Charleston. A Bloomsbury house & garden. Photographs by Allen MacWeeney
London, Frances Lincoln, 1997. More
London, Frances Lincoln, 1997. More
London, Faber & Gwyer Limited, [1928]. Number 9 in the Ariel Poems series. The poem illustration and cover design are by the author. More
London, Hollis and Carter, 1957 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed by Belloc to the previous owner; it is one page, octavo, on 'GK's Weekly' letterhead. It is dated 10 August 1936, and is written in reply to a letter sent to Belloc after the death of..... More
London, Chatto and Windus, 1920. More
London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1908 (twelfth impression, fourth edition) and 1911. Two collections of essays. More
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1967 (facsimile reprints)/ 1956 (Volumes III and V) and 1956 (Volume IV). The complete (and stand-alone) 'Plays and Playwrights' section of Bentley's seven-volume work. More
London, Frederick Muller Ltd., 1945 (second impression)/ 1944. One of the New Excursions into English Poetry series. More
Brighton, The Harvester Press, 1988. A full-length study of Walton's classic of angling literature. More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. More
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1966 [first edition]. Loosely inserted is a typed lettercard (dated 22 September 1968) warmly inscribed and signed by the author (twice); the note thanks John Colmer (sometime Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Adelaide) and his wife (Dorothy) for their hospitality during his recent..... More
London, Studio Vista/ Christie's, 1979. Flaxman, one of William Blake's circle of friends, also produced designs for Josiah Wedgewood. More
Melbourne, Heinemann, 1985/ 1985. Signed and inscribed by the artist. More
London, The Bloomsbury Press, 1920. More
London, The Folio Society, 1989 (first thus). Introduction by Jon Stallworthy. More
[Sydney, Leslie Board, circa 1910s]. A Christmas souvenir featuring 12 colour plates from paintings by Leslie Board, each a illustrating a couplet or quatrain from an Australian poet. Banjo Paterson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Lawson are all represented. This is likely a variant of 'Gems from Australian Poets', published..... More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1981 (first thus). Translated by G.H McWilliam. More
London, The Folio Society, 1998 (third printing, first in this new binding)/ 1955. Translated by Richard Aldington. More
North Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation, 1990. An advertising flyer is loosely inserted; 'Ken Bolton's tortuous publication history has become something of a cause celebre ...'. More
North Adelaide, Experimental Art Foundation, 1990. 'Ken Bolton's tortuous publication history has become something of a cause celebre ...'. More
Cobargo, Croft Press (printed and bound there for the Author), 1993. Number 9 of 20 special copies with 'an additional double spread and 4 extra H.B. Muir bookplates'. The standard issue comprised 200 copies signed by the author (numbered 21-220, with each one containing two tipped-in bookplates 'from Harry Muir's..... More
New York, Chelsea House, 1927 [first edition]. A sequel to 'Mr Clackworthy' (1925); the words 'Con Man' on the cloth spine of this copy have the very distinct appearance of an indifferently executed afterthought, and suggest strongly that surplus covers from the earlier work have been recycled. One of the..... More
London, Ward, Lock, 1898. 'Guy Boothby was born in Adelaide in 1867, and after education there and in London, returned and became private secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide... About 1894 he went to live in London, and began his career as a highly successful popular novelist' (Miller and Macartney)..... More
London, Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895. One of Ward, Lock and Bowden's Colonial Library. 'Guy Boothby was born in Adelaide in 1867, and after education there and in London, returned and became private secretary to the Mayor of Adelaide... About 1894 he went to live in London, and began his..... More
London, Robson, 1974 (first English language edition). More