin & Dr Fay Gale. ISBN: 0855640448 / 85564 044 8