Search Results: Authors starting with W from Dorian Gallery

Palais: Magazine 04 – Automne / Fall 2007Pais de Tokyo, Paris. Marc-Olivier Wahler, editor.Text in French and English. Paperback, 2007, quarto, unpaginated, illustrated in colour and b&w. Condition,:edges slightly scuffed, back corners bent/bruised. Spine has one crease. Clean and tight internally.

The Tree of Man by Patrick White Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1956, First Edition.Signed card inserted on the title page.Condition: Jacket edges rubbed and scuffed, damage from removed promo sticker bottom right, front flap not price clipped, spotted jacket rear. Fine scattered spots to endpapers and top of prelims. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise very clean and tight internally. About:The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general. "When we came to live [in Castle Hill, Sydney]", White… Read More

Voss: A Novel by Patrick White Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode / Reader's Union, London. 1957 first edition, later reprint, hardcover, 478pp. Signed by the author. on glued-in card.Voss (1957) is the fifth published novel of Patrick White. It is based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussianexplorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback. –Wiki Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering. Clean and tight internally, ex-libris pate to front free endpaper.Unclipped, jacket spine is sunned/browned, edgewear rubbing and short closed tears.

Bradstow (Bowral): A study of status, class,and power in a small Australian town. by R. A. Wild Angus & Robertson 1974, first edition softcover. ISBN: 9780207136481Very scarce out of print title. A study of status and class in 1974 'Bradstow' NSW (Bowral) Condition: A clean sound copy, slight damp ripple to top front of cover, some rubbing to the back cover, slight sun fade to top of back cover.Believed to be a sociological study and portrait of Bowral NSW, renamed possibly for legal reasons.

Bradstow (Bowral): A study of status, class, and power in a small Australian town. by R. A. Wild Angus & Robertson 1974, first edition softcover. ISBN: 9780207136481Very scarce out of print title. A study of status and class in 1978 'Bradstow' NSW (Bowral) Condition: A clean sound copy, slight rub to back cover, slight sun fade to lettering on spine.Believed to be a sociological study and portrait of Bowral NSW, renamed possibly for legal reasons.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 338 pages. 8.31x5.98x0.79 inches.

Scarce premium full leather edition of Wordsworth. Gilt and decoratively stamped with gothic or Celtic revival patterns, gilt top edge.Condition: Name and date written on the half-title page. Slight sunning to the spine area. A few fine spots to long and bottom edges. Otherwise a clean tight copy.

Through the Gay Looking Glass:The Many Lives of Clive Madiganby Gary Wotherspoon Carlton Publications, Darlinghurst 2010. Softcover. ISBN 9780646813172, 246p.VERY RARE. Signed by the author on the title page.Some edgewear, one crease to the spine area. A clean copy of a rare biography.About:Clive Madigan was an unusual man who lived an unusual life in unusual times. He was born and grew up in Sydney's inner-city working class suburbs, a larrikin becoming, barely out of his teens, a member of the 'Hyde Park Push' [a group of camp men who drank at night around the Archibald Fountain and cruised other men there, while avoiding police]. He was soon organizing parties for them in the most unlikely suburban venues, and was later 'outed' in Sydney newspapers. Over much of the same time, he had an ongoing criminal career, which had started when he was a young teenager, and he consequently spent many periods in gaol. Later, having fled Sydney for the 'safety' of north Queensland, he took to writing about… Read More