Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream cloth, black spine titling; 221pp. Cloth rather foxed, spine toned, internally clean and sound. Overall a Very Good copy, albeit lacking jacket. Forms part of the Australian author's crime series featuring Detective..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); viii,491pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine and rear panels toned, boards rather soiled, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy of this uncommon novel by the..... More
![Item #35081 Bicycle and Other Poems [Signed]. David Malouf](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/35081.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761239510)
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1970. First Edition. Signed by Malouf with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Small octavo; 60pp. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges; faint general spotting; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. First American Edition from the British sheets. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt; xii,[4],283pp. Small glue stain to spine foot otherwise free of any ex-library evidence, spine slightly cocked, textblock fore-edge slightly foxed, endpapers browned, else Very Good and sound. The..... More
London: John Murray, 1907. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's green gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; v,[1],62pp. Spine very slightly cocked, else a Near Fine copy. The Australian author's scarce first book, a poetic oral meditation spoken through the medium of the Visigothic queen consort Brunhild (543-613). Provenance: Ownership..... More
[Carlton, Victoria, Australia]: Miegunyah Press, 2004 [2005 Printing]. Large quarto (30.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xxiii,[1],527pp.; full color illus. throughout. Dust jacket worn and torn at spine crown with old tape repair to verso, spine cocked, corners nudged, else a Very Good copy in a Good only example..... More
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 354pp. Printed dust jacket. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn along edges with a couple short tears and minor nicks; general spotting and smudging. Boards show light shelfwear; corners bumped; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of..... More
Sydney: George Robertson, 1879. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; [4],317,[1],2,[12]pp.; text printed in double columns throughout, pictorial ads bound in rear. Boards quite worn and rather soiled, spine cloth toned, textblock foxed throughout; a Good example only, though uncommon in the original cloth... More
![Item #14652 Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries [Limited Edition]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14652.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670423944)
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 [but 1928]. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies of which this is no. 227. Large, slim quarto; publisher's parchment over green pictorial boards, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; 110pp.; full-page illus. and sheet music throughout. Parchment rather discolored from dust-soil, brief..... More
Melbourne: Reeder Fine Art, [2006]. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 441. Slim octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; viii,64pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper extremities, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page to photography historian Larry..... More
Sydney, Australia: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. First Edition. Tall quarto; publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 200pp.; black and white photographs throughout. Light wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Generously-illustrated and annotated catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same title held June 24 - July..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company / The Crime Club, 1949. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.5cm); 188pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.25 price intact; boards in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and a few tears along edges and folds, with some faint scuffs..... More
![Item #31763 [Calligraphic Presentation Broadside] Melbourne Gaol, February 1881, Marianne Henry,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31763.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1758829712)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: 1881. Large original pen-and-ink calligraphic and watercolor broadside (ca. 58x45cm.) Calligraphic text written in gilt ink within a wonderfully intricate and colorful watercolor border of finches and flowers--we count at least twenty floral specimens, none of them native to Australia as far as we can surmise. Damp..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's boards, blue-green topstain, in chartreuse pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],281pp. Jacket a bit soiled and quite chipped and worn with losses to top edge of upper panel, spine crown, rear fore-edge corner of rear jacket panel..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's rose blind-embossed cloth, gilt printed paper spine label, black topstain; [8],383pp. Moderate shelf wear, shallow strip of fading along top edge of upper cover, small chip to spine label, two small bleach spots to topstain, textblock toned, especially endpapers..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1955. First American Edition. Thick octavo (22cm); publisher's two-toned cloth, black topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by George Salter retaining original price ($4.50); [6],499pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, most notably at spine crown, spine panel toned, light soil to textblock margins, old creases to front..... More
![Item #46879 Oz Magazine No. 5 [Special Surprise Issue with Plant a Flower Child Poster]. Richard...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46879.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770227468)
London: Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1967. Single newsprint sheet, folded as issued (29x45in unfolded). Black-and-white photographs throughout; pink and purple illustration at verso. Sheet toned, especially along creases; tears forming in several spots. Nevertheless Very Good or better. Oz Magazine was an underground newspaper closely associated with 1960s..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin retaining original price ($4.95); [6],339pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, small patch of fading at jacket spine foot, brief soil to front flap and top textblock edge, else a...... More
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2021. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.4cm); illustrated wraps; [x],243pp. Mild rubbing to edges; corners curled; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Written by a queer, Sydney-based sex worker and told in a stream of consciousness narrative style inspired by Virginia..... More
Newton, N.S.W., Australia: Tim Johnson, 1976. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); publisher's green cloth tape over pink printed wrappers; [46]pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece, text printed mimeograph from typescript. Light wear and toning to margins, else a Very Good and sound example. Scarce self-published collection of "poem paintings" by the..... More
![Item #33569 Minimum of Two [Signed]. Tim Winton](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33569.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754243253)
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in decorative dust jacket by Stephen Raw retaining original price; [6],153pp. Textblock a bit toned, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. More