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Badger Books
Front Cover: item 151 Southern Cross
Rear Cover: item 151 Southern Cross,
reverse side when folded
Inside Rear Cover: item 31 Bookselling
Badger Books
PO Box 66
WOOLLAHRA NSW 2025
02 93875421
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www.badgerbooks.com.au
ABN 49 739 354 885
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collections of the type contained in this catalogue.
April 2012
1. ABÉ, KOBO. The Face of Another. New
York: Knopf, 1966. First American edition.
An invisible man of sorts tries to survive;
basis for the movie by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Contemporary owner’s signature, else fine in
dustwrapper. $35.00
2. ABORIGINAL. Dance and Dancers from
Lockhart River and Edward River, performed
at Laura Quinkin Country, 1986 by Donna
Foster. [Cairns] Samarpan Shanta [1986].
First Australian edition. #68/500 NUMBERED
COPIES. Introduction by Ibina Cundell. Eleven
plates of dance performances from the Laura
Festival. Pictorial wrappers, spiral binding.
Fine. $35.00
3. ALTHER, LISA. Kinflicks. NewYork:
Knopf, 1976. First American edition.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Lisa Alther’s first
book. Ginny Babcock’s journey through
American obsessions of the sixties and
seventies, a coming of age novel published in
the first year of the Decade of Women. Near
fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on
rear panel. $50.00
4. ANCIENTS. Who’s Who in the Classical
World by John Hazel. London: Routledge,
2005. Reprint of the second edition of 2002.
2vols. One volume each for individuals
from the Greek and Roman worlds: short
biographies, chronology, lists of rulers,
glossary and maps. 600+pp. Both vols. fine in
matching dustwrappers in slipcase as issued.
The pair $75.00
5. ANDRADE, MÁRIO DE. Macunaíma.
London: Quartet, 1984. First English edition.
Translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by
E.A.Goodland. First English translation of the
classic Brazilian novel, originally published in
1928, developed from the author’s studies
of his country’s indigenous people, and
now seen as a precursor to magic realism.
Hysterical movie version by Joaquim Pedro
de Andrade in the late 1960s. Review copy
with the local publisher’s slip laid in. Top edge
dusty, near fine in fine dustwrapper. $45.00
6. ARMSTRONG, LOUIS. Louis Armstrong,
in His Own Words – Selected Writings. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999. First
American edition. Edited and with an
introduction by Thomas Brothers, annotated
index by Charles Kinzer. Nineteen pieces
beginning with the extraordinary “Louis
Armstrong + the Jewish Family in New
Orleans, La., the Year of 1907” (30pp.). Fine
in dustwrapper. $40.00
7. ASHBERY, JOHN. Turandot and Other
Poems. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery,
1953. First American edition. #54/300
NUMBERED COPIES. Illustrations by Jane
Freilicher. John Ashbery’s first book, printed
under the supervision of Nell Blaine,
the American artist. Patterned coloured
wrappers with label, sewn. Slight toning to
extremities, small chips to crown and base of
spine. Near fine. KERMANI A1
$2,500.00
8. (ASHBERY, JOHN.) Poster for a
reading by Ashbery at the Poetics Institute of
New York University on 19th February 1981.
Single glossy sheet measuring 22 x 36cms.,
folded twice, and, on reverse, mailing label
to Robert Wilson at the Phoenix Bookshop.
Fine. $100.00
11. AUSTRALIA. Australian Rhapsody
(Vaucluse) for Pianoforte Solo by Adolph Mann.
Sydney: W.H. Paling, c.1938. No.7 of Paling’s
Piano Series, 5pp. Single sheet measuring 32
x 48cms., printed both sides, folded once and
with a single sheet laid in. Minor cracking at
ends of fold, else very good. $40.00
9. ASHBERY, JOHN. Man in Lurex.
New York: Dia, 1993. Ashbery’s poem and
“Après L’Orage” by Pierre Martory. Three
broadsides issued for a reading by the two
poets on 5th October 1993. Ashbery’s, the
French and English versions of Martory’s
poem, the English translation by Ashbery.
Broadsides measure 28 x 12cms. each; the
three laid into a printed folder made from a
single sheet, measuring 28 x 37cms., folded
twice and with details of the evening and
biographies of the poets printed on the
cover and inside folds. All fine. $175.00
12. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The
Autobiographical Eye, edited by Daniel
Halpern. New York: Ecco Press, 1982.
Antaeus, Nos.45/46, Spring/Summer 1982.
Collects autobiographical pieces by twentyfour writers including R.K. Narayan, Italo
Calvino, Hermann Hesse, Tennessee Williams
and Nadine Gordimer. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
ASHBERY, JOHN. See T.S.Eliot, Frank
O’Hara, Paris – 20th Century Expatriates and
Raymond Roussel
10. AUSTRALIA. The Wild Animals of
Australasia by A.S. Le Souef and Harry Burrell.
London: Harrap, 1926. First English edition.
From all of the island continent and drifting
off to New Guinea and parts of the Pacific.
Illustrated. Original grey green pictorial cloth.
Fine. $75.00
AUSTRALIA. See Aboriginal, Joseph Banks,
Bruce Beresford, Building, Roy Campbell,
Peter Carey, Children’s Literature, Liviu Ciulei,
Continental, Father Damien, Ealing Studios,
Eucalyptus, Exhibition Catalogue, James
Fairfax, First Aid, Ella Fitzgerald, Food, Furniture,
Gardening, Lian Hearn, Home, Spud Johnson,
Charles Kingsford Smith, Laundry, Joseph Losey,
Ella MacIntyre, George Mackaness,Wally
Mellish, Menu, Moments, Music, Richard Neville,
Nuclear, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Penguin, Steele Rudd,
Fred Schepisi, Martin Sharp, Sheet Music, Social
Credit, Swimming, Sydney,Teeth, Arthur Upfield,
Vietnam, Billy Williams,Wool,World Wars and
Judith Wright
13. AVEDON, RICHARD. Photographs
1947-1977. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1978. First American edition. Preface
by Harold Brodkey. 162 reproductions: most
fashion, individuals and elaborately staged
scenes, also portraits including Audrey
Hepburn, Cyd Charisse, Marilyn Monroe,
Katharine Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth
Taylor, Penelope Tree, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren
Hutton,Veruschka and Zouzou. Large qto.
Pictorial boards. Foxing to prelims.Very good
in printed transparent dustwrapper with a
short snag on the front panel. $125.00
AVEDON, RICHARD. See Portraits
14. BAILEY, DAVID. Beady Minces.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar / Bailey,
1973. First English edition. Bailey’s fourth
book collecting photographs taken between
1960 and 1973 from Sixties London and also
travels to India, Nepal, Paris, Lake Rudolf
and Peru; portraits of Jean Shrimpton,
Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and most of the
decade’s luminaries. Qto. Fine in very good
dustwrapper rubbed on front and rear
panels and darkened on the spine. $125.00
15. BANKS, JOSEPH. Joseph Banks in
Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766 – His
Diary, Manuscripts and Collections, edited by
A.M.Lysaght. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1971. First American edition.
Everything from Banks’ pre Endeavour
voyage on the Niger in 1766. Prints from
Banks’ samples by G.D.Ehret, Peter Paillou
and Sydney Parkinson. Qto. Slight edgewear
at crown and base of spine, else fine in
dustwrapper. $150.00
16. (BERESFORD, BRUCE.) The Getting
of Wisdom. Original English poster for
The Getting of Wisdom directed by Bruce
Beresford (1978). Poster by Peter Strausfeld,
the German graphic artist, in his distinctive
style of linocut set in a bold, single colour
background and which he produced
exclusively for the Academy Cinemas on
Oxford Street from 1947 until his death in
1980. Poster measures 76 x 102cms., rolled.
Very good with a small crease at the bottom
right corner. $300.00
18. BERNHARD, THOMAS. Gargoyles.
New York: Knopf, 1970. First American
edition. The author’s second novel and first
to be published in English. Review copy with
publisher’s slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
$400.00
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity,
made binding upon the conscience by a penalty
for perjury. Ambrose Bierce.
19. BIERCE, AMBROSE. The Devil’s
Dictionary. Cleveland, OH: World, [c.1967].
Reprint. “Begun in a weekly paper in 1881
... continued in a desultory way and at long
intervals until 1906.” (Bierce), when it was
published as The Cynic’s Word Book, a longer
version appeared in Bierce’s Collected Works
in 1911 with its current title. Fine in very
good dustwrapper chipped at edges. $30.00
17. (BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX,
SAINT). Saint Bernard of Clairvaux by Watkin
Williams. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1953. Reprint, first published in 1935.
Twelfth century France, the Cistercian order
and Saint Bernard’s role in the formation
of the Knights of the Temple. Bookplate.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
$45.00
20. (BLUM, LÉON.) Léon Blum – From
Poet to Premier by Richard L.Stokes. New
York: Coward-McCann, 1937. First American
edition. The turbulent life of the first Socialist
and first Jew to serve as Prime Minister of
France; written before World War Two and
Blum’s imprisonment in Buchenwald, Dachau
and Tyrol concentration camps. Owner
signature on front pastedown, very good in
dustwrapper chipped at edges and rubbed
on rear panel. $45.00
21. (BLYTON, ENID.) The Blyton
Phenomenon by Sheila Ray. London: Deutsch,
1982. First English edition. The history of the
struggle in attitudes to the prolific author’s
work between devotion from children and
resistance from adults and institutions. Spots
of foxing to prelims, else fine in dustwrapper.
$30.00
I must say that Drs Alka and Seltzer should
have won the Nobel Prize years ago; my only
quarrel with their brain-child is its noise. Charlie
Mortdecai breakfasting
24. BONFIGLIOLI, KYRIL. The Great
Mortdecai Moustache Mystery. London: Black
Spring Press, 1999. First English edition. The
final adventure featuring Charlie, completed
by Craig Brown. Fine in dustwrapper. $25.00
25. BOOKPLATES. Modern British
Bookplates by W.E. and D.J. Butler. Cambridge:
Silent Books, 1990. First English edition. Fiftyfive reproductions, short bios and contact
details of artists. Pictorial boards. Fine.
$40.00
26. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. The Early
Nineties – a View from the Bodley Head by
James G. Nelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1971. First American
edition. Clientele, authors, artists, printers
and the partners who passed through
the doors of the publisher and bookshop
between 1887 and 1894. Fine in dustwrapper.
$75.00
22. (BONFIGLIOLI, KYRIL.) The
Mortdecai ABC – a Bonfiglioli Reader by
Margaret Bonfiglioli. London:Viking, 2001.
First English edition. A brilliant alphabetical
assemblage from the Charlie Mortdecai
novels elaborating on references, asides,
jokes, allusions, biographical details and
obsessions relevant to both Bonfiglioli and
Mortdecai, illustrated; six short stories
by Bonfiglioli; 60pp. of correspondence
including an exchange with Michael Powell
re a collaboration in 1973 with the working
title of I Carried a Biro for Ronnie Kray. Fine in
dustwrapper. $85.00
23. BONFIGLIOLI, KYRIL. After You With
the Pistol. London: Secker and Warburg, 1979.
First English edition. The third novel featuring
Charlie Mortdecai and Jock Strapp, his
manservant. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
27. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Early
Lithographed Books- a Study of the Design and
Production of Improper Books in the Age of
the Hand Press by Michael Twyman. London:
Farrand Press and the Private Libraries
Association, 1990. First English edition.
History, practitioners, styles of books;
appendices of titles produced by lithography,
writers and letterers from the first half of
the 19th century. Illustrated. Printed cloth.
Fine in glassine dustwrapper chipped around
edges. $120.00
28. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Brought
to Book – the Balance of Books and Life,
edited by Ian Breakwell and Paul Hammond.
London: Penguin, 1994. First English edition.
One hundred and twenty-five contributors
– including Ed Ruscha, William Gibson, Iain
Sinclair, Glen Baxter, David Gascoyne, and
Driffield – reveal their reading rituals and
how books have found their way into their
private lives. Not a list in sight but much re
books’ roles in fetishism, sex, travel, status,
cooking and self image. Illustrations. Pictorial
wrappers. Fine. $30.00
29. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. Sidewalk by
Mitchell Duneier. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1999. First American edition.
Photographs by Ovie Carter. Profiles of the
book and magazine sellers on the streets of
New York and their place in the mechanism
of the city. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. See Edward
Lear, Paris – 20th Century Expatriates, Penguin
and George Sims
I am not the great brilliant person to decide
about how good a book is. I judge books by my
customers who buy them and spark others to
read them. Frances Steloff
30. BOOKSELLING. Shakespeare
And Company by Sylvia Beach. New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First
American editon. INSCRIBED BY FRANCES
STELOFF, FOUNDER OF THE GOTHAM BOOK
MART IN 1920,TO A THEN MUCH YOUNGER
COLLEAGUE, CHRISTMAS 1962. Memoir of the
American bookseller in Paris inscribed by
her Manhattan counterpart who co-founded
the James Joyce Society and remarked,
“Sylvia Beach took care of his book wants
at Shakespeare & Company in Paris ...
sometimes Joyce ordered books from
the Gotham directly by mail – including
during the last year of his life”.Very good in
dustwrapper darkened on spine and rubbed
on rear panel. $150.00
31. BOOKSELLING. Books seem to me
pestilent things, and infect all that trade in
them. ... New York: Gotham Book Mart, nd.
SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY. An extract from a
letter by John Locke to Anthony Collins, the
English philosopher (9th June 1704) with a
colour illustration by Edward Gorey. Locke
reflects on the character and practises of
booksellers and related trades and Gorey’s
illustration focuses on the covetousness of
one member. Single sheet measuring 22 x
35cms., folded once to make 4pp. Fine. See
illustration inside rear cover. $300.00
32. BRADBURY, RAY and DAVID
ARONOVITZ. The Parrot Who Met Papa.
Rochester, MI: The Pretentious Press, 1991.
First American edition. SIGNED BY RAY
BRADBURY AND DAVID ARONOVITZ,THE SIXTH
BOOK FROM THE PRESS. Ray Bradbury’s story,
which appeared first in Playboy in 1972,
concluded by David Aronovitz in 1991. With
Aronovitz’s acknowledgement to Bradbury.
Printed wrappers, stapled. The two stories
bound back to back, all fine in original
envelope which is cracked along one fold.
100 copies. $60.00
33. BRAINARD, JOE and KENWARD
ELMSLIE. The Baby Book. [New York:
Boke Press] 1965. First American edition.
500 copies, this one unnumbered. Before
Penelope Leach, the authors chart baby’s life
in the womb, delivery, schedule, potential
problems, dreams, sayings, outings and,
ending with, first kiss. The first of Joe
Brainard’s many collaborative books and five
years before I Remember, his first solo book.
Qto. Pictorial wrappers, stapled, then tape
bound. Fine. $200.00
BROADSIDES. See John Ashbery, Peter Carey,
Frank O’Hara, Kurt Schwitters and Zinfandel
34. BUILDING. Construction Cartoons
by Kerwin Maegraith. [Sydney : Building
Publishing Co., 1959]. First Australian edition.
Foreword by Florence M.Taylor. INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
Group caricatures, all labelled, from across
the building industry in New South Wales,
subsidised by advertisements from local
associations, manufacturers and retailers;
104pp. Large 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, stapled.
Covers rubbed, internally bright.Very good.
$75.00
35. BURNS, JOHN HORNE. A Cry of
Children. London: Secker and Warburg, 1952.
First English edition. The expatriate American
author’s third and last novel, the story of
an obsessive affair between an American
composer and an Italian woman. Near fine in
very good dust jacket creased at edges and
missing a small piece from the front panel of
the dustwrapper. $50.00
36. CALDER, ALEXANDER. A Bestiary,
compiled by Richard Wilbur and illustrated
by Alexander Calder. New York: Pantheon,
1993. Second American edition, originally
published as a limited edition in 1955.
INSCRIBED BY RICHARD WILBUR IN 1999. An
illustrated commonplace book focussed on
animals with contributors from the ancients,
poets, naturalists and, spectacularly, William
Blake. Qto. Illustrated boards. Fine in near fine,
transparent dustwrapper. $125.00
37. CALVINO, ITALO. “Last Comes the
Raven”. The Paris Review, No.6, Summer 1954.
Translated by Ben Johnson, illustrations by
Joe Downing. An early appearance of Calvino
in English, two years before publication of
The Path to the Nest of Spiders, in a story
translated again, and collected, as “The Crow
Comes Last” in Adam, One Afternoon. Pictorial
wrappers. Crown of spine cracked.Very good.
$35.00
38. CALVINO, ITALO. Baron in the Trees.
London: Collins, 1959. First English edition.
The first volume of the Our Ancestors trilogy.
Offsetting to prelims, else fine in near fine
41. CALVINO, ITALO. Marcovaldo or the
Seasons in the City. New York: Harcourt Brace,
Jovanovich, 1983. First American edition.
Twenty stories, written in the early 1950s
and late 1960s, featuring one of Calvino’s
most endearing characters. Top edge dusty,
near fine in fine dustwrapper. $45.00
42. CALVINO, ITALO. The Literature
Machine. London: Secker and Warburg,
1987. First English edition. Thirty essays on
literature: genres, themes, locales, authors.
