A Guide to Bond Part 2: Live and Let Die

Casino Royale, as we have seen, has a bunch of pernickety quirks distributed through its various editions – becoming an expert in Casino requires a huge amount of attention, never mind trying to become an expert on the publishing history of Ian Fleming’s work as a whole! When it comes to the second Bond novel – Live and Let Die - there are no fewer points of difference and weird printing issues to take on board. In fact, there’s a strange printing mishap concerning the early paperback edition that will have you reaching for a tape measure every time you encounter one of these copies! With that stated, let’s jump in…

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Live and Let Die (1954)

“There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death; and times when, as was now the case, he is a guest in the territory of an allied Secret Service.”

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Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London

Printed by Lowe and Brydone (Printers) Ltd., London, on paper made by John Dickinson & Co.

Bound by A.W. Bain and Co. Ltd., London

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling and an upper board decoration; 240pp. First edition dustwrapper designed by Ian Fleming and executed by Kenneth Lewis.

Plot Synopsis:

Gold coins believed to have been part of a pirate hoard amassed by Henry Morgan have been turning up in the Harlem district of New York and also in Florida, and have been used to finance various Cold War initiatives linked to S.M.E.R.S.H. British Military Intelligence under M, traces these doubloons to a certain “Mr. Big”, aka. Buonaparte Ignace Gallia, a voodoo practitioner and night-club owner. Bond is sent to investigate him.

Teaming up with CIA operative Felix Leiter, the two infiltrate a night-club owned by Gallia, but are soon identified and captured. Gallia has the two assessed by his pet psychic Solitaire (so-called because she eschews the company of men), who lies and announces the spies to be no threat to the operation. Nevertheless, Gallia has one of Bond’s fingers broken, in retaliation for which he later kills three of the villain’s men; Leiter is released unharmed by virtue of being in the custody of a fellow jazz enthusiast.

Solitaire later breaks with Gallia and contacts Bond: together they head to St. Petersburg in Florida, meeting up with Leiter once more. There, they scout one of Gallia’s warehouses and, while doing so, Solitaire is kidnapped by Mr. Big’s minions. Bond departs to track her down while Leiter goes back the warehouse once more: while there he is captured and partially fed to a shark, losing an arm and a leg. He is dumped for Bond to find at one of their safe houses with a note attached to him that reads “he disagreed with something that ate him”. Bond attacks the warehouse and determines that Gallia is smuggling the gold doubloons out by burying them in the substrate of various fishtanks which he offers for sale: the fish are all poisonous breeds to prevent any casual investigation of the contents. Gallia’s henchman “The Robber” attacks Bond after this discovery – Bond outwits him and feeds him to some sharks.

Bond then repairs to Jamaica to where Gallia has fled and picks up the trail. He gets some quick instruction about the mysteries of SCUBA diving from fisherman Quarrel and the head of the local MI6 division John Strangways, and swims out to infiltrate Gallia’s yacht. He is captured and reunited with Solitaire but not before he manages to attach a limpet mine to Gallia’s hull. After starting to drag the couple across a reef to inflame the appetites of the local sharks and barracuda, the mine detonates and, while being rescued by Quarrel, they watch the yacht explode leaving Gallia to be devoured by the very fish he threatened them with.

The Book:

Live and Let Die was written by Fleming at his estate – Goldeneye – in Jamaica and was completed before Casino Royale went to press. The plot draws heavily on Fleming’s knowledge of Jamaica, and the United States generally, and informs much of the action. It was originally a much more serious book entitled The Undertaker’s Wind in reference to a local meteorological phenomenon in Jamaica known for clearing away ‘bad influences’ from the island.

Casino Royale was fairly well received by the critics and, on the strength of this, a larger print run for the second book was commissioned. In this case and initial print run of 7,500 copies was produced and quickly sold through, with, again, many copies ending up in library collections. A second print run was undertaken before the end of the year of release. The book was issued in the US in 1955 – a year later – but sales were much slower. In the US, chapter five, which was originally entitled “N______ Heaven”, was eventually retitled to something less offensive and may well have been the cause for the initial lacklustre sales. Sales across the board may not have justified continued levels of production, however: the May 1956 third impression was restricted to only 999 units and, consequently, copies of this release are more highly sought-after than the first impression.

The binding of this book is a solid black cloth-effect hardcover with gilt spine titling: the title is printed horizontally at the top, Fleming’s name is printed horizontally beneath this, separated by a four-square dingus; the publisher’s logo is at the spine heel. The upper board displays an image of a gold doubloon in gold, referencing the pirate treasure at the heart of the book’s mystery. The format is octavo, roughly 171mm x 129mm, and there are 240pp., without decorative endpapers or adverts. The title page has the publisher’s logo in the centre just below the author’s name. This format remained in production (with the necessary adjustments to the publication details page and lists of other books by Fleming facing the title page) for the entire run of the hardcover release.

The Dustwrapper:

Having turned his hand to the design of his first book, it was obviously thought that Fleming should follow up that effort by designing the sequel. This is very similar to the dustwrapper of Casino Royale, in that it relies exclusively on typography for its appeal. The ‘wrapper is a vibrant fuchsia colour with gold lettering on the upper panel: the letters of the title are blocky and cast heavy shadows, each graced with a flowing leaf image. Below the title appears the author’s name and the legend “author of CASINO ROYALE”. Although Fleming designed the cover, the job of executing it was given to Kenneth Lewis: both are uncredited on the first edition issue, but their design credit does appear on the ‘wrappers thereafter. The lower panel of the first edition ‘wrapper, contains a list of reviews of Casino Royale from the Times Literary Supplement and other lofty organs, with the title of the book in the same purple colour of the front panel.

