London, Newman, Graham & Co., [circa 1905 (first edition thus)]. Lengthy biographical sketches are accompanied by fine portraits, with many of the latter by Elliott & Fry. Other photographers noted include Messrs. Bassano, C.E. Fry & Son, Langfier Limited, Russell & Sons, Lafayette Limited, and A.C. Hoskins. The contents of..... More

Adelaide, The Author, [circa 1943]. Essentially a proselytising tract, with the main essay followed by portraits and short biographies of converts to Islam, a list of 'What a girl should learn', and various prayers. Mahomet Allum (1858?-1964), camel-driver, herbalist and philanthropist, was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan; he arrived in Australia..... More

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950 (first edition). The author's first novel. More

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910 (second impression)/ 1908. More

Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunya Press, 1992. The journals cover Barker's period of command of 'the isolated settlement at Raffles Bay (near modern Darwin) for just over a year and ... King George Sound (Albany)', ending with his untimely death at the mouth of the Murray River. Provenance..... More

Paris, G. Boutitie & Cie. 1923 (first thus). Number 38 of 1000 copies, this being one of 100 copies (numbered 26-125) on Arches laid paper and issued with an additional suite of the wood-engravings. The cuts by Raphaël Drouart are an excellent complement to Baudelaire's masterpiece. They include the full-page..... More

London, Neptune Press, 2004 (first edition). 'Progradior' was the 'magical name' of Frank Bennett (1868-1930), a disciple of Aleister Crowley's, who migrated to Australia in 1911. The '"Magical Record" chronicled the visionary and magical experiences he underwent during an intense retreat ... which he undertook at the Crowley's Abbey of..... More

London, The Folio Society, 2003 (second printing)/ 2003 (first thus). This sumptuous edition contains a short preface by Peter Ackroyd and an eleven-page introduction by John Wain. More

London, William Tweedie, [1872]. Provenance: Edward Edgar Pescott (1872-1954), horticulturalist, naturalist, author and book-collector, with his surname signature in pencil on the title page. In his Bonwick bibliography, published in 1939, Pescott records this item as number 50 ('Little Joe. London, 1862') and marks it as unseen. Clearly he found..... More

Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1989. Provenance: Sir Walter Crocker (1902-2002), with his pencilled ownership signature on the flyleaf, and his pencilled annotations and (sometimes emphatic) emphases throughout. Two blank pages at the rear are filled in with further pencilled comments. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of Crocker's lengthy review of..... More

Canberra, Brindabella Press, March 1973. One of only 150 copies signed by the author. The first publication of the Brindabella Press: 'An apprentice piece, and the first work to be printed on the Chandler & Price. This lovely paper is sadly no longer available' (the printer Alec Bolton, quoted in..... More

London, W. Walker & Sons (Associated) Limited, [1949]. A rare children's book on big game hunting, with the map locating the expedition north-east of Lake Victoria Nyanza, near Mt Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border. More

London, The Folio Society, 2004 (second printing)/ 2003 (first thus). [3 items]. More

London, Secker & Warburg, 1990 (second impression)/ 1990. 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

Santiago, El Faro, 2015. 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 VIII, signed by both the translator and the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in..... More

London, Secker & Warburg, 1982 (first English edition)/ 1974. 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. J.M. Coetzee's first published work of fiction, comprising two novellas..... More

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977 (first US edition). 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (verso of the title page). The title page is signed by the author..... More

Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1978 (first South African edition)/ 1977. 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (from the verso of the title page of the first American edition in 1977)..... More

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. 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. 'This volume - featuring J.M. Coetzee's finely wrough English translations side-by-side with the originals..... More

Amsterdam, Cossee Publishers, 2014 [first thus]. The English-language 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. 'On the occasion of the New Year 2014 Cossee Publishers are pleased..... More

Cape Town, UCT Press, 2014 (first edition). 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. 'The two screenplays published in this book are original and compelling cinematic..... More

New York, Viking, 1987 (first American edition). 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. The book contains an eight-page introduction by the editors: 'Primary responsibility for..... More

London, Faber and Faber, and Harvill Secker, 2013. 'One hundred and ten copies have been specially bound and signed by the authors. One hundred copies numbered 1-100 are for sale. Ten copies numbered i-x are reserved for the authors'; this is copy number iii. J.M. Coetzee was the first person..... More

Adelaide, Gawler Institute, 1910. The superior full-cloth binding; most copies were bound in quarter cloth and printed papered boards. Mounted on the front flyleaf is a proof of a contemporary review from the local Gawler newspaper, 'The Bunyip', 29 July, 1910 (slightly creased and torn). In contains the following paragraph..... More