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
Henry Handel Richardson. A Life
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. 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
Arcadian Adelaide
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1985 (facsimile)/1905. With "Thistle Anderson in Edwardian Adelaide" by Derek Whitelock: pages 11-28. 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
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
Patchwork Child. Early Memories
New York, Random House, 1993 [first thus]. More
The Lie and Other Lines
North Kensington, The Koolinda Press, 1913. Sydney Partrige was the pseudonym of Mrs Hal E. Stone. 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 Family, 1969. More
Art and Artists of South Australia
Adelaide, Lidums Family, 1969. With the ownership signature of sometime Chief Stipendiary Magistrate of South Australia Victor Matison. More
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
London, Folio Society, 1989 (second impression)/ 1988. Introduction by Dervla Murphy. More
Some Forgotten ... Some Remembered. Women Artists of South Australia
Norwood, Sydenham Gallery, 1976. Number 511 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the author. More
Some Forgotten ... Some Remembered. Women Artists of South Australia
Norwood, Sydenham Gallery, 1976. Number 1454 of 1500 copies signed by the author. 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
The Rose in Darkness
London, Michael Joseph, 1979. More
Something to Someone. Poems
Deakin, Brindabella Press, 1983. Number 137 of 230 copies (with only 170 made available for sale). The original two-colour prospectus, featuring a reduced offset reproduction of the frontispiece, is loosely inserted. The tenth book of the Brindabella Press. More