Irene Iddesleigh. A Novel
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1926 (first thus). Number 478 of 1250 copies. 'This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected'. More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1926 (first thus). Number 478 of 1250 copies. 'This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected'. More
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1972. More
Armadale, The Author, 2010 (first edition). Number 60 of only 100 copies. This copy dated (20 April 2010) and signed by the author. An errata slip is loosely inserted. More
Adelaide, Ashley Mallett, 2016 (third reprint)/ 2013. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. More
The photograph is mounted behind an oval blood-red matt gilded on the bevelled edge (visible image size 365 Ă— 260 mm); these are surmounted by a second matt with an attractively scalloped inner edge. It is behind glass in an impressive vintage wooden frame - almost certainly of huon pine..... More
London, A. & C. Black, 1928. Muir 5604 (not noting the preliminaries, and calling for quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards). More
Melbourne, Robert Jolley (with the logo of 'The Atlas Press | E. Newland | Manager' printed inside the rear cover), 1904. Verses by Annie Rattray Rentoul, with illustrations by her younger sister Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite) - her first illustrated book. The rear cover illustration incorporates a quote from..... More
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1986. '[This] entertaining collection of historial and anecdotal stories embraces the lives and achievements of women in many areas, including community service, education and sport, to name a few' (from the blurb). Loosely inserted are some related ephemera including a previous owner's invitation to the Triennial..... More
Melbourne, Meanjin Press, 1948. Number 220 of only 500 copies signed by the author (possibly the most important literary critic in Australia in her time). More
London, John G. Wilson, 1914. More
Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Company, 1918. Esther Paterson (1892-1971) was a Melbourne-born painter and illustrator, and the wife of the naval historian George Hemon Gill (1895-1973). The foreword is just that (forward!), and the captioned illustrations are in the same vein ... 'It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to provide a foreword..... More
London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1927. An Auckland, New Zealand, setting. More
Lutetiae [Paris], Apud Mamertum Patissonium [Mamert Patisson] Typographum regium, in officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1585 (first thus). An early collection of Latin satires by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) and Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), as well as the satire attributed to the female poet Sulpicia. This is the second edition..... More
Christies Beach, The Author, 1992. 'In the year 1873 Elizabeth Lillian Woolcock, an attractive young widow, was charged in the South Australian Supreme Court with the wilful murder of her husband Thomas Woolcock. Was she the innocent victim of malicious gossip? ... Though all major events in this, her true..... More
Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1979 (second printing)/ 1978. More
Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1977 (second printing)/ 1977. The 12-page introduction is by Margaretta Mitchell. More
Seattle, University of Washington Press (for the Henry Art Gallery), 1978 (third printing, first paperback edition)/ 1974. The catalogue for an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, in 1974; the 10-page introduction is by Margery Mann. Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest, Number 7. More
London, Mitchell Beazle Publishers Limited, 1978. More
Deventer, Thieme Art, 2010. Signed by the photographer on the title page. Text in Dutch, with an English translation at the rear. Loosely inserted are two related postcards. More
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974 (first American edition). 'Collected in this album are one hundred and one pictures of women taken from 1903 to the present, including 28 colour plates, some done in autochrome, the earliest color process.' A Dutton Visual Book. More
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974 (first American edition). 'Collected in this album are one hundred and one pictures of women taken from 1903 to the present, including 28 colour plates, some done in autochrome, the earliest color process.' A Dutton Visual Book. More
New York, The Viking Press, 1980 (first American edition)/ 1979. With a three-page introduction by Lartigue. A Studio Book. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1976. The biographical essay runs to some 34 pages. More
London, Academy Editions, 1974 (first UK edition). More