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

North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. More

Sydney, Barn on the Hill (Edwards and Shaw), 1941. 'Australia's first book of verse reprinted'; number 183 of only 250 copies signed by Roderick Shaw and Richard Edwards. Loosely inserted are two small pieces of ephemera from the publisher. More

Westminster, Beaumont Press, 1920. Number 198 of 264 copies on hand-made paper (a further 66 copies were printed on vellum or Japanese vellum paper). This is the thirteenth book issued by the Beaumont Press. 'The cover and decorations designed by Randolph Schwabe; the typography and binding arranged by Cyril William..... More

Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1942. Number 76 of 250 copies signed by the author (and the first publication of his Wakefield Press). More

Deakin, Officina Brindabella [Brindabella Press], 1987. Number 159 of 260 copies signed by the author. The fourteenth book of the Brindabella Press. More

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1941 (first UK edition)/ 1940. 'The author of this book is a Scot who settled in Australia many years ago, and is well-known in business circles in Sydney. His far-reaching and penetrating survey is the more important, therefore, because it is made from a distance' (from..... More

Oxford, 'Printed by Daniel' [Daniel Press], [1893] to 1894. Each part is number 92 of 150 copies printed. 'This work in six pieces, when put together, forms the most considerable publication of the Daniel Press, and is well printed and almost an édition de luxe ... A prospectus issued in..... More

London, Jonathan Cape, 1922. Number 40 of only 110 copies of the large-paper edition signed by both the poet and the artist (of which 100 were offered for sale). More

[Sydney], Barn on the Hill, 1942. Number 79 of 140 copies hand-printed by Richard Edwards and Roderick Shaw. This collection of 11 poems by Edwards was the third and final title to be published under the Barn on the Hill imprint. This short-lived foray into private press printing was followed..... More

Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, April 1991. Loosely inserted is a one-page note initialled by the publisher R.E. (Bob) Summers to Michael Treloar (on a discarded sectional-title leaf from the book), pointing out that the grey cover material 'is light-sensitive! So don't leave the book in the sun, because it..... More

Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, 1993. Geoffrey Farmer, Norah's only son, discovered the letter, written to her in 1917, after her death in 1992. It told of the death at Gallipoli in June 1915 of a penfriend, 1874 Private Geoffrey Flemming, 2nd Battalion, who was killed by sniper fire three..... More

Pearl Beach, NSW, Escutcheon Press, Christmas 1996. 'This book originally appeared as Chapter Ten of "Conducted Tour", by Bernard Levin ... 1981' (page 40). Number 23 of 100 copies initialled by the printer, Bob Summers. 'This is the first Christmas Book from the Escutcheon Press and it marks the tenth..... More