Like Casino Royale, some or all of the corners of the dustwrapper are clipped: this was done, I presume, to make the book seem less asymmetrical if the purchaser clipped the price off the front flap when gifting the book to another. A true, un-price-clipped, first edition, first state dustwrapper of this book clearly shows the price – “10s 6d net” - on the bottom corner of the front flap.

Pan Paperback releases:

(It’s worth noting that other publishers picked up the book towards the end of the Twentieth Century – this paperback overview focusses only on the Pan releases and excludes, for example, the Fontana Bond editions produced by William Collins and the Penguin releases. As well, there are some holes in the collection – specifically in terms of the “White Model” and “Still Life” issues. Where I do not have specific bibliographic details – page number counts or the presence of adverts, for instance – I have designated these unknown quantities with Xs.)

Live and let Die – A James Bond Adventure

Published by Great Pan/Pan Books Ltd., London

First printing, 18th October 1957

Fifth printing, 1960

Great Pan Books, No.GP83

Octavo; paperback; 247pp. “Painted Pans” edition: cover by Rex Archer

Rex Archer seemed a better fit for Bond after the Enid Blyton daubings of Roger Hall’s Casino efforts. Here we see a properly brunette and seaweed-draped Bond – albeit with a weirdly proportioned arm - dragging Solitaire from shark-infested waters while a yacht explodes in the distance. This was Archer’s first stab at a Bond novel, and it stood him in good stead for a repeat performance. This format remained unchanged through the first five printings.

An interesting event took place during the first printing (1957) of this initial paperback version. The printery that took on the job of producing the first edition of the paperback version, loaded the press with the wrong paper – more expensive, bulkier paper which had been reserved for another job. Many copies of the text block were printed (it’s theorised between 250 to 500) before the mistake was discovered. Rather than pulp them all back down again, a decision was made to just incorporate the thicker text blocks with the others and hope that no-one would notice. Accordingly, they were all glued into wrappers, trimmed, and sent out for distribution.

Of course, people did notice. For starters, the expensive paper was less prone to browning, or tanning, than the cheaper paper and, after awhile, the difference began to be spotted by collectors and dealers. As well, the text blocks of the expensive paper are thicker overall that the cheap ones, the difference being about half a centimetre or more in variation. Some collectors began asking specifically for the ‘thicker’ copies and they became a focus for those in the know. Anecdotally, a bunch of these were sent overseas to the US markets, and there seem to be more of them to be had over there. Regardless, the so-called “thick paper copies” of Live and Let Die are much sought after and can command up to three or four times the value of a standard copy.

Live and Let Die – Harlem’s Prince of Darkness! A Satanic Foe for James Bond

Published by Great Pan/Pan Books Ltd., London

Sixth printing, October 1961;

Great Pan No.GP83.

Octavo; paperback; 247pp. “Painted Pans” edition: cover by Pat Owen.

Promising as Rex Archer might have been, he soon fell by the wayside in the face of Pat Owen and that artist’s skill at capturing the zeitgeist and the tone of the novels. In this version we see a bedraggled Solitaire clinging to Bond in his torn shirt, while an exploding yacht forms the backdrop. Not much variation between the two images but Owen’s captures the Sixties vibe far better. Again, we have the banner crossing the bottom edge of the front cover and trying to highlight Bond as a trademarked figure – this would change in the following releases. In fact, it’s said that the image of the spy on the banner was taken from the managing director of Pan Books at the time, who thought himself a bit of a player! As usual, the price appears printed on UK copies of the book; export copies had no price as they would be stickered appropriately when they hit their respective markets.

Live and Let Die – Harlem’s Prince of Darkness! A Satanic Foe for JAMES BOND

Published by Great Pan/Pan Books Ltd., London

Seventh printing, April 1962;

Eighth printing, 1962.

Great Pan No.GP83.

Octavo; paperback; 247pp. “Painted Pans” edition: cover by Pat Owen.

The front cover banner of Bond got ditched fairly early and was replaced by a banner with an image of a Walther PPK and three bullets, all against Bond’s call sign of “007”. The main cover image of this printing retained Owen’s 1961 design; the eighth printing was left unpriced, so that overseas vendors could sticker them at local rates.

Live and Let Die – Harlem’s Prince of Darkness! A Satanic Foe for JAMES BOND

Published by Pan Books Ltd., London

Ninth printing, January 1963;

Eleventh Printing, July 1963

Pan Books, No.X233

Octavo; paperback; 247pp. “Painted Pans” edition: cover by Pat Owen

The launch of the “X series” under the Pan Books imprint saw another printing, again with the cover art of Pat Owen. These releases all had printed prices and clearly displayed the new ‘X’ numbering. The decision was probably taken after the announcement that Raymond Hawkey would be coming in to revolutionise the marketing of the material. This meant that text blocks on hand in storage would not be reprinted, but new covers would be; until Hawkey’s new wrappers had been designed, the old covers held sway, but with the new numbers.

Live and let Die

Published by Pan Books Ltd., London

Eleventh printing, July 1963;

Twenty-first Printing, 1966

Pan Books, No.X233

Octavo; paperback; 247pp. (+1 page of adverts). “Hawkey” edition: cover design by Raymond Hawkey

The “X series” was soon overtaken by Ray Hawkey’s re-working of the entire franchise. These editions had the name of James Bond emblazoned boldly at the top of the front cover, in an effort to make the series stand out from the rest of the paperbacks at the stationery stores. The covers in this range have a largely blank cover against which is displayed an object that has relevance to the plot. Here we have a background of untrammelled sand, emerging through which are the bones of a human hand clutching a few gold coins. There is some overlap here – the first Hawkey printing is referred to as the eleventh printing although that was supposedly the last impression of the “X series”; this is because the new Hawkey covers replaced the Pat Owen covers over the already-printed text blocks. The back cover of this printing has the Cecil Beaton portrait of Fleming appended.