Top edge dusty, near fine in dustwrapper
with a couple of spots of foxing on the inside
flaps. $35.00
CALVINO, ITALO. See Autobiography, Che
Guevara, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vietnam
43. CAMPBELL, ROY. Portugal. London:
Max Reinhardt, 1957. First English edition.
The poet‘s last book, about the country
where he moved with his family in 1952. Fine
in dustwrapper designed and illustrated by
Bruce Petty. $50.00
39. CALVINO, ITALO. The Non-Existent
Knight and The Cloven Viscount. London: Collins,
1962. First English edition. Introduction by
Archibald Colquhoun, the translator. The
second and third volumes of the Our Ancestors
trilogy, written while Calvino was “slipping
away quietly” from the Communist Party and
into the arms of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and
the fantastic literature of the 19th century. Fine
in near fine dustwrapper lightly rubbed on the
rear panel. $200.00 44. ČAPEK, KAREL. How They Do It.
London: Allen and Unwin, 1945. First English
40. CALVINO, ITALO. The Watcher and Other edition. Three long explanatory essays
Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich,
about how movies, plays and newspapers
1971. First English edition. Three long stories:
are produced; illustrations by Čapek. Slight
the first American appearances of “The
edgewear, very good in dustwrapper chipped
Argentine Ant” and the title piece, Calvino’s
at edges. $50.00
last return to contemporary Italian politics as
his subject. Fine in dustwrapper. $75.00 45. CAREY, PETER. Jack Maggs. New York:
Knopf, 1998. First American edition. SIGNED
BY THE AUTHOR. Uncorrected proof. Pictorial
wrappers designed by Chip Kidd. Fine.
$60.00
THE MEMPHIS CAREY – 100 SIGNED COPIES ONLY
46. CAREY, PETER. Then he crept up
the stairs and, on the upper landing, drew his
long arms around his chest. ... Memphis, TN:
Burke’s Book Store, 1998. 100 NUMBERED
COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An illustrated
extract from Jack Maggs published by Burke’s
for a reading by Carey on 23rd February
1998. Handprinted and designed by Terry
Chouinard of the Wing & the Wheel Press,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Broadside measures 48
x 15.5cms. Fine. $125.00
47. (CÉLINE, LOUIS-FERDINAND.)
Céline, USA, edited by Alice Kaplan and
Philippe Roussin. The South Atlantic
Quarterly,Vol.93, No.2, Spring 1994.
INSCRIBED BY ALICE KAPLAN TO NEW DIRECTIONS’
FOUNDER JAMES LAUGHLIN. Twenty essays
circling this ferocious writer and concluding
with Céline‘s own, “Reply to Charges of
Treason Made by the French Department of
Justice (Copenhagen 6 November 1946)“.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
48. CERVANTES. Don Quixote. New York:
Viking, 1963. Reprint. One volume edition of
Samuel Putnam’s 1948 translation with a long
introduction by the translator. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper. $45.00
49. CHAR, RENÉ. ANDRÉ BRETON
and PAUL ELUARD. Ralentir Travaux.
Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1990. First
American edition. Slow Under Construction:
collaborations by the three poets, then all
evangelically Surrealists, written between
25-30 March 1930, during a week together
in Avignon. Preface by each poet and all
translated by Keith Waldrop. Pictorial
50. CHATWIN, BRUCE. Winding Paths.
London: Cape, 1999. First English edition.
Edited and introduced by Roberto Calasso.
200+ photographs from all of Chatwin’s
travels with short, related extracts from his
books. Small square qto. Pictorial wrappers.
Fine. $45.00
51. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.
Skippety Songs, written and illustrated by
Karna Birmingham. Sydney: The Endeavour
Press, 1934. First Australian edition. Poems
with illustrations, many previously published
in The Sydney Morning Herald. Pictorial
wrappers. Edges scuffed.Very good. MUIR 708
$35.00
52. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. Stories
of Adventure by Louise Kinch. Melbourne:
Gunn and Taylor [1945]. First Australian
edition. Illustrated by Edith Grieve. Five
stories: bushrangers, miners and Aboriginals
in Australia, an earthquake in New Zealand,
the wilds of Canada and the USA, and a
short tale set in Darjeeling. Four full page
colour plates and line drawings throughout.
Folio. Pictorial wrappers. Contemporary gift
inscription, else fine. MUIR 3175. $45.00
53. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. Tikvah
– Children’s Book Creators Reflect on Human
Rights. New York: SeaStar Books, 1999. First
American edition. Forty-four writers and
illustrators of children’s books – including
Leonard Baskin, Antonio Frasconi, Lillian
Hoban, Hilary Knight, Wendell Minor and
Barry Moser – reflect on human rights.
Illustrated. Qto. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. See Enid
Blyton, Food, Lian Hearn, Edward Lear, Ella
MacIntyre, Norway, Penguin, Maurice Sendak,
Isaac Bashevis Singer and Judith Wright
54. (CIULEI, LIVIU.) The Lower Depths by
Maxim Gorky. Program from a production
at the Sydney Opera House (1977), directed
by Liviu Ciulei, the late Roumanian theatre
and movie director. Invited by the Old Tote,
a year before it expired, Ciulei delivered a
spectacular production which tamed the
Drama Theatre’s stage. Pictorial wrappers,
stapled. 16pp. Staples rusting, else fine.
$35.00
55. (CLAVER, PETER.) A Saint in the Slave
Trade by Arnold Lunn. London: Sheed and
Ward, 1935. First English edition. The life of
the Jesuit priest, “slave of the slaves”, who
spent 40 years among the human cargo
as it arrived in Cartegna, Colombia during
the 17th century. Edgewear.Very good in
dustwrapper darkened on the spine and
chipped at edges. $40.00
56. COLETTE. The Gentle Libertine. New
York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931. First
American edition. Originally published in
2vols. as Minne and Les Égarements de Minne
by “Mr. Willy” in 1904 and 1905 respectively.
With a dustwrapper endorsement from
Arnold Bennett accurately noting the
author’s interest in “the sentimental hearts
and unruly bodies of men and women”.
Owner signature. Near fine in a very good
gold-foil dust jacket which has a few small
chips at edges and crown and base of spine.
$175.00
57. COLETTE. 7 by Colette of the Academy
Goncourt. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy, 1955. First omnibus edition, all
first published between 1910 and 1945.
Introduction by Janet Flanner followed by
all of Gigi,The Cat, My Mother’s House, Chance
Acquaintances, Chéri,The Last of Chéri, and The
Vagabond. Droll fifties gift inscription, “For
idle respites between television shows …”;
edgewear, very good in good dustwrapper
chipped around edges. $40.00
58. CONTINENTAL. Open City. Program
for the Sydney season of Rossellini’s Rome,
Open City at The Variety, “Sydney’s New
Continental Theatre” 238 Pitt Street
[c.1950]. Distributed by Exclusive Films Ltd.,
“... formed for the purpose of importing
and distributing throughout Australia and
New Zealand very carefully selected, high
grade English, French and other Continental
films.” Cast, background, long extracts from
overseas reviews, details of movies to follow
and local advertisements, 10pp. Pictorial
wrappers, stapled. Fine. $45.00
In its less than one year of screening, three of
Gala’s eight films have been eulogised by the
press as “Masterpieces”. “Wild Strawberries” has
been similarly honoured.This is not accidental. In
its search of “International Film-of-merit” Gala
does not hesitate to pay the high purchase price
demanded overseas for the very highest quality
in the field now known as Cinema “Art Film”.
Since the cost of such films must be recouped
from release in one theatre in each Australian
Capital city (they are rarely shown in Suburbs
or Country), it will be readily appreciated that
admission prices cannot be otherwise than as
they are. Quality does not come cheaply in any
field, and we are grateful that this position is
understood and graciously accepted by Sydney’s
small but devoted band of discriminating art film
lovers.”
59. CONTINENTAL. Wild Strawberries.
Program for the Sydney season of Bergman’s
movie with The Red Balloon screening before
interval at the Continental Gala Cinema
[c.1959]. Generic booklet produced by
British Empire Films, 14pp., with local single
sheet, folded once to make 4pp., produced
by the Gala and written in its familiar house
style, see above, laid in. Pictorial wrappers.
Fine. $45.00
60. COPPARD, A.E. Pink Furniture.
Illustrations by Nancy Bankart Gurney.
Toby’s search for the Book of Wisdom.
Offsetting to prelims, else fine in
dustwrapper darkened around edges and on
spine and chipped at crown. $75.00
61. CRUMB, ROBERT. Heroes of the
Blues. New York:Yazoo Records, 1980.
Thirty-six colour portraits by Crumb,
on cards measuring 9.5 x 7cms., short
biography of the musicians on reverse.
Complete set in original two part illustrated
box. Cards are all fine, nick to one corner of
the lid, otherwise fine. $150.00
62. CRUMB, ROBERT. Early Jazz Greats.
Newton, NJ:Yazoo Records, 1982. Thirtysix colour portraits by Crumb, on cards
measuring 9.5 x 7cms., short biography of
the musicians on reverse. Complete set in
original two part illustrated box. Cards are
all fine, the lid of the box is sunned on two
sides, otherwise fine. $150.00
63. CRUMB, ROBERT. Pioneers of
Country Music. New York:Yazoo Records,
1983. Forty colour portraits by Crumb,
on cards measuring 9.5 x 7cms., short
biography of the musicians on reverse.
Complete set in original two part illustrated
box. Cards and box both fine. $150.00
His greatest contribution to humanity is Mr.
Natural and his style is just weirdly his own. If he
has any imitators, then they should be restrained.
His kid of art should only happen once. Ralph
Steadman on Robert Crumb
64. (CRUMB, ROBERT.) The Life
and Times of R.Crumb: Comments from
Contemporaries, edited by Monte Beauchamp.
Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press,
1998. First American edition. Foreword by
Matt Groening. Contributions from Terry
Gillam, Daniel Clowes, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph
Steadman, Paul Krassner and many others.
Illustrated. Review copy with publisher’s
press release laid in. Square 8vo. Pictorial
65. (DAMIEN, FATHER). Damien the
Leper by John Farrow. New York: Sheed
and Ward, 1937. First American edition.
Foreword by Hugh Walpole. The life of the
19th century Flemish priest who spent
sixteen years caring for the lepers on
Molokai. Written by the expatriate Australian
movie director. Fine in dustwrapper
beginning to darken on the spine. $45.00
66. DEPRESSION. Darkness Visible by
William Styron. London: Cape, 1991. First
English edition. The author’s memoir of his
“storm of murk”, first published in Vanity Fair
in 1989. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
67. DIAMOND, JARED. Collapse - How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York:
Viking, 2005. First American edition. Fine in
dustwrapper. $25.00
68. DICKINSON, EMILY. The Master
Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W.
Franklin. Amherst, MA: Amherst College
Press, 1986. First American paper edition. The
poet’s three letters to the still unidentified
“Master”, written between 1858 and 1862
and never sent, reproduced in facsimile with
printed text facing, as well as transcriptions
and annotations that demonstrate the stages
of composition for each letter. Printed
wrappers. With the facsimile letters in a
printed envelope laid in. All fine. $40.00
69. DOLL. The Doll by Carl Fox. New
York: Abrams [1977]. First American
edition. Photographs by H.Landshoff. The
monumental work: examples and history
from around the world and across the
social classes, 71 tipped-in colour plates
and 120 b&w reproductions. Qto. Fine in
[to] ”the preacher of the inner word from the
‘impenitent thief ’” James Joyce’s inscription
to Edouard Dujardin on the latter’s copy of
Ulysses
70. DUJARDIN, EDOUARD. We’ll to the
Woods No More. New York: New Directions,
1957. Second American edition. Translation
by Stuart Gilbert, introduction by Leon
Edel and illustrations by Alice Laughlin. First
published in 1887, read by James Joyce in
1902 and cited by him as an important factor
in the creation of the interior monologues of
Ulysses. Edgewear, very good in dustwrapper.
$40.00
71. DUMAS, ALEXANDRE. From Paris
to Cadiz. London: Peter Owen, 1958. First
English edition. Edited and translated by
A.E.Murch. On the road with the Dumas
family: a wedding in Madrid, two months
in Spain, and on to Algeria, all in 1864.
Bookplate. Fine in near fine dustwrapper
with remnants of a stain on a corner of the
rear panel. $45.00
72. DYBBUK. A Dybbuk, adapted by Tony
Kushner from the play by S.Ansky, and The
Dybbuk Melody and Other Themes and
Variations by Ansky. New York: Theater
Productions Group, 1998. First American
edition. Ansky’s classic play concerning a rich
man’s daughter and the spirit of her dead
beloved (first produced in 1920) and first
English translation of his eight interrelated
stories; play and stories translated by
Joachim Neugroschel, with an afterword
to the play by Harold Bloom. Fine in
dustwrapper with an illustration by Maurice
Sendak.. $40.00
The 130 genuine Aboriginal natives who
appear in Bitter Springs not only provide the
film with some of its most interesting aspects
but prove themselves to be natural actors.The
Aborigines who took part in the filming came
from the feeding and missionary station at
Ooldea, some 300 miles away from the location
site, and they had a camp of their own near
the film’s unit headquarters at Quorn [SA].
The filmmakers wondered what they would
be like.They had been told that the natives
were the laziest people on earth, completely
untrustworthy, dishonest and work-shy, but they
proved themselves to be very different from
expectations.They were quick, intelligent, with
a great sense of humour and a lively curiosity,
and at no time was there any trouble over
their honesty. “They turned out to be wonderful
actors”, according to the director, Ralph
Smart. “Unlike civilised people, they are quite
unselfconsciousness, so when asked to play a
role they did it as they would naturally, without
any trouble at all.The difficulties arose only
when some of them began to believe they could
act – the results were terrible then!” - “The
Aborigines as Actors”
73. EALING STUDIOS. Bitter Springs
(1950). British Pressbook for the English
release of the third Ealing Studios’ movie
made in Australia which premiered in Sydney
on 24th June 1950 and in London 2 weeks
later on 6th July. Bitter Springs was shot in
the Flinders Ranges SA between May and
November 1949 and is concerned with the
tensions that arise after the King family
purchase 600 acres of Aboriginal tribal land
from the South Australian Government to
establish a sheep station. The movie was the
first serious treatment of Aboriginal Land
Rights in an Australian feature with Ransom,
a trooper (Michael Pate) setting out the
options to Wally King (Chips Rafferty), “You
can hunt ‘em off, you can ease ‘em off, or
you can take ‘em with you.” The resolution of
the movie is well removed from the climate
of the time – "But in the end the white man’s
magic prevails: not the magic of the gun, but
that other magic, the magic of compromise,
of finding a way to give both sides a chance
of living side by side without violence",
according to the pressbook– and carries the
deep racism and assumed superiority as in
the quotation above. The booklet contains
examples of posters and advertisements
to be used overseas, synopses in French
and German, “the story in ten pictures” or
images plus summary, biographies of the
actors, director and producer, and anecdotes
from the shooting, see “The Aborigines as
Actors”, part quoted above. Large oblong
qto., 31 x 36cms. Pictorial wrappers, stapled.
Fine. $450.00
74. EALING STUDIOS. The Siege of
Pinchgut (1959). British trade poster for
the English release of the fourth and last
Ealing Studios’ movie made in Australia
(and the last movie from Ealing), which
premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in
June 1959 and in Sydney on 3rd March
1960. An escaped prisoner with a series
of grievances terrorises Sydney from Fort
Denison and sets out his terms in the time
honoured manner. Poster originally laid in
to Kinematograph Weekly, a trade publication
available by subscription to cinema managers.
Poster measures 28 x 43cms., one vertical
centre fold, else fine. $300.00
75. ECCENTRICS. Grandfather Was Queer
– Wags and Eccentrics in Early America by
Richardson Wright. New York: Lippincott,
1939. First American edition. Personalities
gathered from the length and breadth of
the continental United States between
Colonial Times and the Civil War; then
grouped into categories – “Cave dwellers
and solitaries”, “Gospel Glutted”, “Centers
of Waggery” among others – and, with the
effect of, dragging briefly into the spotlight
the individuals who didn’t contribute to the
creation of dominant American mythology.
Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
It is not unusual to begin a discussion of R.B.
Kitaj’s work with a mention of Eliot’s. Kitaj
himself has done so. Questions of politics aside,
there are obvious parallels. Both left America
in their twenties and brought to Europe a
sensibility that was still unknown in the country
of their birth but that, surprisingly, took root and
flourished in their adopted one. John Ashbery
76. ELIOT, T.S. On Poetry and Poets. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First American edition. Sixteen essays on
subjects:Yeats, Kipling, Byron, Milton,Virgil
and including seven on aspects of poetry, all
written between 1942 and 1956. R.B.KITAJ’S
COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE. Fine in near fine
dust jacket with shallow chips to base and
crown of spine. $150.00
77. (ELLISON, RALPH.) Ralph Ellison by
Arnold Rampersad. New York: Knopf, 2007.
First American edition. Life of the AfroAmerican writer known for Invisible Man
and his long struggle with Juneteenth or Three
Days Before the Shooting, his second novel,
published posthumously twice in versions
edited from Ellison’s 2,000pp. of manuscript.
