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Our new catalogue includes books and other materials connecting: Frank Clune to Vivien Leigh; Malcolm Fraser to Mad Max, John Olsen to Egon Schiele, Timothy Mo to the Balibo Five; buses to cars; Ronald Firbank to Adelaide; Frank Moorhouse to Dusan Makavejev; penises to the Bicentennial; Ern Malley and Paul Keating to Sidney Nolan; Michaelangelo Antonioni to Coffs Harbour; Gonzo journalism to the Australian Senate; Serbia to Australian Literature; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony to MGM; Cate Blanchett to eleven other Cate Blanchetts; Qantas to The Australian Women’s Weekly; Pavlova to New Zealand; Kevin Rudd to his uncle Remus; Nino Culotta to Budapest; and Fay Weldon to Somerset.
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1934.
An Australian looks up: thirty-six pieces on the wonders of astronomy, written north of the Tropic of Capricorn, and first published in the Mackay Daily Mercury.
Owner signature on front pastedown, extremities foxed, about very good in dustwrapper.
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Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing. First Australian edition, 2013.
Not your run of the mill Australian expatriate.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris: 2017.
Original French poster for the shorter movie version which had premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of 2017.
Poster measures 157 x 116cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Budapest: Bora Ferenc, [1973].
Original Hungarian poster for the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard version of Mutiny on the Bounty. A different design from the other posters, of all the movie versions: Bligh and Christian have gone, only the ship remains with a none too subtle skull making up the stern - the Bounty has become a ghost ship.
Poster, designed by Gyula Mayer, measures 58 x 40cms. Rolled, a couple of creases, else fine.
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Brisbane: XII Commonwealth Games, 1982.
A collection of organisational printed ephemera in the lead up to the Brisbane Commonwealth Games: colour poster featuring Matilda the kangaroo listing dates for the various tickets and with detailed booking information on reverse (42 x 58cms.); accommodation request form - puff and details (42 x 30cms.); handbill to 'show some good old Queensland 'Home Hopitaity'' (28 x 20cms.) and return envelopes for tickets and accommodation.
The five items, all colour, printed both sides and all fine. The five items
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North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1989.
The author's second novel; inscribed by him to a fellow Australian novelist who had launched this novel in Canberra.
Top edge dusty, a little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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[Melbourne]: National Action for Public Transport, [c.1977].
Problems, alternatives, diagrams and maps, statistics, dreams; 104pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine
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Canberra: National Gallery of Australia. First Australian edition, 2014.
One hundred colour reproductions from the Gallery's collection; divided into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Asian and Pacific, International, and Australian.
Original black cloth and pictorial boards (see image). Fine in patterned slipcase as issued.
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New York: Charles Scribner's. First American edition, 1947.
The author's first book, published in Australia in 1948; Frankie McCoy versus the system.
Bookplate. Fine in very good dustwrapper missing pieces from the crown and base of spine and with a snag on the front panel.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1960.
Inscribed by Frank Clune to Vivien Leigh, 3 November 1961, welcoming her back for her second Australian tour. The actor toured Australia between August 1961 and New Years Day 1962 performing in productions of Twelfth Night, The Lady of the Camellias and Duel of Angels. 'If you haven't seen Canberra, you haven't seen much is the modern Australian motto', according to the author.
Fine in very good dustwrapper missing a piece at the bottom of the front panel and sunned on the spine.
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Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. First Australian edition, 2003.
Promotional booklet for Master's Mates (Cliff Hardy #26, published August 2003) and containing 'Nostalgia', a story credited to Cliff himself, followed by the first chapter of Master's Mates; 12pp. total.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1991.
London Limited Editions issue, #16/150 numbered copies signed by the author; set in Danu, in fact East Timor, during the Indonesian occupation and which incorporates the murder of the Australian journalists at Balibo into its plot.
Original cloth and marbled boards. Faint foxing to top edge, else fine in transparent, glassine dustwrapper as issued.
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Sydney: Currawong. First Australian edition, 1954.
An Australian soldier in occupied Japan after World War Two; the author's first book.
Faint tape bleed to prelims, very good in dustwrapper worn at edges.
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Adelaide, SA: Michael Walmer. First Australian edition, 2014.
Mabel Collins, seeking experience, accompanies Geraldine O'Brookonmore to Greece; first published 1916. Photo offset from the original edition, but an Australian edition of Ronald Firbank.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Beverly Hills, CA: The author. First American edition, 1995.
The author's collection: 50 movies, 180 colour reproductions of posters, and his accompanying text on each movie.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner stamp, else fine.
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Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales and Hordern House. First Australian paperback edition, 1999.
Exhibition catalogue. Charles-Alexandre Leseuer and Nicholas-Martin Petit's illustrations from Baudin's expedition; 46 full page colour reproductions, essays, map, other materials.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Invitation to the preview laid in.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1939.
Texts of twenty-three speeches and articles, titles include: 'The Mining Industry', 'One Democracy to Another', 'Forest Problems' and 'The Real Purpose of Life'; 315pp.