Live and let Die

Published by Pan Books Ltd., London

Twenty-second Printing, August 1969

Pan Books, No.X233

Octavo; paperback; XXXpp. (+Xpp. of adverts). “White Model” edition.

The “White Model” edition of this novel is fairly by-the-numbers: a girl standing in front of a large golden coin with a shark approaching from the background. I presume that the long black robes being worn are a nod to the supernatural voodoo elements which the book skates around but never really bites down hard upon. Like Casino Royale, this book was printed only once in this format and so all copies have the original monochrome Pan logo in the top left-hand corner of the front cover; these printings also have the Horst Tappe portrait of Fleming on the back cover along with an ISBN.

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NB: Because of the release of the movie based on this title, there was no “Still Life” version of the book produced by Pan. Instead, they went straight to a movie tie-in printing and stayed with that version until a new issue became necessary.

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The Movie:

Released in 1973, “Live and Let Die” saw Roger Moore take over the reins as the new portrayer of Bond. Having played the Saint in various cinematic vehicles previously, it was obviously decided that he could play a similar character in the ongoing franchise.

The movie broke from the 1960s aesthetic by playing broadly and for laughs – with extended car and other vehicle chases, in the style of “Benny Hill” - under the guidance of British director Guy Hamilton. Today the palpable racism doesn’t sit well alongside the cornball humour and sexist pandering of the otherwise lacklustre plot.

Movie Tie-in Releases:

Live and Let Die

Published by Pan Books Ltd., London

Twenty-third printing, 1973;

Pan Books No.X232.

Octavo; paperback; 248pp. Robert McGinnis, cover design.

In 1972, interest in the Bond franchise was running high as Roger Moore was due to replace Sean Connery as James Bond. Filming was conducted in the UK and the US across 1972, and stocks of the novel were allowed to run down in the lead-up to a marketing push that would include a release with a tie-in cover. The book was released in 1973 with artwork taken from the movie poster by Robert McGinnis which accompanied the screenings.

In the wake of the film’s success and his winning of the ‘Bond crown’ Roger Moore was commissioned to write a memoir of the events surrounding the filming of the movie and this became a well-received addition to the hype-machine surrounding the novel and is much sought-after by collectors nowadays.

“Roger Moore” (Derek Coyte; Luisa Moore, illus.), Roger Moore as James Bond 007 - Roger Moore's account of filming "Live and Let Die". Pan Books Ltd., London, 1973.

First printing: octavo; paperback; 189pp. (+2pp. of adverts), with 8pp. of full-colour plates.

To be fair, Moore didn’t actually write any of this; it was penned by Derek Coyte who was attached to EON Productions as a publicity writer. Luisa Moore, Roger Moore’s wife, took the lion’s share of the photographs and is probably the only Moore to have had a hand in the effort.

Tarot Cards

While the supernatural themes of “Live and Let Die” are largely underplayed, their presence meant that a set of tarot cards were required as a prop to enable the character of Solitaire to work her mojo. Initially the production company approached Salvador Dali to create a deck for use in the movie; however, the $7 million fee he demanded caused a re-think (in any event, he didn’t actually finish his card deck design until 1986, so they were wise to pull the plug). The deck that was finally used was “The Tarot of the Witches”, designed by Fergus Hall.

The deck used in the film consisted of only 37 cards (whereas a complete deck has 78) because Hall hadn’t finished designing all of them; the post-movie reprints consist of a full deck. In 2022 a special edition release of the deck was issued with only the original 37 cards, the balance of the deck made up of 10 copies of The Lovers card ( a reference to the point in the film where Bond upsets the deck to reveal that it contains nothing but copies of this card), the Six of Wands, the Knight of Wands, the Six of Swords, the Knight of Swords and the Queen of Cups.

So pleased were the producers with these cards that they re-designed the costumes of several of the characters in the movie to accord more strongly with the tarot images, notably Geoffrey Holder’s depiction as Baron Samedi, or Death. The sets of cards created for the film had a red design on their reverse sides; later promotional decks sold in the wake of the movie’s release had a repeated blue pattern featuring Bond’s “007” call sign. Reprints in later years remove the Bond branding for a more general pattern.

The Theme Song

"I read it [the book by Fleming] and thought it was pretty good. That afternoon I wrote the song and went in the next week and did it... It was a job of work for me in a way because writing a song around a title like that's not the easiest thing going."

-Paul McCartney

Saltzman and Broccoli approached Paul McCartney to write a theme song for the movie while principal photography was still running. Paul and Linda McCartney wrote the song, reuniting with George Martin as producer for the first time since the break-up of the Beatles. It became the first rock song to open a Bond movie and was nominated for an Oscar for best theme song (losing out to Streisand’s “The Way We Were”) at the 46^th Academy Awards.

McCartney’s follow-up band Wings released an album – “Band on the Run” – in the same year as the movie’s release and toured to promote it; they performed the Bond title song, accompanied by pyrotechnics, during their performances. The song hit the number one spot in charts across the world and did much to promote the film.

In 1991, the rock band Guns ‘n’ Roses covered the song to moderate success. In retaliation to Trump’s use of the cover during one of his rallies in the middle of the COVID crisis, G’n’R created a T-shirt that read “Live ‘n’ Let Die with COVID 45”, the proceeds from the sales of which went to help musicians struggling due to the pandemic lockdowns.

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“There was open sensuality in Solitaire's eyes as she looked up at him. She smiled innocently.

