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


The Poems of Henrietta Huxley
$550
HUXLEY, Henriette Ann. Poems of Henrietta A. Huxley : with three of Thomas Henry Huxley A Presentation and Association Copy. London: Duckworth, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [2 blank] [vi] ix [x] 158 [2 blank] : linen covered boards with blind stamped vignette to lower board : green spine : top edge gilt : a donation by Henrietta Litchfield (nee Darwin) to the Working Men's College with their bookplate : inscribed by the author to Henrietta Litchfield dated 1913 : Working Men's College library regulations sticker to front endpaper and their stamp to top board. (14781)
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Jeffrey Smart [Signed]
$375
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.
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Yachigusa - Volume 6 by Ueno Seikō
$1210
Uncommon work that appears to have ended up consisting of at least 14 volumes published over a few years from 1901. The book, in oblong format with decorative covers, contains 30 very nice, woodblock printed kimono designs with tissue interleaves numbered 151-180. Honda Kinnosuke of Unkindō in Kyoto published some of the most beautiful books in this genre. Kyoto. Honda Kinnosuke. 1902. 30 leaves of prints. 17.8 x 25cm. In very good condition with only minor wear. Tissue interleaves a bit darkened as expected and a couple with creases. Otherwise very good.
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Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES.
$25000
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00
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