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Pergamon Press, Australia, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. 253 pp, dustwrapper. Shelf wear to bottom edge, foxing to top edge of book. Max Harris was the founder of Mary Martin's bookshops, and one of the original angry penguins. "No attempt can or ought to be made to convey on a dust jacket's ephemeral blurb the variety of subjects he covers and the verbal virtuosity he brings to bear on them." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Essays; History -- Australia; Literary Criticism; Books about Books. ISBN: 008017373X. ISBN/EAN: 9780080173733. Inventory No: 0204755. . 9780080173733
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The Angry Eye
by Harris, Maxwell Henley
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Pergamon Press, Australia, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. (10), 254 pages, in original Brown papered boards, with dust jacket illustrated, based on a painting by Sidney Nolan. Max Harris was the founder of Mary Martin's bookshops, and one of the original Angry Penguins. "No attempt can or ought to be made to convey on a dust jacket's ephemeral blurb the variety of subjects he covers and the verbal virtuosity he brings to bear on them." Slight rubbing of the top edges of the jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Essays; History -- Australia; Literary Criticism; Books about Books. ISBN: 008017373X. ISBN/EAN: 9780080173733. Inventory No: 0238962. . 9780080173733
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The Angry Eye
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Pergamon Press, Australia, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. (10), 254 pages, in original Brown papered boards, with dust jacket illustrated, based on a painting by Sidney Nolan. Max Harris was the founder of Mary Martin's bookshops, and one of the original Angry Penguins. "No attempt can or ought to be made to convey on a dust jacket's ephemeral blurb the variety of subjects he covers and the verbal virtuosity he brings to bear on them." Slight rubbing of the top edges of the jacket, and some very small white spots on the spine from careless painting. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Essays; History -- Australia; Literary Criticism; Books about Books. ISBN:…
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A Book Collector's Notes: On Items Relating to the Discovery of Australia the First Settlement and the Early Coastal Exploration of the Continent
by Davidson, Rodney
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Cassell, Melbourne, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. 138pp. Sixteen black & white plates. List of illustrations, index, selected bibliography. Illustrated dustwrapper is sunned to the spine region with slight sunning to the edges of the wrapper near the spine. An introduction and guide to early publications. Incorporating the then current prices for Australiana. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Australiana; Books about Books; Inventory No: 0200180. .
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The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
by Ferris, Paul ( Editor )
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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Black and white frontispiece, chronology, appendices, indexes. Illustrated dustwrapper. Through all his correspondence, Dylan Thomas's gleeful wordplay is given full rein. His self-conscious posturing, his gift for high-grade clowning, His Delight in a Friendship, His Concern with Language -- All Are on Display. Paul Ferris's Meticulous Edition of the Collected Letters Performs a Notable Service to the Memory of This Complex, Maddening, enchanting and Ultimately Tragic Personality. the dust jacket has faded across the rear panel, and has short tears at the top of the spine section, and either side of the front panel. Internally clean, no other damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXIV, 984 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters;…
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The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Black and white frontispiece, chronology, appendices, indexes. Illustrated dustwrapper. Through all his correspondence, Dylan Thomas's gleeful wordplay is given full rein. His self-conscious posturing, his gift for high-grade clowning, His Delight in a Friendship, His Concern with Language -- All Are on Display. Paul Ferris's Meticulous Edition of the Collected Letters Performs a Notable Service to the Memory of This Complex, Maddening, enchanting and Ultimately Tragic Personality. Rubbing of the book edges with very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Creasing of the dustwrapper edges with rubbing of the panels. Significant fading of the back strip and to the outer edges of the rear panel. A small split to the lower left hand corner of the front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXIV, 984 pages. Please refer to accompanying…
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The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
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Penguin, London, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. . Through all his correspondence, Dylan Thomas's gleeful wordplay is given full rein. His self-conscious posturing, his gift for high-grade clowning, His Delight in a Friendship, His Concern with Language -- All Are on Display. Paul Ferris's Meticulous Edition of the Collected Letters Performs a Notable Service to the Memory of This Complex, Maddening, enchanting and Ultimately Tragic Personality. Spine section of the paperback binding has lost colour of the background. Slight rubbing to the heel of the spine, and browning of the page edges. No other damage. Illustrated with a pages of black-and-white plates, extensive notes, bibliography & index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVIII 446 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; Books about Books; Literature…
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The Country Life Book of the Book Collecting
by Booth, Richard -- Editor
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Country Life Books, London, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 1.1 kg.; (6) 7-192 pages, acknowledgements, introduction by editor, glossary, bibliography and index. Maroon coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations, reproductions of documents and the occasional colour photograph and colour illustration. Brick red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book edges. Rubbing and marking and faint fading of the cloth covered to the book panels. Light browning to the text block edges and to the internal text. The removal of library pocket can be seen to the lower left-hand corner of the free front end paper and there is a stainer to the top left-hand corner of the same page and to the top right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Library stamp to the lower right-hand corner of the title…
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The Funding of Wisdom; Revelations of Library's Quarter-Century
by Lodewycks, Karel Axel
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Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 361 pp., index. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. The corners are slightly rubbed and the head and the heel of the spine are slightly soft. Photographic dustwrapper, with black background, with black writing on the front panel and white on the spine. Minor rubbing and fading to the dustwrapper has occurred. In this book the author gives his autobiography and his war service and then concentrates on his tenure at large institutional libraries and the politics and pressures that go hand-in-hand with the running of such institutions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Australiana; Politics -- Australian; Books About Books; Australia; ISBN: 0867860065.…
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Hal Porter; Man of Many Parts
by Lord, Mary
