Edinburgh, Menzies & Co., 1876. The list of subscribers runs to a mere 98 names. More
Melbourne, Reed and Harris, 1944. The first 20 or so pages are devoted to comments and letters in defence of the poetry of Ern Malley, despite its having been exposed as a hoax since its appearance in the previous number. Almost as intriguingly, this section is followed by an article..... More
Melbourne, Reed and Harris, 1944. The famous/infamous Ern Malley issue, of which 900 copies were printed. The first 36 pages are devoted to his 'The Darkening Elliptic', with a lengthy introduction and two verse contributions at the end by Max Harris. The striking colour artwork on the front wrapper is..... More
Melbourne, Reed and Harris, 1945. The eighth (and penultimate) issue, with 'a cover illustration by Albert Tucker depicting a returned digger cast like a broken doll among the refuse of society' (Richard Haese: 'Rebels and Precursors'). No issue of 'Angry Penguins' may be considered common; although 900 copies of the..... More
Melbourne, Reed and Harris, September 1943. Only 450 copies were printed, and its austere drop-title cover, making it look like it is incomplete, hasn't help many of them survive. Literary contributors include Alister Kershaw, Ivor Francis, Noel Counihan ('How Albert Tucker Misrepresents Marxism'), Tucker himself, Adrian Lawlor, and Hal Porter..... More
The album is presented 'With the Compliments of the Wine Producers Association of New South Wales'. The images may be dated - there were 'visiting Delegates and members of the Wine Board' and then there were 'their ladies' (and nine of the images are devoted exclusively to what the ladies..... More
May's series was unpublished, but dates from circa 1890; it was based on original sketches by Gill and Hamilton (five each) from upwards of fifty years earlier. May's ten plates were printed in brown ink on light brown arch-topped backgrounds (printed surface 150 × 205 mm) on uniform sheets of..... More
Bloemfontein, O.R.C., The Argus Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd., 1901. These extracts from 17 'Confidential Memos, etc.' left little to the imagination. Number $ simply states that 'All prisoners of war dressed in British uniforms, or when disguised in the distinctive dress worn by our troops, are to be shot..... More
The letter, dated 10 December 1791 and carried privately by ship from Kingston, is addressed to 'Messrs Newton, Gordon & Murdoch, Merchants, Madeira'. A number of lesser matters are touched upon, but the letter deals primarily with the importation of wine: 'I cannot at present ascertain what quantity of wine..... More
London, [No Publisher, June 1835]. Ferguson 1906: 'Very rare. A foundation publication in connection with the attempt to colonize South Australia'. More
London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1894. More
Sydney, The Invincible Press, [circa 1945] (first Australian edition)/ 1938. 'A story of murder and love, of guilt and faith, of the perpetual conflict between evil and good, "Brighton Rock" is one of the most powerful and exciting novels the publishers have handled' (cover blurb). More
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1963 (second edition, fourteenth impression overall)/ September 1937. All illustrations, including the dustwrapper artwork, are by the author. A later (tenth) printing of Hammond and Anderson A3c (1951, second edition, fifth impression overall); later printings in this edition correct several errors and include a short..... More
Adelaide, [mainly] The Philosophical Society of Adelaide (called the Royal Society of South Australia from 1880), 1878 to 1881. The papers are mainly on insects and native plants, but also 'Cliffs and Rocks at Ardrossan', the 'Bay of Biscay' soil of SA, and butterflies (with two lithographs, one with some..... More
London, Nonesuch Press, 1938 (first thus). Number 26 of 800 copies, 'designed by Francis Meynell and printed by R. Maclehose & Company on Pannekoek mould-made paper, bound by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company'. [2 items]. More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1931 [first thus]. 'The Iliad' is number 860 of 1450 copies for sale; 'Odyssey' is inscribed 'out of series', of a total edition of 1300 copies for sale. Loosely inserted in 'The Iliad') is the single-sided information sheet by Francis Meynell on how to properly open..... More
Bloomsbury, London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929 [first thus]. 'This edition consists of 1100 copies for sale in England by the Nonesuch Press and 500 copies for sale in the United States by Random House Inc. The text has been printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh, the copperplate engravings..... More
London, The Nonesuch Press, 1931 [first thus]. 'This edition consists of 900 copies for sale in England by the Nonesuch Press and 475 Copies for sale in the United States by Random House Inc. It has been printed and made in Scotland by R. & R. Clark on Pannekoek paper..... More
John Gartner (1914-1998) 'is remembered as a great bookman and Australia's foremost enthusiast of fine printing, private press books and bookplate material... He launched his own press, the Hawthorn Press, at 23' (Charles Stitz: 'Australian Book Collectors' [Volume 1], 2010). Almost all of the bookplates in this collection date from..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1889. The last page and a half are a 'Vocabulary of Aboriginals of the Upper Darling', also by Newland. This is a separately-paginated offprint of two articles read before the Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, on 29 September 1887 and first published in..... More
Paris, F. Dufart, Langlois and others, [1793] ('Seconde édition, corrigée et augmentée ... L'an second de la république française'). A rare children's book explaining revolutionary and republican values, published around the beginning of the Reign of Terror. Interestingly, the binding incorporates printer's waste, including a revolutionary broadside from the War..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1889. The last page and a half are a 'Vocabulary of Aboriginals of the Upper Darling', also by Newland. This is a separately-paginated offprint of two articles read before the Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, on 29 September 1887 and first published in..... More
London, Ian Allan, 1966. More
London, Ian Allan, 1966 (reprint)/ 1966. More
New York, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1963. '... a shocking account of transport ills in the world today ...' (dustwrapper). More