A postcard (reproducing the James Montgomery Flagg painting, 'Jack Dempsey Knocks Out Jess Willard') inscribed and signed by Jack Dempsey
The verso is inscribed in pencil 'To Joe | Good Luck | Jack Dempsey'. More
It may be that a catalogue from an antiquarian bookseller is the last thing you are looking for at the present time. But this is what we do, and old habits die hard. Hopefully you will find something in our latest offering to lift the spirits or engage the mind.
Highlights include a signed original print of Max Dupain's iconic photograph 'Sunbaker', and early issues of Verve complete with the sumptuous colour lithographs by the likes of Klee, Miró, Kandinsky, Chagall and Matisse.
Happy browsing, and stay healthy!
The verso is inscribed in pencil 'To Joe | Good Luck | Jack Dempsey'. More
London, Faber, 1969. More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1991 (first edition in English)/ 1991 (in French). 'The revival of interest in Art Deco and the applied and decorative arts of the 1920s and 30s has also led to the rediscovery of its leading practitioners. The Swiss-born French artist Jean Dunand (1877-1942) ranks as one..... More
An original gelatin silver photograph (image size 367 × 404 mm) signed and dated in pencil ('Dupain '37') in the bottom right-hand corner, float-mounted as originally offered for sale, with the title 'Sunbaker' written in pencil by Dupain on the mount below the image. The verso of the mount is..... More
Adelaide, Gillingham Printers, 1985. The first and only edition of these memoirs; number 42 of 260 copies signed by Peter Cotton (Managing Director of Gillingham Printers). 'Frost's reminiscences recount his experiences as a labourer, gardener, shepherd, cowherd, drover, miner, house-repairer, builder, contractor and, ultimately, architect with such well-known buildings to..... More
The grant is for 'Eighty acres numbered 161 in the Provincial Survey', purchased by 'Henry Giles of Adelaide | Merchant' for the sum of £80. Henry Giles (1812-1892) was born at 'Farrington-Gurney, Somerset, England and came to South Australia on the ship 'Buffalo' in 1836, listed as a Labourer. He..... More
A friendly, chatty letter from Gibbes, thanking the recipient, one Mitch Evans, for a cheque, 'but too much, so am returning $15.00'. The payment would have been for a copy of his autobiography, 'You Live But Once', self-published in 1994. He mentions some of his current health issues: 'my big..... More
Adelaide, Southern Heritage, May 2014 (second impression)/ November 2013. 'South Australia has a reputation for being different. Conceived as a "province" fully formed, it was the only colony to be founded by an Act of the British parliament. The ideals present at its founding in 1836 included enlightened aspirations towards..... More
London, John Murray, 1929. 'Rodney Gilbert (1889-1968) was an American conservative editorial writer, newspaper columnist.... In 1912 Gilbert went to China to travel the country; he began as a salesman for Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People but ended up spending 17 years there, becoming fluent in Chinese and..... More
Roseville, Beagle Press, 1987. Number 64 of 100 copies of the special collectors' edition in full leather, each containing 'an original signed lithograph by James Gleeson. Copies numbered 1-50 contain "Comet I" and copies numbered 51-100 contain "Comet II"'. Apart from a tiny spot of foxing to the bottom edge..... More
London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1898. The first publication of these important foundation journals. Ferguson 10475 (noting only the frontispiece portrait). Provenance: Peter Dowding Prankerd (1819-1902), with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (with an additional inscription in ink 'to William Leigh | May 10th [18]99'). Prankerd arrived in South..... More
[Mt Gambier], Kanawinka Writers and Historians Inc., 2007. Number 77 of only 500 copies, and rare since the day it sold out soon after publication. George Woodroofe Goyder (1826-1898), South Australia's surveyor-general for thirty years, is best remembered for the eponymous Goyder's Line. For over 160 years, 'this line which..... More
The eight-line poem is written on the verso and recto of consecutive leaves in the small autograph book; it is apparently unpublished. 'They've raised the fares by ten percent. | It leaves us in consequence, short of rent. | But if we raise the legal tender, | Be off to..... More
London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1938. The front flyleaf is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from "The Captain" 1938'. Higginson & Williams A47a. Provenance: Margaret Russell (née Reed), nanny to Jenny, the first child of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson, then lifelong friend of Robert Graves; by..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. This copy contains corrections and alterations to the text in the author's hand on 30 pages. Most of them (on 24 pages) are minor typos or changes from double to single inverted commas. However, in six instances (pages 4, 24, 26, 55, 60 and 82)..... More
London, Hogarth Press, 1942. The front free endpaper is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from The Captain 1942'. Volume VI in The New Hogarth Library. 'These three small books are published under a single cover, for economy and friendship'; pages 43-64 are contributed by Robert Graves. Higginson..... More
Graves has written: 'With much love to dear Leonard who can always count on his friend Robert Graves Feb 3 1937'. Riding writes 'With much love to dear Leonard from Laura, who was born just twenty-five years before him. Laura Riding. February 3, 1937. London'. Following the break-up of their..... More
Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. One of The History of Medicine in Context series. Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his signature (August 2011) on the front flyleaf. More
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892 ('The Works') to 1896 ('Life and Letters'). [15 items]. More
San Francisco, Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., 1991. One of only 470 sets of the standard edition; there were also 30 sets of an 'extra-deluxe' edition. The 'first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, paginations, and plate counts for the first editions of the great classics..... More
San Francisco, Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., 1991. This deluxe edition was limited to only 30 numbered sets, with a printed list of original subscribers. This set is number 11, and comes from the collection of Dr Milton Roxanas. The 'first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2014 (first thus)/ 1866 (in the original French). Number 513 of 1250 copies. This is the first edition of this work to contain Victor Hugo's original illustrations. The translation and notes are by James Hogarth; the introduction is by Graham Robb, the author of 'Victor Hugo..... More
Uralla, Idriess Enterprises Pty Limited, 1999 (facsimile edition)/ 1942 and 1943. One of only 500 sets. Although these are the facsimile editions, they are superb examples of the reprinter's craft, and the originals are so rare, we can't resist quoting a few snippets from the dustwrapper blurbs to whet appetites..... More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1939 (first edition, with the variant colour pictorial dustwrapper). A rarely-seen book, even rarer with any part of the dustwrapper. 'Here is a book that every man and woman in Australia should read. In no other book is brought home to the average citizen, in language..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1980. The 'trade' edition, limited to 990 copies (this fact is not noted in the book). A full leather edition limited to 135 signed copies was also published the same year under a Sydney imprint. More