78. ENDE, MIICHAEL. The Neverending
Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. First
American edition. The adventures of Bastian
Balthazar Bux. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
EPHEMERA. See John Ashbery, Bruce
Beresford, Liviu Ciulei, Continental, Robert Crumb,
Ealing Studios, Eucalyptus, Exhibition Catalogue,
John Fairfax, First Aid, Ella Fitzgerald, Furniture,
Home, Charles Kingsford Smith, Laundry, George
Mackaness,Wally Mellish, Menu, Moments,
Music, Lawrence Norfolk, Nuclear, Paris, Pier
Paolo Pasolini, Fred Schepisi, Martin Sharp, Sheet
Music, Social Credit, Swimming,Teeth,World
Wars and Zinfandel
79. ERTÉ. Things I Remember. London: Peter
Owen, 1975. First English edition. Illustrated
memoir by the art deco artist and illustrator
from his birth in St.Petersburg in 1892. Fine
80. EUCALYPTUS. Recipes: Eucalyptus Oil,
compiled by Bev Turner. Kangaroo Island, SA
[Emu Ridge Eucalyptus, 1993]. First Australian
edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF
PUBLICATION. History, methods of extraction,
uses in cleaning, treating injuries and fighting
insects before getting down to recipes for
smoked emu, eucalyptus butter, toffee and
ice cream. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Punch
hole to front cover, else fine. $35.00
81. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE.
Catalogue of Exhibits in the New South Wales
Annexe of the Exhibition 1871. Sydney:
Gordon and Gotch, 1871. 12mo. Printed
wrappers, sewn. Sunned around perimeter,
edges frayed, spine split, 36pp. Good. $100.00
Royal Art Society of New South Wales 44th
Annual Exhibition. Sydney: Royal Art Society,
1923. Entries in various categories, prices,
illustrations, advertisements, 58pp. total.
Printed wrappers stapled. Covers marked,
staples rusted, edges frayed; internally clean
and bright. Good. $45.00
83 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. European
Art Exhibition for Australia. Sydney: Redcliffe
Press, 1923. 581 items: mostly British and
French, a small no. of Belgian, Dutch, Itaian,
Spanish and Swiss pieces, organised by
Penleigh Boyd, exhibited at Sydney Town Hall.
Qto. Printed wrappers, stapled, with colour
image of "Hop Pickers“ by A.J. Munnings
tipped to front cover. Edges darkened, spine
beginning to crack, a couple of annotations
and a short tear to one page. Overall very
good. Price list laid in. $45.00
84. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Royal
Art Society of New South Wales - 44th [sic,
see previous item but one] Annual Exhibition.
Sydney: Royal Art Society, 1924. 210 items, all
priced, 14 works reproduced, 20pp. of local
advertisements. Printed wrappers, stapled.
Edges frayed, covers marked, internally clean,
small paper pocket tipped onto title page.
Good. $45.00
85. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. The
Royal British Colonial Society of Artists Third
Australian Exhibition. Sydney: Farmer and
Co., 1925. 150 items, all priced, 10 tippedin plates. Printed wrappers, stapled. Edges
frayed, staples rusted, scattered foxing
throughout, plates clean. Good. $45.00
86. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Guide
to the First Exhibition of the New South
Wales Collection of Applied Art by Charles
F. Laseron. Sydney: Farmer and Co., 1927.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Edges chipped and
creased. Contemporary owner‘s signature,
small clipping tipped onto title page.Very
good. $45.00
87. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. The
Burdekin House Exhibition in Aid of the Royal
Prince Alfred Hospital. Sydney: Burdekin
House Committee, 1929. 395 items, many
illustrated, plus 16pp. of local advertisements.
Pictorial wrappers. Edgewear, corners
scuffed, internally clean. Good. $45.00
88. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. New
South Wales Art Gallery Pictures. Sydney: Art in
Australia, 1931. Sixty colour and b&w plates.
Qto. Printed wrappers. Corners scuffed,
edgewear, owner signature, prelims foxed,
glossy paper for plates clean. Good. $30.00
WHEN THE MASS MEDIA WAS YOUNG
Montage and Modern Life 1919-1942, edited
by Matthew Teitelbaum. Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press and Boston, MA: Institute
of Contemporary Art, 1992. First American
edition. The role of montage in photographs,
architecture, movies, advertisements,
photomontages and journals from mostly
Germany, Russia and the United States. Five
essays, 115 reproductions. Qto. Top edge
dusty, else fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. See Pier
Paolo Pasolini, Portraits and Martin Sharp
We won’t forget that American and Australian
soldiers fought together to stamp out the
dangerous foothold Japan had in New Guinea, or
that your campaigns upwards through Guadalcanal
were breaking the tentacles which might have
been about our free and very pleasant land.The
Japanese have not the semi-civilisation of the
German; they are not a nice people by whom to be
conquered. – John Fairfax
90. FAIRFAX, JOHN. “Open Letter to
Americans” Gismo No.1, 1944. The first of
two issues published by the American Red
Cross and distributed to servicemen in the
South Pacific. Gismo contains articles, stories
and poems by servicemen in the Pacific.
Fairfax is the only Australian contributor. His
piece is written with the urgency and anger
of wartime, and is substantially different
to the version collected in Drift of Leaves
(1952). The final sentence quoted above,
and others like it, have gone though the
aim of the piece remains the same, “to tell
you the feelings of the average Australian
towards America”. LAID IN IS A TLS, 2PP., FROM
THE EDITOR TO CHESTER KERR OF THE OFFICE OF
WAR INFORMATION,WASHINGTON setting out
the production problems, varying quality of
contributions, number submitted, 2,000, and
the gap between the editor and those on the
ground, “I remember one particular poem
which I thought rather good. Their reaction
was unanimous: ‘perfect for the States; it
wouldn’t go out here’”. Modest wartime
production, the final column of Fairfax’s
piece has been cut and pasted into place.
Qto. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Folded for
posting, else fine. $250.00
91. FIRST AID. The Treatment of the
Apparently Dead from Drowning, Suffocation,
Lightning, Stroke, Or Electric Shock. [NSW,
no publisher, c.1948]. An illustrated guide
to treatment of all of the above plus snake
bite, ticks, spiders, sandflies and Sandy Blight.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. One corner
scuffed, crown of spine cracked.Very good.
$35.00
FIRST BOOKS BY Lisa Alther, John Ashbery,
Thomas Bernhard, Joe Brainard, Richard Ford,
Nicolas Freeling, Janet Gleeson, James Hanley,
Spud Johnson, Clarice Lispector, Richard Neville,
Lawrence Norfolk, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo
Sciascia, Arthur W. Upfield, Paolo Volponi and
Garry Winogrand (under Portraits)
The Embers stands alone to fulfil a long wanted
need in Melbourne’s fast diminishing night life
92. (FITZGERALD, ELLA.) Program for
Ella Fitzgerald’s performances, supported
by Mel Tormé and the Lou Levy Quartet
at The Embers, Toorak Road, South Yarra
on 4th December 1960. Biographies and
photographs of the performers and a
detailed resumé of The Embers –hours,
seating, dress code, clientele, menu, 675
capacity – by Garry Van, the manager; 10pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled.Very good. $35.00
93. FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. The
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas. New York: New
Directions, 1954. First American edition.
Translated, introduction and notes by Jacques
Barzun. Flaubert versus the world. Fine in
dustwrapper. $35.00
96. FOOD. Flying Sauces – Cheap Food
Recipebook by Katwin Edgerley. [Canberra]
Health Vitality and Martinis [c.1990]. First
Australian edition. Basic terms, tips for
budget shopping in Canberra and recipes,
with an emphasis on vegetarian dishes and
soups; 68pp. Printed wrappers, ringbound.
Fine. $35.00
FOOD. See Eucalyptus, Menu, Restaurant and
Zinfandel
97. FORD, RICHARD. “In Desert
Waters”. Esquire, August 1976. An early story
preceding A Piece of My Heart, collected in
the anthology Last Night’s Stranger (1982),
and otherwise not reprinted. Pictorial
98. FORD, RICHARD. A Piece of My Heart.
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. First
American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Richard Ford’s first book. Spots of foxing to
foredge and prelims, else fine in dustwrapper.
$400.00
94. FOOD. Cheeses of the World by André
Simon. London: Faber and Faber, 1956.
First English edition. Country by country,
Eurocentric; “Practically the whole of the
large cheese production of Australia is
Cheddar, but there are also small quantities
of various cheeses made which approximate
as much as possible to prototypes popular in
Continental Europe ...” Owner’s small label,
else fine in very good dustwrapper. $50.00
95. FOOD. Lots of Fun to Cook with Rupert
by Sonia Allison. Glasgow: Collins, 1974. First
English edition. Illustrations by John Harrold.
Between adventures Rupert Bear finds time
to prepare coconut snowballs, toad-in-thehole, Welsh rarebit and nine other traditional
meals. Colour illustrations throughout. Qto.
Pictorial boards. Spots of foxing, edgewear.
Very good. $35.00
99. FORD, RICHARD. Rock Springs. New
York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First
American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Richard Ford’s first collection of stories. Fine
100. FORD, RICHARD. Communist.
Derry, NH and Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock and
Koontz, 1987. First separate edition of this
story, originally published in Antaeus. #35/200
COPIES (TOTAL EDITION 240) SIGNED BY THE
AUTHOR. Frontispiece wood engraving by
Gaylord Schanilec. Ford’s first limited edition.
Plain green wrappers, sewn; with cover title
label. Fine. $100.00
101. FORD, RICHARD. Wildlife. New
York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First
American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A
short coming of age novel. Top edge dusty,
else fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
A SAMPLING OF ALL HIS DETECTIVES – PIET VAN
DER VALK (KILLED OFF RASHLY IN 1972), ARLETTE
VAN DER VALK (HIS WIDOW), HENRI CASTANG
(HIS SUCCESSOR) – AND ESSAYS ON COLLEAGUES
AND MODELS FROM “THE MOST ECCENTRIC,THE
MOST IDIOSYNCRATIC AND THE MOST EUROPEAN
OF CRIME WRITERS” - ANITA BROOKNER
102. FREELING, NICOLAS. Love in
Amsterdam. New York: Harper and Row,
1962. First American edition. Freeling’s first
novel and first Van der Valk..Very good in
dustwrapper with short annotation on rear
inside flap of dustwrapper. $45.00
105. FREELING, NICOLAS. The Widow.
New York: Pantheon, 1979. First American
edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DICK
WILSON. After tracking down her husband’s
killer, Arlette Van der Valk has remarried, and
then becomes enmeshed in her first murder.
106. FREELING, NICOLAS. Castang’s City.
WILSON. Well into Henri’s career. Review
copy with publiser’s slip laid in. Fine in
dustwrapper. $85.00
107. FREELING, NICOLAS. Arlette. New
York: Pantheon, 1981. First American edition.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO DICK WILSON.
Published in England as One Damn Thing After
Another. The second, and last, Arlette mystery.
108. FREELING, NICOLAS. Wolfnight.
WILSON. The sixth Henri Castang. Fine in
dustwrapper. $85.00
der Valk. Fine in very good dustwrapper with
a short closed tear on rear panel. $85.00
109. FREELING, NICOLAS. Criminal
Convictions - Errant Essays on Perpetrators of
Literary License. Boston: Godine, 1994. First
American edition. Essays on professional
colleagues and other writers including
Dorothy Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Georges Simenon, Charles Dickens, Rudyard
Kipling, Stendhal and Joseph Conrad. Fine in
dustwrapper.
$35.00
104. FREELING, NICOLAS. Auprès de
Ma Blonde. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
First American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR TO DICK WILSON. Published in England.
as A Long Silence The last Van der Valk: gunned
down in the street, he “... had a new part to
study, the most important of his parts. In the
words of the seventeenth century actor, he
was on the way to study a long silence.” Fine
110. FRIEDLANDER, LEE. In the Picture:
Self-Portraits, 1958-2011. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2011. First American
edition. The photographer’s enduring subject,
albeit with spectacular variations, in 400+
duotone images, which also nets his family
and friends, and records the ageing process
of Friedlander and his shadow. Square qto.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without
103. FREELING, NICOLAS. Double
Barrel. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
AUTHOR TO DICK WILSON, DETECTIVE FICTION
AFICIONADO AND BOOKSELLER. The fourth Van
111. FRIEDRICH, OTTO. Decline and
Fall. New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First
American edition. The fall of the Curtis
Publishing empire and, specifically, the end of
The Saturday Evening Post, by its last managing
editor. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
on Camille Renault who towards the end
of his eventful life was made a satrap in the
College of Pataphysics. Drawings throughout,
most by Franciszka Themerson. Bound with
the authors’ photographs from the covers of
the original booklets. Near fine in very good
dustwrapper sunned on the spine. $85.00
112. FRIEDRICH, OTTO. The Grave of
Alice B.Toklas and Other Reports from the
Past. New York: Holt, 1989. First American
edition. Thirteen long essays – including
Parsifal, Henry James, Mozart, James
Baldwin, Empress Galia Placidia – by the
great American popular historian. Fine in
dustwrapper. $40.00
113. FURNITURE. How the Hobby
Family Solved All Their Troubles! Sydney:
“Homerex”, Home Recreations Limited
[1920?] Homerex catalogue with illustrated
instructions to assemble 21 pieces of
household furniture including “the butler”,
“occasional table”, “wall table”, “plate rack”
and, in excellent taste according to the
catalogue, a “monk’s chair”; 48pp. Oblong
8vo. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A couple of
marks to covers.Very good. $50.00
114. FUSSELL, PAUL. Abroad – British
Literary Travel Between the Wars. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First
American edition. Celebrating the journeys
and works of English writers – Robert
Byron, Norman Douglas, Graham Greene,
W.H.Auden, Christopher Isherwood, D.H.
Lawrence and others – between the World
Wars and setting out a different model
for expatriate writers to challenge the
Americans flocking to Paris (see items 213217). Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
115. GABERBOCCHUS PRESS. The First
Dozen. London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1957.
First one volume edition. The twelve nos.
of the publisher’s Black Series, published
separately between 1954-1957 and offering
an excellent introduction to the range
and interests of Stefan and Franciszka
Themerson’s private press. Authors include
Raymond Queneau, C.H.Sisson, both
Themersons, as well Pol-Dives’ illustrations
from magic lantern slides and a loving piece
116. GAMES. Magnetic Fish Pond – Improved
Edition. Bavaria: J.W.S. and S. [c.1910].
Originally produced as The Game of Magnetic
Fish in 1904 and here containing the
coloured aquarium – four painted sides, each
22 x 20cms., secured at edges to form the
aquarium – eleven coloured fish with rings
through their mouths and weights marked
on their sides, four rods (two with original
line) and one magnet. All contained in an
illustrated box, 30 x 30cms., with rules and
advertisements for other games set out on
inside of lid and the outside bottom of the
box. Box frayed, remnants of stain on lid,
repairs inside lid, fair. Implements for play not
complete; aquarium sides all fine. $100.00
La ruée vers l’or noir
117. GAMES. JouaRep – Jeu de Recherches
et d’Exploitations Pétrolières. Paris: Editions
Sofel [c.1955]. French board game beginning
with the search for oil in the Sahara and then
developing, Monopoly style, into building
profitable pipelines across the Desert, all
watched over by Le Directeur du Bureau de
Recherches de Petrole or “BRP”, aka one of
the players.
The board is a detailed map of the Sahara, 39
x 39cms., divided into geographical segments,
and with equally spaced rows of holes across
the boards for possible strikes. Rules, die,
oil wells, pipelines and cash all contained in
two drawers (39 x 7.5cms.) adjacent to the
board with wooden sliding drawers holding
these items in place. The board and drawers
all contained in a sturdily made wooden box
measuring 42 x 60cms., with plastic carry
handle and illustration on reverse. Light wear
at edges, else fine and ready to play. $600.00
119. GIBSON, RALPH. Tropism. New
York: Aperture, 1987. First American edition.
100+ images surveying all the photographer‘s
career and publications; chronology,
bibliography and list of exhibitions. Qto. Fine
120. GILDZEN, ALEX. Funny Ducks.
No place: Ghost Dance Press, 1973.
AUTHOR TO R.B.KITAJ, “IN APPRECIATION OF HIS
FRIENDSHIP”, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. The
third collection by the poet, archivist and,
more recently, blogger and mail artist. “The
Lament of Arletta Duncan”, the final poem
in the collection, about the thirties movie
actress, is dedicated to Kitaj. Cover by Ira
Joel Haber, Brooklyn artist and bookseller.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. $150.00
121. GLEESON, JANET. The Grenadillo
Box. London: Bantam Press, 2002. First
English edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
The first of the author’s three historical
mysteries. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
GAMES. See Richard Neville
118. GARDENING. Searl’s Key to Australian
Gardening. Sydney: Searl and Sons, 1922.
Month by month schedule, shortcuts and
hints, styles of garden; illustrations and
reproductions; 264pp. plus index. Illustrated
paper covered boards. Covers rubbed,
internally sound.Very good. $60.00
122. GLEESON, JANET. The Serpent in
the Garden. London: Bantam Press, 2003.
