LITERATURE from Bookhome Sydney

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, top corners covers creased, few light creases covers, minor edgewear corner tips covers. 236 pp. A new edition of the classic Athenian play for comedy, 'Aristophanes Lysistrata’, edited with commentary by Jeffrey Henderson, This edition, the first for 60 years, provides much new evidence for those working… Read more about this item

Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979. Paperback small octavo, very good plus condition, flexible card cover, typewritten text, minor edgewear. 122 pp. A collection of seven essays by Vincent Buckley, Manning Clark, Dorothy Green, A. D. Hope, Patrick Morgan, Elizabeth Perkins and Fay Zwicky. These papers were originally presented at a seminar by the Christopher Brennan Society at the University of… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983. 1st ed.. Hardback oblong small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, single colour illustrations, some edgewear jacket (small closed tear, light foxing reverse side & white background covers), spine ends little rubbed. 131 pp. In this fascinating look at Sydney, 28 writers reveal how they have written… Read more about this item

Melbourne: McPhee Gribble / Penguin Books, 1993. Paperback octavo, good plus condition, black & white photos centre spread, pages & inside cover toned as usual, top edge little foxed, minor edgewear. 239 pp. A first report by Fiona Capp on ASIO surveillance of Australian writers with communist sympathies, which until now has remained largely unknown. This spying was a… Read more about this item

London: Windmill Books / Penguin Random House, 2014. 1st ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white drawings, minor edgewear. 338 pp. Azar Nafisi tells the story about her teaching 'The Great Gatsby' and other classics to her eager students in Iran. This book is the follow-up to her million-copy bestseller 'Reading Lolita in Tehran'. Azar has… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Shapcott Press, 1964. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet (rusted), single red & white drawing, light foxing covers & pages, edges lightly foxed, spine chipped, minor edgewear. 6 pp. This poem by Judith Wright was previously unpublished. This pamphlet was printed on a century old Columbian press at the Shapcott Press at the University of Queensland. The… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Shapcott Press, 1962. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, pamphlet, two black & white vignettes, crease base of spine, top edge little foxed, few foxed spots on pages, minor edgewear. 4 pp. This pamphlet records the official presentation of a Columbian printing press to the University of Queensland, on Monday 30th July 1962. It is used for… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Shapcott Press, 1964. Paperback tall trade, good condition, folded pamphlet, single black & white vignette, spine ends creased, few foxed spots pages, light foxing at fold, top corners creased, minor edgewear. 4 pp. A poem by John Dryden, originally written in 1687. This ode was written to celebrate St. Cecilia (the patron saint of music), and argues that… Read more about this item

Brisbane: The Shapcott Press, 1963. 1st ed.. Paperback large trade, good plus condition, stapled pamphlet, single black & white vignette, pages lightly toned, edges little foxed, minute foxing pages & covers, top corner covers & pages creased, few marks rear cover, staples rusted, minor edgewear, owner's name inside front cover. 10 pp. This pamphlet is about George Canning who… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., 1888. Colonial ed.. Hardback small octavo, good condition, navy boards (embossed borders front cover and spine, four gilt bands on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine), navy endpapers, page edges roughly cut, small patch rubbed on one gilt border and navy board, edges covers rubbed (corners bumped), spine ends little worn (few edge… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Monash University, 1969. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, thin card cover, staples little rusted, minor edgewear, pages faintly toned, bottom corner tip one page creased, minor edgewear corner tips some pages. 40 pp. The Jonathan Swift (English satirist and poet) book collection was acquired in 1961 from a distinguished Australian musician, Mr David Woolley. Mr Woolley… Read more about this item

London: Dickens Fellowship at The Dickens House, 1931. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, good condition, black & white drawings, few music scores, few adverts, spine ends little chipped, pages lightly toned, bottom corner tips front cover & pages little creased, small mark front cover, minor edgewear. 246 pp. This issue of The Dickensian journal is Volume XXVII [27], Summer Number,… Read more about this item

Tulsa, OK: Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1993. Paperback trade, good condition, black & white drawings, spine faded, minor edgewear, top spine bumped, corner tips covers & some pages creased, pages lightly toned, covers slightly marked, old price marks top corner title page. 152 pp. This issue of the journal is an anthology of established and new poets… Read more about this item

Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1916. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, good condition, dark red boards with gilt title & editor’s name on front, small embossed symbol, black & white drawings & photos, frontispiece, light foxing few pages & inside covers, pages lightly toned, spine ends creased, corners covers little bumped, colour loss few patches covers & spine,… Read more about this item

Sydney, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, light crease rear cover, minimal edgewear. 260 pp. This book is a collection of work from some of the great Australian Aboriginal writers. The work covers over 200 years of Aboriginal history, culture and life. The editors have selected work that represents the range… Read more about this item

Melbourne: E. W. Cole, 1915. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, good condition, embossed brown cloth cover (very mottled), black & white drawings, frontispiece portrait, black & white drawings & text-photos, endpapers toned & little foxed, small tears bottom edge several pages, spine little faded, pages lightly toned, some edgewear. 415 pp. The fourth volume of 'The Cream of Human… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 269 pp. An inspiring collection of the most useful essays and exercises ever produced on the craft of writing, edited with introduction by Bolker. These 29 pieces, more than half of which have never been published in book form,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson / HarperCollins, 1992. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, front cover scratched, minor edgewear. 402 pp. Beginning in England in 1973, this second volume of Christina Stead's letters deal mainly with her life after returning to Australia in 1974 and ends just before her death in 1983. These years saw the growth of her… Read more about this item

London: Inca Books, 1974. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, no jacket, very good condition, fine binding in quarter leather and cloth, black & white full-page drawings, faint price marks top corner tip front endpaper, tiny mark last two pages. 76 pp. Death of a Spartan King by Jack Lindsay has been revised from a version published as Come Home… Read more about this item

Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback small quarto, card covers, good condition, pages lightly toned, top corner tips pages little creased, top corner few pages creased, covers lightly toned & little marked, few small stains spine & front cover, minor foxing edges & the first few pages, little loss top spine, spine lightly worn, minor pencil annotation, owner's… Read more about this item