Mr Norris Changes Trains
London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). More
London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). More
London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). More
Melbourne, Edward A. Vidler, May 1927. Inscribed, dated (27 October 1927) and signed by the author to the contemporary Sydney author H.E. Boote. More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1981 [first thus]. More
London, Scolar Press, 1978 (reprint)/ 1976. Houghton Library Manuscript Facsimiles I. More
London, Macmillan, 1890 [Colonial Library edition]. Macmillan's Colonial Library Number 109. Edel and Laurence F53 (but see also A34c, with which it conforms, minus the 64-page January 1891 catalogue). This second British edition was preceded only by the Boston two-volume edition limited to 1000 sets, and the London three-decker limited..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). The five short novels are: The Turn of the Screw, The Call of the Wild, Death in Venice, The Virgin and the Gipsy and Gigi. More
Portland, Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. More
Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1992. More
Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1992. With the ownership signature of Alan Brissenden. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1965 (first edition). With a foreword by Mary Durack and illustrations by Elizabeth Durack. The blurb claims the text as 'the first novel by any writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia', a claim subsequently questioned. With a few relevant newspaper articles loosely inserted..... More
New York, The Viking Press, 1941 (ninth printing)/ 1927. 'The inspirational sermons of the old-time Negro preachers are here set down as poetry. Mr Johnson tells in his preface of hearing these same themes treated by famous preachers in his youth; some of the sermons are still current, and like..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Levi. More
St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1983. Signed and dated (8 March 1984) by the author on the title page. Jolley's third novel. More
London, Agenda Editions, 1975. More
New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002. '... fascinating biography of a consummate fabricator [who] wove a fabulous life of lies - and ultimately imprisoned himself in a fiction of his own creation' (dustwrapper). More
Melbourne, Byrne and McCubbin, 1919 [first edition]. The frontispiece is a tipped-in plate of the triptych 'The Pioneers', by F. McCubbin. More
London, Blackie and Son Limited, 1923. More
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937 (fifth impression)/ 1937. 'In this man of the Merchant Service you will find the true successors to the Cabots and the Frobishers, the Grenvilles and the Drakes'. Frontispiece by Stanley Rogers. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1984. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author to Christopher Pearson. More
Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1927. This short collection of poems was sold for 12 pennies (1 shilling) or 12 francs and contains 13 poems, hence 'Pomes Penyeach' (the thirteenth poem being the 'tilly', the Irish term for the thirteenth item in a 'baker's dozen' and also the title of the..... More
Paris, Faber & Faber, 1933 (first UK edition)/ 1927. This short collection of 13 poems was sold for 1/- (12 pennies) or 12 francs, hence 'Pomes Penyeach' (the thirteenth poem being the 'tilly', the Irish term for the thirteenth item in a 'baker's dozen', and also the title of the..... More
London, The Folio Society, 1998 (first thus). Preface by Stephen James Joyce, with an introduction by Jacques Aubert. 'This edition is a facsimile reproduction of the 1926 second edition, with badly broken characters corrected and blemishes deleted, and is published by arrangement with the Trustees of the Estate of James..... More