From a College Window [and] The Leaves of the Tree. Studies in Biography
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1908 (twelfth impression, fourth edition) and 1911. Two collections of essays. More
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1908 (twelfth impression, fourth edition) and 1911. Two collections of essays. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1967 (facsimile reprints)/ 1956 (Volumes III and V) and 1956 (Volume IV). The complete (and stand-alone) 'Plays and Playwrights' section of Bentley's seven-volume work. More
London, The Galley Press, 1962. Sven Berlin (1911-1999), conscientious objector, soldier, artist, and poet, published his war memoir, 'I am Lazarus', in 1961. Its 'psychobiographic' sequel was published in the autumn of 1962, and 'after a few weeks and a flurry of libel actions, withdrawn. Since that time, a few..... More
London, Frederick Muller Ltd., 1945 (second impression)/ 1944. One of the New Excursions into English Poetry series. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. More
London, The Folio Society, 2007 (fifth printing)/ 2003. Introduction by Miles Kington; this edition follows that of the 1911 edition, with minor emendations. More
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1966 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is a typed lettercard (dated 22 September 1968) warmly inscribed and signed by the author (twice); the note thanks John Colmer (sometime Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Adelaide) and his wife (Dorothy) for their hospitality during his recent..... More
London, Cambridge University Press, 1959. More
London, Studio Vista/ Christie's, 1979. Flaxman, one of William Blake's circle of friends, also produced designs for Josiah Wedgewood. More
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1985/ 1985. Signed and inscribed by the artist. More
London, The Bloomsbury Press, 1920. More
London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1934. Number 20 of just 45 copies of the special edition signed by the poet (of which 35 were offered for sale). More
London, The Folio Society, 1989 (first thus). Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1981 (first thus). Translated by G.H McWilliam. More
London, The Folio Society, 1998 (third printing, first in this new binding)/ 1955. Translated by Richard Aldington. More
North Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation, 1990. An advertising flyer is loosely inserted; 'Ken Bolton's tortuous publication history has become something of a cause celebre ...'. More
North Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation, 1990. 'Ken Bolton's tortuous publication history has become something of a cause celebre ...'. More
New York, Chelsea House, 1927 [first edition]. A sequel to 'Mr Clackworthy' (1925); the words 'Con Man' on the cloth spine of this copy have the very distinct appearance of an indifferently executed afterthought, and suggest strongly that surplus covers from the earlier work have been recycled. One of the..... More
London, Ward, Lock, 1898. 'Guy Boothby was born in Adelaide in 1867, and after education there and in London, returned and became private secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide... About 1894 he went to live in London, and began his career as a highly successful popular novelist' (Miller and Macartney)..... More
London, Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895. One of Ward, Lock and Bowden's Colonial Library. 'Guy Boothby was born in Adelaide in 1867, and after education there and in London, returned and became private secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide... About 1894 he went to live in London, and began his..... More
London, Robson, 1974 (first English language edition). More
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
London, The Folio Society, 1985 [first thus]. Edited, with an introduction, by Frederick A. Pottle. More
Canberra, Goanna, 1991. Loosely inserted is a copy of the prospectus, the original handwritten purchase receipt and an invitation to the artist's 1992 exhibition An Enclosed Space. G.W. Bot is the exhibiting name of Chrissie Grishin. Wombats are her adopted totemic animal; 'the earliest reference to a wombat occurs in..... More