Nice Weekend for a Murder
New York, Walker and Company, 1986 (first edition). The fifth Mallory novel. A Walker Mystery. More
Literature
Four Mysteries. [A four-volume boxed set, comprising Armadale; The Moonstone; No Name; and The Woman in White]
London, The Folio Society, 1992 (first thus). With an introduction to each volume by well-known mystery writers (respectively) Tim Heald, P.D. James, Kenneth Robinson, and Ruth Rendell. [4 items]. More
The Last and the First. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Sprigge and a Critical Epilogue by Charles Burkhart
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. More
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume One, 1861-1897. Edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983. The first of an eight-volume set. More
The Folio Society edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad (16 of the 17 volumes published)
London, The Folio Society, 1996 to 2005 (all first thus). Each volume has an introduction by one of a range of notable writers (including Malcolm Bradbury, Giles Foden, Paul Theroux and Richard Woodman). The titles are: The Duel & Other Tales, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness, Typhoon..... More
Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard
London, The Folio Society, 1984 (first thus). Introduction by Richard Holmes. More
Typhoon and Other Stories
London, The Queensway Press, [1923]. Probably based on a real incident aboard the steamer 'John P. Best'. More
The Deerslayer
Norwalk, Easton Press, 1998 [first thus]. With the publisher's notes and bookplate loosely inserted. One of the Easton Press Great Books of the Twentieth Century series. More
Unwritten Histories
Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1998. With the contemporary ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. 'Drawing on original records of the time, Cormick has turned the spotlight away from its traditional focus to illuminate those whom history had forgotten ... the old heroes confess their darkest secrets, facing their own culpability..... More
Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound. Selected Writings of ... with some Letters of Frances Cornford. Edited by Jonathan Galassi
Manchester, Carcanet, 1976 [first edition]. More
Granddad's Inheritance. A Historical Novel set in 19th Century London, the Victorian Goldfields and Colonial Adelaide
Henley Beach, Seaview Press, 2005. More
Sharpe's Company. Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
London, Collins, 1982 (first edition). The third in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Sharpe's Gold. Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
In His Own Image
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1901 [first Colonial edition]. One of only 500 copies of the Lane's Indian and Colonial Library edition, using sheets printed in the USA for the first American edition. More
Stories Toto Told Me
London, Collins, 1969. Preface by Christopher Sykes. By the author of Hadrian the Seventh (AKA Frederick Rolfe). More
A Portrait of a Friendship. The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright, 1950-2000
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2007. Number 88 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. More
Second Play Parade
London, William Heineman, September 1939 (second impression)/ April 1939. Comprises four comedies: 'This Year of Grace', 'Words and Music', 'Operette' and 'Conversation Piece'. More
Out of the Silence
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1947/ 1925. More
'Per Quale Iddio': Machiavelli's Second Thoughts
Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1967. Presentation copy inscribed, dated (22 April 1968) and signed by the author to Sir Walter Crocker. Loosely inserted is Crawford's later article 'The School of Prudence or Inaccuracy and Incoherence in Describing Chaos?' (reprinted from Historical Studies, Volume 15, Number 57, October 1971), wrappers lightly..... More
'A Score, a Score, and Ten.' Poems
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Nine of the poems are about cricket. Padwick 6494. More
Peacocks Dancing
Armadale, Cliffe Books, 2001. More
The Diary of a Drug Fiend. New Foreword by Leslie Shepard
New York, University Books, 1970 (first thus)/ 1922. Crowley's first published novel, a tale of addiction and the occult: although 'nominally fiction, it is really a true story, thinly disguised. Condemned when it was published as "an ecstatic eulogy of the drug," this book gives a detailed description of drug..... More
Moonchild. A Prologue
London, The Mandrake Press, 1929 (first edition). Crowley's second novel; one of only 2500 copies. 'The Mandrake Press was a British small press founded by Edward Goldston and P.R. Stephensen [an Australian] in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake..... More
GM. Memories of George Moore
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. More
Cummy's Diary. A Diary Kept by R.L. Stevenson's Nurse, Alison Cunningham, while Travelling with him on the Continent during 1863. With a Preface and Notes by Robert T. Skinner
London, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Number 25 of 780 copies (750 being for sale). Loosely inserted is a period postcard of R.L. Stevenson. More