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1. ADAMS ARTHUR H. Maoriland. And Other Verses. with frontis. (tissue-guard still present) by G.W. Lambert pub. Syd. The Bulletin 1899 1st. ed. or.cl. glt. to spine 12mo. pp.160.XVI. Spine moderately sunned, otherwise very good.   Price: $65.00

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2. ADAMSON ROBERT  Cross The Border Poetry. illustrated from etchings by Gary Shead, cover by Brett Whiteley & Garry Shead, pub. Sydney Prism Books 1977 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 4to. pp.142. Limited to 1000 copies. Fine.    Price: $35.00
3. ALLAN J. ALEX   A Wine-Shop Madonna. And other verses. illus. with frontis. by Walter Seed, with tissue guard. Text dec. pub. Melbourne The Argonaut Press, 1911 1st. ed. or. stiff wrappers, Tied in brown wrappers 12mo. pp.32. Printed in red and black. Limited to 175 copies. The whole work wrought by hand. The author's first book, author of The Old Model School (1934) and Men And Manners In Australia (1945). One of Allan's two volumes of poetry, the second of which would not appear until 1940. An obscure Australian poetry publication. Several short edge tears to the yap edge on front wrapper, no paper label to front wrapper. Previous owner's name on front free e/paper, fine otherwise.   Price: $200.00
4. ALLEN L.H. Patria. Poems. pub. Melbourne Univ. Press, 1941 1st. ed. or.bds. d/w. 8vo. pp.72. sl. faded to edges else a fine copy.    Price: $30.00
5. ANDERSON HUGH The Poet Militant: Bernard O'Dowd - A critical biography. pub. Melbourne 1969 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.158. a fine copy.     Price: $30.00
6. "ANN WINIFRED"  Up Hill And Down. (Poetry) Text illus. By author pub. Melb. S. John Bacon, nd. late 1940's? illus. col. wrappers 8vo. pp.72. Wrappers sl. chipped else v/good.    Price: $25.00
7. ARMOUR JOHN The Road To El Dorado. pub. Melb. Windsor Pub. Co. 1938 1st.ed. or. red cl. 12mo. pp.292.  Pioneering years in Victoria centrally concerned with the gold-rushes and after.   Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Signed by author.   Price: $40.00

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8. ASTLEY THEA Hunting The Wild Pineapple. And other related stories. pub. Melb. Nelson 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.176. A fine copy.     Price: $40.00
9. ASTLEY THEA A Boat Load Of Home Folk. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.218.  d/w. sl. chipped at spine, closed tear to rear of d/w. else v/good.  Price: $35.00

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10. BAKER SIDNEY J. The Australian Language. An Examination of the English Language and English Speech as used in Australia from convict days to the present, with special reference to the growth of indigenous idiom and it's use by Australian Writers. illus. with 4 full page plates t/out. pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1945 1st. ed. (first issue); or. red cl. 8vo. pp.XII.426. Includes chapter on Aborigines and Pidgin English. Suppressed because of alleged libel against the Bulletin newspaper at p.295 which was excised and replaced in most copies of the first edition. Near fine, title slightly faded to spine.  Price: $60.00
11. BECKE LOUIS Wild Life In Southern Seas. illus. with title page vign. pub. Lond. T. Fisher Unwin 1897 Colonial ed. 1st. ed. or. moss green cl. 8vo. pp.370. fore-edge rough-cut. Becke, who also wrote novels of his experiences, made a living in the South Pacific as a sea-trader and wanderer and knew the South-seas. Gilt title darkened otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $250.00
12. BECKE LOUIS Louis Becke "The Rudyard Kipling of the Pacific" "the prince of south sea writers...." Biography by A. Grove Day. pub. Melbourne, Hill of Content 1967 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.176. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
13. BENNETT BRUCE Ed. by. The Literature Of Western Australia. illus. with 25 full page plates t/out. pub. Perth Uni. of W.A. Press 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XVI.304. Fine.  Price: $40.00

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14. BLAKE L.J. Australian Writers. Covers Australian writers and their works for almost two centuries from 1788 to 1966. pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VII.268. d/w. sunned to spine, fine.   Price: $35.00
15. BOLDREWOOD ROLF   Shearing In The Riverina 1865.  illus. with frontis. & 5 line drawings by Francis J. Broadhurst. 5 or.cl. d/w. 8vo.square pp.50. Almost fine copy.    Price: $30.00

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16. BOLDREWOOD ROLF -  The Miner's Right.  illus. with advts. front and rear, facsimile Miner's Right. pub. E.W. Cole, Macmillan 1899, or. red cloth, 8vo. pp.188,4 advts. Printed in double column. sl. rubbed, lacks f/free e/paper. otherwise very good copy.   Price: $60.00
17. BOLDREWOOD ROLF  The Ghost Camp. Or the Avengers pub. London Macmillan 1902 1st. ed. (Macmillian's Colonial Library) or. blue, boards with gilt title to spine, cr.8vo. pp.398. A Tasmanian romance. lightly rubbed at the edges and the corners, else good.   Price: $175.00
18. BOOTE HENRY The Siren City. Poems. pub. Sydney, "The Worker" Trustees 1935 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. oblong pp.128. slightly chipped d/w. which has been damp stained to spine effecting free e/paper edge, else very good condition. signed by author.   Price: $45.00 
19. BOYD MARTIN The Cardboard Crown. pub. Lond. The Cresset Press 1952 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.256. very small closed tear to front of d/w. otherwise near fine.   Price: . $75.00
20. BOYD MARTIN Much Else In Italy. A Subjective Travel Book. illus. with frontis. & 2 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond Macmillan 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.184.  Name to f/free e/paper, two short closed tears to d/w. price clipped otherwise near fine.  Price: $60.00
21. BOYD MARTIN The Montforts. pub. Adelaide, Rigby 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.254. v/good copy in slightly chipped d/w.   Price: $25.00

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22. BOYD MARTIN Day Of My Delight. An Anglo-Australian memoir. illus. with 10 plates (paintings & drawings by various members of the Boyd family), pub. Melb. Lansdowne 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.306.  Almost fine copy.   Price: $40.00
23. BOYD MARTIN A Life. Written by Brenda Niall; illus. with 20 full page plates t/out. one col. including index, tinted end-papers, pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1988 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.268. This is the first biography of Martin Boyd (1893-1972), drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews with Boyd's family and friends in Australia, England and Italy; Fine.   Price: $40.00
24. BRADY E.J.   The Ways Of Many Waters  illus. with title page vign. sketch drawings through the text, pub. Sydney Standard Publishing Company, 1913 or. dec. blue and black cloth gilt to spine and lettering to front board, cr.8vo; pp.VI.156.16; neat name to f/free e/paper else fine.    Price: $50.00
25. BRENNAN CHRISTOPHER edited by A. R. Chisolm, & J. J. Quinn The Verse Christopher John Brennan and The Prose Of Christopher Brennan In Two Volumes. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1960 1st.ed. & 1962 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w.'s 8vo. pp.302. & 462. Christopher John Brennan (1870-1932) was an Australian poet. Dustwrappers little browned else fine set.    Price: $165.00
26. BRENNAN CHRISTOPHER The Verse Christopher John Brennan  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, dustwrapper little browned else fine   Price: $40.00 
27. BRENNAN CHRISTOPHER The Verse Of Christopher Brennan. & The Prose Of Christopher Brennan. 2 vols. ed. by A.R. Chisholm and J.J. Quinn. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 reprint. & 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.'s 8vo. pp.302, 462, d/w.'s. sl. browned to spine otherwise fine.   Price: $100.00
28. BRENNAN NIALL Vice Versa: Verses and Poetry. pub. Melbourne Hawthorn Press 1975 1st.ed. (The Hawthorn Poets, 12) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.52. Book of verse from Melbourne writer and journalist. Closed tear to d/w. else v/good.  Price: $25.00
29. BRENT OF BIN BIN - Prelude To Waking.  (Miles Franklin) A novel in the First Person and Parentheses. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.246. set in the mid-twenties in England, d/w. torn lacks small piece, top front panel near spine, short closed tears, otherwise v/good.   Price: $65.00
30. BRENT OF BIN BIN (Miles Franklin) Ten Creeks Run. A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Upper Murrumbidgee. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1952 1st. Aust. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.276. d/w. lacks piece bottom of spine, closed tears, slight chipping top of spine, otherwise very good.   Price: $50.00
31. BRENT OF BIN BIN Cockatoos. A story of youth and exodists. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.274. price clipped. Fine.   Price: $100.00
32. BRENT OF BIN BIN (Miles Franklin) Back To Bool Bool. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 Second Edition or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.354. A Ramiparous Novel with Seven Prominent Characters and a Hantle of Others disposed as the Atolls of Oceania's Archipelagoes. Lightly chipped to extremities, front panel & top and bottom of spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $40.00

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33. BRENT OF BIN BIN (Miles Franklin) Gentlemen At Gyang Gyang. pub. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.IV.220 A tale of the Jumbuck Pads on the Summer Runs. Short closed tear to d/w. at folding flap at front panel, fine crease down spine else near fine.    Price: $60.00  Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

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34. BULLETIN  BOOK  THE A selection from the  1960's.  illus. with  some  col.  plates, cartoons,  drawings.  pub.  Melb. Cheshire 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.120. Fine.   Price: $30.00
35. BULLETIN RECITER-The   A Collection Of Verses For Recitation From "The Bulletin"(1880-1901) illus. with drawings by Includes illus. by Norman Lindsay, Hop, Souter, Fischer, Leist, etc. pub. Sydney he New South Wales Bookstall Company 1901 fourth ed. or. pictorial stiff wrappers 12mo. pp. XII.248.16 bookseller's catalogue. Includes verse by Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, etc. Wrappers browned, chip to lower front wrapper/spine, else very good.   Price: $65.00
36. CAREY PETER Oscar And Lucinda. pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1988 st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.512. Carey's third novel which received numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, the National Book Council's Banjo Award and the SA Festival Award. The novel was turned into a film directed by Gillian Armstrong. v/fine.   Price: $60.00
37. CAREY PETER The Tax Inspector. pub. Qld. Uni. Of Qld. Press 1991 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.280. almost fine.  Contemporary novel set in 1990s Sydney. Fine.   Price: $35.00
38. CAREY PETER The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith. illus. with map, pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1994 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.422.  Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
39. CAREY PETER Jack Maggs. pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1997 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.392.  Story of a man who was deported to Australia-who has now returned home to 1830's London. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00

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40. CATO NANCY The Lady Lost In Time. pub. Syd. Collins 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174     Price: $25.00
41. CATO NANCY All The Rivers Run. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.290.  Author's first novel, since made into TV mini-series; set in the Australian bush around the mighty Murray River in times now long passed. Slight chip to d/w., bump to top of front board at fore-edge, short closed tear to rear of d/w. otherwise very good.  Price: $45.00
42. CATO NANCY Forefathers. pub. Lond. New English Library 1983 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.686.  Fine.  Price: $35.00
43. CHISHOLM ALEC H. The Making Of A Sentimental Bloke. A sketch of the remarkable career of C.J. Dennis. illus. with frontis. & 17 full page plates pub. Melb. Georgian House 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.138. Chip to d/w. otherwise near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
44. CHISHOLM A.R. The Familiar Presence And Other Reminiscences. Events around 1914. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1966 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.98.   Price: $30.00
45. CHISHOLM A.R. Men Were My Milestones. Australian Portraits and Sketches by A.R. Chisholm. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.146.  Near fine in price clipped d/w.   Price: $30.00
46. CLARK AXEL Christopher Brennan. A Critical Biography. illus. with col. frontis. & 29 plates 5 dwgs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.IX.342. Poet and scholar. Was often spectacular and sometimes, to his contemporaries, terrible or scandalous. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
47. CLARK LOUIS H. Romance And Reality. Collection of poems. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. National Press 1944 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.110. Author's inscription to f/free e/paper, & signed. sl. chipped d/w. else fine. Price: $40.00
48. CLARK LOUIS H. Romance And Reality. A collection of poems. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. The National Press 1944 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.110. v/good copy in the torn d/w.    Price: $25.00
49. CLARK MAVIS THORPE Jingaroo. illus. with title page vign. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.186. lower edge of pages in margin lightly damp stained t/out. d/w. very sl. torn & chipped at top of spine, otherwise v/good.   Price: $35.00
50. CLARKE MARCUS For The Term Of His Natural Life  pub. London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1884. New edition, crown 8vo, original dark green cloth, covers embossed with floral decoration, gilt lettered spine, pp.VIII.472 top edge rough-cut. First published under the title 'His Natural Life' in 1874, A near fine copy, lettering to spine very bright, clean bright cloth; neat name in ink to front free e/paper.  small mark to front board.   Price: $350.00   (See picture-press   )     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
51. CLARKE PATRICIA  Pen Portraits. Woman writers and journalists in nineteenth century Australia. illus. with text plates t/out. pub. Syd. Allen & Unwin 1988 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.290. fine copy. Price: $50.00

