Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt
Craddock, R.S. Surtees Society, 1983 (facsimile edition)/ 1854. More
Craddock, R.S. Surtees Society, 1983 (facsimile edition)/ 1854. More
London, The Folio Society, 2002 (first edition). The titles of the volumes are, respectively: 'Beginnings to 1920', 'The Twenties and Thirties', 'The Forties and Fifties' and 'From the Sixties to the Present'. Introductions by H.R.F. Keating, Robert Barnard, Priscilla Ridgway and Tim Heald. [4 items]. More
London, The Folio Society, 2007. [4 items]. More
London, The Folio Society, 1999 (all first thus). With an Introduction to each volume by (respectively) Jane Gardam, Bell Mooney, Jill Paton Walsh, Gillian Beer, Kathryn Hughes, Penelope Fitzgerald and A.S. Byatt. [7 items]. More
Nunney, R.S. Surtees Society, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1846. More
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, [1916]. Wartime nursing staff feature in many of these well-executed and appealing illustrations. A couple in which they do not appear are more than topical: 'C is for Canada / gallant and true / whose sons make the Huns / look decidedly blue', and..... More
London, The Folio Society, 2005 (second printing)/ 2005 ('The Great Gatsby') and 2005 (first thus). With a total of 38 full-page illustrations by Christopher Brown. 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Last Tycoon' (an unfinished novel) are published together in the one volume. [4 items]. More
London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1992 (corrected and revised edition)/ 1979. More
Chicago, The Teitan Press, Inc., 1986 (revised and enlarged edition)/ 1904. '[The first edition was] Privately and anonymously printed in 1904 in an edition of 100 copies, most of which were destroyed about 1926 by H.M. Customs'. More
London, The Folio Society, 2010 (second printing)/ 2005. An attractive edition of Burton's 1621 classic, with a new introduction by Philip Pullman. The text follows the 1932 edition published by J.M. Dent & Sons. [3 items]. More
London, Secker & Warburg, 1975 (first English edition). Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav Rejlander..... More
New York, Da Capo Press, 1975 (first American edition). Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil. Essentially a facsimile of a family album, the subjects also include Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.F. Watts, Mrs Herbert Duckworth (the eventual mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell), Earl Somers, Lewis Carroll and Oscar Gustav..... More
London, Faber and Faber, 1964 (first thus). The front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by the author: 'I'm sure the Crocodile's | house isn't as beautiful | as this one! | With best wishes | Richard N. Coe'. 'This brilliant piece of comic verse is a very free adaptation..... More
Mornington, The Canary Press, 2013 to 2016. The first and second issues are warmly inscribed and signed by the editor Robert Skinner (the first issue was co-edited by Andy Josselyn). The distinctive front cover illustrations (and four on rear covers) are by Gustavo Ortega Rojas (also known as Gustavo Ortega)..... More
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Printers and Publishers, Pirie Street, [first published 1929; suggested third issue, with minor differences as detailed below]. This is claimed - incorrectly - to be the first book by an Aboriginal Australian (see Michael Richards: 'People, Print and Paper. A Catalogue of a Travelling Exhibition..... More
Adelaide, Rigby Ltd., [1926]. The first edition in book form; written 'about the year 1854 under the title of The Islanders (it) appeared first in serial form in a journal called The Illustrated Adelaide Post' (established in 1867 by the author). A work of fiction but 'Probably the most grimly..... More
[Florence], Privately Printed ['Printed for the Author by the Tipografia Classica'], 1929. Number 216 of 550 copies signed by the author. 'Here they are, then - just a few footnotes, a few asides that touch the fringe of a great problem: East or West?' (page 11). More
Adelaide, The Wakefield Press, 1944. The third publication of Harry Muir's Wakefield Press. The verso of the title page is signed by the author, and loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from him to Harry Muir. Elliott writes to him on 19 August 1944 from the Highfield Hotel in..... More
London, Jonathan Cape/ Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd., 1946 (second Australian edition)/ 1944 (first Australian edition)/ 1944. Provenance: the local branch of the Cameron Wilson family, with an ink inscription on the front free endpaper mentioning T.P. Cameron, whose famous poem, Magpies in Picardy, is included in the anthology (see pages..... More
Sydney, Angas and Robertson, 1955. More
Townsville, T. Willmett & Sons (Pty.) Limited, 1945. More
Townsville, T. Willmett & Sons (Pty.) Limited, [1946]. More
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1956. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of anthropologist Graeme Pretty. More
Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1956. With the contemporary ink ownership signature of anthropologist Graeme Pretty. William Collins (1721-1759), 'pre-Romantic English poet whose lyrical odes adhered to Neoclassical forms but were Romantic in theme and feeling' ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). More
Adelaide, Register Newspapers Limited, Printers, 1929. The small calling card of the author - with his North Adelaide address, and his Upper Sturt address, 'Manoa' - is mounted on the front free endpaper. More