Highlights

Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, offsetting on endpapers, but very good in original eucalypt grey cloth with plain blue dustwrapper (bit sunned) with printed title label. First edition ‒ scarce cloth issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. (The trade edition was issued in uniform blue wrappers, selling for 3/6.)

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.

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.

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.

19th century family bible published circa 1884. Impressively bound in boards that are heavily embossed with gilt. With colour chromo-lithographic plates, maps, steel engravings and text-illustrations. A fine example.

Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. I. The 42nd Parallel II. Nineteen Nineteen III. The Big Money [The Modern Library 'Giant' G44]. New York: The Modern Library, 1939. First Thus. 8vo. original grey cloth gilt in dustwrapper; pp. idiosyncratic pagination thus, xi, 2-416 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-474 (last blank), iii-viii, 3-562. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf '' Mr Edward Smith, cordially, John Dos Passos'. A very good copy. First omnibus appearance of the USA Trilogy, uncommon as a presentation copy. A small collection of later newspaper articles regarding the author, are loosely enclosed.

A vibrant panoramic map of the island of Itsukushima (also known as Miyajima) off the coast of Hiroshima, with a tourist guide to the island on the reverse.

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".

The first three editions of Hamilton Hume's account of his famous expedition with Captain William Hilton Hovell, which established an overland route between Sydney and Port Phillip. Outraged at what he considered to be a public lack of acknowledgement of his role in the expedition, Hume was impelled to publish this account 30 years later, in 1855.

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

ATKINSON, E.J. [Evelyn John] Rupert. A blank-verse tragedy in one act. Melbourne: Edward A. Vidler , 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover : [iv] [5] 6-55 [56] [2] : tan paper covers with french flaps, lettered in brown to top cover between parallel double ruled borders in brown : ALS from Jack Lindsay (reviewing the work) and an AN from Hugh McCrae (to whom the book is dedicated) regarding a humorous episode of attempted book theft tipped in at the first two blanks. Half the paper spine missing; edgewear to covers.

Early work with hand drawn and coloured illustrations Place unknown. Author unknown. Dated Genroku 12 (1699) at rear. 9 leaves. 14.2 x 20.6cm. Very good. Expected age wear and some minor marks. In recent, custom-made, folding case.