Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound. Selected Writings of ... with some Letters of Frances Cornford. Edited by Jonathan Galassi
Manchester, Carcanet, 1976 [first edition]. More
Literature
Granddad's Inheritance. A Historical Novel set in 19th Century London, the Victorian Goldfields and Colonial Adelaide
Henley Beach, Seaview Press, 2005. More
Sharpe's Company. Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
London, Collins, 1982 (first edition). The third in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Sharpe's Gold. Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
Sharpe's Gold. Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
London, Collins, 1981 (first edition). The second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More
In His Own Image
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1901 [first Colonial edition]. One of only 500 copies of the Lane's Indian and Colonial Library edition, using sheets printed in the USA for the first American edition. More
Stories Toto Told Me
London, Collins, 1969. Preface by Christopher Sykes. By the author of Hadrian the Seventh (AKA Frederick Rolfe). More
A Portrait of a Friendship. The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright, 1950-2000
Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2007. Number 88 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. More
Second Play Parade
London, William Heineman, September 1939 (second impression)/ April 1939. Comprises four comedies: 'This Year of Grace', 'Words and Music', 'Operette' and 'Conversation Piece'. More
Out of the Silence
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1947/ 1925. More
'A Score, a Score, and Ten.' Poems
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Nine of the poems are about cricket. Padwick 6494. More
The Real Thing
A small broadside (295 × 210 mm) limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Stoppard, of an extract from his play of the same name published by Faber in 1982. It is a monologue on the construction of a cricket bat. 'Henry: (holding his cricket bat). This thing here, which..... More
Peacocks Dancing
Armadale, Cliffe Books, 2001. More
Moonchild. A Prologue
London, The Mandrake Press, 1929 (first edition). Crowley's second novel; one of only 2500 copies. 'The Mandrake Press was a British small press founded by Edward Goldston and P.R. Stephensen [an Australian] in 1929. In 1930 the company had financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake..... More
The Equinox. The Official Organ of the A.'.A.'. The Review of Scientific Illuminism. Volume V, Number 2
Nashville, Thelema Publishing Company, 1979 (first edition). Number 70 of the deluxe edition of only 200 copies signed by Marcelo Motta. The 1990 second edition of Volume V, Number 1 (first published in 1975) gives this second number the title 'Satan and Christ'. More
The Equinox. The Official Organ of the A.'.A.'. The Review of Scientific Illuminism. Volume V, Number 2
Nashville, Thelema Publishing Company, 1979 (first edition). Number 184 of the deluxe edition of only 200 copies signed by Marcelo Motta. The 1990 second edition of Volume V, Number 1 (first published in 1975) gives this second number the title 'Satan and Christ'. More
The Dandies' Ball, or, High Life in the City
London, John Marshall, 1819. The first edition of this charming Regency children's book, with illustrations after Robert Cruikshank. Charles Dickens and George Sala would later reminisce: 'We date from the time of the Prince Regent, and remember picture-books about dandies - satires upon that eminent personage himself, possibly - but..... More
GM. Memories of George Moore
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. More
Cummy's Diary. A Diary Kept by R.L. Stevenson's Nurse, Alison Cunningham, while Travelling with him on the Continent during 1863. With a Preface and Notes by Robert T. Skinner
London, Chatto and Windus, 1926. Number 25 of 780 copies (750 being for sale). Loosely inserted is a period postcard of R.L. Stevenson. More
Winter in Jerusalem
London, Secker and Warburg, 1986 (first edition). Signed by the author. More
Aspects of Australian Culture
Adelaide, Abel Tasman Press, 1982. Not least, Colin Yallop: 'The Languages of the Australian Aborigines'. More
A Critical History of English Literature in Four Volumes. [Complete set]
London, Secker and Warburg, 1971/ 1969 (Volume 4, revised edition), and 1968/ 1960. More
Landscapes of the Mind. Poems by ...
Adelaide, The Author, 1997 [first edition]. Number 222 of only 300 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Models of Propriety, or I'd Love to Render Brenda
Adelaide, The Author, 1991. Signed by the author and the artist in ink on the title page. From the author's foreword: 'This light-hearted nonsense was written in 1933 for the amusement of my fellow-students in Marie Tuck's life-drawing class. I was eighteen and in my first year at the South..... More