'What about my back?' she said”

Catalogue No.9, August 2022 - Literature

For our next thematic list, we'll dive into literature and all things literary. This catalogue kicks off with writing from the earliest times through to the Renaissance; then Classic literature (from the Enlightenment to 1900); Vintage Literature (1900 to 1970, the year that ISBNs were introduced); then Modern Literature, along with a focus on the writings of the Antipodes. As usual there are some ephemeral delights to divert you. If anything catches your eye, contact us at moroccobooks1000@gmail.com.

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Ancient and Medieval Literature:

(69046) Pliny the Elder (Una Woodruff, illus.), Inventorum Natura - The Expedition Journal of Pliny the Elder, Paper Tiger/Dragon's World Ltd./Harper & Row Publishers, New York NY, 1979.

Quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles; 126pp., text in Latin and English, with many colour illustrations. Mild wear. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel. Very good.

$35

(68416) Procopius (H.B. Dewing, trans.), Procopius - seven volumes: "Books I and II" ; "Books III and IV"; "Book V and VI"; "Books VI and VII" ; "Books VII and VIII"; "The Anecdota"; & "Buildings", The Loeb Classical Library/Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1960-1962.

Reprint: seven volumes, octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decorations;  3,380pp. [583pp. + 488pp. + 452pp. + 490pp. + 441pp. + 384pp. + 542pp.] (+56pp. of adverts), with many maps (some folding). Moderate wear; shaken; spine extremities softened; boards all mottled and marked; some inked marginalia, mainly to the adverts; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf of each volume. Dustwrappers are all rubbed and edgeworn; retailer's ink stamp to the front flap of some of the volumes; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Good.

$200

(77030) Gaius Valerius Catullus (C.H. Sisson, trans.), Catullus, MacGibbon & Kee Ltd., London, 1966.

Octavo; hardcover, with upper board title; 94pp. Mild wear; spine faded; text block edges lightly toned; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine sunned; a few small tears to the panel top edges. Very good.  

$35

(76091) Murasaki Shikibu (Royall Tyler, trans.), The Tale of Genji (unabridged), Penguin Classics/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2003.

Octavo; gatefold trade paperback; 1,182pp., untrimmed, with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; text block and covers a little bowed; some spotting and toning to the text block edges. Very good.

$60

(68764) Geoffrey Chaucer (A. Kent & Constance Hieatt, eds.; Gustaf Tenggren, illus.; Introduction by Mark van Doren), The Canterbury Tales, Golden Press Inc., New York NY, 1962.

Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards and endpapers; 140pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; boards a little edgeworn; spine sunned; previous owner's ink inscription to the verso of the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.

$50

(73379) Francesco Colonna (Introduction by Joscelyn Godwin, trans.), Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Strife of Love in a Dream: The entire text translated for the first time into English, Thames & Hudson Inc., New York NY, 2005.

Royal octavo; gatefold paperback; 476pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.

An enigmatic work: read and enjoyed by intellectuals ever since it was published during the Renaissance, the work is a paean to art and architecture, fashion and landscape, overlain with the erotic adventures of the lovelorn Poliphilo, endlessly searching for his beloved Polia. Many have felt that the text contains a secret, possibly magical, subtext, hidden steganographically within its pages, and this has seen it referenced by many other authors seeking to burden their audience with a frisson of occult fear. However, it's probably unlikely to be the case.

$25

(68661) Giovanni Boccaccio (J.M. Rigg, trans.; Francis J. Broadhurst, illus.), The Decameron, Angus and Robertson Publishers, Sydney NSW, 1954.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and illustrated endpapers; 597pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine extremities a bit softened; text block edges toned; light offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$50

(68663) Barbara Leonie Picard (Roy Morgan, illus.), Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold, with wood engravings, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 1965.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 292pp., with a monochrome frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; slightly rolled; board edges lightly sunned; text block edges lightly toned; sunning to the endpapers; school prize bookplate to the flyleaf; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$40

(68660) Amabel Williams-Ellis (Pauline Diana Baynes, illus.), The Arabian Nights Stories retold, Blackie & Son Ltd., London, 1960.

Reprint: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and illustrated endpapers; 348pp., with a colour frontispiece, 15 plates likewise and many other monochrome illustrations and decorations. Mild wear; a little shaken; boards lightly rubbed; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities; some small tears to the top edges of the upper and lower panels with associated creasing; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$50

(70521) John Bunyan (Harold Copping, illus.), The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, The Religious Tract Society, London, nd. (c.1910).

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations and blind stamped upper board rules and decorations; 320pp., top edges gilt, with a monochrome frontispiece, a decorated title page and 30 plates likewise. Moderate wear; shaken; hinges cracked; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine extremities softened; text block edges a little spotted; light scattered foxing throughout; one plate torn out and crudely repaired. No dustwrapper. Very good withal.

$35

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Classic Literature:

(70586) George Barrow, The Romany Rye - Everyman's Library series 120, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1945.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles, a blind-stamped upper board decoration, and decorative endpapers; 392pp. (+8pp. of adverts), top edges dyed brown. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine sunned; text block edges lightly toned; previous owner's ink initials to the flyleaf; retailer's ink stamp to the verso of the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is well rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned; top half of the spine panel chipped away; edges and flap-turns lightly chipped; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

This odd little book is the sequel to an earlier work entitled Lavengro. George Borrow was quite au fait with the customs and lifestyle of the romani, or gypsies, and penned these two books with a view of placing his knowledge before the reading public. The result is that this is considered almost an authoritative anthropological text concerning European travellers. Given this, it stands alongside Arthur Upfield's potboiler The Bone is Pointed in the sense that it is a work of entertainment which inadvertently conveys ethnographic information contained nowhere else. 