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52. CLIFT CHARMIAN The World Of Charmian Clift. illus. with several dwgs. by Martin Johnston pub. Syd. Ure Smith. 1970 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256. fine copy in sl. torn d/w.   Price: $25.00
53. CLIFT CHARMIAN & GEORGE JOHNSTON The Sponge Divers. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. name to pastdown e/paper sl. silverfished to rear of d/w.  Novel set on the Greek island of Kalymnos. small closed tear to the front panel near spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $60.00
54. CLIFT CHARMIAN Walk To The Paradise Gardens. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.206. sl. silverfished to edge and rear of d/w.   Price: $40.00
55. CLIFT CHARMIAN Honour's Mimic. pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Minor shelf wear to rear of d/w. price clipped else near fine.   Price: $75.00
56. CLIFT CHARMIAN Peel Me A Lotus. title page & text illus. by Nancy Dignan. pub. Syd. Collins 1969 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196. Neat name to title page, small chip to top of d/w. else near fine.  Price: $35.00
57. COLEMAN PETER Obscenity Blasphemy Sedition. Censorship in Australia. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Brisb. Jacaranda Press nd.196-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196.  Covers censorship of novelists, sex reformers, scandal-mongering journalists, blasphemers, political revolutionaries, and publishers of crime or horror comics. fine.   Price: $30.00
58. COLEMAN PETER The Heart Of James McAuley. Life and Work of the Australian Poet. illus. with 5 plates t/out. pub. Syd. Wildcat Press 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.132. McAuley was active in politics and new Guinea affairs. In 1954, after the Labor party split, he was a central figure in the anti communist group of B.A. Santamaria, although his active political role was quite short. He became a catholic in 1953. Fine.   Price: $25.00
59. COLLINS TOM (Joseph Furphy)  Rigby's Romance. A "Made In Australia" Novel. With Foreword by R.G. Howarth. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1946 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXII.262. His second and favourite novel, following his successful Such Is Life. This is the first complete publication, taken from a serial published in the Broken Hill Barrier Truth newspaper. Slight chipping to rear of d/w. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $40.00
60. COLLINS TOM (Joseph Furphy) The Buln-Buln And The Brolga. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1948 or.cl. 12mo. pp.X.144.  sl. chipped d/w. top and bottom of spine else fine.  Price: $35.00

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61. CORRIS PETER The Gulliver Fortune. pub. Syd. Bantum Books 1989 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.406.  With both parents dying on their way to Australia in 1910, their several children end up in different parts of the world. The hunt for their descendants is on when it is discovered that a large heritage awaits them. Very fine.   Price: $30.00

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62. COURTNEY MARGO Flight Into Paradise. published, Melbourne Surrey Press 1953 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.300.  Set in Java, here is romance and intrigue. very fine copy.   Price: $40.00
63. COWAN PETER Summer. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.190. Novel set in the wheat country of WA. Near fine.   Price: $35.00
64. COZENS B. The Princess Of The Mallee. A Typical Story of Australian life in the Mallee illus. with frontis. pub. Melbourne, The Montfort Press 1903 1st. ed. or. dark grey card wrappers, 12mo. pp.200 Presentation copy signed by author. A near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
65. CRAIG DAVID First Poems. pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1944 or. dark orange covered bds. 8vo. pp.32. Edition limited to 300 copies of which 50 have been specially bound and signed by the author, this being a signed presentation copy.   Price: $50.00     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
66. CRAWFORD IRENE VICTORIA "Toria."   Links Of Friendship. Publisher: Melbourne; Wyatt & Watts Pty Ltd, 1942 Author of Smiling Through. or. illus. (flags) stiff wrappers 8vo. pp.62. Slight insect marks to spine else almost fine copy.     Price: $25.00
67. CROLL   ROBERT  HENDERSON  I  Recall.   Collections   and Recollections. illus. e/papers, frontis. 16 plates 2  line drawings  within text. pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens  1939 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.188. Robert Henderson Croll (1869-1947), was an Australian author and public servant with the Education Department of Victoria. He was very active in Melbourne's literary & arts scene, and a frequent contributor to newspapers & journals. Fine.   Price: $40.00
68. CROLL   ROBERT  HENDERSON  I  Recall.   Collections   and Recollections. illus. e/papers, frontis. 16 plates 2  line drawings  within text. pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens  1939 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.188. Robert Henderson Croll (1869-1947), was an Australian author and public servant with the Education Department of Victoria. He was very active in Melbourne's literary & arts scene, and a frequent contributor to newspapers & journals. Author's inscribed and signed presentation copy dated 6/9/1939. Near fine in the clean, bright d/w.    Price: $65.00
69. CROSS ZORA Daughters Of The Seven Mile. The Love Story of an Australian Woman. pub. Lond. Hutchinson & Co. nd.192-? or.blu.cl. 12mo. pp.288.  Set in the Queensland bush. cloth sl. stained to corner, else v/good copy.   Price: $45.00
70. CROSS ZORA Songs Of Love And Life. illus. e/papers frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1917 or.cl. 8vo.obl. pp.152.  Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, (1919) sl. spotting to e/papers otherwise fine.   Price: $55.00

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71. CUMMINS H.H. That Reminds Me.  A Collection of the Best Stories of Forty Years pub. Hobart Oldham, Beddome & Meredith nd. 193-? or.bds. d/w. 12mo. pp.102. Sellotape to d/w. at spine, else fine .  Price: $25.00

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72. CUSACK DYMPHNA  Morning Sacrifice. A play in III Acts. (9 characters) First presented by the Western Australian Festivals Inc. at the Repertory Theatre Perth on October 8th 1942 pub. Syd. Mulga Pub. Dec. 1943 1st. ed. or. bds. grey/blue d/w. cr.8vo. pp.90. sunned to spine otherwise a fine copy.   Price: $95.00
73. CUSACK DYMPHNA  Black Lightning. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.249. A lonely middle-aged woman with no goal in life discovers that her dead son has left a five-year-old daughter by a part-Aboriginal girl.  Fine copy in price clipped d/w.   Price: $40.00
74. CUSACK DYMPHNA & JAMES FLORENCE Come In Spinner. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1953 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.416. d/w.  Money is easily made & easily spent. officers in the Services of many nations, soldiers on leave, black marketeers, and men about town, war widowers all, jostle one another in the hotel South Pacific. d/w. chipped otherwise good clean copy.   Price: $25.00
75. CUSACK DYMPHNA Heatwave In Berlin. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.268. Novel of an Australian woman in post-war Germany. Dustwrapper has small chip lower spine, insect marks to fold in d/w, at fore-edge. Otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $35.00
76. CUSACK FRANK The Australian Christmas. with several text & e/paper  illus. line drawings, cartoons,  pub. Lond. Heinemann 1966  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.220. A look at Christmas in the Antipodes through an anthology of stories, diary extracts, carols, etc. from Steele Rudd, Bernard O'Reilly, Henry Lawson to Jules Verne, Marcus Clarke etc. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $25.00
77. DARK ELEANOR Storm Of Time. illus. with e/paper maps, pub. Syd. Collins 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.590. chipped d/w. otherwise fine. Price: $30.00

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78. DARROCH ROBERT Text by. D.H. Lawrence In Australia. Illus. with frontis. & numerous text plates t/out, pub. Melb. Macmillan 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIII.130.  An account of Lawrence's time in Australia, in 1922, which formed the background to 'Kangaroo', which he wrote in New South Wales. Fine.   Price: $30.00

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79. DAVIS NORMA L. Earth Cry. Poems. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1943 or. grey & blue wrappers 8vo. pp.92. Little sunned to spine otherwise very good.  Price: $25.00
80. DEAN WALLACE Three Comrades In Fiji. pub. Lond. Lutterworth 1939 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.256. some spotting t/out. & wear to cloth, lacks frontis.  Price: $25.00
81. DENNIS C.J. ("DEN") - Backblock Ballads And Other Verses. E.W. Cole, Melbourne, n.d. 1913 1st ed. Original blue illus. cloth by Low. 200pp. lacks f/free e/paper Very good copy, . C.J. Dennis's first book.    Price: $200.00.       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
82. DENNIS C.J. The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke. with illus. e/papers col. frontis. title page vign. & text illus. by Hal Guy pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 Forty-ninth Thousand or.illus.bds. 12mo. pp.126.24. catalogue at rear. Slightly browned to spine, lacks f/free e/paper, slight flecking to front board & small stain else v/good copy.   Price: $40.00
83. DENNIS C.J. The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke. with illus. e/papers, b/w. text illus. and cover design by Hal Guy, Foreword by Henry Lawson. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 Eighteenth Thousand or.illus.bds. 12mo. pp.126.24. catalogue at rear. Gift inscription in ink pen dated Nov. 23^rd 1916 to f/free e/paper, slightly browned to spine, else v/good copy.   Price: $65.00
84. DENNIS C.J. The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke. with illus. e/papers, b/w. text illus. and cover design by Hal Guy, Foreword by Henry Lawson. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1915 Second Edition or.illus.bds. 12mo. pp.126.24. catalogue at rear. Hint of browning otherwise near fine copy.   Price: $750.00
85. DENNIS C.J. The Songs Of A Sentimental Bloke. with illus. e/papers col. frontis. title page vign. & text illus. by Hal Guy pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 Fifty-First Thousand or.illus.bds. 18mo. Trench ed.  pp.138. Gift inscription to past down e/paper, else v/good copy.   Price: $75.00
86. DENNIS C.J. The Moods Of Ginger Mick. Trench ed. (Pocket ed. for the trenches); illus. e/papers col. frontis. & text illus. by Hal Gye. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 1st ed. or. red illus.bds. 18mo. pp.160. gift inscription on front end-paper, slightly faded to spine otherwise v/good.   Price: $60.00
87. DENNIS C.J. The Moods Of Ginger Mick. illus. with col. frontis. title page vign. of a Digger on a Donkey at the Pyramids, full page b/w illustrations in the text by Hal Gye. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 1st.ed. or. illus. green cloth, black decorations on front and lettering on spine, 8vo. obl. pp.144. A series of humorous verses about an Australian soldier. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, sl. spotting to page edges otherwise fine bright copy.   Price: $60.00
88. DENNIS C.J. The Moods Of Ginger Mick. illus. with col. frontis. title page vign. of a Digger on a Donkey at the Pyramids, full page b/w illustrations in the text by Hal Gye. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1916 1st.ed. or. illus. green cloth, black decorations on front and lettering on spine, 8vo. obl. pp.144. A series of humorous verses about an Australian soldier. Slightly rubbed/foxing otherwise good copy.   Price: $40.00
89. DENNIS C.J. Digger Smith. col. frontis. title page vign. b/w. text illus. by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus Robertson 1918 1st.ed. or. illus. bds. 8vo. obl. pp.114.IV. Near fine copy.   Price: $50.00
90. DENNIS C.J. Digger Smith. col. frontis. title page vign. b/w. text illus. by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus Robertson 1918 1st.ed. or. illus. green bds. 8vo. obl. pp.114.IV. Boards with a touch of foxing & insect specks to the cloth, a very good copy.   Price: $35.00

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91. DENNIS C.J. The Glugs Of Gosh. with frontis. & text illus. 6 b/w. full page illus. by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus Robertson 1917 1st. ed. or. illus. cl. 8vo.obl. pp.130. Slight spotting otherwise v/good.   Price: $50.00
92. DENNIS C.J. The Glugs Of Gosh. e/paper illus. col. frontis. title page vign. text illus by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1917 1st.ed. or. illus bds. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.130. Original pictorial dust-wrapper has front flap detached, slight chipping to extremities otherwise a fine bright copy.   Price: $150.00        Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

