Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller

Member of ANZAAB - Australia

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.

Highlights

Picasso, Pablo: Aristophanes: LYSISTRATA. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1934. Edition limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the artist.

$6000

A new version by Gilbert Seldes with a special introduction by Mr. Seldes and illustrations by Pablo Picasso.

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Thomas Frognall Dibdin. THE LIBRARY COMPANION. London, 1824.

$3000

First edition, one volume issue. With a tipped-in autograph letter from Dibdin, signed, and dated April 15, 1814, to W. Godwin, and with an integral address leaf to Godwin, franked by Earl Spencer (in Bath).

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Anthony Powell. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME. London, 1951-1975.

$9500

First editions, complete in twelve volumes.

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AESOP'S FABLES. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. London, 1936

$1500

One of 525 numbered copies on hand-made paper (total edition 533), signed by the artist.

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Bertram Thomas. ARABIA FELIX. London, 1932.

$1500

With a Foreword by T. E. Lawrence. First edition. With a typed four-page letter, signed, from the author to Captain Michael Scott. The letter is accompanied by a signed Christmas card from Thomas, presumably to Michael Scott.

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Bruce Chatwin. IN PATAGONIA. London, 1977.

$1200

First edition of the author's first book.

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The Second Folio Shakespeare. London, 1632.

$450000

With the rare Aspley imprint, the Droeshout portrait and the first published poem of John Milton; one of approximately 250 copies known to exist today, this copy having been in private Australian ownership for more than seventy years. The earliest edition of Shakespeare that is practicably obtainable on today's market and acknowledged as the most important work in the English language.

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Robert Byron. THE STATION. Athos: Treasures and Men. London, 1928

$9500

First edition. With armorial bookplate of novelist Anthony Powell on upper pastedown, and an inked inscription to him from the author.

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