$25

(73633) Silas K. Hocking (P. Althelm(?), illus.), Cricket - A Tale of Humble Life, Frederick Warne & Co., London, nd. (c.1892).

Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth with bevelled boards and gilt spine and upper board titles and decorations, with decorative endpapers; 238pp. (+10pp. of adverts), all edges gilt, with an engraved monochrome frontispiece (with tissue guard), a decorated title page, four engraved plates and other decorations likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; hinges a little scraped; some light corner-bumping; old tape stains to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; a school prize bookplate (elided) to the front pastedown. No dustwrapper. Very good.

$35

(70471) Thomas Love Peacock (Introduction by David Garnett, ed.), The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd., London, 1948.

First edition, thus: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorations and marbled endpapers; 982pp., top edges dyed red. Moderate wear; slightly cocked; spine extremities softened; text block edges lightly toned with some spots and top edge mildly dusted. Price-clipped dustwrapper covered in adhesive plastic; mildly rubbed and edgeworn with some chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns; spine panel sunned. Very good.

$70

(69554) Laurence Sterne (Howard Anderson, ed.), Tristram Shandy - A Norton Critical Edition: An Authoritative text; The Author on the Novel; Criticism, W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY, 1980.

Octavo; paperback; 650pp., with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine.

Many have read Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and have been amazed by what the typographic possibilities of the book's form are capable of achieving. Such trickery is seen everywhere - even in Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series - but few stop to consider that Laurence Sterne was there before these 'johnny-come-latelies' and that Tristram Shandy is full to bursting with all the gob-stopping visual delights you could ask for. There is really nothing new under the sun...

$25

(70459) Philip Meadows Taylor (Introduction by Brian Rawson, ed.; Clarke Hutton, illus.), Confessions of a Thug, The Folio Society, London, 1974.

Octavo; hardcover, with decorated cloth boards, gilt spine titles on a green label and endpaper maps; 373pp., top edges dyed green, with a monochrome frontispiece and 14 plates likewise. Minor wear; spine extremities lightly softened. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine in a mildly rubbed and split slipcase.

First published in 1839, this book was a favourite of Queen Victoria and introduced the word "thug" to the English language. Sleeman's eradication of the Kali cult of thuggee from the sub-continent caused a flurry of publishing to occur, hard on the heels of his own published accounts of the phenomenon, and Meadows-Taylor was foremost among them. Although based largely on Sleeman's journals, this is a fictitious and pulpy recounting of the downfall of the Thugs and was the bestselling crime novel of its day.

$35

(76101) William Makepeace Thackeray, Denis Duval, Smith Elder & Co., London, 1867.

Octavo; hardcover, half bound in green calf with marbled boards and gilt titles on a morocco label between five raised bands; 275pp. Moderate wear; boards quite rubbed; lower board creased, with tears to the rear pastedown; hinges and board edges scraped; text block edges toned; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's contemporary inscription to the front pastedown; hinges cracked (but strong); light scattered foxing throughout; retailer's blind stamp to the last blank page. No dustwrapper. Good.

$25

(68451) Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda & Rupert of Hentzau - Two Volumes, J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Bristol UK, 1946.

Two volumes, wartime issue: octavo; hardcover; 414pp. [190pp. + 224pp.]. Mild wear; covers rubbed and corners bumped; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned; offset to the endpapers; retailers bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume 2; some dog-eared pages; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. No dustwrappers. Very good.

First published in 1894 and 1898 respectively, these two adventure novels introduced the word "Ruritania" into the language: here, they are the name of a fictional European country, but nowadays the word is used to refer to anywhere quaintly European and often as a placeholder for any unspecified European region in an academic discussion. These two volumes are nice, pared-back wartime issue volumes, reflecting the restraint that publishers undertook to save resources during the Forties.

$30

(73866) "Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chatto & Windus, London, 1901.

Octavo; hardcover, full academic cloth with gilt spine titles; 439pp., with a monochrome engraved frontispiece and many illustrations likewise. Ex-library: moderate wear; the usual cancelled library stamps and accoutrements; boards a little rubbed and marked; text block and page edges toned; some repairs to the page edges; some internal marks. No dustwrapper. Good.

This issue of the book is a facsimile reprint of the classic 1884 edition.

$60

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Vintage Literature:

(70507) Michael Arlen, The Green Hat - A Romance for a Few People, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1924.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles; 330pp. (+4pp. of adverts), untrimmed. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

A breakout publication, this was the year's bestseller, printed in June of 1924 and reprinted ten times before October of that same year (this is a tenth impression). It excited and scandalised Britain in equal measure with its drama and suggestions of lust and impropriety. It was definitely the Fifty Shades of Grey of its time - a little better written perhaps and certainly less bloodless!

$95

(73113) Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Little, Brown and Company, Boston MA, 1964.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full purple cloth with gilt spine titles; 183pp., top edges dyed black. Minor wear; text block edges lightly toned; mild offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$350

(72016) Karen Blixen, Out of Africa - Illustrated edition, Century Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1985.

Quarto; hardcover, full decorated cloth with a tipped-on upper board decoration; 288pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations and decorations. Minor wear; a few small marks to the boards. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good.

$25

(67959) John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1935.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 318pp. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; spine extremities softened;; boards a little rubbed with some corner-bumping; text block edges toned with some stains. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

$40

(68177) Anthony Burgess, The Long Day Wanes - A Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger"; "The Enemy in the Blanket"; & "Beds in the East", W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., New York NY, 1964.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 512pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; a little shaken; spine extremities softened; a bump to the lower board; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink and retailer's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel sunned; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns. Very good.

$50

(71992) Marcia Davenport, My Brother’s Keeper, Collins, Sydney NSW, 1955.

