Australian Literature from Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller
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The Sow's Ear
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£66.75
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Octavo, tipped-in contemporary bookplate, original Percy Lindsay wrappers (bit worn on spine).
First edition ‒ issue in wrappers.
Very scarce. Item Price
£66.75
The House of Cain
by Upfield, Arthur W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1929
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£934.50
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Octavo, contemporary name and date on front free endpaper, some spotting to early leaves but very good in original black cloth lettered in gilt (slight wear at head & foot of spine), publisher's orange top stain.
First US edition of Upfield's first novel.
Scarce. Item Price
£934.50
Rhymes of Sydney
by Wills, Colin, and 'Wep' [William Edwin Pidgeon]
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£400.50
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Quarto, 48pp., illustrations, neat modern inscription on half-title page, bright original coloured pictorial wrappers.
First edition.
Very scarce and ephemeral Frank Johnson publication in uncommonly good condition.
Wills & Wep's Sydney of the early 1930s, flappers, six-o'clock closing, and the Harbour Bridge &c. Pidgeon's striking illustrations include his useful & important drinking map of Sydney 'With Wep Where it's Wet'. Item Price
£400.50
Legend For Sanderson
by Palmer, Vance
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Bit worn
- Published
- 1937
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£66.75
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Octavo, original red cloth with chipped Deco dustwrapper (bit distressed and with some old tape repairs).
First edition.
Novel set on the coast and cane-fields of northern Queensland. Item Price
£66.75
The Sedan Murder Mystery
by Wallace, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Australasian Edition
- Published
- 1938
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£93.45
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Octavo, one page advertisements, discreet owner's stamp on endpapers, leaves slightly tanned, but very good in bright original teal blue cloth.
First edition. Wallace's second novel. Very scarce.
Wallace subsequently published his books in Melbourne under his own imprints, Crime Book Publishing Co. and Popular Publications, also writing as 'Aintree', 'Texas Ranger', and 'Gerald Grantham'. Item Price
£93.45
Human Drift
by Mann, Leonard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1935
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£117.48
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Octavo, pale foxing on endpapers and preliminaries, very good in original green cloth (sunned on spine).
First edition. Signed by the author for the novelist Marjorie Barnard.
While the novel was published by A. & R., Mann offered the manuscript first to the short-lived Endeavour Press (1933-35).
Out of print and decidedly scarce. Item Price
£117.48
The Sow's Ear
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1933
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£40.05
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Octavo, original plum cloth (bit faded on spine).
First edition ‒ cloth issue. Inscribed & signed by the author. Scarce. Item Price
£40.05
Landtakers
by Penton, Brian
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1934
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£29.37
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Octavo, foxing on edges and preliminaries, Angus & Robertson bookseller's label on front paste-down, original burgundy cloth lettered in black on spine.
Third Impression.
A critical & popular success, the novel ran to three impressions in the second half of 1934. Modelled on Henry Handel Richardson's Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy, Landtakers was folowed by Inheritors in 1936, but the third volume… Read more about this item Item Price
£29.37
Invasion
by Wallace, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- [1942]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£176.22
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Octavo, [4]pp. publisher's advertisements, very good in bright original green cloth with pictorial dustwrapper (few blemishes including a minor repair on verso of spine) priced at 6/-.
First edition.
Very scarce especially with dustwrapper.
John Wallace was a Melbourne writer and publisher. He also wrote as 'Aintree', 'Texas Ranger', and 'Gerald Grantham', mostly publishing his novels under his own imprints Crime Book Publishing… Read more about this item Item Price
£176.22
The Myth is Murder
by Johnston, George H. writing as 'Shane Martin'
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1959
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£176.22
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Octavo, edges tanned and some pale staining to early leaves, original plum boards lettered in silver on spine with bright William Randell dustwrapper priced at 10s.6d.
First UK edition.
Scarce pseudonymous George Johnston novel. Out of print. Item Price
£176.22
Gold in the Streets
by Niland, D'Arcy
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1959
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£18.69
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Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, edges browned.
First edition. Horwitz NA 4. Item Price
£18.69
The Actors
by Porter, Hal
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1968
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£40.05
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Octavo, pen drawings by Porter, light blue endpapers, original black cloth with pictorial dustwrapper, the cartoonist Les Tanner's copy with his signature.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by Porter for Tanner: 'Les — I loveya. HP.' Item Price
£40.05
The Hexagon
by Porter, Hal
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1956
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£176.22
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Demy octavo, original oatmeal cloth with crisp colour silk-screen printed dustwrapper, John Gawsworth's copy with his 'Realm of Redonda' bookplate.
First edition. An excellent association copy of Porter's first volume of poetry, inscribed by Porter in the Surrey Hotel (London) for the poet John Gawsworth. Porter writes about drinking at the Surrey and Gawsworth in his third volume of autobiography The… Read more about this item Item Price
£176.22
How Beautiful Are Thy Feet
by Marshall, Alan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1950
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£29.37
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Octavo, very good in bright original royal blue cloth.
January 1950 reprint (first published in December 1949). Novel set in a boot factory in Collingwood during the Depression.
Inscribed and signed by Marshall. Scarce. Item Price
£29.37
Dragonfly
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- [1928]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£66.75
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Crown octavo, [8]pp. publisher's advertisements, contemporary name in ink on front free endpaper, small bookseller's label on front paste-down, very good in original blue cloth lettered in black.
First edition. Novel set in western Queensland. Very scarce. Item Price
£66.75
The Barrier Rat
by Walford, Frank
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- [1943]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£66.75
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Octavo, [5]pp. publisher's advertisements, small bookseller's label on front paste-down, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, very good in original orange cloth (bit used) lettered in black on spine .
First edition. Scarce adventure novel set in Queensland. Item Price
£66.75
Salvage
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- circa 1926
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£40.05
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F'cap octavo, text a little toned but very good in bright original red cloth (slightly flecked) with pictorial dustwrapper (bit chipped).
Small format 2/- reprint.
'Two parties went a-hunting sunken treasure on the coasts of Tasmania. In one was Peter Dale, young, innocent, out of a job; in the other, sweet Barbara. They met, and it was love at first sight— love… Read more about this item Item Price
£40.05
The Bridle Track
by Hardie, J.J.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1936
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£40.05
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Octavo, minor foxing on edges and preliminaries, bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper, very good in original green cloth with bright house style typographical dustwrapper (bit chipped).
First edition. Item Price
£40.05
Tantalego
by Rivers, Georgia [Marjorie Clark].
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- [1928]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£93.45
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Octavo, minor foxing on edges, very good in bright original blue cloth lettered in black.
First edition. Very scarce Melbourne novel. Item Price
£93.45
The Secret of Hanging Rock
by Lindsay, Joan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1987
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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£21.36
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Octavo, very good in original pictorial wrappers.
First UK edition (priced at £1.95).
Lindsay's manuscript final chapter of Picnic At Hanging Rock, posthumously published twenty years after the novel. Item Price
£21.36