Modern Firsts from Tapsell's Books and Music

Sydney: Picador, 2001. 404 pages. Decorated endpapers. Colour plates. Slight shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Heinemann, 1956. 191 pages. Pictorial endpapers and many b/w text illustrations. Neat name of a previous owner on flyleaf. Original blue boards with silver titling on the spine. Very slight mark on bottom edge. The price-clipped dustwrapper is very slightly worn and has a brown mark on the lower rear panel. Bright, beautiful and scarce!. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Heinemann, 1969. 267 pages. The price-clipped dustwrapper is slightly marked. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

London: Peter Davies, 1953. 247 pages. Original emerald green cloth (faded at extremities) with red titling on the spine. Fore-edge, bottom edge and first few pages slightly foxed. The price-clipped dustwrapper is very slightly worn and marked. The red titling on the dustwrapper spine is partially faded, but legible.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. 222 pages. Blue boards with titling on the spine. Fine in a good dustwrapper (lightly worn) which is not price clipped. Scarce.. 1st U.K. edition. Fine/Good.

St Lucia: UQP, 2000. 401 pages. Double-page map. Original quarter leatherette with cream papered boards. Titling on upper board. Untrimmed fore-edge. Fine in a near fine translucent dustwrapper. The decorated verification plate (signed by the author and stating that this hardback edition is from the first Australian printing) is loosely inserted. *Only a small number of copies were sold with… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. 416 pages. Very slight wear to dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975. 170 pages. Original brown paperered boards (slight shelf wear). The dustwrapper has one very short closed tear on the lower panel. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Alston Rivers, 1927. 285 pages. One b/w map. Original papered boards, decorated and ruled. No dustwrapper. Edges slightly spotted. Rare. *A novel set in China.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1978. 154 pages. The dustwrapper is price clipped and very slightly stained and worn. Scarce.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Heinemann, 2007. 212 pages. Several b/w photos. Very slight spotting on fore-edge.. 1st U.K. edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2003. 185 pages. Book launch flyer loosely inserted.. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Kensington Books, 2003. 261 pages. *A novel about the life and loves of a keen cyclist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Stanley Paul and Co, 1955. 191 pages. Endpapers a little tanned. The price-clipped dustwrapper has a closed tear on the upper panel and slight wear at extremities. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Neville Spearman, 1959. 298 pages. Very slight offsetting on front free endpaper. The dustwrapper is price clipped. *A very bright, crisp copy of the author's scarce first novel, which is about life in a small-town community.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Michael Joseph, 1965. 187 pages. Slight spotting to edges. Minor wear to dustwrapper.. 1st U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 192 pages. The dustwrapper is lightly rubbed around the head of the spine with a small pale stain at the spine centre. A very attractive copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

London: T. Fischer Unwin, 1920. 320 pages. Two-page advertisement for The First Novel Library. Slight spotting and offsetting on half-title page. Top edge red. Original red cloth with white titling, rules and decoration. Corners bumped. Small stain on spine. Lightly worn at extremities. Rear hinge repaired. Front hinge cracked, but holding. No dustwrapper. Rare. *Hilton's first novel.. First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Sydney: Cassell, 1966. 204 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Hutchinson, 1965. 192 pages. The dustwrapper is price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.