Banned & Suppressed Books from Gavin de Lacy Rare & Secondhand Bookseller

Octavo, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, very good in original blue cloth with typographical dustwrapper (substantially complete but chipped and with some old tape residue on verso). Suppressed first edition. Withdrawn from sale and a new edition, without the so-called libellous text, published by A.& R., under its Sirius imprint in 1945. Cains, 164. Scarce – especially with dustwrapper.

Octavo, leaves toned, original pulp pictorial wrappers. First Horwitz edition. NA 51. Scarce. 'A savage, adult drama of the sea!' The novel was banned in Australia until 1959.

Octavo, original red cloth, gilt on spine, with striking scarlet & gold Adrian Feint dustwrapper (bit chipped &c.). First edition ‒ 2000 copies printed but only about 600 were sold before 'Inky'Stephensen's publishing company went into liquidation. A forgotten novel of the 1930s, but the subject of two interesting and engaging Sydney literary libel cases. Both author & publisher separately and successfully… Read more about this item

Octavo, leaves toned, name on half title page, original pulp pictorial wrappers. First Horwitz edition. NA 29. Scarce. Originally published by T. Werner Laurie in 1933, the novel was banned in Australia from 1935 until October 1959.

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.

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.

Octavo, bottom and fore edges uncut, very good in bright original brown cloth with pictorial dustwrapper (bit sunned on spine). US edition of Redheap. Third Printing in year of first publication. Redheap was banned in Australia in 1930, and Every Mother's Son was declared a prohibited import in the following year. The offending or suggestive passages identified include pp. 103-9, 244-7, 257-60,… Read more about this item