First English edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
The author’s second mystery, beginning in
Summer 1765. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
123. GLEESON, JANET. The Thief Taker.
London: Bantam Press, 2004. First English
edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The author’s
third mystery and first featuring Agnes
Meadowes. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
Of all pleasure, I see much may be destroyed by
eagerness of anticipation. I had told my female
companion, to whom travelling was new, how
she would be surprised and astonished, at the
difference found in crossing the narrow sea from
England to France, and now she is not astonished
at all, why should she? September 7, 1784. The
first two sentences of Mrs. Piozzi’s account
124. GRAND TOUR. Observations and
Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey
Through France, Italy and Germany by Hester
Lynch Piozzi. Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 1969. First published in 1789
and covering her Grand Tour of 1784 to
1787. Mark where bookseller’s sticker has
been removed on front pastedown, else fine
125. GRAY, FRANCINE DU PLESSIX.
Them – a Memoir of Parents. New York: The
Penguin Press, 2005. First American edition.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The Libermans – two
Russian émigrés, flee Europe for America
in 1940, become New Yorkers, arbiters of
taste, socialites, one a director of Vogue then
Condé Nast, all in less than one generation
– are remembered and examined by their
daughter. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
126. (GUEVARA, ERNESTO “CHE”)
!Viva Che! – Contributions in Tribute to
Ernesto “Che” Guevara., edited by Marianne
Alexandre. London: Lorrimer, 1969.
Reprint. Fifty contributors including Fidel
Castro, Stokely Carmichael, Italo Calvino,
Grahame Greene, Christopher Logue,
Julio Cortazar, Thomas Merton, Francesco
Rosi, Susan Sontag and Oz Magazine; 24pp.
of photographs. Mark where bookseller’s
sticker has been removed, else fine in very
good dustwrapper chipped at edges. $45.00
127. (GUSTON, PHILIP.) Philip Guston’s
Late Work: a Memoir by William Corbett.
Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1994. First
American edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
TO R.B. KITAJ, “THIS BOOK ABOUT A PAINTER
WHO KNEW AS YOU DO NOW OF WHAT IT IS
LIKE TO HAVE GREAT PAINTINGS REVILED. ALL
COURAGE TO YOU, WITH MY ADMIRATION, BILL
CORBETT. 10 MARCH ‚95”. Memoir by the poet
and art critic of his friendship with Guston
during the last eight years of the artist’s life.
128. HAMILTON-PATERSON, JAMES.
The Bell-Boy. London: Hutchinson, 1990.
First English edition. The expatriate English
author’s third novel, set in the faraway city of
Malomba. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
129. HAMMETT, DASHIELL. The Novels
of Dashiell Hammett. New York: Knopf, 1965.
First omnibus edition. All of Red Harvest,The
Dain Curse,The Maltese Falcon,The Glass Key
and The Thin Man. Short, introductory note
by Lillian Hellman. Owner signature, else fine
130. HANLEY, JAMES. Drift. London: Eric
Partridge, 1930. First English edition. SIGNED
BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION.
The author’s first book, set among an Irish
Catholic family living in Liverpool. Slight
offsetting to prelims, else fine in dustwrapper.
500 copies. $450.00
131. HANLEY, JAMES. Boy. New York:
Knopf, 1932. First American edition. The
third version of Hanley’s banned novel
of the tragic life of Arthur Fearon, after
the unexpurgated and expurgated English
editions. For this edition the asterisks of the
second English edition have been removed,
the scenes of homosexuality rewritten and
some American sailors’ slang added. Boy
appeared unexpurgated in a trade edition
in 1990. Dull shadow where bookplate
has been removed from front pastedown,
edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper sunned
on spine. $100.00
132. HASIDIM. Tales of the Hasidim – The
Early Masters and The Later Masters by Martin
Buber. New York: Schocken, 1947-1948.
2vols. First American editions.Vol.1: stories
and legends of the 18th Jewish mystical
movement, vol.2: history of the movement,
central figures, glossary and genealogy.
Both vols. fine in very good dustwrappers
darkened and chipped on the spines. The pair $100.00
133. HAVEL, VÁCLAV. Disturbing the
Peace. New York: Knopf, 1990. First American
edition. A book length conversation
between Havel and Karel Hvíždala. Fine in
dustwrapper. $30.00
134. HEARN, LIAN. Tales of the Otori.
London: Macmillan, Sydney: Hachette, 20022006. 4vols. Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass
for the Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon (THE LAST
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), the original trilogy
and The Harsh Cry of the Heron (the sequel).
The first 3vols. are first English editions,
the sequel a first Australian edition. Gillian
Rubinstein’s historical fantasy series written
under the pseudonym of Lian Hearn. All fine
in dustwrappers. The 4vols. $100.00
135. HEREDIA, JOSÉ-MARIA DE.
The Trophies. London: Rupert Hart-Davis,
1962. First English edition. Introduction and
translations by Brian Hill. Fifty sonnets by the
19th century French poet. Parallel French
English text throughout. Laid in is a printed
version of “The Enchanter” by the translator,
4pp. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
136. HEYER, GEORGETTE. Friday’s
Child. London: Heinemann, 1944. First
English edition. A Regency romance, noted
by her biographer as the author’s favourite.
Extremities darkened, binding weakening,
short gift inscription, good in dustwrapper
missing pieces from the crown and base of
the spine, closed tear and chips. $100.00
137. (HIMES, CHESTER.) The Several
Lives of Chester Himes by Edward Margolies
and Michael Fabre. Jackson, MI: University
Press of Mississippi, 1997. First American
edition. The journey out of postwar America
for an Afro-American writer. Fine in
dustwrapper. $35.00
138. (HIMES, CHESTER.) Chester Himes
–a Life by James Sallis. New York: Walker,
2001. First American edition. The second
attempt at a life of the expatriate AfroAmerican writer. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
139. HOME. Household Book. [Sydney]
The New South Wales Society for Crippled
Children [1941]. First aid, menus and cooking
tips, emergency meals, washing, sewing,
deportment and the making of the complete
woman at home are all covered in 40pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Nick to bottom
right corner of cover.Very good. $35.00
140. (HURSTON, ZORA NEALE.)
Wrapped in Rainbows - the Life of Zora Neale
Hurston by Valerie Boyd. New York: Scribner,
2003. First American edition. Folklorist,
novelist and key member of the Harlem
Renaissance. Remainder mark bottom edge,
141. JAMES. The James Family – a Group
Biography by F.O. Matthiessen. New York:
Knopf, 1947. First American edition. The
biography of, according to the author, “a
family of minds”. With selections from the
work of Henry James Senior and his children
William, Henry and Alice. Edgewear.Very
good in dustwrapper chipped along edges
and missing a small piece from the top of the
front panel. $50.00
142. JAMES, HENRY. The Notebooks
of Henry James, edited, introduction and
commentary by F.O. Matthiessen and
Kenneth B. Murdock. New York: Oxford
edition. Edited from notebooks written
between 1878 and 1909. Fine in near fine
dustwrapper. $45.00
143. (JAMES, HENRY.) A Private Life
of Henry James – Two Women and His Art
by Lyndall Gordon. London: Chatto and
Windus, 1998. First English edition. James’
relationships with Constance Fenimore
Woolson and, earlier, Minny Temple. Brief
inscription. Near fine in fine dustwrapper.
$35.00
144. JAPAN. A Century of Japanese
Photography. London: Hutchinson, 1981.
First English edition. Compiled by the
Japan Photographers Association and
originally published in Japan in 1971. 514
reproductions covering the years 18401946, beginning with Tsurumaru Castle in
Kagoshima and ending with war orphans
in 1946. Oblong qto. Printed cloth. Fine in
illustrated paper covered slipcase frayed at a
couple of edges. $125.00
To get away from literature, it is difficult not to
be crude in words and say all the things I would
like to say – to you and about you – but I think
you have felt them as much as I have – so there
is no need. ...We’ve got to see each other some
more – I hope, some day. Patrick White to
Spud Johnson, 26 June 1939
145. JOHNSON, SPUD. Horizontal Yellow.
Santa Fe, NM: Writers’ Editions [1935].
First American edition. #66/400 NUMBERED
COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The first book
by the editor of Laughing Horse, central
figure in the New Mexico literary scene of
the 1920s and 1930s, and Patrick White’s
lover for three weeks in June 1939. Fine in
darkened dustwrapper chipped at edges and
missing pieces from crown and base of spine.
$200.00
147. JOYCE, JAMES. The Holy Office.
Columbus, OH: Joseph Vogel, 1980. #8/36
NUMBERED COPIES. Designed, hand lettered
and coloured by the publisher, a retired
gentleman from Ohio who also produced
an edition of 1 copy of Samuel Beckett’s
contribution to Oh! Calcutta! The earliest
extant Joyce publication, printed first in
Dublin [no copies known], then, funded by
Joyce, in Pola,Yugolslavia, in an unknown
edition though usually described as less than
100 copies. Five handcoloured title pages,
half-titles and colophon. Rectos only, 14pp.
An eccentric, modest production. Printed
wrappers. Fine. In original hand lettered
envelope. $150.00
148. JOYCE, JAMES. Ulysses. Dublin:
The Lilliput Press, 1997. First Irish edition.
#958/1000 NUMBERED COPIES (total edition
of 1,026 copies). Foreword by John Banville,
edited by Danis Rose. History of the
composition, analysis of the Rosenbach
manuscript, rationale for the “Reader’s
Edition” all by Rose (83pp.). The latest of the
“definitive” versions of Ulysses for what is
now also referred to as “the illegal edition”
(see http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/GJS4/
GJS4%20Herbert.htm for the sides of the
coin). Original cloth. Inscribed compliments
slip from the publisher laid in. Fine in slipcase
as issued. $350.00
146. JOYCE, JAMES. The Critical Writings.
New York:Viking, 1959. First American
edition. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and
Richard Ellmann. Fifty-seven pieces, written
between 1896 and 1937, and including
lectures, book reviews, programme notes,
newspaper articles, letters to editors and
poems. Fine in very good dustwrapper
missing a piece from the middle of the front
panel. $40.00
JOYCE, JAMES. See Bookselling, Edouard
Dujardin and Italo Svevo
149. JOYCES. John Stanislaus Joyce - the
Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce‘s
Father by John Wyse Jackson and Peter
Costello. London: Fourth Estate, 1997. First
English edition. Slight ink mark on foredge,
150. KERMODE, FRANK. Pieces of My
Mind:Writings 1958-2002. London: Allen
Lane, 2003. First English edition. Nineteen
long essays, including, published – “Solitary
Confinement”, Wallace Stevens, Wuthering
Heights, unpublished – “Forgetting (1988),
“Memory” (1994), “The Cambridge
Connection” (2000) and seven reviews –
Raymond Carver, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis.
151. (KINGSFORD SMITH, CHARLES.)
Southern Cross (1946). British trade poster
for the English release of Southern Cross
[released as Smithy in Australia and Pacific
Adventure in the USA], directed by Ken
G.Hall, his last movie as a feature director.
A locally made biopic about the aviator
funded from America by Columbia Pictures
using film hire revenue frozen in Australia
by restrictions on the export of capital.
Single sheet measuring 28 x 43cms., printed
in colour on both sides and folded once
vertically. Fine. See covers.
$300.00
153. KONWICKI, TADEUSZ. Bohin
Manor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1990. First American edition. A recent novel
by the Polish movie director and writer. Fine
154. KRABBĖ, TIM. The Vanishing. New
York: Random House, 1993. First American
edition. Dutch noir, lovers reunited in death,
and basis for two movies, in Holland (1988)
and America (1993) respectively. Fine in
dustwrapper. $30.00
155. KUNDERA, MILAN. Life is
Elsewhere. New York: Knopf, 1974. First
American edition. A Czech poet between
World War Two and the Prague Spring. Spots
of foxing to foredge, mark on pastedown
where price sticker has been removed, else
fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
156. KUNDERA, MILAN. Laughable
Loves. London: John Murray, 1978. First
English edition. Introduction by Philip
Roth who identifies the power and play in
“erotic enterprises and lustful strategies” as
Kundera’s themes in these seven stories. A
couple of spots of foxing to foredge, else fine
157. KUNDERA, MILAN. Jacques and His
Master. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First
English edition. Translated by Simon Callow.
Kundera’s homage to Diderot. Pictorial
wrappers. Near fine. $30.00
158. KUNDERA, MILAN. Ignorance. New
York: HarperCollins, 2002. First American
edition. An exile returns novel. Fine in
dustwrapper. $25.00
152. KONWICKI, TADEUSZ. Moonrise,
Moonset. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1987. First American edition. One Pole‘s
"personal patented 1981“ or thoughts
on Russia during a difficult year for the
Solidarity Movement. Fine in dustwrapper.
$30.00
159. LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Seven Voices – Seven Latin American Writers
Talk to Rita Guibert. New York: Knopf, 1973.
First American edition. The seven: Miguel
Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio
Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, G.Cabrera
Infante and Octavio Paz. Fine in near fine
dustwrapper with a couple of chips at edges.
$45.00
160. LAUNDRY. Hydromat Ten SemiAutomatic Washing Machine. Potts Point,
NSW: Service-U Pty Ltd., [c.1956].
Promotional card produced by the local
agents. Fifties puff: “You can afford Hydromat
Happiness” and inside divided into tasks
for men (assembling and maintenance) and
women (the washing). Single sheet measuring
16 x 18cms., printed in two colour on both
sides and folded once to make 4pp. Light
wear.Very good. $25.00
If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed
myself. Or someone would have done it for me.
Piper Laurie
161. LAURIE, PIPER. Learning to Live
Out Loud: a Memoir. New York: Crown, 2011.
First American edition. Rosetta Jacobs from
Detroit, Michigan, her career in and out of
Hollywood, live television in late 1950s New
York, Sarah Packard in The Hustler, and a trip
to Australia for the lead in Tim (1979). Fine
162. (LEAR, EDWARD.) Nonsensus:
Cross-Referencing Edward Lear’s Original 116
Limericks with Eight Holograph Manuscripts
and Comparing Them to Printed Texts from
the 1846, 1855 and 1861 Versions;Together
with a Census of Known Copies of the Genuine
First Edition, compiled by Justin G. Schiller.
Stroud, Gloucestershire: Catalpa Press, 1988.
First English edition. INSCRIBED LIMERICKALLY
BY JUSTIN SCHILLER IN 1989. With Lear’s
illustrations and introduction by Vivian
Noakes. Oblong pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$45.00
163. LE CARRÉ, JOHN. Our Game.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
First English edition. The suppressed issue,
reputedly 1,000cc., descending digits to “1”
and different dustwrapper design to the
second impression. Fine in dustwrapper.
$250.00
164. LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD. From
a Paris Scrapbook. New York: Ives Washburn,
1938. First American edition. Introduction by
William Rose Benét. Seventy-two pieces on
life in, and aspects of, Paris: tea drinking, rue
de Rivoli, Napoleon’s Bastille, toys of French
children, memories of a grey old wall and
“What America Owes to France”. Fine in
near fine dustwrapper. $75.00
165. LISPECTOR, CLARICE. The Apple
in the Dark. New York: Knopf, 1967. First
American edition. The first book by the
Brazilian novelist to appear in English.
Introduction by Gregory Rabassa, the novel’s
translator. Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
... you get this strange mixture of an
extraordinary culture, represented by Patrick
White, and of fascism, ugliness, prejudice,
vulgarity. All in a landscape as varied, cruel,
beautiful and repulsive as in Two Men on the
Run [Figures in a Landscape]. It’s a kind of
western, a type of film I’ve never done, and I
still may make it using David Mercer’s brilliant
scenario. Joseph Losey on the proposed
movie of Voss.
166. LOSEY, JOSEPH. Conversations with
Losey by Michel Ciment. London: Methuen,
1985. First English edition. A book length
interview beginning with his childhood in
Wisconsin through the twists and turns of
his theatre and movie career, finishing with
The Trout and a list of 64 planned and unmade
movies. Fine in near fine dustwrapper
darkening on the spine. $60.00
167. MACFALL, HALDANE. The Three
Students. New York: Knopf, 1926. First
American edition. INSCRIBED AFFECTIONATELY
BY THE AUTHOR TO LADY WARD ON THE DAY
OF PUBLICATION. A romantic adventure
set in Persia in the 11th century featuring
Omar Khayyam as a character. Lady Ward’s
bookplate. Fine in dustwrapper. $75.00
168. MACINTYRE, ELLA. Pin Money.
Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1936. First
Australian edition. Illustrations by J.Warren
Smith. Plain wrappers. Fine in very good
dustwrapper with spots of insect damage at
edges and folds. MUIR 4570 $50.00
169. (MACKANESS, GEORGE.) Lodge
University of Sydney (1937-1938). A bound
volume of printed ephemera relating to
George Mackaness and the Masonic Lodge
at the University of Sydney. The volume
contains the invitation to installation of Bro.
George Mackaness, 22nd October 1937
(3pp.), program for his Installation 22nd
October 1937 (12pp.), then notices of 15
monthly and special meetings during 1938
(each 3-4pp.) listing agenda, toasts, order
of service; and Installation of Bro. Robert
Jackson Noble, 28th October 1938 (12pp.)
