Literature
Bullet Park
New York, Knopf, 1969 [first edition]. More
Chekhov. A Life in Letters
London, Folio Society, 1994 (first thus). Translated and edited by Gordon McVay. With plates from contemporary photographs. More
The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service
London, Folio Society, 2009 (sixth printing)/ 2008 (fifth printing, new binding)/ 1992. Introduction by Maldwin Drummond. Illustrations by Daniel Whistler. More
Dissent. An Australia in allegory
Upper Sturt, Seaview Press, 2008. Inscribed, dated (7 November 2008) and signed by the author. More
The Huxleys
London, Heinemann, 1968. More
Louis Beretti. The Story of a Gunman
London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 (first British edition). 'This is the story of a kind of American success that is seldom mentioned. It is the story of a tough Italian kid from the toughest part of New York's East Side, a boy who was a natural leader and who grew..... More
Pioneer Writer. The life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1990. More
Tom Merry's Holiday
London, Howard Baker, 1974 [facsimile edition]/ 1923, 1924 [serialised in The Magnet]. Howard Baker Magnet Volume 6. More
The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough
London, Oxford University Press, 1968/ 1967. More
Australie. Vive l'Australie! La Mythologie de l'Australie. Pendant que l'Australia est en reve. Three Poems which, except for their titles, are written in the simplest English
Adelaide, printed by E.S. Wigg [for the Author], 1910. Poems structured loosely as a play. The third scene of the first poem, 'Vive l'Australie!' (3 pages) features 'Blacks in Pheasant plumage, assembled to celebrate the feast of Nyarrin; which marks the first appearance of that group [the Pleiades] on the..... More
Cosmic Vision
Thavies Inn, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. More
Remarkable Occurrences. The National Library of Australia's First 100 Years 1901-2001
Canberra, National Library of Canberra, 2001. More
Les Enfants Terribles
London, Folio Society, 1976. With drawings by the author. More
Dusklands
London, Secker & Warburg, 1982 (first English edition)/ 1974. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. J.M. Coetzee's first published work of fiction, comprising two novellas..... More
Dusklands
London, Secker & Warburg, 1982 (first English edition)/ 1974. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. J.M. Coetzee's first published work of fiction, comprising two novellas..... More
From the Heart of the Country
New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977 (first US edition). 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (verso of the title page). The title page is signed by the author..... More
Giving Offense. Essays on Censorship
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (first edition). The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. 'The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays..... More
In the Heart of the Country
London, Secker & Warburg, 1977 [first edition, prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans]. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. This copy is also..... More
In the Heart of the Country
Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1978 (first South African edition)/ 1977. 'This work was first published in Great Britain under the title "In the Heart of the Country". English version prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans' (from the verso of the title page of the first American edition in 1977)..... More
In the Heart of the Country
London, Secker & Warburg, 1977 [first edition, prepared by the author from the original Afrikaans]. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Landscape with Rowers. Poetry from the Netherlands. Translated and introduced by J.M. Coetzee
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. 'This volume - featuring J.M. Coetzee's finely wrough English translations side-by-side with the originals..... More
Lecture and Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered in Stockholm in December 2003
New York, Penguin Books, 2004 [first and only edition]. The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. More
Slow Man
Milsons Point, Knopf, 2005 [first Australian edition]/ 2005. Signed by the author on the title page. Loosely inserted is a full-page Australian Government Promotion on Australian citizenship, featuring Coetzee (from The Weekend Australian Magazine, 24-25 June 2005). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003. More
Slow Man
London, Secker & Warburg, 2005 (first edition). 'This leather-bound edition ... signed by the author, is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1.' The author was the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature..... More