Highlights

Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.

Here are a sample of the wide range of printed materials that were available at the 2024 Fair. If you are interested in these, please contact the exhibitor, they may still be available

2025 Highlights will be posted in June 2025


Richard Hussey Shaw
$15000
Watercolour and gouache 31 x 42.5 cm Signed R. H. Shaw and dated indistinctly Provenance: Private collection until 2005 A later version of this painting titled South Australian Blacks in Full War Dress 1891 is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia Shaw arrived in Australia from England c1858 and settled in Adelaide. He was the son of Captain George Reynolds Shaw. He was a watercolour and scene-painter, produced watercolour landscapes and sketches of Aborigines in South Australia.
View More
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)
View More