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93. DENNIS C.J. ("DEN") Backblock Ballads And Later Verses. illus. with colour frontispiece and photo on half-title page. pub. Sydney Angus Robertson 1918 1st ed. (suppressed ed.) original olive green illus. cloth, endpaper illustration of pioneer woman feeding the chooks by Hal Gye; cr.8vo square pp.152 followed by 4 publisher's catalogue. (In the frontispiece the bullocky is wielding the whip from the right hand side) lightly sunned and mildly discoloured, previous owner's name on half-title, two pages browned where newspaper clipping stored else very good copy.   Price: $65.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
94. DENNIS C.J. Backblock Ballads And Later Verses.  e/paper illus. col. frontis. title page vign. text illus by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1919 1st. ed. (The re-issue with the bullocky on the correct side of the team). or. illus bds. cr.8vo square pp.152,4 publisher's catalogue. 4 fleck spots to front board, ink spot to title page and facing page, slight foxing else v/good copy.   Price: $45.00
95. DENNIS C.J. Jim Of The Hills. A Story in Rhyme. illus. with col. frontis. & title page vign. by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1919 1st.ed. or.grn. illus.cl. 8vo.obl. pp.94,4 sl. flecked to boards, two pages (in advts. at rear) browned where newspaper was stored otherwise near fine.   Price: $45.00
96. DENNIS C.J. Jim Of The Hills. A Story in Rhyme. illus. with col. frontis. & title page vign. by Hal Gye pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1919 1st.ed. or.grn. illus. cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.94,4 advts. Dustwrapper chipped, lacks pieces at spine otherwise a near fine copy.   Price: $75.00
97. DENNIS C J - Doreen. Illustrated in colour by Hal Gye, including colour vignette tipped onto front cover. pub. Sydney, Angus and Robertson Ltd October (1917) Soft cover booklet style with cord. or. grey wrappers 12mo. pp.28. fine copy.   Price: $40.00
98. DENNIS C.J. Random Verse. A Collection of verse and prose. Pub. posthumously, illus. with title page vign. text dec. pub. Melb. Hallcraft Pub. 1952 1st.ed. or. cl. b/w. d/w. cr.4to. pp.96 previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, slight edge wear else v/good.   Price: $40.00
99. DENNIS C.J. The World Of The Sentimental Bloke. Compiled by Barry Watts. illus. with frontis. & many dwgs. t/out. some full page, line drawings, Hal Gye book covers; pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. clear cellophane d/w. 4to.obl. pp.128.A scrapbook biography of C.J. Dennis and his times. "..The World of the Sentimental Bloke brings to light for the first time, in book form, some hitherto unpublished verse of Dennis, hinting of his tender and unrequited love for Florence Mitchell." Fine.   Price: $35.00

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100. DENNIS C.J. Biography by Alec H. Chisholm. The Life And Times Of C.J. Dennis. illus. with b/w. plates, dwgs. t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1982 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224. v/fine copy.    Price: $35.00
101. DENNIS C.J. biography by Margaret Herron. Down The Years. The Life Story of C.J. Dennis. As told by his wife. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Hallcraft Pub. 1953 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.88. fine in the chipped d/w.    Price: $45.00
102. DENNIS C.J. by Geoffrey Hutton C. J. Dennis The Sentimental Bloke. An appraisal after 100 years of his birth. illus. with frontis. portrait, pub. Melbourne, Premier's Department, 1976 or. stiff stapled illustrated wrapper 8vo. pp.52. Fine.   Price: $20.00
103. DEVANEY JAMES Poetry In Our Time. A review of contemporary values. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.114. a fine copy.   Price: $30.00
104. DUTTON GEOFFREY Findings And Keepings Selected Poems 1939-1969 pub. Adelaide. Australian Letters. 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. Limited to 1000 copies.  Fore and lower edges uncut. Limited to 1000 copies. fine.   Price: $35.00
105. DURACK MARY Keep Him My Country. illus. with e/paper maps, pub. Lond. Constable 1955 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.352.  novel is set in the untamed country of North Western Australia. d/w. little creased at bottom of spine, short closed tear otherwise very good copy.   Price: $50.00
106. DWYER JAMES FRANCIS "Leg-Irons On Wings." illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.284.XLI.  An autobiographical work of the expatriate Australian born author (1874-1952), who served a prison term in Australia and on his release left became a successful journalist in Australia and America.  v/good.   Price: $45.00
107. DWYER JAMES FRANCIS " Leg-Irons On Wings." illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.284.XLI. An autobiographical work of the expatriate Australian born author (1874-1952), who served a prison term in Australia and on his release left became a successful journalist in Australia and America. Nice bright d/w. slight shelf wear to rear, short closed tear near spine, else v/good.   Price: $60.00
108. ELDERSHAW M. BARNARD Tomorrow And Tomorrow. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1947 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.466.  Futuristic novel in which the narrator is an historian writing about Sydney. Slight stain to f/free e/paper, chip taken from head of d/w., affecting the end of the author's name, small chip to front panel at top otherwise near fine.   Price: $55.00
109. ELLIOTT BRIAN Singing To The Cattle And Other Australian Essays. Essays of Australian literature. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1947 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.186. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $40.00

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110. ELLIOTT SUMNER LOCKE The Man Who Got Away. pub. N.Y. Harper & Co. 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.367  The story of a man who goes backwards through his life, only to find at the beginning of it what the ending was all about. sl. sunned to spine otherwise near fine.   Price: $35.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
111. ELLIOTT SUMNER LOCKE Going. pub. Melb. Macmillan 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.170. Fine. Price: $40.00
112. ELLIOTT SUMNER LOCKE Careful, He Might Hear You. pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1963 2nd.imp Sept. (1^st imp. July) or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.340. almost fine copy.   Price: $35.00
113. ELSUM WILLIAM HENRY T' Other Side O' Th' Hill pub. Melbourne Elsum Printing Coy. n.d. 192- 1st. ed. original stapled beige wrappers 8vo. pp.24. Sentimental Christmas story. Slightly silverfished to edges else v/good.   Price: $25.00
114. ESSON LOUIS The Southern Cross & Other Plays. pub. Melbourne Robinson & Mullens nd. l94-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Three plays The Southern Cross, The Bride of Gospel Place & Mother & Son and memories and impressions of Esson by Brady, Prichard, Palmer, Davison & Franklin. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise fine.   Price: $40.00

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115. ESSON LOUIS Ballads Of Old Bohemia. An anthology of Louis Esson. ed. by Hugh Anderson. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Red Rooster Press 1980 illus.wps. 8vo. pp.316. v/fine copy signed by Hugh Anderson.    Price: $30.00

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116. EVANS W.J. - Rhymes Without Reason. pub. Adel. J.L Bonython & Co. "Advertiser" Office 1898 1st ed. or. cream wrappers, uncut, clean copy, spine repaired with brown paper at one stage sl. chipped to lower spine, else fine clean copy.    Price: $80.00.         Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
117. EVERLASTIN!-The Ballads of Empire. Tribute to men & women of W.W.I. col. frontis. text illus. t/out. pub. Melb. DeGaris House nd.191-? 1st.ed. illus.bds. 12mo.obl. pp.98.   Price: $35.00
118. FACEY A.B. A Fortunate Life. The illustrated ed. illus. with plates, diagrams t/out. pub. Melb. Viking 1984 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.342.  Short closed tear top edge else near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
119. FINLAY EILEEN Journey Of Freedom. pub. Syd. Pub. Dist. Co. 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.282. very good copy in the chipped d/w.   Price: $25.00

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120. FINLAY EILEEN The Hills Of Home. pub. Melb. John Edwards nd.1953? or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.304. life in South Gippsland, Victoria. Chipped & torn d/w. else v/good.  Price: $25.00
121. FINLAY EILEEN Undefeated. pub. Syd. H. John Edwards Co. nd.194-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. adhesive tape to d/w. otherwise very good copy.    Price: $25.00
122. FINLAY EILEEN Storm Boyd's Family. published Sydney John Edwards Co. 1952 or.cl. 8vo. pp.252.  good copy.    Price: $25.00
123. FINNIN MARY Look Down Olympians. Poems pub. Melb. W.A. Hamer 1939 or. deep burgundy wrappers glt. to front, roy.8vo. pp.48. slightly foxed to page edges else fine.   Price: $40.00 

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124. FINNIN MARY Off Shears. (poems). (1958-1978). pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.144. edition limited to 300 copies. Slightly shelf worn, faint mark from bookseller's sticker, slight insect marks to spine, otherwise near fine.   Price: $35.00
125. FITZGERALD ROBERT D.     Moonlight Acre. pub. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1944. Second edition. or. printed boards d/w. cr.8vo. pp.54. Contains the award winning poem 'Essay on Memory', as well as 'Moonlight Acre', 'Copernicus', and 'The Hidden Bole'. Short closed tear to d/w. else very good copy.   Price: $30.00
126. FLYNN ERROL. Showdown. (novel). illus. with  title  page vign. pub.  Syd. & Melb. Invincible  Press.  1946  1st.ed. or. beige/grey cl. 8vo. pp.228. Before his film career, Errol Flynn captained a commercial boat in New Guinea. A scientist hired him to sail up the Sepik River in order to photograph head-hunters. A few years later Australian film producer Charles Chauvel saw some of the footage and cast Flynn as Fletcher Christian in 1933's "In the Wake of the Bounty". "Showdown offers colourful, fast moving adventure, intriguing romance and an insight into the lives of a group of Hollywood stars, producers and technicians against a New Guinea background." Front free e/paper cut else v/good.   Price: $45.00
127. FLYNN ERROL. Showdown. (novel). illus. with  title  page vign. pub.  Syd. & Melb. Invincible  Press.  1946  1st.ed. or. beige/grey cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.228. Before his film career, Errol Flynn captained a commercial boat in New Guinea. A scientist hired him to sail up the Sepik River in order to photograph head-hunters. A few years later Australian film producer Charles Chauvel saw some of the footage and cast Flynn as Fletcher Christian in 1933's "In the Wake of the Bounty. "Showdown offers colourful, fast moving adventure, intriguing romance and an insight into the lives of a group of Hollywood stars, producers and technicians against a New Guinea background." sl. silverfished to front board, d/w. chipped & torn lacks small piece to lower spine, otherwise v/good.   Price: $85.00
128. FOSTER DAVID    Moonlite. pub. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. green d/w. white lettering to spine. 8vo. pp.X.223. Fine. Author's third novel and winner of a National Book Council Award 1981. Fine.    Price: $30.00
129. FRANKLIN MILES Joseph Furphy. in Association with Kate Baker The Legend of a Man and his Book. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1944 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.190. Miles Franklin's study of Joseph Furphy (Tom Collins), with biographical details and analysis of major works such as Rigby's Romance, and with focus on Such Is Life; dustwrapper slightly tanned to spine and around edges of front panel, tape marks to inside of d/w., small closed tear to d/w. otherwise very good copy.   Price: $45.00
130. FRANKLIN MILES All That Swagger. pub. Sydney The Bulletin Newspaper Co 1936 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.418 Winner of the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize 1936 Second Australian edition. First published October 1936, or. red cl. 8vo. pp.500. The binding is solid, the pages are clean, slight fading to the spine, newspapers clipping about the author adhered to past-down e/paper and free e/paper, slight shelf wear otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $50.00
131. FRANKLIN MILES My Career Goes Bung. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.234.  My Career Goes Bung was written in 1900 but was not published until 1946: it was considered too audacious. Slightly shelf worn d/w. with short closed tear at spine. A very good copy.   Price: $60.00
132. FRANKLIN MILES Laughter Not For A Cage. Notes of Australian Writing, with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function and achievements of the novels in three half-centuries. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. (showing a kookaburra on a grey background), 8vo. pp.X.238. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, old tape marks inside d/w. not showing through, slight shelf wear, else v/good.   Price: $45.00
133. FRANKLIN MILES Childhood At Brindabella. My first ten years. illus. with frontis. 4 full page plates, map endpapers. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.162. Memoirs of the author's rural life on her parents' station near Canberra and her grandmother's property near Talbingo. Short closed tear to d/w. at spine and fine diagonal crease, else near fine.  Price: $55.00

