The Antique Bookshop & Curios
Member of ANZAAB - Australia
We have been supplying books to collectors, libraries and readers for over 50 years. Catalogues are issued monthly in hard copy and are on-line for viewing or downloading.
Our premises are 7 mins drive north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and 7 mins walk from the new Crows Nest Metro Station.
We are open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am until 5pm.
We cover a wide variety of interests in the stock we hold.
Contact Information
Email: peter@antiquebookshop.com.au
Phone: +612 9966 9925
Website: http://www.antiquebookshop.com.au/
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328 Pacific Hwy Crows Nest, 2065 Australia Get Directions
Store Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: 10 - 5
Sunday: Closed
Highlights
A Kings Story The Memoirs of H R H The Duke of Windsor K G
$3500
No.161 of Limited edition of 250, signed “Windsor“ Splendid full morocco binding. In the slip-case
The Duke was King Edward VIII prior to his abdication.
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley By Grahem L Walsh
$2700
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
By Grahame L.Walsh
Toowong. 2000.
Oblong folio. Profusely illustrated in colour with ancient Aboriginal rock art.
Poor Fellow My Country. By Xavier Herbert
$950
Poor Fellow My Country
By Xavier Herbert
First Signed Limited Edition
No.14 of 50. Half leather
One of 3 copies personally signed on the book and not on an affixed label.
The Gormenghast Trilogy By Mervyn Peake
$3300
The Gorgemghast Trilogy
By Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone.
All 1st editions with dustjackets
Casino Royale
$3300
CASINO ROYALE
By Ian Fleming
N.Y. The Macmillan Co.
1954
1st US Edition in the dustjacket.
Ian Fleming’s first James Bond book. Very scarce.
Norman Lindsay Letter
$750
NORMAN LINDSAY
Handwritten letter to Hugh McCrae. n.d. (c. June 1948)
Single leaf handwritten on both sides & signed “Norman“
Re exchange of letters they had written to each other and much else.
$750
Grecian and Chinese Architecture Hardy Wilson
$1500
Grecian & Chinese Architecture
By Hardy Wilson. 1937
No.93 of 100 copies.
50 tipped-in plates
Bony Buys a Woman By Arthur Upfield (Signed)
$495
BONY BUYS A WOMAN
By Arthur Upfield
Lond. Heinemann. 1957.
First Edition. Scarce.
Inscribed & signed by Arthur Upfield
Ex Libris of Yasushi Ohmoto by Cliff Parfit
$495
The Ex-Libris of Yasuhi Ohmoto. By Cliff Parfit
Tokyo. English Centre. 1982.
16 tipped-in colour bookplates.
Signed by the artist.
Fine in cloth case.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrated by Erroll Le Cain.
$3750
LE CAIN, Erroll (Illustrator) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. ONE OF 100 COPIES. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Illustrations by Erroll Le Cain. Calligraphy by David Howells. Paper by Philip H.Rowson. Lond. The Arcadia Press. 1972. Folio. Hand-bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter vellum with seaweed paper sides. 55pp. t.e.g. Calligraphic text on seaweed paper pages. Ten striking tipped-in colour plates by Erroll Le Cain. No.50 of 110 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, the calligrapher and the paper-maker. Fine in the slip-case. Particularly scarce.
Now We Are Six by A A Milne
$2750
Now We Are Six
By A.A.Milne.
1977 Methuen Limited Edition
#69/300 Signed by Christopher Milne
Full leather in slip-case