First Australian edition; reprinted: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 413pp. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; spine heel softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title page. No dustwrapper. Very good.

$70

(74413) Paul Gallico (Peter Scott, illus.), The Snow Goose, Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1951.

Royal octavo, eighth impression; hardcover, full cloth with an upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 55pp., top edges dyed dark blue, with a colour frontispiece, three plates likewise and many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; slightly rolled; text block edges lightly spotted; some old tape stains to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities; a small tear to the spine panel head; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$30

(75535) Nathan Gallizier (The Kinneys & P. Verburg, illus.), The Sorceress of Rome, L.C. Page & Company, Boston MA, 1907.

Octavo; hardcover, full decorated cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 463pp. (+4pp. of adverts) all opened, with a colour tipped-in frontispiece (with tissue guard), three plates likewise (without guards) and many monochrome decorations. Moderate wear; upper hinge cracked (but strong); boards a little rubbed with some marks; text block edges lightly spotted and top edge lightly dusted; light offset to the endpapers; very light scattered foxing throughout, mainly to the preliminaries; previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown; some roughly opened pages towards the end of the text block. No dustwrapper. Very good.

$50

(68448) Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1936.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles; 620pp. Moderate wear; covers lightly rubbed with sunning to the spine; corners lightly bumped; text block edges toned with some spotting; offset to the endpapers; light scattered foxing throughout; some internal marks; now covered by non-adhesive plastic wrap. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

$200

(73868) James Jones, The Thin Red Line, Collins, London, 1963.

First edition, second impression: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 447pp., with two pages of sheet music. Minor wear; boards and spine sunned; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

$30

(77076) D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover - Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger", Private Press, np., 1928/Mandrake Press Ltd., London, 1930.

Two volumes: royal octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles, blind-stamped upper board rules and decoration and decorative endpapers; 365pp., untrimmed, with two decorated title pages. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; hinges cracked (but strong); text block edges toned; an old price pencilled on the limitations page; a few minor marks to the preliminaries. Together with: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with upper board titles and rules; 64pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned; some offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the front pastedown; a few instances of pencilled underlining. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; sunned along the spine panel; previous owner's name in pencil to the upper panel. Very good.

$500

(73114) Rosamond Lehman, A Note in Music, John Lehman Ltd., London, 1948.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine titles and decorations on a red label; 223pp. Moderate wear; spine heel a little softened; gilt a little tarnished; text block edges spotted; light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; heavy chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$25

(74375) Richard Mason, The World of Suzie Wong, Collins, London, 1957.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 383pp. Moderate wear; boards a little rubbed and edgeworn; spine extremities softened; light corner-bumping; text block edges  toned; offset and old tape stains to the endpapers; previous owner's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little edgeworn; some slight chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$75

(71984) Ayn Rand, Anthem, Cassell Cheap Editions/Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1953.

Reprint: octavo; full cloth, with gilt spine titles; 147pp. Mild wear; text block edges spotted; some minor offset to the endpapers; light scattered foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; some light chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism. Rand originally conceived of the story as a play, then decided to write for magazine publication. At her agent's suggestion, she submitted it to book publishers. The novella was first published by Cassell in England. It was published in the United States only after Rand's next novel, The Fountainhead, became a best seller. Rand revised the text for the US edition published in 1946.

$300

(74415) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Cassell Cheap Editions/Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 1953.

Second edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 644pp. Mild wear; text block top edge lightly dusted; gilt tarnished; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; old tape stains to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf (elided). price-clipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; spine panel extremities lightly chipped; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

The epithet "cheap edition" should not be read literally, here. In the post-World War Two era many publishers were hit hard by paper shortages and many chose to embrace the idea of pitching in and working with the restrictions, rather than railing against them. Such things as thinner paper and uniform artwork on the dustwrappers are a hallmark and can clearly be seen here. These books may not have all the bells and whistles of other lavish publications but they are still highly sought-after and collectible.

$50

(76260) Robert Neilson Stephen (Wallace Goldsmith, illus.), Tales from Bohemia, L.C. Page & Company, Boston MA, 1908.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, decorated cloth with upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 341pp. (+10pp. of adverts). with a monochrome frontispiece (with tissue guard) and seven plates likewise (no guards). Moderate wear; spine cracked (but strong, with a professional repair); board edges lightly worn; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown; rear free endpaper removed. No dustwrapper. Very good.

$60

(68188) Dylan Thomas, Rebecca's Daughters, Triton Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1965.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 144pp. Mild wear, Dustwrapper, Very good.

$45

(75672) Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Penguin Classics/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2011.

Octavo; hardcover, with black endpapers; 271pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper a little rubbed; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$25

(76764) P.G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1922.

Ninth printing: octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with upper board titles and decoration; 256pp. Mild wear; rolled; spine lightly sunned and extremities softened; some light corner-bumping; text block edges toned with some spotting and top edge dusted; light offset to the endpapers; flyleaf removed; mild scattered foxing mainly to the preliminaries. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

$70

*****

Modern Literature:

(73979) Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London, 1993.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a burgundy ribbon; 470pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$40

(68991) Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2009.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with metallic-green spine titles; 436pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$30

(73116) Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father - A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York NY, 1975.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles; 177pp., top edges dyed grey. Mild wear; spine heel softened. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$75

(73752) A.S. Byatt, The Biographer’s Tale, Chatto & Windus/Random House (Aust.) Ltd., Milsons Point NSW, 2000.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 265pp. Minor wear; text block edges toned; pages tanned. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good. 

