From Billabong to London
London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1925. More
London, Ward, Lock and Co., 1916 [first edition]. More
London, Folio Society, 2008. More
Pennsylvania, Franklin Library, 1984 (limited first edition). Signed by the author. Included is a 'special message' by the author. Frontispiece illustration by Robert McGinnis. More
The message reads in full: 'London, April 10th. Very many thanks for that kind letter, and do please forgive this brevity - I have an ocean of neglected mail about me. I should, of course, be honoured to come to next Festival. It would be stupid of me to reiterate..... More
Melbourne, George Robertson, 1874. The only published book of poetry by this important South Australian novelist; the title work, of 130 pages, is subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition'. More
Richmond, Greenhouse, 1984. Signed by the author on the title page, and dated November 1984. More
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1968 [first edition]. Presentation copy. Inscribed 'to recall many happy associations', dated (December 1969) and signed by Harold Leslie White, then National Librarian and Executive Officer, to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (though not stated as such). With numerous illustrations, many in colour. More
Cleveland, The World Publishing Company, 1945 (first edition thus)/ 1945. More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (second printing)/ 2005. An attractive edition of Burton's 1621 classic, with a new introduction by Philip Pullman. The text follows the 1932 edition published by J.M. Dent & Sons. [3 items]. More
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1980 (first thus). More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2014. 'The Sentimental Bloke and Doreen are famous characters in Australian popular culture, but their creator deserves to be better known. C.J. Dennis transformed the larrikin from a street thug into a respectable image of Australian identity, and helped shape the Anzac legend. Many people regarded..... More
Austin, Pemberton Press, 1965. Loosely inserted is the original receipt - and its carbon duplicate - inscribed, dated (9 July 1984) and initalled by the author. [4 items]. More
Canterbury, The Cadenza Press, October 1983. Dated 'Christmas 1983' and signed in ink 'Humph'. Number 52 of 'about 200 copies privately printed at the Cadenza Press of G.A. Beale [and] bound by Robert Paling'. More
Adelaide, Lothian (for Robert Hale, London), 1945 (first Australian edition)/ 1943. More
New York, Da Capo Press, 1975 (first American edition). Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav..... More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1975 (first English edition). Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav Rejlander..... More
London, Chatto & Windus, 1949. The author's scarce first book. More
Sydney, Writelite, 2009. Signed by photographer John Peel on the title page. Loosely inserted is a colour photograph signed by John Peel. More
London, The Bodley Head, 1949, 1957 and 1960 (all first editions). As 'much at ease with the elegance and bawdyness of a pre-Christian like Horace as with a writer like Baudelaire, nourished in the Christian European tradition' (dustwrapper blurb on the last volume). [3 items]. More
London, Boriswood Limited, 1932. More
Melbourne, Clarson, Massina, 1868. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995, Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide), with his bookplate. More
London, Chapman and Hall, [1910s]. With an interesting photograph of a drawing of Blanche Stanley, Countess of Airlie, laid down on the front pastedown, and with her signed gift inscription 'to her friend Ida Hankey', dated 26 September 1919. The Countess was a correspondent of Carlyle's. More
London, The Folio Society, 2000 (third impression, with new illustrations)/ 1989 [first thus]. Introduction by Frank MacShane. [7 items]. More