Bookplates
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Fuhrer fur Pilzfreunde (3 Volumes)
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19.5cm x 13cm. xii, 29 pages, 58 plates; xii pages, 72 plates; xii pages, 80 plates. Original illustrated green cloth, gilt and black lettering. Text is in German.
Guide for Mushroom Lovers: The Most Common Edible, Suspicious and Poisonous Mushrooms. A bibliographically complicated title with numerous editions and printings. This set being a lovely example of early appearances in the complete 3 volumes, representing a fantastic example of the complete work: Volume 1, [1909], marked Zehntes Tausend; Volume 2, [1907], marked Sechstes Tausend; Volume 3, 1908, marked 3-5 Tausend. See VOLBRACHT 1365, 1366. Volume 1 with the bookplate of American academic murderer Holmes Beckwith by Sheldon Cheney, and with minor pencil annotations to the text possibly in his hand. All three volumes with the name stamp of Maurice Colas at the gutter of the title pages.
Minor shelf wear. Minor foxing and tanning. Near Fine Condition. -
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered into English Verse
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21cm x 14cm. [iv], 112 pages. Half leather, gilt lettering and decoration.
19th century edition of the Rubaiyat. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (the first Chief Justice of Australia and two term Premier of Queensland).
Moderate wear to binding. Foxing to endpapers, bookplate, and first/last leaves, minor to rest of interior. Good Condition. -
A Lioness with a Heron
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First Edition.
27cm x 27cm. 48 pages, illustrations, some colour. Quarter bonded leather, illustrated matte papered boards.
Limited edition of 600 copies. This copy with the bookplate of Australian philanthropist James Fairfax.
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The Way It Was
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First Edition.
30cm x 21cm. 124 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial glossy papered boards.
Illustrated with over 400 authentic historical photographs. This copy with the bookplate of Australian rock art researcher Grahame L. Walsh.
Shelf wear. Minor soiling to edges. Good Condition. -
The Constant Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts
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First Edition.
19cm x 13cm. 216 pages. Black cloth, paper labels
This copy with the bookplate of Violet A. Syme, wife of Sir Geoffrey Syme, The Age newspaper proprietor and fourth son of founder David Syme.
Mottling to cloth. Minor cracking. Minor to moderate foxing. Good Condition. -
The Sacred Flame: A Play in Three Acts
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First Edition.
Contains the bookplate of Violet A. Syme, wife of Sir Geoffrey Syme, The Age newspaper proprietor.
Book is in Good Minus condition, by which we mean it has considerbale marks of age and is well worn from handling, but is still intact and good for reading. Good Condition. -
Caesar’s Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts
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First Edition.
18cm x 13cm. 156 pages. Red cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
This copy with the bookplate of Violet A. Syme, wife of Sir Geoffrey Syme, The Age newspaper proprietor and fourth son of founder David Syme.
Discolouration to spine. Tanning to endpapers. Good Condition. -
Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts
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First Edition.
18cm x 13cm. 213 pages. Red cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
This copy with the bookplate of Violet A. Syme, wife of Sir Geoffrey Syme, The Age newspaper proprietor and fourth son of founder David Syme.
Spine and cloth edges discoloured. Tanning to endpapers. Minor cracking to front hinge. Good Condition. -
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Croydon Gold: An Illustrated History of Croydon, North Queensland [Grahame L. Walsh Bookplate]
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First Edition.
27cm x 20cm. 144 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
This copy signed by Pike and with the bookplate of Australian rock art researcher and author of Australia’s Greatest Rock Art and Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley, Grahame L. Walsh.
Very minor shelf wear. Some rippling to first page from bookplate adhesive. Near Fine Condition. -
Die Anmut des Frauenleibes
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Reprint.
29.5cm x 21cm. xvi, 304 pages, black and white illustrations. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering. Text is in German
The Grace of the Woman’s Body: With over three hundred illustrations based on original photographs by Croatian Austrian Jewish sexologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and Slavist, Friedrich Salomon Krauss (1859-1938). Detailed text illustrated throughout on women of the world, most of which are illustrated nude or topless. This copy in the original publisher’s decorative cloth, with an interesting oval bookplate of J. M. P. (or some such ordering) with a tree and the motto E tenebris per umbras in lucem.
Minor bump to spine crown and small discoloured patch to top edge of upper board. Very Good Condition. -
Dickens’ London
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Sixth Folio Printing.
23cm x 14cm. 239 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated cloth, slipcase.
Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank.
Bookplate of David D. Levine. Small price sticker ghost to slipcase. Near Fine Condition. -
The Diary of a Nobody
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Sixth Folio Printing.
