William Allingham. The Diaries
London, The Folio Society, 1990 (first thus). Introduction by John Julius Norwich. 'Apart from some minor corrections and alterations in presentation, [the diaries are] published here in its entirety'. More
Literature
William Allingham. The Diaries. Introduction by Christopher Ricks
London, Folio Society, 2007. More
The Night-Comers
London, Heinemann, 1956. More
The Egyptologists
London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 (first edition). More
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
Arcadian Adelaide
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1985 (facsimile)/1905. With "Thistle Anderson in Edwardian Adelaide" by Derek Whitelock: pages 11-28. More
Dives' Wife and Other Fragments
Paisley, Alexander Gardner, 1908. Ten short prose works by the author of 'Arcadian Adelaide' (a venomous invective against the self-satisfaction and dullness of Edwardian Adelaide); the last page collects press notices for both 'Arcadian Adelaide' and its sequel, 'The Arcadians'. 'These fragments spell the idle moments of a restless life..... More
Angry Penguins No. 2. 1941
Adelaide, Adelaide University Arts Association, 1941. Contributors include Dutton, Harris, Jury, Kerr, Kershaw and Pfeiffer; Gleeson contributed two poems as well as the artwork. More
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Angry Penguins. 1945 [cover title]
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'). Interestingly, the first item on the list of 'Some Errors and Omissions' is 'The..... More
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Angry Penguins Broadsheet. [The complete set of ten numbers]
Melbourne, [Reed & Harris] (and printed by The National Press Pty. Ltd.), January to September, and December 1946. Nine issues of this supplement to 'Angry Penguins' appeared monthly between January and September 1946, with the bumper final issue in December 1946. The editors for the first number were Max Harris..... 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
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
Brief Lives. A Selection based upon Existing Portraits
London, The Folio Society, 1994 (eighth impression)/ 1975. Edited, and with an introduction by, Richard Barber. With the contemporary ownership signature of [Dr] Leslie O.S. Poidevin, sometime Director of Obstetrics at the University of Adelaide (and a Japanese POW during WW2). More
The Ascent of F6. A Tragedy in Two Acts
London, Faber and Faber Limited, January 1939 (fourth impression)/ March 1937 (second edition)/ 1936. Loosely inserted is a review of the book clipped from 'The New Statesman'. More
A Memoir of Jane Austen by her Nephew
London, The Folio Society, 1992 (fourth impression)/ 1989. Introduction by Fay Weldon. More
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The New York Trilogy. [Comprising City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room]
London, The Folio Society, 2008 (first thus). The clever cover design is also by Tom Burns. More
Australian Letters. A Quarterly Review of Writing and Criticism. [Volume 1, Number 1, June 1957 to Volume 8, Number 1, January 1968 (the final issue)]
Adelaide, Mary Martin Bookshop, 1958 to 1968. A complete run of this impressive and well-produced journal, with much Australian art content. Literary contributors include Wright, Campbell, Shapcott, Stewart, Stow, McAuley, Dobson and White; artists include David and Arthur Boyd, Drysdale, Pugh, Daws, Juniper, Friend, Brack, Nolan ... From Volume 7..... More
A Comment. [A Journal of Poetry, Art, Literature and Social Comment. Edited by Cecily Crozier.] Number 15, March 1943
[Melbourne, The Editor], 1943. 'Encouraged all forms of experimental writing. Translations of Kafka, Baudelaire and Maupassant. Contributors included Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor, Alister Kershaw, Muir Holburn, Arthur Ashworth, Irvine Green and the Americans Karl Shapiro, Harry Roskolenko, and Wm. Van O'Connor. Ceased for want of 150 subs' (John Tregenza: 'Australian..... More
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Poetry. The International Quarterly of Verse. Number 25 [the final issue]
Adelaide, Economy Press, 1947. Inscribed, dated (1962) and signed in pencil by the editor on the first page. Preface by William Carlos Williams. More
The Lie and Other Lines
North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. More