Out of the Past
Sydney, Currawong, [c.1944]. Dustwrapper design by John Andrews. More
Sydney, Currawong, [c.1944]. Dustwrapper design by John Andrews. More
Adelaide, Department for Environment and Heritage, 2003. More
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1996. More
Frewville, Peacock Publications/ Australian Systematic Botany Society/ ANZAAS, South Australian Division, 1982 (first edition). More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second impression)/ 2004/ 1912. With a preface by David Wootton. Offered together with a copy of the matching companion volume from the Folio Society: 'Peter Pan and Wendy' illustrated by Debra McFarlane (in fine condition and still in the original shrink-wrap). [2 items]. More
[Perth], University of Western Australia Press (for the Anthropology Museum Board of Management), 1980. Loosely inserted is a printed 'Review Copy' slip, previously tipped-in on the inside surface of the front cover. More
Adelaide, RSSA, 1920. This issue contains numerous other papers, unrelated but of considerable interest, including some by eminent scientists such as Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson ('Observations on the Physiology of the Fly's Intestine', 13 pages), and Professor Frederic Wood Jones ('The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of Marsupials', 13 pages..... More
Amsterdam, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (first volume) and Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1931, 1934 and 1942. Important monographs on yeasts; the text is in German. Provenance: Dr Lance Walters (Chief Brewer at the South Australian Brewing Co. from 1944 to the 1980s), with his signature in the cloth-bound volumes, and his ink..... More
Canberra, Phytoglyph Press, 1985 and 1987. Volume 1 is number 50a in an edition of only 50 copies plus 'a print overrun of 20 copies'; Volume 2 is number 165 of an edition of 300. An explanatory slip, and the original purchase receipts, are loosely inserted. [2 items]. More
Darwin, [Department of the Northern Territory], December 1973. Stated limited edition, with the label laid-down on the title-page; 'This publication is an interim report and contains some errors ... Any broader publication will be suitable amended'. The draft version of the report which was finally published in 1977. More
Clayton, Linguistic Society of Australia, 1976. Provenance: Australian lexicographer Dr George William Turner (1921-2003), with his ink ownership signature on the front cover. Not least, pages 1 to 43: four papers on three Indigenous Australian languages: Garawa, Pintupi, and Kitja. More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1990. Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 1990' (although the signature and date are likely later). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in..... More
New York, Random House, 1990 (first US edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 1990'. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2013 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author 'J.M. Coetzee | 2013' on the title page. Published simultaneously in Australia (this edition) and the United Kingdom (Harvill Secker). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded..... More
London, Harvill Secker, 2020 (first UK edition)/ 2019. Signed by the author on the title page and back-dated to the year of first publication. This final instalment in Coetzee's Jesus trilogy first appeared in Spanish translation in 2019, followed by the first Australian edition the same year, with the US..... More
London, Harvill Secker, 2007 (first UK edition, uncorrected proof copy). Signed by the author on the title page. At the foot of the half-title page is the printed notice 'FREE PROOF COPY - NOT FOR RESALE. This is an uncorrected book proof made available in confidence to selected persons for..... More
London, Harvill Secker, 2007 (first UK edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 2007' (although the signature and date are likely later). The book is a work of fiction, with most pages divided horizontally into three sections, comprising an essay on politics and modern life..... More
Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2007 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 2007' (although the signature and date are later). This Australian edition precedes the UK and US releases. The book is a work of fiction, with most pages divided horizontally into three sections, comprising..... More
Santiago, El Faro, 2015. Translated and with an introduction by Cristobal Perez Barra. The limited edition comprised 110 copies signed by the author (100 copies numbered 1-100 for sale, 10 copies numbered I-X not for sale). This is copy number VI, signed by both the translator and the author, the..... More
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1992 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 1992'. Edited by David Attwell. This book 'explores the relations between Coetzee's critical writing from 1970 to 1990, and his fiction, an oeuvre of six novels ... the present volume represents the..... More
Milsons Point, Knopf, 2003 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 2003' (although the signature and date are likely later). J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1977 [first edition, prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans]. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. Signed by the translator on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 2004'. The book includes poems by Gerrit Achterberg, Hugo Claus, Sybren Polet, Hans Faverey, Rutger Kopland, and Cees Nooteboom. They are presented in the original Dutch with parallel English (translation by J.M. Coetzee). One..... More
North Sydney, Knopf, 2017 (first Australian edition). Signed by the author on the title page 'J.M. Coetzee | 2017'. These essays are all on literary subjects, from Daniel Defoe to Philip Roth by way of Goethe, Beckett, Patrick White, and others. J.M. Coetzee is the first author to win the..... More
New York, Penguin Books, 2004 [first and only edition]. The title page is signed and dated (2003) by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More