Gift inscription 1940, owner signature, prelims foxed. Good in dustwrapper.
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[Sydney]: [c.1960].
Three matching Hoyts 'Reserved' seat cards and a Greater Union - 'GU9' - Pass Out the latter allowing the viewer to leave the cinema at interval and return. The four items rescued gallantly during the demolition of two Sydney suburban cinemas.
Reserved card measures 7.5 x 18.5cms., printed one side, both fine; the Pass Out measures 5 x 10.5cms., printed both side, fine. The four items
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1981.
The author's second collection of television reviews and criticism from The Observer, period covered 1976-1979; dedicated to Peter Porter.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Milsons Point, NSW: Doubleday. First Australian edition, 1999.
and transported to Tasmania in the middle of the 19th century; inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1946.
The third collection by the Australian poet of the lightest, most candid, sexual poetry; signed by the author.
Very good in dustwrapper sunned around perimeter and missing a piece from the crown of the spine.
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New York: George Braziller. First American edition, 1978.
The author’s second novel, first book to be published in the United States; with Ovid, in exile on the edge of the Black Sea and source of the often quoted, 'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become …'
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1996.
Australia, 1827: a long night, a not too then conventional human triangle; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1951.
Foreword by Frank Ashton. A collection from The Sun, Fairfax's Sydney afternoon tabloid; sections on 'women', 'motoring', 'sports'; post World War Two Sydney.
Pictorial boards. Edgewear. About very good.
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McMahons Point, NSW: Chapter and Verse. First Australian trade editions, 1988.
Two volumes, divided into colour and black and white reproductions, accompanying text by the photographer, list of exhibitions, chronology, bibliography; 139 b&w reproductions, 125 colour, plus smaller reproductions in both volumes; introduction to both volumes by Sandra Byron.
Both volumes very fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1938.
T. Inglis Moore's first collection of poems, after a novel and play; inscribed by the author.
Very good in poor dustwrapper chipped at edges and with an insect damage on front and rear panels.
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Paris: Actium Films, 1985.
Original French poster for the Serbian Australian collaboration between director Dusan Makavejev and Frank Moorhouse. The Coca Cola Kid premiered at Cannes in 1985 and was released in France later that year.
Poster measures 80 x 60cms. Folded. Fine.
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Welington: Wellington Chamber of Commerce and the Wellington Harbour Board, 1923-1924.
Printed cloth binding containing: Wellington Chamber of Commerce, 61st Report, 1924 (75pp.), List of members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (37pp.) Business Directory of Wellington Chamber of Commerce - illustrated, foldout maps, advertisements (c.60pp.) and the Year Book of the Wellington Harbour Board (1923, 88pp.) containing seven foldout maps, panoramas and diagrams (see image).
Black cloth binding, folded edges with booklets bound in. Edges creased, booklets fine. The four booklets
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Auckland: The Brett Printing and Publishing Company. Fifth edition, 1925.
Marked 'New Edition Completely Revised', first published 1887; New Zealand as a land of 'Lakes, Terraces, Geysers and Volcanoes' or details on 'the pathway of creation' and concentrating on the eruption of Tarawera in 1886; illustrated throughout, 56pp. plus maps, advertisements and vivid foldout colour frontispiece.
Pictorial wrappers. Extremities darkened, prelims foxed. Very good.
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Sydney: 1924.
Dance card for Thursday night, 22nd May 1924; 13 dances, supper between, most either fox trots or waltzes.
Printed card, 10 x 6.5cms., rounded at edges, original pencil attached; alas, no partners entered. Fine.
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London: Shevnal Press. First English edition, 1968.
Illustrated by Sidney Nolan; #62/150 copies (total edition 500) signed by the author and artist.
Original buckram and brown boards. Fine in transparent dustwrapper missing a small piece from the base of the spine.
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London: Thames and Hudson. Second impression, 2003.
The artist's works on paper, 300+ colour reproductions; inscribed on the half title to [Betty and Roy Churcher] by John Olsen.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Brisbane: The Jacaranda Press. First Australian edition, [c.1960].
One hundred and thirteen black and white photographs, all captioned, all measuring 25 x 31cms., of aspects of contemporary life in Papua New Guinea, and produced for educational purposes in Australia. The images are divided into twenty categories - fashions, timber, transport, gold - all of which portray the country in a period of progress thanks to a Western cultural and economic model while many of the others, see opposite, stress the traditional and, to us, exotic elements.
Original box, 28x32x5cms, containing all the 113 photographs, key to the categories and images, and a location map for the source of the images. Box is rubbed and worn, label frayed, 'Education' written boldly across lid and the photographs are all fine.
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Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press. First Australian edition, 2003.
Alfred Felton, his life and bequests, or one of the the latter: 1,500 items purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria between 1904 and 2004; #509/800 copies signed by the author.
Original black cloth. Fine in slipcase as issued.
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Dunedin: Otago University Press. First New Zealand edition, 2008.
Gastronomical imperialism from the shaky isles; illustrated, and with many regional recipes for pavlova.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Surry Hills, NSW: The Watermark Press. First Australian edition, 1988.