Presented to Mackaness in the year of
publication. Printed purple cloth, faded on
spine else fine. $50.00
170. MCMURTRY, LARRY. Roads –
Driving ‘America’s Great Highways. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 2000. First American
edition. “I wanted to drive American roads
at the century’s end, from border to border
and beach to beach”, the author and
bookseller. Fine in dustwrapper. $30.00
171. MASS MOVEMENTS. Leaders,
Dreamers, and Rebels - an Account of the
Great Mass-Movements of History and the
Wish-Dreams that Inspired Them by René
Fülöp Miller. New York:Viking, 1935. First
American edition. First published in Vienna
the previous year and tracking the struggle
against the “world’s anxiety dream ... where
apprehension dominates the earliest and
deepest strata of human thought and
feeling.” Fine in dustwrapper. $85.00
172. (MELLISH, WALLY.) Mr. Reliable
(1996). Original English poster for Nadia
Tass’ version of the Wally Mellish siege.
Western Sydney, 2nd- 9th July 1968, early
years of talkback radio, armed individuals,
hostages, police, negotiations, live news,
a marriage and celebrity culture. Poster
measures 76 x 96cms., folded three times.
Fine. $75.00
173. MENU. Complimentary Banquet for
John See, Esq., M.P. by His Brother Members
of the Legislature, Monday Dec. 18, 1888.
Menu for a banquet given for John See, State
Parliamentary member for Grafton from
1880-1904, prior to an overseas trip. Toasts
for the day, menu – four courses, all written
in French, whiting and snapper as main
courses, various delicacies between courses
– and a touching “au revoir” on the rear
cover. Single card, measuring 12.5 x 18cms.,
printed two colours, folded once to make
4pp. Covers rubbed.Very good. $150.00
174. MINGUS, CHARLES. Beneath the
Underdog - the World as Composed by Mingus.
edition. Edited by Nel King. Autobiography as
anguish, stream of consciousness and fiction
or, in the book’s disclaimer, “Some names in
this book have been changed and some of
the characters and incidents are fictitious”.
174A. MOMENTS. Presentation of medals for the men’s 200 metres at the Summer Olympics,
Mexico City, 16th October 1968. New York: Personality Posters Inc., 1969.Vintage b&w poster of
Tommie Smith and John Carlos standing with raised black gloved fists during the playing of the
American national anthem. Peter Norman, the Australian athlete and silver medallist, stands on
the podium wearing a badge endorsing the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
The gestures of the three athletes were
personally costly: the two American athletes
were expelled from the Games, continued
briefly as athletes in at home before switching
to football. Norman was ostracised at
home. He was ranked fifth in the world at
the time of the qualifiers for the Munich
Olympics in 1972, ran the necessary times,
was not selected, and retired soon after.
Norman’s official exclusion was maintained
for the Sydney Olympics (2000) when he
was not invited with other former Australian
Olympians for a lap of honour.
The images produced of the three athletes’
gestures quickly became emblematic for
a range of contemporary movements and
issues: “Black Power”, the American civil
rights movement, the use of sporting events
as a vehicle for advancing political beliefs,
the sullying of the Olympic ideal, and, in
Norman’s case, though much later, solidarity
and as a modest and unique example of the
willingness of Australians to stand side by
side with Americans in a major conflict.
Peter Norman died in 2006. Tommie Smith
and John Carlos were pallbearers at his
funeral in Melbourne. Norman’s Mexico City
Olympic time of 20.06 seconds is currently the
men’s Australian record for the 200 metres.
The b&w photograph is not attributed. The
publisher issued, usually soon after the event,
a series of posters of significant AfricanAmerican events from the late 1960s. Poster
measures 103.5 x 74cms., very lightly toned.
Linen backed, rolled and overall near fine.
$1,750.00
175. (MOORE, MARIANNE.) Marianne
Serves Lunch by Robert A.Wilson. New
York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1976. First
American edition. Memoir of meetings and
an improvised lunch with the poet. Publisher
and MOMA stalwart Monroe Wheeler’s copy
with his bookplate. Printed wrappers, stapled.
Fine. 250 copies, none offered for sale.
$45.00
176. MOSQUITO. Mosquito – a Natural
History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
by Andrew Spielman and Michael D’Antonio.
London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First English
edition. History, behaviour, highlights, 3,500
species, and a cv any animal would be proud
of. Fine in dustwrapper. $25.00
177. MOVIES. The Face on the Cutting
Room Floor by Murray Schumach. New York:
William Morrow, 1964. First American
edition.Varieties and details of censorship in
movies in America from the Silent period to
date of publication and, from the early 1950s,
including television. Illustrated. Top edge
dusty, else fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
178. MOVIES. Authors on Film, edited by
Harry M.Geduld. Bloomington, IA: Indiana
edition. Forty-one pieces on movies,
moviegoing, experiences on movies and
private obsessions by T.S.Eliot, William
Faulkner, Jack Kerouac,Virginia Woolf, Truman
Capote, Thomas Mann and many others. Fine
179. MOVIES. The War Trilogy by Roberto
Rossellini. New York: Grossman, 1973. First
American edition. Illustrated screenplays for
Open City, Paisan and Germany – Year Zero.
180. MOVIES. The Hollywood Writers’
Wars by Nancy Lynn Schwartz, completed
by Sheila Schwartz. New York: Knopf, 1982.
First American edition. The history of the
formation of the Screenwriters’ Guild,
beginning in 1933, and on through the HUAC
period. Near fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
181. MOVIES. Lethal Innocence – the
Cinema of Alexander MacKendrick by Philip
Kemp. London: Methuen, 1991. An unusual
trajectory from Boston, Glasgow, London
and Los Angeles with four or five terrific
movies along the way. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
MOVIES. See Kobo Abè, Mário De Andrade,
Bruce Beresford, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Karel Capek,
Continental, Ealing Studios, Charles Kingsford
Smith,Tadeusz Konwicki,Tim Krabbé, Piper
Laurie, Joseph Losey,Wally Mellish, Nuclear,
Gordon Parks, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fred Schepisi,
Leonardo Sciascia, Jorge Semprun, Shirley Temple
and François Truffaut
182. MURDER. The Deadly Innocents
- Portraits of Children Who Kill by Muriel
Gardner. London: Hogarth Press, 1977. First
English edition. Preface by Stephen Spender.
Eight case histories. Near fine in very good
dustwrapper. $35.00
183. MUSIC. Singabout. Wooloomooloo,
NSW: The Bush Music Club, 1956-1959.
Vol.1, nos.1-3, vol.2, nos.1-4 and vol.3, nos.1
and 3, or 9 of the 12 issues from the first
three vols. News, editorials, accounts of
meetings and events, letters, reviews, articles
- “Aboriginal Songs” by Roland Robinson –
lyrics to 86 traditional and original songs,
music to 67 of these; contributors include
Merv Lilley, David Martin, Lance Skuthorpe
and Dorothy Hewett. Pictorial wrappers,
stapled. Owner and a couple of institutional
discard stamps, spots of foxing. All very good
or better. The 9 issues $100.00
184. MUSIC. The Eddie Condon Scrapbook
of Jazz by Eddie Condon and Hank O‘Neal.
New York: St. Martin‘s Press, 1973. First
American edition. Foreword by John
Steinbeck. Combination of autobiography
and scrapbook beginning with Eddie going
on tour with Hollis Peavey‘s Jazz Bandits
in 1922. Square qto. Fine in dustwrapper.
$85.00
185. MUSIC. Swing to Bop - an Oral
History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
by Ira Gitler. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1985. First American edition. Primary
material for Bebop with contributions from
Billy Eckstine, Dexter Gordon, Woody
Herman, Jay McShann, Gerry Mulligan,
Lennie Tristano and sixty others. Fine in
dustwrapper. $60.00
186. MUSIC. Jazz Spoken Here Conversations with Twenty-Two Musicians by
Wayne Enstice and Paul Rubin. Baton Rouge,
LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
First American edition. Mose Allison, Bill
Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Joe
Pass and 17 others, all headliners. Review
copy with publisher‘s slip laid in. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
190. NEVILLE, RICHARD. Playpower.
INSCRIBED BY MARTIN SHARP WHO DESIGNED
THE DUSTWRAPPER AND ILLUSTRATED
THE TITLE PAGE. The author’s first book.
Headopoly, an Underground Almanac
History Game, listing events, key dates and
individuals from January 1965 to December
1969, in pocket at rear. Spots of foxing to
foredge, else fine in very good dustwrapper
frayed at edges, repaired on the reverse of
the crown of the spine and SIGNED AGAIN BY
MARTIN SHARP ON THE REVERSE OF THE FRONT
FLAP OF THE DUSTWRAPPER. Headopoly, 94 x
63cms., folded, fine. $350.00
187. MUSIC. When We Were Good – the
Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. First
American edition. Ancestors, the Cold
War, the Anthology of American Folk
Music – the ingredients for the folk music
explosion beginning in the late 1950s. Fine in
dustwrapper. $35.00
188. MUSIC. Invisible Republic – Bob Dylan’s
Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus. New York:
Henry Holt, 1997. First American edition.
Speculating on antecedents and offspring of
the most bootlegged piece of popular music.
189. MUSIC. Boogaloo –the Quintessence of
American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton.
edition. Unravelling the strands of black
American music. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
MUSIC. See Louis Armstrong, Australia, Robert
Crumb, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus and
Sheet Music
191. NEVILLE, RICHARD. Hippie
Hippie Shake. Port Melbourne,Vic: William
Heinemann Australia, 1995. First Australian
edition. The author‘s memoir of "the
Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-Ins, the
Screw-Ups ... the Sixties“. Uncorrected proof
copy. Printed wrappers. Letter from the
publisher and invitation to the Sydney launch
laid in.Very good. $30.00
192. THE NEW YORKER. Time Exposures
by Search-Light. New York: Boni and
Liveright, 1926. First American edition.
Twenty of the first wave of The New Yorker
profiles: Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Chaplin,
Carl Sandburg, Alfred Stieglitz and also A.R.
Orage, John Dewey and Otto H. Kahn; with
portraits and caricatures of all the subjects.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped along top
edge. $50.00
197. NUCLEAR. Home on the Range
[1981]. Original English poster for the
anti-nuclear documentary, Home on the
Range, directed by Gil Scrine. The poster
reproduces a Patrick Cook cartoon
surrounded by a close to abstract image
of the American base at Pine Gap. Poster
measures 57 x 41cms., rolled; with a blank
space below the image to add details of
screenings. Fine. $100.00
193. NOELS AND MILBANKES. The
Noels and the Milbankes by Malcolm Elwin.
London: Macdonald, 1967. First English
edition. Reconstructing two families through
the letters of Lady Byron to Lady Milbanke
(her mother), Lady Milbanke to Mary Noel
(her aunt) and from Viscount Wentworth
(her brother). Owner signature, else fine in
near fine dustwrapper. $40.00
194. NORFOLK, LAWRENCE.
Lemprière’s Dictionary. London: Sinclair
Stevenson [1991]. First English edition.
Sixteen extracts (94pp.) from the author’s
first book issued as a pre-publication
promotion. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $35.00
195. NORWAY. Popular Tales from the
Norse, edited by Peter C. Asbjörnsen
and Jörgen I.Moe. London: Bodley Head,
1969. First English edition. Translated and
introduced by George Webbe Dasent,
illustrated by William Stobbs. Fifty-nine
folktales collected contemporaneously
with the Brothers Grimm and originally
published in Norway in 1859. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper. $40.00
196. NUCLEAR. Crook Shop and It’s
M.A.D. Red Hill, Qld: Popular Theatre Troupe
[1981]. Program from two productions, by
the professional Queensland community
theatre company, concerned with crime
and government in Queensland and the
“Mutually Assured Destruction” of the Cold
War. History of the company, personnel,
background to the writing of the plays,
membership and support drive. Two sheets,
19 x 26cms., printed both sides and folded
once to make 8pp. All fine. $50.00
198. O. Confessions of O – Conversations with
Pauline Réage by Régine Deforges. New York:
Viking, 1979. First American edition. A book
length autobiographical interview with the
author of The Story of O. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
199. O’HARA, FRANK. Artists‘ Theatre:
Four Plays. New York: Grove Press, 1960.
First American edition. Paperback original.
Introduction by Herbert Machiz. Contains
“Try! Try!” by Frank O’Hara, “The Heroes”
by John Ashbery, “The Bait” by James Merrill
and “Absalom” by Lionel Abel. Printed
wrappers. Bump to base of spine. Near fine.
$35.00
200. O’HARA, FRANK. “Macaroni”
Calais,VT: Z Press, 1974. First edition
thus. Broadside containing O’Hara’s poem
addressed in part to Patsy Southgate, his
great friend, and followed by “In Memoriam”
her reply of sorts. Single sheet measuring 48
x 16cms., folded twice. Fine. $100.00
That space was ... New York itself, that
kaleidoscopic lumber-room where laws of time and
space are altered ... the nightmares, delights and
paradoxes of life in this city went into Frank’s style,
as did the many passionate relationships he kept
going simultaneously (to the point where it was
almost impossible for anyone to see him alone) ...
John Ashbery
201. O’HARA, FRANK. The Collected
Poems of Frank O’Hara. New York: Knopf,
1971. First American edition. Edited by
by Donald Allen and introduction by John
Ashbery. 500+ poems, written 1947-1966.
Near fine in first state dustwrapper with
Larry Rivers’ illustration. $400.00
205. OLDS, SHARON. The Wellspring.
edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR
OF PUBLICATION. Fine in dustwrapper. $125.00
206. OLDS, SHARON. The Unswept
Room. New York: Knopf, 2002. First American
edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO
EDMUND [WHITE] AND MICHAEL IN THE
YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Fine in near fine
207. OLYMPICS. Olympic Portraits by Annie
Leibovitz. Boston: Little Brown, 1996. First
American edition. 120+ images of American
athletes training to compete in the Atlanta
Olympics of 1996. Small qto. Pictorial boards.
Fine as published with dustwrapper. $40.00
202. (O’HARA, FRANK.) Homage to
Frank O’Hara, edited by Bill Berkson and
Joe LeSueur. Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1978. First
American edition. Double issue, 11/12, of
Big Sky with pieces by John Ashbery, John
Cage, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen
Ginsberg, Ron Padgett, Terry Southern, and
many others. Pictorial wrappers. A couple of
smudges to covers.Very good. $45.00
203. (O’HARA, FRANK.) City Poet – the
Life and Times of Frank O’Hara by Brad
Gooch. New York: Knopf, 1993. First
American edition. Fine in dustwrapper.
$45.00
204. OLDS, SHARON. Blood,Tin, Straw.
New York: Knopf, 1999. First American paper
edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR
OF PUBLICATION. The author’s sixth collection
and more relentless examination of her family.
Laid in is an invitation to the New York launch
on November 15, 1999. Pictorial wrappers.
Fine. $125.00
208. OLYMPICS. The Naked Olympics –
the True Story of the Ancient Games by Tony
Perrottet. New York: Random House, 2004.
First American edition, a paperback original.
History of the original Games: inside the
competitors’ tents, personalities, corruption;
framed by the reasons for, effects of, and
with a persuasive push for, the athletes
competing naked. Pictorial wrappers. Fine
$15.00
209. OLYMPICS. The Ancient Olympics
by Nigel Spivey. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004. First English edition. The
significance of winning at the Ancient
Olympics and the behaviour and strategies
that this generated. Fine in dustwrapper.
$25.00
210. ONDAATJE, MICHAEL. In the
Skin of a Lion. London: Secker and Warburg
[1987]. Galley proofs of the first English
edition dated 17th February 1987. With
the layout simulating the novel’s various
narrators in place. Printed wrappers. Covers
marked, corners scuffed.Very good. $60.00
The most immediate, influential, inspired and high spirited of all the counterculture periodicals
211. THE ORACLE. The San Francisco Oracle – the Psychedelic Newspaper of the HaightAshbury 1966-1968, edited by Allen Cohen. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 1991. Facsimile edition.
DELUXE ISSUE #76/200 COPIES SIGNED BY COHEN AND THE LATE RICK GRIFFIN, ARTIST OF MANY OF THE
MOST STRIKING ORACLE POSTERS. ONE OF THE 64 COPIES WITH MARBLED ENDSHEETS IN THE REAR BY
DANIEL KOTTKE (a little bleed from the marbling along the edge of the blank verso). The history
and approximate facsimile of the twelve issues of the original Oracle (385pp.), accompanied by
background and historical material by Peter Montgomery, J.M. Jamil Brownson, Ralph Metzner,
Abbie Hoffman, Ram Das and Stephen Levine.
Unrivalled primary material documenting American social, political,
religious and cultural history from September 1966 to February 1968
with contributions from William Burroughs, Allen Cohen, Bruce Conner,
Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg,
Ken Kesey, Philip Lamantia, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Norman
Mailer, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Lew Welch, many anonymous; columns
and articles include“The Joy of Kooking”, “The Craft of Masturbation”,
“Comments on the Trips Festival”, “Notes of a Dirty Bookseller”, “The
Gossiping Guru”, “Methedrine Use and Abuse in San Francisco”, “Hip Jobs”;
advertisements for Lucifer Rising, The Grateful Dead, City Lights Bookshop,
Big Brother and the Holding Company, happenings, readings, events,
cafes, health food and free shops; all interwoven with artworks, comics,
collages, graphics, illustrations, personals, photographs, photomontages
and spectacular full page illustrations. Beautifully reproduced in colour
and b&w throughout. TOGETHER WITH THE SEPARATE PORTFOLIO CONTAINING
THIRTEEN QUALITY REPRODUCTIONS ON STIFF CARD (EACH 36 X 28CMS.) OF ALL
THE COVERS OF THE ORACLE AND ONE ISSUE OF P.O. Frisco. Qto. Maroon and
green cloth. Bookplate, else fine in slipcase as issued. Small label residue in
corner of one panel of the slipcase. Separate portfolio of facsimiles, with
the same bookplate, all fine. $2,000.00
OVERLOOKED AND UNDERRATED.