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134. FRANKLIN MILES My Brilliant Career. (illus. with the film costume and set designs by Luciana Arrighi,} pub. Syd. Angus Robertson 1980 ed. or.cl.. d/w. 8vo. pp. 232. Fine.  Price: $30.00
135. FRANKLIN MILES On Dearborn Street. (Previously unpub. novel.) pub. Qld. Uni. of Qld. Press 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.219. "Set and written in the United States, this previously unpublished Miles Franklin novel covers the turbulent years just prior to America's entry into World War II. " Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
136. FRANKLIN MILES Text by Verna Coleman Miles Franklin In America. Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career. illus. with text plates t/out. pub. Syd. Sirus Books 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.220.XXII.    Price: $35.00

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137. FREEHILL NORMAN with DYMPHNA CUSACK Dymphna Cusack. biography. illus. with 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Nelson 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.200. small tear to d/w.   Price: $30.00
138. FRIEDERICH WERNER P.    Australia In Western Imaginative Prose Writings 1600-1960. An Anthology and a History of Literature. Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Press 1967 Original blue cloth 8vo. [no dustwrapper issued], pp.XVI.280 A very good copy. Examination of the idea of "Australia" especially as seen by such non-British writers as Paul Wenz and Friedrich Gerstaker.    Price: $35.00
139. GARNER HELEN Monkey Grip pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. Author's first novel. A novel of love and drug addiction, winner of the Australian National Book Council Award. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, crease in return flap of d/w. else near fine copy.   Price: $55.00
140. GARNER HELEN Monkey Grip  pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.246. Author's first novel. A novel of love and drug addiction, later made into a film. Winner of the Australian National Book Council Award. fine copy.   Price: $100.00
141. GARNER HELEN Honour & Other People's Children. Two stories. pub. Melbourne McPhee Gribble 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.156.  Fine copy.  Price: $30.00
142. GARNER HELEN The Children's Bach. pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.96.  Fine copy.    Price: $30.00
143. GELLERT LEON Songs Of A Campaign illus. with 16 b/w line drawings by Norman Lindsay pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1917 third enlarged edition or. green cloth black lettering on front and spine, cr.8vo.obl. pp.X.126 and 2 publisher's advertisements. Leon Gellert wrote a literary column for the Sydney Morning Herald. His poems are a valuable part of the history of the Dardanelles Campaign. Minor flecking to the cloth, spine slightly darkened, otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $55.00

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144. GILMORE MARY Marri'd And Other Verses. pub. Melbourne & Sydney, George Robertson & Co. nd. (1910) 1st ed. Original gilt-decorated moss green cloth cr.8vo. pp.XII.148. lacks f/free e/paper some very light flecking to front, otherwise fine bright copy.   Price: $300.00        Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
145. GILMORE MARY   The Passionate Heart Poems. illus. with frontis. (portrait) pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson, 1918 1st. ed. or. moss green cl. 12mo. square pp.XII.172. Little browned to spine, sl. rubbed, ex. Postal Institute lib. copy, some stamps in text, tape to rear past-down e/paper. date stamps to rear free e/paper, very good and firm otherwise.    Price: $70.00
146. GILMORE MARY The Wild Swan. Poems. illus. with title page dec. pub. Melb. Robertson & Mullens 1930 1st.ed. or. stiff bds. 8vo.obl. past-down d/w. title pasted to front board & spine pp.218. sl. spotted, otherwise fine.   Price: $100.00
147. GILMORE MARY Selected Verse. pub. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1969 or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.332.  Slight shelf wear else a very good copy.    Price: $40.00
148. GILMORE MARY A Tribute. with Dymphna Cusack (Foreword), T. Inglis Moore (Introduction), Barrie Overden (Biographical Notes). illus. with col. frontis. & 16 full page plates pub. Syd. Aust. Book Society 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.224. Includes bibliography.  William Dobell d/w. Includes bibliography. Slightly chipped d/w. else v/good.   Price: $35.00
149. GILMORE MARY Letters Of. Selected and Ed. by W.H. Wilde and T. Inglis Moore. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1980 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXX.428. fine.   Price: $65.00
150. GILMORE MARY Old Days Old Ways. A Book of Recollections. With notes on the life of Dame Mary Gilmore by Barry Ovenden and Illus. with dwgs. by Robert Avitabile, text plates. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1986 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.248.  front free e/paper short closed tear. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00
151. GILMORE MARY Centenary. Readers & Writers Australasian Book Society News. (Newsheet) Mary Gilmore Centenary Issue August, 1965. pub. Syd. 4to. pp.4.   Price: $20.00

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152. GILMORE MARY Courage A Grace. A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore. by W.H. Wilde illus. with 22 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.490.  Very fine.   Price: $40.00
153. GILMORE MARY Courage A Grace. A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore. by W.H. Wilde illus. with 22 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1988 p/b. 8vo. pp.XVI.490. Very fine.   Price: $25.00
154. `GILROONEY' (R.J. CASSIDY) The Land Of The Starry Cross. Poems. pub. Melbourne Lothian 1911 or.glt.cl. sm.8vo. pp.208.XVI.advts. Near fine copy.    Price: $45.00
155. GOODE CYRIL E. The Bridge Party At Boyanup. and other Verses. illus. with frontis. portrait; pub. Melb. J. roy Stevens 1943 1st. ed. or.bds. d/w. 8vo. pp.46. d/w. torn , lacks piece top and bottom of spine otherwise fine, presentation copy signed & dated "To my friend Margaret Cowen with very best wishes Cyril E Goode 18/11/50". Signature of 'Margaret Cowen' on front free e/paper Price: $40.00 

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156. GOODGE W.T.  Hits! Skits! And Jingles! pub. Syd. The Bulletin Newspaper 1899 1st ed. or. cream, red and brown wood grain wrappers 8vo. pp.VIII.174. spine chipped top and bottom, binding little loose, otherwise good copy.    Price: $75.00.          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
157. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY Poems. with frontis. & 11 text illus. for "The Roll of the Kettledrum" pub. Melb. A.H. Massina 1894 or.limp cl. 8vo. pp.354. crease to front cover otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00
158. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY Poems. with frontis. & 11 text illus. for "The Roll of the Kettledrum" pub. Melb. A.H. Massina 1894 or. cl. gilt dec. to front cover & spine, a.e.g. cr.8vo. pp.354. Sea spray and smoke drift, Bush ballads and galloping rhymes, miscellaneous poems, Asharoth, A dramatic Lyric; Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, otherwise v/good.   Price: $65.00
159. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY Sea Spray And Smoke Drift. pub. Melb. Thomas Lothian 1909 or. card wrappers, (paperback), cr.8vo. pp.128.4 advts. Corner off front wrapper otherwise v/good.   Price: $25.00
160. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY Poems. Sea Spray And Smoke Drift, Bush Ballads And Galloping Rhymes, Miscellaneous Poems, Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric. illus. with text dwgs. for The Roll of the Kettledrum by Lieut. Colonel Marshman, pub. Melb. A.H. Massina & Co 1911 or dec. light blue cl. (pic. in black of horseman with whip on front board) cr.8vo. pp.354. slightly rubbed else v/good copy.   Price: $45.00
161. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY Poems. Sea Spray And Smoke Drift, Bush Ballads And Galloping Rhymes, Miscellaneous Poems, Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric. pub. Melb. A.H. Massina & Co nd. fourth edition bound in blue/black leather gilt dec. to spine & lettering, gilt Caulfield Grammar School insignia to front board, marbled e/papers, page edges; 8vo. pp.326. School prize sticker (dated 1931) to front past-down e/paper else near fine.  Price: $55.00
162. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY The Feud. With notes by Hugh Anderson, illus. with Seven mounted drawings by Noel Paton; hf.cf. glt.ltg. to spine, uncut, 8vo. pp.36. Limited to 1000 copies and signed by Hugh Anderson. Glue used to adhere tipped-in plates wasn't acid free and has left foxing marks where glued, else fine copy.   Price: $45.00     Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

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163. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY The Sick Stockrider And other poems. illus. with frontis. and text dec. by Rhys Williams, inside stiff wrapper illus. pub. Sydney, W.H. Honey Pub. nd. 193-? or. stiff, orange, wrappers; (green, black & white drawing of stockman and woman kissing on front wrapper) 12mo. pp.unpaginated (16) neat inscription dated 1944 to top of title page, fine.     Price: $35.00
164. GORDON ADAM LINDSAY "The Last Letters 1868-1870." ed. by Hugh Anderson. Adam Lindsay Gordon to John Riddoch. illus. with 4 full page plates. pub. Melb. Hawthorn Press 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.76.     Price: $25.00
165. GRANT KAY Verses by. It's `Ard To Stay Clean In The Country. with text illus. by Anne Drew. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1942 or. card blu. & white illus. wps. 12mo. pp.46.  Chipped to spine, previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, otherwise very good.   Price: $30.00
166. GREEN H.M. Australian Literature 1900-1950. pub. Melb. M.U.P. for the Trustees of the Public Library of Victoria 1951 1st.ed. or.bds.d/w. 16mo. pp.64.  Fine.    Price: $20.00
167. GREEN J.   The Selector. A romance of an immigrant. illus. with frontis., 12 full-page, and num. text-illusts. by A.J. Fischer pub. Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1907 1st ed. or. illus. cl. edges red; 8vo. pp.248,8pp. Pages browned, else very good copy.      Price: $65.00
168. GRENVILLE KATE Lilian's Story. pub. Syd. Allen & Unwin 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212.  Story of Lilian Singer, a splendidly eccentric woman, and the life she made. Lilian strides through her life, reciting Shakespeare for a shilling, using reluctant taxi drivers as her private charioteers, falling in love with Lord Kitchener. Acclaimed first novel which won the Australian/Vogel award in 1984. winner of the Australian/ Vogel Award. Very fine.   Price: $35.00
169. GRENVILLE KATE    Dark Places   pub. Macmillan Australia, Sydney 1994. 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.374. Set in Sydney at the end of the 19th century, this novel focuses on the rise and fall of one man: Albion. He is a hateful and cruel man and a misogynist, but the author also shows him as a victim of his class, period and gender. Fine copy.     Price: $30.00
170. HADGRAFT CECIL Australian Literature. A critical account to 1955. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302. Covers a century-and-a-half of Australian poetry, fiction, literary essays and criticism from colonial days until 1955. Front  free e/paper Signed by "Myra Roper Canberra 1960." Slight shelf wear, small chip rear of d/w. else near fine.  Price: $45.00
171. HADGRAFT CECIL Australian Literature.  A critical account to 1955. pub. Lond. Heinemann 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302. Covers a century-and-a-half of Australian poetry, fiction, literary essays and criticism from colonial days until 1955. Price clipped near fine.   Price: $35.00

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172. HALL RODNEY A Place Among People. pub. Brisbane Uni. of Queensland Press 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.250. short closed tear to d/w. otherwise fine.     Price: $40.00
173. HALL RODNEY   Captivity Captive  pub. Melbourne McPhee Gribble, 1988 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.214. based on ...a triple murder, committed in Australia in 1898, was never solved. Using the real names of the victims, together with details from the rural scene of the crime. sl. closed tear to read of d/w. else fine.    Price: $30.00

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174. HANSELL HAROLD  The Everlastin' Ballads. Ballads of Empire. col. frontis. & text illus. by Benson an original Anzac pub. Melb. C.J. Degaris Pub. nd.1920? 1st.ed. or.stiff bds. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.98. Very fine, author's inscribed presentation copy.   Price: $55.00   Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
175. HANSELL HAROLD The Everlastin' Ballads. Ballads of Empire. col. frontis. & text illus. by Benson an original Anzac pub. Melb. C.J. Degaris Pub. nd.191-? 1st.ed. or.stiff bds. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.98. Minor foxing else near fine.   Price: $35.00
176. HARDY FRANK - The Man From Clinkapella And Other Prize-Winning Stories. Illus. by Ambrose Dyson pub. Auburn N.S.W . Capricorn Printing, n.d. (1951). 1st ed. illus. wrapper 8vo. oblong, pp.25 Foreword by Alan Marshall. near fine copy. Printed in double-column. fine.  Price: $30.00
177. HARDY FRANK The Four-Legged Lottery  pub. London . Werner Laurie, 1958 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.224. Classic novel about gambling in Australia. dustwrapper slightly insect marked, fold of d/w. also, else near fine.   Price: $50.00
178. HARDY FRANK Power Without Glory a novel in three parts. pub. Melbourne, Realist Printing and Publishing Co., 1950. 1st ed. or. red cloth with black titles; cr.8vo. pp.672. In three parts Part One 1890-1907 Road to Power - Part Two 1915-1931 Abuse of Power. and Part Three 1935-1950 Decline of Power. Tells the story of a working class man who rises above himself in Australia. Slight darkening to top of pages otherwise near fine in the red cloth.   Price: $200.00
179. HARDY FRANK Power Without Glory a novel. pub. London T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1962 1st ed. or. red cloth with gilt titles; d/w. cr.8vo. pp.716. In three parts Part One 1890-1907 Road to Power - Part Two 1915-1931 Abuse of Power. and Part Three 1935-1950 Decline of Power. Tells the story of a working class man who rises above himself in Australia. Small neat name to f/free e/paper, slight silverfishing to rear of d/w.two short closed tears, very good otherwise.   Price: $40.00

