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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Store Hours

Monday to Friday: 10 am to 6 pm

Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm

Sunday: Closed

Highlights
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES.
$25000
Chaucer (Geoffrey) THE CANTERBURY TALES. With wood engravings by Eric Gill. Four volumes. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown niger morocco. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928-1931. One of 485 numbered sets, printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with Cockerel watermark. *The native-dyed niger morocco often varies in hue, but this set is well-matched. Loosely inserted is an ALs, dated 24 September 1932, from Eric Gill to the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, whose wife's signature is on the upper free endpaper of Volume I. $25,000.00
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Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE.
$5000
Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1943. First trade edition. *Although the original manuscript was written in French, the American edition preceded both the French and English editions. $5,000.00
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Lindsay, Norman: McCrae (Hugh) IDYLLIA.
$25000
Lindsay, Norman: McCrae (Hugh) IDYLLIA. 5 full page tipped-in plates with lettered tissue guards, the pictorial title page and 15 decorative initials printed in gilt & black; Sydney, 1922. Edition limited to 133 copies (100 for sale), numbered and signed by the author. *The plates are all original etchings, numbered and signed in pencil by Norman Lindsay. $25,000.00
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[Clark, John Heaviside] FIELD SPORTS, &c. &c.
$7000
[Clark, John Heaviside] FIELD SPORTS, &c. &c. Of the Native Inhabitants of New South Wales; with ten plates, by the Author. Pp. [20](including index to Foreign Field Sports), plus 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Edward Orme, London, 1813[1814?]. First edition. *'The first Australian coloured plate book properly so-called [and] . . . the first separate account of the Aborigines' [Wantrup page 282]. This is the New South Wales supplement to Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes &c. &c., also issued as a separate 18 page publication, in wrappers. $7000.00
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Joyce (James) ULYSSES.
$55000
Joyce (James) ULYSSES. The boards featuring a Homeric bow device in gilt designed by Eric Gill. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1936. First U.K. edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies; this being No. 86 of 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author. *The first edition of Ulysses to be printed in England, and the most deluxe format published in the author's lifetime. This edition is also the first to contain appendices relating to the legal case following publication of the book, as well as the first bibliography of Joyce. $55,000.00
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Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND.
$20000
Morris (William) THE GOLDEN LEGEND of Master William Caxton done anew. In three volumes. Kelmscott Press, London, 1892. Edition limited to 500 copies. *The Golden Legend was originally intended as the first production of the Kelmscott Press, but due to production difficulties it became the seventh. In July 1890, William Morris had purchased a copy of one of Wynkyn de Worde's reprints of the Caxton translation. Originally compiled by the Archbishop of Milan, Jacobus a Voragine or de Varagine (c. 1230-1298), the book is a repository of the lives and miracles of saints and martyrs. $20,000.00
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Fleming (Ian) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
$3500
Fleming (Ian) FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Pp. 254(last blank); cr. 8vo; black boards, lettered and decorated in silver & red, bottom fore-corner of upper board lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn, with small chips to flap fold extremities and small pieces torn from head and foot of backstrip; Cape, London, 1957. First edition, first impression, Binding A. Gilbert A5a(1.1).*The fifth Bond book, and the first to carry a Richard Chopping dust wrapper. $3,500.00
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Mercer, F. W., calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.
$5000
Mercer, F. W., calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. 26 calligraphic manuscript leaves with tissue guards, comprising an illuminated title page and 24 text leaves, all text beneath illuminated upper border; handsomely bound in full green morocco. 1923. *With the calligrapher's signed presentation inscription to Vyvyan Holland on blank preliminary leaf, dated Christmas 1923. Holland was the son of Oscar Wilde. $5000.00
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