See Lisa Alther, Ancients, Saint Bernard, Ambrose
Bierce, Kyril Bonfiglioli, John Horne Burns, Roy
Campbell, Karel Capek, Peter Claver, Robert
Crumb, Father Damien, Eccentrics, Otto Friedrich,
Paul Fussell, Gaberbocchus Press, Alex Gildzen,
Francine du Plessix Gray, James HamiltonPaterson, James Hanley, Chester Himes,Tadeusz
Konwicki,Tim Krabbé,The New Yorker, Gordon
Parks, Portraits, Federico De Roberto (under
Sicily), Raymond Roussel, Fred Schepisi, Leonardo
Sciascia, Jorge Semprun, Jean Stafford, Italo
Svevo, Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Jules Verne
212. PARIS. Beauty is in the Street: A Visual
Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising edited
by Johan Kugelberg and Philippe Vermès.
London: Four Corners Books, 2011. First
English edition. “An assemblage of militant
handbills, wall posters, cartoons, manifestos,
and photographs (many documenting
graffiti) is both a chunk of history and a
material paradox: Agitprop has seldom been
better designed, ephemera never seemed
more substantial” (Jim Hoberman). 200+
reproductions. Qto. Pictorial boards. Fine as
issued with wraparound band. $60.00
PARIS. See Bookselling, Chester Himes, Richard
Le Gallienne and Portraits
In Paris through the 20th century with a
heady combination of expatriates: most with
literary ambitions, some to write, others to
publish, diverse social types – impoverished,
trustafarians, persecuted – and including
Margaret Anderson, George Antheil, John
Ashbery, James Baldwin, Sylvia Beach, Samuel
Beckett, Kay Boyle, William Burroughs,
Harry and Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, F.Scott and Zelda
Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner, Allen Ginsberg,
Maurice Girodias, Ernest Hemingway,
Chester Himes, James Jones, James Joyce,
Jack Kahane, Robert McAlmon, Harry
Mathews, Henry Miller,Vladimir Nabokov,
George Plimpton, Norman Rubington
aka immortally Akbar del Piombo, Terry
Southern, Harold Stearns, Gertrude Stein,
William Styron, Edward Titus, Alexander
Trocchi and Richard Wright
213. PARIS – 20TH CENTURY
EXPATRIATES. Published in Paris by Hugh
Ford. New York: Macmillan, 1975. First
American edition. Foreword by Janet Flanner.
Three Mountains, Plain Editions, Black Sun,
Contact Publishing, Twenty-Four Hours – the
private presses of Paris and the expatriate
writers whom they published between the
Wars. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. $60.00
EXPATRIATES. Four Lives in Paris by Hugh
Ford. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
First American edition. Four Americans from
the periphery of the Parisian stage: Margaret
Anderson, George Antheil, Kay Boyle and
Harold Stearns. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
EXPATRIATES. The Continual Pilgrimage
– American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 by
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. New York:
Grove Press, 1992. Afro-Americans, Beats,
mostly males, many on the run, and all drawn
to the City of Light.
$35.00
EXPATRIATES. Venus Bound – the Erotic
Voyage of the Olympia Press and Its Writers
by John De St Jorre. New York: Random
House, 1994. First American edition. Includes
a checklist of Olympia Press publications
between 1953 and 1965. Fine in dustwrapper.
$45.00
EXPATRIATES. Exiled in Paris – Richard
Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and
Others on the Left Bank by James Campbell.
New York: Scribner, 1995. First American
edition. The post World War Two wave
of expatriate writers in Paris. Fine in
dustwrapper. $35.00
218. PARKS, GORDON. A Hungry Heart.
New York: Atria, 2005. First American edition.
The autobiography of the great AfroAmerican activist and photographer who
moonlighted as a novelist, poet, musician and
directed the original version of Shaft. Fine in
dustwrapper. $30.00
219. (PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO.) The
Gospel According to St.Matthew. Program to
accompany the season of Pasolini’s movie
at the Gala Cinema, Sydney (October
– November 1967). Cast, other credits,
photographs from shooting and full page
image of the movie’s dedication, “To the dear
familiar memory of John XXIII”, 16pp. Qto.
220. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. The
Ragazzi. New York: Grove Press, 1968. First
American edition. The author’s first novel
after two collections of poetry. Riccetto’s life
on the streets of Rome and adding fuel to
the author’s notoriety and divisiveness. Fine
221. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. A Violent
Life. London: Cape, 1968. First English edition.
Translated by William Weaver. The author’s
second novel, volume two of a proposed
trilogy beginning with The Ragazzi, with a
Roman pimp as protagonist, reworked soon
after by Pasolini into Accatone, his first movie.
Fine in dustwrapper darkened on the spine
and with foxing on the edges of the flaps.
$75.00
222. (PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO.) Pier
Paolo Pasolini – the Poetics of Heresy, edited
by Beverly Allen. Saratoga, CA: Anima Libri,
1982. First American edition. Twelve essays
about aspects of Pasolini’s career by, among
others, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Italo
Calvino and Leonardo Sciascia, together
with ten previously untranslated essays and
poems by Pasolini, and bibliography. Pictorial
wrappers.Very good. $45.00
223. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. Lutheran
Letters. Manchester: Carcanet, Dublin:
Raven Arts Press, 1983. First English edition.
Translated by Stuart Hood. Twenty-nine
essays, opinion, autobiographical and
polemical pieces, most originally published in
Corriere della Sera [the Milanese daily], during
1975, and setting out Pasolini’s feelings for
contemporary Italy. Tiny mark to prelims,
224. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. Pier
Paolo Pasolini – Drawings and Paintings,
compiled and edited by Johannes Reiter and
Giuseppe Zigaina. Berkeley, CA: University
Art Museum, 1984. First American edition.
Exhibition catalogue from the touring
Pasolini exhibition: 104 colour, full page
reproductions: many self portraits, all of his
series of portraits of Maria Callas; two essays
and Pasolini’s own note on recommencing
painting. Qto. Plain wrappers.Very good in
dustwrapper nicked at crown of spine and
with a closed tear along the fold of the front
flap. $60.00
225. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. Roman
Nights and Other Stories. Marlboro,VT: the
Marlboro Press, 1986. First American edition.
Translated by John Shipley. Five stories,
three written in 1951, the remainder during
the late 1950s and early 1960s, about the
author’s beloved parts of Rome. Near fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
226. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. The
Letters of Pier Paolo Pasolini,Vol.1: 1940-1954.
London: Quartet, 1992. First English edition.
Translated by Stuart Hood. Introduction
by Nico Naldini, 90pp., and containing long
extracts from Pasolini’s diaries. Letters
from age eighteen until his move to the
Monteverde quarter of Rome as a thirty-two
year old. Fine in dustwrapper. $35.00
227. PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO. Petrolio.
edition. Begun in 1972, unfinished at the
author’s death in 1975, and published
here with outline, notes and a letter to
Alberto Moravia re the manuscript. Fine in
dustwrapper. $30.00
228. PAZ, OCTAVIO. JACQUES
ROUBAUD, EDOARDO
SANGUINETTI, CHARLES
TOMLINSON. Renga – a Chain of Poems.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin,
1979. First English edition. Introduction by
Paz, essays on the tradition by Roubaud,
background to this collaboration by
Tomlinson. A modern version of the Japanese
collaborative poem. Parallel text. Pictorial
wrappers. Prelims foxed, extremities evenly
tanned.Very good. $25.00
229. PENGUIN. The Penguin‘s Adventures
by Grace L.Sacre. [Sydney: no publisher,
1944]. First Australian edition. A penguin‘s
adventures in verse with eight colour and six
full page illustrations by the author. Oblong
8vo. Heavy pictorial boards. Covers lightly
marked, gift inscription from 1944, short
closed tear on title page.Very good. MUIR
6554 $30.00
230. PENGUIN. Penguin Special – the Story
of Allen Lane, the Founder of Penguin Books
and the Man Who Changed Publishing Forever
by Jeremy Lewis. New York: Penguin, 2005.
First American edition. Fine in dustwrapper.
$30.00
PHOTOGRAPHY. See Richard Avedon,
David Bailey, Bruce Chatwin, Lee Friedlander,
Ralph Gibson, Japan, Gordon Parks, Herbert G.
Ponting, Portraits, Josef Sudek, Hiroshi Sugimoto
and Émile Zola
231. PIAGET, JEAN. The Moral Judgment
of the Child. Glencoe, ILL: The Free Press,
1949. First American edition. Children’s
methods of learning and practising ethics and
philosophy. Fine in near fine dustwrapper.
$50.00
232. PIAGET, JEAN. The Child’s Conception
of the World. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1951. Reprint, first published in English
in 1929. Where children's and adult's
perceptions part ways. Binding beginning to
crack, very good in dustwrapper rubbed and
chipped at edges. $40.00
233. PIRANDELLO, LUIGI. One None
and a Hundred Thousand. New York: Dutton,
1933. First American edition. More on
identity, perception and our carefully made
masks, Pirandello’s last novel. Offsetting to
prelims.Very good in dustwrapper darkened
on the spine and with a couple of chips.
$175.00
234. PONGE, FRANCIS. The Voice of
Things. New York: McGraw Hill, 1972. First
American edition. Prose pieces, 190pp.,
edited, translated and introduced by Beth
Archer. Laid in is a typed note, SIGNED BY
WRITER JOYCE JOHNSON,THEN AN EDITOR AT
MCGRAW HILL to an academic at Hunter
College, New York seeking a comment.
Edgewear else very good in dustwrapper
sunned and with a short closed tear to the
top of the front panel. $85.00
235. (PONGE, FRANCIS.) Francis Ponge
– the Reality of Things, edited by Ivar Ivask.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
1974. Books Abroad,Vol. 48, No. 4, Autumn
1974 devoted to Ponge. Three texts by
Ponge, ten essays and tributes about and for
him, record of the presentation ceremony
and of Ponge’s visit to Oklahoma. Printed
236. PONTING, HERBERT G. In LotusLand Japan. London: Macmillan, 1910. First
English edition. ISADORE BRODSKY‘S COPY
WITH HIS SIGNATURE. From San Francisco to
Yokohama and then on through the country.
Eight tipped in colour plates and 96 b&w full
page photographs. Qto. Pictorial red cloth
stamped in gold. Covers marked, bottom half
of spine professionally restored. Edges of
pages foxed, not affecting images.Very good.
$250.00
237. PORTRAITS. Headhunting in the
Solomon Islands by Caroline Mytinger. New
York: Macmillan, 1942. First American
edition. Margaret Warner and the author’s
travels in the Southwest Pacific with the
aim of producing portraits of the indigenous
peoples whom they encountered. Illustrated.
Short contemporary inscription, else fine in
near fine dustwrapper missing a tiny piece
from the bottom of the front panel. $60.00
238. PORTRAITS. The Animals by Garry
Winogrand. New York: Museum of Modern
Art, 1969. First American edition. Afterword
by John Szarkowski. The photographer’s first
book, forty-three images of the residents and
visitors of the Bronx Zoo and Coney Island
Aquarium. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial wrappers.
Fine. $200.00
239. PORTRAITS. Portraits by Richard
Avedon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
First English edition. Introductory essay by
Harold Rosenberg. Forty-three full page
portraits, many now emblematic of their
subjects, and including Groucho Marx, Jasper
Johns, Truman Capote, William Burroughs,
Carson McCullers; 4 foldouts netting Igor
Stravinsky, the Chicago Seven, members of
Andy Warhol’s Factory and The Mission
Council; 16 smaller portraits including
Marcel Duchamrp, Ezra Pound and the Everly
Brothers; and 7 portraits of Jacob Avedon,
the photographer’s father, taken during the
last five years of his life. Qto. Offsetting to
prelims and scattered foxing to covers.Very
good in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. $150.00
240. PORTRAITS. Faces – a Narrative
History of the Portrait in Photography by Ben
Maddow. Boston, MA: New York Graphic
Society, 1977. First American edition. From
the middle of the 19th century onwards:
individuals and groups, nudes and death
masks, celebrities and anonymous, 380
reproductions compiled and edited by
Constance Sullivan. Qto. Fine in dustwrapper.
$75.00
241. PORTRAITS. Theater and Dance
Photographs by Lotte Jacobi. Woodstock,VT:
Countryman Press, 1982. First American
edition. Berlin in the 20s and 30s: Anna May
Wong, René Clair, Anton Walbrook, Emil
Jannings, Kurt Weil and defining images of
Peter Lorre and Lotte Lenya. Plain wrappers.
242. PORTRAITS. A Photographer’s
Scrapbook by Louise Dahl-Wolfe. London:
Quartet, 1984. First English edition. Pictorial
autobiography with many of her influential
images for Harper’s Bazaar and portraits
including Carole Lombard, Paul Robeson,
Orson Welles, Carson McCullers and
Colette. Small square qto. Review copy
with local publisher’s slip laid in. Near fine
in dustwrapper with endorsements from
Richard Avedon, Horst, Diana Vreeland,
Arnold Newman and Cecil Beaton. $60.00
243. PORTRAITS. Man Ray’s Paris Portraits:
1921-1939, edited by Timothy Baum.
Washington, DC: Middendorf Gallery, 1989.
First American paper edition. Reproduces
74 portraits: Dora Maar, Léon Blum,Virgil
Thomson, Marie Laurencin, Nusch Eluard
and their more well known contemporaries.
Qto. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $45.00
244. PORTRAITS. Evidence by Luc
Sante. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1992. First American edition. Fifty-five
reproductions of photographs taken by the
New York Police Department between 1914
and 1918: most corpses, others of the scene
of a crime; and further into the author’s
study of New York’s history and underbelly.
Small oblong qto. Fine in dustwrapper.
$150.00
PORTRAITS. See Richard Avedon, Robert
Crumb, Lee Friedlander, Pier Paolo Pasolini and
Émile Zola
245. POUND, EZRA. Poems 1918-21.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First
American edition. First American appearance
of several of Pound’s greatest poems: “Hugh
Selwyn Mauberley”, “Homage to Sextus
Propertius”, “Langue D’Oc”, early versions
of Cantos 4-6 and very close to the final
version of Canto 7. MABEL NORMAN’S COPY
WITH HER SIGNATURE – book collector, silent
movie star, writer, director and, reputedly, the
person who persuaded the indifferent Mack
Sennett to persevere with Charlie Chaplin.
Mock vellum spine and grey blue boards.
One corner bumped and spine darkening.
Near fine. GALLUP A21 $250.00
246. PRITCHETT, V.S. The Complete
Short Stories. London: Chatto and Windus,
1990. First English edition. Eighty-two stories.
247. PRITCHETT, V.S. Complete Collected
Essays. New York: Random House, 1991.
First American edition. Two hundred and
four essays and reviews, all literary, 1,319pp.
Remainder dot bottom edge, else fine in
dustwrapper. $60.00
248. PYNCHON, THOMAS. Vineland.
Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1990. First
American edition. Nixon to Reagan in
California. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
249. (PYNCHON, THOMAS.) The
Vineland Papers – Critical Takes on Pynchon’s
Novel, edited by Geoffrey Green, Donald J.
Greiner and Larry McCaffery. Normal, ILL:
Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. First American
edition. Twelve essays on Pynchon’s novel and
Clifford Mead’s updating of his bibliography.
250. RESTAURANT. La Maison – the
History of Pruniers by Madame Prunier.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957.
First English edition. The story of the famous
London restaurant from its opening in 1934.
Brief gift inscription, else fine in dustwrapper.
$45.00
251. REZNIKOFF, CHARLES. Testimony:
The United States 1885-1890 Recitative.
New York: New Directions and San
Francisco: San Francisco Review, 1965. First
American edition. “Stories and fragments
taken from court transcripts, sorted into
thematic categories and broken into
verse”, Reznikoff’s first instalment. Fine in
dustwrapper darkened on the spine. $45.00
252. RITSOS, YANNIS. Romiossini and
Other Poems. Madison, WI: Quixote Press
[1969]. First American edition. Translations
by Dan Georgakas and Eleni Paidoussi;
parallel Greek English text. Small qto.
253. RITSOS, YANNIS. Gestures and
Other Poems 1968-1970. London and New
York: Cape Goliard/Grossman, 1971. First
American edition. Illustrations by the poet
and translations by Nikos Stangos. Near fine
in dustwrapper with light edgewear. $75.00
254. RITSOS, YANNIS. Ritsos in
Parentheses. Princeton: Princeton University
Press (1979). First American paper edition.
Translations and introduction by Edmund
Keeley; parallel Greek English text. Pictorial
255. RITSOS, YANNIS. Subterranean
Horses. Athens, OH: Ohio University
Press, 1980. Reprint. Illustrations by the
poet, translations by Minas Savvas and
introduction by Vassilis Vassilikos. Review
copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Fine in near
fine dustwrapper lightly sunned around
perimeter. $35.00
256. RITSOS, YANNIS. The House
Vacated. La Jolla, CA: Parentheses (1989).