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180. HARDY FRANK The Hard Way. The story behind Power without Glory. illus. with 4 full page plates, pub. Syd. Aust. Book Soc. 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.255. Account of Hardy's writing of Power without Glory, his arrest, trial and subsequent acquittal. A lovely copy in the near fine dustwrapper, price clipped.   Price: $40.00
181. HARDY FRANK    Billy Borker Yarns Again illus. with numerous line drawings throughout the text by Paul Rigby. pub. Melbourne Nelson Melbourne 1967 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.152. More Australian humour with characters and events that are larger than life. Prize certificate to f/free e/paper else fine.    Price: $20.00
182. HARDY FRANK Foreword By Donald Horne The Unlucky Australians illus. with b/w. plates, index pub. Melbourne Thomas Nelson, 1968 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.IX.258. On a self-searching trip to the Northern Territory, Hardy became involved in a heart-rending struggle between a courageous Aboriginal tribe, the Gurindji, and the management of a foreign-owned cattle station. In his own words, and those of the Aboriginal leaders, he conveys the mood and grievances in their struggle for equality and the return of their land. Very slightly faded to spine, hardly noticeable, very slight rubbing to d/w. and small closed tear top of spine, a near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
183. HARDY FRANK But The Dead Are Many. A novel in fugue form. pub. Syd. Bodley Head 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.293. previous owner's name to title page, & pale rubber name stamps to page edges, otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
184. HARDY FRANK  Who Shot George Kirkland. A novel about the Nature of Truth. pub. Syd. E. Arnold Pty. Ltd. 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.181. Fine copy.   Price: $30.00
185. HARDY FRANK Who Shot George Kirkland. A Novel about the Nature of Truth. pub. Syd. Ed. Arnold 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.181. Author's signed presentation copy.   Price: $50.00

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186. HARDY FRANK The Loser. Now will be later to win. pub. Pascoe Pub. 1985 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230 All losers but later to win. Stories hidden in Australian history. The unionists, the poor, the black, the Cairns Riot, Rum Jungle, Wattle Creek, Henry Lawson, some published for the first time. fine copy. presentation copy inscribed by Frank Hardy.   Price: $55.00        Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
187. HARMAN KAYE Australia Brought To Book. Responses to Australia by visiting writers 1836-1939. illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page. pub. N.S.W. Boobook Pub. 1985 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.250.  Writers include Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and H.G.Wells. Fine.   Price: $30.00
188. HARRIS MAX & JOHN REED Ed. by.  Angry Penguins. illus. with 8 full page plates throughout pub. Melbourne, Dec. 1944 or coll. illus. wrappers, cr.4to. pp.112. Em Malley issue with a section defending their position. Spotted, rust spots; little chipped., clean inside, good copy only.   Price: $75.00
189. HARRIS MAX The Angry Eye.    introduced by Rupert Murdoch. illus. with d/w. by Sidney Nolan; pub. Potts Point, NSW  Pergamon Press 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 254.  Critical essays. Very good copy, d/w. light edgewear.   Price: $35.00
190. HARRIS MAX A Window At Night. pub. S.A. A.B.R. Pub. 1967 1st.ed. or. gilt lettered blue cloth 8vo. pp.92. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is unnumbered. Fine. Price: $35.00
191. HARTE BRET The Heathen Chinee etc. Poems and Parodies. pub. Lond. R.E. King nd. 190-? or.cl. 8vo. pp.150. 80 poems and parodies, previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else very good.  Price: $45.00

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192. HASLUCK ALEXANDER Of Ladies Dead. Stories not in the Modern Manner. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.144.  Written by Lady Hasluck, the then wife of the Governor-General of Australia, a mixture of fact and fiction - 12 stories. Light wear to extremities else v/good.   Price: $30.00
193. HAY PETER (Ed.)    Meeting Of Sighs. The Folk Verse of Victoria's Western District. illus. with photo plates t/out. pub. Vic. Warrnambool Instit. Press. 1981 or stiff illus, card wrappers, oblong. 4to. pp.168  A collection of folk verse of the Western District of Victoria. Very good copy.  Price: $35.00
194. HAY WILLIAM The Escape Of The Notorious Sir William Heans. A Romance of Tasmania. illus. with e/paper maps pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1955  1st Australian edition or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXXVI.414. A novel of colonial Van Diemen's Land, first published London, 1919. Near fine, d/w. sl. chipped.   Price: $45.00
195. HAZZARD SHIRLEY The Transit Of Venus. pub. New York Macmillan 1980 1st.ed. or. quarter black cloth with red papered boards 8vo. d/w. pp.338. Very fine.   Price: $95.00
196. HEART Of The Rose-The. Vol.1 No.1 illus. with frontis. one by Lionel Lindsay pub. Melb. B.R. Gowan & Co. nd.1908? or. dark buff wps. cr.8vo. 2 vols. containing The Heart of the Rose & The Book of the Opal Being the second number of The Heart of the Rose. Vol.1 No.2 pp.34 & 36 both limited to 500 copies these being No.256 & 453 respectively, one lacks paper cover otherwise both v/good.   Price: $65.00 

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197. HENNING RACHEL-The Letters Of. Ed. by David Adams with a foreword and many text illus. t/out. by Norman Lindsay. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1966 reprint or. red cl. 8vo. pp.XX.292. Letters, 1853-1882, from a young Englishwoman in the Outback of Australia. fine.   Price: $30.00
198. HERBERT XAVIER Soldier's Women. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.271.  Set in an Australian coastal town about women in time of war. Two short closed tear very sl. chipped top of spine, old bookseller's sticker inside, otherwise near fine.   Price: $65.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
199. HERBERT XAVIER Disturbing Element. pub. Melbourne Cheshire. 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.271. The life Xavier Herbert, a sailor, soldier, chemist, bacteriologist, anthropologist, union organizer. Dustwrapper and boards by Vane Lindesay. Xavier spent most of his life in the North of Australia. Slightly silverfished to edge of d/w. else v/good.   Price: $35.00
200. HERBERT XAVIER Poor Fellow My Country. Published Sydney Collins 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.1464.  Epic novel set in the Northern Territory during the late 1930's and early 1940's with dustwrapper painting by Ray Crooke. fine copy.   Price: $115.00

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201. HERBERT XAVIER Capricornia. pub. Syd. Sirus Books 1963 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.448.   Price: $25.00
202. HERBERT XAVIER Capricornia. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1947 8th ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.510. Closed tear at return of d/w. and slightly chipped top & bottom, prior owner's name stamp to f/free e/paper otherwise a very good copy.   Price: $40.00
203. HERBERT XAVIER Australia Lost. Robert White's paintings from Poor Fellow My Country illus. with 20 full page col. plates t/out. pub. Syd. & Lond. Collins 1977 or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.48. fine.    Price: $50.00
204. HERBERT XAVIER Dream Road. illus. with 17 full page col. plates of paintings, text dwgs. by Ray Crooke, e/paper dec. pub. Syd. Collins 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.120. fine.    Price: $45.00
205. HESELTINE HARRY Vance Palmer. Biography. illus. with frontis. pub. Qld. Uni. Press 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.216. Very fine.   Price: $30.00
206. HETHERINGTON JOHN " Forty-Two Faces." Profiles of Australian writers. illus. with 12 full page plates pub. Melb. Cheshire 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIII.250.  Profiles of forty-two Australian writers, mostly born in first third of twentieth century, and presented as human personalities. Marshall, Close, Idriess, Moorehead, Herbert, Tennant, Durack, West, Cato, White, Stow, Park etc. "Originally published in a weekly series, Australian writers in profile, which appeared in the Saturday literary supplement of the Melbourne daily newspaper, the Age, from July 1960 to May 1961." Fine.   Price: $30.00
207. HIBBERD JACK Memoirs Of An Old Bastard. Being a Portrait of a City an Epicurean Chronicle Fantasia and Search. illus. with e/paper maps pub. Melb. McPhee Gribble 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212.   Price: $40.00
208. HILL DEIRDRE A Writer's Rights. The story of the Australian Society of Authors 1963-1983. with illus. e/papers & 16 full page plates t/out. pub. N.S.W. Aust. & N.Z. book Co. 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.232. This Is The Story Of The ASA Since It Was Set Up In 1963. Hill Chronicles The Society's Struggles And Triumphs; The Long Battle To Achieve Public Lending Right,the Fight For Fair Payment For Freelance Work, Dealings With Publishers In Pursuit Of Equitable Contracts, The Battle For Copyright Protection. Fine.   Price: $30.00

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209. HOBSON ADELE Dreams Of Outback. illus. with frontis. & many drawings through the text by Laurie Tayler pub. Lond. Frederick Warne nd.192-? 1st. ed. or. black & grey illus. bds. cr.8vo.obl. pp.64. fine copy.   Price: $55.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
210. HOPE A.D. The Wandering Islands. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson, 1955 1st ed. green paper covered boards olive green d/w. super royal 8vo. pp.74. The first collection of his verse published in book form, neat inscription to f/free e/paper, price clipped, else near fine.   Price: $65.00
211. HOSPITAL JANETTE TURNER Borderline. pub. Syd. Hodder & Stoughton 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288. d/w. sl. creased lower spine else fine.  Price: $35.00

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212. HOWLETT-ROSS J. The Laureate Of The Centaurs A Memoir of the Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon. With New Poems, Prose Sketches, Political Speeches, And Reminiscences, And An "In Memoriam" By Kendall. illus. with frontis. portrait and plate, pub. London, Samuel J. Mullen 1888 pub. or. maroon stiff leatherette gilt lettering on spine, marbled e/papers cr.8vo. pp.216. Near fine.   Price: $100.00
213. HUBER THERESE Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Adventures On A Journey To New Holland. Written by a German woman in 1793, it is the first novel written with an Australian background. illus. with 4 full page plates, pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1966 (first pub. in 1801) or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128.  previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $30.00
214. HULM NEIL   Where The Snow Grass Grows  with b/w. illustrations & line drawings. or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.VI.134. Stories in verse from the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, the Plains of the Bland, and the Tumbarumba area. Many of the stories have been handed down through the generations. signed by the author on the introduction page. Fine.    Price: $30.00
215. HUME FERGUS The Black Image. illus. with frontis. pub. Lond. & Melb. Ward Lock & Co. 1918 1st.ed. or. moss grn. cl. cr.8vo. pp.318. writing to spine sl. rubbed else v/good copy.   Price: $125.00