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Random House Australia, Sydney, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographs. 700 g.; VI, 330 pp, illustrated dustwrapper. Mary Lord began work on this book on Porter's suggestion, before he died. Having access to his papers she has written an account of the writer and his times which is worthy of his stature. Rubbing from shelf contact to the bottom of the spine, and ownership inscription on front free end page , otherwise no damage to report. Please note that this is not a remaindered copy, and DOES NOT have a small black dot on the bottom edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography; Books about Books; ISBN: 0091827949. ISBN/EAN: 9780091827946. Inventory No: 0234525. . 9780091827946
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Heralds of Science; As Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets in the Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution
by Various
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Burndy Library and Smithsonian Institute, Norwalk and Washington, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. 750 g.; (6), VII-XIII, (1), 96, (2) pages, introduction by Robert R. Multhauf, Senior Historian, Smithsonian Institution, preface to the 1980 edition by Bern Dibner, preface to the 1955 edition by Bern Dibner and index. Copper coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous illustrations from within the pamphlets/books cited. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed illustration to the front panel and copper titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the book corners and backstrip corners. A few marks to the book panels and a faint blue mark to the front fore text edge. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the title page. " The books described here were selected by Bern Dibner, large collection of scientific and technical works assemble biking over a period of nearly fifty years, as representative of landmark…
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Laughter, Not for a Cage: Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Function, and Achievements of the Novel in Three-Centuries
by Franklin, Miles
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Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 238pp., and index. Red boards with gilt illustration of kookaburra in the bottom right front hand corner of the front cover and gilt writing on spine. Previous owner's name on the ffep, original bookseller's sticker of front pasted out, slight darkening of the edges of the text block, minor flecking of the cloth of the front panel. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a kookaburra on a grey background, red and black writing on front cover. Rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket, chipped missing from the top left-hand corner of the rear panel, 0.75 inch tear at the top left of the spine. Price clipping, tape repair visible from the underside. Miles Franklin had an interest in all things Australian, particularly Australian literature. This book is based on lectures about Australian literature. "her unconventional judgments may shock, they will always interest, those who have…
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Liar's Landscape; Collected Writing from a Storyteller's Life
by Bradbury, Malcolm
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Picador, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 575 g.; XII, 434 pages, last seven pages blank intentionally, edited and foreword by Dominic Bradbury and afterword by David Lodge. Dark red coloured endpapers. Blue coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the top backstrip edge and rubbing to the lower backstrip edge. A small mark to the lower right-hand corner of the front book panel. Light browning to the text block edge, commencing with paper used in books' production. Photographic dustwrapper with black and blue titles to the front panel and yellow and white titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. " When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work; some of it published and some of it not; fiction and non--fiction; short stories and novels; completed work, work in progress, work barely begun; plans, sketches, notes, titles. Given shape and coherence…
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A List of the Published Works of Frederic Wood Jones 1879-1954 including his drawings (published and unpublished), his published letters and his unpublished manuscripts: with Notes & A Supplement to a List of the Works of Frederic Wood Jones 1879-1959
by Christophers, Barry E
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Barry E. Christophers, Richmond, Victoria, 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 600 g; XL, 124, XXIV, 56 pages, last two pages not paginated. With photographic portraits frontispiece taken by Jack Cato, and printed as a limited edition of 400 copies, this being copy 107. Slight darkening of the pale yellow calf binding, with maroon boards. The book shows no other damage. The title has been blind stamped onto the spine, so that when the book is lying on its back board, the text reads from right to left. The blind stamping has not been filled or coloured. The second edition of the Works of Frederic Wood Jones covers 383 works, and supplements list is an additional 154 works. There are three sketches of Frederic Wood Jones' life and appraisals of him by Professor Sir Sidney Sunderland and Professor K. F. Russell; Sir Arthur Keith; and Sir Wilfred E. LeGros Clark. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: 8vo - over…
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Miles Franklin in America: her unknown (brilliant) Career
by Coleman, Verna
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Sirius Books, United Kingdom and Australia, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 700 g; X, 222 pages, last three pages blank, includes a chapter notes, bibliography, index. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. "This book aims to tell the story of young Miles in Australia and of her second career, as Stella Franklin, in the United States it also traces the development of the young novelist through the American years to London, where Brent of Bin Bin emerged. The American experience, when she was the often anguished but always brave and vibrant Stella was a vital part of the life of Miles Franklin. Then her nature was torn between the writer and the activist, causing much pain. Eventually she made her choice, and, in London, though still intensely committed to feminism, withdrew gradually from any active involvement and returned to her craft, and success in the guise of Brent of Bin Bin. Page X Size: 8vo - over…
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Through the Magic Door
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
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Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, London, 1907. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. 16 publisher's advertisements (dated November, 1907) Red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and rubbing to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and to the book corners. Wearing to both the top and bottom book edges. Fading, stains and marks to the cloth of the book. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Fading to the backstrip. Browning and faint foxing marks to the endpapers and age toning to the internal text. In this book Sir Arthur Condan Doyle takes the reader through the Magic door -- into books and reading. Essays on Scott, Johnson, Pepys, Hawthorne, Samuel and Richardson. Frontispiece photograph with tissue guard & 15 other photographs and art pieces Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). 274 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary…
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Works on Paper : The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
by Holroyd, Michael
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Little, Brown, London, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 650 g; XVI, 320 pages, in original hardcover binding, with colour illustrated dust jacket. The only faults with the book, are a darkening of the top and front edges of the text block, and light bumping of the top right-hand corner of the front panel. "Works on Paper is a selection by one of our leading biographers from his lectures, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century -- mainly on the craft biography and autobiography, but also covering what Michael Holroyd describes as his "enthusiasms and alibis". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism; Books about Books; ISBN: 0349113963. ISBN/EAN: 9780349113968. Inventory No: 0224765. . 9780349113968
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