23cm x 13cm. 165 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated cloth, green slipcase.
Illustrated by John Lawrence. NASH 270.
Bookplate of David D. Levine. Minor price sticker ghost to slipcase. Near Fine Condition. -
The Worship of Love: A Study of Nature Worship Throughout the World
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First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. 271 pages, 32 black and white plates. Brown cloth, paper label, brown lettering, brown jacket.
Study exploring tantric implications of ancient monuments. Privately printed in an edition of 975 numbered copies, of which this is number 204.
Tail of spine lightly pushed. Minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Bookplate of Jean Morton. Pages 38-42 and two plates loose. Small chips and tears to jacket edges.. Fair Condition. -
Instructions to Young Chess Players
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Reprint.
22cm x 14cm. 152 pages, black and white illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket
Minor foxing and soiling to edges. Minor foxing to endpapers and first few pages. Bookplate of T. R. Rossall. Good Condition. -
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Reprint.
22cm x 14cm. 148 pages, two coloure illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, illustrated slipcase.
Illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Introduction by John Hampden. NASH 359.
Clipped jacket. Very minor soiling. Near Fine Condition. -
The Horn
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First UK Edition.
19.5cm x 13cm. 243 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Very minor bump to tail fore-edge corner. Foxing to edges, endpapers, and first and last pages. Bookplate of David N. Pepperell. Small chips and tears to jacket edges, tape repairs to verso. Good Condition. -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
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Second Folio Edition. Second Printing.
22cm x 17cm. 134 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated maroon cloth, gilt lettering, top edge maroon, no slipcase.
Introduction by Richard Burton. Designs by Roger Furse. NASH 154.5.
Bookplate of David D. Levine. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition. -
Some Great Moments in Ballet
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First Edition. Signed by Author
36cm x 29cm. 112 pages, black and white illustrations. Black cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
This copy inscribed by Beth Dean to Australian philanthropist James Fairfax, with his bookplate.
Small chips and tears to creased jacket edges. Dampstain to jacket tail, very minor evidence of staining to cloth tail, interior clean.. Good Condition. -
Wuthering Heights
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Second Folio Printing.
22.5cm x 14.5cm. 275 pages, two-colour illustrations. Quarter black leather, maroon cloth, gilt lettering, top edge black, slipcase.
Lithographs by Charles Keeping. NASH 191.
Very minor rubbing to spine. Very minor foxing to fore-edge. Tiny hole to page 125/6. Bookplate of lawyer, judge and book collector David D. Levine. Small price sticker ghost to slipcase. Very Good Condition. -
Jack Straw: A Farce in Three Acts
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First Edition.
18cm x 13cm. 156 pages. Red cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
This copy with the bookplate of Violet A. Syme, wife of Sir Geoffrey Syme, The Age newspaper proprietor and fourth son of founder David Syme.
Discolouration to spine. Tanning to endpapers. Mottling to lower board. Good Condition. -
The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising: A German Tragedy
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First Edition.
20cm x 13.5cm. xxxvi, 122 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
This copy with the bookplate and signature of New Zealand seismologist and artist, George Eiby.
Foxing to edges, minor to interior and jacket verso. Very Good Condition. -
Christie’s Amsterdam: The Nanking Cargo Chinese Export Porcelain and Gold European Glass and Stoneware
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26cm x 21cm. 272 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial cloth.
Recovered by Captain Michael Hatcher from a European merchant ship wrecked in the South China Seas. At the time was a record breaking auction of decorative arts with final sales reaching approximately ten million pounds. This copy with the bookplate of James Fairfax and a four page pamphlet for two additional lots of a pair of Dutch Bronze Cannons laid in.
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Dickens’ London
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First Folio Printing.
23cm x 14cm. 239 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated cloth, slipcase.
Minor handling wear. Bookplate of T. R. Rossall. Minor soiling to slipcase. Very Good Condition. -
Aboriginal Art Of The Western Desert
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First Edition.
26cm x 20cm. 71 pages, colour illustrations. Orange cloth, white lettering, no jacket.
Bookplate of A. Jack Peake [Archibald John Peake].
Spine discoloured with rub to upper board and top edge of lower board. Good Condition. -
Sydney Long Bookplate / Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay
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First Edition.
26cm x 18cm. xi, 44 pages, map. Red cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Original Sydney Long exlibris bookplate for Colin B. Berckelman mounted to the front pastedown of a copy of Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay by Frederick A. Pottle. Ex-University of Sydney Fisher Library with their stamps and plates, and also the bookseller’s label of Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Bookplate is in Fine Condition. Book is in Good Condition with some staining, tanning, and discolouration. Good Condition (ex-library).