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216. HUME-COOK JAMES Tales Of The Dandenongs. pub. Melb. nd.1939 by author. or. grey-blu. wps. 8vo. pp.52.    Price: $20.00
217. INGAMELLS REX The Great South Land. An epic poem. illus. with e/paper maps pub. Melb. Georgian House 1951 1st.ed. or. blue cl. d/w. 8vo. XVIII.352. Limited to 1000 copies, fine.  Price: $45.00
218. INGAMELLS REX Selected Poems. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1944 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.124  Short closed tear at return of flap else fine.   Price: $40.00
219. IRELAND DAVID The Flesheaters. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202. Fine   Price: $40.00
220. IRELAND DAVID A Woman Of The Future.  pub. Melb. U.S.A. Allen Lane 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. top edges grey, 8vo. pp.351. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 1979 and The Age Book of the Year for 1980. Slight bump to spine else near fine.   Price: $35.00
221. IRELAND DAVID City Of Women. with illus. e/papers map pub. Melb. Allen Lane 1981 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.171. Fine.  Price: $45.00
222. IRELAND DAVID Archimedes And The Seagle. pub. Melb. Viking Press 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.228.  Author's eighth novel, winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Fine.  Price: $40.00
223. JAMES BRIAN The Bunyip Of Barney's Elbow. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.210.  18 humourous short stories presenting facets of Australian small town life. d/w. & foreword by Norman Lindsay, some sl./silverfish marks to rear and fold of d/w. else near fine.   Price: $45.00
224. JOHN ARNOLD (Ed.) The Imagined City. Melbourne in the Mind of its Writers. 28 Australian writer's views of Melb. pub. Syd. Allen & Unwin 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.130.    Price: $20.00
225. JOHNSTON G.H. Skyscrapers In The Mist illus. with many text dwgs. by Jack Hanna Sergeant, A.I.F. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1946 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. slight bump to edge of front board else near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
226. JOHNSTON G.H.    Skyscrapers In The Mist  illus. with many text dwgs. by Jack Hanna Sergeant, A.I.F. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1946 1st.ed. or. blue cl. 8vo. pp.222. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else fine.   Price: $35.00
227. JOHNSTON G.H.   Pacific Partner illus. with front e/paper map of Australia & inset map showing Australia and continental United States. pub. London Victor Gollancz 1945 1st. ed. or.cl. gilt title on spine, d/w. 12mo. pp. 182 Australian war correspondent gives a picture of Australia at war and of the Australian attitude to the U.S.A. and Great Britain. Two short closed tears to front of d/w. very sl. chipped at top of spine, else fine copy.      Price: $50.00
228. JOHNSTON G.H. Moon At Perigee.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.241. Novel set in India. Near fine in the d/w. which has front flap detached with some tape marks, chipping, lacks small piece lower front panel.   Price: $35.00
229. JOHNSTON G.H. Moon At Perigee.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1948 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.241. Novel set in India. Small chip upper panel of d/w. slight d/w. edge wear, faint foxing to fore-edge of pages otherwise near fine.   Price: $65.00
230. JOHNSTON GEORGE The Far Road. pub. Lond. Collins 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.256.  Set during the Sino-Japanese war in 1944. Lacks f/free e/paper, a little spotty otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
231. JOHNSTON GEORGE Closer To The Sun. pub. Lond. Collins 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320.  Group of talented expatriates seeking escape on an Aegean island. Very slightly spotted to top edge & fore-edge, short closed tear to d/w. at spine else near fine.   Price: $65.00
232. JOHNSTON GEORGE My Brother Jack. pub. Lond. Syd. Collins 1964 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.384. dustwrapper (by Sidney Nolan). Front free e/paper inscribed and signed copy by George Johnston, 'For Norman with great affection and a whole lot of shared memories, George Johnston. Melbourne March 1964' to to f/free e/paper, price clipped dustwrapper otherwise very fine condition.   Price: $200.00
233. JOHNSTON GEORGE H. Clean Straw For Nothing. pub. Lond. Collins 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.318. Author won the Miles Franklin Award in 1964. Novel about an Australian writer who leaves Australia for a Greek Island. Slight shelf wear, else near fine. The second novel in the autobiographical "My brother Jack" trilogy.   Price: $45.00

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234. JOHNSTON GEORGE A Cartload Of Clay. pub. Syd. Collins 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.160.  The third volume in a trilogy which began with My Brother Jack. It is unfinished, although the manuscript had been corrected up to the last page at the time of the author's death in July 1970. v/fine copy.   Price: $45.00
235. JOHNSTON GEORGE and CHARMIAN CLIFT Strong Man From Piraeus And Other Stories. Chosen and introduced by Garry Kinnane. pub. Melb. Nelson 1984 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. Fine.   Price:  $35.00
236. JOHNSTON GRAHAME Annals Of Australian Literature. The Principal Publications of Each Year together with an Alphabetical Index of Authors with Their Works. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. fine copy in d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.148. Fine.   Price: $30.00
237. JOLLEY ELIZABETH Palomino. pub. Aust. Outback Press 1980 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.260. Fine copy.   Price: $250.00   (See picture-press   )  
238. JOLLEY ELIZABETH Foxybaby. pub. Qld. Uni. of Qld. Press 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.262.  Set in a Summer School, amid an isolated landscape where nothing is as it seems to be; v/fine.   Price: $35.00
239. JOLLEY ELIZABETH The Well. pub. Melb. Viking (Penguin books). Aust. 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.176. d/w. price clipped, short closed tear, inscription f.f.e.p. $35.00
240. JOLLEY ELIZABETH My Father's Moon. pub. Melb. Viking 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.172.  Very fine.  Price: $30.00
241. JOLLEY ELIZABETH Cabin Fever. pub. Melb. Viking 1990 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238. Very fine copy.    Price: $30.00
242. JOLLEY ELIZABETH   Central Mischief pub. Melbourne Ringwood Viking 1992 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.190. Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her past and Herself.  Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
243. JORDENS ANN-MARI The Steinhouse Circle. Literary life in mid-nineteenth century Sydney. illus. with 11 plates notes, bibliography, appendix, index, pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.186.VII. Stenhouse was Australia's first important literary patron. Born and educated in Scotland, he had contact with the leading 'literati' of the day. To the struggling writers of the 1850s/60s like Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall and many others, he gave his financial and emotional support, and provided constructive literary criticism. Fine copy.  Price: $35.00
244. JURY C.R. The Sun In Servitude And Other Plays. illus. with frontis. & 3 text by Richard Beck pub. Melb. Cheshire 1961 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVII.218. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
245. KEESING NANCY    John Lang & "The Forger's Wife" A true tale of early Australia illus. with 24 text illustrations, notes, appendix; pub. Sydney, John Ferguson 1979 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.234. The text of "The Forger's Wife" is here reproduced from an early edition published by The New South Wales Bookstall Company. Lang was the first native-born author of fiction. Fine.    Price: $35.00
246. KENDALL HENRY Leaves From Australian Forests. (poems) pub. Melb. George Robertson 1870 or. green blind-stamped cl. 12mo. pp.164. a fine copy.   Price: $125.00
247. KENDALL HENRY Poems Of. illus. with text dec. pub. Melb. George Robertson & Co. 1886 or. purple cl. glt.dec. spine & front bd. 8vo. pp.XVI.302. sl. flecking to front bd. little browned to spine else v/good copy.    Price: $75.00

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248. KENDALL HENRY Poems Of Henry Clarence Kendall. With Memoir by Frederick C. Kendall. Illus. with frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1903 Revised and Enlarged Edition or. maroon cl. gilt titles and signature to front board cr.8vo. pp.374. Poem of Gallipoli adhered to past down e/paper by a pupil of Sydney's Boys' High School, pencil notes to free e/paper very sl. flecking to front bd. else very good bright copy.   Price: $50.00

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249. KENEALLY THOMAS The Fear. pub. Melb. Cassell 1965 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.230.  Thomas Keneally's second novel set in wartime Australia; dustwrapper illustration by Ben Shearer showing a semi-abstract beach and sea-scape; very short closed tear where d/w. returns around front board, (at crease) otherwise fine copy.   Price: $150.00    Convert Currency   Parcel Costs

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250. KENEALLY THOMAS Bring Larks And Heroes. pub. Aust. Cassell 1967  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.247. Keneally's third novel is set in remote British penal colony, late in the 1790's. This book won the coveted "Miles Franklin Award" for Australian Literature in 1967. d/w. sl. browned to edges else near fine.   Price: $65.00
251. KENEALLY THOMAS Three Cheers For The Paraclete. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robinson 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.Set in an Australian Catholic diocese. A rebel father tries to modernise the church. It won the coveted "Miles Franklin Award" for literature in 1968. Near fine copy.   Price: $55.00
252. KENEALLY THOMAS The Survivor. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1969 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.282. One man's memory of an expedition to Antarctica. Slightly rubbed d/w. otherwise near fine. Joint winner of the 1970 Captain Cook Literary Award.   Price: $50.00
253. KENEALLY  THOMAS   A Dutiful Daughter.  pub.  Syd.  &  Lond. Angus  &  Robertson 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.183. The story of a family forcibly isolated on their outback farm by a freak accident. signature f/free e/paper, price clipped, else fine.   Price: $30.00
254. KENEALLY  THOMAS   A Dutiful Daughter.  pub.  Syd.  &  Lond. Angus  &  Robertson 1971 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  8vo.  pp.183. The story of a family forcibly isolated on their outback farm by a freak accident. Short closed tear to rear of d/w. else fine.   Price: $45.00
255. KENEALLY  THOMAS The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. (Arthur Boyd dustwrapper). 8vo. pp.178. two short closed tears to top of d/w. & sl. rubbed to top, f/free e/paper cut.   Price: $40.00
256. KENEALLY  THOMAS The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith. pub.  Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. (Arthur Boyd dustwrapper). 8vo. pp.178. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else near fine in bright clean d/w.   Price: $75.00
257. KENEALLY THOMAS The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith. pub.  N.Y. Viking Press 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.178 fore-edge pages rough-trimmed, short closed tear top of spine to d/w. otherwise fine, price clipped.  Price: $60.00
258. KENEALLY  THOMAS Blood Red, Sister Rose. illus. with  map,  pub. Lond. 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.382. Keneally's novel based on Joan of Arc. two short closed tears to d/w. otherwise fine.   Price: $35.00
259. KENEALLY THOMAS Gossip From The Forest. pub. Lond. &  Syd. 1975  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. Novel set in Compiegne, France at the end of WWI when the armistice is about to be signed in the parked railway carriage. sl. chip  to  corner lower spine short closed tear else v/good.   Price: $35.00
260. KENEALLY  THOMAS Season In Purgatory. pub.  Lond.  Collins 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.223. Story about the Yugoslav resistance to Hitler told in the form of a love story between a surgeon and a young nurse. Very fine.   Price: $45.00
261. KENEALLY THOMAS A Victim Of The Aurora. pub. Lond. &  Syd. Collins 1977 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.222. Keneally's first detective novel set against a polar expedition prior to the First World War. Very fine price clipped.   Price: $40.00
262. KENEALLY THOMAS Ned Kelly And The City Of The Bees. illus. with full page dwgs. by Stephen Ryan pub. Lond. Jonathan Cape. 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.120.XIX.  Juvenile. Story of 12-year-old Australian boy who is shrunk to the size of a bee and goes to live in a beehive. v/fine.   Price:  $40.00
263. KENEALLY  THOMAS  Confederates. pub. Lond.  1979  1st.ed. or.wps.  d/w. 8vo. uncorrected advance proof copy (precedes the first edition).  pp.428. A novel of the American Civil War from the perspective of the south, ending at the Battle of Antietam, in a scarce advance issue, d/w.  has small tear at top of spine and signs of  fraying as d/w. is larger than wrappers otherwise fine.   Price: $75.00
264. KENEALLY  THOMAS  Passenger.  A novel.  pub.  Lond.  1979  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.190. Fine.   Price: $35.00
265. KENEALLY THOMAS Outback. profusely illus. with photo plates t/out some col. pub. Syd. Hodder & Stoughton 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.256. v/fine.   Price: $40.00
266. KENEALLY  THOMAS  A Family Madness. pub. Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.316. almost mint copy.   Price: $35.00
267. KENEALLY  THOMAS  The  Playmaker.  pub.  Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.310. Novel set in Australia 200 years ago, when it was the outermost prison on the planet-inspired by the letters and journals of Australia's founder, this is the story of the production of a play featuring a cast of prisoners-the first theatrical venture in the penal colony of New South Wales. Very fine.   Price: $30.00
268. KENEALLY THOMAS Towards Asmara. An African Novel. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.272. a fine copy.   Price: $35.00
269. KENEALLY  THOMAS Towards Asmara. pub Lond.  Hodder  & Stoughton 1989 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.290. "Towards Asmara is in the present, about the forgotten war in the Horn of Africa that has rumbled on for more than a quarter of a century and shows no sign of ending." Very fine.   Price: $35.00
270. KENEALLY THOMAS Our Republic.  The most important book about Australia since The Fatal Shore pub. Melb. Heinemann 1993 1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.242. Keneally's position on monarchy and republic. Very fine.   Price: $30.00
271. KENEALLY THOMAS Jacko. pub. Melb. Heinemann 1993 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.316. Power of television to make and encourage madness. Jacko Emptor, born in remote Australia, has become a star on New York television. He uses his air of innocence to invade and broadcast live from America's living rooms. Very fine.   Price: $30.00
272. KENNEDY JOHN J.    Gordon Grandfield or, the Tale of a Modernist pub. Melbourne: W. P. Linehan, 1912 1st ed. green & white pictorial cloth. cr.8vo. pp174 very clean, bright copy. Very good.  Price: $75.00
273. KENNEDY VICTOR and NETTIE PALMER Bernard O'Dowd. (poet) illus. with frontis. & 4 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 194. Shelf wear, Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else a very good copy.  Price: $45.00
274. KERBY CORINNE    Mainly Affirmative  pub. Melbourne Georgian House 1968 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.32. Wrapper drawn by Charles Bush. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $20.00