One of the more unusual books published during the Bicentennial Year: details of varieties of penises in the natural world, an emphasis on our species, then sections on most situations and contexts in which a penis, or an image of a penis can figure; illustrations by Jennifer Black; destined for a bizarre books compilation.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press, [1986].
A map of the world showing Qantas routes; issued with The Australian Women's Weekly in collaboration with the national airline or, the Weekly's readership were being validated in mass tourism. Period details: no flights to South America, Bahrain the only Gulf stopover, no flights to Vietnam, direct flights to Harare ...
Printed colour map measuring 64 x 100cms. Folded. Fine.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. First American edition, 1933.
'... convict life in old Australia. There convicts were treated not as men but as beasts. Weak men died, but strong men escaped and became bush-rangers - fierce outlaws of the bush - and John Haxon was one of these', gushes the dustwrapper.
Owner signature on front pastedown, another below it inked through, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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The Outfit. First American edition, 2009.
Simone Kirsch #1, the author's first book; originally published by Allen and Unwin in 2004.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Sydney]: NSW Parliament, 1888.
Menu for the banquet to celebrate John See's departure for England, held on Monday, December 18, 1888, and hosted by 'His Brother Members of the Legislature'. Toasts to the Queen, Governor and Mr. See and four courses, described in French, and heavy with protein.
Single Card 12.5 x 18cms., printed two colours, folded once to make 4pp. Very good
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Atopa. First Serbian edition, 2012.
An anthology of Australian Literature translated into Serbian; twenty pieces, authors include David Brooks, Kate Grenville, Peter Corris, Alex Miller, Robert Drewe, Carmel Bird and Frank Moorhouse.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1944.
Sixteen stories, the author's only collection, dedicated to Beatrice Davis; and inscribed to Beryl McCuaig by Douglas Stewart.
Original red cloth. Extremities darkened. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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London: Macdonald. First English edition, 1957.
The author's second novel. Diana Ravirs, a Latvian refugee, takes up a position in a remote part of Western Australia and ...; signed by the author on a bookplate tipped onto the front pastedown.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Macdonald. First English edition, 1963.
The author's fourth novel: religion as a replacement for mining and drought in the remote Western Australian town of the novel's title; Roger Milliss' copy with his signature, dated 1964.
Very good in Sidney Nolan dustwrapper with a couple of chips at edges.
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Budapest: Hirdeto, 1969.
Original Hungarian poster for an Australian movie, made by an English director, based on a novel by an Australian novelist, using an Italian pseudonym, about the adventures of an Italian migrant in Sydney during the late 1950s; Ferenc Bors' design concentrates on the image of Walter Chiari and the Hungarian version of Australian beach culture.
Poster measures 58 x 40cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First illustrated edition, 1987.
Assembled from the journals of White, King, Watkin Tench and others; illustrated; first published in 1962.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Glebe, NSW: The author. First Australian edition, 2007.
A substantial history of 'tourism in the Northern Territory, 1920s to 1980s', really from the late 19th century; illustrated, bibliography, index;
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Perth: The author, 1983.
The 'Obituary Issue - June 1983' - 'This esteemed publication is a casualty of victory [the election of the Hawke Government in March 1983]. Its style and content were always more suited to Opposition than to Government ...' Fifteen closely typed pieces with headings - 'Last Gasp Lies', 'Running Amok with the Cheque Book', 'The Seven Sterile Years' - rich in varieties of scurrilous metaphor, assertion and innuendo: Gonzo journalism from within the Australian Senate.
Roneoed sheets with colour banner; 8pp. A little darkened around extremities, else fine.
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No place: Parley Vale Press. First edition in this format, 1989.
The Zambezi boys arrive, mistakenly, in East Bradley, Somerset; #36/39 numbered copies (total edition 60) sewn into Kakali Handmade paper formed by Sharyn Yuen.
Sewn handmade paper wrappers. Tinted title vignette (see image), stencil decorations and preliminaries. Hand-set in Walbaum and Homewood typefaces and ptinted on Frankfurt Cream Paper by Jean Buescher. All fine.
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1950.
Members - USA, USSR, China, UK, Australia, New Zealand, India (last four represented by one member) - structure, aims and functions for the administration of postwar Japan.
Roneoed A4 sheets, 4pp., plus extract from the original communique, 2pp., establishing the Council. Pages darkened at edges, else fine.
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[London]: Attactix Adventure Games, [1982].
Board game 'of the see-saw campaign in North Africa between December 1940 and January 1943. Players command the Axis or Allied forces involved in the campaign and considerable emphasis is placed on the importance of supply to the fighting units.' - BoardGame Geek review. An elaborate board game containing an 11pp. booklet and a further c.20 sheets of data necessary for play. Or, neither a war game or board game and ripe for conquer by the first wave of electronic games.
Box 31 x 23 x 5cms. containing board (82x28cms.), and marked pieces. All very good and ready to play.
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Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins. First Australian edition, 2003.
Australia during World War Two.
Near fine in dustwrapper.
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