Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller

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A family business established in 1965, Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller has become a Collins Street landmark in the impressive Neo-Gothic Assembly Hall building located in the heart of Melbourne's premier street, We buy and sell fine and rare books from the 15th to the 21st centuries.

As a general bookseller we offer a large and diverse range of stock. Specialist catalogues and electronic lists are issued regularly. All stock is listed on our website, which is updated daily.

Contact Information
Phone: +61 3 9654 8506
Website: https://www.kaycraddock.com/
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156 Collins St The Assembly Building Melbourne, 3000 Australia Get Directions

Store Hours

Monday to Friday: 10 am to 6 pm

Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm

Sunday: Closed

Highlights
Fleming (Ian) CASINO ROYALE.
$8500
Fleming (Ian) CASINO ROYALE. Pp. 218; cr. 8vo; handsomely rebound in full red morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt, with '007' in gilt at all corners of boards and 'James Bond' at centre of upper board; within marble papered slipcase; matching marbled endpapers; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Jonathan Cape, London, 1953. First edition, first impression. Campbell 1007A; Gilbert A1.1 or A1.2 (Without the dust wrapper it cannot be determined if this copy is a first or second issue).
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Caesar (Gaius Julius) THE COMMENTARIES OF CAESAR
$20000
translated into English. To which is prefixed A discourse concerning the Roman art of war. Engraved frontispiece portrait, plus 85 plates numbered to 86. Contemporary calf, the boards lightly scuffed and rubbed, the spine quite worn; Printed for J. and R. Tonson [& others], London, 1753. First edition.
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Fore edge painting: Ellis (George) SPECIMENS OF THE EARLY ENGLISH POETS;
$7500
to which is prefixed, an historical sketch of the rise and progress of the English poetry and language. With a biography of each poet, &c. In three volumes, each with a fine fore-edge painting beneath the gilt. Henry Washbourne, London, 1845. Fifth edition, corrected. *The fore-edge paintings are portrait busts of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and William Shakespeare. The bindings were executed for W. Boyne, Leeds, in 1850. William Boyne (1814-1893) was a collector of engravings and books, and a notable numismatist with an extensive collection of over 30,000 coins and tokens.
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[La Borde (Jean-Benjamin de)] PREMIER [& DEUXIEME] RECUEIL DE CHANSONS
$2500
Avec Accompagnement de harpe, de violon, de clavessin. Grave par Mlle Vendome, chez M. Moria. [Music scores, two works in one volume]. In a handsome contemporary binding of full crimson morocco, royal coat of arms of the Dauphin at centre; Richomme L'aine, Paris, 1763; 1764. *'First [and Second] collection of songs with accompaniments for harp, violin, and harpsichord. Engraved by Mademoiselle Vendome'. Jean Benjamin de la Borde (1734-1794) studied under Dauvergne and Rameau. From 1762-1774, he served as valet at the court of Louis XV, and his wife was was an attendant to Marie Antoinette.
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Hemingway, Ernest FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
$3000
Pp. [x]+472(last blank); post 8vo; rebound in half brown morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, with contrasting red & green leather author and title labels, marbled papered boards; top edges brown; fore-edges of leaves faintly foxed; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940. First edition. Grissom A.17.1.a; Hanneman A18A. *Hemingway's most famous novel; the basis for a 1943 Paramount film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
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Gwyn, Nell: Cunningham (Peter) THE STORY OF NELL GWYN:
$2500
and the sayings of Charles the Second. Handsomely bound in later navy morocco; Bradbury & Evans, London, 1852. First edition, extra-illustrated. *With printed additional half-titles and calligraphic additional title pages, one with an illuminated initial in red & gilt. The numerous additional plates are portraits of Nell Gwyn, Charles II and contemporaries, including Oliver Cromwell, Prince Rupert, John Evelyn, and other Royal Mistresses such as Mrs. Jordan and Mary Anne Clarke. A few the portraits are captioned by hand.
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Grosz (George) ECCO HOMO.
$25000
Malik Verlag, Berlin, 1923. First edition, regular book edition C. *Inscribed and signed in blue crayon by the artist (to 'Mr. Dumbrone'), dated 6.1.1922 on the title page. cco Homo was published in five formats. Copies of the two Deluxe editions A & B, in which the plates were signed, are extremely scarce. After publication, Grosz was prosecuted and fined for 'offending public decency.'The book is here accompanied by some related ephemera, including correspondence from the artist, all signed and within the original stamped and postmarked envelopes.
Victoria (Queen) & Lord Palmerston. APPROBATION FOR APPOINTMENT OF MR HENRY KENDALE AS CONSUL FOR PERU
$5000
signed by Queen Victoria, and Lord Palmerston: dated 16th August 1841 (5th Year of Reign), together with seal. Folio sheet, folded to four pages, two folds reinforced. *Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837 until her death in 1901. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, (1784–1865),British Anglo-Irish politician, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865.
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