$25

(73569) A.S. Byatt, Babel Tower, Chatto & Windus Ltd./Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Milsons Point NSW, 1996.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 618pp. Mild wear; slightly cocked; text block edges toned; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Dustwrapper  now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(73758) Alex Haley, Roots - The Saga of an American Family, Hutchinson Group (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Richmond South Vic., 1977.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 688pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; spine heel slightly softened. Dustwrapper spine panel a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good. 

$30

(72880) William Kennedy, Legs - A novel of the twenties based in the life of the legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., New York NY, 1975.

First edition, second impression: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration and decorative endpapers; 317pp. Mild wear; boards a little rubbed; text block edges a little spotted; some light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the title page. Dustwrapper is a bit rubbed and sunned; mild edgewear; a few small tears with some light associated creasing, now repaired using archival-quality materials; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

Often confused with the "Book-Of-The-Month Club" edition, this issue has no Book Club markings to identify it as such.

$50

(69466) John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure - A Novel (signed), Macmillan/Macmillan General Books, London, 1996.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 232pp. Mild wear; an impression to the front cover; signed by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(71422) Don de Lillo, Libra - A Novel, Viking/Penguin Inc., New York NY, 1988.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with bronze spine titles; 458pp., untrimmed. Minor wear; light spotting to the text block edges and top edge lightly dusted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good. 

$30

(77172) Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Inc., New York NY, 2005.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 311pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; slightly rolled; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine.

$200

(69584) Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1985.

First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 182pp. Mild wear; board edges sunned; text block edges spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; light chipping to the spine panel head; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

Unusual for being written entirely in the second person, this award-winning novel set the stage for such writers as Brett Easton Ellis to savage the yuppy milieu of 1980s New York City. A drug fueled nightmare of downward spiralling self-loathing and debasement, this is a harrowing novel, not soon forgotten.

$200

(73976) McEwan, Saturday, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 2005.

First edition: Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 280pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper  now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(69521) Ben Okri, Dangerous Love (signed), Phoenix House, London, 1996.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 325pp. Minor wear; text block edges lightly spotted. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$50

(75590) Sergio de la Pava, A Naked Singularity, MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, 2008.

Octavo; paperback; 864pp. Minor wear; mild edgewear to the covers;  text block and page edges toned. Very good.

$20

(71216) Will Self, Liver - A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, Viking/Penguin Books (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Camberwell Vic., 2008.

Octavo; hardcover, faux quarter-binding with illustrated boards and endpapers; 277pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; light spotting to the text block edges; top edge dusted. No dustwrapper as issued. Very good. 

$25

(72441) Terry Southern, Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1971.

First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 246pp., top edges dyed black. Mild wear; rolled; some minor staining to the spine heel; minor offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn; a few small tears to the edges (repaired using archival-quality materials); now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$35

(74539) Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1970.

Octavo; hardcover, full cloth with silver-gilt spine titles; 160pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$45

(72940) Robert James Waller, Border Music - A Novel, Warner Books Inc./Time Warner, New York NY, 1995.

Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with silver-gilt spine titles; 248pp. Minor wear; slightly rolled; spine heel softened. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(75721) Edward Whittemore, Quin’s Shanghai Circus, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1975.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 291pp. Mild wear; text block edges lightly spotted and top edge dusted; offset to the endpapers. Dustwrapper is mildly sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

Whittemore's first novel and the precursor to his "Jerusalem Quartet".

$100

(69270) Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full - A Novel, Jonathan Cape Ltd./Random House, London, 1998.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 742pp. Mild wear; a little cocked; text block edges toned with some spotting. Die-cut dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with some spotting to the verso. Very good.

$25

*****

Antipodean Literature:

(73721) Peter Carey, Illywhacker, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Qld., 1985.

First edition: octavo; hardcover; 600p. Mild wear; spine heel softened; text block and page edges toned' pages tanned; top edge dusted. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.   

$60

(73722) Peter Carey, The Tax Inspector, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Qld., 1991.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth, with upper board titles; 279pp. Minor wear; signed with an inscription by the author to the title page. Dustwrapper is a little sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$70

(71420) J.M. Coetzee, The Schooldays of Jesus, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne Vic., 2016.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 274pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.

$25

(68161) Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe, The Borough Press/HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2019.

Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles; 482pp. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine.

$30

(76811) Richard Flanagan, First Person, Knopf Books/Penguin Random House (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., North Sydney NSW, 2017.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with decorative endpapers; 392pp. Mild wear. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

$30

(72289) Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Picador/Pan Macmillan (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSW, 2001.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with marbled endpapers; 404pp., printed in vari-coloured ink, with 12 colour illustrations. Minor wear; some marks to the text block edges. Dustwrapper now protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine.

This was always going to be a book to look out for. The odd shape, the coloured stock and different coloured type - not to mention the colour illustrations - meant that the initial print-run would be small and reprints vastly different in design.

$120

(71301) Janet Frame, Intensive Care - A Novel, George Braziller Inc., New York NY, 1970.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 342pp. Mild wear; a little shaken; text block edges lightly toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; flyleaf clipped. Price-clipped dustwrapper is well sunned along the spine panel; rubbing and edgewear; mild chipping to the spine panel extremities; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$40

(72444) Janet Frame, The Reservoir & Snowman, Snowman: stories and sketches; fables and fantasies - two volumes, George Braziller Inc, New York NY, 1962 & 1963.

Two volumes, octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 364pp. [182pp. + 182pp.]. Minor wear; text block edges lightly toned; retailer's ink stamps to the flyleaves. Dustwrappers a little rubbed and edgeworn; some mild chipping to the spine panel heads; a couple of minor tears to the edges (now repaired using archival-quality materials). Very good in a somewhat rubbed and edgeworn slipcase.

$65

(75416) Kate Grenville, The Secret River, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne Vic., 2005.