First American edition. Translations by Minas
Savvas. Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
$35.00
257. (ROBESON, PAUL.) Paul Robeson by
Martin Bauml Duberman. New York: Knopf,
1988. First American edition. The life of the
distinguished Afro-American scholar, athlete,
singer, actor and equal rights activist. Fine in
dustwrapper. $50.00
258. ROUSSEL, RAYMOND. Impressions
of Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of
California Press, 1967. First American edition
of the first English translation by Lindy Foord
and Rayner Heppenstall, her father. First
published in 1910, written in the author’s
then secret process of puns and double
entendres, concerned with the performances
provided by a shipwrecked group to
entertain Chief Talou, and recognised fifty
years later by the Oulipo as an example of
“anticipatory plagiarism”. Edgewear, else fine
259. ROUSSEL, RAYMOND. Locus
Solus. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970.
First English edition. Translated by Rupert
Copeland Cunningham. First published
in 1914, set on the country estate which
gives the novel its title, and to date the
only appearance in literature of the drug
“resurrectine: which when injected into
a fresh corpse causes it to continuously
act out the most important incident of its
life. Near fine in dustwrapper with a small
abrasion on its rear panel. $100.00
I have always been meaning to explain the
way in which I came to write certain of my
books [including the previous two items] ...
It involved a very special method ... Raymond
Roussel.
260. ROUSSEL, RAYMOND. How I
Wrote Certain of My Books. New York:
Sun, 1977. First American printing of this
expanded edition (previously published
in 1975). Roussel’s explanation, Canto III
of New Impressions of Africa, translated by
Kenneth Koch, two essays on Roussel by
John Ashbery, and a bibliography by Trevor
Winkfield. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine.
$30.00
261. ROUSSEL, RAYMOND. How I Wrote
Certain of My Books. Boston: Exact Change,
1995. First American edition. An expanded
edition of the previous item containing new
translations by John Ashbery (two pieces),
Harry Mathews (2), Trevor Winkfield (1) of
work by Roussel. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$30.00
262. RUDD, STEELE. The Poor Parson.
Sydney: the N.S.W. Bookstall, 1907. First
Australian edition. 30 full page b&w
illustrations by Syd Smith and Harry Julius.
Pictorial cloth. Edgewear and extremities
darkened, very good in dustwrapper chipped
at edges. $200.00
SAINTS. See Bernard of Clarivaux, Peter
Claver and Father Damien
263. (SCHEPISI, FRED.) The Chant of
Jimmie Blacksmith (1978). Original English
poster for Fred Schepsi’s adaptation of
Thomas Keneally’s novel. A key Australian
movie of the 1970s which, at the time of its
release, was the most expensive movie made
here. As often happens for these movies,
it became a hostage-victim of its hype and
its other qualities were overlooked. Poster
measures 76 x 100cms., folded three times.
Fine. $250.00
264. SCHWITTERS, KURT. On Eve
Blossom. [Minneapolis, MN] (the) Moonkosh
Press [1986]. #39/47 FROM AN EDITION OF 50
COPIES. Broadside of Schwitter’s own English
translation of "An Anna Blume", his notorious
poem, first published in Der Sturm in 1919.
Broadside measures 31 x 45cms., folded
twice, printed both sides in five colours
on handmade paper and according to the
colophon, “using a bit of everything, but
mostly 12 point Gil Sans”. Fine. $200.00
This means that, directly and indirectly, he
[Leonardo Sciascia] has had to contend all his
life with the Mafia and the Church, with fascism
and communism, with the family, history. During
the last quarter of a century, Sciascia has made
out of his curious Sicilian experience a literature
that is not quite like anything else ever done
by a European – because Sicily is not part of
Europe? – and certainly unlike anything done by
a North American. Gore Vidal
Needless to say, there is no character or event in
this book which bears anything but a fortuitous
resemblance to any real person or occurrence.
Leonardo Sciascia
265. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. Mafia
Vendetta. New York: Knopf, 1964. First
American edition. Translated by Archibald
Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver. The author’s
first book to appear in English. From
Sciascia’s series of detective novels: Captain
Bellodi arrives from Milan to investigate a
murder in Sicily and demonstrates why the
Mafia refer to police as la sonnambola, the
sleepwalker. Fine in dustwrapper with a tiny
nick on the rear panel. $125.00
266. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. The Council
of Egypt. London: Cape, 1966. First English
edition. Translated by Adrienne Foulke. And
from his historical novels: Palermo in the
late 18th century and the struggle between
a priest and a lawyer. Fine in dustwrapper.
$100.00
267. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. A Man’s
Blessing. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
First American edition. Translated by
Adrienne Foulke. Another Mafia murder,
now better known as To Each His Own, the
title of its second English edition. Fne in
dustwrapper. $75.00
268. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. Salt in
the Wound. New York: Orion, 1969. First
American edition. Translated by Judith Green.
And non-fiction: eight pieces on the history
and mores of Regalpetra, a composite
Sicilian town or, according to the author, “[a]
book which probes the wounds of past and
present and develops as the history of the
continuous defeat of reason and of those
who have been personally overcome and
annihilated in that defeat.” Together with
Death of the Inquisitor, an episode from the
Inquisition during the 17th century. Fine in
269. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. Equal
Danger. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
First American edition. Translated by
Adrienne Foulke. Set in an unnamed country
and featuring a number of recognisable
murders and intrigues. Basis for Illustrious
Corpses directed by Francesco Rosi. Fine in
dustwrapper. $75.00
270. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. Equal
Danger. London: Cape, 1974. First English
edition. Offsetting to prelims, else fine in
dustwrapper. $75.00
276. SETH, VIKRAM. An Equal Music.
London: Phoenix House, 1999. First English
edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Uncorrected
proof copy. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. $45.00
271. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. One Way
or Another. New York: Harper and Row,
1977. First American edition. Translated
by Adrienne Foulke, illustrations by Kathy
Jacobi. A murder at a retreat in a former
monastery now hotel; Sciascia’s last fictional
thriller. Spots of foxing to foredge, else near
fine in very good dustwrapper. $45.00
277. SETH, VIKRAM. An Equal Music.
London: Phoenix House, 1999. First English
edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A triangular
love story framed by European musical
capitals. Fine in dustwrapper reworking the
elements and layout from the cover of the
proof copy. $60.00
272. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. The Day
of the Owl and Equal Danger. Manchester:
Carcanet, 1984. First omnibus and second
English editions of both these titles, The Day
of the Owl [Il giorno della civetta in Italian]
previously published as Mafia Vendetta twenty
years earlier. Afterword by Frank Kermode.
A couple of marks to half title, else fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
273. SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. Sicilian
Uncles. Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. First
English edition. Translated by N.S.Thompson.
Four historical Sicilian stories set during
1848, the Spanish Civil War, the Allied
invasion and the death of Stalin respectively;
first published in Italian in 1958. Spots of
foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper
lightly sunned on spine. $45.00
SCIASCIA, LEONARDO. See Pier Paolo
Pasolini and Sicily
274. SEMPRUN, JORGE. Literature and
Life. New York:Viking, 1997. First American
edition. The autobiography of the Spanish
writer and politician, scriptwriter for Resnais,
Costa-Gavras, and Joseph Losey, and aiming
to exorcise his three years in Buchenwald
concentration camp. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
275. SENDAK, MAURICE. The Miami
Giant by Arthur Yorinks. New York:
HarperCollins, 1995. First American edition.
Illustrations by Sendak. Among other things,
a reworking of the Christopher Columbus
story. Square qto. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
278. SEVERIN, TIM. Viking. London:
Macmillan, 2005. First English editions. 3vols.
Odinn’s Child, Sworn Brother,The Heroes of the
North Live On, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE
AUTHOR. The explorer and historian’s first
novel: a trilogy following the Viking Thorgils
Leifsson’s wanderings and adventures. All fine
in dustwrappers. The 3vols. $100.00
279. SHAFFER, PETER. Amadeus.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. First English
edition. Antonio Salieri steps forward. Errata
slip tipped-in. Top edge dusty, else fine in
dustwrapper. $85.00
280. SHARP, MARTIN. ‘Sharp Art Show’
– a Progressive Retrospective 1956-1986 (at
least) etc. etc. by Martin Sharp. Sydney: Roslyn
Oxley9, 1987. Dimensions, formats and
prices of 97 items. A4 size, 7pp. Pictorial
281. SHARP, MARTIN. Survey 14 –
Martin Sharp. Melbourne: NGV, 1981. Essay
by Robert Lindsay. A4 size, 6pp., illustrated.
282. SHEET MUSIC. The King’s Breakfast,
music by H.Fraser-Simson and lyrics by A.A.
Milne. London: Methuen and Ascherberg,
Hopwood and Crew, 1926. Second edition,
first published the previous year. Illustrations
by E.H. Shepard. Introduction by the lyricist
and music and lyrics also to “Feed-My-Cow”.
Very good in dustwrapper sunned around
perimeter and with local publisher’s stamp
on front panel. $75.00
283. SHEET MUSIC. Bronx Ballads by
Robert N.Simon. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1927. First American edition.
Music and lyrics to eleven songs by The New
Yorker‘s music critic, occasional novelist
and translator. Songs include "All My Wife‘s
Relations“, "Big Bouncing Bertha“, "Rosenthal
Ain‘t Rosenthal No More“; a full page
cartoon by Harry Herschfield accompanies
each song.Very good in dustwrapper chipped
along edges and darkened on spine. $50.00
285. SHEET MUSIC. The Yellow Rose of
Texas - the Story of a Song by Martha Anne
Turner. El Paso, TX: the University of Texas at
El Paso, 1971. Southwestern Studies Monograph,
No.31. Music and lyrics, composition,
background, editions; illustrated, 19pp.
SHEET MUSIC. See Australia
286. SHEPARD, SAM. Action and The
Unseen Hand. London: Faber, 1975. First
English edition. Two early plays from 1975
and 1969 respectively. Pictorial wrappers.
Near fine. $45.00
287. SHEPARD, SAM. Cruising Paradise.
edition. Forty short tales of charged Shepard
moments. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
288. SICILY. The Viceroys by Federico
De Roberto. London: MacGibbon and
Kee, 1962. First English edition. Translated
and introduced by Archibald Colquhoun,
illustrations by James Boswell. Published
in Italian in 1894 and, like The Leopard,
concerned with an aristocratic Sicilian
family at the moment of unification. Prelims
and extremities foxed, else very good in
dustwrapper. $60.00
289. SICILY. Pirandello - a Biography by
Gaspare Giudice. London: Oxford University
Press, 1975. First English edition. The life of
the prolific Sicilian novelist, playwright and
short story writer who, like Lampedusa,
spent his professional life outside Sicily. Fine
in near fine dustwrapper. $45.00
284. SHEET MUSIC. Aeroplane Jelly Song,
[music and lyrics by Albert Lenertz]. No
publication details, sponsored by “Traders
Tonic Tune Sessions” [c.1935], and with a
large jelly surrounded by pieces of fruit on
the cover rather than the young boy looking
wistfully at a packet of the jelly crystals.
Single sheet, 24 x 32.5cms., folded once to
make 4pp.Very good. $35.00
290. SICILY. The Last Leopard - a Life of
Giuseppe di Lampedusa by David Gilmour.
London: Quartet Books, 1988. First English
edition. The life of the famous Sicilian novelist
–childhood, military service, life in Rome and
final return to Palermo. Pages evenly tanned,
291. SICILY. Sicily as Metaphor, conversations
between Leonardo Sciascia and Marcello Padovani.
Marlboro,VT: The Marlboro Press, 1994. First
American edition. Five long conversations
– biographical, Sicily, the Mafia, “the writer’s
truth” and “concerning power, Communist
power especially” – with Sciascia, recorded
in the late 1970s and first published in France
in 1979. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
SICILY. See Luigi Pirandello and Leonardo
Sciascia
SIGNED BOOKS BY. Lisa Alther, Ray
Bradbury, Sonja Bullaty (under Josef Sudek),
Peter Carey,William Corbett (Philip Guston),
Richard Ford, Nicolas Freeling, Alex Gildzen, Janet
Gleeson, Edward Gorey (Bookselling), Francine
du Plessix Gray, James Hanley, Lian Hearn,
Joyce Johnson (Francis Ponge), Spud Johnson,
Alice Kaplan (Louis-Ferdinand Céline), R.B. Kitaj
(T.S.Eliot), Kerwin Maegraith (Building), Justin
Schiller (Edward Lear), Haldane MacFall, Mabel
Norman (Ezra Pound), Sharon Olds,Vikram Seth,
Tim Severin, Martin Sharp (Richard Neville),
Thomas Staley (Italo Svevo), Frances Steloff
(Bookselling), Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bev Turner
(Eucalyptus), Richard Wilbur (Alexander Calder),
Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams
292. SILKO, LESLIE MARMON.
Almanac of the Dead. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1991. First American edition. Native
Americans’ contemporary America, the
author’s second novel. Fine in dustwrapper.
$40.00
293. SIMENON, GEORGES. Chit of a
Girl. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949.
First English edition. Two novels: Le Marie du
Port (published 1938) becomes Chit of a Girl
and Cours d’Assises (1941) Justice.Very good
in dustwrapper with 5/- sticker obscuring
original price. $60.00
294. SIMENON, GEORGES. The Stain on
the Snow. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1953. First English edition. France during the
Occupation, originally published as La Neige
était sale (1948).Very good in dustwrapper.
$60.00
295. SIMENON, GEORGES. The Outlaw.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich,
1987. First American edition. originally
published as L’Outlaw in 1941. Review copy
with publisher’s slip and publicity portrait,
17 x 12cms., of Simenon laid in. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
296. SIMS, GEORGE. A Life in Catalogues.
Philadelphia, PA: Holmes Publishing Co.,
1994. First American edition. Twelve essays,
subjects include: his own catalogues (with
illustrations), Ernest Dowson, Charlotte
Mew, “Cyril Connolly as a Customer”,
Christopher Millard’s catalogues and
thoughts and details on B.Traven. Fine in
dustwrapper with telling photographs of
the author before and after 40 years of
bookselling. 650 copies. $60.00
297. SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS. The
Wicked City. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1973. First American edition.
Illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher.
Singer’s version for children of the Sodom
and Gomorrah story. Small qto. Fine in
dustwrapper. $60.00
298. SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS. Nobel
Lecture. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1979. First American edition. The author’s
Nobel lecture in English and Yiddish, the
Prize Citation, a critical work on Singer and
his own “Why I Write for Children”. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
299. SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS.
Shadows on the Hudson. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American
edition. Jewish refugees in post World War
Two New York. Fine in dustwrapper. $45.00
Ten years, 10 books. Each book 30 chapters,
300 chapters in all. Every one centred on
the same group of middle-aged, mostly
unprepossessing policemen in Stockholm‘s
National Homicide Department. ...Their mission
– or "the project“ as the authors call it – is to
hold up a mirror to social problems in 1960s
Sweden. ...The books are set in an era when
everyone smoked; there were no mobile phones,
or DNA samples, or the internet. .. I wonder if
the society they feared has come to pass. "Yes,
all of it,“ she replies. "Everything we feared
happened, faster. People think of themselves not
as human beings but consumers.The market
rules and it was not that obvious in the 1960s,
but you could see it coming.“ Louise France
and Maj Sjöwall, 2009.
304. SJÖWALL, MAJ and PER
WAHLÖÖ. The Terrorists. New York:
Pantheon, 1976. First American edition. The
last Martin Beck, completed shortly before
Per Wahlöö’s death. Fine in dustwrapper.
$60.00
WAHLÖÖ. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke.
edition. The second of the ten Martin Beck
novels and third to appear in English. Fine in
near fine dustwrapper with a tiny mark on
the front panel. $85.00
306. SPAIN. The War in Spain by Ramón
Sender. London: Faber and Faber, 1937. First
English edition. A first hand account. Fine in
very good dustwrapper chipped at edges and
crown of spine. $150.00
305. SOCIAL CREDIT. The Next War or
The Alternative by A.E. Linney, Ex 44th Batt.
A.I.F. North Bondi, NSW: the author, 1933.
General thoughts, quotations, facts and
fallacies, aphorisms and recent history of
war, banking, politics, all leading into an
endorsement of Major Douglas’ Social
Credit philosophy. Printed wrappers, stapled.
Front cover almost detached, edges chipped,
internally clean. Good. $35.00
WAHLÖÖ. Murder at the Savoy. New York:
Pantheon, 1971. First American edition.
The sixth Martin Beck to be published
and appear in English. Fine in near fine
dustwrapper with a couple of tiny marks on
the rear panel. $85.00
WAHLÖÖ. The Fire Engine That Disappeared.
Newton Abbot, Devon: Crime Fiction Book
Club, 1973. Second English edition, published
by Gollancz in 1972. The fifth Martin Beck.
Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
WAHLÖÖ. The Locked Room. New York:
Pantheon, 1973. First American edition. The
eighth Martin Beck. Fine in dustwrapper
with a stamp promoting Stuart Rosenberg’s
American movie version featuring Walter
Matthau as Sgt. Jake Martin, aka Beck. $60.00
307. STAFFORD, JEAN. Children Are
Bored on Sunday. New York: Harcourt, Brace
and Company, 1953. First American edition.
