Highlights

First Edition [The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2005]; 256 pages; red cloth, gold titling to front board & spine, slight lean, faint stain at base of front board, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, scratches on rear, a little bumped at extremities, v. slight sunfading. Perhaps the most comprehensive volume on the life & art of one of Australia's finest artists. With signed inscriptions from Lou Klepac, Barry Pearce & Jeffrey Smart [for my darling Pammers…] to Pam Cleland.

Florence, G. Orioli, 1930. Octavo, two pages roughly opened, original white boards with original spine paper label lettered in orange, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, in decorated dustwrapper: a fine copy. First edition: limited to 810 numbered copies on hand-made paper.

STREHLOW, T.G.H. Songs of Central Australia. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1971. 4to, liv+776 pp. Colour frontispiece, musical notations, large folding colour map in rear pocket. Original boards in dustwrapper (minimally rubbed at head of backstrip). A near fine copy. One of only 500 copies printed, "The Author has set out on a task never before attempted...the analysis of Aboriginal songs as a fully-developed oral literature".

LIONEL ARTHUR LINDSAY (Creswick 17-10-1874/Hornsby 22-5-1961) Australian school ”GOAT AND RHODODENDRON" c.1933 WOOD ENGRAVING A profile of a goat in bust, looking toward left between rhododendron flowers. One of Lionel Lindsay's most well-known and sought after wood engravings. This is considered to be one of Lindsay’s most renowned wood engravings for technical execution. Last of Lindsay's goat subjects and most highly stylised. NOTE: Signed in pencil lower left. Numbered 100 lower right (edition of 100). Mendelssohn p.154.

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

“Atlas Shrugged” is Rand’s magnum opus, depicting a dystopian United States where private businesses struggle under oppressive laws. Bound in turquoise blue cloth with gilt and black titles on the spine and AR initials in gilt on the front board, the book is in excellent condition with only minor corner bruising and light tape marks on the endpapers. The original, unclipped multicolored dust jacket is lightly chipped but protected in an archival cover.

Albumen stereoview photograph. C1870. 82mm by 174mm (card). Early stereoview photograph on yellow card of the gold mines at Ballarat. 'LU' blindstamped top right corner of the card. Titled inscribed in ink on the reverse.

An important portrait miniature of Lord Hobart by Henry Bone.

Extra-illustrated with 8 original signed drawings (4 full page and 4 vignettes) in pencil, pen, ink, and pastel by Georges Villa in a fine binding signed Yseux SR de Thierry-Simier.

A scarce five volume set outlining Yae Kichi Yabe's approach to Jiu-jitsu.

A nice set, published by Pierre Didot, Paris 1803, 3 Vols. 32mo. Buff leather spine, with Pink insert title and green volume with gilt letters, and various gilt decorations, boards marbled, endpapers marbled, edges yellow, owners ex libris Viet Valentin. Good-very good condition, silk bookmarks intact. Tom 1- II, 245pp lightly foxed, Tom III-IV 262pp edges lightly worn, interior bright with minimal marks, Tom V-VI 336pp light wear, inside bright.

Jonathan Cape, 1964. First UK edition.8vo, 264pp. A very good hardback copy. Slight wear to the edges of the dust jacket, Didion's debut novel follows the disintegration of a California family.