Women
Eileen Cowin. November 14-December 8, 1987
Tokyo, Gallery Min, 1987. Introduction by Mark Johnstone. More
How to Attain and Retain Beauty
London, Home Entertainment Library, 1935. Extensively illustrated. Chapters include 'The Maintenance of Beauty', 'Dress in Relation to Beauty', 'Personality and Charm' and (alarmingly brief) 'Hints for Brides'. More
They Wrote It Themselves. A Book of the WAAAF
Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1946. More
Henry Handel Richardson. A Life
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. More
The Makers of British India
London, John Hogg, [1888, first edition]. Australian legal and medical provenance; gift inscription to Helen Mayo from 'Father and Mother, 1st October 1890', and further inscribed 'the scroll of History is the curtain that hides the future'; a later hand has added in pencil 'reveals' above 'hides'. Dr Helen Mayo..... More
Selected Poems
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983. Inscribed, signed and dated (8 May 1986) by the author to John Bray, South Australian Chief Justice and poet. More
A Bundle of Nerves. Stories of horror, suspense and fantasy
London, Gollancz, 1976. More
The Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Definitive Edition
Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1984. The first definitive edition of Mansfield's stories. More
The Happy Garden
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1912. 'Mary Ansell (1868-1950) published three books in her lifetime: "The Happy Garden" and "Happy Houses", both in 1912; and "Dogs and Men" in 1924. The former two were written three years after she had left her writer-husband, J.M. Barrie, for Gilbert Cannan, an up-and-coming..... More
Alison Ashby's Wildflowers of Southern Australia. Edited by John K. Ling
Adelaide, South Australian Museum Board and the Botanic Gardens Board, 1981. Number 345 of 750 numbered copies. More
The Changing English Village. A History of Bledington, Gloucestershire in its Setting, 1066-1914
Kineton, Roundwood Press, 1974. Warmly inscribed, dated (27 July 1974) and signed by the author to Peggy Mountford, Charles Pearcy Mountford's daughter. Loosely inserted is a chatty four-page autograph letter to Peggy from the author, dated the same day. She discusses at length the joys and trials of publishing, and..... More
Girl with a Monkey
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1958 [first edition]. The author's first book. More
Ellen Nora Payne. Woodcarver of Tasmania
Launceston, The Author, 1975. Number 155 of only 750 copies. Signed by the author. More
![The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes]. Jane AUSTEN](/pictures/thumb/115097_00.jpg?v=1561970485)
The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes]
Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911 and 1912. A reissue of the ten-volume edition of 1898 (comprising Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma; and Persuasion), with an additional two volumes containing Lady Susan, The Watsons, and letters of Jane Austen. More
Gorilla, My Love
London, The Women's Press, 1984 [first UK edition]/ 1972. Inscribed 'a house is not a home without a gorilla', dated (6 September 1984) and signed by the author. More
The Salt Eaters
London, The Women's Press, 1982 [first UK edition]/ 1980. Inscribed, dated (6 September 1984) and signed by the author. More
Memories of Tasmania and of the McLeay River and New England Districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip, by a Lady in Australia
Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1980. Reset from the (anonymous) first edition of 1873, 'Memories of the Past, 1834-1848'; one of 500 numbered copies. More
Selected Letters of .
London, Bloomsbury, 1993. Edited by Regina Marler. Introduction by Quentin Bell. More
Art and Artists of South Australia
Adelaide, Lidums, 1969. More
Sketches in Verse
[Adelaide, The Author ('W.K. Thomas & Co., Print'), 1922]. The foreword is by W.J. Sowden (Sir William Sowden, 1858-1943, editor of the 'South Australian Register'). A mixture of genres: tenderly sentimental ('The Golden Rose'), parochial ('Gawler, S.A.'), religious ('Christmas'), war ('The Worn-out Sentry: A Vision'; 'The Song of the Sandbags';..... More
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present
London, B.T. Batsford, 1990. More
Soldiers of the Queen. Women in the Australian Army
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. More
The Field of Life
Canberra, Goanna, 1991. Loosely inserted is a copy of the prospectus, the original handwritten purchase receipt and an invitation to the artist's 1992 exhibition An Enclosed Space. G.W. Bot is the exhibiting name of Chrissie Grishin. Wombats are her adopted totemic animal; 'the earliest reference to a wombat occurs in..... More