The Egyptologists
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 (first edition). More
Literature
Gesammelte Märchen mit Aquarellen von Alfred Thon
Berlin, Axel Juncker, [c.1920]. With the bookplate of Lorna Waterhouse. With illustrations by Alfred Thon. Text in German. More
Angry Penguins ('as drunks, the angry penguins of the night ..')
Adelaide, Adelaide University Arts Association, [1940]. The first issue of the journal, taking off where 'Phoenix' crashed and burned. The introductory note says it all: 'Last year "Phoenix" went, and thus was happily consummated a failure to understand which had started with the first number. Had the members of the..... More
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Angry Penguins.. December 1944 [cover title]
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
Angry Penguins Broadsheet. Number 3
Melbourne, The National Press [for Reed and Harris, March] 1946. Ten issues of this supplement to 'Angry Penguins' appeared monthly between January and December 1946 (with the exception of October and November); the editors for the first five issues (including this one) were Max Harris, James McGuire and Sidney Nolan..... More
The Spell of the Inland. A Romance of Central Australia
Melbourne, Melbourne Publishing Company, 1923 [first edition]. A 'descriptive narrative of outback life including the work of the Australian Inland Mission. The hero, a muscular padre with war service, runs to earth a murderer playing two roles by means of disguises'. Although a novel, the author fits the description of..... More
The Butterfly. A Novel
London, Collins, 1941 [first edition]. '"The Butterfly" is the story of a spinster lady who falls in love with a commercial traveller and is finally murdered by him. That baldly, is the plot, but Martin Armstrong makes literature of it by the power of his characterisation and by the slow..... More
Poems by Matthew Arnold
London, John Lane, 1900. Introduction by A.C. Benson. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat. More
The Death of Satan and Other Mystical Writings
London, Calder and Boyars, 1974. Number 19 in the Signature series`. More
Up Hill and Down Dale
London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924 [first edition]. More
Girl with a Monkey
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1958 [first edition]. The author's first book. More
The Most Savage Animal
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972 (first edition). Inscribed, signed and dated (Leura, 6 June 1978) by the author. Loosely inserted is a handwritten note from the author's wife to the recipient of the book: 'It was written out of much heartache following a period on the front in Vietnam just prior..... More
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The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes]
Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911 and 1912. A reissue of the ten-volume edition of 1898 (comprising Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma; and Persuasion), with an additional two volumes containing Lady Susan, The Watsons, and letters of Jane Austen. More
Cakerawala Nusantara. Puisi dan Lukisan. Poetry and Art
Kuala Lumpur, Maybank, 1999. '... the best poetry and art by poets and artists from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei.' Text in Malay and English. More
Of Gardens
Chelsea on Thames, The Swan Press, 1928. Number 34 of only 100 copies. Hand-made paper, hand-set and hand-printed. More
Go Tell it on the Mountain. Illustrated by Dan Brown
Norwalk, Easton Press, 2000 [first thus]. With the publisher's notes and bookplate loosely inserted. One of the Easton Press Great Books of the Twentieth Century series. More
The Physiology of Marriage, or Meditations of an Eclectic Philosopher on Happiness and Unhappiness in Marriage. Translated and with an Introduction by Francis Macnamara
London, The Casanova Society, 1925. Number 135 of 1000 copies. More
Gorilla, My Love
London, The Women's Press, 1984 [first UK edition]/ 1972. Inscribed 'a house is not a home without a gorilla', dated (6 September 1984) and signed by the author. More
The Salt Eaters
London, The Women's Press, 1982 [first UK edition]/ 1980. Inscribed, dated (6 September 1984) and signed by the author. More
Calamiterror
London, Faber and Faber, 1937. More
Collected Poems, 1930-1955
London, Faber, 1957. With a contemporary review (from the New Statesman) loosely inserted. More