Eileen Cowin. November 14-December 8, 1987
Tokyo, Gallery Min, 1987. Introduction by Mark Johnstone. More
Women
58th S/L A.A. Battery. Copy. Training Notebook of SF83917 Bdr Dora M. Forster (cover title)
[No Place, No Publisher, circa 1997]. 'This book is a copy of the notebook kept by Bombardier D.M. Forster, in which she recorded her service with the 58th Searchlight Battery during World War II. The 58th Searchlight Battery was based in South Australia. It is believed that the original of..... More
A Bundle of Nerves. Stories of horror, suspense and fantasy
London, Gollancz, 1976. More
Catherine the Great. Life and Legend
London, The Folio Society, 2000 (second impression)/ 1999 (first thus). More
Poems (Two) 1925
London, The Aquila Press Limited, 1930. Number 83 of only 150 copies signed by the author. The two poems are 'Simultaneous' (1924) and 'In Provins' (1925). The cover design is by the painter Elliott Seabrooke, the book's dedicatee. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) was a poet, activist, heiress, and founder of the..... More
Bunny-Go-Lucky
London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. More
Patchwork Child. Early Memories
New York, Random House, 1993 [first thus]. More
The Lie and Other Lines
North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. More
New Guide for the Hotel, Bar, Restaurant, Butler, and Chef. Being a Hand Book for the Management of Hotel and American Bars, and the Manufacture of the Principal New and Fashionable Drinks. Hotel & Restaurant Cookery, as now practised, with the Newest Entrees and Dishes...
London, William Nicholson and Sons, '20, Warwick Square, Paternoster Row', [1885 (first edition)]. 'The First Part treats of home brewing; the manufacture of wines, spirits, liqueurs and cordials without distillation - the preparation and manipulation of, with the newest names and styles of mixing and dressing American drinks, suitable for..... More
Ellen Kelly. A Biography in novel form as seen from a woman's and mother's point of view
Glenrowan, Farlell Pty. Ltd., [circa 1984] (second printing)/ 1984. Provenance: Dr Ena (Eugenia) Hronsky, with a contemporary ink inscription to her signed by the author on the title page. Dr Hronsky was one of 'a few dozen doctors, no longer alive, [who] were among the 27,000 survivors of the ghettos..... More
Women and Bushrangers
Christies Beach, Yesteryears Publishers, 1987 (first edition). Provenance: Dr Ena (Eugenia) Hronsky, with a contemporary ink inscription to her signed by the author on the title page, and with an autograph letter signed by the author (in Czech, with a few intriguing English terms). Dr Hronsky was one of 'a..... More
Guns and Brooches. Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1992. More
The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's period of service with the Western Australian Government from 1904 to 1912'; most of the information on the Aborigines of north-west..... More
The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Edited by Isobel White
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1985. Signed by the editor on the title page, with a further inscription on the half-title (signed 'Sally' and dated June 1987). The thirty-five page introduction by the editor is essential reading. The original manuscript of half a million words 'was written during Mrs Bates's..... More
Forest and Ice
Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, [1913]. Number 17 in the Dainty Booklet series. A travel itinerary through South Westland, Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, and Copland Valley. Bagnall B406 (providing the date and indicating an edition of 2000 copies). More
Memories of Tasmania and of the McLeay River and New England Districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip, by a Lady in Australia
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1980. Reset from the (anonymous) first edition of 1873, 'Memories of the Past, 1834-1848'; number 21 of 500 copies. More
Miss Australia. A Retrospective, 1908-2000
Adelaide, Crawford House Publishing, 2000. The deluxe issue bound in full leather. A history of the beauty pageant, with many short biographies of winners and contestants. More
The Green Lacquer Pavilion. Adorned with nine Cuts and a Portrait of the Author by Edmund Dulac
London, W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd., 1926 (fifth impression)/ 1926. With the contemporary lilac ink ownership signature of eminent Australian biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston (1900-1965). The second novel by Helen de Vere Beauclerk (née Bellingham; 1892-1969). She lived with artist Edmund Dulac from 1924 until his death in 1953;..... More
Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect
Melbourne, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. A scarce catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name. More
Clarice Beckett. The Artist and her Circle
South Melbourne, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd, 1979. More
The Present Moment. The Art of Clarice Beckett
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2021 (second impression)/ 2020. A catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Gallery of South Australia, February to May 2021. More
Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin. A World that is, was and will be
North Melbourne, Spinifex, 1998. More
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell. Edited by Regina Marler
London, Bloomsbury, 1993. Quentin Bell has supplied a four-page introduction. More
Vanessa Bell
London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017 (second impression)/ 2017. A substantial volume accompanying the exhibition held at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, February-June 2017. Loosely inserted are two newspaper reviews of the exhibition. More