Highlights

Churchill (Winston S.) THE GREAT WAR. Fully illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. Complete in 26 fortnightly parts. Housed within two solander boxes of qr. blue morocco. George Newnes, London, n.d. [1933-4]. First illustrated edition. *Together with an additional copy of Part 21, which is signed by Churchill on the first page of text. First published in book form as The World Crisis (five volumes in six, 1923-1931). $5,000.00

A bifolium fragment (1075-1125 CE, Southern Germany) from one of the most important documentary collections to have survived from the Middle Ages - Pope Gregory the First’s collection of letters. Comprehensive research notes and a full translation of the Latin included with the document.

First edition, first printing, in the scarce and most collectible state with the uncorrected text error, erratum slip, and superfluous brushstroke on the calligraphic endorsement leaf. While first editions were issued in several states, "it is believed that copies with the text error... represent the earliest printed version" (Schiller, p. 37).

HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception London: Chatto and Windus, 1954. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover : pp. [4] 5-62 [64] : blue cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine : price clipped jacket designed by John Woodcock. Small closed tear (5mm) to head of top cover; price clipped; some offsetting to the e.p.s; some foxing to the edges of the block. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Huxley's controversial essay based on his psychedelic mescalin experience. (14319)

A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.

MORRILL, James. Sketch of a Residence among the Aboriginals of Northern Queensland for Seventeen Years. Being a narrative of my life, shipwreck, landing on the coast, residence among the Aboriginals, with an account of their manners and customs, and mode of living. Brisbane, Courier General Printing Office, 1863. 8vo.24pp. Recent quarter-morocco over cloth boards, a very good copy. First edition, Rare. Ferguson 13022.

Hugh McCrae. The Du Poissey Anecdotes An inscribed presentation copy to his father with pages of manuscript

Limited edition, number 22 of 50 copies printed on japon for the Guild of Women Binders and finely bound in their workshop. The bookseller Frank Karslake established the bindery in 1898 as "a way of publicising and promoting the sale of books bound by women" (Tidcombe, p. 27).

Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. First trade edition. *Although the original manuscript was written in French, the American edition preceded both the French and English editions. $5,000.00

London, Edward Stanford, 1879. Octavo, mounted photographic frontispiece 'Trout Pond at Ercildoune', folding map, index, very good in bright original decorated terracotta cloth, lettered in gilt, vignette of a salmon in silver on front board, lemon china clay endpapers, small lozenge binder's ticket on rear pastedown. 'Third Edition', preceded by a paper in the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria's 1878 annual report and reprinted by Sands & McDougall, as THE CALIFORNIAN SALMON, in the same year. Author’s presentation copy.

A complete set of the foundational fetish magazine of the 20th century that has its artistic roots in Australia.

1882, 4to, hc, published by Librarie Hachette, Paris. Spine has been re-backed and new endpapers. Edge is lustrous gilt, decorated cover in red buckram with gilt depictions of temples surrounded by Egyptian Lotus friezes and a large winged disc in classic Ancient Egyptian style, spine has depiction of the goddess Hathor and titles in gilt. Prize notice attached for the Alliance Francis de Victoria for a Miss Mable Gertrude Harly for excellence in French. Text is in French with numerous drawings and maps, including a marvellous fold-out of the pyramids of Gizeh. Rare.