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The Hundred and One Dalmatians
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDodie Smith
London: Heinemann, 1956.The first edition in book form (originally appearing as a serial, The Great Dog Robbery, in Woman’s Day) and the source for the adaptation of the films One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone.
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[The Kelmscott Chaucer] The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeoffrey Chaucer
London: The Folio Society, 2002.The first Folio Society Facsimile Edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer, bound in full Nigerian goatskin leather in an edition of 1,010 copies, of which this is number 731. With an accompanying essay booklet ‘The Kelmscott Chaucer’ by William S. Peterson. “One of the most splendid books issued by Folio. Not surprisingly, the edition went out of print as soon as it was published.” FORD-SMITH 1117.
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The Lee-Enfield Rifle
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. G. B. Reynolds
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The Temples of Karnak
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartR. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.Translated from the French Les Temples de Karmak by Andre Vanden Broeck. A complete photographic record of monuments, ruins, statues and the ancient Egyptian temples of Karnak. Includes the land of the Nile, mythology, and royal cartouches from the 18th to the 30th dynasties.
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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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Pagan Innocence
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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Australian Defences and New Guinea Compiled from the Papers of the Late Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Kinloch Cooke
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Untold Miles: Three Gold-Hunting Expeditions Amongst the Picturesque Borderland Ranges of Central Australia
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Terry
London: Selwyn & Blount, [1932].Scarce account by explorer and author Michael Terry of one of his many journeys through Central Australia. Includes prospecting reports and encounters with aboriginals. Photographic illustrations throughout.
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Transitional Demands: Trans People & the Welfare State #1
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAction for Trans Health
[London?]: Action for Trans Health, No date.Circa 2017 zine with a series of articles about trans issues in the United Kingdom.
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The Male Impersonator
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. F. Benson
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929.The Male Impersonator is one of two short stories and six novels published in the author’s Mapp and Lucia series, later adapted as a television serial. The series features a cast of mainly upper class English people, who could be described as genteel dilettantes, as they navigate their way through the minor outrages of polite society. In The Male Impersonator, Miss Mapp has to deal with the arrival to their small town of Lady Deal, who in a previous life, had a history of performing as a male impersonator. ‘To think that a male impersonator should to Tilling and take one of the best houses in the place! Why, it might as well have remained empty!’ Limited to 530 numbered copies, this being one of 30 copies for presentation, signed by the author.
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The Bells and other Poems
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.The deluxe edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe featuring The Bells, The Raven, and others. Illustrated with 28 tipped in colour plates and additional vignettes by Edmund Dulac and published in a numbered edition of 750 copies signed by Dulac.
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Psychedelic Press (Complete Set, 40 Volumes)
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd
London: Psychedelic Press, 2012-2023.A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press, early issues also titled psypressUK, and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd, together containing hundreds of papers on the history, literature, philosophy, and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts, David Graham Scott, Reverend Nemu, Martin W. Ball, Nikita Petrov, Are Thoresen, David Nickels, Mike Crowley, Ben Sessa, Havelock Ellis, Julian Vayne, LiZ Elliot, Mike Jay, Roger Keen, Henrik Dahl, Thomas Hatsis, James W. Jesso, Ross Heaven, Peter Sjostedt-H, Stanislav Grof, Graham St John, James Oroc, Rick Strassman, and many others.
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Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[William Alexander]
London: John Murray, 1814.50 persons from across early 19th century English society are depicted in fine hand-coloured costume plates dated 1813, each accompanied by a detailed descriptive text. This copy in a signed Zaehnsdorf binding and with the bookplate of Ada Thatcher Huntzinger
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Handbook of Australian Fungi
AU$1,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. C. Cooke
London: Williams and Norgate for the Departments of Agriculture in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobarton, 1892.The first monograph on Australian fungi by English botanist and mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914). Containing descriptions of 2079 species of macrofungi, microfungi, and slime moulds (or myxomycetes), of which 377 figures are illustrated across 36 plates. The samples which the handbook are based on were supplied by Ferdinand von Muller, Flora Martin, F. M. Bailey, Sven Berggren, and others, and shipped to Cooke in England. This distance limited the accuracy of the work, nevertheless, as the first volume devoted to the subject its historical import cannot be understated and remains a key work in any Australian mushroom collection.
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Wine and Wine Countries; A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Tovey
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1862.On wine and related beverages around the world, including a section on the burgeoning Australian winemaking trade. This copy with the bookplate of Australian winemaker Max Lake.
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My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert F. Calvert
London: William Heinemann, 1897.The first edition of Calvert’s fourth tour of Western Australia. An early travelogue with hundreds of illustrations by Walker Hodgson, from photographs, and with a folding colour map showing the gold field regions. FERGUSON 7823.
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The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMoses Angel
London: William Tegg & Co., 1858.Headmaster of the Jewish Free School, London, Moses Angel was a significant figure in 19th century Anglo-Jewish religious and secular education, ‘The Law of Sinai, and Its Appointed Times’ aimed to promote better understanding between Jewish and Christian peoples. This copy with the bookplate of Australian rabbi Leib Aisack Falk, and the binder’s ticket of Westley’s & Co., London.
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The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Westbrooke Burton
London: J. Cross and Simpkin and Marshall, 1840.This copy from the collection of Melbourne bibliophile Rollo Hammet, with his label, and the ownership signature of W. Champion Hackett. FERGUSON 2943.
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The Universal Family Bible: or a Complete Exposition and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Containing the Sacred Text of the Old and New Testaments;
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Cookson
London: For the Author, and Sold by W. Nicoll, 1784.With the Apocyrypha at Large Illustrated with Notes and Observations, Theological, Critical, Moral, Historical, Practical, Chronological, and Explanatory. The first edition of the Rev. James Cookson’s folio Family Bible, illustrated with 30 engravings. At the time of publicatoin Cookson had recently become master of Churcher’s College, Petersfield. “He was of eccentric habits, and is said once to have announced in church, ‘I have forgotten my sermon, but I will read you a true account of the battle of Waterloo.’ In 1814 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.” (Dictionary of National Biography). This copy with the family ownership markings of the Robbins and then Gilbert families, the latter being a theatrical family, relatives to W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, then the Ripper, and finally McCarthy family, 1784-2010.
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The Garden of Adonis
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOliver Hill
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.The Arcadian, Uranian photography of architect Oliver Hill presented alongside quotes from the Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children. This copy inscribed by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith and dated September 1927, undoubtedly Witney blanket man Sidney Smith, Hill having designed Merryfield House for him and gifted upon the completion of construction.