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275. KING JONATHAN "In The Beginning..." The story of the Creation of Australia From the Original Writings. Documents held in London's Public Record Office, illus. with many pages of facsimile documents and photo plates, pub. Melb. MacMillan 1985 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.XII.260.  Fine.   Price: $50.00
276. KINGSLEY HENRY -  The Hillyars And The Burtons. pub. Melbourne, E.W. Cole, n.d. [c.1895]. New Edition.  or. black and blue cl. 8vo. pp.446   Subtitle on cover reads A Tale of Australian Life and Manners. Gift inscription to past down e/paper, old library stamp to title page, tape up rear e/paper and pastedown e/paper. Cloth little shelf wear but overall a good tight copy.   Price: $55.00        Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
277. KINMONT JOAN "This My Son" Poems. illus. with frontis. pub. Hobart 1944 wrappers 8vo. pp.58.    Price:  $25.00
278. KINMONT MEREDITH   I Am The Green Grass. (18 poems) illus. with b/w. photographic plates (19 full page plates of children) by Joan and Jennifer Kinmont. pub. Sydney Edwards & Shaw, 1967. First published 1964; or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.36 Almost fine copy.     Price: $30.00
279. KINNANE GARRY George Johnston. A biography. illus. with 24 full page plates pub. Melb. Nelson 1986 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.330. A biography of George Johnston in which the author focuses on Johnston's great trilogy of novels My Brother Jack, Clean Straw For Nothing and A Cartload Of Clay, life with Charmian Clift and their contemporaries Sidney Nolan, Peter Finch, Russell Drysdale and others. Fine. Price: $35.00
280. KIRWAN VALERIE GRIERSON Wandering. Short stories. pub. Melb. Neptune Press 1984 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.128. Valerie Kirwan was connected with La mama Theatre both as writer,director and performer. Presentation copy inscribed by author. Tiny chip top of spine else fine.   Price: $35.00
281. KNIBBS GEORGE HANDLEY (1858-1929) Book 1 Voices Of The North And Book II Echoes Of Hellas. pub. London. Alston Rivers. 1913 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.292. Compilation of translations of Finnish and German poems, with 3 poems by the author. The author was Commonwealth Statistician 1906-1921 and wrote technological and mathematical works. In 1911 the first Commonwealth census was taken, followed by the war census of 1915 under the War Census Act. Knibbs sat on the board reporting on the Federal capital site and was a member of the royal commissions on life, fire and other insurances (1909-10) and on food supplies during war (1914). He sat on several wartime committees and was a consulting member of the 1915 committee on munitions in war. He was chairman of the royal commission on taxation of Crown leaseholds in 1918-19. In 1919 he represented Australia at the conference on double income tax and war profits (London) and in 1920 attended the British Empire Statisticians' Conference (London), chairing the census committee. Some browning to e/papers else fine, d/w. fine. Presentation copy Signed by the author and dated 1918.   Price: $100.00
282. KNOWLES MARTON MILLER Selected Poems. illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. 1935 1st.ed. or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.334. good copy sl. worn bds. (silverfished).    Price: $40.00
283. KOCH C.J. The Year Of Living Dangerously. pub. Melbourne Nelson 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.296. d/w. slightly sunned otherwise fine copy.    Price: $45.00
284. KOCH C.J. The Doubleman. pub. N.Y. McGraw Hill 1986 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.326. Richard Miller, Brian Brady and Darcy Burr come to adulthood in the cool, remote island of Tasmania where they fall under the spell of eccentric guitar teacher, fore-edge rough-trimmed, fine. *Winner of the Miles Franklin award for 1985.   Price: $35.00
285. KRAMER LEONIE Ed. by. The Oxford History Of Australian Literature. With contributions by Adrian Mitchell, Terry Sturm, Vivian Smith, Joy Hooton. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1981 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.506. fine.   Price: $65.00
286. KRAMER LEONIE Ed. by. My Country. Australian Poetry & Short Stories, Two Hundred Years, 2 vols. Volume 1, Beginnings - 1930, Volume 2, 1930s - 1980s, illus. with full colour and black & white illustrations throughout; pub. Sydney Ure Smith, 1985 or. blue leatherette boards, gilt titles, marbled endpapers 4to. pp.vol.I.626 vol.II.672. Comprehensive collection of Australian literature, complemented by black-and-white illustrations and colour plates of works by Australian artists. From Henry Lawson to Frank Hardy.    Price: $55.00
287. KRAUTH NIGEL The Bathing-Machine Called The Twentieth Century. pub. Sydney Allen & Unwin 1988 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196. a fine copy.    Price: $25.00
288. LAMBERT ERIC The Twenty Thousand Thieves pub. Melbourne Newmont 1951 1st. ed. ("privately published his first novel, The Twenty Thousand Thieves (1951), based on his war experiences in the Middle East") or.cl. d/w. (dustwrapper by Ambrose Dyson) 12mo. pp.418. "The Twenty Thousand Thieves" They were baptised by the traitor Lord Haw-Haw in a hail of fire; their answer was to steal victory from the Germans at the Battle of El Alamein. Novel based on the action of the Second A.I.F. A powerful and often moving account of World War II. Dustwrapper Little chipped at lower spine & lightly chipped at extremities, else very good.    Price: $95.00
289. LANSBURY CORAL Arcady In Australia. The Evocation of Australia in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. notes, bibliography, index. pub. Melb. M.U.P. 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202. The influence of Samuel Sidney is examined and offers new material on Wakefield, Dickens, Lytton and Reade. Near fine copy.    Price: $35.00
290. LAVATER LOUIS The Sonnet In Australia. A survey and selection. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1956 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else fine.  Price: $35.00

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291. LAWLER RAY Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.128. very sl. chipped d/w. at top of spine, previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else near fine.   Price: $55.00
292. LAWSON BERTHA My Henry Lawson. illus. with frontis. pub. Syd. Frank Johnson 1943 1st.ed. or. brown marbled boards cr.8vo. pp.160. Includes a previously unpublished short story. Slight wear to top of spine otherwise fine.   Price: $35.00 
293. LAWSON HENRY Joe Wilson And His Mates.  pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1902 1st. Aust. ed. or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.VIII.334. 32 pages of advts. Part I contains four prose stories and Part II fourteen stories and "Concluding Verses - 'The Never-Never Country'". Also includes "Prefatory Verses - 'The Author's Farewell to the Bushmen', which was deleted from later editions. Browning to e/papers else v/fine clean boards.   Price: $185.00
294. LAWSON HENRY My Army, O, My Army! And other songs by Henry Lawson. illus. with frontis. (portrait of H. Lawson). pub. Syd. Tyrrell's Ltd. 1915 1st.ed. or.illus.wps. 12mo. pp.128. v/good copy. front wrapper by Norman Lindsay, e/paper slightly foxed, small chip/missing at lower spine.   Price: $170.00
295. LAWSON HENRY In The Days When The World Was Wide And Other Verses. illus. with photo-engraved portrait as frontis. title page vignette by F. Mahony pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1903 13th thousand. or. red cl. cr.8vo. pp.234, 16.advts. previous owner's name to past. down e/paper, slightly foxes e/paper else v/good bright copy.   Price: $50.00 
296. LAWSON HENRY Prose Works Of. 2 vols. pub Syd. Home Entertainment Library 1935 or. aqua cl. roy.8vo. pp. vol.I,394 vol.II,454. Slightly foxed to edges else near fine.   Price: $40.00
297. LAWSON HENRY Prose Works Of Henry Lawson. pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1956 oroginal cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.688. fine   Price: $35.00

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298. LAWSON HENRY Memorial Unveiling Programme. Henry Lawson Memorial Souvenir 1960. (38^th Annual Memorial Gathering in the Footscray Hill Park & Literary Society) illus. with frontis. & several plates t/out. one full page pub. Melb. 1960 or.illus.wps. 8vo. pp.unnumbered (16) Name and place inked on front of wrapper, some underlining otherwise fine.   Price: $20.00
299. LAWSON HENRY The Stories Of. Ed. by Cecil Mann. Second Series. illus. with frontis. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.450. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper else near fine.  Price: $30.00
300. LAWSON HENRY Henry Lawson's Humourous Stories. Chosen by Cecil Mann. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1967 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.186. Price clipped, slight fading to spine otherwise very good copy.   Price: $30.00
301. LAWSON HENRY Letters 1890-1922. Ed. by Colin Roderick. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page plates of letters in facsimile pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1970 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.546. slightly faded to spine d/w. with short closed tear.   Price: .$60.00
302. LAWSON HENRY Criticism 1894-1971. Ed. With Introduction and Bibliography by Colin Roderick. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1972 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.514. Near  fine copy.   Price: $50.00
303. LAWSON HENRY (Illustrations by Percy Leason.) Selected Poems of Henry Lawson. illus. with pictorial end papers, coloured frontis. (John Longstaff's portrait of Lawson) many small engraved illustrations, b/w. plates, pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1918 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.122. Some poems here reprinted for the first time, with permission from "The Bulletin" and "The Lone Hand". Mild watermark lower d/w. and sl. through to front board, otherwise very good.   Price: $75.00
304. LAWSON HENRY Selected Poems Of Henry Lawson. e/paper illus. col. frontis. & illus t/out. by Percy Leason pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson this facsimile 1980 or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.XIII.122. v/fine in presentation box.   Price: $35.00
305. LAWSON HENRY Henry Lawson The Master Story-Teller.  Prose Writings. Commentaries on His Prose Writings. By Professor Colin Roderick. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1984 or.cl. d/w. lge.8vo. thick pp.XX.962. This collection brings together in one volume all of Henry Lawson's most significant prose works. Fine.   Price: $45.00
306. LAWSON HENRY Recollections. A Selection of Autobiographical Works ed. by Leonard Cronin. pub. N.S.W. Reed 1987 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.284.    Price: $45.00

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307. LAWSON HENRY The Romance Of The Swag. Illus. with woodcuts by Lionel Lindsay. pub. Syd. Lansdowne 1974 (first pub. in limited ed. 1939). or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.50.  Some relevant poems have been added to this 1974 edition for added interest. Introduction by Lionel Lindsay. The small woodcut headings illustrate the evolution of the Swag, as defined by Lawson in The Romance of the Swag. Slightly faded to spine. else v/good.   Price: $30.00.          Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
308. LAWSON HENRY  Grandfather's Courtship  A Christmas Story Introduction by Colin Roderick with b/w photos and illustrations by Jenny Coopes; pub. Sydney Angus & Robertson 1982 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp. XII.56. Henry Lawson wrote this delightful Christmas story about his Grandfather's courtship in 1912, four years after the old man, Henry Albury, had died at Greenwich, Sydney. Unable to have it published as a separate book, he sold the serial rights to Bertram Stevens, editor of the Lone Hand, a monthly magazine. It was published in a severely condensed adaptation in two parts, in Aug and Sept, 1912. Published here in separate book form for the first time it is revealed as one of Lawson's most lovable stories. Dustwrapper sl. soiling mark to lower front else fine.    Price: $30.00
309. LAWSON HENRY with illustrations by Pro Hart Poems Of Henry Lawson poetry selected by Walter Stone illus. with full page plates t/out. in col. by Pro Hart pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1974 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.64. Fine copy. Price: $25.00
310. LAWSON HENRY with illustrations by Pro Hart Poems Of Henry Lawson Volume Two. illus. with full page plates t/out. in  col. by Pro Hart pub. Sydney Ure Smith 1974 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.64. Fine copy.   Price: Price: $35.00
311. LAWSON WILL   Paddle-Wheels Away  pub. Sydney, F J Thwaites, 1947 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.238. Novel '…of the days when the Murray and Darling Rivers were the great transport arteries of Eastern Australia'. Very slightly flecked to boards, short closed and crease tear to d/w. otherwise almost fine copy.    Price: $30.00
312. LAWSON VALERIE   Connie Sweetheart illus. with 16 pages of black and white photographs. pub. Melbourne William Heinemann, 1990 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.350. The Story of Connie Robertson Australian Newspaper editor for over 40 years. Daughter of AG Stephens, member of bohemian literary group that included Mary Gilmore, Norman Lindsay Miles Franklin among others. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
313. LEWIS HAROLD Bluey. the Autobiography of Harold Lewis, author of Crow On A Barbed Wire Fence. illus. with illus. with 12 full page plates t/out., map & several text cartoons, pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.196. Fine.   Price: $30.00