Octavo; hardcover, with endpaper maps; 334pp. Minor wear; text block and page edges toned; previous owner's ink inscription to the first blank page. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$25

(71421) Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1945.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 261pp. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; some moisture damage to the cloth; spine extremities softened; corners a little bumped; text block edges toned and spotted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's ink inscription to the front pastedown; some internal marks. Lacks dustwrapper. Good.

$45

(72768) David Malouf, The Great World - A Novel,  Chatto & Windus Ltd., London, 1990.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and decorative endpapers; 332pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; some insect damage to the board top edges; text block and page edges toned; scattered foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is a little sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$18

(73766) Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds - signed, Harper & Row, New York NY, 1977.

Reprint: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles and a blind-stamped upper board decoration; 533pp., untrimmed. Mild wear; slightly rolled; spine extremities softened; text block edges a little spotted; old tape stains to the endpapers; signed by the author to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; old tape stains to the flaps; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$120

(77054) Barbara Petrie, The Eel of Te Raki, IndieMosh/MoshPit Publishing/Mosher's Business Support Pty. Ltd., Penrith NSW, 2022.

Octavo; trade paperback; 337pp. Minor wear. New.

Local author.

$35

(72968) Christina Stead (Preface by R.G. Geering, ed.), I’m Dying Laughing: the Humourist, Virago Press Ltd., London, 1986.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 447pp. Minor wear; boards a little rubbed; text block and page edges toned. Dustwrapper is a little sunned along the spine panel; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$30

(72492) Christina Stead, Dark Places of the Heart, Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York NY, 1966.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, full cloth; 352pp., top edges dyed red. Mild wear; some spotting to the boards; text block edges lightly toned. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.

$75

(69440) Christina Stead, House of all Nations – A Novel (signed), Simon and Schuster Inc., New York NY, 1938.

Second printing: octavo; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine  titles on a red label and an upper board decoration; 796pp., top edges dyed red. Mild wear; covers a little rubbed; spine sunned and gilt tarnished; spine head pulled; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; mild offset to the endpapers; signed in ink by the author to the flyleaf. No dustwrapper. Very good.

Stead rarely signed any of her works; autographed copies are extremely hard to come by.

$1,000

(74357) Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, The Macmillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne Vic., 1968.

Scarce: octavo; hardcover, silver-gilt; 406pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled' text block edges lightly toned with some spots. Dustwrapper is a little rubbed and edgeworn; a bit sunned; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$50

(68450) "Ethel Turner" (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis), Funny, Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., London, 1926.

Octavo; hardcover, with illustrated upper board; 253pp. (+2pp. of adverts), with a monochrome frontispiece and 3 plates likewise. Moderate wear; rolled; spine extremities softened; covers rubbed and corners bumped; text block edges toned; foxed endpapers; retailer's ink stamp to the front pastedown; light scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Lacks dustwrapper. Very good.

$30

(73756) Susan Varga, Headlong - A Novel, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley WA, 2009.

First edition: octavo; hardcover; 231pp. Minor wear; some spotting to the text block fore-edge. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$40

(77008) Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1973.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 608pp., top edges dyed light blue. Moderate wear; shaken and rolled; text block edges spotted; offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in pencil to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is very well rubbed and edgeworn; chipping to the spine panel extremities and flap-turns, with crude tape repairs. Good.

$25

(71564) Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves, Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1976.

Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titles; 405pp., top edges dyed teal. Minor wear; text block top edges a little faded. Price-clipped dustwrapper is now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.

$30

*****

Ephemera:

(72452) C.J. Dennis, Doreen - Pocket Edition for the Trenches, Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW, 1917.

First edition: octavo; paperback, stab-sewn booklet with orange thread ties and a tipped-on front cover colour decoration; 28pp., with a colour frontispiece and many monochrome illustrations and decorations. Moderate wear; covers spotted; text block edges toned; scattered foxing throughout. Very good.

$35

(74209) John Buchan, Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott - The English Association, Pamphlet No.58, The English Association/Oxford University Press, London, 1924.

Small folio; paperback, stab-sewn brochure with printed wrappers; 17pp. Mild wear; covers rubbed and edgeworn with some sunning; text block edges toned. Very good.

$30

(70130) Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence, 1885 to 1930: An Appreciation - A Commemorative Edition, Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth Middlesex UK, 1950.

Duodecimo; paperback, staple booklet; 32pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers a little toned; text block edges toned; mild offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in ink to the first page. Very good in a protective plastic sleeve.

$20

(70463) Christopher Landon; Paul Gallico; Ray Bradbury; Robert Standish; Walter Brooks; John Kruse; Edith Pargeter, et.al., Argosy, Vol.XVI, No.2 - February 1955, Gordon & Gotch Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1955.

First printing: octavo; paperback; 144pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; spine rubbed and extremities pulled; very slightly rolled; covers rubbed and edgeworn; text block edges toned; a couple of guillotining errors; some internal marks. Very good.

$25

(69863) Joan Lindsay (Introduction by John Taylor; Yvonne Rousseau, ed.), The Secret of Hanging Rock - The Never-Before-Published Final Chapter of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Angus and Robertson Publishers, North Ryde NSW, 1987.

Octavo paperback, stapled booklet; 58pp. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

$40

(75170) David Malouf, Remembering Babylon - Sample Chapter, Chatto & Windus, London, nd. (1993).

Octavo; paperback, stapled booklet; 24pp. Minor wear; covers a little rubbed and edgeworn. Very good.

A sample chapter of the original work, distributed for advanced promotional purposes.

$10

*****

NB: All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and DO NOT include postage, which will need to be calculated according to individual circumstances at the time of sale.

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