Joy Hester
Melbourne, Greenhouse Publications, 1983. More
Women
Four etched bookplates by Ella Dwyer (two signed)
Ella Margaret Dwyer (1887-1979), Hobart-born but a longtime resident of Sydney, was a printmaker and bookplate designer. Fellow bookplate artist George Perrottet contributed an article, 'The Etched Bookplates of Ella Dwyer', to the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers' Year Book in 1942. The bookplates offered here are all..... More
Sunny South Australia ... Its City-Towns, Seaports, Beauty-Spots, Fruit, Vineyards and Flowers: its Wheat, Wool, Wine, Sheep, Dairying, Copper, Iron, Phosphates, and other Progressive Industries from 1837 to 1908 ... 4,000 Miles of Travel
Adelaide, Hussey & Gillingham, [June] 1908 [first edition]. The book went through four editions in five years, with a limited edition facsimile appearing in 1979; copies of the first edition (where, on page 184, the author admits - in error, I hasten to add - to breaking the Seventh Commandment)..... More
South Australian Women Artists. Paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s
Adelaide, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1994. Published 'in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title shown at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 15 April - 17 July 1994'. More
A Century of Australian Women Artists, 1840s-1940s
Malvern, Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition held 4 June to 3 July 1993. The loosely-inserted price list (4 pages, printed rectos only) includes an additional list of uncatalogued items also exhibited. More
Completing the Picture. Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era
Hawthorn East, Artmoves, 1992 (second edition)/ 1992. Catalogue of a touring exhibition. More
From Shadow into Light. South Australian Women Artists since Colonisation
Adelaide, Delmont Pty. Ltd., 1988. Edited by Alison M. Dolling. More
Important Australian Women Artists. June 10 to July 21, 1993
Melbourne, The Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, 1993. Exhibition catalogue. More
Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1983. A guide to 67 notebooks kept by Virginia Woolf between 1905 and 1941, containing notes and extracts relating to her current reading. 'The majority of the entries in these volumes are those Woolf made when reading for reviews, for critical or biographical essays, for her..... More
A Candle for Saint Anthony
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977. More
This is My Friend's Chair
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1995. With two ink marks by the author on the half title. 'Geraldine Halls, her mark, 9/3/95' has been added in another hand. Halls was evidently very unwell at the time, and died in October 1996. More
Bunny-Go-Lucky
London, Humphrey Milford, and Oxford, Oxford University Press, [circa 1923]. A large 1936 Kilvington Girls' Grammar School, Ormond, prize plate is mounted on the half-title. The book was awarded to Betty Paterson; the plate is signed by Florence Muriel Fysh, the principal from 1934 to 1943. More
Clare Belfrage. Rhythms of Necessity
Mile End, Wakefield Press, 2018. More
Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor. 100 Women, 100 Brooches, 100 Stories
Fortitude Valley, artisan, 2012. More
Margaret Olley
Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales/ The Beagle Press, 2012. With contributions by Barry Humphries, Jeffrey Smart and Christine France. Some related ephemera is loosely inserted (including the 4-page catalogue for the artist's 1990 exhibition at Greenhill Galleries). Published to accompany the exhibition of Olley's work at the..... More
Wuthering Heights
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1979 (first thus). With a preface by Charlotte Brontë. More
The Student's Flora of Tasmania. Part 1: Gymnospermae. Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. [Together with] ... Part 2: Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae; ... [and] Part 3: Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae
Hobart, Government Printer, 1956, 1963 and 1967. The first three parts of five (Part 4B was published in 1994). More
Kate Weindorfer. The Woman Behind the Man and the Mountain. A Biography of Kate Julia Weindorfer, Wife of Cradle Mountain Pioneer Gustav Weindorfer
Launceston, Regal Publications, 1998/ 1995. More
Ildiko Kovacs. Down the Line 1980-2010
Gymea, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. More
The Meeting of the Waters. The Hindmarsh Island Affair
Sydney, Hodder, 2003. More
The Mill on the Floss
Franklin Center, The Franklin Library, 1981 (first thus). More
Rosa Fiveash's Australian Orchids. A Collection of Paintings by Rosa Fiveash
Adelaide, Rigby, 1974. More
Dust in the Lion's Paw. Autobiography, 1939-1946
London, John Murray, 1962 (second impression)/ 1961. More
Selected Poems
Hawthorn, Hudson, 1992. Signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author on the title-page. 'Joan Kirkby writes: "Imagine Emily Dickinson's Vesuvius poems, Mary Sarton's 'Journal of a Solitude' and Cixous and Clément's 'newly born woman' and you have some idea of the energy, jouissance and strength - and significance..... More