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Serving readers, collectors and institutions since 1984. Located on the ground floor of John Mills Himself, a heritage-listed building in the heart of the Brisbane CBD, Archives Fine Books is one of the largest second-hand and collectible bookstores in Australia.
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Ruby edition Portfolio #1
$1800
Toronto: Wallrich Books, 1974. First Edition. Three serigraph works (38 x 28cm) screen printed on 90lb Kent paper by Coriander Studio, London for the publisher : an edition of 100 numbered copies and thirty copies Hors Commerce : each print signed in pencil by the author/artist, this being 36/100.
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Phoenix, 1935-1939
$1500
Adelaide, South Australia: Adelaide University Union, 1935-1939, 1935. First Edition. Softcover : 1935 pp. [iv] 78; 1936 pp. vi, 94; 1937 pp. [vi] 54; 1938 80pp.; 1939 79pp. : all black paper wraps with yapped edges lettered in red (1937 is illustrated to top cover) : all 19.4cm tall except 1939 which is 22cm. Fine. Soft cover. A complete run of the early issues of this annual in original decorated wrappers. (Bookseller Inventory #5661)
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Dead Man's Ghost
$750
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.
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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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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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Une Jeunesse que l'Avenir inquiète trop souvent (Bandaged head).
$750
[MAI '68].
Une Jeunesse que l'Avenir inquiète trop souvent (Bandaged head).
Paris: 1968. Original Poster. Lithograph in purple : 56cm x 42.9cm : bandaged head with bull's-eye pupils and safety pin through mouth. (14980)
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DEBORD, Guy [Director]. Internationale Situationnistes 1-12 (plus 3 supplements).
$3500
Paris: Internationale Situationniste, 1958-1969. First Edition. Twelve stapled softcovers : metallic paper covers in different colors : C.&c. : two supplements to no. 10 and one to no. 11.
Covers vary from very good (no. 8) to fine (nos. 1 & 4). Complete collection, first edition EXCEPT, as usual, for No. 2 which is a second edition (1962). The original no. 2 (1958) was produced in a very limited run hence the 1962 reprint which is notorious for the "peeling" of the silver metallic cover. (14959)
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[BLAKE, William] SCHIAVONETTI, Louis The Grave, A Poem; Supplementary etched title page (Subscriber's Copy)
$1000
1808. First Quarto Edition. Single sheet (35.4 x 29cm) : plate impression 36.2 x 27.8cm : text and image after the design by William Blake.
Light toning to edges; minor foxing to rhs; trimmed by 4mm to tail, no loss of image or text. Near fine. Item #14438
Title page of the First Quarto edition of Robert Blair's meditation on death and resurrection. Remembered today for having some of William Blake's most memorable designs. These were executed by Italian engraver Luigi Schiavonetti who was awarded the commission for executing the plates despite Blake having been asked to create the design.
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