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314. LINDESAY VANE The Way We Were. Australian Popular Magazines 1856-1969. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press or.cl. white d/w. 4to. pp.164.    Price: $40.00
315. LINDSAY JACK Marc Antony. illus. with frontis. & 11 full page plates pub. Lond. Routlege 1936 1st.ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.330. light spotting, sl. sunned to spine. otherwise very good.   Price: $55.00
316. LINDSAY JACK Adam Of A New World. pub. Lond. Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1936 1st.ed. or.lt.blu. cl. 8vo. pp.394. The story of the Renaissance scientist and astronomer, Giordano Bruno, a proponent of the idea of the infinite universe, who was put to death for heresy by the Catholic Church. very sl. spotting to rear two pages, sl. browned to spine, otherwise good copy.   Price: $75.00
317. LINDSAY JACK We Shall Return. A novel of Dunkirk and the French campaign. pub. Lond. Dakers 1942 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.320. light spotting to edges sl. chipped d/w. price clipped v/good copy.   Price: $50.00

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318. LINDSAY JACK   Catullus The Complete Poems. A new translation with introduction and commentary by Jack Lindsay. illus. with frontis. by Cecil Keeling. pub. Lond. Sylvan Press 1948 1st ed. or.cl. d/w.12mo. pp.124. Contents include; Lesbia Live and Love; Some Friends, Troubles in Love; Jealousy and Breakdown; return Home; The Successful Rival; marriage Songs etc. spine slightly faded, d/w. price clipped, small neat, inscription f/free e/paper else very good clean copy.   Price: $35.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
319. LINDSAY JACK Marxism And Contemporary Science Or The Fullness Of Life. pub. Lond. Dobson 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.261. almost fine copy.    Price: $55.00
320. LINDSAY JACK Betrayed Spring. A Novel of the British Way. pub. Syd. Aust. Book Soc. 1953 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.416. The story of post war England and the struggle for survival for a Lancashire coal miner, a Bradford mill owners son and a Tyneside trade union official. Slightly chipped to rear & top of spine, short closed tear d/w. otherwise, price clipped otherwise v/good.    Price: $45.00
321. LINDSAY JACK Civil War In England. with 15 illus. t/out. some full page pub. Lond. Frederick Muller 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.366.  small closed tear to top front of d/w. slight shelf wear else near fine.  Price: $65.00
322. LINDSAY JACK The Moment Of Choice. A Novel of the British Way. pub. Lond. The bodley Head 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.336. d/w. sl. chipped to top of spine, price clipped otherwise v/good.    Price: $60.00
323. LINDSAY JACK George Meredith. His life and work. illus. with frontis. & 2 full page plates, Notes. Hand list of Meredith's Publications. Index. pub. London Bodley Head 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.420. Slightly foxed to rear e/papers, and rear of d/w. price clipped, else near fine.   Price: $45.00

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324. LINDSAY JACK   The Great Oak. A story of 1549. pub. Lond. The Bodley Head 1957 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.302. spotting to d/w. at rear and edges, one very short closed tear, very nice inside, clean bright pages, binding firm. Otherwise an excellent copy.   Price: $65.00
325. LINDSAY JACK Life Rarely Tells. An Australian Boyhood. An Autobiographical Account ending in the Year 1921 and situated mostly in Brisbane Queensland. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. The Bodley Head 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. very sl. chip & small closed tear to d/w. otherwise near fine.    Price: $50.00
326. LINDSAY JACK Life Rarely Tells. An Australian Boyhood. An Autobiographical Account ending in the Year 1921 and situated mostly in Brisbane Queensland. illus. with 10 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. The Bodley Head 1958 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Price clipped, very fine.   Price: $75.00
327. LINDSAY JACK "1764-The Hurlyburly Of Daily Life Exemplified In One Year Of The Eighteenth Century." pub. Lond. 1959 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.343. sl. stain top of cloth & d/w. otherwise fine.   Price: $45.00

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328. LINDSAY JACK The Writing On The Wall. An account of the last days of Pompeii. illus. with maps dwgs. t/out. text pub. Lond. Muller 1960 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.276. fine in the sl. chipped d/w.    Price: $40.00

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329. LINDSAY JACK The Roaring Twenties. Literary Life in Sydney New South Wales in the years 1921-6. illus. with 6 full page plates t/out. text drawings by Norman Lindsay; pub. Lond. The Bodley Head 1960 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp. 240. Vivid picture of literary life in Sydney in the 1920s there are close up accounts of several figures poets such as Christopher Brennan, Hugh McCrae, Kenneth Slessor and Robert Fitzgerald and painters such as Gruner. Author's difficult relationship with his father Norman Lindsay. price clipped, neat signature to f/free e/paper, d/w. sl. spotty else v/good.   Price: $55.00
330. LINDSAY JACK Fanfrolico And After illus. with 10 pages of b/w plates, and black and white line drawings by various artists. pub. London The Bodley Head Ltd. 1962 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.288. The concluding volume of the autobiographical trilogy, this one covering the years 1926 - 30 when he ran the Fanfrolico Press. Dustwrapper with browning along spine, head and heel of the spine browned, inscription to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $45.00
331. LINDSAY JACK  All On The Never-Never: A Novel of the British Way of Life. pub. London, Frederick Muller 1961 second impression, or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.pp.224, Short closed tear to d/w. else fine.    Price: $35.00
332. LINDSAY JACK Thunder Underground. A Story of Nero's Rome. pub. London Frederick Muller 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.446.  Lindsay first drafted this book around 1955, put it aside for a decade and reconstructed it. fine.   Price: $65.00
333. LINDSAY JACK Cleopatra. illus. with frontis. showing the head of Cleopatra, head found at the site of her daughter's capital in Mauretania; & several line dwgs, 5 maps, tables pub. Lond. Constable 1971 1st.ed. or. brown cl. gilt titles to the spine, 8vo. pp.XVI.527. Fine. Price: $35.00   Convert Currency
334. LINDSAY JACK The Blood Vote. pub. Qld. Uni. of Qld. Press 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.374. Very fine.   Price: $35.00
335. LINDSAY JOAN Facts Soft And Hard. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1964 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. Some slight rubbing along d/w. at crease along spine else near fine.  Price: $40.00
336. LINDSAY JOAN Time Without Clocks. pub. Melb. Cheshire 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.216. Author of Picnic at Hanging Rock tells of life in the art world in the 1930s and 1940s. d/w. sl. toned to spine, faint neat inscription to f/free e/paper otherwise fine.   Price: $35.00
337. LINDSAY JOAN Picnic At Hanging Rock. Film edition illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hill of Content 1978 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. Very good copy.   Price: $35.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
338. LINDSAY NORMAN Bohemians Of The Bulletin. illus. with numerous text dwgs. by Norman Lindsay pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson 1965 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.160. Neat name to f/free e/paper, very slight shelf edge wear else near fine.   Price: $50.00
339. LINDSAY NORMAN "Saturdee" pub. Syd. Endeavour Press 1933 1st.ed. or.cl. sm.8vo. pp.259. cl. a little worn and faded otherwise v/good.    Price: $45.00
340. LINDSAY NORMAN "Saturdee" pub. Syd. Endeavour Press 1933 1st.ed. or. blue/grey cloth d/w. cr.8vo. pp.260. lacks f/free e/paper, d/w. torn some small pieces lacking at top and lower spine, light chipping, spotting to edges & internally, otherwise v/good clean copy.   Price: $160.00
341. LINDSAY NORMAN The Cousin From Fiji pub. Sydney Angus and Robertson. 1945 1st. ed. or. red cl. 8vo. pp.IV.262. Booksellers sticker to f/free e/paper else fine copy.   Price: $25.00
342. LINDSAY NORMAN Dust Or Polish? pub. Syd. 1950 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.206. A show girl, bored with life on the stage, finds a new career and romance in the second hand furniture business. d/w. lacks chip top and bottom of spine, a closed tear at spine and fold over flap, paper little browned otherwise v/good.   Price: $45.00

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343. LINDSAY NORMAN Rooms And Houses. Portrait of the artist as a young man. An autobiographical novel. illus. title page pub. Syd. Ure Smith. 1968 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.8vo. pp.318.  Price clipped d/w. else fine.   Price: $50.00
344. LINDSAY NORMAN Age Of Consent. with text illus. by Norman Lindsay pub. Lond. T. Werner Laurie 1938 impression December 1938, first published September 1938; or. red cl. 12mo. pp.242.II. A humorous novel about an Australian artist, living a carefree life on the beach, whose placid existence is interrupted by a model. Australian edition wasn't published until 1962 Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, slight darkening to the spine.   Price: $45.00 
345. LINDSAY NORMAN Age Of Consent. with text illus. by Norman Lindsay pub. Sydney Ure Smith Pty. Limited 1962 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.236. Near fine copy.   Price: $35.00
346. LINDSAY NORMAN The Letters Of Rachel Henning. illus. t/out. by Norman Lindsay. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1963 or.cl. 8vo. pp.XIII.292. v/fine lacks f/free e/paper.   Price:  $30.00
347. LINDSAY ROSE Ma And Pa. My childhood memories. pub. Syd. Ure Smith. 1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. patterned endpapers cr.8vo. pp.229. Memoirs of Norman Lindsay's wife and favourite model. Very slightly browned to spine else near fine.   Price: $40.00
348. LINDSAY PERCY Along The Western Road. Bush stories and ballads. illus. with b/w. & col. text dwgs. by Percy Lindsay pub. Melb. Angus & Robertson 1981 or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.98.  Poems and ballads from the golden age of outback Australia' Illustrated in colour and mono by Percy Lindsay from watercolours originally produced in the 1920s. Fine.   Price: $30.00
349. LITTLEJOHN AGNUS Lyrics And Mystic Sketches. illus. with 4 full page dwgs. by J. Muir Auld, text dec. pub. Syd. Edwards Dunlop & Co. nd.(1928) or. grey & brn. mbld. bds. cr.4to. pp.158. sl. spotty to e/papers, fine.  Price:  $125.00
350. LITTLEJOHN AGNUS Drowsy Hours. And Other Poems. pub. Syd. Edwards Dunlop & co. 1936 or. red bds. cr.8vo.obl. pp.80. Slightly flecked cover, very good copy.   Price:  $40.00
351. LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS We, The Aborigines. profusely illus. /out. with b/w. photo plates t/out. pub. Melb. Cassell 1963 1st.ed. or.illus.cl. sm.4to. pp.260.    Price: $45.00
352. LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS I, The Aboriginal. with e/paper illus. & 8 full page plates t/out. pub. Adel. Rigby 1962 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240. fine in the sl. chipped d/w.    Price: $40.00
353. LOCKWOOD DOUGLAS I, The Aboriginal. First illustrated edition. with e/paper & 45 illus. by Ainslie Roberts pub. Adel. Rigby 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.200.    Price: $35.00
354. LORD MARY Hal Porter: Man of Many Parts. Biography. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. index, bibliography; pub. Sydney Random House 1993 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VI.330. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00

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355. LOWE ERIC O'Willing Hearts. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.245.  d/w. slight chip to front else near fine. Price: $35.00
356. LURIE MORRIS   Rappaport's Revenge. pub. Lond. A & R. 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.190, fine copy. Price: $30.00
357. LURIE MORRIS Flying Home. pub. Aust. Outback Press 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.202. Very slight foxing to fore-edge else fine. Price: $25.00 

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