Ten stories, including “The Interior Castle”,
her most famous story, concerned with the
period in hospital after a car accident caused
by Robert Lowell, her first husband. Fine
in dustwrapper with slight wear at one tip.
$75.00
308. (STAFFORD, JEAN.) The Interior
Castle - the Art and Life of Jean Stafford by
Ann Hulbert. New York: Knopf, 1992.
First American edition. Review copy with
publisher‘s slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
$40.00
311. SVEVO, ITALO. A Life. New York:
Knopf, 1963. First American edition. Svevo’s
first novel originally published in Italy
in 1892. Fine in very good dustwrapper,
designed by Milton Glaser, darkened on the
spine and around the perimeter. $40.00
309. (SUDEK, JOSEF.) Sudek by Sonja
Bullaty. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978.
First American edition. INSCRIBED BY SONJA
BULLATY. The first monograph on the Czech
photographer: 76 plates, essay and memoir,
autobiographical piece by Sudek, chronology
and notes on the plates. Qto. Fine in
312. SVEVO, ITALO. James Joyce. San
Francisco: City Lights Books [1968]. Second
American edition. Originally published as a
keepsake by New Directions in 1950. Text of
Svevo’s talk delivered in Milan in 1927 and
translated by Stanislaus Joyce, the subject’s
brother. Pictorial wrappers. Spine darkened,
else fine. $20.00
Naming things has something to do with human
awareness, with the separation of the entire
world from you. So with the Seascapes, I was
thinking about the most ancient of human
impressions.The time when man first named the
world around him. Hiroshi Sugimoto
313. (SVEVO, ITALO.) Essays on Italo
Svevo, edited by Thomas F. Staley. Tulsa, OK:
the University of Tulsa, 1969. First American
edition. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR IN 1973.
Eight essays on Svevo’s literary career, the
first in English, and Inferiority, a play written
by Svevo in 1921. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$25.00
310. SUGIMOTO, HIROSHI. 7 Days /
7 Nights. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008.
First American edition. Catalogue of the
14 images from the photographer’s famous
series of Seascapes. One sheet, 23 x 252cms.,
folded accordion style to make 18pp., and
with the 14 colour reproductions (each 23
x 27.5cms.) printed on rectos and versos;
tipped into an oblong qto binding of grey
linen and printed paper covered boards. All
fine.
$175.00
314. SVEVO, ITALO. Further Confessions
of Zeno. London: Secker and Warburg, 1969.
First English edition. The surviving fragment
of the sequel to Svevo’s best known work
(61pp.) and three other pieces. Prelims and
extremities foxed.Very good in dustwrapper.
$30.00
315. (SVEVO, ITALO.) Memoir of Italo
Svevo by Livia Veneziani Svevo. Marlboro,VT:
Marlboro, 1990. First American paperback
edition. Originally published in Trieste in
1950, this is the text of the second revised
edition published in Milan in 1958. Literary
history and memoir by Svevo’s wife. Pictorial
wrappers. Near fine. $20.00
316. SWIMMING. Start Your Youngster
and Teach Yourself to Swim the Easy Way by
Leroy Kylars. [Taringa, Qld: the author,
1956]. Beginning with showers at 2 months,
followed by illustrated step by step
instructions, and published in the year of
the Melbourne Olympics, 16pp. Pictorial
wrappers, stapled. Near fine. $35.00
317. SYDNEY. Skinny’s Taxi by J.W. Heming.
Sydney: Currawong [c.1945]. First Australian
edition. The second of Skinny’s adventures, a
change of career after Skinny the Fixer; from
the publisher’s series of 9d novels. Printed
wrappers, stapled. Fine. $45.00
318. TANIZAKI, JUNICHIRÕ. Childhood
Years: a Memoir. New York: Kodansha, 1988.
First American edition. Memories of Tokyo at
the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In these days of stress, when Australia‘s
very existence depends upon the nature‘s war
effort, which means fundamentally the efficiency
of every individual Australian, no matter what his
or her occupation, no one can afford the luxury
of ill-health, and so dental disease becomes an
enemy within, to be fought with every weapon in
our power. Joan K. Savage, B.D.S., Director of
the Australian Dental Association.
319. TEETH. Healthy Mouths. Sydney:
Australian Dental Association, 1943.
Description, functions and stages in the
life of teeth; illnesses, cleaning, preventative
practices, diet; though somewhere short of
the "enemy within“ of Dr. Savage‘s wartime
claim; 32pp. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Small
annotation on rear cover, else very good.
$35.00
320. (TEMPLE, SHIRLEY.) How I Raised
Shirley Temple by Her Mother as told to Mary
Sharon. Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, nd.
Reprinted from Silver Screen. Biography from
birth to age seven of, according to the title
page, “the baby who captured the world”. Is
this the youngest person ever to generate
a biography, even one of this nature?
Illustrated. Small qto. Pictorial wrappers.
Mark to top of front cover, else fine. $35.00
321. TEMPLARS. The New Knighthood – a
History of the Order of the Temple by Malcolm
Barber. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994. First English edition. Suppressed
in 1312, archive lost in the 16th century; an
“after-history” from the Templars founding
in 1119 and with the aim of explaining its
mysteries and separating off the conspiracy
theories which have dogged the Order for
700 years. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
322. TOER, PRAMOEDYA ANANTA.
Child of All Nations. New York: Morrow,
1991 First American edition. SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR. Translated by Max Lane. The
final volume of the Buru Quartet. Fine in
323. TOLSTOY, TATIANA. The Tolstoy
Home – the Diaries of Tatiana Tolstoy. London:
Harvill Press, 1951. Second impression. The
diaries of the novelist’s eldest daughter,
begun on November 11, 1878 (at age twelve)
and the last entry on April 6, 1911. Offsetting
to prelims, spots of foxing to extremities.
Very good in dustwrapper. $45.00
324. TREES. The Junior Tree Warden.
Asquith, NSW: Tree Wardens’ League,
1960. Issue No.13 which begins with
their manifesto, “This League exists for
the purpose of assisting teachers to train
Australian children in a true understanding
of their civic responsibilities by an
appreciation of their own tree flora. In this
way it is hoped that a new generation will
arise, conscious of the beauty of nature
around them, with a consequent desire to
conserve what remains of the flora and to
make a world lovelier to dwell in by the
presence of more and still more trees.”
and followed by 100pp. of good practices,
tips and keys to identifying trees. Pictorial
wrappers, stapled.Very good. $20.00
Diana Trilling Dies at 150.Widow of
Distinguished Professor and Literary Critic Lionel
Trilling. Diana Trilling speculating on The New
York Times’ headline for her obituary.
325. TRILLINGS. The Beginning of the
Journey – the Marriage of Diana and Lionel
Trilling by Diana Trilling. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company, 1993. First American
edition. Trilling’s memoir of her marriage,
literary New York through the 1930s to
1970s, and a rebuttal of those who fixed her
as a sidekick to her husband of 46 years. Fine
326. TRUFFAUT, FRANÇOIS. The
Adventures of Antoine Doinel. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1971. First American edition.
Work notes, treatments, final screenplays
for The 400 Blows, Love at Twenty, Stolen Kisses
and Bed and Board. Images from the movies.
Edgewear.Very good in dustwrapper creased
at edges. $45.00
327. TRUFFAUT, FRANÇOIS. The Films
in My Life. London: Allen Lane, 1980. First
English edition. Collects Truffaut’s reviews
and essays with thoughts and judgements
on most French and American directors;
dedicated to Jacques Rivette. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
Childhood: I still retain from that time a great
anxiety, and the movies are bound up with an
anxiety, with an idea of something clandestine.
François Truffaut
328. TRUFFAUT, FRANÇOIS. Truffaut by
Truffaut, texts and documents compiled by
Dominique Rabourdin. New York: Abrams,
1987. First American edition. Pictorial
biography constructed from writings,
remarks, interviews by and with Truffaut; and
500 illustrations from his life and movies.
Qto. Fine in like dustwrapper. $45.00
329. TRUFFAUT, FRANÇOIS. Letters.
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. First English
edition. Edited by Gilles Jacob and Claude de
Givray, translated and edited by Gilbert Adair,
foreword by Jean-Luc Godard. Letters to
Eric Rohmer, Robert Lachenay, Luc Moullet,
Lotte Eisner, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Scott,
the book’s dedicatee, and many others;
588pp., photographs and drawings. Fine in
dustwrapper. $40.00
330. (TRUFFAUT, FRANÇOIS). Truffaut
- a Biography by Antoine De Baecque and
Serge Toubiana. New York: Knopf, 1999.
First American edition. Fine in dustwrapper.
$35.00
331. UPFIELD, ARTHUR W. Valley of
Smugglers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.
First American edition. Published as Bony
and the Kelly Gang in Australia and England;
Bony tangles with Mike Conway and Red
Kelly, descendant of .... Fine in very good dust
jacket chipped at spine ends and along folds.
$100.00
332. UPFIELD, ARTHUR W. The House
of Cain. San Francisco: Dennis McMillan, 1983.
Second American edition, first published in
1929. Upfield’s first book, first printing of the
Dennis McMillan edition and the first book
from his singular press. Introduction by Philip
José Farmer identifying this as the author’s
“pre-osteomantic novel”. Endpapers by
William L. McMillan; dustwrapper, establishing
the immediately identifiable McMillan house
style, by George Barr. Fine in dustwrapper.
1,000 copies. $300.00
333. VAN TILBURG CLARK, WALTER.
The Track of the Cat. New York: Random
House, 1949. First American edition. The
author’s third novel, an archetypal story of
warring brothers and a predatory panther in
a 19th century frontier winter. Dustwrapper
by E.McKnight Kauffer. Edgewear, abrasion to
front pastedown, very good in dustwrapper
chipped at crown of spine, edges and missing
a piece from the rear panel. $45.00
334. VERNE, JULES. Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea. New York: Crowell,
1976. First American edition of the restored
and annotated edition. Introduction,
restoration and annotations by Walter
James Miller with 150+ reproductions of
contemporary illustrations throughout. Qto.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper. $50.00
TWO QUESTIONS ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM
ANSWERED BY THE AUTHORS OF SEVERAL
NATIONS.
335. VIETNAM. Authors Take Sides on
Vietnam, edited by Cecil Woolf and John
Bagguley. London: Peter Owen, 1967.
First English edition. Respondents include
W.H.Auden, A.J.Ayer, Martin Boyd, Russell
Braddon, Italo Calvino, Doris Lessing, Philip
Roth, Simon Raven, Christina Stead, Olivia
Manning, Hannah Arendt and 248 others.
Very good in dustwrapper. $50.00
336. VOLPONI, PAOLO. My Troubles
Began. New York: Grossman, 1964. First
American edition. The author’s first novel
after three collections of poetry. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
337. VOLPONI, PAOLO. The Worldwide
Machine. London: Calder and Boyars, 1969.
First English edition. The author’s second
novel. Near fine in very good dustwrapper
rubbed on rear panel. $35.00
A SIX LETTERS A DAY WOMAN DURING HER
ADULT LIFE
338. WHARTON, EDITH. The Letters of
Edith Wharton, edited by R.W.B. Lewis and
Nancy Lewis. New York: Scribner’s, 1988.
First American edition. Selected from the
4,000+ surviving letters. Fine in dustwrapper.
$45.00
339. (WHARTON, EDITH.) Edith
Wharton an Extraordinary Life: an Illustrated
Biography by Eleanor Dwight. New York:
Abrams, 1994. First American edition. Travel,
gardening, architecture, art: American money
and literature from the 19th into the 20th
century. Qto. Fine in dustwrapper. $50.00
340. (WHARTON, EDITH.) Edith Wharton
in Provence by Richard Jones. Menlo Park,
CA: Occasional Works, 2003. First American
edition and the third of the publisher’s series
of chapbooks. The American writer’s winter
home. Printed wrappers. Fine. 100 copies.
$30.00
341. (WHARTON, EDITH.) Edith
Wharton by Hermione Lee. London: Chatto
and Windus, 2007. First American edition.
The latest life by the English critic and
biographer. Fine in dustwrapper. $40.00
342. WILLIAMS, BILLY. Our Hero No.III.
Canberra: [the author] 1947. Second revised
edition of Brumby Land, No.1, published
the previous year, by the self-proclaimed
"Australasia‘s Leading Poet“. "Our Hero is
an original character, Australasian by birth,
who lives to love his country, who fought
on desert sand-fought in the jungle (North),
with one objective in mind VICTORY
FOR THE ALLIES, that the shores of FREE
AUSTRALIA, may never fall into the wrong
hands ...“ Twenty-one poems. Pictorial
wrappers, stapled. A couple of marks to
cover, else fine. $35.00
After all these ruinous decades writing “poems”,
I have had to invent a form that doesn’t seem
like poetry at all: the “Metafour”. It’s crazy, it’s
nonsense, it’s the anti-poem, it’s the impurepoem etc. But it strikes me that it can be “read”
dammit, because the line is strangely fresh.
Count it out: four words in every line.You must
be kidding? Jonathan Williams
343. WILLIAMS, JONATHAN. Metafours
For Mysophobes. Twickenham, Middlesex and
Wakefield, West Yorkshire: North and South,
1990. First English trade edition. INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR TO CHARLES HENRI FORD AND
INDRA TAMANG BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF
PUBLICATION. Pictorial wrappers. Top edge
slightly sunned, else fine. $85.00
[The Knife of the Times is] all about people I
knew in the town, portraits of people who were
my friends. I was impressed by the picture of the
times, depression years, the plight of the poor . . .
I wrote it down as I saw it.The times - that was
the knife that was killing them. – I Wanted To
Write A Poem by William Carlos Williams
344. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS.
The Knife of the Times and Other Stories.
Ithaca, NY: The Dragon Press [1932]. First
American edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The
poet’s first book of short stories, Offsetting
to prelims from dustwrapper flaps, else fine
in dustwrapper darkening on the spine. 500
copies. $1,500.00
I Wanted to Write a Poem. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1958. First American edition. Sub-titled
“The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet”,
reported and edited by Edith Heal. Fine in
very good dustwrapper with a short closed
tear and tape bleed on front panel. $75.00
Paterson: Revised edition. New York: New
Directions, 1992. First American edition.
Revised edition prepared by Christopher
MacGowan. Collects the five Paterson
volumes, Book VI, notes and annotations and
an introductory statement by Williams on
the poem. Fine in dustwrapper. $60.00
347. WOOL. The Wool Trade - a Collection of
Sketches by E. Pearce. Brisbane [the author,
c.1914]. One hundred and ten caricatures
and portraits of individuals from the
Australian Wool Trade; all captioned, most
Sydney or Melbourne and a small no. from
northern England. Small qto. Original maroon
cloth, title stamped in gold. Near fine. $85.00
348. WORLD WARS. The Dardanelles –
Colour Sketches from Gallipoli, written and
drawn by Norman Wilkinson. London:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1915. First English
edition. Thirty-six colour plates and b&w
reproductions of line drawings. Pictorial
cloth. Top edge gilt, tissue guards for colour
plates, Covers marked, edgewear, offsetting
to prelims, foxing to text, good only; all
plates clean. $85.00
349. WORLD WARS. The Jew in
Prophecy Especially in the Light of War
Happenings by L.Sale-Harrison. Sydney:
The Australian Baptist Publishing House,
1919. First Australian edition. Jewish
history as portrayed by the Bible leading
into documenting the manner in which
Britain planned to establish a Jewish state
in Palestine; 70pp. Printed wrappers. Missing
small pieces at crown and base of spine,
scattered foxing, covers marked. Good.
$45.00
VERBAL BARRAGES LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES
350. WORLD WARS. Smoko –
Commonwealth Bank Exservicemen’s Reunion,
12th July 1947. Reunion for the bank staff
who served in both World Wars, held at
Sydney Town Hall. Program for the evening,
menu, speakers, performers, lyrics to 16
standards to be performed on the night,
cartoons, space for autographs, and the
above directive; 14pp. Pictorial wrappers,
stapled. Rear cover marked, near fine. $60.00
352. ZINFANDEL. Zinfandel Nouveau
Chez Panisse. [Berkeley]: Chez Panisse, 1978.
Menu for the week of December 5th to 9th
1978, in honour of winemaker Walter Schug
of Joseph Phelps Vinyards, Napa Valley. Set
menu of four courses, changing daily, costing
between $15.00 and $20.00 per person
(including a fifth of “Zin” per couple) from
the famous Berkeley restaurant, often cited
as the birthplace of contemporary California
cuisine. Broadside measuring 42 x 20cms.,
letterpress printed in two colours. Fine.
$60.00
353. ZOLA, ÉMILE. Zola: Photographer by
Francois Emile-Zola dn Massin. New York:
Henry Holt, 1988. First American edition.
200+ reproductions of photographs by the
great French novelist – portraits, street
scenes, buildings, trains and railways –
interspersed with extracts from Zola‘s
correspondence and diaries, assembled
by Francois, his grandson. Qto. Review
copy with publisher‘s slip laid in. Fine in
dustwrapper. $45.00
351. WRIGHT, JUDITH. The Day the
Mountains Played. Brisbane: Jacaranda Press,
1960. First Australian edition. Illustrated by
Annette Wright, the author’s sister. Pictorial
boards. Brief contemporary gift inscription,
one corner bumped.Very good. muir 8182.
$30.00

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