Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
This year is now exception. Leading up to the fair new highlights will be added by our exhibitors every day. These are just a sample of the wide range of printed materials that will be available at the fair.
Please browse the highlights. They are all for sale. If you find something interesting, please contact the exhibitor, it might just be yours!
You can also browse the highlights by exhibitor by viewing the exhibitor's profile in the exhibitor directory
Churchill (Winston S.) THE GREAT WAR.
$5000
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
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A remarkable manuscript bifolium from the turn of the twelfth century. Gregory the Great’s letters in a clear, precise Carolingian script.
$8000
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.
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MAO ZEDONG. Mao zhuxi yulu ("Quotations From Chairman Mao"). Beijing: Zhongguo renmin jiefangjun zong zhengzhi bu, 1964
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).
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The Doors of Perception
$750
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)
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Tapio Wirkkala, Eye Hand and Thought
$200
A symbolic figure in Finnish design. We will be bringing a range of books on Modernist furniture.
Aboriginals of Northern Queensland
$750
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.
The Du Poissey Anecdotes
$885
Hugh McCrae. The Du Poissey Anecdotes
An inscribed presentation copy to his father with pages of manuscript
GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS - SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe; HOUSMAN, Laurence (illus.). The Sensitive Plant. London: Printed for the Guild of Women Binders, 1899
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).
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Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE.
$5000
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
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WILSON, Samuel, Salmon at the Antipodes Being an Account of the Successful Introduction of Salmon and Trout into Australian Waters.
$1750
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.
Bizarre: A Fashion Fantasia
$12000
A complete set of the foundational fetish magazine of the 20th century that has its artistic roots in Australia.
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Historie De L'Art Dans L'Antiquite Egypte
$950
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.