Travelling People
London, Constable, 1963. The author's first novel. More
Our latest catalogue contains some important graphics and illustrated books, including a plate from William Blake’s masterpiece of engraving, Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826, one of only 100 copies after proofs); John Austin’s tinted lithograph, ‘Adelaide ... November 1849’, produced in the fledgling city; Zatta’s star charts of the northern and southern skies (1777); and Donovan’s Insects of India (1842), with 58 hand-coloured engravings.
Autograph material comes from across the board: George Fife Angas, Charles Blackman, Don Bradman, Sean Connery, Richard Nixon … and with accompanying artwork, we have Donald Friend, Pro Hart, John Olsen, and Albert Tucker.
Books of note include one of Winston Churchill’s rarest titles, India (1931); J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy (1911, first edition with the dustwrapper); and Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark (1938, first edition with the dustwrapper).
We’ll leave the rest for you to discover!
London, Constable, 1963. The author's first novel. More
London, Panther Books Ltd. in conjunction with Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1969 (first edition). 'This novel has twenty-seven sections, temporarily held together by a removable wrapper. Apart from the first and last sections (which are marked as such) the other twenty-five sections are intended to be read in random order'..... More
Sydney, Beagle Press, 1990. Inscribed 'to Robert & Fay Gerrard [sic] with warmest regards. March 1994. Louis Kahan'. The recipients were Robert and Fay Gerard, of Gerard Industries fame. More
Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone, 1957, 1958, 1961 and 1963. With the contemporary ownership signature (and acquisition dates), and later bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) mounted on the front pastedown of each volume. [4 items]. More
[Sydney, Broughton, Ward & Chaseling, 1928]. The photograph is signed in ink by all four aviators, and inscribed by Kingsford Smith 'To W.F. Henderson with regards from the crew of the "Southern Cross" 1928'. We believe this to be Wallace Fyfe Henderson (1871-1955), a long-serving alderman for Mosman Council in..... More
Sydney, Bay Books, 1983. A substantial monograph on this important Australian sculptor, from the collection of Kym Bonython. He has signed and inscribed the front free endpaper in bright red ink: 'Cardiac Intensive Care RAH [Royal Adelaide Hospital] | December 1983 | (I almost had ANOTHER heart | attack trying..... More
Berlin, Alfred Schall, [1899]. The text is in German. The other contributors are noted on the title page: 'mit Beiträgen von Professor Dr A. Freiherrn von Danckelman, Professor Dr F. von Luschan, Kustos Paul Matschie und Professor Dr Otto Warburg mit Unterstützung der Kolonial-Abteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes, der Neu-Guinea-Kompagnie und..... More
London, Rodwell & Martin, 1823. William Light (1786-1839), soldier and surveyor, was born in Malaya and spent his childhood in Penang. He served with distinction (and was unharmed) in the Peninsular war. He missed Waterloo, but was severely wounded in a minor Spanish revolution in 1823. In the years before..... More
Covent Garden, H.G. Clarke and Co., [circa 1870s]. 'In the 1870s H.G. Clarke sold ... a paper panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show, complete with instructions on how to construct your own toy panorama proscenium for performance. Panoramas of the Lord Mayor's Show, crudely printed and often hand-coloured, were sold..... More
London, Heath Cranton, 1924. More
London, Fisher Unwin, 1910. Provenance: Ian Mudie, with his ownership signature (March 1940) on the front free endpaper (with one other: 'Edmund D. Gill'). Ian Mayelston Mudie (1911-1976), the Adelaide-born poet: 'A deep love of the land and its inhabitants are recurrent themes in his poetry; so, too, are harsh..... More
Nelson, Printed by R. Lucas & Son, 'Evening Mail' Office, for the Publisher, H.D. Jackson, [1890, first edition]. Luckie's name appears at the foot of the preface. More
Canberra, Corps Committee of the Royal Australian Engineers, 1977, 1979, 1982 and 2002. [4 items]. More
Seymour, Finger-Four Publishing, and Nimbin, Echelon Starboard Publications, 2009 (Volume 1) and 2020 (Volume 2). An 'encyclopaedic, four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed, or manufactured in Australia, from 1884 to the mid-1980s' (dustwrapper blurb). [4 items]. More
Adelaide, printed by The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works, 1914. All those involved generously gave their services: 'Madame Melba, Miss Doris Madden, Mr John Lemmone, Mr Fred C. Collier, Mr W. Burrell and the Adelaide Choral Society', and not least The Howard Correspondence College Ltd. Printing Works. They produced..... More
London, Secker and Warburg, 1966 (first English edition). Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan. More
London, Hurst, Chance, 1831. With the gilt-armorial bookplate of one William Twopeny. More
London, Monumental Brass Society, 1969 to 1984. [10 items]. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1945. Number 130 of only 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. 'The story deals with the development of country from the "Mt Schanck" run in the south to "Victoria River Downs" and Port Darwin' as well as properties along the Murray and Darling, and in..... More
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938 (first thus). The author's first book to be published in the USA; 'A different version of this novel has been published in England under the title "Camera Obscura" (verso of the title page). The story behind this turn of events is intriguing. 'At the age..... More
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966 (first English edition). Translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. More
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960 (first English edition)/ 1935. 'Translated from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author'; the three-page foreword by the author is new to this edition. More