Books on Books
Desiderata. A Guide to Good Books. Number 6, 1st November 1930
Adelaide, F.W. Preece & Sons (and printed at the Hassell Press), 1930. Not least, pp 25-26, The Home of the Blizzard by Sir Douglas Mawson, and the rear cover advertising the 1930 abridged popular edition. More
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego
New Haven, William Reese and Sydney, Hordern House, 2004 [second edition, revised and enlarged]/ 1974, 1982 and 1983 [originally published in three volumes]. An extensively annotated catalogue of the important collection amassed by Kenneth Evan Hill - 'the most extensive gathering of books that document early voyages of exploration and... More
A Modest Collection. Private Libraries Association 1956-2006
Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 2007. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More
The Non-Cartographical Maritime Works Published by Mount and Page. A Preliminary Hand-list. Occasional Publications of the Bibliographical Society, Number 1. Together with Numbers 2-8
London, The Bibliographical Society, 1985-1994. The other volumes are: Nelson, C. and M. Seccombe: Periodical publications 1641-1700: A Survey with Illustrations; R.J. Goulden: Ornament Stock of Henry Woodfall, 1719-47. A Preliminary Inventory; W.Craig Ferguson: Loan Book of the Stationers' Company With a List of Transactions, 1592-1692; Peter W.M. Blayney: The..... More
Bookplates. A Selection from the Works of Charles R. Capon. Together with a Foreword and Complete Check List of over Fifty Plates
Portland, The Anthoensen Press, [c.1950]. Number 147 of 300 copies (250 of which were for sale). Eight leaves of illustrations include one tipped-in bookplate. More
Centuria Librorum Absconditorum. Being Notes Bio-, Biblio-, Icono- graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books. By Pisanus Fraxi
London, Charles Skilton, 1962 (facsimile edition)/ 1879. The second of three independent volumes of this classic bibliography of prohibited books, many of them of an erotic nature. One of only 395 copies. More
The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978. An Illustrated History
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. More
Folio 50. A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1996
London, Folio Society, 1997. More
Twenty-one Years of Bird and Bull. A Bibliography, 1958-1979
[North Hills], Bird and Bull Press, 1980. Number 21 of only 350 copies. More
Catalogue of the late Mr. W. Champion Hackett's Library of Valuable Books .
Adelaide, Theodore Bruce & Co., Fine Art Auctioneers, [1938]. Some 3252 lots were offered for sale; some prices realised are pencilled in, but bibliographical details are thin on the ground. More
Bookplate Artists and their Bookplates
Dulwich, Tudor Australia Press, 2012. One of only 100 numbered copies of the 'ordinary edition'; this copy is signed by the author on the title page. There were also 25 copies of a 'special edition'. Anomalously, the numbering in this copy suggests a total print-run of 130. More
The Country Life Book of Book Collecting
London, Country Life, 1976. More
Publications from 1973 to 1989 of the Officina Brindabella. With a Note on the Beginnings of the Press [cover title]
Deakin, Officina Brindabella [Brindabella Press], 1989. The introductory note explains the reason for the Officina Brindabella / Brindabella Press name change. Twenty-one items are listed, including some ephemeral pieces. The latest book listed is Les Murray's 'The Idyll Wheel'. Loosely inserted is a short signed note: 'Dear Roy, Thanks for... More
Australian Book Auction Records. New Series. Volume 1, 1983-1985. [Together with Volumes 2-6, from 1983-1995]
Canberra, Australian Book Auction Records, 1986-1996. More
National Library of Australia
Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1968 [first edition]. Presentation copy. Inscribed 'to recall many happy associations', dated (December 1969) and signed by Harold Leslie White, then National Librarian and Executive Officer, to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (though not stated as such). With numerous illustrations, many in colour. More
Bookplates. A Selection from the Works of Charles R. Capon. Together with a Foreword and Complete Check List of over Fifty Plates
Esher, Edward Burrett at The Penmiel Press, 1985. Number 52 of 150 copies (140 of which were for sale) signed by the author/ publisher. With the bookplate of Ann and Geoffrey Long, designed by Pixie O'Harris. More
The King's English. Adventures of an Independent Bookseller
Layton, Gibbs Smith, 2005. More
The Golden Era of American Bookplate Design: 1890-1940
Frederikshavn, The Bookplate Society/ Forlaget Exlibristen, 1986. One of 900 signed copies. More
Catalogue of Miniature and Other Valuable Printed Books
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1999. Loosely inserted is the list of prices realised, together with some related information on the auction. The auction also included 'other valuable printed books and two illuminated manuscripts'. More
Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s
Pinner, London and Delaware, Private Libraries Association/ The British Library/ Oak Knoll Press, 2010. One of 1300 copies, of which only 600 were for sale. 'Considers the effects of the relationships on creative output, both artistic and literary, and ... provides a detailed historical reconstructon of the essential character of... More
North-West-Central Queensland. An Annotated Bibliography
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970. The fifth in a series of aboriginal bibliographies on areas "of the continent which offer the best possibilities for research on the traditional life of the Aborigines". Primarily the Gulf Country (Northern Territory border to the Gilbert River) plus south-west Queensland (west of... More
A Book Collector's Notes on Items relating to the Discovery of Australia, The First Settlement and the Early Coastal Exploration of the Continent
North Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1970. More
The Book Encompassed. Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. With the pictorial bookplate, designed by Katharine Stafford, of G.A.Stafford. More