Arthur Boyd
London, Thames and Hudson, 1967. Signed in ink on the half-title by Arthur Boyd. More
Our latest catalogue includes two very rare items that are parochial in the extreme, but by nature of universal appeal to collectors. The album of photographs by Freeman & Wivell, prepared for the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition, contains 20 large-format stark and monumental ‘architectural portraits’ of the city of Adelaide. The mammoth hand-coloured wall map of the settled portions of South Australia, prepared by Sanders & Packard, Surveyors, in early 1886, appears to be unique.
Among other important items of literature are first editions of Katherine Mansfield’s first book, In a German Pension (1911); the third and fifth volumes of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series, as well as his Till We Have Faces (1956); and T.S. Eliot’s Animula (1929, one of only 400 copies of the signed large-paper edition). The signed deluxe edition of Gifford Chapman’s Kangaroo Island classic, Wooden Fishing Boats (1998) is arguably rarer than Fenner's much earlier Pocket Atlas of Modern & Ancient Geography (1828, with 79 hand-coloured maps), but horses for courses …
Less rarified, but no less interesting and definitely as eclectic, items include numerous volumes in the Legal Classics Library series; a selection of Bluey and Curley annuals; assorted trade catalogues and other printed ephemera; and a handsome gold medallion awarded to Joseph Watson, a member of the Port Adelaide Football Club’s team declared ‘Champions of Australia’ in 1913.
Down tools or drinks for twenty minutes and enjoy the catalogue!
London, Thames and Hudson, 1967. Signed in ink on the half-title by Arthur Boyd. More
Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1981 [facsimile edition]/ 1888. Number 291 of 500 copies signed by the author's great-grandson. The second appendix, 'Gracius Joseph Broinowski: His Books and His Prospectuses' by Keith Hindwood (7 pages) contains much important bibliographical information. The short summary states, in part, that 'Broinowski's main work, the "Birds..... More
Hawthorn, Bloomings Books, 1999 (fully revised and updated edition)/ 1983; 2001 (fully revised and updated edition)/ 1990; and 1994 (first edition). [3 items]. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1748. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
[London], The Golden Cockerel Press, [1945]. Number 266 of only 400 copies. More
Bologna, Tipi Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1864. Principally geology and palaeontology, but with a chapter on the Omaha Indians for good measure. More
Guildford, Genesis Publications Limited, in association with Australian & New Zealand Book Co. Ltd., 1979 (facsimile edition)/ [circa 1864]. Number 117 of only 500 copies of a splendid facsimile of the original manuscript (given to Alice Liddell) of an early version of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. The lengthy introduction by..... More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1990 (facsimile edition)/ 1920. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1827 to 1852. One of the Legal Classics Library. More
Melbourne, Brown, Prior & Co., 1917. Not in Trove. More
Adelaide, W.K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1908. Provenance: Lady Fay Angas (1899-1991), with her George Perrottet-designed bookplate on the front flyleaf. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1985 (facsimile edition)/ 1823 (eighteenth, corrected, edition). One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklets (one for each volume). [2 items]. More
Paris, The Obelisk Press, January 1937 (second impression)/ May 1936. The author's first book; with a six-page introduction to Peter (Quennell) detailing the rejection of the manuscript by British publishers. More
London, W. and A. Strahan, 1784 [first edition]. The large folio atlas is not present with this set of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The first two volumes were written by James Cook, the third volume by James King. With the armorial bookplate of John Dixon..... More
Melbourne, Gryphon Books, [1979]. The edition was limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Jack Lindsay; this copy is signed but unnumbered and presumably out-of-series. More
Dallas, Sangreal Foundation, 1969 (first thus). The first separate edition of Crowley's 'almost epic poem about mysticism'; the almost epic 26-page commentary by Regardie is new to this edition. More
New York, University Books, 1970 (first thus)/ 1922. Crowley's first published novel, a tale of addiction and the occult: although 'nominally fiction, it is really a true story, thinly disguised. Condemned when it was published as "an ecstatic eulogy of the drug," this book gives a detailed description of drug..... More
New York, Samuel Weiser, 1975 (third printing)/ 1973. More
West Point, Thelema Publishing Company, 1962 (first edition). The colour-pictorial dustwrapper design is credited to Lady Frieda Harris. 'This book has had a strange fate. It is one of the masterworks of the late Aleister Crowley, completed at the end of the First World War, in March of 1918, when..... More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1655. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1990 (facsimile edition)/ 1871. [2 items]. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1987 (facsimile edition)/ 1859 (first edition). More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, 1994 (facsimile edition)/ 1968. One of the Legal Classics Library; complete with the useful 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. More
Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1915. More