London, Secker & Warburg, 2002 (first UK edition, uncorrected proof). An uncorrected proof copy, signed by the author on the title page. 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

Gent, MER. Paper Kunsthalle [for Dietsche Warande en Belfort/DWB), December 2012. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page of 'Dietsche Warande & Belfort' (DWB) Number 5, December 2012 (the 157th year of publication of this influential Flemish literary magazine). This book-form issue pairs passages selected from Coetzee's novels (translated..... More

New York, Liveright Publishing Company, 2025 (first edition). Signed by the author on the title page ('J.M. Coetzee | 2025'). 'In this dialogue, a Nobel laureate and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation' (dustwrapper blurb).This edition precedes the UK edition by some weeks..... More

Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981. Signed by the author on the title page. Herbert Cole Coombs (1906-1997): 'economist and public servant' is the anodyne description at the beginning of his extensive entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' (which is anything but). More

Hong Kong, Riaz Ahmed Mansuri, then A. Mohammed (and others), 1983 to 1984. This pan-Asian journal covered world cricket with a focus on India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The editorial team featured some cross-border cricketing royalty, including Hanif Mohammad and former Indian captain Ajit Wadekar. Padwick II: 2414 (an indifferent..... More

Adelaide, Ethnic Art Press and Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2009. This copy is signed by the author and the photographer on the title page. More than 500 items of ethnic jewellery from the collection of Truus and Joost Daalder are illustrated and described, along with nearly 200 other objects from..... More

Shanklin, Isle of Wight, J. Arthur Dixon Limited, [circa 1940s]. A pair of brightly-illustrated ephemeral fairy stories for children. More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. An important association copy: it is signed on the title-page by the author, and loosely inserted are two autograph letters signed by him, the duplicate typescript of the letter that prompted the second one from Duguid, and a 1974 newspaper cutting about a race relations award given..... More

Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1916. Department of Mines, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Ethnological Series, Number 2. More

London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [circa 1873]. A comprehensive manual of pyrotechnics, 'with one hundred and twenty-four illustrations of forms and diagrams for manufacture and exhibition'. The contemporary label of E.S. Wigg & Son, Booksellers, Adelaide is mounted on the front pastedown. More

Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1983 to 1994. Number 123 of 1000 sets, with each volume numbered thus and signed by both the author and the artist; a separate signed print with the same edition number is loosely inserted in the first box. This superb production comprises: [Volume 1] 'Alcedinidae - Ceryle..... More

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. An attractive Victorian travelogue and history of Cadore in northern Italy, the birthplace of Titian. The illustrations represent an interesting mixture of mid-nineteenth-century techniques of book illustration. The plates mainly comprise simple line illustrations 'drawn with a pen upon stone' (lithographs), and are mainly..... More

Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1916 (third edition, revised)/ 1908 (second edition, revised)/ 1880. More

Glasgow, John Smith & Sons, 1884. The University Philosophical Society, Dublin, Members' Library bookplate is mounted on the front flyleaf (cockling it a little); an inscription by the librarian on the pastedown notes that the book was presented to the Society by the author in February 1887. Thomas Graham (1805-1869)..... More

London, The Folio Society, 1996 (first thus, in one volume). This edition contains the original 12-page introduction, and later two-page preface, by the author, and a further 10-page introduction by Kenneth McLeish. More

Perth, Imperial Printing Company Limited, [1933]. The author wrote from personal experience dating back to the 1860s. More

Fitzroy, Regimental Trustees, 1990. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. More

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. This is a variant issue of Howitt's account of the early colony at Port Phillip, also published in 1845 by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans under the title 'Impressions of Australia Felix'. The title leaf here is a cancel, the half-title still carries..... More

Singapore, Singapore Economic Development Board, 2001. Signed in ink by the artist (13 February 2005) on the title page. The book was published to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the EDB. More

The Northern Territory Archive Service has an album containing the same twenty-five images, captioned but apparently unsigned. The catalogue record for that album (NTRS 3050) states that 'Hugo Keil was a photographer who worked at the Appropriation Ledger Section of the Allied Works Council in Alice Springs during the Second..... More

Canberra, Murray-Darling Basin Commission, 1998. Lake Victoria is a large fresh-water lake located in south-west NSW, approximately 60 kilometres downstream of the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers. [2 items]. More

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1951 (sixth impression)/ 1943. The second novel in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy. More